Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

It annoys me when young people in the UK refer to the police as the 'feds'. We are not a federal country. We don't have a federal police force.

Me three (that might be an irritating response in itself) 🤔 Mooch and Pootle are great words.

I agree. It’s good to get some new words in our vocabulary. Learnt from my kids, I approve of the words drip (for style) and rizz for charisma. They’re fun words to me.

I hate newsreaders and politicians who say crate for create and nucular for nuclear. Drives me mad! Nick Clegg was forever saying crate and I notice Keir Starmer saying it now. Sophie Raworth and numerous other presenters do the same.

Only if it's used very sparingly.

Don’t do “me (F53) and my partner (M78)”

Firstly, you’re not on Reddit and secondly I don’t give a fuck about your gender or age, nor is it ever relevant to the post.

I hate that. You’re excited about something, not excited for it.

Or “I’m THERE for it” Gah! 😩

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YABU. Mooching has been part of the vernacular forever. My aunt used to mooch in the charity shops in Shepherd's Bush, back in the 1970s 😁

"Back in the day", please be gone. In the past is good enough.

we Americans would say aluminum :)
I've been living in the UK since the late '90s and still cannot say aluminium.

I hate 'hot mess', it makes me feel sick. I get a mental image of something disgusting on the pavement.

Someone does something ‘on the regular’. Hate it.

I can't stand it either. As with many of the sayings mentioned here, I can roll my eyes indulgently at a teenage cousin or niece on Instagram saying it. But when it is grown women (or men).. I feel so embarrassed for them. Surely they should have acquired a more considered and mature style of expressing themselves by now.

I know someone who started saying crate instead of create after finishing her degree at Cambridge. I think she must be under the illusion that it sounds posh.
It makes her sound like she has a speech impediment.

I’m Canadian. I just say “foil”. And for us it’s definitely “macaroni and cheese”. Or even just “Kraft dinner”, regardless of the brand. Otherwise it sounds like you’re describing a kind of cheese.

Pootle and Mooch. If I ever have two cats, that’s what I’m naming them.

Ha ha, I used to live in Canada, I remember those Kraft dinners, really can't call those macaroni cheese or macaroni and cheese 😆 The name is still macaroni cheese though, it's a hill I'm willing to die on 😁

If someone's heading to the Annoying Phrase Recycling Centre can I please add the following to the pile in your boot:

'Can I get' used instead of 'Please can I have'
'Hot take'
'A red lip'
'Skibbidi toilet'
'Sigma'

Thanks, I owe you one.

Agreed! Same as cauliflower cheese!

'Bimble' can get in the bin. Having a bimble, going on a bimble.

No.

Absolutely not.

Oh god I'm on a WhatsApp group with my two sisters and one of them is always saying "Hard Agree" and it makes me cringe to my very core but I can't say it to her cos she thinks it's a hip thing to say and will be really upset if I say it's just not cool at all

My older sister went through a stage of saying "rock up". Everybody rocked up everywhere... nobody ever just turned up anymore. Also made me cringe 😂

@CellophaneFlower what do we do???!!
Every time anyone says anything she "hard agrees" with it / its taking every ounce of self control that I have to not say anything but I think its going to explode out of me eventually cos I thought after a year or two it would stop .. but no 🙈

Correction:
tin foil
KD, but...
macaroni and cheese if you've made your own

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