To find the term 'unmumsnetty hug' absurdly irritating?

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1. It is used with such frequency that said hug cannot, by definition, be 'unmumsnetty'

1. It's just so ANNOYING! Why not just say 'sending you a hug'?!

Rant over. I feel better already.

'Clique' may derive either from an old French word meaning 'latch' or from ... Click. Shall we just bugger off to pedants' corner?

Mumsnetters are tough, stiff upper lip, punch in the shoulder, attagirl type posters.

Hugs aren't the done thing round these parts so we need some unmumsnetty hugs sometimes.

Hug is for serious. stuff. only

All else is fakery or frippery and must be discouraged

Lolling at clicks

Yeah it's weird - what's the issue with hugs here? It's like some strange in group taboo. OP YANBU

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'I can spell a word any way I wish for whatever reason I wish'. Indeed you can crusts, but spelling a word however you wish doesn't mean that your own personal spelling of that word somehow becomes correct. Or that you can change the meaning of words. Click and clique actually have different meanings.

at 'are you a pendant'

Wasn't it Humpty Dumpty who said "when I use a word it means what I choose it to mean"?

Bit off topic but - do people actually pronounce clique "click"? Have I been unknowingly pretentious all these years I've pronounced it "cleek"?

Cleek. dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/clique

I always thought it was pronounced cleek. You hear about people being 'clicky' but that's not dissimilar to 'cliquey' I guess.

In-jokes are probably what I like best about MN. Sorry.

Unmumsnetty hugs - well, because we're all as hard as steel, innit? Unlike the other lot. I agree it's possibly overused, but then so are most in-jokes.

are you a pendant?

Haha, please tell me that was intentional.

Nice attempt at trying to cover your mistake though

'Pendant' is one of the ways in which Muphry's Law frequently strikes on MN.

I've seen these unmumsnetty hugs on posts since 2009. Reality is not friends with most internet forums