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?

OP if it makes you feel any better, when I was very little my parents used the euphemisms 'drops o' water' and 'miziwiz' to describe the bodily functions. (Although in hindsight I think 'miziwiz' might have actually been 'miseries' and I misheard it - I once remember my grandma referring to it as 'miseries'. Bizarre.)

Also...
Grown adults saying 'tummy'. To me that's a baby word. Similarly 'brolly', 'cozzy', 'pressie'. cringe
My DH was in the habit of telling my DSD she could 'get down' from the table after a meal until she was virtually into her teens. He got a bit arsey when I pointed out to him that DSD's feet had in fact been touching the floor for a number of years. 'It's a family saying,' no it's not, you're talking to her like she's a toddler.
Similarly, I've never understood why news reports use the word 'poorly' so often e.g. 'He is in hospital where his condition is described as "very poorly".' Surely that's a baby word too? What's wrong with ill or unwell?
I think if anyone ever said 'famalam' in front of me I'd have to resort to violence.

DH once repeated, as in testing the word out to see my reaction, something that a work colleague had said.
'I've done some shopping at sainsgurgles'
I fucking kid you not. shudders
A 66 year old professional man. sainsgurgles
My reaction was a very restrained, but well practised, Death Stare.
It was never mentioned again.

Hubby/Hubster/Hubs
Poorly
Cheeky.....anything
#Blessed

Oh fuck off!

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

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

Ohh don't even get me started on that one either Mind you, a friend of mine has songs for each of her 6 cats, I'm not that far gone yet.

@Zancah

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’

Lol. You're the NANNY, not the parent. I'd fire your condescending arse out of the front door if I got wind of you trying to belittle and undermine my parenting like that.

I would expect anyone who had bred children to take care of them without paying a random outsider.

@Crankley

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.

As a nanny myself, I've sadly heard it with EVERY family I worked for that has girls. They have no issue in saying 'penis', however

We have a 'famalam' whatsapp group, but it's ironic.
Years ago my Dsis used to call her baby son her 'little man'.
I believe that is slang for clitoris, but I could never tell her.

Saying ‘stoppit’ rather than stop it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I would expect anyone who had bred children to take care of them without paying a random outsider.

So no after school clubs either? Or grandparents/relatives looking after them? Do you just not work? And do you expect no one else to because they have kids? Do you live on another planet where all parents are free to choose to live a life of leisure raising the children they 'bred'?

Human-invented dog language- hooman, chimken etc

@55LongDistanceClaret - 100% agree. Why dont people just add on a "the" or "your" to the word baby. Makes me cringe.

My husband says he's going "on the toilet" instead of to the toilet. Absolutely disgusting. I also cant stand "hun"

This is one of the reasons I really don’t want a nanny, even though it would make a lot of sense for our family. You sound horrible OP.

I’ve never been simply ‘a paid caregiver’. There really is a lot more to it than that.

Of course. But you do not have parental responsibility, and the parents choices on child rearing trump yours.

@Spelunking - glad it's not just my family lol!
Not northern,from Kent

I am a huge fan of these things when I’m saying them! 😂 I have a lot of these sayings which I love to trot out. You’d all hate me! 😉

years ago my Dsis used to call her baby son her 'little man'. I believe that is slang for clitoris, but I could never tell her.

What rubbish. Lots of people call their baby boys "little man", I call mine this a lot. I've never ever heard it as slang for clitoris!

I say some of these when I talk to the dog, or doggy bobs as I like to say. I live alone and wouldn’t do it in company and being a hypocrite I don’t like hearing other people using these expressions.
My ex boyfriend one referred to my underwear as Knick knacks, which gave me a eurgh shudder,
I also don’t like when people use cliches, or common expressions in conversation. It just makes me think the speaker is incapable of original thought and is a bit dull. The expression best of British (ex also used to say this) irrationally annoys me the most.

I had a childhood friend who referred to doing a poo as 'doing a plop'.
Omg it made my 9 year old self feel so so sick and I still do to this day! 🤮🤮🤮

@LongDistanceClaret

Human-invented dog language- hooman, chimken etc

This. I hate when people do ‘dog speak’ in that stupid way ‘I did a bork’. No, just no.

Just wild surmising on my part, but I wonder if 'dicky birds' might have originated from the old use of 'dicky' as a colloquial word to mean 'shirt' (still in use today with 'dicky bow') - because some birds have differently coloured 'breasts' which you might say look like little formal shirts?!

Probably completely wrong, there....

Ohh don't even get me started on that one either grin Mind you, a friend of mine has songs for each of her 6 cats, I'm not that far gone yet. grin

hahahaha if anyone over heard I'd die.

@cobblers123

Tellybox, yes that's you Zoe Ball.

My nan used to call their dog by shouting: "Lad lad (his name was Laddie) come on din dins!"

It's the only time I've heard anyone use din dins and it was decades ago.

I love tellybox. It's like telly telly bonking box 😂

I talk to the dog like he's a small child sometimes. That's pretty normal I reckon. One of his nicknames is Nuggle, from Snuggle Bunny 😁

#bossing it 🤢

Baby talk. My ex mil used to say Bic-bics for biscuits, boc-boc for bottle, kippies for crisps and nap-nap for nappy.