To ask what words or phrases you never hear outside of MN?

[Fratelli]

Many a time I have been reading a thread and thought "I've never head anyone say that in real life".

Co sleeping with my 9 year old. Perlleeaaae.

I've never met anyone in RL with misophonia, let alone the amount of people who have it on MN! Not saying people don't have it, I just don't think it's as common in RL.

Oh and aghast!

I have misophonia but I also have synaesthesia and they go hand in hand. I don't walk around IRL telling people about them though!

I've never heard anyone say LTB in the real world.

coffee I was chatting with my much younger cousin recently, and she was telling me about her boyfriend's mum.

She told me that her boyfriend's mum had a "really weird phrase she keeps using, something about monkeys and the circus".

Obviously the mum is a MNer! I'll have to warn my cousin in case she signs up in the future and starts a MIL thread...

Things or people being vile.

People do hobbies and activities outside MN. I think they are non specific on here to prevent outing because if you admit to reading a book while watching your DD dancing or swimming everyone who knows you will know its you.

If it helps, someone actually did say to me in real life "did you mean to be do rude?". Can you guess what my real life answer was?

Get all your ducks in a row

That's common parlance in the business/entrepreneurial world.

"not my circus not my monkeys" was not invented by Mumsnet and is used outside it. I have seen several newspaper articles which reference this phrase. It was originally Polish and was picked up and translated by someone who thought it expressed the concept better than we could in English.

The "hobbies" - I don't know anyone with a hobby.

Misophonia is a good one, only ever heard of that on here. Going NC. Offering food.

Vipers sorry to hear that. I think people who genuinely have it don't bang on about it, people who don't claim to have it when really they are just mildly annoyed at a noise! Similar to people saying they're "a bit ocd"!

What is mum boot?!

The overuse of the word controlling staggers me.

Also "judgey pants" aimed at comments, when somebody is clearly trying to help.

Oh yes splendide

The all weekend specialist hobbies. I know it's done not to out people however, I have an irrational thirst to find out, what I'm missing out on

Exactly the Naze!

Sometimes it's "DH and I both spend most of our discretionary spending money on our respective hobbies".

That phrase encompasses a number of concepts that are outside of my experience!

Most of the accounts of supposed conversations/arguments people have bear no relationship to any in person argument I've ever seen. In real life, people fade away or mumble something incoherent. Most people struggle with conflict. But when people recount conversations on mumsnet, the person they talking to always helpfully explains their entire evil plan (like a James Bond villain) in clear unambiguous language.

It's pretty clear than people embellish conversations out of bias but everyone pretends along that these accounts really happened!

Wankbadger
Anal fisting

Hobbies.
Sanpro.
Personal spending money.
Cocklodger.
Vile.
Go no-contact.
The amount of narcissistic relatives on here is amazing.
So is the amount of people with misophonia.
Lundy Bancroft and all his books.
LTB.

Quite a bit actually.

Dd, ds, dh. Would never refer to them as dear in the first place

I think a lot of what I say on here is completely different to irl though I try to show myself as real as possible.

It's just using the right lingo among others. You adapt to audience

Goady. although my friend does say Bunfight i thought yip mumsnetter

'No' is a complete sentence.

Well tbf im not sure Anal fisting would ever be said in polite conversation 😲

A lot of these are quite mainstream, it's just that one may have come across them first/only on here. For example, "it makes my teeth itch" is a saying I knew of many years before Mumsnet even existed - it was almost certainly around before I even existed! (There's a small possibility I may have introduced it to MN, for which I make no apology at all.) Other things have evolved from threads here, "Wendying" for example. I think "DH", "DC" etc were deliberately adopted by MNHQ at the start as in-house shorthand. It would indeed be weird to use them IRL, just as it would be weird to talk in txtspk.

Weekend hobbies i think is cycling or hawk flying