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WIN! Tickets and other Múm 'goodies'

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by Kev Kharas
Artists: Múm

In our second competition of the day, DiS has got Múm ‘goodies’ to give away.

I hate that word. ‘Goodies’. It’s so… provincial. Sticks in the back of my throat. Don’t really know why I used it… and when it’s used in a sexual context…

Acht.

How best to choose the recipient of a pair of tickets Múm’s show at the Scala in London next Tuesday? As well as a copy of Go, Go Smear the Poison Ivy (review) the band’s latest longplayer and, best of all, a limited edition Múm harmonica. Or, as the PR helpfully suggests, a Múm-onica. Goodies!

Pet hates: worst word. What’s your least favourite word in the English language? Post below, the winner gets the swag.

Play up, play up.


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Tulip

Gargh. ChhooooliP. It's just vile.


used..

yuk


At the moment:

...it's "eclectic". Always, always, always used by lobotomised fuckwipes to describe their taste, when they actually mean "I own a 'Best of Classical Moods' CD as well as a Paul Weller album"


Guesstimate

What a stupid fucking word, it does not even look right when you type it.

What does it even mean?


Sassy

What? A big siren should go off every time someone describes themselves as "sassy"


Got to be...

..."pubescent"

Something deeply, deeply wrong about it...


'Gusset'

is awful.


DiScharge

[shudders]


Fiddler

Wrong in every respect. Reminds me of Uncle Ernie as a child (me not him), and also the time I agreed to go to see Lord of the Dance. Oh and that fat bearded bastard who would dance and sing on the roof - no not santa, the fat greek topol or topaz or whatever his name was.


moist

whilst i applaud everything it stands for (esp when used in an entirely sexual way) it is without hesitation the most disgusting sounding word on the planet.


my least favourite word is:

Notseeingmumonmybirthday, noun/adj. I'm not sure you'll find it in the dictionary, but trust me, it's one rubbish word =(

...but incidentally it is my birthday on tuesday and I am painfully sad that I can't afford this. Painfully sad. I hope you guys are suckers for the sympathy act! =(


Scrotum


Tax

I think that's self-explanatory. It would have been 'Razorlight' but apparently that's not in the dictionary.


coldplay

gets my vote


organic

when used by yuppies as their lastest buzz-word. "It has an organic, free-flowing interface". So meaningless.


_vikram

n. tosser


disantiestablishmentarianism

"it's the longest word in english don't you know"
FUCK OFF, noone cares.


synergy

been through too many mergers and acquisitions


pretentious

such a holier than thou word, just assumes knowledge of the other, you have to be pretentious to use the word pretentious...

and in regards to the poverty angle I'm so broke I've had to walk from dalston to St. James's (work) every day this week, and thats a long walk, apart from monday when I was sick and because my agency are unaccomodating fuckwits
my timesheet didn't go through cos of my absence so I didn't get paid yesterday so another week of walking.


Winehouse


moistening

ergh, it just makes my fucking spine tingle every time i hear it


amazing.

such an overused shite word. how many times do you hear people describe things that are half-decent as "amazing"?


Legendary

0.5% of the things described as legendery never actually are. True facts


tuck!

but only when used in the context of 'tuck shop' or 'tuck box' or 'mummy brought me SO MUCH TUCK!'

especially when the mouth of the speaker is in a moist half-smile...it's just the way the tongue sort of lingers around afterwards. ARGH! there is nothing more dreadful!

however, to 'tuck in' is a completely different can of sardines - i find this use of the word completely bearable.


Clammy

Ugh yuk.


Literally

because it's never used properly.


Elixir

There really isn't a good way to say this word, or even a good context for it, it's quite horrible... EEElicksSEER. Horrid! I've heard it referred to in a sexual context, albeit in jest, but it's torrid quite torrid!


flange

it needs no explanation


Douching

...!


Postmodernism

what a load of shit.


so who won?

_


I did, but

found out too late, couldn't get to the gig so they put someone else down on the list, was promised a harmonica, never received it.