Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

Agree.

Add in the assumptions on where certain phrases are from and people automatically dismissing and hating them and claiming invasion when often they’re phrases that have been used here in the UK for 30+ years

Love this!

Buzz words of the year

Hot minute .. I cringe when I hear it

Wholesome - I really liked this until every pissing thing is now referred to it 😫

Vibe - it's a vibe, they're a vibe

100% or 110% repeatedly on agreeing with everything

Now this may be controversial.

I enjoy a trundle.
I like to have a trundle around town.
I just trundle along minding my own business.
If you like, you could join me for a trundle around the local park.
Just ignore her, just keep trundling along doing your own thing.

A most useful word.

I've always said mooch. "Go for a mooch" usually means go for a wander in the NW.

Didn't realise it was youth speak til i read this thread.

It isn't! It's just people aren't very tolerant of regional dialect and phrases! MN can be weird like that

Describing things as wild. You sound like you're 14. Also, "Its not that deep" for the same reason.

Also, I'm old school.
I never look like a 'hot mess'
I look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Mooch has been around for yonks - I prefer mooch to pootle which sounds twee!

Or after describing a very simple situation, adding IYSWIM or "if that makes sense", when all but an imbecile would understand what they meant.

I don’t hear half of the words and phrases that posters mention unless I’m on social media.

Weird to me to get so annoyed about innocuous words and phrases.

Although the French say 'donc' in the same way as 'so', so (!) it seems ubiquitous

People that say “turnt” instead of “turned”
Really pees me off 😂

My little family.

Pootle vs mooch; the new MN class wars???!

even my pop of colour...?

No, macaroni cheese.

Yes, aluminium hat does not compare to the rich descriptor that is 'tin foil hat'

Any Americanisms I.e. cops, trash, aluminium foil (it’s fucking tin foil), movies, elevator, candy. I could honestly commit GBH whenever someone uses one of those words.

Surely "cops" is British, from "coppers"?

The one that really has to go is "reaching out" when you mean "talked to" or "contacted".

Off on a tangent to the thread - what is the equivalent of 'bof' in English?

Mooching, mooching, mooching. I am actually planning on just mooching around the house today as the weather is looking dodgy. I enjoy a good mooch.

Nothing wrong with this word, it’s a good one.

It is macaroni cheese
No 'and' or 'n' at all, in any way, shape or form!

Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway's cautionary tale about a young woman's descent into opium smoking. {then common}

https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/minnie-the-moocher.html

Period for 'full-stop'
Just yuk
Also, slightly tangentially, 'on my period' How can you be on a period?

Is your name 'Minnie'' by any chance?

Minnie the Moocher- are you going to ''Kick the gong around'' later on?
Have to agree the weather is shite here, too.

Edited for maddening predictive text.