Having ‘a cuppa’

[ConstantlyFuriosa]

Why does this sentence infuriate me so? I already know I’m probably being unreasonable but it’s so grating. I can’t be the only one?

"Mic drop" has become overdone, as has "hill to die on."

I think the reason most of these words and phrases are annoying is because people have heard them about 100 million times.

Worst word in the world. 🤢

My mum says panties. We say knicks.
Or knicky-boo boos. I’ll see myself out…

Ew I’d have to have words with your mum 😱

It really is! It's just SO creepy! Has real old-perv vibes.

Oh god, I hate ‘meds’. Why? Is it because it diminishes the seriousness of having to take them?!

I don’t know why. But I hate it!

It is a bad one, I’ll give you that. But nothing is worse than ‘succulent’!

Tea for evening meal is a regional thing. It's a working class term used in Scotland, possibly less so now.

Hating its use in that sense makes the person complaining look less well informed or capable of appreciating not everyone is like them than they probably think they are.

It is, but it doesn't really do anything. The diuretic effect is vastly outweighed by the amount of fluid you're drinking.

Carl Jung said that having tea was a British ritual. His point was that modern Europeans, who think they’re above primitive, ‘ritualised behaviours’, perform them without realising it. Whether you are taking high tea in an expensive hotel, or “having a cuppa” with a friend, you are performing our national ritual.

It does. It’s probably the only word in the context of this thread that does genuinely make me feel actually sick.

Panties is definitely the worst. It sounds both weirdly old fashioned and really, really elderly man sex-pest-esque. Also, the only people I've heard use this word are trans women.

I hate the word veggies when used for vegetables but even more when it's used instead of vegetarian "I'm veggie, I have a veggie coming for dinner, any veggie recipes" 😡😡😡

I hate any kind of abbreviated language at all - especially when it is forced to try and fit in.

What’s the problem with ‘lunch’? I love lunch!

I do that too! Less typing. 😁

I can’t stand cuppa, hubby and holibobs. But picky tea (lunch or whatever) is just horrible. Makes me think of scabs 🤢

I prefer cuppa to brew too @WildFlowerBees

Brew is urgh!!

I've already pointed out it's not lunch, it's using the word "picky" in front of it.

I’ll see your panties and raise you a ‘gusset’

edited to say I’m so sorry!

Filth.

Lunch is a proper word so don’t know why people have an issue with it. I know it’s luncheon but no one is saying they’re having luncheon unless it’s at Buckingham Palace. 😂

I think you need a cuppa, a choccy biccy and a lie down to get over it all.

You'd hate me. I say sheepy/sheepies instead of sheep. 😅

Oh no! I think you may have won 😂

You won’t want to see mine they’re more biggus knickus than pantie 🫣

All the ones here that people have said - Cuppa, Sarnie, Picky Bits, Nibbles, Smellies, Chippy Tea, PJ’s, Hubby, Wine O’Clock all do my head in too! Picky Bits by far the worst though!

Holibobs is annoying too but at least it’s an amusing sounding word.