To hate it when people use 'happily'?

[reader77]

It just irritates me so much. It's so smug and defensive and Arghhhhhh

I 'happily' let my dc blah blah

My dc 'happily' eats blah blah

I 'happily' looked after my friends dc until blah blah

Oh shut up you stealth boasting humble bragging moaner.

I know you don't know what I mean.

Harsh Katie I'm just cut to the quick.

I don't like the world bloated when someone says they're full up with food. Sounds like a corpse in Taggert😳

Another grating statement on the radio or tv used a lot is "Now here's the thing" 😕

Wow, chill OP

You people are sharp!
Reading this felt like sitting on the school bus listening to the really cool girls, laughing but also thinking please don't be me next.

People turned on you pretty quickly op! They can't wait for someone to post something that they can be a dick about!

Fwiw I get it! I hate it when people say "spends" or "funds" instead of money.

I'd point you to the "wishing MN was as funny as it used to be" thread but see you've already found it!

Great. You're grumpy that people are upbeat and positive. Happily I'm not that sort and tend towards cheerfulness.

I hate it when people use "lighthearted" for what we all agree is a trivial subject, but where they can't accept that people find the issue still ridiculous. Just because it's lighthearted doesn't mean you are right and people have to agree with you.

The words that really piss me off are roughhousing and show boating. Don't know why but they make me see red. Oh and conflicted. Where the hell did that come from all of a sudden? I don't remember anyone using that word 20 years ago.

The phrases that piss me off are: a big no no and step up to the plate. Grrrr, very irritating.

I have NO idea when or why other tongue in cheek/grumpy threads are ok and others get turned on, like here!

I happily read other poster's grumpy threads.

Op you sound utterly, utterly miserable. You cared enough to post about a word? Seriously give your head a wobble and stop being so petty in life.

Yeah anna I know, I have BF three of my own.

I just don't like the phrase "offering".

What the what?!

Clearly everyone who thinks I'm miserable is happily telling other people how happily they go about their lives. Happily.

It's not the actual word, it's the use of it to illustrate how people do not mind doing something, TELLING people they don't mind and it comes across - to me - as PA and a bit smug.

Or the phase "offering the breast" I mean.

I don't get all the huffing and puffing on this thread.

Do any of you posters know that it is actually possible to read something, shrug and wander off? That it's not compulsory for OPs to justify a grumpy rant? That maybe it's ok for her to be told she is BU or NBU without being held up against some imaginary posting criteria and told off? We are, I assume, all grown ups and allowed to be different; joining MN doesn't mean joining a cult or a hivemind. Happily, my own rant is now over.

Now "proffering the breast" is inspired.

Once again:

Am I being BU?
yes.
Oh, but it's lighthearted.
still BU, chill out.
you people have no sense of humour!
sigh...

Jeez some peeps taking this a bit too seriously

Don't share your hatred op but my own irrational hates are

cuppa
bite to eat
all the trimmings

My mum says these things often

reader the reason some threads go ok even with a grumpy tone is that they are obviously tongue in cheek. For whatever reason something about how you styles your OP meant that people picked up "grumpy" rather than "lighthearted". That's just how it goes.

MrsWooster I don't think anyone was holding reader to any particular standard, they were just genuinely responding to what they felt was the tone of the OP. Reader got a bit peeved that people hadn't picked up the lighthearted intention of the post (in an even more grumpy tone) and it went from there.

My subsequent posts were meant to be funny though I think that apocalypse might be implying that they were mean. It was nearly 2am my humour can be a bit wacky at that point.

Yep that's the thread I read shark

I think 'light-hearted' is now some kind of spell of regret posters use to prove they were reasonable all along

And that Anna.

(The sudden influx to the thread was because OP went whining to the 'MN isn't funny any more ' thread at silly o'clock that her thread wasn't getting the correct reception/understanding, so they all came marching over to enforce 'correct understanding of the tone' which really did tickle me )

totally know what you mean OP! "Happily" is annoying! I think its more the way its said as well - "oh really, your child doesnt do x? well mine HAPPILY do it!" type thing. I totally get where you were coming from and very confused by everyone telling you off for this thread

Erm excuse me I wasn't whining? I said oops!

I am serious wtf about this?!