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?

It's such a cliche to complain about hubby/hubs and holibobs. You rarely go a day without there being a thread on Mumsnet about these words.

It's a bit like saying: "I love my children." It's so obvious it barely merits the action of typing it.

Can we not find more interesting words to hate?

Oh god, wifey said in an ironic but not really ironic way 🤬

Been around my whole lifetime, it's lovely. Leave it alone!

So is lager but I wouldn't ask for a brew in a pub!
Well they wouldn't know what to give you because all the beer is brewed.

"Date night"- in the context of a couple in an established relationship going out in the evening.

I train with someone who says Sainsbos. Shame I’ve stopped sparring, or I’d kick them really hard.

Sarnie, Chippy and Picky Tea are used by a couple of people at work.

What’s for eats !!! Drives me mad

I worked with someone who said this but I thought he was saying cuppa splodge!

You live and learn 😆

we just use it to replace cup of so it could be cuppa tea or cuppa coffee or after a hard day cuppa wine 😋

But cuppa has been around much, much longer than most of those terms.
It's not in the same category as the modern, cutesy terms.

It's probably obvious that I use cuppa, as do many (most?) of my peers, but I don't think any of us use the other terms, apart from maybe brew.

I am hopefully passing the term cuppa down to my children as it's what we refer to at home.

Perhaps he's tasted my tea? 😬🤣

"Cuppa", "hubby", "holibobs", "famalam" aren't proper contractions.

Unlike "isn't" and "can't", letters are added to them as well as taken away. That is what makes them "twee" in my opinion.

I think "panad" is more acceptable because it is a straightforward contraction of "cwpanaid" (like in "'swn i'n licio panad o goffi" instead of "'Mi faswn i'n licio cwpanaid o goffi").

My DH says it. It reminds me of my late MIL who also used to say it and my SIL. It is beyond twee.

TBH it make me feel like clawing at my face and screaming every time he says it.

Who are you talking about?
I'm guessing older people.

I hate 'cuppa and 'brekkie'. Also 'veggies'
Almost as bad is when someone writes 'tele' instead of 'telly'.
I don't mind 'jimjams' but hate 'dindins'.

Is it a regional thing? I’m in Yorkshire and cuppa is used by most people I think, I’ll pay more attention now to see who does and who doesn’t say it!

Reckon its a northern thing. (But not a Thang 🤢 )

Yes to all those but I loathe PJs, Jim jams is better.

Din dins reminds me of my nan when she used to dish up the food for their dog. He lived outside and she would stand at the back door with his bowl and bellow "din dins Laddie"! 😂

This is such an MN thread. Everyone hating a term that in RL is used all over the place w/o the horror.

No, jammies is better than jim jams!

I can’t stand ‘cuppa tea’ where as don’t mind a cuppa

I don't hate it. I don't say it but it's a long established, every day term.

Cuppa, Sarnie, Buttie, Brew, Hubby and Holibobs make me want to scream. I know that’s irrational but they always have - for decades before I found MN!

Oh i was only thinking of this the other day. It's always bloody irritated me so much but can't explain why. Also when someome says do you want a brew! Gives me the rage. I have someome at work who calls it a cuppa tea. I feel like screaming "CUP OF TEA"
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