Phrases/words you can't stand on MN

[cathf]

Maybe it's just me, but I'll kick off with:
Booby monster (or any kind of 'monster')
Figetbum (not seen this often, but it is so horrific I can't forget it)
Snuggly cuddles (see also milky cuddles,and sleepy cuddles or snuggles)
Newborn, used as a noun, not an adjective - as in my newborn, not my newborn baby.
I'm sure I will think of some more!

Also agree with "picky bits " as annoying.

And stabby. And boils my piss.

I've said this before here - the mumsnet use of the word local. Advise the OP to go to her local library / coffee shop / toddler group / Tesco. As if anyone would ever travel 150 miles to a different one, unless local was specified. It really annoys me.

Also "pop the baby in the sling" as a solution for everything. Even if I believed in the magic of slings, I would not "pop" a young baby anywhere, I'd handle them with the greatest of care.

You sound grabby . I just hate

What on earth is 'picky bits' please?

Smiling at 'local'!

Lawyer up. Actually any advice about lawyers. Some purple seems to think we can solve anything. I fucking wish!

'Get your ducks in a row' sounds like something you would say to a 5 year old planning a gardening activity. I always imagine it said by someone really posh in a nauseating stupid tone.

I hate all the 'D' stuff on here is it so hard to type son/daughter/husband

Meh - ugh

I hate hate hate the 'handholding' No no-one can hold your hand it's not possible through a screen we can however support or chat to you. Requests for a hand hold usually followed by a ton of posts saying 'hand holding here' or 'I'm holding your hand' Oh do fuck off

Not using the preposition 'against' after 'protested'.

Stabby

Teeth itch

DH says...

Read yesterday that arguing with a feminist qualifies any male as 'bad'.

But I do like boils my piss. And love using holibobs. Seeing it make people's teeth itch.

Lovebombing

Hollibobs (still not sure what this is, holidays?)

Fanjo

Precious First Born PFB

Save the date STD (I thought this was sexually transmitted diseases)

Boak

Norks

Big Girl Panties

Other random acronyms

chaplin - Larry David does. And I do.

A lot of the words/phrases people are objecting to are just things that give the site a bit of colour, it's own personality though. It would be pretty bland and generic if they were all eliminated. And there is a glossary linked on the cover page which explains the acronyms.

Also agree with a pp that many of the "hated" phrases mentioned here are used in an ironic self-mocking way.

That said, I hate:
"Simples" at the end of a post
Boob used as a verb
HTH used passive-aggressively
Baby-wearing and BLW - we did those things too, without needing names for them.

There are lots of others I can't think of right now - I am a grumpy old middle-aged woman, and forgetful with it!

Grabby is the only one that really gets to me, often used by really judgmental MC women. It's grim.

Find this thread depressing in parts - vulva? Seriously? I don't see men calling their entire genital area their "scrotum". Grown women using cutesy or incorrect names for their genitals drives me up the wall, to be fair.

And go! At the end of a post...

Going to London next week, need ideas on what to do. And go!

The "D" thing. But especially DF.

Dear Father? Dear Family? Dear Friend? Dear Fiancé? Dear Ferret? Really annoying in a vague post where I'm still wondering after reading it.

"AIBU to not get...?"

This is always used to show how superior you are to the idiots who would wear/buy/use/go to the place, you are now about to run down. We all like different things. Live and let live!

Yum. Yummy. Nom. Noms. Nommy.

No explanation needed there, I think.

All the things used to show the poster has been on the site for a long time. Naive Ham. Pom Bears. Penis Beaker. Maui. Cancel the cheque. Mexican house thief.

All these can be found with a quick read through the classics page. I think that was the first section I read when I joined.

The fact you cannot edit your posts so you look like an idiot for posting about naive ham...

Starting paragraphs with;

So, this just happened.

Especially when it was a planned event like a holiday, rather than an unheralded event that couldn't have been forseen.

No the two weeks in Majorca didn't 'just happen' you booked it on boxing Day and have boring everyone rigid with it for 8 months.

Are there that many new people to MN? This thread gets done every few months. Can't we just resurrect older, similar threads?

All the stupid abbreviations!

Loads of the ones previously mentioned!

I hate the baby name threads asking "if I like (name) what else will I like?" HOW THE FUCK DO I KNOW?!

Or "a brother for (name)?" YOU DON'T HAVE TO PICK MATCHING NAMES FOR THEM

"Sibset" THEY ARE INDIVIDUAL HUMANS, NOT PART OF A SET LIKE CUTLERY OR SOMETHING

Not using a pronoun or definite article before the word baby. As in, 'take baby to the doctors'. Just sounds unbearably twee to me.

Thank fuck I'm not the only one. I HATE this. Unless Dirty Dancing or Rock-a-bye-baby were based on your child, baby is not a name.

I don't hate the initialisms but sometimes I get the wrong idea because I can't tell whether someone is talking about their Darling Fiance, Father or Friend. Same with BF. Boyfriend or Best Friend.

"He's telling you who he is. Listen" I dislike this only because it gets trotted out so frequently. It seems to me that people are trying to give groundbreaking advice without realising it's already been done to death.

Big girl pants
Grabs pop corn
Hoiks bosoms

And the 'name changed but regular , penis beaker etc '

I hate hate hate the 'handholding' No no-one can hold your hand it's not possible through a screen we can however support or chat to you. Requests for a hand hold usually followed by a ton of posts saying 'hand holding here' or 'I'm holding your hand' Oh do fuck off

You're all heart red glitter

Somebody used a phrase on here not so long ago, can't remember the posters name, but I thing it summed up the majority of Mumsnet
" ooh somebody does something differently from how I do it, better do my nut " 😂😂

Katedotness,
"The fact you cannot edit your posts so you look like an idiot for posting about naive ham..."

Love the image of a naive ham!
Ham, opening its mail: "Ooh, apparently I've won the Lagos Lottery and just need to send my credit card details for the transfer of funds..."

We're pregnant

Really? You and your male partner?

ThaliaLuxury Spa, thank you. That's started my day with a laugh!