MN phrases that you would ban

'School mums', as if they're some kind of separate species

Some of them definitely are

It annoys me when people use the Maya Angelou quote’When people show you who they are believe them.’ It’s just overused

Yes I think that's why I dislike it too.

Yes, language has a lot of power.

I recently did a course about copywriting to portray your brand, and it was really interesting to see how different companies write their website copy to convey their brand values. Even two cancer charities wrote things completely differently because they had different audiences. Not something I'd ever really actively noticed before.

Whilst I agree with most of these, they are really ‘online’ words or phrases that have been used over the last few years. I am not sure they are specific to MN. Other than ‘in jokes’ like the Sistine Chapel etc.

And some phrases like ‘nip it in the bud’ are pretty ordinary phrases. Blame the English language, not MN ;-)

As a general point, I dislike ‘ick’ as it is childish and ‘HTH’ as it is so patronising.

Use your words.

You have a husband problem.

AIBU to feed my step-child gruel while my own children dine on caviar?

Naff.. makes me think that the poster is a really unpleasant snob

Anyone starting their reply with their job and then the word ‘here’.

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I couldn't get worked up about this

Give your head a wobble

Gives me the ick

I once saw a poster use ‘DDiPoW’, meaning ‘Darling Diana, Princess of Wales’… horrendous!

I'm going to add how much it annoys me when posters ask completely irrelevant details of the OP.

Is it really important to know what the OP had for breakfast when they've asked for help to motivate their hamster to generate electricity?

We live in a ‘naice’ area.

DS is 6 foot 2, excelling at rugby and all subjects at private school. He can eat 2 full chickens and is still ravenous on an evening where as I’m slim and get full on a side salad which lasts 4 days.

MIL wants to visit my newborn 2 weeks after arriving home from hospital. I don’t want visitors. I just want to enjoy the baby bubble with DH and my own mum who will be helping with night feeds as DH will need sleep for his 7 figure salary job. AIBU?

However, the general rule seems to be that any which is in vogue soon goes out of vogue. Everything has a sell by date, but how to predict it?

'Give your head a wobble' really annoys me for some reason - and it's so overused on here. Just think of another way to say it! Even 'Have a word with yourself' would be preferable.

Dmoth, Dspider, Dplant.
Is this site full of kindly old ladies who call everyone (& everything) "dear" ?!

(not exclusive to Mumsnet, but just rile me up)

D - anything. DD DS DSS DF DH DDog DNHS.

Hubby.

Give your head a wobble.

What on earth are you talking about? (To something incredibly simple).

It’s a salary one!

It’s a MIL one!

ODFOD

Never heard of them. Who? (On a thread about a celebrity).

HTH = Hope This Helps.

Loved your comment on LTB @redalex261 😂

HTH

Ah, so many grating words and phrases!! Worthy list so far covers lots of my non-faves. Let me add:

“she’s not respecting your boundaries” ALWAYS about a MIL daring to visit new grandchild.

“could they be neurodivergent?” Every time some kid’s bad behaviour is reported. Or adult’s bad behaviour! FFS, no!

LTB - for, well, anything.

HTH - because I still don’t know what it means.

And another vote for “NC as incredibly outing” (proceed with banal story); two votes for “hubby” - conjures images of a very unattractive middle aged man.

Funnily enough, I came to say "cringe" when used incorrectly, as in "it's cringe" or "the cringe" or "so cringe". Equally "cringy" in place of "cringeworthy".

Cringe is something you do. Like cry, sneeze, or fart. You wouldn't say "baked beans are so fart". You would say "baked beans make me fart".

Likewise, it is not correct to say "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons IS so cringe", rather it would be "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons MAKES me cringe".

Or, "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons is so cringeWORTHY".

Rinse & repeat for the word "chill".

Presumably also all written by adults.

This is very true and I hadn’t considered it.

Thank you, it does make sense in a lot of ways and i understand the desire to be a bit more cautious now.

It seems that some people have genuine reasons not to share information that might genuinely “out them” then, but I do think some people take it too far with the “outing hobbies” and refusing to share which supermarket they shop in like pp referenced.

Unless of course it genuinely is an outing hobby like keeping scrap books of garden centres they visit or collecting yoghurt or toenails or something similar!

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I have only read an amount of pages but mine are

Makes my teeth Itch (What? How?)
Makes my blood boil
Reader, blah blah
At the end of an OP the addition of the word discuss
Anything Naice
Ducks in a Row
Is He/She Unhinged

Lots of veggies.