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)

“Oh by gosh, by golly
It’s time for mistletoe and holly
Tasty pheasants, Christmas presents
Country sides covered with snow”

-Frank Sinatra, c I have no idea

Me too. And isn't ick a disease that fish get? I hate gutted and gobsmacked.

I trained myself when working in a Christian school to find completely inoffensive intensifiers, a very useful skill!

I see your gosh and raise you a 'crikey'. Had a boss who trotted that out all the time, rage enducing!

I can't stand 'speak with' rather than 'speak to' (he used that too).

And for some reason 'preparing the meal' makes me shudder. What's wrong with 'making lunch'?

Actually I think the 70s soup mug makes it slightly less awful. The woman in my head lives in a Nancy Meyers set and exclusively wears beige cashmere. She does not have assorted old mugs, they all match.

Never go to Bristol then, me lover. It ain’t just lush there. It’s gert lush!

It's amazing to think how we could all be annoying each other unwittingly in this way, I have no doubt I say things that bug people.

For some reason, the phrase "moral compass" really annoys me!

I cannot bear bum. Arse or butt I have no problem with. Bum to me is both twee and vulgar.

Belly is I think the most disgusting word on the English language. I realise there are few alternatives - tummy is twee, but I prefer children to say that rather than belly, which is so vulgar and gross and for me evokes ale or beer bellies. Pregnancy belly is awful - but then bump is the height of tweeness.

Belly literally makes me shudder. I would never on this world admit to possessing such a disgusting body-part.

Lighthearted but I feel the same about ‘get in the bin.’ It makes me a feel a bit embarrassed when I hear it for the person saying it.

I say gosh 🫣 not as an alternative to god (I’m not religious) but sometimes gosh just expresses surprise better. I also swear so it’s not me being coy.

Yes, me too! "Enjoy your meal", even worse. For some reason it makes me think of prisons and farmyards and indeterminate slop.

It's because people just parrot things and have zero original thoughts

Some fresh air for you @Frankblackwife !

Oh no, I use gosh, golly gosh, crikey AND blimey. And I'm definitely not posh! I do swear on occasion, especially if I've spilt something or stubbed my toe, but I didn't grow up aorund swearing and in 24 years I've never heard my husband swear. I cringe when I see swear words written down as it just jars with me for some reason and feels unnecessary if you have time to think. I also feel the word "ick" is very childish. It sounds like something girls say about boys when they are about 7!

I'm not disagreeing, just asking - why do so many people shudder at the word "moist"? What's it done to offend?

Absolutely hate when someone says stuff like, after we filled our bellies, when talking about eating. 🤢🤮 a youtuber said it yesterday 😡

Mis-use of the word “literally” literally drives me round the bend! (See what I did there?)
famous mis-uses include:

The New York Times: “Clinton literally shocked his audience, by criticizing Mr. Obama and his campaign.”
Sarah Palin’s spokeswoman: “The world is literally her oyster.”
Jerry Falwell: “If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way.”
Sarah Jessica Parker: “My fatal flaw is that I have to be involved literally down to splitting atoms.”
Nick Clegg: Tax avoiders are “literally in a different galaxy.”

and my favourite,,,,,,,

Access Hollywood doctor: “When you take a look at Britney Spears and her behavior, it’s very frightening. She is literally on a roller coaster to hell”

I don't get it?

I love ‘blimey’ and say it all the time. My whole family does. We’re from a working class London background.

Linguistically, though, it’s not the same as a ‘toy swearword’. People didn’t start saying ‘Cor blimey’ to avoid saying ‘God blind me’ - they just said ‘God blind me’ so often that it got contracted into something less enunciated (a bit like ‘yes’ becoming ‘yeah’). It wasn’t ever a deliberate attempt not to swear; it was just swearing that became so ubiquitous that the pronunciation evolved into something different.

By contrast, ‘gosh’ and ‘golly’ were conscious and deliberate ways to avoid swearing - equivalent to Americans saying ‘darn’ instead of ‘damn’ or ‘heck’ instead of ‘hell’. Or people who say ‘Oh sugar’ or ‘Oh fudge’ (both of which make me want to headbutt a wall) because they don’t want to say ‘shit’ or ‘fuck’.

The word makes me think of damp, sweaty things. It’s not a word I use unironically.

😂

Of course you don’t.

Me too and I don't know why!!!! And moreish, a little sliver of cake. Just say you want a piece of feking cake! I know a girl that when she finds something funny she says 'I got the giggle bubble'.

This makes NO SENSE.

😂 I know what you mean!

Agree about meal. I hadn't realised it before but, yup, hate it. Be specific please! And anyway don't enjoin me to do something I obviously intend without your encouragement. You may wish me bon appetit if you must.

I don’t think you really understand the meaning of ‘fake’. The actual meaning, not what you’d like it to be.