Sick of hearing about "bits"

[HelloDenise]

I'm fed up of reading about people going to B&M, Home Bargains, Next, M&S, the pound shop or wherever to get some autumn .... BITS!

Throws, pumpkins, candles, cushions, foliage, wreaths and garlands ARE NOT BLOODY BITS! They're whole, substantial items, not bits of items .

Where the hell did this come from? Or should I be on Pedants' corner?

Do people still say ‘bits and bobs’ I like that one.

I agree it’s very reasonable to shorten a long list to a single phrase and is a natural part of language evolution. If I think about it, the reason my hatred of ‘picky bits’ is so strong (when I find lots of other shorthand phrases fine) is because I find it to be an example of the infantilisation of language much more typically associated with female than male usage. Its ’cutesy’ (another term I hate) and seems to be part of a very irritating linguistic code.

Surely people don’t tell people their entire shopping list to someone.
For most people it’s none of their business nor do they care.

Perhaps I’ll start using your phrasing - “I might be home a bit later today, as I need to nip into B&M to get some whole, substantial items”

Can’t say it’s something I could get het up about.

Tbf I don't get the decorating for seasons that appears to be a thing. Do people throw everything away, which seems dreadfully wasteful or have they got more storage than I have.
By the time we've stored 2x sheets 2x duvet etc for 5 people that's our linen box full. If I had for everyone a Christmas set, a autumn set, a spring set, an Easter set, a summer set then that's another twenty-five duvet sets. And that's just one thing!

Autumn bits is foul. Awful phrasing and awful concept. Sounds quite moronic IMO. But yes, picky bits tea is far worse. It makes me feel enraged. Get some taste and decorum.
I would only use the word 'bits' in context of tiny pieces of something. Ie. saying to my DC who are being forced to tidy the playroom.. 'there's still some bits down there!' weilds hoover menacingly at lego lying in the corner

I think the Americans have it right when they talk about running errands and going to get groceries. Takes all manner of 'bits' out of the conversation.

Oh god someone has used n for and! That's diabolically unforgivable!

Decorum! Yes! A concept that has sadly been abandoned by most in society.

Arrgghhh 😫😂 nipped is almost as bad as popped !!!

My DD calls that British tapas!

@HelloDenise so change what you read?
Seems odd to start another post on phrases you are sick of.

Don’t go to Australia then, you’ll combust with all the short versions of words.

Really can’t get excited over it tbh.

Oh God, "picky bits tea". It's the very worst phrase I have ever read on here. This sounds hyperbolic but it does genuinely make my skin crawl slightly. If anyone said it to me in real life I would be hard pushed to restrain a slight shudder.

I don't know what it is, just the sound of it maybe?. It doesn't sound like something one adult says to another.

If a potential love interest ever offered me a "picky bits tea" I would never be able to have sex with them ever again.....

To me picky bits is very childish.

I love Australians, somehow it doesn't sound as heinous in their accent. I know that's irrational.
I have to laugh that so many Mumsnetters whine about U.S. English while speaking and writing a debased version of British English themselves.

Hard agree! I’ve hated it ever since my childminder used to say it, and she was a right cow.

People post threads complaining about things all the time on here. Are you new here or something?

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Yes where did the picky tea come from?

Seasonal home decor is nuts.

I go to the shops for shopping or groceries.

Editted to add I find bits and bobs quite sweet though in a scatty grandma kind of way.

items? decorations? decor?

I thought "pop/popped" was only to John Lewis ?
"Nipped" has an Asda or B&M vibe vibration.

It’s called chat. This is a website for chatting.

No it doesn't.

While I'm at it, it's a bloody avocado 🥑. Not an avo.

It’s down to what you find mawkish.

Bits and picky and nipping to me are.

Chippy, butty and footy are fine.

Avo can’t be said without an Australian accent.