Phrases you hate...

Yeah I have heard that somewhere. Maybe at the crunchy baby products store, in which case it was referring to an actual mama but still.

Maybe even worse since it implies the woman is just generic "mama" now.

Oh I call people mama sometimes, I'm pretty sure. Also I've gotten a newfound appreciation for "ma" since I watched a lot of this Botswanan detective show and afaict it's a term of polite address for all women.

yeah i don't like that either

i might feel differently we were both in/from botswana but

that can be said about a lot of things

i understand it's meant as a term of endearment which is why i never piped up

One time I was in the parking lot of a Further show and I sneezed and a young hippie woman said, "Bless you, mama" and I felt like I had been promoted from maid to crone.

Fun fact: the entire time I was in the hospital for my daughter's birth, the nurses routinely called me mama instead of my name, my daughter's pediatrician calls me mama as in "Okay we'll be in exam room two, mama," and sometimes Ivy's daycare teachers call me mama. Easier than learning my name, I guess.

Er maid to mother, I should say.

Haha okay I'll dial it back I mean to the extent that I ever say it (which is prob very little really). Or save it for ppl who won't mind. I don't think it has anything at all to do with actual motherhood but that's just my take.

Oh maybe it does in some places like doctor's offices and etc. Just not in my exp.

i think in those circs it's helpful because it eases people into the idea of being a mother
in my case it just does not apply and i don't like it

i do not like it when 'murcans say "preggers"

― shoot skag listen to sotl (rip van wanko), Tuesday, November 4, 2014 12:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Preggers is horrible.

I have the term "hubby" more than most things.

Mama when said not to actual mothers totally sounds like a hippie thing to me. I don't really hear it that often tbh but it would probably weird me out.

xp Now there's something I can wholeheartedly otm.

do these 'friends' wrestle for bayside?

ok i LOL'd

Have never heard "mama" used by a friend or acquaintance – note even about their mother or mom.

The missionaries all call my dad Uncle, but that's a Mormon thing, from what I gather.

I did get a kick out of it when the nurses at the hospital called Jeff "papa."

pplains ime it's only said among women -- you are probably not privy to those conversations because you are a man! none of my male friends have ever called me mama (or wrestled for bayside lol). they do sometimes call me buddy but i like that alright.

Actually now that I think about it sometimes K's preschool teachers call me "Dad" when I drop her off in the morning.

i have a very hippie fb girl friend who basically calls all women she likes "mama"

Something-whatever "for the win." Honestly, I hate every internet cliche.

the dude who did my first tattoo kept referring to me as 'mama'. i really fucking hated it. i wouldn't care about friends saying this, since they're friends, but some rando dude saying it to me was pretty annoying.

I got an ad on facebook urging me to "Step up [ my] sock game"

My former coworker used to use hubby ALL THE TIME.

Jeff once randomly referred to himself as "husby-husb," which was amazing.

Your memory is much better than mine.

You saying "husby-husb" was pretty memorable. Like how if one day I was like, "Ronald Reagan was a pretty good president."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWuZMBtrc1E

One of Beeps' teachers always calls me "Beeps' Dad" so I call her "Beeps' Teacher".

lol

Hubby is just awful and so is 'DH' for Dear Husband. Makes me feel like we're all in a terrible 70s British sitcom.

DH means Designated Hitter to most Americans, so

"lick"

in the context of a guitar or bass part

http://agilepartners.com/images/lotd/lotd-detail-feature.jpg

I'm amazed this one hasn't come up yet, "End of". As in, "That's all I have to say on the matter. End of." (Not sure if this is used in the US or not).

In the US it's often phrased as "Enough said." Or worse, "'Nuff said." It's horrible.

Believe me, this is worse.

"End of" reminds me of "To die" which I love.

I've never heard that one. As in "to die for"?

Yes!!

like "oh my gauhd that cashmeeuh sweatuh is tuh die."

"How goes it?"

"tuck in" when referring to eating

fill your boots

When I worked at Ruby Tuesday the training materials had scripts that included "tuck into" as well as extensive use of "wash down." "The Church Street is great washed down with a strawberry Megarita." Fucking nauseating, and we had to rehearse the lines aloud in shift meetings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZBHtCh69TY

Business school teachers apparently have not yet stopped telling their students to claim to have a "passion" for _______. Nobody is impressed by these passionate claims; on the other hand, the use of the word indicates a certain willingness to say whatever the boss needs to hear, which might be a factor in getting hired if toadying is an important job function.

The word passion has become boilerplate: your thoughts.

The most inadvertently funny version of why-not-to-do-this I ever saw was an ag student who claimed to "have a passion for livestock."