STOP saying holibobs!

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And for reference, going to Northumberland for two weeks when you live in Burnley isn't a staycation it's a holiday, caller to the radio earlier!

I love holibobs! Why can't it be to Northumberland-what's wrong with it?!

Far better than going on a UK holiday and calling it a staycation-that really is wrong.

A stay cation is when you holiday in your home country

I disagree, not least because if that was the official definition, a lot of people I know would never have been on holiday in their lives. But I get that a lot of people do use the newer definition now. so I just don't use the word at all. I say "I'm going on holiday to Cornwall" or "I'm taking a week off to be a tourist in my own town."

This is odd. Just because you hadn't heard it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It absolutely did and it means a UK holiday

I had head it before lockdown, but only in the context of a holiday spent at home or nearby.

The misuse of the term on a grand scale started during lockdown.

No it didn't. I have never known staycation to mean staying at home and doing day trips and I heard the phrase many years ago. Nor have I ever known anyone to consider staying at home any kind of holiday at all.

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I remember a friend of mine using staycation about 15 years ago and it meant staying at home, taking time off work and going on day trips/ doing fun stuff everyday. I thought it was a great idea. I've never heard it to mean staying in the UK except on MN. We even go on holiday within our own county if we're going to a spa hotel or something, or on holiday at my sister's horse. It's a holiday if you're away from home ie. Your house.

Making memories on our holibobs with the famalam....CRINGE!

Oh we use girl dinner all the time. It’s from a TikTok thing when women were saying what they ate when they were eating on their own. So whatever you want that’s easy and eaten slobbishly. Nothing to do with being dainty.

So if we’re not eating together and everyone else is out my adult daughters will say Girl Dinner and have something like toast with hummus and pickles and half a tub of ice cream.

OJ Borg was on the radio this morning saying he'd just got back from his two week holiday in Cornwall.

I went to Cornwall with my mate last year and we booked a cottage and went on different away days within Cornwall, is that a staycation I wonder?

I went to Cornwall with my mate last year and we booked a cottage and went on different away days within Cornwall, is that a staycation I wonder

Only if you live in Cornwall.

It isn’t. That’s why the term was hardly used at all pre-lockdown.

I had only ever heard Americans say it. They certainly don’t mean holidaying in their own country, given that most of them take their ‘vacations’ in the US.

I certainly hadn’t heard it before that and I’ve been around for over half a century.

Not entirely sure what’s odd about that.

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This! I used to take the piss out of someone at work who said holibobs. DH and I had such a laugh about it that we started saying holibobs ironically. Have two young DC we haven’t been on holibobs for a while. He turned to me yesterday evening and said ‘you don’t hear many people say holibobs anymore’ 😂 I’ll share this with him so he can at least see the word, by those who love and loathe it!
Phone keeps autocorrecting to holiness so it must be a good word 😂

We instinctively do the same with supermarket names now, where a deliberately silly rendering ironically becomes their defacto actual name - 'The Asda's', 'The Tesco's' or 'The Lidl's'.

Those that already have possessive names have an extra one added for good measure, so 'The Morrisons's' and 'The Sainsburys's'

How did 'staycation' even ever become A Thing in the UK? We don't use the word 'vacation' to mean a holiday, so why would we use STAYcation? It sounds to me like it's just a word that's used without the (British) user really thinking about it logically.

It would be like us, say, calling a tiny little car that's only 25% the size of an average one a 'quartermobile' or something!

You're right. It is too American. 'Holistay' would be more appropriate.

Yes!!! That's perfect!

It's odd claiming something didn't exist before a certain time because you personally didn't know of it. Other people had heard it prior to COVID.

Or just ‘UK holiday’.

No, that is just a holiday. The stay part means you stay in your home. Not travel to somewhere else.

I like UK holidays, from Cornwall to Shetland. There is a lot of our own island to explore and it is incredibly snobby to dismiss it as it is not abroad. Next holiday planned is Christmas on a remote Scottish island - very much looking forward to it.

Now my pet peeve saying is ‘in this day and age’ totally gives me the rage! 😡

I love holibobs

Yes I hate it too. I also hate “staycation”. Why can’t people just say they’re going away !

Because 'staycation' doesn't mean going away. It means the complete opposite in fact.