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Horrid, cringey things people say

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SmidgenofaPigeon · 21/03/2021 11:34

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’ Hmm

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 Grin

Anyone got any to add to make me feel better?

OP posts:
FoonySpucker · 21/03/2021 16:17

Snacking. No, you are eating. There is already a word for it.

Boobs/boobing the baby/boobed them to sleep.

Sunsetslippers · 21/03/2021 16:19

@1forAll74

i wouldn't have you as a Nanny, for posting about a family that you work for,and divulging the family's little personal sayings,,and that it all makes you feel ill.. You just work there, and are not a parent there.
Oh pleeeease 😂
SimplyMarvellousDarrrrrrling · 21/03/2021 16:21

@ToffeeNotCoffee

The word "horrid" is twee when used by grown women.

It's for grown women who haven't got over being 12 years old and posh. Seeing this word in the title put me right off reading it.

Hearing the word, 'horrid' makes me think, 'are you going to scream and scream and scream until you are sick ?'

However, there's lots of words not liked by people on this thread that I have no problem with.

There's some words and phrases that, like other posters, I find questionable. When someone uses a word or phrase that I suspect they know other people don't like I can't help but think, 'who's your audience ?'

What a load of bollocks Horrid is a great word, its up there with vile which is always good to use 'and posh' ? Hahahahahahahah
RoastChickenLastsForDaysonMN · 21/03/2021 16:26

Okay, this one is definitely cringe, and I hope that very VERY few people have experienced it.

Way, way back, I had a few dates with a man I'd met at work. We got on really well, loads in common, etc etc. On our 5th date, I invited him back to mine for dinner. We were kissing on the sofa and he started moaning.

Then he leaned close and said 'Oooh, he wants it. Can you feel him?' I must have looked puzzled, as he went on to clarify... 'Mr Penis, he wants you to touch him. Go on, touch Mr Penis,' in this creepy, soft voice that just turned my stomach.

I can't remember what lie I made up to get him out of the house, but I managed to hustle him out on some pretence, and then told him I didn't think we were a good match. I think he's married now...

Maves · 21/03/2021 16:27

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Ok note taken about ‘horrid’ Grin

Seriously though, I’m ‘only the nanny’ but if a 9 year old is asking me ‘what’s for sup sups?’ I am ALWAYS going to say ‘do you mean what’s for dinner?’

Because part of my job is creating well rounded individuals and not ones that will speak in baby-tongue for the rest of their lives...

Make sure you teach them that stoppit isn't a word while you're at it.
70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/03/2021 16:28

My DS (245 months old) refers to our female cat as his "favourite sister"

The female cat has no such favouritism and scorns us all equally .

Anotheruser02 · 21/03/2021 16:29

It's really none of your business if the children sleep with a comforter, I was a nanny for 12 years before I had my DS and I really think I was and you are just the Nanny.

We have the training and experience to help children develop into well rounded individuals yes, we have an abundance of patience and can be very creative and adaptable, we can have great advice for parents dealing with a tricky stage, anyone who belittles nannying as a career is misunderstanding of what we put in, there is value in having a brilliant nanny and not everyone could be one, but we are not in employment because the parents are lacking and the children need rescuing from their stupid ways. We are saving nobody.

Children who never had a nanny can grow up to be very happy, caring, intelligent and well rounded people, we were never key like parents and your blatant disapproval of their parents ways will be making them feel torn if they love you as much as you think they do. Some employers do a great job of making you feel like a valued part of the family, but there is still such a thing as over stepping.

BrightYellowDaffodil · 21/03/2021 16:30

Hubs, hubby and hun are like nails down a blackboard. I also find “drop” incredibly irritating because “I see Beyoncé has dropped her new album” makes me want to reply “Oh dear, I hope it’s not damaged?”...

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll genius Grin

NormanStangerson · 21/03/2021 16:33

Got another one!

“Hundy P” (one hundred percent) 🤮

rhowton · 21/03/2021 16:34

Bon appetite is the worst

BearSoFair · 21/03/2021 16:37

Someone I have on FB regularly posts about 'making another deposit into the most important bank account in the world - the memory bank'. I can ignore 'making memories' but that is a step too far!

ArabellaScott · 21/03/2021 16:40

@NormanStangerson

Got another one!

“Hundy P” (one hundred percent) 🤮

I like that. Nicking it. Ta muchly, hunnypops. Smile

OP, I think it's pretty shitty to come and diss a family you're presumably living with (is that how nannys work?). Maybe find another job and let them get on with their harmless family rituals.

