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To think that there are Mumsnet expressions..

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CurlewKate · 02/03/2025 07:11

...that, when someone uses to me just confirms that I am right. For example. Fun sponge. Pearl clutcher. Hand wringer.

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Peaceandquietandacuppa · 02/03/2025 10:16

CurlewKate · 02/03/2025 09:53

I wasn't suggesting that the phrases I quoted only appear on Mumsnet-sorry, I didn't make myself clear. What I was trying to say is that they are phrases that when used about me on Mumsnet confirms to me that I am in the right.🤣

Totally didn’t get that from your OP, sorry 🤣

CharlotteStreetW1 · 02/03/2025 10:17

Cleardays · 02/03/2025 07:14

Not heard the other two but agree about pearl clutcher.

No, I heard an American political commentator use it this week on tbe radio.

Although I suppose they could have been a Mumsnetter.

Crichel · 02/03/2025 10:22

MoonWoman69 · 02/03/2025 10:15

Naice
LTB
Hand hold (who says that to anyone irl?!)
Kindly...
The last one pisses me off! 9/10 out of ten, there's nothing "kindly" about what follows on!

But most of those are just the type written shorthand that evolves in a specific online community. Of course no one would say ‘handhold’ in RL, any more than they’d say ‘DH’, it’s just shorthand for ‘Not really asking a question here, but could someone just post something nice as I wait on the results of these tests/sit in A and E with DS/ try to forget the drunk text I sent my boss’.

if I use ‘Kindly’, I’m using it to preface something that is not intended maliciously, but which the OP will almost certainly not want to hear.

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