Okay! ENOUGH! Does anyone else have a spazz attack at the word "hubby"?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Seriously. The man is your HUSBAND. That's seven letters long, not five. Not only does the word LOOK weird to me, but it sounds like pure weirdness. And yes, I do know people who actually--IN REAL LIFE!!--refer to their husbands as "Hubby."

:banghead:

AHHH! The pure juvenile torment!! My skin just about crawls away at the thought of it.

No offense to those of you who do it, but it just weirds me out on so many levels. Not only does it sound, to me, like something coming from the mouth of a five-year-old, but it's one of those "sickly sweet" words that really irks me.

:scared::scared:

[Blue-Jay]

1. Settle down, Pookie.

:hide:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. Bastard.

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

2. My name is Catherine. That's nine letters long.

I usually go by Cathy. That's five letters long.

I'm not getting what difference the number of letters makes.

Hub, hubby, husband. Doesn't bother me.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

9. My name is eight letters long, and I have a three-letter nickname.

My nickname, however, does not conjure up a lisping five-year-old.

[Left Is Write]

16. It would be pretty hard to lisp "hubby."

:)

There's nothing there to lisp.

I don't see it as any more juvenile than honey or sweetie.

[bicentennial_baby]

43. Yay for talking down to people!

"does not conjure up a lisping five-year-old"

:boring: Seriously...C'mon now... :eyes:

[Missy Vixen]

3. You might feel differently when you get married

I just call him "my husband". Of course, there are various and sundry other nicknames. "Captain Software". "Honey". "Honey Bunny". He finally put his foot down over "cupcake".

He calls me "Honey" most of the time.

Julie

[CTyankee]

6. I call mine "honey bunny" too!

Sometimes I call him "hunka burnin' love" but that is just for effect in front of people, cuz he loves it!

[spacelady]

46. Me too! Also "Hunky Monkey" & he wondered if that was a

weight reference & I replied, "No, if I meant that, I would have said 'Chunky Monkey'".

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. I just draw serious ire at "hubby."

It's just the sheer...bubbliness!...of it that drives me over the edge.

Also--"WHEN" I get married?? Rather presumptuous, to assume that I'll marry. I may well, and I may well not. Or I might be a lesbian, and have nothing to do with loving a man.

[Missy Vixen]

24. By the time you are old enough to make that commitment

I'm hoping that gay and straight relationships will be legally recognized across the country, and this will have been implemented years before. Ninety five percent of the population marries at one time or another, so it's not a leap to think that you might someday.

>Or I might be a lesbian, and have nothing to do with loving a man.<

Could be, but I believe the discussion was on the word "hubby", was it not?

Julie

[ZombieNixon]

20. Whoa! I want my wife to call me "Captain Software."

Best nickname ever!! :rofl:

Maybe "Captain Hardware" would be more appropriate, though. :evilgrin:

:hi:

[Kajsa]

25. ROFL !

Oh no!

:rofl:

[mad-mommy]

4. I call mine hubby...

it's better than some of the other names I have for him.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

11. True.

:evilgrin:

Still.....

:scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. Take a deep breath....

I belong to two other message boards that use abbreviations like DH for Dear Husband and DW for Dear Wife, FIL for father-in-law, etc. Fewer keystrokes, that's for sure. Since DU doesn't have that kind of abbreviation recognition, I type "hubby" instead of "my husband" since it takes fewer keystrokes. I'm not going to type his name here. Once or twice, I have jokingly called him "hubby" to his face. He goes by a nickname rather than his real name, and I have a few other things I call him depending on my mood. :rofl:

Sorry to have offended you. It's not juvenile---it's a matter of keystrokes. :)

[Blue-Jay]

10. Weird. I always thought people were talking about their Designated Hitter.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. Well, depending on the message board, you might actually be right.

:rofl: :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. I don't care about DH.

I must be a visual spazz, because the two "b's" followed by the "y" really set off an explosion in my brain.

[mykpart]

44. I type "hubby" here and other boards for the same reasons

you do, newwavechick. Also, it's a little tongue-in-cheek. I normally don't like overly cutsie things either, but I never intended to drive anyone spastic! And I only refer to him as "hubby" in writing, not out loud.

[LaurenG]

52. Exactly, keystrokes

I don't call my husband hubby. I only refer to him as hubby when I don't want to say his name on a hugh!1!!! message board. Otherwise I just refer to him by his name.

