Is there a word you really can’t stand? We asked the question and moist of you responded quickly…

[The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from all around the world take part in what is called a Hashtag game. @AFrikkinHashtag [say it out loud] is South Africa’s #1 Hashtag game and is always a lot of fun. The F.L.O.P. [or Fish List Of Prizeworthyness] is the collection of some of the best tweets from each week’s game and is what all seriously comedic Hashtaggers aspire to…]

In fact there were SO MANY GREAT tweets from this game that i think this will have to be a two parter, so well done everyone for coming to the party.

hashtag game ad

It had been a while since Grendel aka @SugarGretel had co-hosted with me, so we managed to pull her away from her secret chocolate and unicorn stash for long enough and it was a blast having her as the official co-hostess for the day. She did not disappoint.

So along with the F.L.O.P. list, which if you didn’t know by now is our List of Top Tweets for this game, this time i also compiled a TOP SEVEN list of some of the words that kept coming up again and again and again as much hated, feared or villified words and so thought it was worth a mention.

[7] Panties – a lot of you do not like the word ‘panties’ which i actually found on some Top Hated Words lists

[6] Conversate – this sounds like the kind of made up word i would employ but i could tell it gave a LOT of you issues and most of you added “It’s converse, people!”

[5] Retard – that one is self explanatory and feels like a word we have for the most part retired, and rightly so.

[4] Irregardless – even more than conversate this word or non-word REALLY PISSES A LOT OF YOU OFF. LOLS for days! People got so animated about this one.

[3] Literally – this word was literally brought up by so many people who despise it being used figuratively as it often is, which literally kills me. Oh wait.

[2] Bae – i almost don’t want to include this on the list because BAE IS NOT A WORD… but i was so glad that SO MANY OF YOU also seem to hate it as much as i do – please can we put bae in the corner, Patrick Swayze?

But in keeping with pretty much all the lists you will find on the internet – google it – we stayed true to form as far and away the number one hated word by so many of you was, of course:

[1] Moist – i don’t even know if i need to add anything. We all know why you hate it. Some of you included it with another word on this list and said the combination was even cataclysmically worse… and i’m not talking about “Moist Conversate”.

So there you have it – the top seven words of wrathfulness that got mentioned so so so many times… but there were others and so let’s get to it.

Firstly we invited you to a game:

hashtag game

Absolutely no prizes for guessing what some of my early words would be:

The worst word in the whole world must be ‘RaiSINs’ & every image & gag reflex that conjurs up? #AWordICantStandIs

raisins

And of course:

#AWordICantStandIs bae. Although it shouldn’t count cos it really IS NOT A WORD. So STOP USING IT please! #BaeWatch

bae

Also it literally does mean Poop in Danish…

Then i did take on the Americans a little as some of the ways you say things really annoys me [and i’m sure vice versa, and don’t even get me started on the way you say “buoy” and pronounce about seven different vowels in it]:

#AWordICantStandIs Caramel. But only when Americans say it & the A mysteriously disappears and becomes Carmel? WHAT? Bring back the A!!!

#AWordICantStandIs Aluminium. Again, Americans. It’s AL-U-MIN-I-UM. Not Aluminum. IUM IUM IUM Give back the I. #NoIssuesHereWhatsoever

But yes that Caramel Carmel thing has got to stop…

HOW DID WE DO?

Ben Greenman from the New Yorker jumped in to tell us that our game was dejavu for him and how they had used a similar activity to rid the world of “slacks” so there is hope for “bae”

This game really did explode and within no time at all we were trending in various places and stayed on those lists for hours:

i believe this was the 7th time The Afrikkin Hashtag game has made Twitterer Moments, which is always nice:

Of course we could count it as “a real game” once our favourite bot showed up with some love:

And you don’t get much better when playing a word game hashtag than an actual Dictionary arriving to jump in and play:

So all in all it was a really super time with some great highlight moments.

THE CO-HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTESS

Of course Grendel is a machine and so these are just some of her many many offerings:

Which you MIGHT need to be British to fully appreciate #GoogleIt

And there were more – great stuff Grendel and one of the core “Unnamed Ones” who help keep the game running so well week in week out…

But we know that by now you are all eye-rolling and “Get on with it”ing as the only reason most of you popped in here was to see if you made it on to this week’s list… and while there must be so many tweets we missed and so many people who came up with the same words [i clearly could not put all 3000 tweets that said ‘moist’ in here] here are some of the ones we found which made us LAUGH or CRY or CONFUSED or TOTALLY IN AGREEMENT or WHAT WAS IN THAT QUICHE AND CAN WE HAVE SOME? i am of course talking about this week’s FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS which we like to call the:

F.L.O.P.

And because there are so many this week, i will let the tweets speak for themselves and let’s see how many we can fit in:

Michelle was someone who also had the non-word “bae”

https://twitter.com/SamsaraKush/status/768390935977668608

https://twitter.com/GuapoFlames/status/768389284134985728

https://twitter.com/mcPatsiG/status/768390294257754112

https://twitter.com/nylaamin_/status/768387939894046721

https://twitter.com/PeteMaes/status/768387953072668672

https://twitter.com/SamsaraKush/status/768395732407554048

https://twitter.com/SamsaraKush/status/768388164696150016

And we will end part I with this winner from Sean:

Because there were so so many good ones, that i am going to be dropping a part II

[Continued in Part II over here]

Which was your favourite hated word in this list? Let us know in the comments…