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MN phrases that you would ban

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Malahide · 11/07/2024 16:47

I’ll go first..

Potty shot. 🤢
Makes me squirm. Nobody needs to be sharing their scan photos for strangers on the internet to (probably wrongly) guess their baby’s gender. The whole thing is ridiculous

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Malahide · 11/07/2024 22:36

HungryLittleCrocodile · 11/07/2024 22:35

EWWW NORKS!

Like (eg) on Style on Beauty...

Any ideas for a willowy dress for a summer wedding for a woman who is 'large of nork.'

JUST STOP IT! 😖

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See also: willowy!

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HungryLittleCrocodile · 11/07/2024 22:35

TheHuntSyndicate · 11/07/2024 22:32

This too shall pass. The poster can't actually think of anything constructive to say or offer any practical advice so they make this stupid comment and sit back feeling smug. 🙄

Norks. Hideous.

Naice. Embarrassing.

Mansplaining and manspreading - used by man haters.

Boils my piss. Simply dreadful.

EWWW NORKS!

Like (eg) on Style on Beauty...

Any ideas for a willowy dress for a summer wedding for a woman who is 'large of nork.'

JUST STOP IT! 😖

TheHuntSyndicate · 11/07/2024 22:32

This too shall pass. The poster can't actually think of anything constructive to say or offer any practical advice so they make this stupid comment and sit back feeling smug. 🙄

Norks. Hideous.

Naice. Embarrassing.

Mansplaining and manspreading - used by man haters.

Boils my piss. Simply dreadful.

JudgeJ · 11/07/2024 22:31

ScruffMuffin · 11/07/2024 22:08

Oh yes! LO makes me cringe every time.

PFB too.

I thought the Army was bad for acronyms but MN takes it to a whole new world.

HungryLittleCrocodile · 11/07/2024 22:30

stonebrambleboy · 11/07/2024 22:26

Throwing people under a bus, never seen that done IRL.

I don't think that's just a mumsnet saying.

MidnightMusing5 · 11/07/2024 22:30

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 11/07/2024 17:06

Quoting a long post just to say :

This

Or

Exactly This

Yeah thanks for your invaluable insight

Guilty 😂

SummerDays2020 · 11/07/2024 22:29

Theeternalrocksbeneath · 11/07/2024 17:03

”Gives me the ick”

Oh my god the CRINGE whenever a presumably adult person writes this!

🤢

How would you say it then?

JudgeJ · 11/07/2024 22:28

AuschwitzHistorian · 11/07/2024 17:00

”I’m baffled”
”I’m confused”
No, you’re not baffled or confused your being passive aggressive in your question.

Tinkly laugh and head tilt (who actually does that?)

The pearl clutchers maybe?

stonebrambleboy · 11/07/2024 22:26

Throwing people under a bus, never seen that done IRL.

MissTrip82 · 11/07/2024 22:26

Just the hyperbole.

l’m ’on my knees’, ‘exhausted’, ‘working my arse off’ etc.

Always ends up has one ten year old and works three days a week answering emails,

Aliciainwunderland · 11/07/2024 22:21

Hubs and bubs

HungryLittleCrocodile · 11/07/2024 22:15

@NeomDiffuser

"Sat here with tears rolling down my face"

'And spitting their tea out all over the keyboard.'

or

'My drink just came out of nose I laughed so hard!'

Both daft! ^

@Scorchio84

'DDog' has to be the worst

Yeah, and 'DCat,' and 'DNiece,' and 'DNephew.' 🙄

And yes, LO for 'little one.' Just stop!

ScruffMuffin · 11/07/2024 22:08

Oh yes! LO makes me cringe every time.

WillLiveLife · 11/07/2024 22:08

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AuschwitzHistorian · 11/07/2024 22:06

Thought of another “someone left the gate open to the cunt farm today.” I roll my eyes at that one.

Scorchio84 · 11/07/2024 22:06

MyUmberSeal · 11/07/2024 17:37

This would my choice too. DC, DS, DD, DH, all really naff.

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DDog has to be the worst!

Kta7 · 11/07/2024 22:03

I’m sure ‘live rurally’ gets used way more on here than IRL. Sounds a bit twee to my ears.

Bunnyasmyname · 11/07/2024 22:02

BakewellTart66 · 11/07/2024 19:19

I like « Do fuck off dear. »
Can we keep it?

Give your head a wobble, Bakewell 😉
HTH

AuschwitzHistorian · 11/07/2024 21:57

Just saw another one “x, y z (insert profession) here” Like anyone cares, just reply for goodness sake.

People “fuming” or even better “fumming”
Draws. It’s drawers!

Edited to add “then the tears came”
People that don’t open their doors to anyone, that’s just odd.

WeightofExpectation · 11/07/2024 21:56

Love language (although it’s mercifully rare)

MartyFunkhouser · 11/07/2024 21:55

‘LO’ which manages to be even more nauseating than all the ‘D’ this, that and the other bollocks.

WeightofExpectation · 11/07/2024 21:51

Give your head a wobble.

Didn't want to read and run.

LTB

NC

Massive salad

sammylady37 · 11/07/2024 21:48

Boils my piss
I lost my shit
I was today years old when…
‘gift’ used as a verb

Maverick101 · 11/07/2024 21:44

For everyone that says they never hear certain phrases in real life -- there are over 1.4 billion English speakers in the world and Mumsnet has a pretty broad reach.

The only phrase mentioned so far that I've genuinely never encountered elsewhere is sanpro. And it makes my teeth itch 😉😁

Maverick101 · 11/07/2024 21:38

"that's really attention seeking" -- with the interference that it's on a par with torturing kittens. Especially when it's said to some poor woman, who's everyone's drudge, lamenting that absolutely nobody has even made a passing comment about a major life achievement like finishing a PhD.