MN phrases that you would ban

There's a lot of it about around here

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"you need to explain to them that..."
Especially when they're referring to a toddler.

'You sound like hard work'

It's so fucking rude!

"Just pop..." as in "just pop the baby in a sling" or "just pop the toddler down for her nap"...

Any instruction starting "Just pop" is inevitably a ridiculous instruction to try something that obviously has already been tried and abandoned because my kid is just way more complicated and difficult than your one.

What was his/her name? What were they like? Would you like to tell us about them?

So trite and false.

'Posh chocs'
'Picky bits'
'Spag bol'

So sick of the unnecessary abbreviations 🤢

I'm getting pissed off with seeing that too... about Starmer... When I see a poster write that, I don't read anything else they have to say.

Also, as a pp just said 'use your words' is a horrible wanky patronising saying ... probably said by the same people who say

'reader, I married him.'

and

'kindly OP, you are a bit pathetic and stupid'

and

'are you on glue,' 'I live in a naice area,' and 'you eat at MCDONALDS?! I don't. I am too middle class and like actual proper food!' 'Oh and I also cook everything from scratch and make my own dresses from wheat.'

I know, right? Many men start off by being wonderful and loving and attentive and kind and nice to women. And this is why women fall for them, live with them, get engaged and get married to them, and have babies with them.

In SOME cases, it's after you've got married, (moreso after you've got pregnant and had children,) that men seem to turn dismissive, moody, passive-aggressive, and argumentative. They start going quiet for no reason. and become more critical, picking on everything you do, and generally being an arsehole half the time... Leaving you wonder what the fuck you did wrong.

And they become quite lazy - and they start doing anything they can to get away from the children and the wife. Lots of extra hours at work, and lots of new hobbies. And then they start becoming a bit too friendly with other women - and then making you feel like you're the problem when you're not happy with it. Seen ALL of this on here.

And then when you start complaining on mumsnet (that you're not happy in your marriage,) you get a chorus of LTB! You've got kids together, you've got pets together, you've got 2 extended families together, you've got a home and a mortgage or joint tenancy, and you've got enmeshed finances. And probably two thirds of women would not be able to survive on their own financially. Especially if they have kids.

I hate it how some posters make out that it's so easy to pack everything into two suitcases and just fuck off somewhere else, and start a shiny new life on your own/with your kids. Like you're just going to walk into £150,000 a year job, and a lovely three bedroom house (which will be just waiting for you to move straight into) and be financially secure and happy for the rest of your life on your own. You will never ever struggle or live in penury or have to work 60 or 70 hours a week to keep a roof over your head. Life will be just peachy!

Some people do talk shit!

But incredibly common.

That's very specific

Reducing any debate about Kier Starmer or Labour policy to “Keir Starmer doesn’t know what a woman is”. So bloody boring.

The very patronising 'use your words'

The term 'drama llama'

When someone expresses what is entirely their opinion and they describe it as 'facts'

Similarly 'end of'

And people who delight in posters having their 'arse handed to them'

All the Dwhatevers, and other abbreviations. Do people call them Dwhatever in real life?!

LTB, like it’s that easy.

One woman was offloading her very valid concerns about an unplanned pregnancy earlier, and instead of empathising or offering some advice or help, one poster pretended not to understand how a pregnancy can be unplanned. As well as being utterly unhelpful, the comment was disingenuous and rude.

Not only relatives, but also pets. DCAT, DDOG, DHAMSTER, 😆

I have never experienced so much 'othersplaining', gaslighting, false requests to demystify as much as I have on this forum. - If you post a counter point with evidence (i.e. a policy) a reply that follows is "Nope, still don't get it".

When someone says "time for this again" - 'this' refers to a meme rather than anything substantial or credible

Any post that is essentially pettifog

Any poster that decides that you are a TRA for opposing views (or a man, or a bot (I've been called all three in one thread))

Any posts that are started for the purpose of being divisive rather than constructive - usually it's just an announcement of something in the news (like Jess Philips). The OP isn't interested in the views, they just want to chase and flame a narrative. (@Mumsnet It would be great if we could see icons next to peoples names (number of posts started and contributed / engaged / thanked for etc) otherwise, I sometimes feel these kinds of posts are started and stoked by the same people.

this D nonsense in front of describing relations

no one talks like that in real life

Yep!

Urgh yeah! So willowy and tall and gangly. And their children are always tall and athletic!

Yeah watch The Traitors 😆

Men are all bastards
because they’re not. Not all of them

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