To hate - I was today years old

[clpsmum]

This phrase is everywhere and it's driving me insane.

You were not today years old when you found out 😡 you found out today

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just turning j to the grumpy old woman I was born to be? Are there any other words or phrases drive you insane??

I hate the saying '..and the rest is history' We met on a blind date, hit it off and the rest is history! We were trying for a baby, I got pregnant and the rest is history! We wanted to buy a house, liked this one and the rest is history! No it isn't, shut up.

I hate most of the examples on here and also:

• use of “go” without adding “to”, as in I’m going town, or I went supermarket
• any word preceding o’clock which isn’t a number, as in “silly o’clock”

Despite spending far too much time on SM I had never heard the phrase in the OP and couldn’t fathom it out despite much head-scratching, so thanks for the explanation.

In my defence, I come from the generation that thought using the word “groovy” was incredibly “hip”.

@ChelseaCat

I hate “This”

Or pictures of your husband/child/aunt/rabbit etc with the caption “this one”

me too, get me the sick bucket.

The word 'super' before everything. I am 'super' excited, I am 'super' tired. IRL every other word is 'like. I was walking down the road 'like' , when I met my friend 'like, grrrrrrrrrrrr!

MasterBeth Thu 18-Mar-21 15:20:59
NoseOfJericho

NoseOfJericho

MasterBeth Wed 17-Mar-21 12:07:16
NoseOfJericho

Anyone with a genuinely-above-average grasp of the language should be able to follow these things.

Which language though? It makes no sense. Anyone with a genuinely-above- grasp would actually be looking for typos, not trying to work out if it is supposed to actually mean something.

What’s a “genuinely-above- grasp” supposed to mean?

Maybe you should ask the poster that typed it originally, rather than the one that replied to that post.

Maybe you should learn the difference between “genuinely-above-average-grasp” and “genuinely-above- grasp”.

Maybe you should think about not bullying those who are clearly not as perfect as you are.

Bullying? You were the one claiming people’s colloquial and playful use of language made no sense, like you were the Queen of Grammar.

How terrible of me. Anyone would think this was a discussion, where people can post opinions. Singling one person out for several remarks which are similar to others does indicate bullying. Especially when one of the remarks was originally made by another poster and re-posted and not made by me but when you realised that you picked on something else in the same post. That does look very much like bullying.

I've only heard this phrase today. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

I was today years old when I realised everyone hates Reddit-speak (I wasn’t)

I don't mind most of these phrases (apart from 'this one'). A mumsnet one that grates is 'spooky fucker' - it just sounds a bit smug and 'oooh what is he like'.

Apologies to the PP on the thread with the similar username to it, it's what reminded me of it!

I really couldn’t give a shit.

“I’ll not crying, you’re crying” to something that is likely to make people cry, quite possibly insensitive to not cry at, and certainly not anything to be embarrassed about crying at!

Also find all the trendy new expressions/word uses hard to understand particularly if I can’t understand the context in which they’re used. Eg description of a thing/person being “a mood”. (Might be partly due to me being Autistic- although I’m generally ok with sayings and not taking them literally. Or maybe it’s just I’m getting old 😀)

I’ve never heard of the phrase in the OP before but it sounds so dumb. If I heard anyone say it IRL I’d be be cringing so hard I’d probably get cramps.