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To hate the overused MN expression "Are you on glue?"

275 replies

MrsWinnibago · 29/05/2014 23:32

There's just something really horrible about it....rude and unnecessary.

It also smacks of someone trying to be smart and witty buy just trotting out a line they've been taught.

Equally irritating is "Did you mean to be so rude" because it's so overused and "This too shall pass." is also ANNOYING.

This too shall pass is actually a lovely saying but it's SO overused on here!

OP posts:
FelixFelix · 30/05/2014 15:06

OHforDUCKScake 'I felt my arse slip through the back of the sofa' just made me laugh out loud.

ComposHat · 30/05/2014 15:16

"And that's a red flag for me."

What are you , A socialist semaphore expert?

It is just as easy (and a whole lot less wanky) to say 'that's a bit worrying'

Bellezeboobian · 30/05/2014 15:24

I hate it when someone ends a sentence or paragraph with 'sigh'.

Sigh.

Nancy66 · 30/05/2014 15:28

oh and anyone who poses any vaguely controversial topic/question is always a 'lazy journalist.'

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 30/05/2014 15:29

oh yeah, the sigh! Angry

Top of Shit List.

Bellezeboobian · 30/05/2014 15:29

I'm going to start ending mine with fart.

Toot.

FidelineandFumblin · 30/05/2014 15:37

And "Yawn"

I've just seen an award-winningly goady yawn. I wonder if it is people who would literally yawn at people in real life?

lynniep · 30/05/2014 15:37

Can honestly say I've never seen it before.

I've been on her since 2007...

ArcherAnguish · 30/05/2014 15:46

It was funny on the first thread, but that is where the fun ended. I can't stand the the daft MN phrases (all of the above) - I you wouldn't say it real life, don't bother writing it down either.

sillystring · 30/05/2014 15:46

Re "Yawn". I think I might spend too much time on sites like this. I was at work dinner the other night and got cornered by a very dull woman who wouldn't shut up. Without even realising I'd only gone and said "oh, I've lost interest". I couldn't believe I'd been so rude and disrespectful to actually say this Out Loud. I had to do a whole load of grovelly back-pedalling to get out of it.

ExitPursuedByABear · 30/05/2014 15:50

Oh goody. We haven't had one of these threads for .... let me see..... a least three weeks.

ExitPursuedByABear · 30/05/2014 15:50

at.

ExitPursuedByABear · 30/05/2014 15:51

I use 'this too shall pass' frequently. As it is true.

If it grates your carrot, tough.

SirNoel · 30/05/2014 15:58

"WIBU to have hoiked my judgypants at this?"

Yes probably. Seeing as what you mean is

"I saw this today and it made me feel all superior and shit. But I suspect that makes me a bit of a cunt so I've used this cutesy MN language so that you all can come and tell me that you're slightly cunty as well"

Although it's not as snappy I grant you

FidelineandFumblin · 30/05/2014 16:01

Without even realising I'd only gone and said "oh, I've lost interest". I couldn't believe I'd been so rude and disrespectful to actually say this Out Loud.

Oh dear Blush

I use 'this too shall pass' frequently. As it is true.

Yes. Great mantra for tough times.

ExitPursuedByABear · 30/05/2014 16:04

And for the good times. Unfortunately.

sillystring · 30/05/2014 16:06

I now say "good or bad, nothing lasts forever" which just about covers everything really.

ExitPursuedByABear · 30/05/2014 16:10

This too shall pass is far more succinct. Wink

sillystring · 30/05/2014 16:11

My best friend's late Mum was a great fan of "this too shall pass". It did help me through some shitty times, I have to say.

Vintagejazz · 30/05/2014 16:16

'Flounced off' is over used as well. Fair enough if someone makes a big song and dance and boo hoo about leaving the thread because everyone was being so mean and horrible to them.

But I saw someone being accused of this last week when they simply decided they were no longer going to engage with a particular poster who had resorted to spiteful, rude and personal insults. They just said they weren't going to answer in kind and were leaving the thread. However, someone then referred to them as the poster who 'flounced off'.

There seems to be a lot of terms that are used in the wrong context by posters simply flailing out and trying to score points. Sad

sillystring · 30/05/2014 16:30

Breaking out the "semantics" is always a sure-fire indication that someone's losing an argument but is desperate to keep fighting their point. I once had a poster telling me that I was ok to be "concerned" about something but not "worried". That kind of silly straw clutching gets on my nipple end.

Vintagejazz · 30/05/2014 16:37

Oh God I hate that sillystring.

"You're being driven demented. Seriously, actually demented by kids sitting on your garden wall. I think you need to calm down, OP".

Grrr Angry

AlexReidsLonelyBraincell · 30/05/2014 16:38

I like to play 'disingenuous' bingo. I swear that word appears on 99.9% of threads on here. And it's only used properly 56% of the time.

Disclaimer: statistics used may be completely made up.

Pagwatch · 30/05/2014 16:39

Wow. Just wow is really awful.
All the variations on 'hands op a grip'

I try to tune out lots of the current phrases as they really do fade away over time. I hate anything based around 'I feel sorry for your children' with a passion. So horrible

The armchair psychobabble leaves me a bit cold to. Especially people casually dropping 'my narc SIL' into a post when the context is simply SIL being something of a twat.

Pagwatch · 30/05/2014 16:40

I love disingenuous.

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