To get the rage when I hear doggo/kiddo etc

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Why can't people just say sucking dog!! Why is everything now stupid speak?? Doggo, kiddo, holibobs, hun, wifey, hundred and too many more to mention! Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh! Am I just a grumpy old woman!!

Anyone else use the words ironically, but before they know it becomes a regular part of their vocab? Just me hun?

Can’t get too excited about kiddo/doggo but absolutely loathe the name of the pram brand Ickle Bubba. I silently judge anyone pushing one of these very, very hard.

Hun, hubby and fur baby are the ones that get me.

oh, and anyone who refers to their wife as “the missus’. Yes this happened in a work conversation the other week.

Most of these are childish, I agree, not my thing. But the word kiddo sends the red mist down on me like you would not believe. I can and do ignore it if people are saying it about others, but if applied to me I would tell them to not do that again - and mean it. My mother used to use it all the time, when I was already an adult, as a way of saying, you're still my child, I can patronise you any time I want. Fucking hated it and it's stuck.

See also "X smashed their first day at school today".

Hate most of these but my worst is 'holibobs' and 'famalam'

Urgh fuck offfff

I hate KINDA HEY LIKE

Kiddo is regional. All my Liverpudlian friends use it, but I have never heard it elsewhere. But, yes, so much crap, juvenile talk about.

I don't think it's regional. I've heard it loads in the midlands.

Little man! Awful. Imagine calling your infant daughter little woman. You just wouldn’t.

I hate anything that’s like buba, babba, bubz etc. I had a friend who used to write me Christmas cards as if she was her baby (“fank yew for da prezzie I wuvs it” etc) and I used to think I should call a dr out to her or something.

Entire agree with all the “you got this, we’re all cheering you on!!” updates on starting preschool or whatever. I also loathe graduations featuring four or five year olds - just seems utterly silly to me.

Little man makes me vom, especially if preceded with sexy . WTAF, who describes a baby/toddler/child as sexy 😡

Me too babe xox

Hahaha. This was my first thought too!

The fb statuses “hot date with my little man!” with pic of mum and baby or toddler in a cafe. Should be a criminal offence..

This thread has cheered me up - had a horrible morning!
Keep them coming kiddos!

Yeah, I see it a lot from people on FB - these people are were my friends

I like doggo. We refer to our dogs as the doggos, the woofers or the babies. The babies really annoys my MIL so I make sure to use it often in front of her whilst holding them like a newborn.

I agree with your list, but I do call the dog doggo, doggins, dogothy. But just to her. I refer to her as the dog to other people.

I'll admit to using little man.

It's a hangover from not being able to decide on a name for a few weeks, and me and DP still use it as an affectionate term at home.

...but who are these people calling babies sexy little men?! I have literally never encountered this 🤣

Does it not actually effect your physical and mental health to be this fucking miserable?

@ThermoSpooklear but did it make you howl? Was tea spat out ?

This is the only way I approve of babies being used to refer to pets - when it’s done to wind up someone who is adamant that only those who are parents can use it!!!!!!!!!

Cheers, baby's awake now

I’ve not seen sexy but I’ve seen a lot of women describing a day out with infant or toddler as being a hot date, saying that their baby son is “into the ladies already” (after he glanced at a woman once), or that he’s a little heartbreaker. It’s a really weird thing to me but it absolutely happens.

I'm currently reading a book sets in Australia in the 1920's and they say littlie a lot. Don't think it's a new one. My mum has said all my life she hates hubby