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 ....

You sounded like you didn't know why people said it, irrelevant or not.

I'm not sure where you got that from.

I dislike it because it's incredibly twee.

Oh no actually "SN brigade" is even worse.

Top ups, I've applied for top ups, you can get top ups, she's topped up

Entitled and grabby. Everything from wanting a £5 book token for Christmas to being peeved that your own mother has left every penny to the cats home when she hates cats is described as such, usually with tacky thrown in.

Is it OK to.....? followed by some mundane description of demonstrably ok ordinary life and comparison to a life less ordinary. 'It is ok to make my lo's food at home. My friend has employed a Parisian chef to make all her purees and I'm worried I'm not giving bubs the best.' 'Is it OK to have a party at home? A child in the class is taking everyone and siblings to Disneyland Paris and I don't want to look like I'm not making an effort?' 'Is it OK to spend the summer baking and doing craft or should I be in a theme park every day'

Weddings being about families and childfree weddings being soulless and hollow shams hosted by superficial idiots.

Could you take some ironing in/walk dogs/become a childminder/sweep chimneys when the Op is in financial trouble. Maybe they've go SN when seemingly anyone is being an utter twat.

"Doesn't sit easily/right with me". Weird expression only ever heard on MN and not even grammatical.

The word "hamper". OP asks for a gift idea - why not fill a hamper with x,y and z? What's in your child's Christmas Eve hamper?

What's wrong with a box? Or a gift bag? Surely an actual hamper costs more than the value of the random crap you're advised to put in it?

"wow, just wow" and variations thereof. Dickheads.

And anyone who uses when someone says something perfectly normal.

HTH at the end of a post, it's smug and passive aggressive.

Well its meant to be! I have used it myself to people who are themselves being smug and know it all but utterly wrong!

'Cancel the cheque' gets on my nerves. Some "wag" will post it on any thread where more than one person has said the same thing thinking themselves to be oh so hilarious. It was mildly amusing on the OP that it came from, not in the slightest bit amusing in anyway on any thread since.

The advice to log every damn thing with 101 drives me nuts

As does a post with Reader/Dear Reader in it. It sounds ridiculous

"I laughed so much that a bit of wee came out!"

'Put on/pull up your big girl pants....' and all variations

Stop it please

Head tilt.
Tinkly laugh.
Tinkly laugh again.
Cancel the cheque - it's not funny. Stop it.
Hands OP a grip, any reference to a grip shop, etc.
'To do so' - I've never heard this said, only seen it typed on MN. As in "it would be wrong to do so".
Vile.
Livid.

What do we think of...

What are we we wearing...

Really annoying! Can't you have an independent thought about anything?

"X makes me grip my shit". Eeurgh. You should really see a doctor about that.

"Doesn't sit easily/right with me". Weird expression only ever heard on MN and not even grammatical

You mean YOU only ever hear it on MN.

It's used widely IRL.

Perhaps you should widen your social horizons?

I depise the use of "baby" instead of "the baby". I have a friend who does it and hers is 2, not even a baby! I've never considered it the traditional way of referring to your own.

purpledaisies I am totally with you on people saying 'baby' when they mean 'the baby'. People also do this with 'mum', I've noticed - "if baby isn't sleeping then mum needs a break" etc. It makes any sentence somehow seem 50% more smug and patronising to me; I don't know why. People do it in real life too, not just here.

"I would go no-contact" or "we are NC with..." also really bugs me. The concept isn't a problem, but the phrasing is so grating self-help jargon-ish.

Hosting ........

The posters who diagnose everyone whose a shithead to them as having Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Someone can be a selfish nasty tosser without having a personality disorder.

And limerence - it's just a nicer way of saying obsessive.

"I laughed so much that a bit of wee came out!"

Well I dont have to laugh much at all these days for that to happen so maybe it isnt that ott!

' when a man tells you who he is, listen'

Bollocks

I agree with most of these!

I think the word gaslighting is overused. Sometimes people are just a bit shit... they aren't always trying to make you feel like you're mentally ill. The same with affairs; sometimes husbands and wives are a bit shit... it doesn't always mean they're shagging around. You don't always have to LTB!

There seem to be fashionable words and phrases on mn; I am very glad that, 'jog on' has dropped out of fashion here.

Yes, "go NC". With everyone who upsets you, ever.

'Menz'

"Aww poor menz" or "But what about da menz"

Normally only used by women to put other women down, because they don't agree that the man's POV should be considered.