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to hate some mumsnet vocabulary

230 replies

alphabite · 17/07/2012 10:54

shouty, stabby, dear husband, dear son etc.

OP posts:
MinnieBar · 17/07/2012 11:46

You're right OP. We'll all stop using them forthwith, as we want to sound at least 11 years old.

ElephantsCanRemember · 17/07/2012 11:46

Ooh I don't know if elephants have AF

feck it I used the fecking dreaded AF, it gets us all in the end

TheVermiciousKnid · 17/07/2012 11:47

11? Bloody hell. I don't know if I can manage that.

WorraLiberty · 17/07/2012 11:47
Grin
WorraLiberty · 17/07/2012 11:48

Ooh I don't know if elephants have AF

Can you imagine the size of their tampons?

TheVermiciousKnid · 17/07/2012 11:50

It looks like some other mammals menstruate (including elephants, apparently)! Others menstruate 'covertly' - i.e. re-absorb the uterine lining internally. Now that is clever! Why haven't we evolved to do that?

WorraLiberty · 17/07/2012 11:51
Creamtea1 · 17/07/2012 11:51

I love stabby and have only just discovered it, I intend to use it more in real life. I hate the face and the biscuit bullshit icons.

SoleSource · 17/07/2012 12:25

I have only ever seen DH DD etc on Mumsnet. Since 1995 using the interweb, nowhere else I have seen them.

Tee2072 · 17/07/2012 12:25

I don't find any of these things nearly as annoying as people who don't use punctuation, grammar, spelling and paragraphs.

Those people make me stabby.

SoleSource · 17/07/2012 12:30

Backs away from Tee.

alphabite · 17/07/2012 12:38

''Oh. Well. Then don't say them?

Solved!''

Would this be the correct punctuation and grammar in your previous post Tee?

I am not one to talk as when I post on my phone I tend to miss punctuation but to say you are stabby about punctuation and then not use it correctly yourself is a little hypocritical.

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Northernexile · 17/07/2012 12:41

OP you are draining my happiness.

Tee2072 · 17/07/2012 12:42

Tell me, exactly, where that punctuation is wrong?

It is completely correct and if you read it out loud, following the pausing and emphasis conventions for full stops, question marks and exclamation points, you will sound just like me.

As I know everyone does. Wants to sound like me, I mean.

alphabite · 17/07/2012 12:42

How Northernexile?

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ohchristFENTON · 17/07/2012 12:43

Are you feeling a bit stabby today, OP?

Have a Brew and a Biscuit and chillax a bit.

Tee2072 · 17/07/2012 12:43

Fenton, you just made the list...

ohchristFENTON · 17/07/2012 12:44
HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 17/07/2012 12:44

i would like to sound like tee, but without the capitals. tee lite.

StetsonsAreCool · 17/07/2012 12:45

I used stabby for the first time in rl the other day. Didn't realise I got it from MN Blush

Northernexile · 17/07/2012 12:45

There's things that annoy all of us, but you will see these words here a lot. Not worth getting het up about!

Tee2072 · 17/07/2012 12:45

No capitals? ::faints::

What will Chaos say?!?!?!?!

(That may be improper punctuation, and too much of it, but I am too shocked to care right now.)

alphabite · 17/07/2012 12:45

It is incorrect grammar and punctuation for a written piece of writing Tee but would be ok for speech. If writing this there shouldn't be a full stop between oh and well as well is not a sentence in itself. ''Then don't say them?'' is not a question so does not need a question mark.

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HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 17/07/2012 12:47

So correct for a chat forum then?

alphabite · 17/07/2012 12:48

I wasn't getting 'het up' Norternexile. I simply said I hated these words. It seems to me that it is other people who are getting 'het up'

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