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.

‘It’s not a race to the bottom’. It’s annoying enough when used in the correct context, but it’s always used incorrectly on MN.

‘Entitled’. No one is entirely sure what it means, but they throw it around anyway if they think a poster is a bit ‘up themselves’ or has the temerity to have any expectations in life.

‘You sound like a peach’. So po-faced. Someone felt obliged to say this to me on a thread about an old friend’s suicide. Thankfully it seems to have died out a bit.

‘Ooh, I bet I’m going to get flamed now’ or other variations on the theme. Oh yeah - you absolutely didn’t want to cause a drama or create a bitchfest. That wasn’t your plan all along at all.

‘Horrid’. So twee! I’ve never heard an adult use it in real life. Charity Dingle said it on Emmerdale the other week and I thought ‘the writer must be an MNer’ - it was so out of character!

It’s all relative

No struggling for money is not all relative when you have a high income you have choices

@WobblyLondoner oh yes I bloody hate "making memories" too!! Puts my teeth on edge....

‘He sounds autistic’ whenever someone starts a thread about their abusive partner

Oh and ‘naice’ is particularly annoying

@BessieBlue

Not a phrase but posting a ultrasound image of a 12 week fetus and asking what the sex is.

Yes this gets me as well

@LizBennet

The number of emetophobes. No, you just don't like being sick, like every single other person.

👏👏👏

LTB

All the abbreviations that I have no idea what they mean

Overuse and misuse of 'literally.'

Eg ' I was literally crying and shaking.'

Also, too many folk on here seem to shake an awful lot.

People that say keep your beak out [of someone else's business]? It's so rude.

Well. This ended well

Not a phrase, but the use of entitled. Can't stand it.

So just fuck off with your insensitivity.

If you've been diagnosed then PP isn't talking about you.

Estimates about the prevalence of emetophobia suggest that it is a rare condition occurring in about 0.1% of the population, or 5% on MN.

Why do you care pisses me off

@slashlover

So just fuck off with your insensitivity.

If you've been diagnosed then PP isn't talking about you.

Estimates about the prevalence of emetophobia suggest that it is a rare condition occurring in about 0.1% of the population, or 5% on MN.

Well then the poster should have made that clear. Emet is a hideous condition to deal with.

They clearly said the number of emetophobes. as in MN seems to have a much higher number than the general population. Similar to how most of MN seems to live rurally or earn 6 figures.

Oh gawd I could be here some time...

Ducks In A Row
Picky Bits
Kitchen Supper
Darked On Washing
Hate To Read And Run
LTB
Are You/They/ on the spectrum/ Have SN

I best finish there... I could go on 😁

Not phrases as such but I hate all the ‘DH/DS/DD/DC/DP’ bollocks.
I don’t understand why people don’t just type ‘husband/son/children/parents’ etc, it’s not like they’re massive long words!

The worst is when people type ‘ddog’ uuuurrrgh for fucks sake DOG not ‘ddog’ 🤬

I get the whole internet acronyms thing. Fine. That’s how things are.

But DDog is longer than dog. And looks like a written stutter.

Same as when people feel the need to write DSis for clarity because DS could be son or sister. And DP could be partner of parents. And DF could be fiancé or father. In all of these situations, it would be much easier if people just wrote out the actual word.

Given its MN, the starting assumption is going to be that DS must be your son. Anything else just needs to be written out.

Similarly, DH could cover whatever relationship you actually have. In most cases it doesn’t matter whether you’re actually married. It’s about generally indicating their relationship to you.

@DroopyClematis

Overuse and misuse of 'literally.'

Eg ' I was literally crying and shaking.'

Also, too many folk on here seem to shake an awful lot.

The worst that I see on here all the time is the advice 'Don't put him down on the birth certificate!' Or 'Make sure you don't name him on the birth certificate' when advising an OP on a baby's dad that isn't her husband

You can't just 'put someone's name down'

@Okbye

Not phrases as such but I hate all the ‘DH/DS/DD/DC/DP’ bollocks. I don’t understand why people don’t just type ‘husband/son/children/parents’ etc, it’s not like they’re massive long words!

The worst is when people type ‘ddog’ uuuurrrgh for fucks sake DOG not ‘ddog’ 🤬

The worst one I ever saw was STBXBIL - as in the OP’s soon to be ex-husband’s brother. In the time the OP took to work out the acronym, she could have typed ‘my ex’s brother’, plus her entire dilemma, five times over - with the added bonus that we’d have known what the fuck she was talking about.

"Google the fourth trimester" annoying and not really helpful.

And patronising ones like "are you quite young?"