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?

What’s wrong with ‘individual pie’? I like to know. An individual pie - ie the whole of a small pie - has a way bigger pastry to filling ratio than a slice of a larger pie does! I prefer a slice. The filling is the bit I want more of.

Yeah, cuppa isn't baby talk.

It's just short for 'cup of tea' - Cuppa tea.

Not really the point but why are pies in restaurants often just a casserole with a hat on? I want everything encased by pastry. That annoys me too.

I think that used to be the commercial break in the middle of coronation street!

I don't mind saying it, but yeah writing it (seeing it written) makes my teeth itch!

I know this isn’t the point of the thread but seeing as someone brought up pies (so to speak).

I always used to go in from the top, but after a recent rewatch of Quadrophenia where Jimmy attacks his upturned pie from below, I think it’s the absolute best way to eat one. Genius in fact.

Many years ago there was an advertising slogan for milk that was "Drinka pinta milka day!" I clearly remember my great-aunt saying it was disgusting that "they" allowed it when it wasn’t "proper English". She was in her seventies at the time. Just saying…

I don't use it but it doesn't bother me. On the other hand threads called "recommend me a..." . No. Even if I knew exactly what you are looking for for, I won't.

I think it’s fine. I often text friends with a ‘fancy a cuppa at mine?’. If they have a problem with it they haven’t ever voiced it. If they did I would change it to ‘you are cordially invited to take part in a tea ceremony at the Bunny residence’.

My DH has always eaten his pies like this - the heathen.

I hate it because it makes the top pastry soggy.

I used to love having a morning cuppa with The Hubster in my pjs of a Sunday. We would plan our holibobs and before I knew it, it was midday and I hadn't done my barnet or put my face on! Picky bits for lunch and then a bit of how's your father followed by forty winks. By that time, we needed to put the kettle on again for another cuppa chah!

Well obviously there is nothing wrong with an individual pie. The thread is about words that annoy, for no sensible reason. It's not the pie that annoys me, it's the word.

I agree, it's really twee and folksy.

Particularly because you don't hear people say it much in real life, it's a phrase which appears mainly on TV, in magazine and in public service announcements: it has the ring of something people think people say/do, as opposed to something they actually do.

Can't get excited about a "brew". North of the Watford Gap people say it all the time.

I’m intrigued by the fact you think “cup of splosh” is acceptable, when “cuppa” is infuriating.

I’m also not sure what you’re saying the problem is - that it’s twee and childish like “holibobs”? (Splosh??) or incorrect English because you say “cup of” splosh??

Yebbut! The top pastry is usually quite hard so all that pie-y goodness sorts that out.

I do apologise profusely for saying ‘Yebbut’.

Exactly. No one has said if they don’t use the word cuppa - what do they say?

id find it very weird if i walked into my living room and said ‘would anyone like a cup of tea’ in very posh Queens English. I just normally walk in and say cuppa anyone?

I cannot stand this. It just gives me the rage for no reason 😂

don't forget "hubs"🤑

I say ‘cup of tea’. Not from the UK, though, and not at all formal in my speech..

I love ‘barnet’. I’m not a complete wanker.

Or even worse 'picky tea'. Aaarghhh

There are some quarters of this site who might ask why do you hate Britain ?

Cuppa and kettles are a British superpower. In fact I'm surprised there isn't a Betjeman poem about them.

(😀just in case )

Oh I hate that.

It just gets on my tits.

But tea IS a brew! It's literally brewed.