{"id":47471,"date":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/47471\/can-we-please-ban-this-horrible-word"},"modified":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:00:00","slug":"can-we-please-ban-this-horrible-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/47471\/can-we-please-ban-this-horrible-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We Please Ban This Horrible Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<big>I have a Facebook friend (not to be confused with an <i>actual<\/i> friend) who consistently keeps us up to date on all her husband\u2019s activities. <br \/>  <br \/>  First off, let me start by saying that I don\u2019t even know how I actually know this girl. I think we worked on a project together in the 5th grade or something. How do I know you, Karen? Write me back and let me know.<br \/>  <br \/>  All Karen seems to talk about is her husband. Only she doesn\u2019t call him her husband &#8211; that would be far too normal and standard. She calls him her <B>HUBBY<\/b>.<br \/>  <br \/>  \u201cMy hubby made me pancakes,\u201d \u201cMy hubby got me a beautiful gift,\u201d \u201cMy hubby killed himself because I won\u2019t stop calling him hubby!\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>  <b>HUBBY. <\/b><br \/>  <br \/>  \u201cI just got fucked in the A by my drunk hubby lol\u201d &#8211;  this is an update I can actually get behind. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  And it seems that I\u2019m not alone, here are some fellow despisers of the word:<br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">QUALIFICATIONS FOR FRIENDSHIP:<br>1. Has never used the word &#8220;hubby&#8221;<\/p>\u2014 Sam Escobar (@myhairisblue) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/myhairisblue\/status\/732565478883872768\">May 17, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\u201cutf-8\u201d><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newest pet peeve: people that use the word &#8220;hubby&#8221;.<\/p>\u2014 Justin Whitesel (@justinwhitesel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinwhitesel\/status\/735204993079205888\">May 24, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please don&#8217;t use the word hubby<\/p>\u2014 . (@Dghollenback) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dghollenback\/status\/735673827485585408\">May 26, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\u201cutf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Petition for the word &#8220;hubby&#8221; to be illegal<\/p>\u2014 Ash (@AshlynGeister) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AshlynGeister\/status\/733739162235510787\">May 20, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  You\u2019re not alone, fellow despisers! Let\u2019s form a coalition of lonely single people who hate outward expressions of happiness and normalcy. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><big>I have a Facebook friend (not to be confused with an <i>actual<\/i> friend) who consistently keeps us up to date on all her husband\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-47471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[102],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can We Please Ban This Horrible 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