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?

I have noticed that Mumsnet introduces you to local colloquialisms that people in one area think is normal but completely alien in the rest of the country. Sort of an extreme version of the bread product debate!

AF

Makes me cringe

As does DH, DM, Ddog

As much as it is a good thing we have a heightened awareness of autism and ADHD I do think it’s taken too far on here. You can’t post about a child’s behaviour without being told they are autistic. Oh, and you probably are as well.

If I never heard “boils my piss” again it would be too soon.

I've seen TTC on other fertility boards from the early 00s. Likewise "babydancing" and "AF" and so on.

I haven't seen norks on here for a while. Likewise fanjo was a MN favourite for a long time.

My favourite MN things are the 7 day chicken, and the obsession with tea towel hygiene - which ended up turning into the daily burning of your tea towels to get them properly clean. Washing being "darked on" also made it into our household lingo.

Cocklodger

AF is everywhere.

’Norks’ might be my least favourite thing about MN, closely followed by ‘posh chocs’. Thankfully, I’ve never heard either of these in person.

We’ve got our own language here
OP
DH, ‘H’, DD, DS, DSS, DSD, MIL, SIL, BIL, FIL,
DTD
LTB
Penis beaker
We need a diagram

I would say being a door mat is worse.

The endless discussion on what's middle class is really tedious and doesn't happen in my world.

Cancel the cheque

Plus

Talk to HR (even when the OP has said half a dozen times we don't have an HR dept)

and the latest one for Christmas 2024

Gyms don't open on Christmas Day - repeated two dozen times, along with well my gym opens two more dozen times ...

Thank you for this: the next time someone asks me how I identify, I will say, "As a man-hating shrew!"

FYI, without the hyphen, 'man hating shrews' is a description of a man who hates shrews. Apologies for the womansplaining.

I honestly hate all the 'cancel the cheque', 'spider willies' and 'naice ham' references. They had their place in the threads where they originated. I laughed so much at the wedding thread with 'cancel the cheque', but I think shoehorning it into other threads is a bit sad and unfunny and creates a sort of members' club or gang that most are excluded from. Maybe I'm just a bit too sensitive about that kind of thing!

TTC is medical, widely used fertility abbreviation. It was even on my Blood Donation form.

I had my first child when the internet was still young and I used to read American sites, TTC was everywhere but maybe it's fallen out of fashion now

All the parents i know go to school to drop of lf and collect their kids, we run in to people it is quick rushed hello, on here it is

'my bff dropped her child off and she saw that i was wearing purple buttons and this means now she is judging me because I am single parent and now she thinks I will spend more on my child than hers for their birthday and then I will have to block her on whatsapp should I call the police'

School mums on here seem to be on the Gin

Absolutely right

Eh? These are Mumsnet words/phrases!
They might be used in here sometimes but they definitely exist outside of MN and have dine for many years.

And what's so wrong about not wanting a man's legs invading your space when sat next to them on a plane or train?

I have never had a man do that to me

Or Lady Garden.

That was a firm favourite years ago!

The greatest thing about MN - no equivalent anywhere else on the internet - is

My boss used to refer to any in office party as a 'bun worry.' It made me think of the buns trying to hide behind the sausage rolls because they didn't want to be eaten🤣

On here it seems to be so violently hated that even sight of an open bottle induces immediate migraines.

My most recent 'only on MN' moment, was the first reply on a thread where a stressed mother 'who'd had a terrible year' so wanted a holiday that was easy to plan, book and accomplish (because no-one is allowed to do anything as frivolous as go on holiday unless they can justify it by enduring 'a terrible year' first) was, drum roll....... Hawaii, which the poster later clarified as being the place they went every year for their 'non adventurous' holiday as opposed to their main holiday, which was presumably to the moon, or at least the international space station.

'Grim'. And on the perennial 'how much do you earn' threads, £120,000. Also a disproportionate number of people working 100% from home.

Agreed @PuppyMonkey - I'm always looking for it on WhatsApp and disappointed by not finding it.