Phrases you hate reading on mumsnet

[Ohmycron]

I’ve been on mumsnet for about 18 years and you know what, if I read about people putting ducks in a row once more I might go mental.
What phrase do you hate.

“Grim”
“Give your head a wobble”

Can’t stand it.

@Jennalong

I just threw up in my mouth a little . Hate that one.

Oh yes, me too. A poster put this in a post because she’d seen a naked man-really????? 🤔

I heard "grim" and "vile" a lot in the 90s...I've always assumed that's why they're used so much on here.

@greenmarlin 'lasagna garlic bread and a green salad, who cooks that much food'
Me but I think we're greedy rather than smug.

Rip through

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Mash potato instead of mashED. Ditto mince beef, pack lunch. It’s mincED and packED!

You’re in 🏅

@Sparklingbrook If Jack pots makes its way into MN parlance God help me...

'Sobbing & shaking' used to describe a state of upset. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually shaking while crying, and I've comforted a fair number of upset people in my time!

"Ducks in a row"

"I couldn't get worked up about it tbh" (superior and irrelevant)

"Haven't RTFT but..." here's exactly what 100 other people have just said and OP already clarified

"This really boils my piss" (just such a nasty phrase)

People who recommend that stupid Shirley glass book that I have never read but it just annoys me and also that woman to do pedicures in London.

It’s not even helpful is it?

I forgot "howling" and I hate this outside of MN as well. I know one particular family, all of which are always "howling" all over Facebook. I really feel for their neighbours. It must be like living next door to a pack of wolves.

‘Are you me?’

Clearly fucking not.

@WhoppingBigBackside

Councilling. Ask your councillor.

I don't think my local council would be very helpful if I wanted advice on my relationship with DP

Lol. 🏅

'Are you on glue?'

Seen it used on here a lot, usually in response to a completely fair and correct comment. Hate it.

@florentina1

Long term poster . No one cares how long you have been here. What relevance is 18 years?

Royalty innit. Long long observation of mn

Plus my thread so no medal for you.

@Lipsandlashes It’s not even helpful is it? People are having a really tough time and are smugly reminded that their DH is the problem. I suspect they know that already.

UK is fairly small as far as a lot of countries go and relatively well connected.

Says someone who has never lived in the countryside. Where I grew up, the nearest small shop was 3 miles away and there were three buses a day to the biggest city. The last bus to my nearest big village was at 7pm at night. The last bus back was at 1.30 in the afternoon. And that was 30 years ago, services have been cut since then. Rural U.K. is not well connected.

@JustJustWhy

I forgot "howling" and I hate this outside of MN as well. I know one particular family, all of which are always "howling" all over Facebook. I really feel for their neighbours. It must be like living next door to a pack of wolves.

Also I’m sniggering at pack of wolves. 🏅

Using "text" rather than "texted" for the past tense. As in: "I text dh I was going to be late, so he should get the kids ready for bed".

[quote WhoppingBigBackside]@TatianaBis

Tea and dinner are equally regional. We call it supper. Dinner is only used for fine dining in the evening. Nor is tea only for children.

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We have dinner at 7 ish, but I have no issue whatever with a friend calling her similar meal tea.
I can’t think why people ever have a Thing about such regional differences.

Though while I’m at it, I do perversely have an issue with people calling the big trad Christmas meal, Christmas lunch, if they have it at lunchtime. It sounds to me like bending over backwards to sound ‘correct’, the same as people who say ‘between you and I’.

I’m being hyper-pernickety here, but the main meal of the day was always officially dinner, no matter when you have it, and if the typical Christmas roast isn’t a main meal, I don’t know what is.

"Baby dust" 🤮 baby what?

"Oh my love..."
"Oh my darling..."

...in response to someone they don't know from Adam.

I'd want to punch someone through the screen if I mentioned a worry and some stranger started with this sentimental tosh.

Likewise "I'm crying reading this". WTF? It's not about you, and if I can keep myself together during this crisis, why on earth are you, a complete stranger, not managing to do so?

"You have a DH problem"
"You sound like hard work"
"You should have thought of that before you had a child"
"Death grip"
"It's death grip"
"Death grip. Run!"
"Death grip. LTB"
"Too much porn"
Anything with "middle class" in it

Yeah...MN been getting on my tits lately

On the nail threads, some sneery poster popping on to say ‘Christmas nails? What are they?’