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?

Oh Christ....

Also, all that tea makes your mouth taste weird.

Ooooh, the one that really gives me the red mist is all the baby books and articles that miss out the word the before baby. It's SO infantilising and twee. Just because a woman is having a baby doesn't mean we need to talk baby-talk to her.

"Put baby on the changing mat" and "When baby wakes up from a nap.." etc. It literally sounds like a book for toddlers.

I've seen it so much, and every fibre in my being wants to scream It's THE baby!!!! Nothing, but nothing language-wise has EVER irritated the crap out of me as much as this one. Not even close. I see it once and my blood starts boiling like Vesuvius before eruption. It just sounds so, so thick.

Haha, that's actually quite funny!

It’s my least favourite word if you can even call it a word. I can’t even look at it

OMG, this! I bloody hate it when people say ‘baby’ without claiming it as their own or someone else’s. This is more annoying than at least a thousand cuppas.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Thall we have a thiggie?"

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Yes! Thank God - someone else on the same page! It's the only linguistic tic that actually makes me want to commit murder!!!

"I can't even look at it." 🤣🤣🤣

I get that same feeling when I read someone who's written "loose" when they mean "lose." Gives me the rage, although it hasn't risen to murderous proportions - yet.

I’ve always hated it. I think you’re the first person I’ve come across who shares my pain.

Yes, but those people are wrong, though. And they don't know it. You just have to take pity on them. 🤭

You wouldn't invite someone round for an evening meal and then give them sandwiches, would you? Dinner is a full hot meal. Tea is a cold lighter meal consisting of sandwiches, cake, and a pot of tea. Why northerners insist on totally confusing the two is beyond me. (I can say that bc I'm half-Geordie!)

Separated at birth! 🤣 👶👶

Absolutely not my dallyn. Maybe you need a cheeky vino and some snacky snacks.

THANK YOU. I’m from up north originally and I hate that word with a passion.

Aren't you worried they will think they can only have chips?

No, because a chippy is a chip shop. And chip shops sell a whole range of things.

Oh my god I hate that

I'm Scottish so.... We don't really use those terms within Scotland or about Scotland

Hard agree. It’s ’a cup of tea’.

No because the establishment is the chippy?

Cuppa and nibbles 😷

I sometimes say Northern Britain because, technically it is and, it annoys the hell out of my husband's Nat fanatical family.

"Brew?" is a full sentance in our house 😅