Expressions MN should ban.

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There are certain expressions posters frequently use on MN which just absolutely infuriate me.

"Pearl clutching " is one of these
Accusing posters who hold a different opinion of being a " pearl clutcher" is just a cheap, snearing jibe calculated to try to make someone look ridiculous and is tantamount to bullying. Imo of course.

Btw I know it's not feasible to ban but I wish people would think before they trot out this phrase which is just calculated to be unpleasant rather than adding anything to a discussion.

Does any one else have any expressions which MN posters use frequently which annoy them?

My DH earns £4500000 so I can be a Sahm, works for us.

“Just eat in a calorie defecit” or similar is another one that needs to be banned. Like we haven’t tried to do that a thousand times

‘It’s fine op’- so we all have reasons as to why you shouldn’t do what you’ve asked about, but then one person comes along and their opinion is right (apparently!)

‘The only way to lose weight is to count calories.’ I’ve seen this so many times on mn and it makes me want to scream!!

Are you ok? To patronise someone who doesn’t agree with you.

" I concur "

Thankfully rarely seen now -
"Are you on glue?"

Use your words.
No is a complete sentence.
That doesn’t work for me.
Judgy pants.
Judgy.

And ditto especially to ‘boils my piss’. Disgusting expression.

Ugh - I was doing a food shop the other day and they had a whole section for "Picky bits". What happened to picnic, snacks or leftovers? Why do we have to say something with the auditory imagery of someone picking lint off a sausage roll found in the corner or someone wearing joggers with herpes having a rummage in public?

I always think of "picky bits" as having come out from under someone's toenails!

Resurrecting this thread as I've just seen another expression I hate:

Let that sink in.

It feels so arrogant -- a claim to have revealed something whose earth shattering importance mere mortals won't appreciate unless they allow their reactions to be tutored by the person posting it. Uck.

Even worse is "I'll let that percolate for a moment", as if the readers have much slower mental agility than the "author". So patronising.

Not quite the same thing but when people quote the opening post. Especially when it’s a long one. Why? We’ve presumably all read the OP! Just clutters up the thread.

I agree. (Hope this isn't too cluttering !)

I wonder if the people that do it don't know how to make sure the OP sees it,
i.e @Macaroni46
Perhaps there should be an Idiots' Guide on How To Use MN.

This thread has given me a lot of laughs, thanks. Some of them I hate too - I think ‘vile’ (and everything it stands for) is my most hated.

But isn’t there a bit of affection for this being our place and our shared language. I’d never say ‘kindly but’ IRL, but here I might, as a way to show ‘I’m going to be straight with you but I’m not coming for you like some posters will!’

Balonz still cracks me up, pp you should read it in classics.

I agree with this being " our place and our shared language" in that I definitely have a specific way of expressing myself on MN which I've sort of grown into to try and fit in with MN speak.

That doesn't mean to say though that I don't get genuinely irritated by quite a few of the idioms examples on this thread.

I think the worrying thing for me, and a sign I spend too much time on the site , is sometimes I catch myself thinking in MN - speak irl.

Hun

"I am absolutely devastated that SIL used my favourite girl name" I just eye roll.

Thread titles starting "Talk to me about..."

On MN, not only is "no" a complete sentence, so is "breathe". And worse, "breath" when the poster means "breathe".

I always imagine these posters as brisk, polished, upper middle class domestic tyrants goddesses, as they are always too busy, productive and organised to write in actual complete sentences. It's always "lunch made, bag by door, shoes on, ducks in a row".

They're probably all single shut-ins cosplaying Motherland.

I saw "Talk to me like I'm 5 years old" yesterday. Never heard IRL.

Can't someone just say "Can somebody explain XYZ to me clearly please?"

I'd ban people from using 'limerance' when what they actually mean is 'having a bit of a crush on someone'.

Delicious and baffling, every food item and there appears a lot of people who love to talk about food, is delicious and everything people don’t like they proclaim to be baffling. It really makes me roll my eyes.

Boobs.

Makes me think of Benny Hill squishing someone's breasts in his cupped hands with a salacious can't-believe-my-luck grin at the camera

I think this one has come over from Reddit, like the "Ask me anything" / AMA things. There is a board called ELI5 (Explain it like I'm 5).

“Mortified” is another - and it’s almost never used correctly.