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 🤣

Gives me the rage.

Yes, I forgot I was going to say massive salad. I think it's because they're healthy eaters but trying to sound the opposite, and really greedy eg 'homemade pasta bake with a MASSIVE SALAD' sometimes it's 'MA-HOOSIVE'.
Also agree with the pretend names and the eg 'think doctor or surgeon'.

Can't stand seeing 'anxiety through the roof'. It's always through the sodding roof.

Beyond. Beyond angry, beyond disappointed, upset, worried etc.
It's just excessive & grandiose, like their feelings are somehow more, because their life events are so much more important that those of us who just get angry or disappointed at things.

And I absolutely agree with the PP who said they dislike kitchen verbs. "Throw something in the oven". How often do they clean their ovens? Say what you actually mean!

@KohlaParasaurus

Naice irritates me a little bit because it appears to be some sort of private Mumsnet joke and I'm not in on it.

It sort of IS an in-joke - years and years ago when I first joined Mumsnet (20ish years ago) there were a few in-jokes.

I think "naice ham" was spotted on someone else's shopping list and a Mumsnetter posted about having seen it, along the lines of "snobbiest thing you've seen/heard.." The thread was like a prelude to "overheard in Waitrose...."

So "naice" stuck! For when you want ham that's not JUST any old ham, but NAICE ham.

Now some of us old-timers reference the in-jokes if we name change, just to prove we've been here a while and aren't trolls.

Typing this, I cannot believe I've hung out here for 20 years!! Mumsnet is the old friend that's seen me through sleepless nights, terrible twos, teen years, a divorce and more. I've learnt SUCH a lot a lot so many things!

Kitchen verbs, oh yes absolutely.

Also eating verbs. People munching and chomping and gnawing on selection boxes on Xmas morning, then feasting and wolfing down turkey and trimmings, and slurping and gulping fucking Bailey's and guzzling tubs of Quality Street and sipping brandy and gargling Beaujolais Nouveau and snacking on leftovers and crunching crackers and savouring Stilton and heaving it all down the toilet by 9pm

'Naice'
'Pearl clutchers'
And if I'm honest, DM, DS, DH etc!

I am with the pp who hates this - - emoji, it comes across as so smug and patronising - ‘I know so much better than you, and the solution to your problem is so obvious’

I’ve never seen ‘shit hot lawyer’ used on here but I probably am not reading the right threads, however this is now added to my list of least favourite MN terms 🤣

Pretty much every above response I agree with actually 😉

Again this is all fun and not a personal attack on anyone that uses any of these terms 😂 I’m sure there are many I use (as others have pointed out above) on here regularly that people can’t stand

Obtuse.

Seems like it's used in every other post on here. Yeah, we get that you've watched The Shawshank Redemption but using it doesn't make you look really clever like you think it does.

People who quote an entire post then write "This." under it. Why bother?

Narc
Naice
Spidey senses
Ducks in a row, combined with that free half-hour with a solicitor
Eggy bread, dippy eggs

I quite like grim!

Several. No two, not four, always several.

I hate the passive aggressive "what did he say when you asked him?" response when a poster is asking for advice on how to respond to a situation. I mean obviously they haven't asked him or whoever is the problem, that's why they're asking for advice! And stop acting like it's always just so easy to "ask him", like the people involved are just going to simply sit down and have a nice chit chat and resolve their issue so easily.

“Not in the spirit.”

Also the highly passive aggressive 'are you getting help for your anxiety, op?'. Utter shit headery.

I must defend 'pop'

My mother has always used this word and it's rubbed off on me-been using it for 50 years, can't help myself!

Lee Evans did a routine about his wife using the word, my kids thought it was the funniest routine ever and said 'that's you mum' !! I know we had the video at one point, am going to dig it out

A good deal of the objectionable stuff is/are metaphors to make a short-cut on a public forum, e.g. "ducks in a row" is shorthand for a shitload of documentation that needs to be assembled, often covertly. Would a detailed list be better? Every time?

Metaphors often tip over into cliches, but so what?

Oh, hang on, the OP wants it to be lighthearted, so to criticise others, but fend off possible objections.

Soooo... Lighthearted - PA shite. Just say you don't like it.

@echt, you know that, you clearly are familiar with phrase . Some people clearly don't know what it entails and ask for specifics. It's clear that while some people use 'get your ducks in a row', they can't when asked answer what that entails.

When people give the OP advice by starting their sentence “Could you not just…?” as though the OP is too thick to have thought of their simple and easy solution. I feel like they should start “How about…?” “Have you tried…?” or “Could you…?” (so similar but a totally different feel to “Could you not just”)

Naice

Boobing.

Agree with @LadyCatStark I hate "Reader...."

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