Phrases you really hate on MN

[cathf]

Following on from the fabulous type of threads you really hate on here, I thought I would start a similar thread for phrases used on MN that really get your goat.
I'll start off with 'in this house', usually used in conjunction with some smug statement to make the OP feel inadequate/bad.
For example 'Oh, we love books in this house!' or 'there's no faddy eaters allowed in this house' or 'we all have to respect each other in this house'.
Over to you ....

Anyone (i.e most people in this world) who don't like, say, the noise of people eating is immediately diagnosed as having misophonia - MN is the only place I have ever come across such a intense concentration of people with this condition.

Every thread about being slightly disappointed that you have been ignored/let down/treated like shit on a birthday or other special occasion is classed as being outrageously entitled.

"vile"

"Log it with 101" when someone looked at you funny once. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for those calls.

"little one" / "little man" / any variants of.

It's not a phrase but people who live through their husbands e.g. "I just showed my husband this thread and he said...." Ugh! Who cares?! It's different if the thread is about a specific topic and your husband is an expert in the area

I forgot one: the extreme lengths people will go to, to ensure they are politically correct and right-on as possible and cover all potential bases when replying.

Normal sentence: the lady behind me at Tescos was really rude to me and pushed me with her trolley.

Normal reply: What a cowbag. Should have kicked her in the shin.

MN reply: You don't know what her day has been like / she may have undiagnosed SEN / physical /unseen disabilities / who are you to judge her / you should have thanked her for it

Crash agree, also curl toe slightly at

'I was laughing and DH said 'you're not still reading that thread are you'

Always reminds me of that couple in Catherine Tate.

Normal reply: What a cowbag. Should have kicked her in the shin.

at "Normal reply"

Shotsfired you forget "should've given here a creme egg" at the end there ;)

Oh yes. It's not a particular phrase, but the constant armchair diagnoses, while simultaneously being outraged at other people's attempts at amateur psychology: I have been googling and diagnosed myself with misophonia, you with narcissistic personality disorder and my neighbour's child with ADHD, but how dare you suggest my darling may be a pyromaniac just because he burnt down the primary school.

but how dare you suggest my darling may be a pyromaniac just because he burnt down the primary school He's just 'spirited' Maud

True, derxa. He's so exceptionally gifted that the school can't meet his prodigious needs and so he can be a little lively.

"That doesn't work for us."

As if anyone would be that rude.

"Meltdown" when referring to children without SN.

Ooh yes "spirited".

Ooh yes to "over-invested"

Oh yes my son is clever funny and spirited. Is he now oh right

Its not even that its bratty its the excusing behaviour because they are spirited that bugs me .

Mine is "eleventy million" but probably because I'm in accounts and that's not a number.

Makes me cringe every time I see it.

'Have a break'

Drivel. It's a public forum, everyone has a right to post here.

Trifle, why should meltdown be used exclusively for those with SN? I've not heard this proprietary assertion before, and have always taken it in the metaphorical sense when describing human behaviour as its origins were with nuclear power plants (and, erm, ice cream, apparently).

Is it just your personal bug bear or is it actually being used with a specific meaning by SN professionals?

I loathe the word 'hubby'. It actually makes me shudder and is possibly the reason I didn't get married for so long. Smug, overfamiliar and too 'cutesy' to describe a grown adult that you have sex with. Ugh.

Foona - I think it's eleventy billion

Trifle - my MIL actually says "that doesn't work for me" and leaves it at that (but she really is that rude. Or assertive, depending on your viewpoint I suppose)

In reference to another child being mean to their child: "I would have slapped the little brat" or similar. No, you wouldn't!

Sprink: 'Meltdown' when used in an SN context denotes a loss of control because of being overwhelmed. The child can't help it. The word for it when describing a grumpy toddler or poorly behaved older child is usually 'tantrum'.

People can say what they like, of course, it just bugs me.

YES YES @crashdoll

"Oh yah I showed DH this thread and he said XYZ"

Like I give a fluttery fuck about what a random person's husband on the internet thinks about whatever the shite topic we are discussing

Unless I am posting about a dental problem and your DH is a dentist (for example) I couldn't give two hoots what yer man has to say