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)

Are these people in an Enid Blyton story?

Yes, I hate ‘nourish’ as well. I also hate the word ‘soup’ for some reason, so if someone refers to a nourishing soup I’m out of there.

Same!

I have far more respect for people who say cunt than some wannabe faking it by going “oh gosh”. Fuck off with it

I hate it when ppl, on the Internet say welp. It's usually Americans on reddit

Why is one “fake” and the other isn’t?

I used to work in a school and therefore had 'gosh' inserted into my vocabulary instead of the more Anglo Saxon epithets that wanted to come out. I hate hearing Americans say 'gosh-darned' instead of god damned but only because I think that sounds horribly twee, even though I know they are doing it for roughly the same reasons I was.

Only word I really dislike utterly is 'snack'. Just call it 'eating between meals' and have done with it.

A woman I met at an evening class had a school mate whose surname was “Vile” … except she pronounced it “Vilé”. I’ve said “vilé” ever since 😂

Vile just makes me think of gimme gimme gimme

Ick is a thousand times worse than gosh, especially as it is in so many thread titles. It also sounds a lot more fake than gosh, since people have clearly picked up on it since it became a fad and decided to use it.

I sometimes use gosh in contexts where it would be rude to assume that the other person is ok with actual swearing, and people use it in front of me in the same way. It just seems like bog standard politeness.

Exactly - the men squaring up to each other swearing in streams seem ridiculously fake to me, as if it somehow equates to being macho or strong.

I’m not posh but I sometimes say Gosh or golly. Dislike moist, preggers, hollibobs, hubby, baby Daddy, fur babies, should of, could of etc

Oh and ick

Because the other is more honest.

So many MNers write things like "goodness" and "heavens", and have supper instead of dinner or tea. I picture them all as very upper middle class and living in the naice parts of Clapham.

Them aside, why is everyone suddenly "expressing" instead of speaking? "I expressed to him that I wanted to feel special on my birthday", rather than "I told the lazy fucker he should have got me a card and made me a cake". Whenever I see it I assume the poster "expressed" themselves quite forcefully.

And very unique, quite unique etc

How though? Why is saying shit, fuck or cunt "honest" - they are words not judgements.

So “cunt” is honest
and “gosh” is dishonest

how odd and strangely childlike

Hubby

The word is husband.

The very worst would be a hearty nourishing soup. Ideally consumed out of a mug held with both hands, like a giant toddler.

I say gosh. I never say ick.

Why would you assume that? People are as likely to ramp up their swearing (in order to feel that they are joining in with the cool gang) as they are to dampen it down. Gosh is completely authentic for some people, just as fuck me sideways might be for others.

And hubby

😂

Same!