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.

I can’t look at the nail threads because everyone has wedding rings on that are too tight for their fat fingers. I know I’m awful

I hate seeing a one sentence answer of you need to do the Freedom Programme or you need read Why We Eat (Too Much) without any further explanation as to what these are or why they might help the poster.

Same with “read the stately homes thread” I went to read it once and it would be of very little help to anyone.

Oh my goodness too many:

I just showed my DH this thread or just asked my DH this question or I’m reading these comments to my DH
Makes my teeth itch
Naice
Tilt head (accompanied by tinkly laugh)
Vom
Vile, grim,
Bubba, bubs, hubs, hubby, hubster
boob juice
The sex better be good (when the thread is about a useless partner)
Goady
Sounds like you have insert mental health disorder. Speak to your GP
Go in the title thread e.g. What is the best restaurants in London..go!
You got this hun, oh my love
This too shall pass
Picky bits
Have my first
I never pay more than £9.99 for my cut & colour
^ This
I haven’t RTFT

I have many many more but don’t want to sound unhinged (another word I hate)

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

Ahh, I hadn’t realised this thread wasn’t about phrases you hate, but actually about having a go at people for using regional variations in language.

Not a phrase, but the word yuk, I have only ever heard very very young children say yuk, as in older toddlers, so to me an adult saying yuk is like an adult saying botbot rather than bottle.

"it gives me the ick"

@gettinglikemymother, tea is usually earlier.

When I was growing up, friends whose parents worked outside the home had tea, usually a proper meal at around 6 pm

Parents working at home tended to have supper at about 8 pm, and it would be a light meal. They would have had tea about 4 p.m. and a proper meal at lunchtime.

‘Emotional affair’ (for every friendship with the opposite sex when nothing’s even happened) and ‘You need new friends’

As if it’s that easy!

@FestiveFruitloop

'Are you always this anxious OP?'

😂 Yes, this one!

@BoredZelda

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

Ahh, I hadn’t realised this thread wasn’t about phrases you hate, but actually about having a go at people for using regional variations in language.

WTF is ‘regional’ about those?
It’s just sloppiness.

“Reader, I married him.” So twee and full of self importance.
“Oh dear OP.” As an opening sentence to a reply. Again, so full of self importance.

@BoredZelda, those are not regional.

I commented earlier about 'i am bias' - it's sloppiness.

Also, ‘follow the science’

As if scientists never disagreed about anything…

@Whatismypassword

Oh my goodness too many:

I just showed my DH this thread or just asked my DH this question or I’m reading these comments to my DH
Makes my teeth itch
Naice
Tilt head (accompanied by tinkly laugh)
Vom
Vile, grim,
Bubba, bubs, hubs, hubby, hubster
boob juice
The sex better be good (when the thread is about a useless partner)
Goady
Sounds like you have insert mental health disorder. Speak to your GP
Go in the title thread e.g. What is the best restaurants in London..go!
You got this hun, oh my love
This too shall pass
Picky bits
Have my first
I never pay more than £9.99 for my cut & colour
^ This
I haven’t RTFT

I have many many more but don’t want to sound unhinged (another word I hate)

Sorry about my typo. What ARE the best restaurants in London...go

I think we're going to need a list of what phrases you love reading on MN.

‘DISCUSS’.

No, you discuss

"Going against the grain" doesn't mean what 99.999% of posters think it means.

'Vanishingly small' god I hate that phrase.

“Reader, I married him.” So twee and full of self importance.
This is hilarious!

"Blatant placemarking"
Just put the the thread on watch, nobody cares.

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People moaning about "needs done", "needs washed", "needs told", this is common usage in Scotland & elsewhere.

@BoredZelda

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.

@BoredZelda I actually used to live on Dartmoor so yes I have lived in the countryside. Hence the term ‘relatively’.

Example being there are actually buses you can get on and it’s not a 6 hour drive to the nearest town like some places in Australia. Or places like Mongolia where there aren’t any actual roads to get to places and you just drive cross country in the direction you think is correct until you come across a river to ford. It may not be ‘ideally connected’ but the UK is fairly small as a country and if you have a car it doesn’t take an age to get places.

I did outline this in my original post but you decided to misquote in order to add credence to your own opinion.

One I’m seeing loads at the moment is everything being “lazy parenting”

I don’t think parent was even a verb when we were kids.

And that’s without walking the tightrope of other peoples judgement between lazy parenting, helicopter parenting, performance parenting etc etc.

The lazy parenting one is often directed at burned out mothers doing their best by people who have forgotten what small children are actually like.

Life admin, never heard anyone in real life use this. I love booking holidays, planning our weekend etc and doesn’t feel like any kind of chore to me, plus I get to book exactly what I want to do
Social anxiety, used to be described as shy or an introvert
Health anxiety, used to be commonly known as hypochondria
Threads where a child is playing up and immediately they need checking if they are on the spectrum, whatever happened to kids just being naughty?
I sometimes feel people need to have a label to justify their behaviour and I’ve never seen as many as on here