TheVampiresWife · 21/03/2021 16:40

ExMIL used to wake exH up with 'Mr Mousey'. Mr Mousey was her fingers which she would use to tickle him from his feet up to his nose (with a chorus of 'heeeere's Mr Mousey!) which Mr Mousey would then bite. She used to do this every morning, including mornings when we were staying at her house, and me and exH were in bed together. ExH would sometimes pretend to be asleep when she came in so he could do the whole Mr Mousey thing with her, including a little giggle when MM bit his nose. The last time this happened (not long before we split) he was 32. They probably still do it now.

TheVampiresWife · 21/03/2021 16:41

@BearSoFair

Someone I have on FB regularly posts about 'making another deposit into the most important bank account in the world - the memory bank'. I can ignore 'making memories' but that is a step too far!
Are you friends with Alan Partridge?
Twerking9to5 · 21/03/2021 16:42

You got this 🤢

Having said that, I am 100% guilty of my own embarrassing sayings so I really can’t talk. But “You got this” gets me. Every. Single. Time.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 21/03/2021 16:42

@rhowton

Bon appetite is the worst
Class indicator in France - posh people don't say it though, for some reason, bonne journée (Have a nice day), bonne soirée etc are fine.
Frazzledd · 21/03/2021 16:43

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

My DS (245 months old) refers to our female cat as his "favourite sister"

The female cat has no such favouritism and scorns us all equally .

I had to do the math on 245 months...🤯
SunshineCake · 21/03/2021 16:45

@Brefugee

Making memories is nauseating! Some of my friends do it and it's just cringeworthy.

I loathe holibobs and famalam too but can cope with most other things. Although what i see a lot here is spuds and/or jackets and it makes me irrationally angry.

For you brekkie people: Brekkies is a brand of cat biscuits in Germany (like Go Cat) so think on that. Grin

Yorkies for Yorkshire puddings.

Sounds stupid. Is try hard. Not a natural shortening.

Username0981237645 · 21/03/2021 16:46

@Thewiseoneincognito

Supper.

Hun x 😏

Should of would of could of 🤯

Bubbles (re sparkling beverages) 🤭

Girlies (female friends) 😠

Auntie/ Uncle XYX when no relation 🤨

enjoy (enjoy free shipping etc) 🤯

YES!! Enjoy free shipping the overuse of the word enjoy. I am going to enjoy a chocolate bar not enjoy free shipping.

Another one that really grinds me is 'my partner' when somebody has been together for about 2 minutes. I can tolerate it if they are an established couple of a reasonable amount of time but after no time at all, it grinds me.

'my fella' 'my bloke' hate it.

Wondermule · 21/03/2021 16:46

@Twerking9to5

You got this 🤢

Having said that, I am 100% guilty of my own embarrassing sayings so I really can’t talk. But “You got this” gets me. Every. Single. Time.

The last thing you want to hear in a virus pandemic.
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SmidgenofaPigeon · 21/03/2021 16:46

@ArabellaScott actually no, that’s not automatically ‘how nannies work’.

Some live in, and I have done when working abroad, but because it’s no longer Victorian times, many don’t. It’s an irritating misconception that we are all spinsters living in the servant’s quarters at our employer’s house.

I have a husband and my own place to live and a life outside my job, as many nannies do.

OP posts:
Bellver888 · 21/03/2021 16:51

I have an auntie that went to Alcudia in 2019 and uploaded a pic of the beach with #scorchio 🤮
Refers to Christmas as crimbo, can’t stand it

Username0981237645 · 21/03/2021 16:51

Oh and 'basically' when used out of context and several times in a sentence.
'I was just having a laugh' no you were being terribly offensive and rude please do not try and get out of it by having a laugh. I would be having a laugh by smacking you in the face, but I wouldn't do it.

Ohtheplacesyougo · 21/03/2021 16:53

Okie dokie in conversation particularly business!!! Hun.
Anyone who puts on a stupid sing song accent for their kids! Nauseating.

dcb2 · 21/03/2021 16:53

@Twerking9to5

You got this 🤢

Having said that, I am 100% guilty of my own embarrassing sayings so I really can’t talk. But “You got this” gets me. Every. Single. Time.

The grammar pedant in me wonders if it shouldn't be "you've got this"?

Either way, it should not be used.. Along with "living my best life".