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Is there a word that pushes your buttons?

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  • Sorry - didn't mean it as a puzzle.  Perhaps it was just obvious to me as it seems to creep in every time someone posts about manure, dung, faeces, animal/human "waste". Why does a thread title using the correct terminology then quickly revert to Toddler Talk ?
    I'm afraid I just find it so childish ( hence the apology to any 3 year old using the forum ) and it is even more annoying that the medical profession use it as a norm - extremely patronising to say the least. 
    Pooh is of course entirely different - Manure Bear doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow  :D  
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Better what S**t Bear or Winnie the S***e, I suppose.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    He's always been Winnie the Plop in this house .... sorry @philippasmith2.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • No problem @Bee witched - at least the sound matches the action  :D
    I'm afraid that for me Pooh with the H conjures up a completely different picture than when the H isn't used to describe Manure/Waste or choose your own word.  I could be wrong but I son't recall the toilet activities of either Winnie or Pooh cropping up in my childhood reading  ;)
    Never mind - it could just be me after all and I've had my little rant on the appropriate thread - thanks to @B3 for starting it  :):)

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I wish I'd called it Pedants' Place or similar @philippasmith2 🙄
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Picky Peoples Posts perhaps ?    Never mind @B3 - it's a popular thread anyway as is Curmudgeons Corner.  We could all do with a moan sometimes  ;)  
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Why don’t people die any more? Nowadays they all seem to pass.

    Similarly, whether it is football or some reality TV show, what happened to tactics or the simple word plan? These days it is obligatory to say game plan.
    Rutland, England
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They're still 'deid' here  @BenCotto ;)
    The word pass wouldn't really have worked very well in the Big Yin's famous joke about the wife who had died. The one he did on his first appearance on Parkinson. Brilliant  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Do you mean the bike rack one @Fairygirl?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I remember  the bike one🤣
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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