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)

I say gosh, but I also say fuck—a lot. I’ve said the C word a grand total of once in my four and a bit decades.

I’m not sure why older language is being derided here; what’s wrong with it? My most used exclamations are crumbs, Christ on a bike, bollocky (e.g. “where did I put my bollocky keys?!”) and buggeration. I don’t think gosh is particularly twee but I think I’d rather be accused of being twee than coarse.

I also just love language and enjoy using unusual or archaic words. DP is frequently lovingly referred to as a scoundrel or a knave!

Completely agree! Succulent makes me shudder, as does meal, so when DP showed me that viral video of the Australian chap getting arrested (“Succulent Chinese meal!”) I wanted to wash my ears with bleach!

I’m indifferent to ‘moist’ but ‘browse, ‘topic’ and worse still ‘atop’ - especially on a menu or describing a dish - all make me itchy and angry. No idea why!

It’s ‘munch’ for me 🫥

No more fake than the performative swearing of people who haven't got over the excitement that no one can tell them off for it now they're grown ups. I cringe when I hear people who'd have been 'goshed' through their childhood thinking swearing is cool and subversive.

I agree. There’s such a range of interesting and expressive language to choose from and it’s great to use slightly archaic words and idioms. Why wouldn’t you?

My swearing tends to be reserved for extreme scenarios, which personally I think is how it should be. I have to switch off when luvvie actors (Miriam Margolyes is one of the worst offenders) start effing and blinding for no reason. I suspect these people came from posh backgrounds, went to convent schools etc and came of age in the 60s and associate swearing with excitement, taboo-breaking and fashionable rebellion. But to me show-off swearing is just embarrassing.

I agree twee isn’t great, but much rather that than coarse!

Snap!

Just seen your post. Great minds, etc😄

Oh GOSH! Yes - what is it about fruits (plural)?

I sat near this chap at a formal dinner and he was put out because the pudding contained apples rather than “summer fruits”. I remember the shudder I felt. If he’d just said fruit it would have been fine.

Dont ask me why!

Or ‘eaterie’. Aaaarrrgggh.

The headmistress of my school once told us, after assembly, that she considered any exclamation including the word God (e.g Oh my God/ For God's sake/Oh God or even just God!) as a prayer being offered up, and therefore it wasn't swearing.

Whether or not she meant it (it was a private, C of E school, so it's possible she was religious I guess) it had what I think was the desired effect- it drastically reduced the use of 'God swears'. Teenage 'rebellion' is not as fun when you believe that the adults don't have a problem with it...

Me too, I sometimes call my DP and "impudent whelp" 😂

"Yuck someone's yum" is the phrase that gives me a visceral violent rage. Something about it is so juvenile and repulsive coming out of an adult.

Edit: Piss on your bonfire from Peep Show Jeremy is the only option for expressing the same sentiment

I'd also like to make a bid for "at pace"
Since Labour got in everything is happening "at pace". There is so much pacing, they must be getting sore feet and wearing down multiple carpets. The speed of pacing, is being paced by the pacing that is happening at pace.

Politicians are also very fond of the phrase 'going forward' as well as 'at pace'. And answering questions they don't want to answer with a sentence starting 'so...'. It seems to have replaced the words 'yes' and 'no'.

And 'at scale'.

I don't like 'prior to' instead of before. Apart from sounding a bit pompous, it has more syllables. I'm not saying it's never appropriate, but when people say or write 'let's find a toilet prior to starting the walk' (which I have heard), it's a bit ridiculous.

(A bit of topic, but it used to make me smile when people used to say Double U Double U Eff for World Wildlife Fund. The 'abbreviation has' 3 more syllables than the full name!)

I know 'reaching out' always comes up in these threads but it is creepy.

I remember the first time I heard it when a colleague suggested I reach out to someone or some organisation. I remember spending the next few minutes worrying about exactly what I was expected to do. Apparently I just needed to contact them. I imagined I needed to offer some kind of help and support.

Snap. It’s like we’ve got a wide range of vocabulary isn’t it and use different words depending on the scenario or who we are speaking to and with . We are obviously terrible people.

Yes "we" say Fresh orange juice too gets on my wick , I think it is the Shh sound i am not sure why it has an affect on me.

'Shake'n'Vac' really annoys me too, stupid name anyway, but every time you mention it everyone seems to start singing that ridiculous jingle at you as well. Aaarghh, horrible.

I have not heard mention of Shake n Vac for years let alone anyone singing the jingle to it .

I had a boss whose favourite word was 'flex'. He was big on the flex and wanted to flex everything.

Another one I heard recently, several times in conversation was the reference to a 'piecemeal'.

Cannot stand the way people abbreviate - instead of 'the cinema' to 'da cinema'. Just write the feking word!

And why is everything now being described as a 'void'?

Yes, reaching out is saccharine. Ok if you are contacting a long-alienated relative with a poignant offer to forget old feuds. But nauseating if you are just asking a plumber to come and replace a tap.

I remember the first time at work being asked if I'd "done the comms" and worrying I was meant to have prepared some sort of presentation. No, just send an email to someone.

I hate the "fresh orange" thing as well. I worked in a pub years ago, and people would ask for a vodka and fresh orange. I used to smile sweetly while internally screaming "its not fresh its in a fucking bottle !!!

Wasn't orange juice once very expensive? It was considered a luxury - you'd go out for a meal and 'fresh orange juice' would be the starter. Before that it was probably some diluted or concentrated stuff. So it's maybe just entered common usage that way. In the same way older people will talk about cabs as 'private taxis' in cities where public hire black hacks used to whizz about.

Thoughts and prayers

this point in time

to be honest

many thanks

thanks in advance

flipping heck

gobby

bless

*as you can see, I am a highly tolerant person