Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

KD is for the younger generation.

How do they achieve that nuclear shade of orange? (Wait, I don’t want to know. 😧)

Oh and here's another one:

"So...I did a thing..."

Fuck off we don't care about your thing 😠

Along with pootling

I love a mooch. Used to be a big store in Hanley called Moochies. Full of ex catalogue/ end of line clothes and stuff. So prototype of TK Maxx .
I get angry when DH says ' do you see what I'm saying' ' or ' do you understand what I'm saying'.

I was thinking about this recently. We ( in Stepney) used to "roll up" to things. I remember first hearing "rock up" when Maxine Peake played the social worker in the drama about the abuse of teenage girls in Rochdale. When did we change or is it an up north expression?

Was that the one where they were groomed in a kebab shop?

I'm not sure where she'd picked it up from. We're greater london/Essex but I can't recall rolling up. "What time did you roll in?" my dad would often say though 😂

Where I live mooching refers to visiting a few pubs on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. We go for a mooch around the village and have a few drinks.

Or one of the Four Tops...

Please bin, lean into.
Hated it when it was first being used and hate it now.
It's so condescending.

Bung, Chuck, throw.

Busy, busy.

And any presumably intelligent woman referring to "hubby" 🤮🤣

I always make my my own macaroni cheese and as it originated in England and I'm English, I am obviously right 😁😜

So, guys, I'm a bit of a hot mess after a busy day at work, but I thought I'd RTFT and touch base with you all. It's a hard no from me to the people who want me to give up mooching. However, I would like to reach out and comfort the people who preferred the way we spoke back in the day. Language evolves, though, and you (and your hubbies) will get used to it.
Now I must go and lean in to getting dinner served. It's a bunged together dinner but I imagine the kids will rock up and eat it anyway.

9/10. You should have "plated up" for the full house

Googling... brb. 🤓

I can't stand the misuse of ellipses, instead of full stops. It makes a post so difficult to read I can finish it.

I already have 😁 Originated in England (and Italy) definitely not North America, so macaroni AND cheese is just yet another stupid Americanism that's made its way over here 😤

I'd give you lack of paragraphs but I think you're being slightly precious about ellipsis.

I went down the proverbial rabbit hole on that one.
I'd say the order was Italy, France, England for combining the ingredients, but I'm more curious about the use of "and."

Mac and cheese seems American to me;
macaroni and cheese, Canadian
macaroni cheese def Britain

Mac and cheese and macaroni and cheese are both used in the States.

That proves that I'm right then 😁 It originates from Europe where it's called macaroni cheese, not macaroni and cheese.

Stepped foot in

Sick to my stomach

I stepped foot in some dogshit and felt sick to my stomach.

I could care less when the opposite is meant ( v puzzling that one)

Have also heard some Americans say ' keep close to my vest.' Rather than "chest" - that's slightly endearing

Picked out rather than chose

Excited rather than anticipating or looking forward to

Reached out

Can I get?

I could go on....

Oh yes.
Passed on, or passed away.
No. They died and are now dead.

I also hate “late” and “lost”

dead. Died. Not late and will appear soon when the traffic’s better, or lost and we need to find them. Dead.

”the late mr smith” to me isn’t respectful, it makes them sound like they were a useless timekeeper in life.

Actually, I don't mind 'late' as it's an old fashioned formality, and generally only used in specific circumstances.

'Lost' though? No.

When my mother died last year, colleagues would repeatedly refer to her as having ''passed". As if they can't bring themselves to say 'died'. I even said to some please just say she died. Yet they didn't.

When someone has died, the worst has already happened. Attaching a pointless euphemism such as "passed on" is irritating and, depending on one's spiritual views, or lack of them, a bit insulting.

It actually trivialises the monumentality of death and the suffering of the survivors. Which is I imagine the exact opposite of what was intended.

Passed is traditional and respectful, I don't think there's anything wrong with others using that so as not to offend the bereaved person.