To be bored of the ubiquitous proferring of grips on MN?

[HaveYourselfAMardyLittleXmas]

I have enough grips now even if I chose not to use them sometimes.

Feel free to offer me something more original else.

Yes and hard hats, flame proof hats etc. It miight have been funny like, a hundred years ago.

I said might.

Or 'Do you mean to be so rude?'

Actually, yes I do.

Actually I said miight. But I meant might.

The grip thing is irritating because it implies that anyone with a differing opinion has some sort of personality flaw instead of just that- a differing opinion.

Yes I forgot them greeny.

Fancy some popcorn?

Yeah they are a little boring now. As is clutching of pearls and hoisting of judgey pants.

Oddly I'm quite fond of my judgey pants. I imagine them to be Bridget jones style big knickers.

I thought you meant hair grips

YANBU.

YANBU. Plus when people offer grips, I immediately think "hair grips?" Saying 'get a grip' doesn't bother me but done in another manner develops confusion in my small brain.

Hm, grips/hardhats/popcorn - I agree, boring. But judgeypants fall, for me, into a different category - they're a meaningful reference to a MN meme I think.

By grips, I thought it might have a) been gangsta-speak something like 'props' or B) A special Mumsnet handshake somewhat like the one offered by the freemasons*

*SOmeone did this to me once, it was a bit odd and creepy.

I like judgy pants but I think the popcorn/ hard hat thing is inflammatory (though I have done it I think).

Grips don't bother me tbh. I just ignore it.

I think telling someone that they are rude is rude. Mind you, I may have just been rude there myself. Or passive aggressive. Or something.

Compos Are you a man?

I think you're all rude and need to get a grip.

::adjusts hard hat and hoikes judgey pants to ears::

And as for the poster GretaGip...

Surgeons

I am indeed.

Glad to hear it, compos as a woman I am so not ready for a masonic handshake.

"Do you mean to be so rude" is usually a retort to someone whose alternative opinion a poster does not wish to entertain.

Neither was I ready for the masonic handshake - I didn't know whether to say, 'erm thanks but no thanks' or 'oh you're a freemason are you?- how nice' or just discreetly ignore it and hope the old bugger didn't start rolling up his trouser legs.

There is a female sectbranch of the Masons.

I don't think it's a rolled up trouser leg though, perhaps a hastily wundawebbed hem??

OK, binfull so I need to get ready it seems. I'll be ready with "discreetly ignore" I think.

What about "no is a complete sentence". It never is though is it? It's always followed by "is a complete sentence"

YANBU

Every single one of them are tedious but I just take no notice in order to continue enjoying the wonders of MN

None of them bother me, with the possible exception of pearl-clutching. (Because, three years in and I still don't know what it means!)