Posts with Let's Call Him/Her....

I can't stand the posts that are one long bit of text with no comma, full stop or paragraph to be seen. Not to mention the text speak and 'he should of's instead of 'should have's etc.

There seem to have been a lot of them this weekend for some reason.

For some reason that '...think' turn of phrase is so grating to me (think, nails on a chalkboard).

Same, just say e.g. or like!

I use "said" in that context all the time, both on MN and off 🤣

As soon as someone names their friends Steve or Susan I've closed the tab. I'd much rather read "DF1" and "DF2" than "Friend A" and "Friend B". For some reason if it's abbreviated in a MN style it's a lot more easy to digest. Is that just me?

Surely inverted commas convey the situation with the least amount of fuss?

My friend 'Susan' and her DH 'Steve' makes it very clear that they aren't their real names, but you're just using them for simplicity.

I hate hate hate it when they won’t say what hobby they are talking about because it’s outing.

It really isn’t. Millions of people likely do your hobby so unless it’s digging up skeletons to make them dance to music for a Facebook page, trust me, your hobby isn’t outing

Oh my GOD I’m so glad it’s not just me!

Reminds me of this!

I also hate the posters who reply with:

"Bear with me. Could it be possible that...."'and then some incredibly unlikely, far-fetched possibility in answer to the OP.

Or ones where the OP says something like "my husband is cheating on me. Am I unreasonable to chuck him out?"

And somebody replies "I voted YABU because you should have thrown him out long before now"

🙄 Yes, very clever, but that's not how the voting works, is it?

Oh yeah, the ridiculous overuse of "said". Why? It's Mumsnet, not a legal document.

The D is often silent, I'd say.

My DH has run up a million pounds in gambling debts without telling me. AIBU to think this may be the end of the line? I've posted before about how he never does a hand's turn in the house ...

My DD19 has just pushed me into our pond because I asked her to help with the washing up, AIBU to be upset?

DM never contacts me unless she wants something and today I overheard her and my DS* slagging me off, AIBU to think I'm being taken for a mug?

*see my post above - sister or son?

Yeah, I can't stand the "think" either.

I don't want to "think" golf. Is it golf or is it not? If you think saying golf is too "outing", then just change it to swimming. Leave the "think" out of it.

Totally agree with all the comments, some posts can be so difficult to understand. I thought it was just me!

I agree. I have a friend, let's call her Susan who does this all the time 😾

One yesterday said so I invited the GPs, I was thinking why? Why did you invite the doctors surgery to your kids play. BF sometimes means boyfriend and other times best friend ( how childish is best friend anyway) MOH maid of honour or mother of hen? I don't fucking know. The whole thing is infuriating

For me it's adding 'D' to things unnecessarily ie ddog or dhorse

The whole DH, DD, DS thing was to make it quicker to type surely? Not to signal how much you love them

Ha, I feel the same about the think bla bla bla phrases!

Make a game of it.

The first thing I do when I open a Susan/Steve thread is have a quick scan of the OP to see if they use the name a second time - so far I've never seen one where the name is mentioned a 2nd time.

With A, B, C threads the game is to see how far through the first post you get before you figure out which of the people in the story OP is.

I have no idea why so many posters think their husband enjoying cycling at the weekend is 'outing'.

This reminded me of something my ex does. He will say “I used to work with a woman they called Jane”, or “I used to play golf with a man they called Bob” or whatever. The first couple of times I asked why they called her Jane, or what Bob’s real name was and he replied “because that’s her name” or “Bob…”

Eventually I stopped asking and just assumed it was a phrase he used (that I’ve never heard anyone else use, ever), instead of saying “I used to work with someone called Jane”. It didn’t get any less annoying though.

Hmm I dunno. I much prefer names of people to "person A, B", etc which just gets SO confusing.

I also hate it when they seem to think it necessary to hide the gender. So the entire thread is using 'their, them" etc.

I don't like the phrase 'doing' his/her/my hobby it always makes me think of a small child 'look at me mum, I'm doing my hobby'

If it's preceeded by "buckle up, it's a long one" I never get to Person A, Steve or anyone else!

I’d say it’s still better than when it gets complicated with dsil db dsil dsc dd and ds all in the same post, although my irritation generally gets calmed when someone tells op they can’t figure out her op!!

My pet peeve is when they say, I can’t tell you my hobby/job/kids ages as that would be too outing.

Yes because you’re the only accountant with a 5 year old who plays golf

I've only seen this when they do use the names in the post and it is helpful to understand who's who. Its also quicker to be able to say Steve in your response rather than your cousins boyfriends mate or whoever. If the OP didn't say 'let's call him Steve' you can bet your house someone would say 'I hope that's not his real name OP, because that's very outing'.