Do you accidentally use mumsnet phrases at work?

[ImsorryWilson]

Last week I was asked to warn a colleague about a very aggressive opponent and recommended he “go gray rock” on the guy. My colleague thought I was being funny and original.

Then yesterday a client noted that our opponent had said they’d done nothing improper even though we had never accused them of being “improper”. I said yes when somebody tells you who they are you should believe them. Again he laughed and didn’t seem to have heard that phrase.

It makes a nice change after all the war/rugby vocab I’ve suffered for 25 years but has anyone else noticed themselves using Mumsnet vocabulary in the workplace? If you do did anyone notice?

A colleague has met a new guy and after 6 months, he's moved in with her without any conversation or agreement. I told her to make sure he's not a cocklodger and she just looked at me

All the time. I think the phrases in my head often but sometimes I hear that I’ve said them out loud. Someone remarked “Has she been sniffing glue?” and “When someone shows you their true colours....” in conversations with me and I gave them a knowing smirk

Not exactly quoting MN, but I did once channel MN; in response to a cheeky request from a CF, I looked them straight in the eye and said ‘No’.

"That's it in a penis beaker."

Yes, I have to stop myself referring to 'the DC' all the time!

I also learned 'not my circus, not my monkeys' from here which my boss was very amused by!

I once used "did you mean to be rude?" on a colleague.

I use “cheeky fuckers” a lot

(Not at work!!)

I also use the phrase 'very confident in their own knowledge' for a big headed, know it all person, not sure if that's from here!

Oh god yes, I put YANBU in an email once

Not common parlance

Yes called DH a spoony fucker last night - he was bemused 😁

Not work, but I bandy about "anecdata" and often think "have a biscuit".

Yes I used "clutching her pearls" the other day with DH and he thought I was a hilarious comedy genius. Obviously I didn't enlighten him.

I mention things/people making my "teeth itch" on occasions
(particularly the local Boden Mummy Mafia who are like extras from Motherland...)

I'm sure I got that from MN - bloody useful phrase!

I quite often have to write reports or notes that include "the child" or (worse) "the children" and I wish on a daily basis I could just put "dc". It would save me a lot of time over a year

I have to stop myself from typing DP DD Ds Dm etc and yanbu/ yabu in messages

I don't generally have a problem keeping MN and real life separate, half my FB friends are MNers and we don't cross over at all, ever. I do occasionally use "cheeky fucker" though.

Never heard of go gray rock.

I think some of the phrases mentioned above are just normal common phrases.

I am sure I have used DC and YABU at work though

Bumsex Friday is a big thing at our work now.

@Triphazards

Bumsex Friday is a big thing at our work now.

Erm....

I find myself automatically adding little pointy-uppy triangles either end of words that I want to be in italics and asterisks for bold words - before remembering that it's a Word document and you have to press ctrl+I or ctrl-B!

Erm....

Why the surprise? Triphazards works as a cleaner at Center Parcs.

"he thought I was a hilarious comedy genius."

standing on the shoulders of giants eh?

[gray rock is from the Stately Homes threads]

I do use 'no is a complete sentence' sometimes.

me too peak!

clients find it really helpful, tbh. there is so much good stuff about conflict resolution on mumsnet.