[Critters2]

14. Yes, and to me "DH" is even worse...

:puke:

[Left Is Write]

18. I'm not big on DH or some of the other internet acronyms.

I do often use MIL and FIL because writing out mother-in-law and father-in-law is such a pain. I don't use DD, DD, or DS, though.

[Richardo]

54. I actually *call* my father-in-law 'FIL'

Even though his name's 'Jim'

It's our thing. :shrug:

[nini]

15. yes

I agree with every word you say here.

[tigereye]

17. it is a little cutesy for my taste

but not a huge deal.

[billyskank]

19. ...

:freak:

































:P

[Rosemary2205]

21. "husband" is a tongue twister for me

so I call mine Jerry. Because his name is Jerry. :)


On a bad day it does come out "Jewwy" though. LOL

[mduffy31]

22. I think you gotta relax a little

there is way too much other shit to get worked up about other than how a woman refers to her husband.

[Mad_Dem_X]

84. ITA

There are so many more other things out there that we should really be getting upset about. Talk about trivial! Jeez...!

[LostinVA]

23. I loathe it -- so I understand, kidddo -- UGH

[mwdem]

26. I totally agree with you, even though I used it here once,

and I cringe at the thought of that. I got lazy, but I won't do it again.

[Fox Mulder]

27. "Cute" nicknames have always bothered me.

I prefer to be called by my name, thank you very much.

[Left Is Write]

28. I call my husband by his name...

when I am talking to him or referring to him in front of people who know him.

I do, not, however, call him by his name on a publicly accessible internet messageboard.

[skygazer]

29. Well, IMO that's a silly thing to have a spazz attack about

In fact, the term "spazz attack" really strikes me as wierd and juvenile on so many levels.

Not really, but I think you probably get the point. "Hubby" is quicker to write than "husband" - that's the only reason I occasionally use it. He's not even my husband technically - we're not married but "boyfriend" sounds pretty ridiculous to me when you're 45 years old. I use "SO" sometimes, too, but I don't really like that either and, as someone else pointed out, I'm not going to use his real name.

What possible difference does it make? It's simply a term to make the reader understand to whom one is referring.

Personally, the misuse of "who" or "whom" and the obnoxious tendency for people to say "where are you at?" make me far more crazy. But I don't start threads about it. ;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. No more so than over 'Wifey'

:popcorn:

[bridgit]

31. that's only because you don't have one, dear...

:rofl:

[KamaAina]

32. All the time. 'Specially when female DUers refer to theirs.

"Another one bites the dust..." :( The insufferably twee word "hubby" merely adds insult to injury.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. Twee! that's the word I was looking for!

:rofl:

[LSK]

33. hubby hubby hubby hubby hubby hubby

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What were you saying?

:D

[blondeatlast]

56. Dammit, ya beat me to it. nt

[smalll]

35. What gets me is when people talk about "bennies" when they mean BENEFITS!

I can understand people getting cutesy about their life partner, but getting cutesy over 401ks and dental plans? :puke:

[Ellen Forradalom]

37. Everyone knows that means Benzedrine!

Ignoramuses!

[hippywife]

36. Even tho it doesn't bother me,

I don't use the world hubby. I refer to mine as my hubband. }(

(And no, that wasn't a typo.)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

38. I don't care for it...

I'd come up with something much more creative, anyway. :P

[Ellen Forradalom]

39. It's "VEGGIES" that drives me nuts

For both the green things and the people that only eat green things. aaaaaaarg

[LadyoftheRabbits]

40. You and my mom both!

Drives her *batshit*. :P :hi:

[Silver Swan]

41. No hubby here...

I usually call him my spouse, unless i think it's important to know that I'm female--then I'll say husband.

[bicentennial_baby]

42. Oh chill...

Jeebus, you're too young to get so freaking ouraged over such silly things...I call my darling man 'lover', 'sweetie', 'hotness', 'babylove', and all sorts of things....it's a love thang :)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

49. Pffft.

I don't give a damn about those--it's the mere feel, taste, look of the word "hubby" that drives me mad. I'm not sure what it is--maybe it's the fact that it's missing the "s," and the "s" is crucial to the word "husband" to have it keep that same essential look.

[deucemagnet]

62. The "s" is my major issue with it.

It just doesn't make sense. I understand "husby" would be kind of hard to say, but why not "huzzy"? It's just as cutesy-annoying, and it makes much more sense.

