Oh my days is the most twee phrase ever

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Just that. AIBU?

That’s fair. It’s just so ubiquitous in the media now that I’m surprised people aren’t coming across it on tv or other media.

Another one making this into the world’s most tragic flex!

Actually it’s not. A few big English cities are full of multicultural urban British English, as you say but it’s definitely not a thing in other home nations of the UK.

@Takoneko I live in a British city and I've never heard it used

Although I heard Kiell on taskmaster say it.

I think that swearing in public is much worse than it used to be. I am not averse to swearing myself and my friends would probably say I swear a lot, but I try not to do it when there are lots of people around, I dont know who is around me or if there are children present. I was at the supermarket self check out the other day getting a lunchtime sandwich and a group of men at the next checkout were talking really loudly, and throwing in fuck, cunt, etc etc. I was going to say something but they left before I got to them. So I would vastly prefer 'Oh my days'.

It’s not a flex. Far from it obviously….

No, it's not twee. So YABU.

There's another one as well, usually used at the beginning of a sentence or statement but I can't think of it!

I'm up north too. I don't think I've heard anybody up here say it irl. I don't think it's twee, more like an Essex thing (it's all down 'sarf' to me, so I might be off by miles!)
My exclamations tend to be more blasphemous- Jesus Christ, bloody hell, good God, my God, Oh God and good grief, being the most used. Worse, if I'm talking to a religious person and my brain is telling me not to say them. I'm guaranteed to say them every other sentence.

People in Glasgow speak Glaswegian. Not sure which “media” you watch but I don’t come across people saying “oh my days” (and I’m certainly not posh)

As someone who is not from the UK, can someone please tell me wtf 'twee' means? It sounds so fucking stupid!!! 'Oh my days' sounds like typical 1800s backwards and old-fashioned UK. But 'twee' (whatever tf that stupid word means) sounds beyond stupid and weird and even worse than the really old-fashioned 1800s era words people from the UK use.

Why so angry?

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Means quaint or cute in a sickly way

GIYF

For some reason it always makes me think of Alan Carr 🤣. Agree it’s more of a southern thing and basically got resurrected as youth speak after decades in the linguistic wilderness. I quite like it, especially when said with theatrical flourish by those not generally given to theatrics.

I hate “oh my days” - the kids at the work say it frequently (usually when you’re telling them off and they’re annoyed about it). I usually snap back “no, not oh your days” if I’m honest 🙈

What is "picky tea" ? Is it the same as pernikety ?

You could look it up if you really wanted to know, instead of going ballistic on here 😐

Poorly is sniffly, self-pitying and babyish. If they get any more poorly they'll have to take themselves to hospickle.

yes

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I always thought it originated from Southern states of America..not London!!

Exactly! My grandmother used to say this and she was from Florida.

"don't want to read and run" isn't twee though ? It's annoying, but hardly twee.

All my Yorkshire / Derbyshire relatives said ‘poorly’ to mean ill. It was the normal word to use.

I say it occasionally and will make a point of saying it more now I realise the prim and squeamish MN cohort who sneer at other people’s colloquial language have taken it up as their word to hate.

I thought everyone said poorly? What else do you say? I can’t stand it when people say they’re “sick” like they do in America.

Or get get hubby to make them some yummy soup and then tuck them up all comfy and cosy in clean jammies