Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

I know I probably am but...

91 replies

dontpokethebear · 29/08/2016 12:14

I hate the abbreviation 'lil'. Eg 'I love my lil' girl'.
It gives me the rage. For me it is in the same box as 'hun', 'hubby' and 'bubs'.
It's creeping with alarming frequency onto my FB feed.

I am fully prepared to be told IABU, but I don't care Grin

OP posts:
TaterTots · 29/08/2016 12:57

I also hate all this DC1 and DC3 business on here Grin

sophiestew · 29/08/2016 12:57

I use luffs ironically- is that allowed?

I know someone who says, actually says, priddy instead of pretty. Makes me stabby.

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 12:58

You can't use 'luff's and want to stab someone who says 'priddy'!

Fcukthetww · 29/08/2016 12:59

I have one on my Facebook "out wiv ma gawjuss bbe 2nyte #meanmyman paint dis town red" 😑 The woman is late 20's so not escaped from secondary school and it gives me the rage like nothing else. Definitely NBU!

NavyandWhite · 29/08/2016 13:00

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

willowtreecottage · 29/08/2016 13:00

This new 'with this one' type comments on social media.
Yuck.

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 13:01

I don't know anyone who uses these kinds of phrases. I do get wound up by people prefacing ever bloody mundane thing with 'that awkward moment when.....'.

Ditsy4 · 29/08/2016 13:02

Ginormous!

KoalaDownUnder · 29/08/2016 13:03

'So this happened...'

Followed by picture of plate of food or some shite.

Fuuuuuck oooooffffff

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 13:04

"out wiv ma gawjuss bbe 2nyte #meanmyman paint dis town red"

Do people not take the utter piss out of her? I wouldn't be able to resist!

'he nt gawjuss, he looks like ickle gnome. Only jking, luv u hun. And yr gnome boyf' lol'.

jaguar16 · 29/08/2016 13:04

I know someone who refers to her OH as "lovely love".

MitzyLeFrouf · 29/08/2016 13:08

Yes! 'so this happened'. That's another one.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 29/08/2016 13:08

Pet hates:
Totes amazeballs
Cray cray [seriously? Just right fucking crazy, ok?]
hun, or worse, hunni
nite
laff
sexy mumma [that happens a LOT on my Aussie friends' walls]
bubs
and I've mentioned it before but I do like to bring it up whenever possible - there is an Aussie mums' site called "Bubhub". Grin

aisatsana · 29/08/2016 13:14

Aw OP, this lil thread you've made is so gawjuss!

SheDoneAlreadyDoneHadHerses · 29/08/2016 13:23

I have a "friend" who writes hunnie. But only ever when she's trying to be patronising, which is ironic as she's not the sharpest tool in the box

JudyCoolibar · 29/08/2016 13:30

YANBU.

To add to the list, people who call their pets boys and girls.

EttaJ · 29/08/2016 13:31

I have found my people. My Gawjus lil people 😂

I cannot abide this new ridiculous way of writing. What's wrong with gorgeous and little . It is infuriating.

Out with this one ,me thinks, that dress tho, bubba , mumma, hunni, fucking bae, arghhhhh!

diddl · 29/08/2016 13:32

Crute?

Is that a mash up of crude & cute??

trafalgargal · 29/08/2016 13:34

Hubster.

HappyAxolotl · 29/08/2016 13:39

Lil Man makes my skin want to crawl off my body and out of the 4th floor window.

Tworingsandamicrowave · 29/08/2016 13:45

It's not an abbreviation as such but I hate the word 'lush' when describing food. Makes me want to barf.

KoalaDownUnder · 29/08/2016 13:49

Oh god, I hate 'lush' too! It's repulsive.

Haggisfish · 29/08/2016 13:50

Nom nom . Fucking hate 'lil' as well.

MyGastIsFlabbered · 29/08/2016 13:51

One of my closest friends uses 'holibobs'...makes me twitchy every time I see it.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 29/08/2016 13:52

Yes, a lot of these wind me right up.

Sometimes I dream of being a dictator, so I could have everybody who does anything to enrage me thrown into a dungeon to be gnawed by rats.
Serve them right.
Mind you the non-dungeoned population would halve overnight.

Swipe left for the next trending thread