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?

I take your "folk" and raise you the unbearable "folx"

Mental load - never heard of it outside MN

Agree, my first non work/college bulletin boards and messaging groups were in the late 80s and I struggle to think of acronyms/sayings which are truly unique to MN. “"DH" has its own Wikipedia page.

Its fair to say that sayings appear on certain type of groups - I’ve only seen the “D” acronyms on family, social, parenting type groups and that probably goes for most of the family and relationship type phrases. A lot of the twee sayings appeared after Eternal September in the early 90s (for UK readers) as the user base broadened out.

The way John Lewis is talked about like its a normal shop that 'everyone' shops at and has one nearby.

Someone talks about 'just getting a JL voucher' for a low paid support worker or teaching assistant as I they're going to trek there and find something reasonably priced to buy.

LOL yeah this. ^ No JL for 40+ miles for me, and I wouldn't shop there anyway. Overrated and overpriced IMO. Like M & S, and Waitrose!

Have you ever seen DNephew and DNiece? Batshit! 😆

Yeah me too. I say 'grim,' and 'vile,' and 'insufferable' in real life.

Hahaha yes!

The reverse is true too though - people on here often talk about xyz bargains at Aldi/lidl / cost co/home bargains/the range - I don’t have them within 8 -10 miles - ( and I live in a small city) actually we do have a Lidl - but it’s really not a great example of one -we do however haveM&S and Waitrose - don’t have a JL though . I would never buy a JL voucher unless I knew they lived somewhere with one and it was someone I would spend £30 minimum on .

I say grim and ghastly 😂

I say that. Quite often.

Somebody asks for clothing recommendations and helpful MNetters suggestions Boden, Hobbs, Mint Velvet etc. We don't all have a spare few hundred pounds to buy clothes from these places.

Labelling all bad, strange or awkward behaviour as being ND.

Ah, that will be someone's DDog.

It is irritating, but I confess to having a giggle when I spot a DGuineaPig or DIguana.

Not sure the “phrases” are so special to MN but have just been reminded by another thread about the MN obsession with children’s bedrooms.

MN is the only place where apparently its every child’s human right to a bedroom with en suite, even if they only spend a few nights a year under the roof.

I remember teachers who used to say "folks" when addressing the class.

nobody ever wishes they spent more time at work on their deathbed
They sometimes say "I wish I'd achieved more".

Not a Mumsnet one, but characters on the TV show Thunderbirds (1960s) would often say "For Pete's sake". I got laughed at when I said it at school, and I've never heard it anywhere else.

"I'm NC with SIL and LC with BIL"

In real-life, people tend to say they're estranged from a relative or that they don't talk to them. But not nearly as often as on Mumsnet.

Me.

I don’t know why but ghastly made me think of flabbergasted. In celeb traitors and there was a comment “you can’t call someone a traitor based on them having better vocab than you” 😂😂 or something along those lines

Gobsmacked. I’ve seen it written, I’ve never heard anyone say it.

🤣 and me!!

My mother says that. Usually in response to me explaining how her needy behaviour makes me feel.

The one I keep seeing pop is "niblings"

I mean is it even a real life word? It took me ages to work out it meant nieces and nephews!

Reads like a Welsh road sign.