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.

@Ohmycron

I read and run all the time. Largely because the post is fucking boring

😂😂😂

I assume that it refers to those times when a small amount of your stomach contents suddenly makes it way to your mouth?

Naice
Family money
Posh as a prefix to anything
Give your head wobble

Unmumsnetty hugs

Most people posting seem perfectly kind to people in stressful and sad situations- not sure why there is this trope that it is odd to be sympathetic

I hate " you sound lovely" when we've only heard one side of the story and it's someone feeling sorry for themselves, nothing to indicate that they are in fact lovely. And the reverse " you sound horrible/ hard work". Again, it's just based on one situation. You don't know these people. Let's just accept no one knows anything about anyone on the Internet or if these threads are even made up or true.

I've found my people
Snuggle
Cosy
Little family
Traditions
Sainsbos
Picky tea
Grim (lazy and overused)

‘No is a complete sentence.’

It’s not in real life though, is it?

'You're getting a hard time here OP' when the OP has been unreasonable for pages.

Leafy suburb - for me this conjures up visions of overcrowded, polluted, congested urban hellhole

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'Oh sweetie' . Probably meant kindly but very cringey.

@Ohmycron

The only thread that has made me laugh for ages is that sex one, I’m laughing now as I type this, where she ended up with shit on the headboard

This -www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/a2307274-I-am-everything-you-hate-about-people-on-the-internet-I-am-here-to-help

…is my favourite thread of all time I think. The responses are just pure gold, it was like old days mumsnet when posters were 90% witty and 10% angry and woke (now reversed). If you didn’t see it at the time you’re in for a treat.

My absolute most hated expression is "gaslightinging" for when someone's husband disagrees with them, or for when he's trying to convince them of something they don't think happened. Gaslighting means systematically trying to make someone believe that they are insane!

I like PFB, it perfectly captures that over the top, my baby is the center of the world that parents get first time round.

@MapleMay11

Leafy suburb - for me this conjures up visions of overcrowded, polluted, congested urban hellhole

Yes with the very occasional tall tree

As soon as 'Friend A' and 'Friend B' get a mention I'm out. Because there'' soon be C and D and I just cannot be bothered.

Yep. Simply cannot be bothered with this and it's always in tandem with an unnecessarily long and complicated OP.

I don’t know why but cocklodger makes me cringe, akin to nails down a blackboard for me! It’s overused in most relationship issue threads oh and LTB!! Arghhh just stop!

I always think of an 80s comedy when somebody says leafy suburb!

@theculture

Unmumsnetty hugs

Most people posting seem perfectly kind to people in stressful and sad situations- not sure why there is this trope that it is odd to be sympathetic

The hug thing is left from the very early days of mumsnet when its acerbic style was being taken over by Huns who put kisses everywhere.

@Sparklingbrook yes, exactly that

Goady.
Grabby.
Judgy.

All the made-up bs.

I'll second the poster who said selfish and vile. I'm so tired of seeing everything and everyone being described as selfish.

You want to eat something more than your daily allowance of government provided gruel? Selfish.

You'd like your toddler to be occasionally allowed to play with another child. Selfish and vile.

You would like to have the occasional haircut so that you don't turn resemble Cousin Itt's even more hirsute sibling? Selfish, vile and disgusting.

Visit your 90 year old Grandmother knowing that this might be her last Christmas. You are despicable.

It's very tedious.

Haha @Sparklingbrook

I don’t have an issue with people crossing to live in the countryside more the phrase ‘living rurally’.

I also now live in the countryside about 30 mins from the nearest town and it is great.

@Sparklingbrook

'You're getting a hard time here OP' when the OP has been unreasonable for pages.

So true!!

@Mrsjayy

I always think of an 80s comedy when somebody says leafy suburb!

Surbiton like in The Good Life. Or wherever they lived in Butterflies?

@LagerthaofKattegat

Think.

As in “a hobby, think crocheting “

You mean

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

This 100%