AIBU to get visceral ick from...

[Chopbob]

People using the word gosh, or golly gosh.

I have never in real life heard anyone other than MN posters and Disney princesses use gosh. It's absolutely vile.

It can get in the bin along with moist, supper and plonk (wine).

(Lighthearted of course)

It’s funny what words can trigger those reactions. I don’t mind moist, but I hate “nourish”. I also hate when people say someone “gobbled” something down or, even weirder took a “sip”

🤣

my very close (and absolutely lovely) friend does.

She is a devout Christian and uses it instead “God”

I love her saying it 😊

Yes i'm with you for gosh. Cringeworthy and fake.

Personally I’m not keen on “Ick”!

You sound like an inverted snob OP.

(Lighthearted of course)

Couldn't tell you the last time I heard someone use golly gosh but I certainly use gosh all the time! So do a lot of people I know-didn’t realise it was a ‘thing’ though 😂
I’m with you 100% on moist, supper, and plonk mind you!

People declaring anything and everything absolutely vile gets right on my last nerve.

This!

Tautologies give me the ick.

An ick is either visceral, or it isn't an ick.

“Vile” is an awful word but I don’t mind gosh although it sometimes sounds disingenuous.

I can't stand when people are describing their food and say lashings of butter, or lashings of jam. I don't think I've ever actually heard someone say it, I only ever read it but it makes my skin crawl!!

I cringe when anyone says something is
Aaamazing . Or I am so excited .

Well I'm not allowed to blasheme in church in front of the children, And sometimes you just need a polite response so they do get periodically goshed.

I find it odd to get repelled from someone just for a word them use, notwithstanding derogatory/ foul / etc language, but each to their own eh. Gosh, I feel like a slice of moist cake nowb before supper. Wonder if I've any plonk to wash it down with.

I use gosh all the time.

I’m actually with you but I wouldn’t call it vile, it does make me cringe. It’s so bloody twee.

Along with "nommy" or "nommy nom-nom" or anything similar.
See also "lush"
I say gosh quite often.

YAVBU to use the word “ick” unless you are a toddler in which case I’ll allow it.

I’m with you, OP. I too hate it when people say ‘gosh’ or ‘golly’ like they’re in the Famous fucking Five. I can’t stand ‘supper’ either.

I also despise adults using the word ‘yum’ or ‘yummy’ in any context. I would probably end a date over that.

People who say ‘baby’ instead of ‘the baby’, for example when someone’s giving advice and they say something like ‘Why don’t you put baby down for his nap at 3pm after you’ve done the school run’ or ‘You’ll probably find baby will be hungry after sleeping’.

Come to think of it, I also hate the word ‘nap’, especially as a verb.

I also loathe the way people say ‘screens’ as a blanket term for technology. Just call it an XBox or an iPad or whatever the fuck it is. ‘Screens’ is meaningless; watching a film on TV is an entirely different activity from playing Red Dead Redemption on a console and chatting on social media is a different activity from internet shopping and Minecraft on a laptop is not the same as reading a book on a Kindle. Even worse, ‘screen’. I read a post on here once where someone said of their child ‘I really struggle with how much screen he wants’ and I wanted to smash things.

I think gosh is ok, can't stand nom nom to describe food., or lush.

I cringe when people use the word "lush" to describe something that's nice. "Ohhh that's lush..." . 😫

It just sounds so tacky.

I used to work with a young lad who hates the word "moist" oh we had such fun trying to slot it into every conversation 😅😅

I use it to avoid saying God as I'm a Christian. I also use exclamations (not swearing) in other languages to make it a bit more interesting as I get bored of saying gosh.

If you get repelled by language you consider ‘foul’ then that’s really no different from someone else getting repelled by ‘gosh’ - it’s still a reaction of revulsion to a word. They’re all just collections of letters and sounds, at the end of the day. None of these things are rational - we all have things that make us cringe or recoil mentally for no real reason. We can’t help these things.

For example, I don’t find the word ‘cunt’ repellent at all - in fact, I really like it. But the word ‘gosh’ makes me go ‘Urgggh’ in my head. I appreciate it isn’t the fault of the person using it and obviously I’d never tell them I hate it, but I can’t help hating it.

Side hustle. Just makes me think of MLM Huns pushing crap on their friends.

Any book that thinks it is edgy and mildly outrageous by breaking taboos or (gasp) swearing in the title. :

Why mummy drinks
The joy of big knickers
Getting older and wider.
You are f*king brilliant (italics not mine)

Yawn.

Gosh is fake as fuck. It’s usually people trying to pretend they’re the type that don’t swear. It sounds fake because it IS fake