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”

Controversial but I hate nub theory threads. Anytime someone writes " boy or girl" with an attached grainy 9 week scan I'm always tempted to respond with " well it's definitely a boy or girl "

'Throw this one back' when 'this one' is the OP's husband who she shares one or both of a property or kids with. Even if they should divorce, the flippant phrasing is so unsympathetic to someone who has just or is going to have to turn their life upside down. It's not like refusing a second date.

Any thread where the fact the OP “lives in London” and makes that their entire personality and can’t accept that anyone outside London can make any valid contribution because they “wouldn’t understand living in London”.

🤮🤮🤮

Also people who use “caught pregnant/fell pregnant” or “wage”.

I don't like the word 'hubby', but that's a me thing I guess. It just sounds babyish.

What am I missing about " wage" lol, I can't figure out the issue?

The immediate default to Handmaidens for anyone who won't tow the manhating line on some threads and suggests that maybe there are at least two perspectives on many situations.

Also, No is a complete sentence. Maybe, but it is a really bloody rude one.

I don’t know anyone in real life that “earns a wage”. I just hate the word.

Absolutely everyone I know in real life uses salary or pay. Wage just makes me think of miners or mills.

Oh yes that has reminded me of my favourite which is being accused of being a man - the worst thing EVER!
Misogyny because you criticise something a woman has done and also 'turning against women' like you have support every single woman despite her being a mass murderer or something, because you know, women should just stick together.

For me it's Boomers. Used pejoratively (tbf it's always used like this). I imagine the 'boomers' Gritting Their Teeth and saying 'did ye aye' when the world's ills are placed, 'it's not fair' style, at their door.

Use your words

I was going to say this one. Anyone using that word has lost the argument and isn't worth having a discussion with

Yes I was going to mention the word boomers.

Which has become such a massive generation now, you're virtually a boomer if you're been born in the last 100 years these days.

'Living rent-free in <someone's> head'. Idiotic expression.

'You're lucky if that's the only thing you've got to worry about' (because people csn only worry one thing, obviously...)

'AIBU to just not get <X>' (code for 'I look down on anyobe who has/does <X>')

'your house your rules'

Has anyone ever done that in real life - said no and then just left it hanging there? Has anyone even witnessed it? I haven't. I think I'd quite like to just to see the ensuing confusion about something so simple. But I doubt it's something that happens IRL.

My "leave the thread" is the long, wall of solid text. I'd bet if the poster left it a few days and then tried to read it again, even with their vested interest, they'd give up.

Another peeve of mine is when a poster's name is used to insult them in some way. For example, I've been told I haven't learned much, should go away until I've learned more. That sort of thing. It's just a cheap shot. It doesn't make me leave a thread, but it does make me disregard anything else that poster says.

Another one is "first world problem". Are they trying to distinguish themselves from all the third world posters? They aren't on here. They are busy trying to survive. If you are posting on MN I think it's given that it is a first world problem. They are just (what I think is called) virtue signalling which is actually incredibly vain.

Or doesn’t come back, why start the thread?!

I'm not racist but...
I'm not sexist but....
I'm not ageist but...

I cant stand how every disagreement with a man results in comments like "leave the CF" , "divorce, now!" over something pathetic that surely no one in the real world would divorce over

I haven't heard food noise.

Is this the noise of someone chewing?

Anything with 'Discuss' at the end of the op

Anything which has 'Reader i....' absolutely fucking hate that

Reached out. What's wrong with just contacting people

And the suggestion that any kind of bad behaviour could be a sign of ND.

Megan.

”Rip someone a new one.”

And also the charming phrase, “Boils my piss”

Both horrible and makes me tend to leave the thread (or ignore anything the poster says).