Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

[OptimismvsRealism]

Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

"Can I join?" On pregnancy / weight loss / any groups

Just write what you want to say!

Except the foil is made from aluminium (or if you’re in North America “aluminum”) and not tin.

”And what did he say when you told him blah blah blah…” knowing damn well that conversation never happened

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(love your username)

These threads just remind me how intolerant people are to cultural differences. Yes, language is culture and different cultures will use the English language in different ways. Culture spreads, others pick up on it. Language is fluid. Deal with it.

It’s not like people are submitting their literature essays with: “Dickens was giving big big energy when Scrooge changed his ways; he was a vibe. It had been a minute since he’d felt joy,” I really don’t see the issue.

I quite like some of these but I saw an ad featuring Debbie Harry ‘lensed by’ photographer and that’s just ridiculous.

"I feel like" instead of "I think". Also irrationally annoys me when people put "And just like that..." when posting a pic of their child moving up a school year or whatever.

😑 horrific

To add to that, trash is an old English word. Etymology below. Shakespeare used the word trash in Othello. Like many words, which hack fallen out of use over here, it’s not an americanism at all. Rather the word trash has been picked up in the US. We still use trashy in the UK.

www.etymonline.com/word/trash

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So does Minnie the moocher ,she was a low down hoocha coocha.
As sung by Cab Callaway.

I'm jealous of your day

I can't stand 'a hot minute'. What's hot about it?

I'm obsessed by this thread, it is everything

I wish people would stop dropping things.

so many clumsy musicians. shops apparently can’t keep a proper hold of their new collections either.

i often wonder whether there’s a harassed assistant following in the wake desperately trying to pick up all these dropped albums and new sets of earrings. That’s if they haven’t broken from the fall.

IYKYK - used to imply some amazing secret when normally it's absolutely TV programme or something else not particularly interesting.

It's a lot. I have overwhelm.

Hugs Hun. x

I hate it in newspapers and magazines when they said "Why we're all obsessed with....".

Most of the time I have never heard of the person/thing/series that we're all supposedly obsessed with, or it's something inane that's been around for ages. It's such an irritating way of generating false interest.

I have a totally irrational dislike of someone using the word 'scoops' instead of pint or drink.

I never mooch, I pootle.

The addition of the word ‘of’ - I told him to get off of me. I got off of the bus. I took it off of the top of the refrigerator.

It’s weird how now ppl are adding words after the long tradition of missing words out.
It’s one of the many Americanisms that is taking over common vernacular among the kids and alarmingly older generations - hate seeing it in news articles. Journalists are hideous culprits of adopting these on-trend phrases. Just stop.

Not heard of the minute one

have used mooching since the 80s, it’s a great word to describe anyone/thing just hanging about waiting for something

I was today years old.

Kill me now.

👀 scoops?? Is that a regional thing? Never heard that and have recently had my teens working in pubs

I really dislike the word autumnal it gives me the shivers.