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?

The word arse, I hate it, I think it is really crass!

Despite my feelings I seem to use it daily....

I think sup sups is a bit cute though 😂

@BehindMyEyes god I hope you haven't got a nanny!
Considering most children with a nanny, spend far more time with them, then the parents, would suggest its a vastly more important and involved as a role, than you are very condescendingly suggesting!
I think op may have touched a nerve with some on here.....

@custardbear

I hate it when people say 'wanna bot-bot' when asking if a baby wants formula

My mum used to call birds dicky birds or dik dik birdies which stopped when we were little but just remembered now lol 😆

My grandparents always used to call birds dicky birds. I remember trying not to laugh as I got older when my Nan would tell me to look at all the dicks on the garden! Is your mum northern by any chance as there is a man called Dickie Bird?

Was just going to post that Ace - especially 'yummy'.
When said by a grown man it's the worst - I went onm a date once with a young-ish guy in his 30s and when we wre about to have lunch, he started with the word 'yummy!'. Ugh.

Pretty funny thread.

Certain words and no I won't type them out, give me Misophonia.
Thankfully my meds help me deal with it.
It's not like I can hand a list of words to everyone I meet.

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.

• so it's alright if you're thin. Got it. Also, you can't be fit, hip and trendy if you're 'a bit overweight?' And before you attack the 'fit' aspect, have you ever seen Lizzo move on stage?

@HarrietSchulenberg

My cousin was brought up by our grandparents. He was 17 when I heard him utter the words, "Nan, what's for sup-sups?". I was about 14 and it left me open mouthed. Mind you, I found out much later that she was still bathing him at that age so I guess there was more to be surprised about than I knew.

WTF? She was bathing a 17 yr old?

[quote SmidgenofaPigeon]@notanothertakeaway don’t worry, I appreciate the concern but her and her peers are VERY vehemently not Mumsnet people.[/quote]
A bit like MNers who say they are VERY vehemently not Daily Mail readers?

@noidontwatchloveisland... Omg if I was to ask my 10 and 11 year old what they wanted for sup sups I would be laughed at!!

I can't stand famalam. I think that's the one I hate most. It's just so smug. But ickle, bubs and hubster are up there too.

I do, however, like to make my DC cringe by reminding them to brush their toothy pegs.

@viques

Hubby.

Would any woman refer to herself as wifie? Or stand by while her husband called her wifie?

Yes, yes I know many women who refer to themselves in this way 😭 love to refer to themselves as 'wifey material' with pride

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

These aren't mutually exclusive characteristics, you know. MN ageism/sizeism strikes again.

‘Poorly.’ It’s insipid and wet, especially if used by an adult to describe being ill.

@HarrietSchulenberg

My cousin was brought up by our grandparents. He was 17 when I heard him utter the words, "Nan, what's for sup-sups?". I was about 14 and it left me open mouthed. Mind you, I found out much later that she was still bathing him at that age so I guess there was more to be surprised about than I knew.

I -- WHAT?

@RoseRedRoseBlue

When people say ‘irregardless’. Aargh!!!!!!!

I only ever said sarcastically in the voice of Gretchen from Mean Girls 😂

Doggo and furbaby or I'm a dog/cat mum.

I say loads of annoying thing too so I never say anything but they drive me crackers

I hate it when companies drop the preposition after 'shop' and use it as an instruction.

Shop the range.

Shop the catalogue.

NO.

• picky tea / picky bits
• unmumsnetty

Self confession - we do say bobies to the cat for bedtime! As a child also remember birds being dicky birds, dick dicks or dicky berries (dicky birds nesting in trees ) as some other posters remember, we're northern too so the birds might be a regional thing, but that memory makes me smile not cringe.

I really cringe when I hear grown adults refer to their parents as "mummy" and "daddy". WTF? I think it's maybe a regional/class but it's just weird to me.

@Mylovelyhorsee
I can’t stand hearing twee versions of grandparents names especially when the grandkids are tweens. For example, gong gong for grandad or some other made up nonsense.

Was the person saying this Chinese? Because that's an actual Cantonese word for granddad, not 'made up nonsense'

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.

The hashtags are irritating but I don’t see how her weight prevents her from being fit, hip or trendy? I have a friend who is overweight and is incredibly fit, we both trained together for a triathlon (I’m a size 8) and on the day she beat me by 25mins. Lots of people compliment my fitness level.

Someone being hip or trendy is down to personal taste so again I don’t see the link with her weight, please explain.

This one.
Get in ma belly
Nom nom nom
As you were

I don't really mind about most of these but the one phrase destined to make my toes curl is 'front bottom.' I had never heard it until I came on here.

I talked baby talk to our dog - ‘Mummy love oo!’ etc.

All very well at home, but I was once caught in mid doggy-love flood in a very wooded area of our local park. Two blokes who for some reason were sitting halfway up a big tree, where obviously I hadn’t seen them, were pissing themselves laughing.
Still, if you can spread a little merriment, your day is not entirely wasted.
(RIP Ddog, Mummy still love oo.)

I'm not confessing to any of the cringeworthy things I say to my cats