Pet Hate - what makes you Cringe?

[marton4710]

For me it is the habit of drinking out of bottles. Everywhere you go people are swigging out of bottles. Had a bank appointment and even Manager was drinking out of a bottle. Agh I must be getting old. Give me a glass any time.

When you type out a post, click ‘post’ and the fucking thing disappears 🤬

I was saying that I find it cringe-worthy when people use pretentious terminology in attempt to make themselves look superior, “we had fish for supper” or “DH was in the sitting room”.

Likewise when trying to give the impression that they live in some kind of country manor house; “DH left the mudroom door open” and “DS was reading in the playroom” etc.

Or superfluous info, added for the same kind of reason “I need to pop to Waitrose for milk”, when the Waitrose bit has no bearing on it whatsoever.

It all seems so try-hard and I imagine many people eye-roll at it.

'Reaching out'.

Also, the weird removal of part of the verb infinitive by some people; e.g. “the dog wants walked” or the “the car needs washed”. It sounds terrible and I can’t believe they actually say that out loud when speaking!

@FloconDeNeige - my parents say: supper & sitting room but they are immigrants so that’s the words they learnt to use. I consequently use the term supper and, therefore, so do my kids

I find it cringe-worthy when people use pretentious terminology in attempt to make themselves look superior, “we had fish for supper” or “DH was in the sitting room”.

This sort of thing isn't always pretentious; there are loads of regional differences in what people call things, and it isn't necessarily done to show off. I certainly wouldn't call 'supper ' pretentious; in fact really posh or formal occasions are usually called 'dinner', aren''t they? 'Sitting room' just isn't used very often, I think; but if you really wanted to be pretentious, I think you'd probably call it the drawing room. Not that I know many people who do!

Friends putting heavily filtered photos on Facebook where they looking absolutely nothing like themselves. The worse part is their friends then saying "you are so beautiful" "gorgeous hun"
They then reply "awww thanks"

Likewise when trying to give the impression that they live in some kind of country manor house; “DH left the mudroom door open” and “DS was reading in the playroom” etc.

Maybe they do live in a country manor house. Some people do! If that's just the way they normally talk about parts of their house they probably wouldn't even notice.

The words 'preggo' 'preggy' and 'pregs'...really really make me cringe

Hubby, hubs, the hubster, the boy done good, so blessed, awwww bless his littlw cotton socks, any sort of cute talking like a baby to your partner, people who comment 'why?' at despicable new stories, grown people calling their mum, mummy. The worst is U ok hun? / I'll PM you now hun.

I think I just don't like people in general

Definitely the term 'fur babies'. Ours is just a pup, but hes not a baby, - its puppy or pup.
He goes to day care sometimes but i cant bear to say doggy day care, so he goes to puppy club!

Babe - esp if theyre no longer teenagers (although thats still bad!)

Whats wrong with sitting room? We live in a 2 up 2 down house, in an old pit village and we have a sitting room.
Mind you supper is what you have before bed, meals are - breakfast dinner tea supper

The insertion of an 'r' into a phonetic version of a word, when there isn't an 'r' in the word. For many of us, 'r' has a sound that these words don't.

People being accused of using Americanisms, when in reality they are using words or referring to things that have been said and done for a long time in this country - and America adopted them from us, seeing as many Americans have British ancestry. See: gotten, Santa, Trick or Treating as examples. Just because it's not common in your area, doesn't mean it's not British.

Since when was 'sitting room' 'superior'? It's totally ordinary where I'm from. In fact, in terms of 'poshness', it's at the bottom, followed by living room, lounge then drawing room.

Siblings being forces to dress the same parents who dress themselves in the,same clothes as their child

Thought of another one.
Tv shows that put superfluous often really bad pop or rap music over scenes,sometimes with no relevance to the scene itself. You might as well have the actors start dancing and turn the whole thing into a music video.

I'll agree with a previous poster about adverts. Most of them are stupid or patronising. Plus every single programme (obviously not the BBC)being sponsored these days, even repeats,just like in the US.

Small dogs. Less an actual dog, more a fashion statement or accessory. Or 'handbag hounds' as I call them.

Trick or Treating

It's not British

Guising this though. The tradition may have been exported but it its the use of the American term that irks many

Agree re Trick or Treating. Lived in the US and it was a delightful tradition enjoyed by everyone. Came back to the uk with primary age children and or was such a health and safety palaver due to so many people just not getting it

@Nahnahnah that’s what I call ‘hun culture’ and I hate it too but am also fascinated by it 😂

@NowtSoQueerAsFolk I got really irritated the other day when someone online got really mad at people saying ‘high school’- basically went on a big rant about people using Americanisms and how it was ‘pathetic’. Well I’m in the uk and when I was a teenager I went to a school that is about 100 years old and it was called such and such High School... so basically that person was talking bollocks 😆 bit OTT to call the fluidity of language and slang pathetic

I went to an xxxxx High School too! It opened in the mid 1800's.

@Bloodypunkrockers I know it's guising, I guess it wasn't obvious from how I worded it, but i wasn't referring to the language, I was referring to the act. I've not seen people complain about the language per se - I've seen people complain about Halloween is now a big thing with people guising/trick or treating (they usually say trick or treating because guising is, I think, specific to certain areas), and that it's an American thing. While the language might be, the celebration certainly isn't.

@WarmSausageTea slides the shoes or the tiny burgers?

The shoes are hideous but I love a tiny burger!

@NowtSoQueerAsFolk exactly! Not exclusively an American term at all. Some people just like to be mad at things they don’t understand.

The phrase “you and yours” always irritates me. No idea why.