About huns?

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I'm fully prepared to be told that I am VU/a snob/a fucking cunting bastard etc.

Fully prepared.

But more and more and more since the recent DM shite I've noticed 'hun'ing creeping into over half the threads I click on.

It makes my teeth itch. I always want to say something but I don't want to be that arsehole.

I don't know why it annoys me. I'm not a snob so it's not that. It's just so bloody twee.

Hun, hubby, babs and the sort are awful. However, find it rather ironic there's a thread berating such lazy language use on a board infamous for adding the vomit-inducing, twee 'dear' in front of all personal relations. It really is no different from the 'huns'.

MN gets it's nest of vipers reputation as people generally don't sugarcoat what they are saying. There is a lot of real empathy here as well. I sometimes peruse other sites and people deploy 'Hun' in a passive aggressive way to put a gloss on sometimes rather judgemental comments. I would rather someone was direct with me than pretended to be sympathetic while rolling their eyes.

I just looked at Netmums for the first time as a result of this thread.

The horror, the horror...

All the Huns, hubby, xxx and bad spelling,grammar etc has evolved over the last few years because we aren't allowed to pull anyone up like we could years ago.

Who's not allowing us to - MNHQ? Would they delete a post if we did pull someone up on it?

Manic there are definitely a few of the newer HQers who are a bit trigger happy.

I was banned (not deleted - BANNED) for saying that I thought that encouraging 5 year olds to be transgender was 'tantamount to child abuse.'

They did apologise and reinstate me but it's made me much more wary of posting what I really think.

I just looked at Netmums for the first time as a result of this thread Should I do it? Should I?

Manic - who's not allowing us to? Try it and see how quickly you get rounded on. G'wan. Meet you back here later and you can tell me

I would never pick someone up on their grammar/spelling, that's just rude.

But I'm not scared of being ganged up on by the Huns, what's the worst that can happen? I get a few posts deleted?

Molto, I really wouldn't. Just not worth it. I can't unsee it now.

I really need to use the word cuntikins more.

I've only noticed hunning here ironically. Hun in cheek, so to speak.

The only hunner I know in real life is quite posh. I'd never been hunned before, but she means it sweetly. Oh, my exceptionally boring BIL and his girlfriend hun each other too. It's further proof of their dullness, IMO, but they're American, so it's presumably different there.

The poshest person I know says it
But has recently become a younique person thing.

Maybe if this continues we shall be re named " Hunsnet " not quite the same ring is it? ...

Too much of "hun" on the playground too 😷

I'm not sure it's a class thing - I know some very MC people who hun, but it does make the hun-er sound a bit dim. A bit like they're not actually sure how to end a sentence, or converse with adults, so they stick hun on the end of everything.

It also makes them sound very fake.

And I'm afraid I start hoiking the judgey pants up when people refer to their "hubby", 'lil man, or 'lil princess" and variations thereof. Not judgey that they're working class or anything. Just that they're a bit of a twat.

Just been on holiday, so have missed the DM thing. What happened? (Misses point of thread)

Before this thread I really hadn't noticed the influx of "huns xxxx" and "hubbys" all over the boards. But I can't stop noticing now, it's everywhere! Is there nothing we can do?

I've decided I'm going to use faux stupidity to ask on threads 'what is this word Hun people are using and what does it mean' with a . I may even derail for a few posts asking for further information.

I was just pondering this rise of all this huggy-kissy, "hun", " babes" stuff today, when thinking about how dd (age 11) looks mildly horrified when her friends are all hugging eachother hello/goodbye (because in all probability they've seen their mums do it with their friends - I've been on the receiving end of hugs from these women myself). Dd is just not like that and neither am I (although we do hug each other!). I put it down to the popularity of Sex And The City and Absolutely Fabulous .

I never saw my mother hug and air kiss her friends ever.

Can I add 'squee' to the list of loathed terms? I've been waiting ever so patiently for it to die out, along with the rest of the I Can Has Cheezburger? speak, but it keeps popping up.

I really cannot get wound up about soneone trying to be nice to me. Its a word ffs. Its just a way of being a little less harsh as a pp said and softening a sentence.

Perhaps you need something a bit more important in your life to focus on if this is seriously your biggest irritation in life.

I can't stand hunning on forums. It's not quite so bad in real life.

I have a friend in real life who has started calling the rest of us 'babe'. It just sounds... wrong. Don't like it but haven't said anything obviously. Don't want to sound like a grumpy arse.