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

[MrsWinnibago]

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!

Lol, vintage. There was a thread a while back which I never bothered contributing to but the title was something like "to want to drop kick my friend's child?" and the pasting this OP got. Cue loads of "You ACTUALLY want to drop kick a CHILD!!??"?????!!!" These cunts know exactly what they're doing, it's tedious.

I hate anything based around 'I feel sorry for your children' with a passion. So horrible

Agree, it's really low when people resort to the above, it's often used when they are at a loss for more shit to throw at the op.

'copious amounts' is also another one that I read a lot on here but never hear anyone in RL say.

I you wouldn't say it real life, don't bother writing it down either.

But I do use some obnoxious phrases irl like "Wow. You gotta work on that man. Bad Form.", "Meh", and "Wow. Just...Wow".

There's far more obnoxious things I say irl than I do on here, but I also know that some phrases and slang wouldn't really translate well across the pond.

My biggest gripe is the competitive laid backness, who can be the most chill, which ultimately translates to who has the shittiest boundaries. "Well, I look at porn with my husband while taking it in the rear while being donkey punched!".

Great if you actually like that stuff, but a lot of times it just seems like a game of one up manship.

The one upmanship can get really tiresome. Your example is awesome, by the way Princess

I do say 'copious amounts' in RL, erm copiously really

Bellezeboobian your fart sign off made me chuckle. May I join you please

Parp.

Fuck, Usual. We are allowed to say fuck. And fucking fuck.
And I agree with Pag.

Has anyone said the timeless classic 'gets popcorn out' - even more annoying when it's the 3rd post on a thread about nothing controversial.

sillystring I've gotten the literal translation thing a few times too from people.

I just want to be patronizing as shit and explain that sometimes people use exaggerations to make a point, and the place they play in modern conversation.

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Belch.

And the 'nomination for classics!' for a thread with four posts about someone farting and frightening a passing dog.

pagwatch.

I do always giggle when I see "I am really fucked off right now".

I tried it out irl, my friends find it pretty entertaining too.

YANBU - the whole glue thing has been done to death (and wasn't even funny to start with).

I also hate 'Wow. Just wow'. It's never JUST wow, is it?

I hate it though when some poster turns around and tells another one to fuck off to the back end of fuck and when they get there just fuck off some more.
There has to be something wrong with someone who'd spit that out venomously to someone for daring to have an opposing view to themselves.

I am really fucked off right now"

I say that in RL all the time hah.

Why oh fucking why does this "just for having an opposing view" line always get trotted out? (Nothing personal vintage)

I have read some views expressed on MN that are illegal in several european countries, they are so offensive. Seriously- some deeply nasty stuff gets expressed on here sometimes - way beyond 'opposing views'.

Well that's fair enough Fide. I certainly wouldn't dismiss for instance racism or anti Semitism as 'opposing views'.

I was really thinking of threads where someone just gets really furious because someone is being vocal about their dislike of SUVs or small children in restaurants, or P&T parking and comes out with something like that. I think the first time I saw it was on a thread about Kym Marsh posing with her baby's ashes for a magazine. There were very strong views on both sides and someone ended up throwing this comment at another poster.

My most hated phrases are 'only on Mumsnet' or 'MN at it's worst/best/finest'. The implication being that the forum is populated by out-of-touch nincompoops - fine to hold that opinion but if you do, then why did you post in the first place? It's a lazy way of dismissing everyone's arguments without actually engaging with them.

Also - and this is not limited to MN - I cannot abide the phrase 'shit on from a great height'. Is it better to be shat on from close range? Do we have to have the mental image in the first place? It's gross.

I'm not so much hacked off by certain phrases (though 'Did you mean to be so rude' is undeniably shit) but by certain patterns on threads.

You can guarantee that if someone starts a funny thread there'll be some humourless fucker on there within 6 posts, taking it DEADLY SERIOUSLY, causing everyone else to engage with them and running an otherwise entertaining discussion right off the rails.

OP: I like kittens!

P1: So do I!

P2: They're so soft and funny!

P3: DO YOU REALISE THAT HIMMLER LIKED KITTENS? I HOPE YOUR KITTENS DIE

I know it's a feature of MN and I'm just going to have to get used to it, but I do wonder who these people are in real life.

I was in Richmond Waitrose once Vintage and flattened myself against a rack of salad with my basket so that two entirely-boden-dressed ultra-plummy-voiced trolley-pushing women could single file past me. But they didn't want to for some reason and basically demanded I vacate the aisle so they could continue side by side. I was still collecting my thoughts at this development and trying to say something other that I'm sorry? when one of them rammed me hard in the legs with her trolley. The smile never entirely left her face.

The toddler-toting, SUV-driving, boden and white-stuff devotees are the true psychos. Oh yes .

DO YOU REALISE THAT HIMMLER LIKED KITTENS? I HOPE YOUR KITTENS DIE

I think I was on that thread