Phrases you’d like to ban

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I’ll start

Support bubble.

I’ll happily go the rest of my life never hearing this phrase. In fact even the word bubble has exceeded its usage quota for the entire rest of time.

What is yours?

A PS.

Any Covid-related phrase that would have been incomprehensible as recently as 12 months ago.

Tier whatever, lockdown (which isn't a lockdown), contact tracing, KILL YOUR GRANNY, Patient Zero, superspreader, self isolation. And the worst of a very bad job:

Social distancing. It isn't even social, it's physical. If we are complete strangers, we're already socially distanced.

Glooooobal Pandemic (I can't help reading this in the tone of Mike Myers referring to the laaaaaaser ...)

Blended learning as referred to by a PP. Worse still, having to practice it, having first tried to figure out which of the two main interpretations it supposedly means, then doing two separate sets of lecture preparation to cover 'real time' or online delivery. Exhausting and tedious.

I'm so over it. And whilst we are on that point, the phrase 'I'm so over it'. Ugh.

“Wine, pjs, nibbles and lots of giggling girlies!” With a picture of her and her mates duck facing the camera 🤮 fuck off and grow up

I wish I'd posted that.

Id rather die (daughter says it all
The time)

My reply well you wouldn't would
You?

It's probably already been said but I have drunk too much to go looking- "did you mean to be so rude?" OF FUCKING COURSE I meant to be rude, you stupid nugget, why else would I have said that?

“Parent”

“You need to parent your children” ... only said on mumsnet. Please get tae fuck with this stupid fucking phrase.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks patient zero isn't a new term, the first HIV/Aids patients were known as Patient [Initial]. Patient O (like Oscar) was misread and thus the term Patient 0 was born.

Literally something that's not literal, there was a cancer d in the summer where she said her daughters was literally falling apart. She wasn't literally.

She/he/I 'turned around and said ...' Why weren't they/you facing each other in the first place?

At the end of the day... [something unrelated to time]

Alas... BJ needs to stop using Alas every sentence

Turned around and said
Rock up
Bubble up - I wonder who started this! I don't think I've ever heard anyone in the government saying it but I see it a lot on here.
Someone's "bubble has burst"
Fair enough (when used to mean "ok" - DH had a habit of replying "fair enough" to EVERYTHING when sometimes "ok" would do! "DD is doing her homework" - "fair enough". "The cat litter needs go be changed". "Fair enough". "It's DD's parents' evening on X date" "fair enough".

"Much" when used like "jealous much?"
I seen/I done
Crimbo
Famalam
Boobing the baby

I've just noticed how many I have - I must be a grumpy old cow 😂

Also DH HAS a habit, not had a habit. He still does it all the time!

Stay safe 🤮

Bubble
Covid secure
Schools are the best places for children to be
Schools are safe

Unprecedented
Had never heard of it before 2020
Never want to hear it after 2020!

I've noticed a number of presenters of property programmes say "Out back" or "out front" when talking about the front or rear garden. For some reason it annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure it should by "out the front" or "out the back"!

"I'm not racist but ..."

Unprecedented!! I swear half the people who blather it about don't even know what it means

Not just me then

'Ticks all the boxes'

'Small Humans' for children

I dislike "Very much so" as an answer to a question when yes will suffice

Everything to do with fucking covid, every single phrase and word.

"^ this" when a poster copies something someone else has written and then just put "this" or "this x100" etc.

"Gifted" males me so annoyed.

The use of "myself" instead of me. No, it doesn't make you sound more intelligent, you sound like an idiot.

I usually don't care about grammar or spelling, because I'm dyslexic and it would be very hypocritical of me to say anything to anyone, but mixing up their, there and they're, is unacceptable. Also would of, should of and could of. No! it's HAVE ffs!

"Stay the fuck at home" - no, bugger off.

"I'm a key worker" - no, you have a job that you have to do, just like many others.

Can I add 'by the skin of my teeth' to the list of unpleasant body-related metaphors? Horrible image!