To want to ban these phrases (not light-hearted - this would be my first act as dictator)

[OptimismvsRealism]

"I'm reaching out" - no, you are contacting me by email

"it broke me" - no, it made you a bit sad

"Picky bits tea" - just no

Be real, who in the everloving fuck says 'nippleepoos'

Yes he’s a bit poorly 🤢

Curated - you've not been travelling the world rescuing antiquities from Nazis, have you? You've gone on a fucking charity tourism trip in sixth form and then put an order in on Ali Express to add a massive markup on in your Etsy account.

Curated ear - you got stoned a few times at university and had your ears pierced repeatedly because you fancied the beard bloke in the piercing shop, didn't have the guts to get your tits out for a nipple piercing and, as an added bonus, it'll really piss off your mother without affecting your chosen career like a load of crap tattoos would.

A red lip/shoe/trouser/whatever. Just the one? Are you going to hop everywhere with your arse hanging out on one side?

Deep dive? You do realise that a deep dive is where the scary as fuck stuff that's largely there to rip lumps off a bloated corpse lurks or the submersible implodes, turning everybody you've dragged along on this shit show into pink vaour?

Granular. Unless it's in relation to coffee or sugar, you mean 'I'm going to keep you here for hours moaning about the font and alignment of the paragraph and then coating off the data without ever stopping to ask what it means, just complaining that it doesn't show what you want it to show'

Mindfulness. No problem with the original concept. All of the problems with it being coopted into 'shutting up and just paying attention for a change'.

I receive emails from someone at work who has She/Her pronouns AND the phonetic pronunciation of her name AND some waffle about her being dyslexic under her signature.

I know you’re a woman. I don’t need to know your life story.

Earlier I saw someone post something like “focus on you & baba” and nearly vomited. I don’t think “baba” even means baby? I thought it was baby-talk for “bottle.”

I’ve got to change his bum, ideally a stinky bum

WTAF??? That is revolting!

“Let’s touch base” cringe 😬

😂

I have mixed feelings about pronoun use in general so I’m not here to say I hate all pronouns. However for some reason I really hate and don’t understand why you need to put both?

she/her

well obviously she is going to be her? Or do people really put she/him? Or he/her?

why not just put one of them?

Leave 'gotten' alone! It is used in Ireland, including NI where I live. And also in Scotland. It is part of our everyday speech and people keep saying they hate it - the accusation usually being that it's an Americanism and there is so much pathetic snobbery on here about American words/phrases.

Oh yeah..... 'And GO!' Is fucking annoying!

And also 'that's it. THAT'S the post - or tweet!' Like they just said something amazing - and original!

I haven’t read all the pages but I need to agree with the poster who says “jump on” a Teams or Zoom call etc. My own spouse says this to other humans, it’s testing our marriage. Why not flop onto the call?

I have never come across that phrase before and am significantly less happy now for learning of it 😅

@LDNtiliDie thankfully not. I just had an extremely wanky boss in my last job who used the phrase in every conversation possible 🤣

I. Know. But search the term and you'll find plenty of mummabears sharing their bubbas' potty shots :(

Anyone said " we are pregnant" yet? Only one of you is carrying a child.

“Going forwards…”

Anyone using this phase should be flogged, hung, drawn, quartered and then flogged again, just so they understand the gravity of their crime.

Other flogging offences: “an edit” (John Lewis’ marketing department I am looking at you), the misuse of reflexive pronouns and anything having “dropped”. Oh, and any food that is “dirty” or “loaded”. Fucking stop that.

'Girl Power' always makes me cringe, especially knowing that it was thought up by Simon Fuller and a bunch of male music execs for the Spice Girls.

Oh and “living my best life!”

"Give your head a wobble"

Can you add the word “nope” as that really makes me cringe.
Badly.
Grrr

'It's affecting my mental health'. Most of the time it seems to mean 'it's really upsetting me', 'makes me sad' or 'makes me cross'. Demeaning words and phrases makes them meaningless.