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.

The use of "gift" as a verb when not referring to a formal donation, bequest etc.

Neurodiverse is my latest eye roll

This too shall pass

(So cringe!)

Suggesting OP simply says something passive aggressive with a “tinkly laugh” and a “big smile”

This is my number one hate. It would most likely just infuriate the other person and escalate things (well, it would me).

@Pawprintpaper

“If you cared about the environment you wouldn’t have had children” on any thread about anything environmental whatsoever. (Even worse on threads about infertility).

And picking apart someone’s grammar when it’s irrelevant to what they’ve posted about.

Ugh yes. It seems I should sacrifice my own life goal of having children so other people can get to have their own children... makes sense. Really great incentive.

So smug and annoying. Most people who care, care because their children are living on this planet

@slashlover

When someone writes about their horrible husband and mentions they're pregnant.

Why did you have kids with this man?

Not helpful and just smug.

Yeah this is annoying as hell.

So smug and annoying. Most people who care, care because their children are living on this planet

Oh the irony.

@Thhhhheeeeelong

When people quite smuggly say their DH would never disrespect them that way

Or go on about their husband/partner being so great etc etc. It just makes other people feel like shit.

Yes - or that they've lived with their DH for 50 years and never had a single argument because they can communicate like adults.

Lines eyes please

What does this even mean!?!?

It means they should have bought a fucking digital pregnancy test

@PferdeMerde

Lines eyes please

What does this even mean!?!?

It means they should have bought a fucking digital pregnancy test

It means their period is going even due yet and they’d be best using the digital test after it late.

@LagerthaofKattegat

Think.

As in “a hobby, think crocheting “

You mean

“A hobby, similar to /like, for example, crocheting “

THIS!!

Makes me rage at my phone lol

Also ducks in a row and head a wobble.

Also when people find an excuse to insult the OP in some way by saying "Have you always been so xyz?" Hate it.

Read Lundy Bancroft
Cringe used as an adjective, not a verb.

@Nillynally

There is always a poster, usually about the third that will ask 'are you usually...' or 'is he normally this...' as some sort of passive aggressive comment on someone in the original post

I posted before reading yours. Yes exactly this!

“You shouldn’t have voted Tory then “

I hate it that a poster on a forum think they will influence my freedom to vote or my decision making .Mumsnet would be the last place to influence me.

Floating voter btw.

@VeronicaBeccabunga

That silly opening statement along the lines of 'Fuck off, Daily Mail' because if I was a browsing Mail writer I'd jump on the thread and make a huge feature out of it out of spite.

Anyone who ever called a pet a 'fur-baby' should probably be fed to their animals.

And (more on reddit) ^I dont give permission for this to be printed elsewhere"

@SilverOtter

People who end their sentences with "no?". It inexplicably gives me the absolute red-mist rage. In my mind they have a ridiculously slappable smug smirky face.

I can't stand 'boils my piss' either, just horrid!

I came on to say this. I can't stand people putting 'no?' at the end of a sentence, as if they're inviting you to disagree, but know you couldn't possibly because they are so right. I've noticed a few ending in 'yes?' which is just as bad.

I'm also sick of the word 'vile'. I mean, come on, there are loads of synonyms you could choose.

Someone upthread mentioned 'wee'. Don't come to NI. Everything is wee. Here's your wee receipt. Put your wee card in. Have a wee cup of tea. I could go on. I do it too

People who seem to think practically every post is a 'reverse.'

Oh the irony! Is so unsubtle and overused. It often doesn’t seem at all ironic to me.

'He's just not that into you'.

Spiteful and not needed, usually. There are a million and one nicer ways to say it.

I'm also sick of the word 'vile'. I mean, come on, there are loads of synonyms you could choose.

I have to confess, I quite like the use of 'vile' to describe Angela Rayner.

@HippyMoon

'He's just not that into you'.

Spiteful and not needed, usually. There are a million and one nicer ways to say it.

I agree. And often it just won’t be true. Nothing is as black and white as that. And who knows what a person you don’t know, and have never met, is thinking or feeling.

. Oh do stop with that witless, oleagenous nonsense.

@notwavingbutdrowning5

I hate LTB, which now seems to be the standard response to anything from domestic abuse to a partner not putting his underpants in the wash. Like, any woman can just walk out. Where are they supposed to go? How do they live, especially if they have small children and their DH is the main wage earner? It took me years, and a joint house move to a cheaper town, before I was in a financial position to LTB. It's a big decision, it's not easy and often there are insuperable financial obstacles.

Yes, agree, how do these women find a suitable partner?

Women who don’t work and go on about how they don’t need to work, until their husband leaves him and they haven’t had a job for 20 years.

Awful awful smug laugh

Ill go against the grain as I can't bare the D in front of daughter sil etc it is just so sickly. I can't bring myself to type it, I know its a MN thing which makes it even more sickly as everyone is being in the gang.