AIBU to wonder exactly how one rocks up somewhere?

[RockingUp]

I keep seeing the term used on Mumsnet and I must know exactly what it involves. I'm picturing someone striding along with a '90s boombox on their shoulder but I suspect that isn't what they mean.

Nearly as bad as spidey senses

With insouciance

There must be a lot of Saffers here posting then, because we rock up all over the show.

We also pitch up, pull in...and then when we leave, we shoot the breeze.

😃

People have a lot of time on their hands...

Swanning around is the worst one. Usually meant as derogatory on here.

Just going somewhere. But I always love the drama around slang with mumsnet.

@oakleaffy - holibobs - yes - urgh!! and also

'How you diddlin'? Just yuck !!

This is what Hun always puts me in mind of..

Including you!👍

There’s definitely an insouciance about it.

used for others = ok

used for yourself = try hard … and you definitely didn’t

Diddlin?!
Haven’t heard that one yet.

Sounds like a potential incontinence attack to me!

on a rocking horse

Yes!

Yep, "crack on" disproportionately irks me. There was an epidemic of it on here around 2020/21, concurrent with another more well-known viral menace. Often seen in the context of, "Why can't the vulnerable just hermetically seal themselves away indefinitely, so the rest of us can crack on without having to bother taking precautions against transmission in places vulnerable people have to go, like GP surgeries and pharmacies". It's dying off a bit now, though. Epidemics do.

I think phrases become particularly irritating when they suddenly explode in popularity, and from having barely ever come across them before, you're suddenly seeing them in every other thread or hearing them in every other conversation.

‘How you diddlin'?
Answer ‘Fair to middlin’

If it's used for everything it becomes a bit pointless. It's no better than turns up. If it means something about attitude you could equally use words such as swaggers, swans, waltzes, saunters or sashays.

This.

Rocking up involves obliviousness, a lack of regard for wherever you are rocking up to, possibly without an invite.....it has a strong whiff of the CF about it.

Example.
Years ago my friends parents were having a familyish BBQ and she and her boyfriend (at the time) were attending.
They were meeting there.
It was a gorgeous day.

Boyfriend ROCKS UP with his brother, girlfriend AND the brothers girlfriends bestfriend and HER boyfriend.🤦‍♀️

My friend had met his brother a few times but she pulled her boyfriend aside and asked WTF was he playing at?
Her parents home was NOT an open invite, finish up their drink and head off.

Relationship never recovered.
She said she was genuinely surprised as she hadn't realised he was thick as mud.😁

I'm loving all of these different interpretations of the phrase. They're all much better than mine.

Waltzing is another great one I agree.

I'm reminded of the people Mumsnetters complain about because they eat in the cinema or train. They're always chomping, cramming and slurping. It's funny how they almost never just eat like regular people.

I prefer to cavort around a bit before rocking up anywhere.

I always remember a quote from an article on Queen I read years ago - something about them being an ordinary sort of band before Freddie Mercury pirouetted in and announced he was from Zanzibar. So I suppose then I might actually prefer to cavort around, rock up and then pirouette in.

I thought 'shoot the breeze' meant to have a chat. Thank God I've never used it, would I have been telling people to piss off?

Yes this, and that kind of confident swagger usually does have a side to side motion

That's what I thought.

I thought waltzing in - they were dancing to their own music/beat vaguely happy content without any concern for the rest of the world/dance floor.

Crack on confuses me more - it's kind of aggressive often used dismissively -possible whip and coach imagery speed related/moving past or noisy fire crackers drowning out other noises.

I feel we all have something to learn from Kramer

m.youtube.com/watch?v=br2wzb8Cj_g

I rock up with my records on a Sunday night at my local, for vinyl night, if someone said I'd be doing that 30 years ago, I'd thought them bonkers!

Also used in shops when there is a queue and someone asks a member of staff if they could jump on the till or get someone else to jump on the till. Visions of people vaulting over the queue to get onto the pay desk or hopping about doing a jump jive on it.