To hate any phrase containing 'cuppa'?

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Come to mine for a 'cuppa'
Do you want a 'cuppa'
Have a 'cuppa'
While we have a 'cuppa'
Urgh

Probably unreasonable, but I just bloody hate it

I word toastie being used instead of toasted sandwich

I HATE the word cuppa. I also hate anyone who says a ‘turkey dinner’ for a Christmas meal, and I hate it even more if they add in ‘all the trimmings’ 🤮

just makes me think of people gorging themselves on piles of meat and makes me feel physically sick

😂 we have the phrase, "Die, despair, detest," emblazoned on our living room wall 👍

I don't mind cuppa too much, or toastie.

I absolutely cannot stand 'pinta' as in pinta milk. Thankfully you don't see it much, but red top newspaper headlines about 'increases in the cost of your daily pinta' cause much teeth-grinding.

Don’t mind “a coffee” but I do mind “a tea”. Would you like a tea?

Hate a roast dinner being referred to as “a dinner”. As in “I think I’ll make a dinner on Sunday”

I saw this on another thread and thought 'wtf?'

The poster went on to explain that in their head they associated it with animal food. (Seems a bit daft as it would then also be at the heart of 'corn meal' which millions of humans eat daily.)

Meal just means food eaten at a set time, i.e. breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner.

My in-laws use ‘meal’ and ‘tit bits’ for snacks which just kills my soul a bit every time I hear it tbh.

Oh god yes - toastie 😩

I'm not British but even I know many of the hated phrases are associated with specific regions like Yorkshire. Sounds like a friendly place!

YANBU

With ex-MiL, at Christmas, we would typically have a brew AND a butty ALONG with picky bits (no veggies) in front of Corrie on the telly. And if it was Crimbo, we'd unwrap prezzies because it we were on our jolly holibobs.

I'd think we'd "get our jollies on" too, but I can't remember what that meant 😬

Round here a pint is definitely NOT milk

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Thanks. That's made me laugh!

Can I just clarify that no Australian would EVER use the word ‘hollibobs’. In fact we also don’t say ‘hols’ because that belongs in an Enid Blyton novel. We just say holidays. Christmas might be called Chrissy but never Crimbo, shudder.

Agree. As pp from Yorkshire, I'm in Lancashire and it would sound fancy to most folk in my town to say cup OF tea rather than cuppa tea.

Also use brew ALL the time

It's not certain people using it, everyone I know does. It's just the dialect in certain places

How can anyone be offended by a toastie?! It's a perfectly acceptable and widely accepted word for a toasted sandwich. You'd just sound a bit of a pillock asking for a cheese and tomato toasted sandwich 😁

You are all invited to mine for a cuppa and some picky bits, with my lovely hubby xx

(Dies vomiting at her own words)

hot choc (or worse, snuggled up under a blanket with a hot choccy and a biccy)

Washed down with - makes me feel sick.

Preggers, prego etc. - vom

Actually don't mind toastie.

I am quite starchy, I think. My family would say, “Who would like a cup of tea?” We also say things like “I’m going to draw a bath” and we’re very much “May I have” not “Can I get” people; ditto “loo”, always, not “toilet” or heaven forfend, “lav”. My dad makes a cat’s bum face if someone suggests something is “tasty”, let alone a “tasty meal”. I’m not sure he’d know what a “brew” was.

That said I do like to troll DP by mentioning I’m off to Sainsbo’s or the ’Trose. Was sad to see Safeway go under as I could no longer say “Safey-dubs”.

They really don't

God yes

All snuggled up, comfy and cosy (or even worse, cozy) in our jammies with hot choc

Mash potatoes. We are British. It's mashed potatoes or if you must, just mash. It is not, ever mash potatoes

Agree!

I also hate 'a brew'. It usually refers to tea, but for a reason I can't put my finger on it sets my teeth on edge. If anyone else hates this expression and can say why, I'd love to know!

I've also got an aversion to 'a coffee' - no need for the indefinite article. Just say 'Shall we have some coffee?' or '...a cup of coffee?' Again, I can't really explain why it winds me up - it just does.

I think it might be the implication that you will be choosing from a huge range of special coffees, which I admit you are in a coffee shop, but it still makes me irrationally cross, even so!

Sing it!! And see also iced coffee and soured cream, both of which I’ve seen suffer the removal of the d.

Sorry to go all Pedants' Corner but @CulturePigeon in your example 'some' is acting as an indefinate article, surely? I've underlined it.

I've also got an aversion to 'a coffee' - no need for the indefinite article. Just say 'Shall we have some coffee?' or '...a cup of coffee?' Again, I can't really explain why it winds me up - it just does.

I don't mind cuppa, as long as followed by tea. As in, I'm going to have a cuppa tea. Possibly more so because my 3yo loves making tea and often asks "mummy can I have some cuppa tea"