I’m fed up with the word ping.

[MotionActivatedDog]

I’ve seen it so many times on this forum over the last few days the word doesn’t even look right anymore. Even worse- pinged! No one was pinged. You can’t ping a person. Ping is a sound.

There- I’ve used up the entire “ping” quota for the rest of the century. You’ll all have to think of a different word to use now.

I'm honoured to be a lasting influence.
especially when it comes to dumbfuckery
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Reach out to malcom. That’s right, reach through the screen, like uri fucking geller using the power of his mind!

Reach out - yuck
Ping - yuck

Also ruined for me over the last 18 months
Flocking - no-one "goes" anywhere any more, they all "flock"
Bubble - I used to quite like bubbles - less so now
Safe, particularly the vomit-inducing email sign off from my useless-as-all-get-out MP "stay safe" - FUCK OFF

"reach out"

fuck off. you are not Mr Tickle and don't have long stretchy arms

Totally agree.

The App alerts people with a ping / tootle / select your annoying noise descriptor here

'Pingdemic' - gah!

@TheSunShinesBrighter

What would you prefer OP? 😄

ding
tinkle
clink
beep
bleep
peep
ting
jingle
jangle
ting-a-ling
chink
peal
tingle
chinkle
plink
pip
cheep
beep
toot
tootle
meep

Aaaagghhh - "tinkle"!

My late mother and her sister were forever agreeing to give one another "a tinkle". It made my teeth itch.

Yes bubble can do one too. We’ve had enough bubbles, bubbling, bursting over the last year to do us a lifetime. Ban the bubble.

Another one I’ve noticed in lots of MN threads recently is no-no. Lots of people asking if something is a “no-no”. I didn’t realise I hated it but I do.

All the pandemic words can do one. At the moment my least favourite is 'mild' when does roving symptoms. Thank god I don't hear the word 'furlough' any more, especially the way people say it up here.

"Reaching out" makes me retch.

Just get in touch with people, ffs, or contact them.

@LakieLady

I know people who use it exclusively to say they need a wee.
eeech! I DON'T need to know what your pee sounds like you perv! just say piss, slosh, wee or urinate. tinkle.

especially the way people say it up here.

Please tell me how they say it. I have a need to be further irritated today.

Yeah a tinkle is a pee.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle
Be a sweetie and wipe the seatie

I have a need to be further irritated today

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And I'm the Drama Queen! PMSL

@MotionActivatedDog

especially the way people say it up here.

Please tell me how they say it. I have a need to be further irritated today.

Hahahaha! 🤣

Honestly, when I was writing my post I said to myself I wouldn't even know how to write it phonetically, as it's so odd!

I really hate the phrase "fur baby".
With a vengeance.
Every time I see/hear it I'm compelled to call my kids "skin pets".

Skinpets!!! 😂

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I really hate the phrase "fur baby". With a vengeance. Every time I see/hear it I'm compelled to call my kids "skin pets".

OMG! 😄

Haha YANBU. I'm amazed so many people haven't deleted what is a total disaster of a useless app, the minute they first got 'pinged'

Agree, OP!

“Pinged by the App”, such lazy speech. What’s wrong with saying notified or alerted!

@HmmmmmmInteresting

All the pandemic words can do one. At the moment my least favourite is 'mild' when does roving symptoms. Thank god I don't hear the word 'furlough' any more, especially the way people say it up here.

But the worst pandemic phrase HAS to be...

"The new normal"

🙄🙄

@SpongeBarb

I get annoyed by it too! I actually used it the other day at work, in an overly breezy email and regretted it instantly.

'Ping Regret' and 'Ping-Use Regret' are crimes which, when committed together, should lead to very tough sentencing indeed.

Frangipani

the Covid vocab is horrendous.

but one good thing came out of it: Quarantini🍸

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@SpongeBarb

I get annoyed by it too! I actually used it the other day at work, in an overly breezy email and regretted it instantly.

Did you say you’ll ping something over to them?

Tsk tsk. You’ll need to rein that cheeriness right back in.