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??

Also - people at work who insist upon using impenetrable bollock-speak seem to get irrationally angry when old farts like me ask them to explain what the fuck they are talking about.

@FamilyOfAliens younger women typically pick up new phrases and colloquialisms faster than young men or older women. This information might be outdated, but I was only learning about it a couple of years ago. I think one theory was to do with young women being socially driven (I mean teenage girls and early 20s btw) and feeling the need to fit in, therefore picking up new language faster than other age groups and gender.

Oh! I always thought you were supposed to add your age between “today” and “years” as in “I was, today, 39 years old, when I found out that the whatsit on the microwave meant this”.
I think that might have been the original intention but as it has become more well-known perhaps it’s fallen into the shorthand “meme-like” version (which means you don’t have to reveal your age)...

I get annoyed by almost all these kind of things tbh. I hate “ lived experience “

I’ve just read a pretty common one on another thread that really riles me - “leccy bill”

[quote Thehawki]@FamilyOfAliens younger women typically pick up new phrases and colloquialisms faster than young men or older women. This information might be outdated, but I was only learning about it a couple of years ago. I think one theory was to do with young women being socially driven (I mean teenage girls and early 20s btw) and feeling the need to fit in, therefore picking up new language faster than other age groups and gender.[/quote]
Ah right, so backed up by research?

That would be interesting to read if you have a link.

I’ve never ever heard this so it can’t be everywhere! 🤣
I had no clue what it meant until someone described it 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was today years old when I realised how bloody stupid and thick a lot of people are, and poorly educated. Hear a senseless comment and repeat it and on it goes.

It is rediculous, and unbareable innit.

@FrankButchersDickieBow

Yanbu. I hate that too.

I hate 'I'm dead', when someone posts something the reader finds amusing. I just instantly think, what a wanker.

For me it's 'I'm screaming'

@TheChippendenSpook

I really dislike 'forever home' as in 'it will be my forever home.'

Also people have started to miss words out of sentences. For example 'needs gone.' It makes no sense and is just lazy.

Needs gone is perfectly acceptable. It is an established regional dialect and has been done to death on MN.

It is not lazy and it is very insulting to say so.

And, agree with the PP who mentioned 'reader'.

I don't need to be called reader or dear reader, I know I am reading the drivel you wrote, and will promptly stop being your reader because you come across as a wannabee author of second rate paperbacks with huge pretentions. In short, you sound like a complete pillock who has watched too many episodes of 'Murder She Wrote' or some other crap series.

Yes, that one does rile me considerably, it is just so bloody condescending.

It annoys me, too. It's only popped up over the last couple of years and I don't know where it started, but it drives me mad that it's taken off so much.

I hate all clickbait type titles. Eg: My neighbour knocked my door and...

Just finish the bloody sentence - I don't want to click into it to read if the next line is "told me he had my parcel" but I might if its "dropped his keks and mooned me". But by the time you've clicked into it, it's too late and it makes me really annoyed if it's tedious.

I've noticed the same thing creeping in to newspapers: "Will the government change its mind on such and such" - we are not mind readers, we don't know. Wait until it happens then report it, or don't use it as a headline!

@FamilyOfAliens I’m so sorry I can’t find the exact thing that was hypothesising what I have just said. I have found a few things on girls and general language acquisition:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509633/

www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/02/language-gene-more-active-young-girls-boys

Hopefully that will be enough to at least prove I learnt it at some point whether or not it’s still believed in the scientific community I have no idea. I guess you could extrapolate from that data that young women are more likely to learn slang faster than boys at least?

I've heard it before, doesn't bother me it's yoof speak. 'Gonna' on the other hand makes me want to throw stuff. Also 'Anyone?' I'm a very petty person I'll admit

I saw the thread with this title on yesterday, kept reading it again and again to try and work out what the hell it meant!

I'm not British and there is an expression which I don't know if it is correct, but I have only ever seen it on MN so I am assuming it is not. The expression is: of an evening. For example: We like to sit out in the garden of an evening in the summer.

Should it not just be: in the evening?

It annoys me because I feel like it is an expression people would use to make themselves sound posh. A bit of a Hyacinth Bucket kind of a thing. However, I could be completely wrong of course.

Okay, people, I grok that it's annoying, but seriously? You are apparently such a total Word God and you can't work out what it means?

Are you those posters who reply to a heartfelt plea with "I couldn't read that because there are no paragraph breaks"? Or claim you don't understaaaaand because someone used a double negative?

Anyone with a genuinely-above-average grasp of the language should be able to follow these things. Maybe a couple of discreet queries as to the exact meaning of certain vocabulary (though choccy biccy, holibobs, famalam and Chrimbo are normally given sufficent context).

Never heard of it , It doesn't make any sense What does it mean ???

@SwedishK

I'm not British and there is an expression which I don't know if it is correct, but I have only ever seen it on MN so I am assuming it is not. The expression is: of an evening. For example: We like to sit out in the garden of an evening in the summer.

Should it not just be: in the evening?

It annoys me because I feel like it is an expression people would use to make themselves sound posh. A bit of a Hyacinth Bucket kind of a thing. However, I could be completely wrong of course.

This is said a lot. I think it's a pretty common expression. To my mind it indicates "an occasional evening here and there." Because you don't necessarily sit in your garden in the evening. That makes it sound like a regular occurrence. But "of an evening" conveys to me it's now and again on certain nice evenings.

YANBU. Never heard of it until here but it simply doesn’t make sense

I am just speaking my truth as my authentic self.

I heard someone actually say that.. for reals!!

Also I hate people who say for reals

I have no problem with any of the things on here, in fact I've used 'today years old' and 'because Covid' etc. As others have mentioned, I think it's just a phase, like how people used to say 'confused.com' or would describe people they didn't know as 'randoms'. It'll pass.

In fact I think the fact that they've started popping up on mumsnet means they're already on their way out. It'll soon become the new 'simples' or 'tinternet' (the only people I ever hear say those now are my mum and MIL )