Are there every day hyperboles people use on here that particularly annoy you?

[CurlewKate]

“He cut his head open” meaning that he had a small cut somewhere on his head. “I pulled my kid out of school” meaning “I decided to move schools” And “I spat my tea on my keyboard” meaning “I found something mildly amusing” Although there aren’t as many of those anymore-maybe life has got more serious…..

Every post on here is so dramatic, I can’t imagine how half of the posters get through day to day life with all the screaming, devastation and trauma 🤦🏻

“Everyone I know”
”No one I know”

so you know whether every single person in your family, your friends, your colleagues uses a loo brush / washes their towels more than once a week / boycotts Nestle you name it.

Oh god yes to all these. Every slightly selfish person is a "narc" on here 🙄

Toxic …. Arrrrgghh!!

The “announcing”. particularly pregnancies and engagements. I always imagine posters dressed in a fancy cape and ringing a bell like a town crier. What happened to just telling people things?

‘Screaming’ meaning ‘shouted’ or ‘raised their voice’

Some of these are more metaphorical than hyperbolic. And some are simply idioms but I do worry about how anxiety and depressed are bounded about. It leaves little room for emotions without assuming you are suffering from a medical condition. It is normal to feel frustrated, angry, nervous, scared at certain points in your life.

Not just on MN but in general. Over use of 'big', 'literally' and the need to qualify sorry with things like sincerely sorry.

Oh so many of these. For me it's the descriptions of things being phenomenal, stunning or another one I can't remember which I have come to realise means 'quite nice'.

Also the people who are 'terrified' where a proportionate reaction would be 'mildly worried'.

Plus how it has to be justified by having had 'a terrible year'. No-one is allowed to have something as commonplace as an annual holiday and talk about it without having endured 'a terrible year' first.

Not really a hyperbole but when people say they ‘bumped into someone’, meaning they saw them out somewhere and stopped to chat. I always imagine people walking round with big rubber bumpers and bouncing off each other.

Not sure if this qualifies, but it annoys me when someone says “posh chocs”. I don’t even know why it does really but it does.

The middle east threads are full of these. "How can anyone ever smile again knowing they are COMPLICIT in a GENOCIDE?!" "How can YOU call yourself a CARING MOTHER when you allow children in another country to DIE and you're (somehow, not clear how) RESPONSIBLE for this?" "How can you walk about the streets knowing that there is MASS ETHNIC CLEANSING AND YOU CAN STOP IT (not sure how, maybe by wearing a sticker and boycotting Starbucks)?"

(I'm not talking about serious discussions of genuine tragedy and war in the middle east but the wailing and gnashing of teeth and tragedy tourism of people who've never been closer to Palestine than a James's Villa in Cyprus.)

Me too. Has to be the worst one due to the mental images it conjures up.
See also : I laughed so much a little bit of wee came out.
When one of the Loose Women says this (with tedious regularity) I spend the rest of the show with the intrusive image of her sat behind the desk with wet knickers 😳

When posters tell OP ‘I can’t believe such a non issue is TRIGGERING you’ when the OP has had a tiny moan about something.

My anxiety is THROUGH THE ROOF when something mildly concerning has happened (and the OP doesn't have a medical case of anxiety).

Ah yeah, "Why are you so offended OP?"

A great pile of…..(when having eaten a large meal/similar).

Somebody close to me uses that frequently. It irritates me.

‘We were starving ‘ ie had to go more than an hour before eating again after a large lunch.

Blue lit! Omg that one is sooooo dramatic

you mean taken by ambulance!

see also 2WW referral - yes it to rule out nasty things quickly but you went to the GP with a concern and now you are hysterical because they are dealing with it!

and trust me I know how scary this is but just say that - don’t lead with the 2W pathway (Currently gone from Gp, to consultant, to procedure to surgery (cancelled today moved to Friday) in 3 weeks but managing not to be overly ott about it)

All of these, all of them

Several years ago I heard a two-year-old truly screaming in a shop. I wondered if I could ever try that and concluded that I'd have to find a field a very long way from houses or roads before I would dare.

I don't know if this counts, but people saying "literally" when it clearly isn't. As in " I literally exploded". No, no you didn't or you wouldn't be here to tell the tale!

You won't get a slap from me. I'm laughing at the picture you paint.

I know.
"I'm going to get my smear today"
vs
"There's a chance I've got terminal cancer and I need to have it ruled out urgently."