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'poncification' - What's Your Complaint?

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Answerprancer | 19:00 Fri 13th Nov 2015 | Society & Culture
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Ok, this is a 'whinge-in'.

'Poncification': when things in everyday life become 'poncified'.
I'm sure you know what I mean, but in case you don't, it's the pretentious tarting up of every day things we normally just accept as normal and mundane.

I'll give a couple of infuriating examples that irritate me...

1) Ferrero Rocher (thanks UKAnonymous for the inspiration) - sweets made to look like what they ain't.

2) 'Stand-alone' sinks in pubs that have been 'done up' complete with little squirty top soap/moisturiser dispensers.
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Saying "absolutely" when you merely mean "yes".
I do rather hate anything "posh". We have a posh B&B which when I was in Australia was just normal service.
'Contemporary' and 'executive' housing developments
Blokes smelling like birds. (that sort of thing, comrade?)
Restaurants serving food on things other than plates.
Norman Copenhagen washing up bowls @ £60 odd quid each, any kitchen appliance by Kitchenaid (they must be cooking joking)
Yeah, right tilly. Or king oblong plates.
Beds and sofas with so many cushions piled on them you have to spend five minutes removing them before you can sit or lie down.
'Up-cycled' Furniture - It is but a lick of paint - no?
A couple of things lately.
People starting every sentence with, so...
and
body is a temple men who obsess about proteins and carbs and going to the gym. Why have protein shakes when protein is freely available naturally.
He gave it 110%. Oh no he didn't.
Cushions on beds, why
Forgot about this until I read Tilly's response. I too hate my food served on a block of wood. Give me a plate any day.
Take a look at some of the pictures in my link, Maggie ;-)
Cauliflower foam...truffle foam..
Westerners who use chopsticks!
I use chopsticks because it's fun. Sorry.
'jus' instead of gravy.
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Haha - Canary, that almost got me the sack a while back when I had a job as an office clerk.
I was sitting with the directors around the boardroom table eating lunch one day and they persuaded me to make up the numbers for a card game they used to play (because the MD was absent).
I reluctantly joined them but kept forgetting when it was my turn to deal and one of them - a younger director, after I asked for about the fifth time
"oh sorry, is it my deal" said with lowered head and flickering eyelids
"a-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y!" to which I retorted
"Why don't you just say ....YES"?
Now he was a typical spoilt brat younger brother of the MD, who used to boast about attending young Conservative dances and spoke with a put on posh accent and NO ONE was ever supposed to question him.
Everyone in the room cringed as his anger rash glowed as he let rip with a few swear words at me.

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