Words and phrases you only hear on Mumsnet

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"Hacked off"

"Tear him a new one"

I've never heard one person in real life use either of those and to be honest, I'm glad! They're the ugliest phrases ever!

Tear him a new one is particularly disgusting.

AIBU to ask you to share yours? Either things you don't hear in real life or things you hate but only encounter here?

I have never met in real life, anyone as intolerant or nasty or unwilling to do anything for anyone in case it puts them at the most minor inconvenience, but a substantial amount of people on here are like that.

I wonder do they vent it here as they know it wont be tolerated in real life.

Try the conception boards. TTC#2, 18mo, 1MMC, DTD EOD to OPK+, then ED until 3DPO. EOD again until either AF or BFP. Tried SMEP last month.

Just saw some more: boil my piss (hate that phrase yuck), grind my geArs, and make my teeth itch!

Thanks livia, just say non trans. I hate it when threads are talking about cis as if everyone knows what it is, so rude!

Yes so rude to use words that can be looked up.

Didn't want to read and run.. Totally pointless phrase.

Why on earth - Why on earth did you not just...

This really gets on my nerves. especially as it usually comes with some fucking ridiculous suggestion of what the poster should have done instead, or absolute outrage at something pretty insignificant - why on earth were you washing up?

IT is rude Trills it's not a usual word, seems very pointless.

Never heard it used outside Mumsnet.

I use loads of these words and phrases. My 15yo DD refers to people as "a good egg". I said "This too shall pass" to her friend's mother the other day, and it was obviously a phrase she knew. I use "not my circus, not my monkeys". It's a Polish saying, and I love the way it has been appropriated by English speaking people. It's an example of how immigration makes all our lives that little bit richer. (I am an immigrant to the UK, from a country that itself has had, and continues to have, many immigrants.)

There are some phrases I don't know or hear in RL, but MNers are a diverse lot, so that's hardly surprising.

In fact, I would say the differences in the language used by the many different posters is one of the things I really like about MN.

But the vast majority of these are standard English, with a few that are regional ('boak' for vomit), the kind of shorthand people use in writing but never in speech ('sanpro') and just forum-speak that you get with any online community, surely?

I say patriarchy all the time, but I've never in RL heard anyone say 'picky tea' or 'bum change'.

While I enjoy MN for allowing me to hear different views, I am glad that in my usual life I don't encounter people who think that it is "rude" to use specific terminology when talking about a subject.

My vocabulary would certainly be much smaller if I considered it "rude" of people to use a word that I don't know.

thrive I don't dislike it, but it confuses and worries me.

It's Always used in a school context. I've never heard anyone in real life say their children are thriving at school. I often wonder what the past tense is, throve, thrived, thriven.
"Oh yes, DD throve at that school"

How do people tell that their children Are thriving? What does it look like? It makes me feel stupid and that I'm missing something obvious.

Bitches? Nice choice of word.

What a bunch of bitches

Oh do fuck off, there's a dear

What an ugly insult, manhowdy. Are you a racist, too, or only a misogynist?

Norks!?

I get irritated by 'fast forward'. Every Aibu post seems to have it.

"We got married and had 2 DCs, started up our own llama farm and joined a swingers club. FAST FORWARD to now, the llamas have all died, etc etc"

Oh, but imagine the three-page essay about Llama diseases and deaths as an alternative to FAST FORWARD, eggyface .

Me too, Buffy.

Love the idea that it's rude to use words that other people might not understand. How the hell would one decide what they were??