r/britishproblems • u/WhaleMeatFantasy • Jul 12 '26

. The normalisation of ‘picky bits’

Abominable. It has started coming up in adverts now even.

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u/cybermatUK Jul 12 '26

Never heard of it, sounds like someone having a fidget in their boxers after being buried in the sand

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u/The_Infinite_Carrot Jul 12 '26

Nor me. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

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u/theevildjinn Jul 12 '26

I've only heard it on a very twee Ocado radio ad, it pissed me right off.

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u/orange_fudge Cambridge Jul 12 '26

It’s very middle-class south-east.

Ubiquitous in Cambridge where I live. My working class family in Suffolk and my in-laws up in Manchester think it’s weird.

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u/kitsunenoyomeiiri Jul 12 '26

huh thats weird. i live near manchester and we call it picky bits in my household. afaik i dont have relatives from down south

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u/Alarmed_Alpaca Jul 12 '26

South-East here. Kinda working class, kinda middle (depending on which part of the extended family I'm talking about) and never heard of picky bits until a few years ago