Only on Mumsnet...

[SushiSheep]

...have I heard the terms "norks", "tinkly laugh", "naice" bread/ham/area, CF (Cheeky Fucker), LTB (Leave the Bastard) and "get your ducks in a row" (when leaving the bastard!)

What are your 'Only on MN' things?

dons hard hat

Sounds interesting!
How does one play?
Is it a dying art now that we all self scan our shopping?

Maybe, I get a lot of deliveries so am sure that’s doing it’s bit.

And I just had a really disheartening realisation that it used to be fun to do ‘spot the fellow Mner’ in the wild but now I’d have a worry it would out someone to trolls, stalkers or vexatious personages.

You can’t even tell who’s a real owl these days….

Is this a reverse?

@RaraRachael It's weird but I've spotted two people I know on here. Not from the things that they write about, but from the language and tone of their posts.

I name change every month.

People saying “There are two sides to every story” on a contentious thread, as if this is some incredible piece of insight, rather than the most trite old meaningless cliche going.

They only say that when it's a man posting.

"His reaction will tell you everything".

I see this so often on here, Personally when I've been dealing with a liar, their reactions to questions have been confusing as hell. Sometimes they don't react at all.

I always wonder what an incredibly clear cut, obvious reaction to solve whatever mystery an OP is dealing with would look like. This never seems to be explained though.

The fact that some posters find it impossible to believe that people have regional accents and that they're pronouncing words differently, not wrongly

Irrelevancies/derailing. A poster will say something like 'Oh shit help. I dropped DH's favourite Christmas decoration this afternoon while I was taking down the tree and it's broken. He'll be devastated as he's had it since he was a child. Any idea if this can be mended? Photo attached'.

Replies will contain variations of these:

Why are you only taking your decorations down now?
Why is your DH not helping? LTB.
It's really fucking ugly. Who would hang that on their tree?
I would get the total ick if DH got upset over a decoration.
Your DH sounds very controlling.
Why are you posting in AIBU?

I thought the mumsnet use of 'naice' was to do with a shopping list someone found with 'naice' ham on it. I may be wildly misremembering though.

My one for only on Mumset is the total lack of nuance from some posters, everything has to black or white.

You remember correctly

Naice is a pet hate word of mine on here. Perhaps I have no humour (or stopped finding it amusing long ago).
Ick is another .

The "I'm going to Aldi/Lidl/IKEA/Waitrose, what shall I buy" posts 😂

Those threads are ridiculous, its not 1971 and the first forrin shop has come to the UK. Be like a normal person and go and buy food you think you might like, what's the worst that would happen 😂

I name changed last week.

The obsession with class. I’m not from the UK and those threads fascinate me

You have in your hole.

Oh Jesus, that’s actually a very me thing to say. Must name change now

You have in your hole.

What does that mean @SquawkerTexasRanger ?

That's an Irish one @SushiSheep! I think @SquawkerTexasRanger is calling into question the veracity of the quoted poster's claim😅

Oh really?
So is it the equivalent of the Scottish "Did ye, aye?" 😂

I read it in a Derry accent, not sure if that's where it’s from though.

Yes! That sounds about right😅

I've never understood how "naice" is supposed to be pronounced differently to "nice". Anyone care to enlighten (enlaighten?) me?

"Rurally". Never heard anyone outside of MN say they "live rurally". Don't think I had ever even seen it as an adverb.