Horrid, cringey things people say

[SmidgenofaPigeon]

I nanny for a family that call dinner ‘sup sups’

It makes me feel ill. I’ve tried and tried to get the kids to stoppit and almost succeeded but due to lockdown, their mum is at home constantly and feeding them these twee little sayings as apparently it’ll be ‘a shame when they grow up and don’t say them anymore’

Sup sups is the absolute worst but we also have ‘beddiebyes’ and ‘pop pops’ (I can’t even write what that one means because Its nauseating but it’s a bodily function)

The children are 6, 9 and 11, not babies.

It sounds dramatic but the thought of hearing these stupid phrases again tomorrow for another weeks is spoiling my Sunday

Anyone got any to add to make me feel better?

Other half, sleeps, making memories, brunch for any random meal eaten anytime before 5.30pm and consisting of anything

Hubby, cuppa and little man. Particularly when 'little man' is referring to a dog.

@isseys4xmastinselcats

breakfast being called brekkie is my one

'Brekkie' is horrible, and makes me feel sick. So does 'veggies' and 'cuppa'.

To the posters who mentioned "dicky birds", that's a long-standing childhood phrase which dates back to the 18th century. There's no known origin but the most common theory is that it imitates the sound a bird makes - so much like moo-cow, baa-lamb, etc.

Harold "Dickie" Bird is a cricket batsman and umpire and famous son of Barnsley. He was nicknamed "Dickie" because his surname is Bird - the phrase didn't originate with him!

Jilly Cooper books were full of ghastly fossils trying to entice the hero of the piece with the lure of "Kitchen Sups"

"You must come over on Thursday , it's just Kitchen Sups " which I took to mean a casual meal , not in the formal dining room and basically whatever they were having anyway ?

The snobbery and looking down noses at the "hired help" nanny on this thread is breathtaking.

No more breathtaking than the snobbery and down-nose-looking by the OP who created a thread purely to get people to laugh and and mock her employers.

For what it’s worth, DH and I call DS’s farts pop-pops, because that’s the noise his bum makes. Pop pop pop. I guess it’s just as well we don’t have a nanny to show us the error of our ways and start Mumsnet threads about us.

I do think you probably need to get a new job OP, but honestly the attitude to people who are raising children on here is pretty crap.

People treating those who are caring for their kids like servants with no right to their own opinion is really a lot more morally dubious than objecting to twee phrases (and there's no indication OP has said anything directly about how much she hates those phrases - presumably she's just venting on here).

Raising children well is a hard job. People who spend a lot of time with children caring for them do have a lot of influence on those children. Of course, how could they not?

Working for someone doesn't mean you give up your human right to free speech and your own opinions.

Little man is awful, as is Little Princess, sleeps - urgh!, love you to the moon and back, hubby, wifey, hun, picky tea (what on earth IS that?).

Adults who say 'wee' and 'poo' - absolutely cringe-making. Why would anyone announce just what they intend to do when visiting the loo?

My husband still says to our boys 'do you need a wee wee' and they are 5 and 7
I say to him you can call it a wee now but he just can't help it lol

Isn't that what it is though? I have never had and would never have a dog that wasn't sterilised but the euphemism 'season' seems much more cringeworthy than being straightforward about things
No it's most definitely not a period. When a bitch is in season that's when she is ready to be mated, it's usually on the 11th to 14th day after the start of the blood is the crucial time. The colour of the blood changes to a very bright red.
Season is the complete opposite to a period.

Social class just had to rear its ugly head (but of course, it's Mumsnet). Baby language isn't an indicator of socio-economic status, it's used across every part of the social spectrum. Of course it's harmless, but I'm with those who happen to hate it (albeit we do have a few 'family' words that no one outside our household ever hears, or would understand if they did)!

