MN phrases that aren’t said in real life and make you laugh

[Hotchocolateandmarsh]

I’ve never heard anyone say give your head a wobble in real life. I have no idea why but if makes me smile everytime someone uses it. I picture one of those bobble heads 😂

What’s your favourite MM phrase?

God I hate that word

Yep I’ve never heard anyone say this nor ‘you do you’

Did you mean to be so rude?
In real life if said then the other person would say yes I did and then you'd look a like a dick.

“Naice” anything. Ham, place to live, car, anything really. No one ever uses that term in real life, we just say good or posh.

Well that’s kinda odd. I’ve been using the internet for a similar length of time and these acronyms have been used on every forum I’ve ever been a regular on over the whole of that period. They are by no means unusual and definitely not confined to Mumsnet.

its a parking one followed by…we need a diagram

To be fair, that one came about because someone posted a sound shopping list that used the term on MN, so it’s pretty forum specific. Still bloody annoying though!

I’ve never come across them on any of the other forums I use, and I’ve been online about the same length of time. It must depend on the type of forum.

There was once a poster who started a thread going on about the Huns (NetMums) have invaded this site, I pointed out that calling others Hun was not half as ridiculous as the ddog acronym on this site and she got all shirty.
Ah well takes all sorts I suppose!

I once saw DDiPoW here, which meant ‘Darling Diana Princess of Wales’

The life admin stuff gets ridiculous too. I recall a thread in which the poster outlined her daily tasks in such minute detail as ‘get dc into car, drive to shop, get dc out of car’ etc and listed her husband’s day as ‘work’. Turns out he was a pilot for a commercial airline, responsible for the safety of hundreds of people while at work!

Maybe. I don’t use loads of forums but it’s definitely used a lot on the Moneysaving expert forum which is huge and very popular, and was also used on some disability forums and childcare I used to post on about 20 years ago when my kids were small.

Before I knew about here I used to read an American parenting forum and they used the same abbreviations too. Im pretty sure they weren't invented by mumsnet

Think, as in "I've got a good job, think lawyer or doctor"

No, I don't need to think - just tell me what your bloody job is.

😂

‘Give your head a wobble’ - daft and profoundly irritating expression only ever heard on MN.

That's posters trying to retain some anonymity though, fair enough if you've forgotten to name change for a thread that might be identifying

Offering stuff, I only offer my children massive bowls of salad leaves. Have you offered them fruit? I'd offer homegrown organic veggies washed with virgins tears and hours of martyrdom etc!

Not phrases as such but:

Odfod
and
Fottfsofatfosm

Kindly

Gently

Use your words...

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The use of "think" in the imperative is contrived and rather off putting though. I find it irritating.

Why not say "I have a professional career" or if you really want to be sure you hammer home that you're very special "I'm in one of the classical professions" 😝 - no need to be imperious.

I'm sure that was just a rumour that went through high school 🤣

Especially when it’s ‘I caught DH in bed with the neighbour…’ Or similar. Dear!? DEAR!? 😂😂

Have to say, I see these acronyms a lot. Used to see them on MSE, iVillage, Loose Women forum, all sorts of places. Definitely not exclusive to Mumsnet.

Agree it is odd to call someone 'D' anything though, when you're posting something about a negative thing they have done!