To get the rage when I hear doggo/kiddo etc

[clpsmum]

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!!

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I’m with you, can’t think what is worse out of the two. Up there with amaze balls in my book.

Rumpy-pumpy
how’s yer father

infantilisms aren’t new but modern ones are particularly annoying, probably because we don’t hear the others anymore.

"And just like..." 🤮it makes my skin crawl

May I extend this to people saying ...and I; instead of ...and me.
There is a live thread with that in the title. It is too sensitive a subject to mention.
But it does "grind my gears".

Lots of hate for use of language- I like doggo.

The one that currently riles me is the Facebook fashion of trying to pull you into watching a video by titling it something like "toddler won't be parted from her brother/sister"...and the "brother" or "sister" is a dog. A dog is not a brother or sister to a baby! It's a pet. A loved pet for sure, but not a sibling. But it's everywhere. Infantilising and crass.

Can't bear Hun or Babe. Don't like hearing others being called it, but the odd occasion someone has called me Hun or Babe just makes me rage inwardly, and I know that's a huge overreaction, but there we go. Humans are not always rational!

Pupper, on the dog theme. And the weird thing where people post video’s about “puppy” or “kitten” for any age feline or canine. “puppy gets rescued and remembers his rescuer” type thing, when it’s a fucking big arse adult dog.

don’t get me started on the anthropomorphism either. Dogs don’t have human feelings and don’t feel sad and cry.

the word I really hate that’s ubiquitous now is Poop. Poo, shit, whatever, and extra “p” does not somehow make talking about poo politer.

That reminds me: FUR-BABY. I cannot stand this word for people's pets. It's not a baby. Its a cat/dog/rabbit/insert relevant pet here.

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I’m good with pupper or doggo (though can’t say I’d use them much myself) but kiddo, preggo, hubby, etc. make me reach internally.

Two others that can fuck right off are ‘nom-non’ and ‘yummy’.

To the person who asked if being so miserable affected our mental well-being - no, we thrive in this grumpy space.

Retch*

Nom-nom*

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Also boob to sleep. NO. 🤢

My dogs and cat are my children’s siblings. 🤣

My children know what I mean when I say ‘where are your sisters’, or ‘have you fed your brother?’. I’m definitely not asking where my other human child is or if they’ve fed their human sibling. 🤣

Yes and I don't actually like electric either. It's electricity if you're not from Liverpool.

I get fed up with most of the twee examples given on this thread. OK if you are actually talking to your small child but not when you are talking to older kids and adults.

I think I mentioned it on another thread a few weeks ago but Huw Edwards was in trouble for taking the mick out of a Torygraph journalist who had written an article about Wales. I didn't read the article, so I don't know if he was right, but she'd tweeted something like "my first article for the Telegraph, eek".

Why the eek. It's so childish and you're a grown woman writing for a (reasonably) reputable newspaper (it's not the Heil, anyway). No man would ever say it.

Not sure what's wrong with a slice of pizza though. We don't all eat the whole thing!

I am getting really fed up with "reach out", "can I get" and "I'm good" though.

What is wrong with "contact/phone/email/message/get in touch with" "could I please have" and "I'm well"?

No, I’m like a bitchy lizard, I thrive in these conditions.

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Ooh another one I’ve only seen on MN - picky bits! Sounds both infantile and pervy. Hate it.

Don’t even start me on adverts. Whoever did the Pampers poonami one needs putting in the Tower of London.

My mother never says baby she says 'bubba' or 'bubs'. So when my children were little she would say; 'How is bubba?'. She used to be a nurse and would say things like; 'In my day all the bubbas had ribena in their bottles'. She also does not call teeth, teeth. She calls then 'toothy-pegs'.

I feel quite violent at these things.

I hate the word Hubby with a passion