Hearing adults say, “I have to go potty”. Potty should not be used by anyone over the age of 4, as far as I’m concerned. Am I the only one?
Don’t be such a wet blankie.
That’s interesting. It just goes to show how varied usages can be across the country. I disagree that ‘hols’ is used only by older people. After I got back from leave last week a colleague (a woman in her mid-20s) asked me how my recent hols had been.
Aussie here - School hols, Christmas hols, what are you doing during the hols - I have heard em all.
In Australia we have pressies - and even adults use the term. Crimbo I think is a Vicar of Dimblyism
I will therefore begin using “owopo” frequently. When it catches on, you can tell everyone you were there at start of a meme.
Four pages and no mention of brecky (breakfast)?
Another good reason to beat someone to death.
I have a 50 yo vegetarian friend who insists on saying “veg-a-bulls” in a baby talk tone of voice everytime she says it.
I want to punch her in the face.
I love va-jay-jay. Don’t be a hater.
Out of interest, what am I supposed to call the man I’m having 2 children with, whom I own a house with, and plan to be with until I die? I’d rather not use boyfriend, since we’re both over the age of 12.
It is reasonably common in the UK. Heard it many a time there.
Nitpick: you watched The Vicar of Dibley, you didn’t just hear it. It’s not an old timey radio show, after all.
My mother-in-law asks if we’re dressing up or if we’re going to go “cas.” I pretend I don’t undertand what she’s talking about and make her say “casual” before I’ll answer her.
No one said they “heard” it on The Vicar of Dibley. And so what if they did? We don’t watch with our ears, we watch with our eyes, and hear the soundtrack with our ears.
Please, whatever you choose, don’t let it be “baby-daddy.”
Since “boyfriend” is pretty much unambiguous in this context, I don’t see why not. These days, adults are far more common to have relationships appropriately described as boyfriends and girlfriends than any 12-year-old is.
So far as I am concerned, you might as well call him your “husband” anyway, because he seems to be in all but one respect. Your actual legal status isn’t really of interest to me.
Other than that, there seems to be a myriad of options --“my man,” “my baby daddy,” “my paramour,” “the father of my born-out-of-wedlock children,” “my housemate,” “my lover,” “my dude,” “my guy,” “my beau,” whatever. I think there are entire websites addressing the question.
I go with “brekkis” my own self.
Veggables is tolerable. Baby talk voice is worthy of death.
Like elfkin477, I have no clue to whom you’re addressing this. **amanset **was clearly saying that they heard the word many times in the UK, which you may be interested to learn is a group of countries, not a television show. I can only assume that you thought that **amanset **was saying the show, not the word, was common in the UK?
Why, POSSLQ, of course:
Hiddy for hideous annoys me just as much.