To cringe when people start posts with 'Just that really'

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It never is 'just that'.

They always go on to elaborate their point, so why bother with the prefix 'Just that really'? I find it both lazy and a little annoying.

I am obviously a grumpy old woman and probably BU. But - does anyone else sigh when they see this?

Flyinggeese okay I'll just keep doing it then!

Thoughts?

Thanks Tricky! it is

YABU

Just that really

'Thoughts?' or 'Discuss' Is the thread equivalent of saying, 'Enjoy!' at the start of a meal.

Oh, I just said, 'meal', someone will be along to punch me in the face in a minute

Also irritating (to me) are: 'Just saying.', or, even worse, 'Just sayin'.', and 'I bloody love...', or, even worse, 'I bloody luvs...'.

(I'm sure there are more as well; I'm very easily irritated by trivial things).

I cannot bring myself to care about the "right" way to begin a post.

zfactor, yes, and 'luffs' even worse.
JTR.

I hate - and I'm honestly not having a go - the smiley face with the teeth. This one . It looks so fucking smug. I especially hate it when the poster thinks he/she's being clever as in 'I'm so hilarious, I told my children that the ice cream van music means they've run out of ice cream '

On reading this back, I may have issues.

Sorry TheMaw

I'm guilty of the possible overuse of the toothy grin.

But I like it, so ner.

I don't mind Mr Cheesy Grin but if I am so sick of the ice cream van thing. It's as old as the hills.

Hun or hon trumps all others for me. No-one ever says that to me in real life.

I hate "trumps" - sorry ArgyMargy - and especially after a poster has made a serious post with some difficult points - and they are dismisssed as tedious.

Don't mind text spk or or "Right" or "so" - just conversational.

So, (), in the end it is just about personality

'Trumps' is what my mother used to call farts.

I've just thought of another one! I hate 'meh' - it's the dismissive way it's used 'meh, can't get worked up about it' and it's so try-hard, like the poster is so desperate to prove they're too cool to have an opinion. Wow! This is very therapeutic!

I think I started my thread with 'Just that, really.' the other day. That was because I'd put the salient question/information in the thread title, enabling people to see what the thread was about, and didn't have much to add in the OP until I'd got any responses.

What really annoys me is when people do click-bait incomplete titles...
'AIBU to think that...'
'AIBU to ask you...'
Just give an idea of the thread topic in the title FFS, and save me wasting 30 secs of my procrastinating on MN life clicking on your tedious thread.

There was one recently that started something like 'Does anyone know about...' and the thread was about her son's nosebleeds. Why on earth wouldn't you put that in the title so that people with experience of nosebleeds can see and think 'Oh I can contribute something useful to that thread' and people who neither know nor care anything about nosebleeds don't waste time clicking on it to see what it's about? She got right arsey when that was pointed out though.

I can't summon the energy to get annoyed to be honest.

What MN needs is a DM style like/dislike button. Far too often, all I (or anyone) wants to say is that they agree or offer their support. They don't need to actually make a post. If you could just press 'like' then it would show your support and let people who have actually got something to say get on with it.

'Discuss!' Is the worst IMO.

AIBU to cringe when people start posts to criticise others posting style?

Conquistador YABVVU. Where on earth would MN be without criticising others, it would surely just implode.

I'm just happy if the title gives a clear idea of the thread content. It's really annoying when people entitle their thread 'AIBU to be so annoyed' or 'AIBU or is DH' or other vague titles. I usually don't open them but I do wonder why they can't just add an extra couple of words to make their title more informative.

I really don't like it when people put "and breathe" at the end of a rant.

Or, as they often put, "and breath".

rant over

That's a bit annoying.

Remember when people used to have a long rant then end it by writing "FACT!!"

Couldn't stand that.

"Rant over" aaargh haha couldn't stand that either.