Mumsnet “norms” that annoy you most

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For me it’s the utterly obscure baby names. We’ve all seen them and I’m quite sure nobody uses them in real life. Yet on MN, it’s apparently standard.

Honourable mention to the 50% of posters whose husbands are earning upwards of £100K too.

'What did he /she /they say when you asked them about it?'

On the flipside, I hate it when people make shit up and use this reasoning for not backing it up. Burden of proof surely applies any time someone makes a dodgy claim. No need to dumb down just because it's just 'a forum' 🤷‍♀️

I'm annoyed by parents of teens who trot out the "oh, they have to do that". "it's just part of being a teen" to excuse shit behaviour. And no, you don't have to buy your 12 year old alcohol because "everyone else is drinking"

The whole "well I can make a cooked chicken last a week" competitive nonsense. I sure as shit don't want to be going to your house for dinner 🙄

The silly hyperbole around mumsnet norms.

eg people claiming that it’s usual, routine and constant for posters to say ‘LTB’ bc someone cleared their throat or looked at you the wrong way. Utter nonsense. No idea what forum these people are reading.

"Have them assessed for SEN" if any behavioural issues are mentioned

Healthy rating plans in which one rolled oat flake for breakfast, one radish for lunch and one kale leaf for dinner, are considered sustainable.

Never giving anyone else the benefit of the doubt because we are all perfect, right?

Changing bed sheets every night.

Teenagers having rampant sex the second they turn sixteen because (a) it’s legal and (b) they will do it in a bush otherwise.

Middle-aged mothers are always wrong just because.

Anyone British who chooses to live and work outside of UK by definition hates the UK.

Anyone criticising one aspect of the UK negatively being told to “leave then if you don’t like it”.

I'm annoyed by parents of teens who trot out the "oh, they have to do that". "it's just part of being a teen" to excuse shit behaviour. And no, you don't have to buy your 12 year old alcohol because "everyone else is drinking"

I’m equally annoyed by parents on here who say “my teenager would never behave that way” when they patently haven’t parented anyone over the age of eight.

Child-haters! What are they even doing on mumsnet, a forum designed for mums first of all! Go and find forums for women who have no desire to have children and take your hatred with you there .

This actually stops me from posting/commenting much anymore. And I have noticed the pile on effect, something that doesn’t seem too polarising suddenly becomes a shit show of an attack on the OP. And thread hijackers who can’t let something go & keep going back & forth with another poster.

Sticking my proverbial out, I have to agree about the excessive abbreviations here. It might have been cute and fashionable a decade ago, but now just seems a bit illiterate.

Not golf?

Not really norms, but irritating phenomena that crop up regularly on here:

The pompous putting down of someone’s reading comprehension because they don’t agree with you or because you aren’t as good at conveying your meaning as you think you are.

’Actually, I regularly let homeless people live in my house’ - whenever someone says they don’t think another poster would like or do something and that poster instantly snaps back that they do, however unlikely or unusual.

Painting anyone who chats to colleagues or doesn’t mind socialising with them as a silly, needy extrovert.

Loads of people are 'batshit'. In my whole life I've never heard anyone use this for an insult except on here.

And everyone prefers 2 squares of high quality chocolate instead of a Galaxy/Mars bar etc like everyone else I know.

Forr me, the most annoying aspect of that is treating people like some kind of commodity.

I would (and have) let homeless people stay with me. Because I also used to be homeless and I’m capable of risk assessing a situation. At the time that I was homeless there were a couple of MNers who allowed me to stay with them. I assume they also used a risk assessment to help them decide. Homeless people are not something scary, they’re just people.

I do use the term batshit but give me Galaxy any day. Galaxy is the best chocolate I know.

“I didn’t want to read and run”. Why not? It’s not normally helpful to OP.

Boiling piss - often wonder where this has originated from because it doesn’t really make any sense (unless I’m missing something).

Cat / dog hate - I find one of these species more annoying than the other but personal preference and I’ve never come across anyone IRL who is as bothered as some people on here.

The complete lack of nuance in here. Some posters are so black and white on things.

Weird obsession on M Markle - writing post after post on her and then writing ‘why doesn’t she just go away, nobody’s interested’.

Also agree on the hordes of beautiful, thin, incredibly intelligent, considerate teens out there. Not a spot, inch of fat or B- amongst them.

Despite all of this wouldn’t have it any other way 😉

OP you sound lovely.

Is this line blue?

Posters whose only contribution is to quote someone else's post and say "This."

Especially if what they're endorsing is clearly fatuous.

This.

A few weeks ago a poster replied to another with, “Your a stupid idiot”.

I mean, that was just a direct invitation to correct grammar.

blended family only exists because the original families didn't work either

Traumatic births. Mnetters only ever have traumatic births.
I know lots of mums with lots of different birth experiences and none of them have ever described them as traumatic.

This
Get a bigger house. Get therapy. Move.

I think there is a very accessible money tree somewhere that we are missing

I like MN and its quirky ways.

The continuing issue about not being able to make friends ... but at the same time not doing perfectly normal actions like chatting to neighbours, taking in parcels, joining the PTA, finding a hobby ... all seen as 'far too challenging' it's as if people expect to have a 'best friend' within five seconds of meeting someone ... and who has a 'best friend' after the age of 12 anyway? .