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)

What does this mean? Do you think people who say it are actively suppressing their preferred vocab as they do so?

I think you need to be genuinely posh and really rich to get away with saying gosh or golly gosh. I don’t know anyone who says it! I think it’s popular in the royal family.
I hate when people say super in front of other words. Super-happy, super- excited, super-expensive.

Why does moist always, ALWAYS come up on threads like this? It's not that bad. I think it's just that it has been cited so many times as a disliked word that it is the one that springs most readily to mind when we try to think of words we hate.

I think @Catpiece is probably best ignored on the basis of that nugget of a post.

There’ll be very little hope of getting through!

I say gosh in front of people I think might be offended by Oh God, and I say it a lot! Also, when I was teaching it was very useful.

I’ve never understood the issue with moist - I’m sure it’s the concept rather than the word which people don’t like.

i can never remember the words I don’t like until I hear them. My favourite words are : cracking (as in fabulous), critter and beast - so much more fun than ‘animal’.

Question for the Christians:

Why is Gosh such a snowflake? Hasn't he got better things to do than give you black marks for swearing? And can't he tell that you're doing it in your head anyway, even if you're saying "sugar", or whatever?

What do you mean, get away with it?

A bit like Shawshank Redemption and “what’s your favourite film”!!

Oh yes…actually, ick gives me the ick.

I say super a lot

“super keen to catch up” for example 🤷‍♀️

Do you know the meaning of the word “vile”? Just seems like a massive overreaction to “gosh.”

No - I sound quite posh but I have lots of mates with all kinds of accents and they say gosh too.

Very useful word - I recommend it to you!😄

I will never understand how these people who have visceral over-reactions to normal, commonplace words but happily use "ick" - about the most babyish and increasingly meaningless slang words there is around.

I’m with you on ‘plonk’! Hate it.
It comes a close second to ‘holibobs’ 🤢

I once called off a romance with a nice and decent man purely because he used the word prolly 🙁

He'd written it in a text message and it's my number one ick inducing word but worse still if coming from a man.

He never knew the real reason he was ditched.

I don't like the word moist, and much to my 'dismay', I went to have my smear with a new Nurse Moise, pronounced moist without the t.

It's about showing respect and refraining from blasphemy as well. We're supposed to have control over ourselves and not stray from the path. I do still swear sometimes, but only when very upset.

The very best 'toy swearword' is blimey. I bet loads of you hate it but I love it.

An American heard me say blimey once and he was thrilled - a bit like he had just met the chimney sweep from Mary Poppins in real life.

Yeh. You do you.

You rarely hear a man say gosh. I think it's a very feminine exclamation.

Meal, turns my stomach. Did you enjoy your meal? Bleurgh

@SuspiciousTimes

🫤 Yes holibobs comes a very close second to that other one I mentioned 🫤🙄

I will judge you as a person if you use holibobs

I’m not a believer but…honestly, you’re overthinking this. People say all kinds of things for no reason. Let it go.

Lots of expressions derive from religious oaths or euphemisms to avoid blasphemy:

Cor blimey- was originally May God blind me
Goodbye - originally God be with ye
Crikey - euphemism for Christ

All fascinating bits of history!

One of those soup mugs from the 70s/80s which had a design in orange and browns that included the recipe for specific soups.

I’m actually making myself angry just thinking about this shit.