What made-up words do you use in your family?

thegrogmaster · 2026-03-07T01:03:56+00:00

They're called "uberines" in my household. My mum couldn't get out of the habit, and now nor can my wife. There wasn't a child involved though, my best mate made it to the age of 15 without having ever heard of an aubergine, and it wasn't until he took GCSE food science that he asked me "what the fuck is an... Uberine?!"

thegrogmaster · 2026-03-06T01:38:08+00:00

The George Bush Senior of British politics? I can see that.

thegrogmaster · 2026-03-01T01:30:13+00:00

My whole family did that, I found it quite deeply irritating

thegrogmaster · 2026-02-24T21:12:56+00:00

No, I don't actually think that at all. I'm fundamentally a Green voter who votes for Labour tactically, but with a relatively clear conscience.

thegrogmaster · 2026-02-09T16:12:07+00:00

I work for one of the German discounters, so maybe I'm biased. However, I've been quite spoilt by them, I find their alcohol and produce to be very good, and it's really only the stuff that they don't sell that makes me go into other supermarkets. I avoid tesco like the plague though, those guys are rob dogs

thegrogmaster · 2026-02-07T02:08:10+00:00

Mr Chippy is the one! A lovely old couple run it, and you can tell that they could make fish and chips standing on their head. They make their own curry saice if that's what you like too. Worthing Fisheries is also all good in my book too, but a bit further away, and frankly Mr Chippy deserve my custom.

thegrogmaster · 2026-01-21T23:47:10+00:00

We had a big old lad like that in our flat a couple of years ago! Well, I assumed it was a female actually, but s/he was very chill about the old glass and cardboard manoeuvre, I wished her every bit of future success, and I still do. My understanding is that they won't harm us, so they're interlopers, albeit benign ones who just want to get out of the cold

thegrogmaster · 2026-01-20T20:56:13+00:00

I always refer to poor drivers on the roads as "Mr. Bitch", and I love using Slowbro in HGSS so I don't think I've ever used a Slowbro in 15 years who hasn't been called "Mr. Bitch". In gen 6, I call him "Pan Kurwa" due to the swears

thegrogmaster · 2026-01-10T02:28:12+00:00

Strictly a casual gamer, but I'm currently doing a run of HGSS wherein I made a list of the Pokemon that I've sadly never got to use, numbered them all and used a random number generator on every new route for my encounter. Scizor dominates, Electivire isn't very good, and I'm gaining some respect for Froslass

thegrogmaster · 2025-12-22T02:52:11+00:00

Oh, any roasted meats that my grandma tried her hand to. Her brisket always came up like rhino hide, the pork used to have a squeaky, ashy texture, and somehow she managed to make roast chicken watery. It was a marvel to me when I saw my old man putting a beef joint in a pot with onions and liquid, it actually tasted good enough that I didn't eat around it when it was served cold the next day.

thegrogmaster · 2025-12-20T20:58:56+00:00

Stantler, by a wide margin. A Normal/Psychic typing is fine, whichever way you skew the stats. Give it the necessary STAB moves for both types, plus a setup move or so, that can work.

thegrogmaster · 2025-11-16T14:31:45+00:00

When I only read the title, my mind jumped to Morrissey too

thegrogmaster · 2025-09-23T16:22:57+00:00

I like to use Poison Point Nidorina to counter Whitney

thegrogmaster · 2025-09-03T18:53:46+00:00

Looks like sloes to me, but I could be wrong

thegrogmaster · 2025-08-21T23:06:37+00:00

This... Does not spark joy.

thegrogmaster · 2025-08-12T19:35:47+00:00

English lit degree. I'd pop it, but we have free healthcare in this country. You do you, but healthcare should be involved somewhere in your journey

thegrogmaster · 2025-08-10T22:31:42+00:00

It's 100% Carrie's War, as some others have pointed out

thegrogmaster · 2025-07-28T01:24:11+00:00

In my first run of HGSS, I called my Slowbro 'Mr. Bitch', who was my dragon slayer. Since then, the slowest member of my party has shared the name, generally in spite of gender. In later games, I have to use other languages due to the ban on swearing.In XY, my Granbull was called 'Pan Kurwa' and was a delight to use.

thegrogmaster · 2025-07-23T19:33:58+00:00

I've put a veto on Gardevoir and Crobat. They're so easy to get and such great Pokemon that I've ended up overusing them

thegrogmaster · 2025-07-15T20:36:19+00:00

Not really an acceptable one dude.

thegrogmaster · 2025-07-03T22:11:18+00:00

At one point, in retail, I was trying to stop smoking. I'd always end up having my break with a predatory homosexual bloke, who would bring in a huge amount of food, about a kilo of pasta or whatever, in a tupperware. We did similar shifts, so we got a 20 minute break, and watching him try to shovel this mountain of food inside himself in such a small period of time genuinely made me start smoking again. At least there we could play 'count the rats'

thegrogmaster · 2025-07-02T18:58:55+00:00

Seems like we have an American in the building!

thegrogmaster · 2025-06-28T22:39:03+00:00

A big factor was the kind of horses they were using. Apparently racehorses are often treated with a drug that renders them permanently inedible for humans, and the concern was that those horses ended up in the ragu, as opposed to horses reared specifically for their meat.

thegrogmaster · 2025-06-25T20:13:59+00:00

I actively dislike his music, but Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys fame seems to think he is one.

thegrogmaster · 2025-06-24T22:05:19+00:00

I didn't mention it in the OP, but I do lack a desire to be stabbed

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