Oh my days is the most twee phrase ever

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Just that. AIBU?

It makes me laugh, there's no middle ground on Mumsnet.

Picky bits and boob monster far far worse….

Haha. Me and my friends used to say it a lot in the 90s as teens...I knew a lot of Asian kids who used it but not sure if it comes from any particular culture.
I started saying "oh my life" and then just "my life' in the same context, don't worry I haven't said it for a long time. I have to say I actually don't mind it that much. I guess in adults it doesn't exactly make you look particularly cerebral. It does seem to have died down a bit in common parlance I think.

I don’t think of it as twee at all. I thought it was used by people rolling their eyes and trying to avoid swearing.

Trying to avoid swearing is quite twee though, isn’t it?

I can't understand people who have a problem with a word and then try to tell everyone else what they should be saying instead. You know that other people might have a problem with your chosen fave, right?

For me, sick and poorly are not interchangeable. Sick means nauseous. Poorly means ill. I use poorly with my kids because it's easier for a toddler to say and to be understood. A two year old saying "ill" usually sounds like "eew" and if there's a deathly illness rearing its head I haven't got time for charades!

I’ve always heard it as teenagers with church-going parents who would get into trouble if they blasphemed. Live in SE London which is where I started hearing it.

No, not twee at all. If you want twee, how about the classic "I didn't want to read and run?"

You have used two of my worst ones right there 😂

I had no idea that "Oh my days" was some sort of wannabe gangster speak.

I'm in my late 60s and have used it in situations where "For fuck's sake" or "Fuck me sideways" wouldn't be appropriate for as long as I can remember. I lived in Croydon/Streatham/South Norwood for the first half of my life though, so wonder if it might be a south London thing as much as an urban mulitcultural thing. I can remember my late mother saying it, and my family aren't multicultural at all (well, unless having 2 Irish grandparents counts).

I hope people don't think I'm trying to be cool and down with the kids or anything when I say it.

I'm with PPs on "picky tea" though, and not keen on "poorly" either. I also dislike the word "loo" quite intensely. It's a mimsy, childish sounding word imo, and it makes me wince inwardly. I don't even like the way it looks on the screen.

Depends on the setting.

My team at work used to be very sweary, and one colleague was quite uncomfortable with it. Then we got a new person join and they're uncomfortable with it too, so we now have a ban on "fuck" and variants thereof at meetings.

Personally, I think they should just suck it up. We're all adults, for fuck's sake and they even say it on Radio 4 now!

Hope you’re not a teacher. With your nasty attitude and bias against kids who may come from a different political background.

Not just south London. Kids were saying it in north London back in the 90’s. It was cringe then, still is, but not twee.

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It's definitely West Country in origin. But then I would say that.

I was just about to say I associate it with women of Caribbean origin of about my mother's age. She was born in 1931 and I used to hear it a lot as a child, so 50s, 60s . It wasn't twee, just unusual enough to be noticeable because my (British) mother said "Goodness me" and suchlike in the same situations.

Twee?🤣🤣 come down to South London and we’ll change your mind in about 0.02 seconds

We say in West Yorks too.
I grew up in S London in the 1980s and it was prevalent then. I always thought it was Caribbean in origin, but that might be because my dad was Jamaican.

Oh my days - see Man like Mobeen - used by all the main gs in school...until I decided to appropriate it for clout (as well as Traitors' Oh my dilly days) then they realised it must be lame if the teachers were nicking it

‘Poorly tummy’ 😖

Poorly tummy.

Said by anyone over the age of 5

Or an odd poster who referred to her car's engine trouble as it having a "poorly tummy"

Which brings me to the other irritating AF phrase supposed to be full of veiled wit, ‘are you OK?’ or ‘are you OK hun?’ bloody annoying.

Calm the fuck doon, henw

This! It’s definitely not twee

Multicultural Urban British English is used in cities all over the UK. Even if you don’t meet people who use it, it's pretty hard not to come across it in the media.