I cannot BEAR being addressed as 'hun', especially by people who barely know me. But this is a particular bugbear of mine at the moment as its a favoured trait of a woman in a support group I'm with - some members are currently having a terrible time - who can only ever talk about herself. Her conversation is a running commentary about the minutiae of her day and the happy time she's having whilst others are grieving or desperate. I'd like to ask this insensitive twit not not to address me this way; of course I won't for the sake of others, as this would do far greater harm to the group dynamic. But it's jaundiced me even more against that particular linguistic frippery. Ugh.

The MiL with the track-track for over-30s did make me guffaw, though! Reminding grown adults of their childhood foibles always makes them cringe. Wish someone had told that to my grandparents ...

Why would anyone announce just what they intend to do when visiting the loo?

At least they're not saying 'just off for a slash', as my sibling did once! And in company, too. Pass the smelling salts.

While "sup sups" itself makes me want to vomit, I don't agree that you should be trying to change what your employer's family do.

Sure, ask them to use normal words around you - but let them have their family "ways", however teeth-grinding you find them.

My MIL had several "sayings" that I did not want to enter into my children's vocabulary - whenever she would try, I'd say what she'd said again but in preferable-to-me words - it worked, they didn't do it.

Whether out of revenge (doubtful) or what, she did manage to help them lose some of their baby-speak words that we found highly entertaining though, by telling them that they were wrong. Was a bit annoyed by that, but they were going to grow out of them eventually so meh.

But these aren't your children, so not really your place to try and change their ways (except around you)

#makingmemories is the new #livelaughlove

I have a small business and get 'hunned' all the time by my customers. I find it quite patronising for some reason, even though they're being nice. I actually call my kids hun and babe sometimes, but would never say it to an adult who I don't know. My dad never calls me or my mum by our names, we are babe and love but for some reason it's not annoying coming from him.

@gottenhaitch

"“Spends” only ever heard it on Mumsnet and gives me serious rage."

"Pennies" does it for me.

Spends I can live with but "spennies" makes me want to grind my teeth. A lot!

Holibobs? Twee but incurable

Famalan? Boak!

@Letsallscreamatthesistene

#makingmemories is the new #livelaughlove

Said it before and I will again .

#livelaughlove just makes me think of pee and incontinence pads adverts

The only "cute" terms I really object to are those for women's genitals. I don't have a problem with vulva, vagina, vag, clit, flaps, twat, cunt, pussy, fanny, minge, crotch or even clunge - but "foo foo", "mimsy", "tuppence" or the repulsive "flower" make me want to die.

@EvenMoreFuriousVexation ha! You’ve just reminded me of a really brilliant word. Quim. 😂

@SozzledSausage

Someone on social media who regularly posts #boom #goals #dropthemic.

She's mid 40s and a bit overweight but seems to think she is fit, hip and trendy. I really like her but absolutely cringe when I look at her social media.

You don’t sound like you ‘really like’ her

There’s something I discovered recently which I despised. A baby vest thing with:

“Cloth on my bum, breast milk in my tum, sleep with my mum.”

Until maybe 2019 I'd only ever heard "hun" used in a derogatory sarcastic fashion. I would definitely be disappointed by someone using it to refer to me. Infantilised language is very frustrating when people use it outside of a home context as it varies so much. An adult using it in a public context is deliberately choosing to be misunderstood.

When grown men say "I needed to go toilet" - (I'm looking at you Olly Murs in an TV interview!) Is it an Essex expression?

Oh gosh yes. There’s a girl I know on fb and it is all:

Friyay
Holibobs
Famalam

Then #besttimes #sundaysessions #bestfriends #bubbles

Personally I think she’s very lonely as she doesn’t have a partner or kids and socialising is her life.

It’s nauseating however

Must be a huge timesaver for the mum though, if someone actively despises the thought of thosr things then probably not wprth wasting pleasantries on.

@TheVampiresWife

She's mid 40s and a bit overweight but seems to think she is fit, hip and trendy. I really like her

Goodness knows what you say about people you don't like!

Yes, what on earth does her weight have to do with anything?

Heaven forbid a woman of size can enjoy herself in life and on social media!