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.

lol @littleburn. Maybe they are called that and it’s a double bluff

Rinse and repeat

PFB and the constant use of Naice.
I immediately dislike anyone who writes this on a post.

"My bad"

@fungussingstheblues

"It is what it is."

WHAT is what WHAT is??!

IT!

The fart one was from a thread a couple of years ago, the apparent hilarity of it completely passed me by. The phrase is often mentioned annoyingly.

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

@itshappened

PFB and the constant use of Naice. I immediately dislike anyone who writes this on a post.

TLAs that I don’t know!.....what isPFB?

Not your circus not your monkeys (or vice versa) - what the hell does that even mean? Keep your nose out? Why not say that? My big boss (male) recently said, on a work zoom call, 'get your ducks in a row' - first time I'd ever heard it outside MN and my immediate thought was 'I wonder what his nickname is' 😂

@HoldingTheDoor

This isn't a phrase and it's unfair but people referring to three and four year olds as toddlers really bugs me.

Or people giving there children's age in months. " my 48 month old". Eh, you mean your 4 year old!

'Supper'
'Wee'

Any reference to boden/ joules/ toast

PFB = precious first baby @Quarks69

"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - usually said smugly. It was sort of enlightening the first time I heard it, but now it's hugely overused.

PFB = precious first baby

It seems to be used constantly at the moment.

Also 'naice' - i.e. we've got alot of money

"Buy them posh chocs'/fluffy socks".
"Go for a spa weekend. Make him pay!"
And increasingly : "He said 'Fuck it" when he cut himself with scissors cutting a child's hair? That's abusive. It will be you next. Your child will be damaged, what kind of parent are you staying with this monster? If you don't leave you are a fool. Abusive bastard... "
"Well my husband would never swear. He works a 23 hour day then strokes my hair for the other hour because that's what Good Men do. "

Used to mean precious first born

@StrongSunglasses

The boiling of piss is revolting phrase and very visual. I imagine some angry face stirring a bubbling vat of their own piss and muttering profanities.

🤣

'Long story short'

I would prefer 'to cut a long story short' TYVM

@DropYourSword

PFB = precious first baby *@Quarks69*

So no PSB....novelty worn off by then ?

When someone "finds their tribe" I want to throw something

I dunno about naice. I invented ye olde term ‘nice ham’ back in the day on here. Everyone understood it.

*When people refer to their child's body parts as tiny

“Teeny tiny” to describe anyone with a dress size less than 12.

Yes to teeny tiny. Especially annoying are the teeny tiny fetishists on here who love to talk about they're so teeny tiny and young looking that when they went out to dinner, the waiter picked them up and stuck them in a high chair.

Bun fight came from when Camilla got buns thrown at her in Sainsburys.

Not your circus not your monkeys (or vice versa) - what the hell does that even mean? Keep your nose out?

I think the meaning is slightly more nuanced than 'keep your nose out' - it means you have no responsibility or obligations in a situation; it shouldn't be something you have to be concerned about.