Mumsnet pet peeves

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Does anyone have any pet peeves about the catchphrases or little snide comments on Mumsnet.
My personal favourite to a money related thread is "can't you just get a higher paying job"
So go on let's vent!

Practically all of the autism threads. they're constantly talking badly about autistic adults and complain about autistic peoples opinion on autism related things

I read one thread on MN recently where the OP was having her fifth child and posted in AIBU about being fed up of people saying rude comments to her about it - I was taken back by the amount of nasty, unnecessary comments that people wrote . I could imagine the type of people they are and thought they were all a bunch of wankers tbh.

And the corollary of that duckeggs - anyone who is rude "oh, are you sure he's not got autism?"

Fuck off- autism =/= rude

And @Zaphodsotherhead I completely share your frustration at other, later posters getting props for what you said in the first place!

People who write "placemarking" on threads. Do you not have 'watch' and 'bookmark'???

haba
Can I also add 'maybe it's dementia' when someone suggests anyone over the age of 40 has been rude or unpleasant to them.

Armchair diagnosing on Mumsnet irritates me.

Yeah the autism ones bother me. I have ASD and I am not rude, randomly violent, un-empathetic, mean, thick or a tosser. If someone's a tosser, they just ARE!

@ProseccoBubbleFantasies

Can't believe no one's said reverse yet.

My pet peeve is the gazillion posters who just basically rewrite and parrot what the first 3 or 4 posters on a thread say.

Evasmummy2019 your thread was awful. I had to stop reading it.

It's fucked my head up and I'm doubting everything. Thin a break from the internet is in order x

Zaphodsotherhead and haba, I've also had this happen and it annoys the tits off me every time. I chunter at the injustice.

So, to be fair Evasmummy2019 I don't think I was the first poster on here to comment you your baby clothes thread.

How people who have children should always have made sure they could afford them before having them because on MN people who are on benefits and have multiple children are feckless. Not ensuring that your life circumstances never change is the height of bad parenting.

Whoissylvia that happened to me. I just felt so awful.

'I've found my people' and the simpering 'You sound lovely, OP'. 'I couldn't give a shiny shit' is pretty horrible too.

And the peremptory 'educate yourself' if someone is not totally up to speed with an issue or says something the poster disagrees with. It's so bloody rude.

Link?

I've seen it so many times as a one word post. It's just plain rude. I always just want to answer www.google.com

Also, when someone is suspicious about a partner, quite possibly without reason, "he's definitely having an affair", "sorry OP he is being unfaithful". Yes he might be but unless you are the other woman you can't possibly bloody know that. It seems people just want to stir up trouble and enjoy the worst case scenario.

Link?

I've seen it so many times as a one word post. It's just plain rude. I always just want to answer www.google.com

Answering with lmgtfy.com is even more satisfying.

“I just snorted tea all over my laptop”
“I woke dh up laughing at this thread”
“The dc are all wondering why I’m laughing to much”
“Wow. Just wow”
“No is a complete sentence”
These can all F off as far as I’m concerned!!

But I HAVE laughed out loud at some of the things I've read on MN.

There was a parking thread yesterday and the situation was very clearly explained, and was mostly to do with the narrow lane to person lived down. I nearly posted saying "just waiting for the obligatory request for a diagram" but didn't because a diagram was sooooo obviously unnecessary.
But, someone did post with a request for one.

Posters not RTFT.

Evasmummy2019 you got such a terrible time. I was laughing though at responses of the absolute thicks that hadn't 'rtft' - which is my thing - don't comment until you have read it

I can't get worked about this - patronising

I do want the 'rat' thread to continue though

'Haven't read the thread but' before making a comment that has already been said 87 times already over the previous pages as if it ground breaking info.

'HTH' just makes you look like a knob and the info given never does anyway.

Someone taking offence at the wording that didn't matter.

Oh my god OP, don't you care about animal welfare at all, why use the term "pet peeves"??? Honestly, no wonder kids are obese!!

A serious thread but someone picks up on punctuation.

Current threads on Furlough.

Any post that begins with the word 'so'

Any post that ends with 'end of discussion' or even worse 'END OF'

People who call others idiots or worse because they have a different opinion

The use of names, particularly Karen or Susan and latterly Carol when someone quotes a thought or conversation, as they're always used in a derogatory way.

People who put thread titles such as Am I Being Unreasonable in the AIBU section. Think of a better title that gives us a clue what it's about.

'Discuss' or 'Go' especially after no opinion given by the OP first.
'Man here'

Parking threads-yawn. With or without diagram especially with running commentary and live updates.

Can you see a line? No. I never can.
Could I be pregnant? If you have had unprotected sex than it is a possibility.