Phrases that make you realise you shouldn’t stay on a thread…

[CurlewKate]

Are there phrases that people post on threads that, if loads of others agree, you know you should get out before it makes you angry/unhappy? And then you don’t, and you get angry and unhappy and you’ve got no one but yourself to blame?

Currently mine is “politics of envy”

And why does it matter to you?

Chortle
Chuckle

‘Pearl clutching’
Meaningless, thought-free cliche.

’Wow. Just Wow.’
Explain what you are talking about and use an argument.

Anything pro genocide or that denies genocide

😂😂😂😂

Threads where the op asks for advice, receives loads of practical advice, ignores all of it.

Oh, I don’t mean things like that-grammar mistakes and so on. I mean things that indicate a person’s mind set that is so completely opposite to mine that trying to engage is depressing…but I still try!

Agree, it makes the post impossible to read

Anything that implies posters think their pets are like their children aka " fur baby or dog mum"

Wtf

Cherchez la femme! Always with an exclamation mark and nothing else in the post just as it is.
I hope I've spelt that correctly.Mind you though I read PEAdophile in the title of a thread yesterday which made me laugh.

"MY children never behave that way"

.... so helpful

I stop reading at the words "Fast forward to'. They always come after several paragraphs and there are always several paragraphs beneath them. No one is FFing anything - they are unloading their entire life story and then asking 'So should we get a dog/move abroad/cancel his parents?'

Oops quoted wrong post

Old lady
middle aged lady when it is not a self description

And what did they/he/she say when you asked them about it. Grrrrr....

Oh dear lol 😂

So hard to avoid. I took a friend out for dinner the other day and she went into an anti Israel rant. She is highly intelligent but she even dragged out 'This exactly like the Nazis.' I couldn't begin to explain how very un-exactly like the rise of Nazism the current Hamas/Israel/Gaza situation is. I don't condone what is happening in Gaza. But I do recognise the situation is extremely complicated and it's not helpful at all to get entrenched in the notion: Israel bad, Palestine good, without any appreciation of the history of the treatment of Jewish people. Too many people I know are tunnel visioned about this and the rise of socially acceptable anti-semitism makes me deeply uncomfortable.

“Well clearly you …” (proceeds to post either a bizarre character assassination of the poster they are addressing, or the most mundane and irrelevant conjecture).

Always makes me wonder if these posters actually believe their strange little fantasies. Do they just have very vivid imaginations?

FACT in capitals

"Are you on glue?"

Such a moronic thing to say, it baffles me that any coherent human would write this under the illusion it was some form of witty retort.

It's just jealousy - nope it's really, really not. Just because boarding school is expensive, doesn't mean everyone aspires to see their kids less.

And "my 3/4/5 year old can..." in the context of some chore a 12 year old or teen is not doing. Teens are complicated, life with teens is complicated and these things are not often linear.

Anything where a poster provides an anecdote that they think negates actual scientific evidence and follows it with the words "go figure". An extreme example but something like "My grandad smoked 60 a day since he was 12 and he didn't get lung cancer. Go figure." Yes, I am going to figure that you have no understanding of basic statistics, or science really.

“Give your head a wobble” and “Can I get a hand hold” make me envisage everyone on this site as cardigan-wearing, Oolong-drinking, sensible motherly-type art teachers who review MN each morning looking down their nose into cat-eye spectacles whilst tutting and simultaneously playing sodoku.

“Do better”

”Go touch grass”

They’re both used by people who accuse others of being bigots for holding an entirely reasonable opinion.

Many of these but one I'm currently finding very annoying is food noise.