What is a phrase you see on the Dis boards all the time that you NEVER hear people actually say in real life?

[BrianL]

YMMV

I don’t think I’ve ever heard that anywhere else.

Not even in car commercials?

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I've heard that one most of my life.

It's mostly pop above the Mason-Dixon Line, Coke below...Soda on the left coast, NE and Missouri.

Parts of the South call carbonated beverages soft drinks. They only say Coke, if they want an actual Coca-Cola.

 

[JulieBeeRN]

"Pixie dust"

"Rope drop"

"Split stay"

and of course, I'm from a "pop" part of the country

All of these .

We travel so much that I’m used to asking for a soda while dining out; but still tell my husband that we need to buy some pop.

Other random regional things:

My husband (from CA) says “the” when referring to any highway or interstate; like “Take the 101 and get off on the 92.” I always tell him that roads aren’t important enough to have “the” in front of them.

I’ve also noticed that our friends from CA use miles to refer to the distance between two points, while I use time. They once asked me how far my work is from my house and I told them “about 15 minutes.” They asked how many miles and I had no answer……and still don’t.

 

[mrodgers]

YMMV

I don’t think I’ve ever heard that anywhere else.

That's because you wouldn't say that verbally. It's everywhere on internet discussion forums though.

 

[mrodgers]

"Pixie dust"

This morning at work, piece of equipment wouldn't fire up. Maintenance looked at the panel, no power at the remote switch. Called the electrician. He opened the panel, looked, closed the panel and the equipment started. No one saw him turn a switch from auto to manual as it wasn't wired for auto start.

The one maint. guy says, "What the heck, you didn't even do anything! Where can I get some of that Pixie dust?"

 

[disneychrista]

Older Dear/Disney Daughter (though I read it as Oppositional Defiance Disorder).

Thank you. My first thought was opposition defiance disorder as well as was pretty sure that wasn’t it.

 

[Meriweather]

The "Oppositional Defiance Disorder"? That's a new one to me, but it apparently is a real thing after looking it up.

Yep....very real DGD has it and so did her maternal grandfather

 

[tvguy]

That's regional. My grandma used to call it that. She was from St. Louis.

I agree it's regional, but my wife LOLed when I read this aloud to her. Her mom's family is from St. Louis going back 200 years and to them it's "sodie". My first trip back to St. Louis I thought it was just her family until we went to White Castle and the woman behind the counter asked if I wanted a "sodie"

 

[DLgal]

I agree it's regional, but my wife LOLed when I read this aloud to her. Her mom's family is from St. Louis going back 200 years and to them it's "sodie". My first trip back to St. Louis I thought it was just her family until we went to White Castle and the woman behind the counter asked if I wanted a "sodie"

Actually, my grandma did say "sodie pop" but I didn't realize anyone else said it that way.

 

[slo]

Back in the day, many of us here would send PD aka pixie dust for everything.

Sending you lots of to get well soon
Sending lots of for you to get the job
and on and on it goes.

I still say this, not as often as before, but I’m on a mission to bringing it back, so you all may be seeing it a little bit more - LOL!!!

ETA….could you imagine me saying this to someone in the real world - they’d look at me like I’m nuts

 

[RamblingMad]

DH, DS, etc.

 

[tvguy]

That's because you wouldn't say that verbally. It's everywhere on internet discussion forums though.

I agree on YMMV on internet forums. But that really is a dated phrase from the 1970's. Back when the EPA starting testing car gas mileage and requiring it to be posted on the window sticker. People picked cars based on that rating and discovered that the cars got nowhere near that rating so the EPA started requiring all ads include "Your Mileage May Vary".
Some of the versions of cars tested nobody would ever buy, and for many of us in California, you couldn't buy because they didn't meet our stricter smog standards.

 

[tvguy]

“In The Bubble” is a phrase I only see on THE DIS

That was a health department, pandemic term here. Your bubble was the group of people in your home and if you couldn't work from home, the people you worked around. All about tracking covid.
When my youngest Granddaughter was born 14 months ago, my son, his wife and their older daughter lived 400 miles away so we were not around them regularly so we were not in our "bubble". My son got a info sheet from their Doctor saying newborns "shouldn't be around people outside their bubble until they had all their first vaccines at 3 months of age".

 

[mumto3girls]

That's because you wouldn't say that verbally. It's everywhere on internet discussion forums though.

Very possible. These are the only message boards I frequent.

 

[Dan Murphy]

All the acronyms you all use here. Half the time I don't know what anyone is talking about.

https://allears.net/walt-disney-world/wdw-planning/common-abbreviations-and-acronyms/

https://wdwprepschool.com/disney-acronyms/

 

[Atlas722]

Sammie???

Sandwich.

 

[bsmcneil]

"the DIS"

 

[psc85]

For me it has to be the initials used to refer to family members like DS, DD, DH, DW etc.

 

[tinkerbellandpeterpan]

For me it has to be the initials used to refer to family members like DS, DD, DH, DW etc.

Honestly, that’s used on most message boards. I don’t know if it has died out with Facebook groups since I don’t have Facebook.

 

[Tink-osophy]

Sandwich.

Thank you!

I thought it might be, but wasn't sure. I don't know if that's an American or a Dis Boards thing, I haven't come across it before. In the UK, it's sarnie.