Please stop saying "it's been a minute"

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Please stop

Also mooching stop saying that

In love

I'm just in love with this new eyeshadow

Fuck off,you LOVE it,get off Instagram 🙄

I had a Siamese cat, he turned mooching into an art form. I miss that slinky little devil 🐈

Someone had to say it...🤣

When I first joined it was on every thread several times as was “LTB” and “Get your ducks in a row”. I’m seeing them less now though.

What I’m seeing more of is “my vagina just clamped shut” and variants. Not a fan.

I probably would if I had a clue what it all meant 😆 It’s like learning a new language. Is there a Duolingo for this?

Wedding ‘band’ irritates the shit out of me. Until not long ago it was always a ‘ring’. It is a ring!

Never heard the ‘minute’ one, but ‘mooching’ to me means an aimless (but maybe pleasant) sort of wandering. What else it may now mean I don’t know.

It was macaroni cheese when we made it in Home Ec in the late 80s/early 90s!

When I first heard mac and cheese I thought it meant a big mac with cheese 😂

"Can I get a coffee?" Well only if you're going to nip round the counter and make one!

The worst ever phrase in the history of all time is however... baby daddy 🤮

I love a Pootle 😁

Exactly, I'm staying firmly in the 80s and 90s then 🤣 I even correct the kids when they say macaroni AND cheese as it annoys me so much.

Oh me too 😍

I've never heard anyone say 'It's been a minute' and I don't know what it means, and I don't care if anyone says it within my hearing distance. But get this straight. 'Mooch' is a wonderful, useful word and I shall use it whenever and as often as I like, so ner.

Well thankyou for this because I now have Minnie the Mooch stuck in my head

A hi di hi di hi di hi!

I love the evolution of language and discovering new ways of saying things.

We should embrace change, not silently rage about it. What a waste of energy.

My new favourite thing to say is "pass the vibe check" to mean "get along" (with someone new).

I'd pay for that! 😀

Does it also mean 'acceptable' or similar? I've seen it used on social media re: comments on posts. "These comments pass the vibe check."

But you then have to give people the freedom to dislike what you say. It goes both ways.

Wedding band has been around for a long time. When I read that, a lyric from My Fair Lady popped into my head - "Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands" - and that was written in the mid 1950s.

"Super" in front of everything.

Super sad, excited, friendly, angry etc. 😡

What's wrong with just plain old really or very?

For me it's "Paddington Bear stare". Never seen it except on MN and usually used in circumstances where Paddington would never do it (it was used in the context of shaming men for not wanting to "behave properly" and settle down and have babies before 25 on a thread yesterday).

I hate it so much!

I have no problem with change that brightens up the language. What irritates me is when the "evolution" results in convoluted wording that serves no purpose other than to make communication more complex, especially because it tends to happen unthinkingly when people are following a fashion in business-speak or something similar. For example, "contact" is a much more straightforward term than "reach out to", and using "reach out" always makes me picture someone putting their hands out beseechingly, and sounds ridiculous

If you name your child William but refer to them as Billy/Bill/Will, that is NOT THEIR NICKNAME.

I got married in 1987. The tray of rings in the jewellers was labelled Wedding Bands and we didn't think anything of it so it was obviously fairly mainstream back then.

Richard Franks is the comedian /actor who does the modern language Shakespeare. He's brilliant and deserves a wider audience. His 'Mum' videos are great too.