[evlbstrd]

45. I was never called that.

I was, for a time, referred to as "this one." That bugged me. And that relationship ended.
Ex called me many things that were much less desirable than hubby.

[pitohui]

47. ?

i don't get it, i'm not a garden patch to be husbanded so yeah i prefer the word hubby

if i was so anal retentive as to always call him my "husband" i'd have probably been Rounded-Up and replaced by a Round-up Ready crop years ago

[Dulcinea]

48. No.

I refer to him on this board as my "DH" or my "hub" because I'm a lousy typist. I don't call him that when talking to him.

[ScreamingMeemie]

50. Well... I guess, for some, it would be better than calling him Ass.

:D :hi:

[bridgit]

51. or, Hubba Hubba Would You Look At The Ass On That Guy...

as mentioned up thread, it may be a simple matter of key-strokes :D

[JVS]

53. people who say hubby are lame

[Richardo]

55. It beats 'moron' (and worse)

I want to be called 'hubby' :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

67. Richardo!!!

:hi: :hug:

[Burma Jones]

57. My Wife calls me SIR

ha ha ha

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

87. ...

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

58. On DU, Mr. BAL is well-known as hubby.

If I used another term, people might get the mistaken idea that we've gotten divorced.

[crim son]

59. Yes, I hate that.

I also hate it when married people call themselves and one another "Mother" and "Father". Also the words "tasty" and "chilly". V. disturbing.

[ScreamingMeemie]

68. MrG and I don't do any of those. We call each other "Mom" and "Dad"...

:rofl:

We truly do. Especially at the dinner table when having discussions that involve the kids. :hi:

[crim son]

72. We will do that in the presence of the kids only!

That's acceptable. :D

[InvisibleTouch]

70. I think that's a generational thing.

My grandparents did it: called each other Mother and Father instead of by their names. I guess once you had kids in those days, that became the defining factor of your life. My parents called each other by their names - at least during the time they were married. Thereafter they used other words. ;)

[Midlodemocrat]

60. Why do you care so much how another person refers to their spouse?

It's really none of your business. :shrug:

[JVS]

61. referring is an act of communication, thus it makes it everyone elses'...

business. If they want to silently think of their husband as hubby, then it is their own business.

[Midlodemocrat]

64. I don't agree. If the term were profane, you would have a point.

People refer to their spouses in public all the time by cutesy names. I don't see why it bothers people. :shrug:

[JVS]

73. Why does profanity make a difference and how do you define profanity?

Maybe some of us consider hubby a profane word

[Midlodemocrat]

76. Oh, come on.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

79. It just irritates me.

Am I saying all "hubby" users need to be hanged? No. I'm merely giving an opinion, asking for everyone else's.

[last_texas_dem]

63. I agree

I've never liked that expression either. I enjoyed your rant!

[Name removed]

65. Deleted message

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[ChickMagic]

66. My hubby doesn't mind

The only other option is "swamp turnip". Which would you prefer? :hide:

[Zomby Woof]

69. I agree completely

It has this bourgeois/subservient "little woman" aura about it. I get what you mean... it is like nails on a chalkboard.

Thank jebus Nini would never call me that, LOL. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

80. Here we are, back to the whole "subservience" thing.

:rofl:

I must agree with you, though.

:D

[Taverner]

71. I'm hubby and she's wifey

Better than boo boo kitty fuck

[Shine]

74. LOL!

at first I used to be really disturbed by it, like you, but then I got over it....probably b/c my husband constantly refers to HIMSELF as my "hubby".

:D

We use it in a joking context. He's the hubby. I'm the wifey.

:hi:

[bif]

75. Almost as bad as "The little lady"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

81. Now that makes me see red.

Bah! I may be short, but I am NOT your "little lady."

:grr:

:D

[Cathyclysmic]

77. Um...I have to say the most annoying word here is 'spazz'

and my betrothed agrees.

[MsKandice01]

78. I prefer to call mine Asshole

:)

[Mad_Dem_X]

85. LOL!

I've called my HUBBY a few choice names also.

[madinmaryland]

82. Mine does not use that term.

She calls me dips**t.

Oh well, we have been married 10 years!

[enigmatic]

83. It's never bothered me

It's never even occurred to me to be bothered; oh well.

[redqueen]

86. Nope... don't care about that at all. Doesn't bother me.

But say "irregardless" and I'll be all about the spazzin', yes indeed.