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AIBU?

There is nothing wrong with the term 'hubby'.

285 replies

pictish · 24/10/2016 16:17

There just isn't.
This MN trend of sneering at posters for using a common term that has been deemed unfashionable...but only on mumsnet...is boring, childish and bloody rude.
If you had a go at someone for using it in rl you'd look like a dick.

AIBU?

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formerbabe · 24/10/2016 16:19

It just sounds smug to me.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 24/10/2016 16:19

Each to their own and all that, it doesn't bother me like 'lol' does , even then I'd not be a twat and mention it on a thread.

KittyLacey · 24/10/2016 16:20

YABU. It's cringe inducing. Like when men refer to the "missus". Just don't do it.

PumpkinOfLinus · 24/10/2016 16:20

Cringe making

ImperialBlether · 24/10/2016 16:21

It sounds very old fashioned to me. I can't even say it sounds middle aged - it sounds like the sort of thing people said in old BBC sit coms.

ImperialBlether · 24/10/2016 16:21

George and Mildred - that sort of thing.

NavyandWhite · 24/10/2016 16:22

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Dontpanicpyke · 24/10/2016 16:22

People care about such daft things.

Kokosjumping · 24/10/2016 16:22

Yabu. It's vom.

BertrandRussell · 24/10/2016 16:22

It's only remotely acceptable if the only alternative is "hubs"

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user1474627704 · 24/10/2016 16:24

It's an awful, twee, cringe inducing word whether its here or anywhere else.

It's your right to use it, its my right to hate it. See how that works? If you're going to start complaining about people complaining about a word you use, that could go on for ever in a pointless never ending spiral.
Maybe just get over yourself and talk like a grown up, or own your choice of words and stop worrying about what other people think of them?

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 24/10/2016 16:24

Sorry, I don't like it at all.

It isn't just MN it isn't liked. I don't know of anyone that uses it in RL anymore.

lovelymcjubbly · 24/10/2016 16:24

I don't like the term, but there is an element of tweeness....

My pet hate is "holibobs".

FiveGoMadInDorset · 24/10/2016 16:26

I loathe it, wouldn't matter which parenting site I was on I would still loathe it

MrsRyanGosling15 · 24/10/2016 16:26

See I really don't have any feelings about it. It absolutely does make people look like dicks when they pull people up on using it. I think its really rude and uncalled for. In fact the irrational annoyance of alot of posters to the word, has actually warmed me to it slightly. I will not have anyone tell me what words I am or am not allowed to use.

HitsAndMrs · 24/10/2016 16:26

Cringe. YABU

DollyBarton · 24/10/2016 16:28

I'll use it, doesn't bother me. My hubby doesn't mind either.

TiggyD · 24/10/2016 16:30

If you shorten "husband" and add a "y", surely you get "hussy"?

yorkshapudding · 24/10/2016 16:31

It makes me cringe but if people want to use it then that's completely up to them. I don't like it but I couldn't get worked up enough to comment on someone else using it on MN.

The only people I know who use "hubby" in RL are also the type who refer to themselves as "yummy mummies" and use the word "Hun" a lot.

QueenoftheAndals · 24/10/2016 16:34

Hubby isn't quite as bad as hubs or, even worse, hubz!

WorraLiberty · 24/10/2016 16:34

YANBU

Don't get me wrong, 'hubby' 'hun' 'bubs' etc do make me cringe.

But I just pull my big girl's pants up and deal with it.

I think posters are rude to pull others up for using these words.

They don't own Mumsnet and it really has bugger all to do with them if newbies want to use these words.

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pictish · 24/10/2016 16:35

It is becoming so tedious seeing posters bitch about it with an air of assumed superiority again and again.
New posters are not psychic and prevailing posters are not Borg.
I mean really - enough already.

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user1474627704 · 24/10/2016 16:36

I mean really - enough already

Oh the irony of you telling everyone else they aren't allowed to comment on what other people say!

Can't have it both ways. Are we all allowed to say what we want or aren't we?

WorraLiberty · 24/10/2016 16:37

It's the same when I see could 'of' instead of could have.

And when I keep seeing 'loose' instead of lose.

It irritates the fuck out of me but so do wankers who pull internet strangers up on these things, instead of just answering their post or ignoring it.

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