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To be driven crazy by a few very, very common expressions on Mumsnet?

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Pineapplesonpizza · 24/07/2026 20:02

Here are two to start with:

"Just that really." after the initial title of the post, sometimes accompanied by shrug emoji.

The word "surely".

Do you have any that irrationally irritate you?

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CatkinToadflax · 25/07/2026 10:32

‘Hilarious’ meaning ‘I don’t agree with you’.

‘Literally’ used wrongly.

Posters stating their own personal opinion as solid unshakeable fact.

LetMeGoogleThat · 25/07/2026 10:26

For me it's 'Baby' never The Baby, or our Baby or my Baby. Also, Ddog, or Dcat! It irrationally grates on me 😬

scalt · 25/07/2026 10:08

In 2020, it was all “selfish arseholes”.
The selfish arseholes who walked their dog more than once a day.
The selfish arseholes who flocked to the beaches.
The selfish arseholes who didn’t mask up.
The selfish arsehole neighbours who had their grandchildren over.
The selfish arseholes who didn’t take in Ukrainian refugees, moments after we were criminalised for having our own families as guests.

EarringsandLipstick · 25/07/2026 09:57

ThisWiseRobin · 25/07/2026 08:54

DD, DS, DH, DP etc. How long can it take to type s.o.n. etc
SS was another. I grew up knowing the SS as the armed wing of the Gestapo not social services.

But these are actual abbreviations used as part of the MN site & listed in guidelines for the site! It’s not individual posters making them up!

ThisWiseRobin · 25/07/2026 08:54

DD, DS, DH, DP etc. How long can it take to type s.o.n. etc
SS was another. I grew up knowing the SS as the armed wing of the Gestapo not social services.

IcedPurple · 25/07/2026 08:28

Pineapplesonpizza · 25/07/2026 03:03

omg 'veggies'. Can't bear it. Sets my teeth on edge. I wonder why though.

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It's very Jamie Oliver, which might explain the irritation factor.

Add in a nice big glug of olive oil and you're all set. Delizioso!

IcedPurple · 25/07/2026 08:26

We've lost sight of what a healthy weight is.

Get your ducks in a row.

Have a word with yourself.

Well, you sound nice.

Quarkkugel · 25/07/2026 08:23

Meh or meh, couldn't get worked up about that after a 20 year marriage ends unexpectedly or a house burns down 🤣

GreenWheat · 25/07/2026 06:08

Everything to do with any form of privacy or information being a "breach of GDPR".

Any tiny deviation from the norm "invalidating your insurance"

JesseDavisGonnaHangOnInThereNSoul · 25/07/2026 05:17

Lifelover16 · 24/07/2026 22:43

And the salad is always served with “good bread” - not just bread.

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And lashings of real butter..usually something vv expensive
Butter churned from the milk of the rarest cow in all of cow cowdom.

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Pineapplesonpizza · 25/07/2026 03:03

Goingfor · 24/07/2026 22:27

I don’t know anyone irl that calls vegetables, ’veggies’.
I can’t stand to read it.

omg 'veggies'. Can't bear it. Sets my teeth on edge. I wonder why though.

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Pineapplesonpizza · 25/07/2026 03:01

GoatClimbing · 24/07/2026 22:25

"It would never occur to me to...."

Read it at least once on virtually every thread.

Hadn't noticed this until you pointed this out, but so true.

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ElenOfTheWays · 25/07/2026 01:17

Strawberry1975 · 24/07/2026 21:09

@buttercupcake I actually have come to love the word Grim 😂

Having not long since binged the Series Grimm it now makes me think about wesen and hexenbeists and the somewhat delicious David Giuntoli 😏

ElenOfTheWays · 25/07/2026 01:10

DeftGoldHedgehog · 24/07/2026 20:57

Are a lot of people here new to the internet or don't go on other sites? As much of this is common outside Mumsnet.

Yep 😂

SnowFrogJelly · 25/07/2026 00:52

Give your head a wobble

calflions · 25/07/2026 00:20

PollysKenwood · 24/07/2026 22:33

The tickly laugh seems to have died a death thankfully.

Ooh, after Covid I couldn't get rid of mine for months though.

EarringsandLipstick · 25/07/2026 00:09

Stressedoutmummyof3 · 25/07/2026 00:04

I have never heard anyone say ick in real life and that includes children at nursery and my own children.

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You can’t be serious? It’s not kids that say it. It’s adults, referring to relationships / attraction (or rather, loss of).

It’s widely used. On TV shows, articles are written using it & yes, absolutely used in real life where I am, and I don’t think that’s exceptional.

Stressedoutmummyof3 · 25/07/2026 00:04

DeftGoldHedgehog · 24/07/2026 20:34

Some of these are just normal turns of phase in everyday life, not a Mumsnet thing. You must spent your lives in a state of perpetual irritation.

I have never heard anyone say ick in real life and that includes children at nursery and my own children.

Maywellofbin · 24/07/2026 23:34

Maywellofbin · 24/07/2026 23:34

'Grim' - the puritan's favourite word.

Not certain about my apostrophe placement there...

Maywellofbin · 24/07/2026 23:34

'Grim' - the puritan's favourite word.

Slightyamusedandsilly · 24/07/2026 23:29

End of. (So fucking rude).

First post nails it.

SisterTeatime · 24/07/2026 23:24

Spewing and/or spouting vitriol
Vile

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 24/07/2026 23:14

catsflorafauna · 24/07/2026 23:01

‘Name change for this’

Like someone is going to track them down, I don’t even get it, I don’t think you can see peoples other posts like Reddit. Or I don’t know how!

also abbreviations that I don’t actually understand what they mean at all and whilst I’m at at honestly I hate the whole DP DH DC D stupid abbreviations!

You can see all the posts under that username by using Advanced Search but you'd have to be seriously invested to trawl through hundreds of posts and eventually triumphantly exclaim 'Aha! I thought so. On this Baby Names thread in 2020 she said her name was six letters long and ended in a vowel. At various times since she's mentioned that she works in the NHS, she does her big shop at Lidl, her husband's a cyclist, she prefers dogs to cats and she likes the colour turquoise. And now she's revealed that her husband has red hair and so does one of her children. This can only mean this is indeed Angela Smith of Anytown Road! I knew it! And now I also know that she didn't bake that cake she donated to the school fair herself!'

Gowlett · 24/07/2026 23:13

Kindly. Gently. HTH. Did you mean to be so rude?

Hotmess101 · 24/07/2026 23:07

I hate ‘glorious’. Makes me think of a brisk Dawn French type harping on loudly in St Ives while everyone else thinks oh STFU.