'Wind your neck in' - boring, irritating, dismissive, unoriginal, condescending?

[HappyGirlNow]

This phrase. On many threads. From many posters.

Overused. Irritating. Surely the only suitable response is 'wind your own fucking neck in'. This is a discussion forum for people to air their views after all....

I'm finding it hard to explain why use of the phrase annoys me so much. Does it irritate anyone else like this? Maybe someone can articulate this better...

I quite like it.

It reminds me of an ostrich poking it's head through a car window, at a safari park.

No idea why really

Just reply " who do you think I am? Inspector gadget "

YANBU. It's rude and crass and way overused. Just lazy really.

worra maybe I need to just think of that and nothing else when I see it..

Phew some folk feel the same! Thought it might be just me...

Can't stand it!

I like it, and all other mildly confrontational put-downs. I've never said it, but I've had it said to me

It's awful. I also hate "tear him a new one" which you see a lot on here and it's just disgusting!

I have to admit I prefer, "Trunky want a bun?"

Which again is kind of animal/safari park based

Don't mind it myself.

In regards to it being a discussion forum, yes it is. However some people do think that it being a discussion forum allows them to have a go.

If wind your neck in isn't used, something else will be

I've never used it, but quite like it. It's very descriptive of correcting someone's body language when they're getting wound up.

I think it's vulgar.

Yanbu. If everyone "wound their neck in" a lot of AIBU wouldn't exist!

I've used it once on here, I nicked it from Jeremy Kyle

I like it because it addresses over-shouty people who rant instead of expressing their opinion calmly.

Depends what it's in response to!

As for unoriginal, when was the last time someone said something original.

I think it's really cheeky and ignorant.

Trunks want a bun? is fantastic

Trunky, even.

I prefer "chill your beans"

I don't get "trunky want a bun"

What does that mean?

Oh, I thought it was another way of saying that someone was being nosy! So it means calm down, not mind your own business?

A lot of phrases get over used on MN. Some people just latch onto things other people say and then keep trotting them out over and over and over.

'Judgmental', 'Passive Aggressive', 'mean spirited' etc.

A lot of the time they're not even used correctly. I think some posters are like children who have a new 'word of the moment', that they just love repeating.

I've never really understood the phrase . If you can wind your neck in, you must have had it stuck out in the first place. And I've only ever seen sticking your neck out for something/somebody as a good thing.

I'm in North West England and I keep hearing:

"Give your head a wobble"

Meaning "be quiet, do you know how ridiculous you sound"

I can't begin to explain the rage inside me when I hear/see it.

TheHouseOnBellSt, think about the size of an elephant's 'nose'