'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...

Luis

I hate it - my OH uses it, frequently at the peak of an argument when he's in the wrong can't think of anything better to say.

I hate 'are you on glue' and 'boils my piss' and 'did you mean to be so rude' but most of all bloody headtilt. Yeah, you're the head girl.

I like 'are you on drugs'?

JK uses wind your neck in when someone won't let someone else tell their side, so it's not particularly exploitative and in any case, no-one is compelled to go on the show.

You know what makes me cringe?

When someone cringes at something written on an anonymous forum by someone they don't know

Don't you ever cringe at things on anonymous forums, Basin?

I'm never offended at people that need to be dismissive/rude/condescending however wind your neck in always makes me laugh. I can imagine someone having a handle on the side of their neck and winding it all back into place. Ha, it's giving me the giggles now.

That made me cringe.

Only at other people cringing

Keep saying cringe, it gets weird!

Screwed my face up and everything

Did you suck in air through your teeth too Luis?

Another fan of 'trunky want a bun' here.

Oh yes Basin, builder-giving-quote styleee

I'm pretty visual so every time I read it, I picture a neck literally winding around. Teeth itch - I picture someone scratching their teeth.

Boils my piss is the worst.

I can imagine someone having a handle on the side of their neck and winding it all back into place. Ha, it's giving me the giggles now.

Maybe we should change it to, "Shut it, fishing rod neck!"

oh god someone told me to 'give my head a wobble' the other day - just wtf? is that some phrase from the grim north?

A couple of weeks ago i tried to order a 6 Mc Fucknugget meal at McDonalds... That was a low point and i blame Mn entirely for introducing me to the word

Straw man pisses me off.

It's often used as 'I don't like what you've said and I've discovered a marvellous way to say this that makes me sound clever.'

ditto 'Ockhams Razor'

I wonder if they call it straw menz in FWR?

Worra

Worra

I'm going to have to go throw myself off something - I can't even see why being called a straw man is in any way rude or offensive? Clearly I am thicker than Mrs Thicky McThick, the thickest woman in Thicksville - but WHY is that a thing?

Surely the only rsponse is "did you mean to be so rude?"

.....to which the only reasonable response is (a la Scottishmummy) 'fuck aye'

Straw man - Isn't it from The wizard of Oz where he didn't have a brain?