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 get this! My most hated are 'scampered' for children or animals (overdone massive cringe), 'yummy' or 'non nom' (are we 5?), and 'bubbly' or 'bubbles' for champagne/prosecco/cava!

No, no, I'm not hard work at all...😂

I use gosh. It's a perfectly cromulent expression.

Mumpreneur gives me the rage, it's twee and insulting

Golly gosh is nothing. I went to a fairly posh school and some of the girls used to say "oh, thrills!" and clasp hands.

I shudder when I read a poster describe themself as “too nice” (thankfully no one had ever said this in front of me in RL!!)

I always think to myself…, “I wonder whether anyone in your life would agree with that self-descriptor?!”

Bloody hell. Not even the Chalet School girls did that.

😆

I use a gosh, God, whoops a daisy, crumbs, crikey, Christ, shit, bugger, fuck according to the situation, the audience, and the severity of the response required.

Me too 🙈

I use gosh as a replacement for fuck, apparently it isn't appropriate to curse like a sailor once you have a small child and I couldn't think of an alternative

I think it’s because it makes people think of damp, sticky, possibly slimy things which tend to be unpleasant. I don’t hate it as much as a lot of people do, but it does immediately make me think of a place where mould would grow. Or a corner in which you’d find a slug curled up.

Also, I think I often dislike words and concepts that convey a halfway house between two things, so it’s sort of wishy-washy and feeble and neither one nor the other. So ‘moist’ is an irritating, weedy compromise between wet and dry, and a word I hate much more is ‘tepid’. The idea of something being neither warm nor cold makes me irrationally irritated.

Golly! This ginger beer is jolly fine!

A steaming mug, surely?

I was about to say the same thing me babber.

I’m now convinced you went to Mallory Towers.

Soz. Drives me round the bend!

I hate the word Fresh as in feeling Fresh or Fresh fruits etc etc it makes me shudder! Ive only read gosh I've never heard anyone say it .

I say blimey a lot. I think my preferred exclamations would be:
Gosh. Gentle surprise. Eyes widen. Maybe a gentle touch of admonishment in some circumstances.
Blimey. More forceful. Usually a chuckle or at least a smile.
Bollocks. Irritation at a situation. Sometimes disagreement, but only to someone with whom I was on very good terms.

Agreed!
Because saying sorry is just too much of a tongue twister?

I say soz as an apologetic non-apology - like when you're going to do something anyway but dont want to be a dick about it.
ETA.. but again only to people I'm on good terms with.

I don’t mind gosh, but I can’t stand the word ‘panties’ as used by Americans - just cringeworthy.

If I can't swear I'll use yikes, cripes or crikey.

Although, the convent school I went to regarded 'cripes' and 'crikey' as swearing as it's a contraction of 'Christ have mercy on me', which sort of makes me like it more.

I only use it when I'm talking to my dog because he's too young to know any rude words.

I completely agree OP.
In our office it's used by the person who pretends to be sweet and gentle and "feminine", but in reality she's truly a nasty piece of work.

Nowadays, you literally can't form a sentence without giving someone the ick ... this is how obnoxious, pretencious and non-inclusive our society has become.