Mumsnet buzzwords you can’t stand *light hearted*

[Wavypurple]

There are a few for me that set my teeth on edge.

‘Pop’ - my number one. My mortal enemy of MN words. Just ‘pop’ a plaster on it. I might ‘pop’ some money into a savings account. Why don’t you ‘pop’ to the GP for your Diet Coke addiction. No idea why it sets me off in such a way.

‘Flourish’ - enough said

There must be more of you out there. Are there any words you can’t stand that are MN buzzwords?

Again just to stress this is light hearted and I do not hold personal grudges against users that use these words 🤣

Shedload
Grinds my gears
Makes my teeth itch

‘Set my teeth on edge’

Any kind of pop-psychology, especially ‘narc’ or those ways of defining oneself in relationships (anxious attachment, avoidant attachment) - WTAF?

Pop is just a normal everyday word, as are grim and vile.

I hate picky tea and dippy eggs but not sure if they are specific to MN.

It's not enough to be just 'in tears' you have to be 'crying and shaking'.

'boundaries', bloody 'boundaries'. I know you need them, but some posts, Christ, 'work on your boundaries, op'. And 'red flag!!' and all the toe-curling varieties like 'more red flags than a Communist Party parade'. And 'shit-hot lawyer' and 'get your ducks in a row' without any further explanation. Such bloody clichés.
I also agree with a pp on 'ignore other posters saying...'. So presumptuous.

I'm not sure any of these are unique to MN. My friend loves to say things are 'grim'.

Boils my piss
ODFOD
Naice

Just been reading a thread about Covid and remembered another one - ‘ripped through’. So sick of Covid ripping through…

Cluster feeding. Sets my fucking teeth on edge!!

Sanpro

'tearing someone a new one' or variations on that theme. Repulsive.

@PeopleBeCrazy

Unhinged. Literally never heard in real life but used frequently here

My dh uses “hinged” to mean the same and that really annoys me !

When someone is telling a story and they say ‘I was with a friend, let’s call her Jane and her husband, let’s call him Dave’ just say a bloody name or use something similar if it’s so unusual it’s outing

“Wow. Just wow. It must be so nice to experience such privilege.”

Said about anything that’s better than bread and dripping for dinner.

“Reader, I married him.”

“I’m crying and shaking.”

“I literally spat my tea into my keyboard.”

No you didn’t…

I’m sick of all these people dying on hills who aren’t at all.
The it’s vulva not vagina police are tedious as well.

"I mean this in the nicest possible way..." and then they usually go on to say something that's not very nice

Tinkly laugh

You sound nice

Hubby
Picky bits (also, picky tea)
Myself (‘attending were myself, DH and the DC’ - WRONG)
‘Sit them down and …’
‘Wow… just wow…’
‘But that’s just me’

'Pop', definitely, because it's so often used by a poster outlining their amazingly efficient problem-free life while addressing an OP desperately looking for help.

I just pop a casserole in the oven and while that's bubbling away I pop on a load of washing and ask the DC to pop upstairs to tidy their rooms so that I can pop the kettle on in case my lovely friend pops in for a cuppa and a catch-up [continues ad nauseam]

Unreasonable. When it's not even a aibu
I catch myself saying it all the time now!

Haha so true

Tinkly laugh
Head tilt
Did you mean to be so rude

'fast forward 2 weeks, low & behold'

To be fair I've not actually seen it used on MN, but I hate the word nourish particularly if used with regard to well being!