Is “joggers” twatty?

[Alsocalledsophie]

I recently posted about changing into joggers when I come home after work. Another poster pulled me and others up on the use of the word “joggers,” labelling it “twatty.” I’m surprised as I thought this was fairly standard language at this point 🤔

IABU: joggers is twatty
YANBU: joggers is standard language, definitely not twatty

The irish dont jog?

Is joggies a combination of joggers and trackies? I've never heard it before. Not twatty though.

You can be reasonably confident that whatever you post you'll piss off a mumsnetter one way or another. If you want to avoid anyone on here passing judgement then you'd have to stop posting altogether.

They don’t refer to tracksuit bottoms as ‘joggers’.

We don't use the term Joggers for tracksuit pants.......

It's not the words that are the issue. It is that they encourage denial about weight gain and disincentivise doing something about it such as less snacking.

There is a section on Next Ireland for joggers.

As I would never wear that garment I have, thankfully, never needed to use the word.

Next is a British company, we know what the word refers to, it just isn't used here in everyday speech 💁

I heard Tom Allen recently and he used the word joggers....but said he would never wear them!
He does wear crocs in the garden though, apparently

This. Lots of words have regional differences, there's no laws about what is correct. I'd not like being labelled "twatty".
(But I am now going to be calling my joggers "luxury bottoms"). 👖

I called them jogging bottoms and my teens started laughing their heads off at me. So now it’s just joggers.

Joggers are made from the same material as sweatshirts - cotton or a polycotton mix and are usually loose fitting whereas tracksuits are made from polyester, nylon or similar and are close fitting with zip closures at the ankles.

I wouldn’t let teens change my vocabulary (unless I was just plain wrong). What do they know?

I bought my ‘trackies’ as a stand alone item.
My joggers came in a set with a matching top.

You get that Irish people do understand English terms when used on English clothing websites, right?

Some posters are absolutely batshit I’ve noticed.

Of course it’s a fine term to use.

I use the term sweats or sweat pants but I think some posters might have an aneurysm over my use of American lingo.

Guess I'm a bigger twat cos I call them joggies 😂

Quite, darling, quite 😂

The word is fine, the item not so fine.

I expressed an opinion. There's no need for you to be aggressive.

I don't particularly like the terms "comfy" or "cardie". . How does that make me a twat?

I don't like it. But I don't like track suit bottoms unless worn for sport/exercise. I don't like that they're the new "lounge wear".

I'm old enough to remember when a Jogging Suit was an exciting new thing compared to the stiff crimplene tracksuit (my first one was hot pink stretch towelling). ISTR the trousers were referred to as jogging bottoms (pants were underwear in my part of the world in ye olden days) so the evolution to "joggers" seems entirely normal and acceptable, and widely used by all the major retailers.

In my experience being so ignorant you don't know other people call things by different names is most definitely "twatty"

Ive never heard the word comfie used for joggers.
I do quite a lot of sport (mostly running, I suppose easy runs could be jogging) but id never consider wearing my joggers for sport. (Too hot/heavy/bulky/impractical)
DS has some thin Nike "joggers" that are suitable for sport but they are a different fabric