Oh my days is the most twee phrase ever

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Just that. AIBU?

There are two uses of it really.

A mainly teenage slang use, and a Pamelarrr style from Gavin and Stacey use. I guess the latter would fall under the twee bit.

@shearwater2 are you OK? You seem very angry about a fairly light-hearted observation.

Crumbs, whoopsy daisy, and my giddy aunt are far more twee and I say them all the time.

I think it's really quite a bold statement to take a phrase that you have never actually heard being used and start a thread on it.

Oh my days my head is in my arse 😲
I read it as faux shock when it's used here

Thanks. I'll take bold <preens>

South London born and raised here ...admittedly now I live in a very affluent part of SW London.

Oh my days is definitely not twee. Unless like me and my siblings and old friends it occasionally creeps into conversation since it was probably at least 30 years since we're were saying this in the playground. That's twee nostalgia.

Absolutely agree.

I guess I get irrationally irritated by other people's irrational irritation. 🙂

Travel broadens the mind, maybe that could be something you do this year.

It's the opposite of twee. It's Sarf London chat.

Oh goodness is twee.

Heard it quite a lot working in serious violence units, from the offender group, so no twee association from me.

I'm with you, OP. Can't stand it (and I'm South London born and bred).
But there are two definite uses. One is quite twee and the other is teenage wannabe hard nut.
On MN I would think it's more of the former!

I say loads of stupid sayings, I bet people think this about me, I dont say oh my days though (I'd just say oh for fucks sake). I do say christ on a crutch though which is horrible really and I wish I didn't come out with things like that 😂😂

My ds14 says it, gives me the rage! 😂

Not at all twee. Most of the teenagers are saying it.

Hate it, thankfully it’s not commonly used in my part of the country. I usually hear it on tv

I use it at work where for fuck sake would be inappropriate (primary school)
"Oh my days, what's happened here?" As a child is sat looking guilty, felt tip in hand, lovely new scribble on the wall.
(I'm in the North West btw)

The teenage use most people are talking about is quite distinct from the original usage, I believe. I think the OP is referring to the latter (since she isn’t hearing London teenagers come out with it at all).

The original was very much twee and ‘oh I mustn’t say oh my god because it’s offensive’.

It is kind of annoying when teenagers take an existing phrase and change it, and then act as if the original never existed. Inexplicably they’ve also done this with ‘low-key’; this obviously means ‘mild’ or ‘unobtrusive’ but for them it seems to mean ‘genuinely’ or something 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I say it in my place of work where it is a vernacular phrase which expresses a frustration or overwhelm just short of 'fucking hell'.

I say it in my place of work where it is a vernacular phrase which expresses a frustration or overwhelm just short of 'fucking hell'.
Same here. Most of the time I assume people are adapting their language to their situation or they don't swear much. I'd not say either are twee.

Hubby, hubster, holibobs, famalam, boob monster, picky bits on the other hand 🙄

First time I heard it was Harry in The Traitors saying it again and again and again. Then one of the other did. Assumed it was a southern English thing and thought maybe Harry said it in a way to not swear in front of his mum, as he seemed very close to his family.
Was it also a south English thing to say ‘shit the bed’? I’m sure I heard that on First Dates or somewhere a while back, and it was said as if it was a common thing, but my only association was Trainspotting, and I found it quite shocking!

I hear it several times a day (North-West secondary school), accompanied by an eye roll. It translates as "how outrageous! Do you really expect me to do as I am told/stop talking/sit in my chair/do some work?"

Wtf is twee?

I like Oh my days. I think it's lovely. I wish I could say it, but it would feel too much like co-opting something that doesn't belong to me.

When I opened this thread I thought you were actually saying 'just that' is the most twee phrase.

Which it is compared to 'oh my days' which where I'm from is said in a more gangster/street tone. Often 'oh my dayzzzz fam' or similar.