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?

You are their nanny not their parent. It's not your decision to get them to stop regardless of how annoying you find it.

On further thought: I think it's OK for the OP to insist on the children saying 'supper' rather than 'sup sups' when with her. Children as old as 6, let alone 11, need to know that even if their parents encourage protracted baby talk in the privacy of the family, it's not socially appropriate to use it with other people.

However, it's not appropriate to change it from 'supper' to 'dinner'. That turns it from discouragement of public baby-talk to an actual criticism of the parent's speech style.

Wow.

No, I’m not a racist. For what it’s worth, my DH and in-laws are Doric and Gaelic speakers.

I never said that YOU personally were a racist (also not sure that the different nations of the UK are actually separate races in general, but that's for another discussion).

Moreover, I never suggested that, when people do this, it comes from a position of hatred - more a failure to understand that not everybody/every area uses the same language/expressions that you do and thus assuming them 'wrong' to do so.

You'd hate working for me OP, I sing everything and call my mother "Mummy" and I'm not posh!

I think there are more important things to worry about. I'm supposing you don't have children yet, but it's little things that bond families together, in-jokes, special words for things, little made up songs and games, traditions and memories that only your close family related to.

So the long and short of this thread is that everybody says something which would annoy another person. Maybe even the OP has irritating habits that her employer doesn't like. Still doesn't make it reasonable to correct the children or sensible to give the specific details on MN, where her boss really could read it.

1. Totes
2. #truestory

All said by a 50 something woman on my Facebook.

In bed ill and pondering everything that’s ever pissed me off.

“Lightworker”
“Use The Secret hun”
“Indigo Child”
#livinmybestlife
#boydidgood
#lawofattraction
“U Ok hun?”
#notallheroeswearcapes
NAMALT
“__is the new black”
#cheekymonkey
#thisfacetho

Bar ONE person, my entire friendship group got sucked into Forever Living, Tropic, JuicePlus or BodyShopAtHome. Some of them got sucked in to MORE than one. I had to put up with so much shit and “positive speak”.

'Yeah, No......', more frustrating when you hear someone on the phone so half the conversation, are you agreeing or disagreeing!??

@Frazzledd

'Yeah, No......', more frustrating when you hear someone on the phone so half the conversation, are you agreeing or disagreeing!??

I do that. Drives my mother mad.

"Yes, yes it is."
But....but...there are people who don't use this all the time? This is my single biggest good thing from all those years and years and years of watching childrens telly!
( Is telly ok??)
I use Sis as well,but blame my sister - she started that.
To my dismay my children call their Dad and me Mummy and Daddy - DC2 is 21.I have no idea why they still do it,DH and I called our parents Mum and Dad but at least ,according to DC 2, they don't do it when talking to people outside the family.
The shame