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AIBU?

To find the term 'unmumsnetty hug' absurdly irritating?

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justfivemoreminutes1 · 08/07/2015 21:56

  1. It is used with such frequency that said hug cannot, by definition, be 'unmumsnetty'


  1. It's just so ANNOYING! Why not just say 'sending you a hug'?!


Rant over. I feel better already.
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LilyMayViolet · 08/07/2015 22:00

I agree. I don't know why people feel they have to say it.

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 08/07/2015 22:01

YANBU. No need to say it.

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eggyface · 08/07/2015 22:01

Why is a hug felt to not be mumsnetty?

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pudding25 · 08/07/2015 22:04

I cannot bear it when people say that.

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justfivemoreminutes1 · 08/07/2015 22:05

I have often wondered the same thing eggy!

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Passmethecrisps · 08/07/2015 22:07

It is very irritating. Much, much more irritating than just saying 'hug'

I mean really, I have just been handed a pair of virtual bollocks on another thread. Surely it's not too much of a stretch that we can virtually hug one another if the occasion merits it

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Charley50 · 08/07/2015 22:10

It bugs me too.

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TinyManticore · 08/07/2015 22:13

Completely agree. They are so ubiquitous that they are very very mumsnetty.

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Wolfiefan · 08/07/2015 22:14

I think hugs are fine.
Not hugz hun!

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SchroSawMargeryDaw · 08/07/2015 22:14

It's kind of a jokey thing really and meant in a nice way and that it's a genuine hug, refers to the other parenting site and the over usage of hugs and xxxxx

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DangerGrouse · 08/07/2015 22:14

I don't even know what it means. Most of the weird language on here IYSWIM DD MIL LTB etc irritates the shit out of me. I can't see why we can't just use the beautiful English language to communicate to each other.

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Squeegle · 08/07/2015 22:15

I'm sorry you're irritated. Have an unmumsnetty hug (or two) xx

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Sparklingbrook · 08/07/2015 22:17

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. It's just a bit of an MN joke. Loads of things on MN are way more irritating than the way people use acronyms and the way they post TBH.

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FraggleHair · 08/07/2015 22:17

Doesn't bother me at all.

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Passmethecrisps · 08/07/2015 22:18

Unmumsnetty is also hard to type.

Maybe we could come up with the another natty acronym for it?

Unmnh?

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TinyManticore · 08/07/2015 22:20

Brave, quivering chin, defiant hugs that I'm sending you even though I will be roundly thrashed for it for being too twee?
No, that's a bit long.

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Squeegle · 08/07/2015 22:21

It's just an in joke. Part of being part of a gang. It's funny. Let's not worry about it.

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WoonerismSpit · 08/07/2015 22:21

Ah, thank you for saying 'natty' passme. I haven't heard that for years, my nan used to say it. That's made me smile now Smile

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BiscuitMillionaire · 08/07/2015 22:22

YANBU. It reminds me of a saying my DS's therapist had - it 'was funny once'. So once in about 2006 it was a tiny bit clever and ironic, but now it's just being a sheep and writing it because you've seen other people write it. Stop it now!

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Passmethecrisps · 08/07/2015 22:22

A shall another you in my compassionate bosom in a hug which flies in the face of the mumsnet zeitgeist

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Passmethecrisps · 08/07/2015 22:22

^smother

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