to ask why "pop" seems to be replacing literally every other verb in existence?

[wallpoppy]

I feel like this is getting worse all the time... was at the doctor on Friday and the nurse asked me to pop my bottoms off and pop myself on the table and she'd pop back in just a moment and then once we were settled in she said she had to pop out to get some smaller gloves and then she came in and said let me just pop these gloves on and we'll get started and then when that was done she had to just pop some notes into the computer and then she told me I could pop my clothes back on and the doctor would pop in in a few moments and not to forget to pop into reception to make my next appointment. I thought I was losing my mind. Does she not know any other verbs? It's not just her either, everyone is popping to places or popping things onto surfaces, no one goes anywhere or puts anything.

Only mildly better than everyone grabbing things these days.

I'll come over and grab it from you later

Can you just grab me a loaf of bread while you're in the shop?

Has anyone got a pen I could grab?

I want to tell them all to grab off.

When you can use "literally" correctly, then you can criticise others' use of "pop" [gavel]

Mic drop

You need to getting a popping life.

But OP is using it correctly. It means both 'literally' and 'figuratively' when used for emphasis. Because people literally used it all the time like this so it's meaning expanded 😎

If people aren't popping, they're grabbing. Or throwing. Throwing on jeans, throwing a casserole in the oven, throwing some stuff in the boot for a picnic.

We've also reduced most adjectives down to super or amazing.

I'd say it's efficient but it makes me want to cut off my own ears.

*its

Don't blame me for that faux pas. Blame my phone 😄

Pop of colour (a favourite of the Daily Mail) absolutely kills me. They also love to say in every celebrity article that so and so "rocked" a look, be it make up or clothes or no make up or some other bollocks.

I wonder if we invent more than we lose? IS THE LEXICON SHRINKING

My DM has always been a fan of ‘popping’ to places. A few years ago she upped the ante and started using even more cloyingly twee verbs. She would frequently toddle to the shops. Pootling may have got a look in. The absolute worst was when she tottered somewhere or other.

Then it stopped just like that, thank god.

This thread has reminded me of my favourite children’s to show ………

Popping is almost as annoying as nipping. And don't get me started on jumping on trains and buses or grabbing food and coffee.......

Thought I’d pop over to this thread and make a contribution.

Have you seen Dr Sandra Lee aka Dr pimple popper on YouTube? I love watching her pop pimples and cysts I’m addicted.

But by that logic, people using "pop" to replace other verbs is also correct, because everyone's doing it all the time (figuratively, not literally). Ergo the OP has nowt to complain about, because people use "pop" all the time and its meaning expanded.

You can't say - well I accept one but not the other! All or nothing! 😁

“Pop off” was a polite euphemism in my family for farting when I was a kid.

There was a thread on here a while ago about the farting euphemism ‘blow off’. Sounded rather filthy to me, and so naturally it’s embedded itself in my head.

I think it's definitely a HCP thing, especially for females, and it's meant to create an informal, non threatening atmosphere. Midwives used to ask you to 'hop' though- 'can you just hop onto the couch dear'- in OP's case it's obviously become a bit of a verbal habit.
I suppose the question is what proportion of the patients get wound up and what proportion feel reassured by it.

Rrrrrentaghost - brilliant 😀

Curate anyone?

People can pop all they like as long as they stop grabbing food and coffee and stop using ridiculously exaggerated descriptors.

Terrified when 'slightly concerned' would be a proportionate response. See also incredible instead of 'quite nice' and stunning for 'looks ok'.

this is part of the creeping infantilisation of culture, which also includes vomit inducing marketing copy on smoothies etc

“Pop me in the fridge to keep me yummy!”

Yes. I love the way products have to be made animate and loveable now.

I was reading a thread on here the other day about cooking. There was so much chucking and slinging and throwing and bunging.

@lackofvision Yes!! I'm with you on that.

I lament the demise of the verb prepare
Everyone's doing their public school homework now.

I'm not convinced that "I prepped dinner" trips off the toungue more lightly than "I prepared dinner" it's only saved one letter, and there's just too many Ps clunking around.