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!

Just going to leave this here.....
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/3042926-Cute-names-you-call-your-baby-when-feeding-boobie-bandit

Femella sorry but that one warrants a boak 😂😂

I know it's not just a Mumsnet phrase but I can't stand the repeated use of Snowflake.

There was a thread recently where a poster referred to the OPs child as DSnowflake in every message they posted, just give it a rest!

give your head a wobble
sanpro
take in ironing
ducks in a row
or people who use the naice reference

“No is a complete sentence OP” and “just keep saying ‘That won’t work for me’”. What kind of world are these people living in where they can refuse anyone and everyone without ever giving a reason?!

Fenella, my favourite of all replies on that thread;

I sometimes think of her as my demon dumpling when she's being a fuss pot

I think that ticks most of my boxes on this thread.
Fuss pot = nightmare.

If someone said to me to real life 'did you mean to be so rude ?' I would reply 'yes I fucking did you arsehole'

I hate that saying.....

Fuming. Literally fuming.

Only here are there so many fumes rising from "livid" bodies.

(usually over nothing more than the lovely old checkout lady asking if they need help to pack their bags. "Do I LOOK like I can't use my OWN arms?!!"

I used to think that, peachgreen. The day i realised I can really just say No was amazing.

Boss emailed everybody calling for a meeting. Not an important one. I emailed "terribly sorry, boss I can't attend". Answer: Thanks for letting me know Pax, I'll email you if anything important for you comes up. Colleague, same sort of role, more important reason for non-attendance emails the boss telling her why. Answer: a bollocking with the instruction to be more organised and plenty of suggestions how she could ensure to attend.

Same for favour declining. "Sorry, I can't" is fine. "Sorry, I can't, Mila has tennis" is followed by "can't you drop her off first and hand her over to Mary".

I now just say No and mean it. Saying yes is more fun now as well, because I really mean it.

End of

Oh and

Family traditions

Family time - in a context where it sounds more like a punishment

This face:

It seems to be trotted out for everything these days from a patronising 'oh dear' to 'wow you're unreasonable' and, to me, is really really annoying!

Also:

Hubby
Hubs
Hubster

Makes my teeth itch.

Sanpro

Arguments about vulva v vagina. Everyone knows it's a fanjo (kidding)

Have my first

Anything about popping somewhere. I hate 'pop to the shops', or similar.

On flip side I love catsbum mouth. Use it more!

@cathf

I think people are living a fantasy life on MN sometimes, when they are confident, striding and take no shit from anyone.
In real life, they are actually nothing like that

100% this.

I believe the more gobby and assertive people are on here, the less they are like this in real life.

I also struggle to believe the spectacular life people claim they have, and how so many people are highly qualified, high-flying professionals with a gardener, a cleaner, and a butler. So many incredibly busy professionals, yet they seem to find time to spend 6 hours a day on mumsnet. There are also a lot of teachers and doctors on here. Yet I bet in real life, no-one could find a teacher or a doctor who uses mumsnet.

Going back to annoying sayings. I hate DH too and DD, and DGD! And don't even get me started on DDOG! PMSL! That is a new kind of weird!

So many incredibly busy professionals, yet they seem to find time to spend 6 hours a day on mums-net

Never underestimate the crushing dullness of office work

@tippz I know what you're saying about professionals. I mean, it's not like a significant majority of mothers work part-time or, given that there are just a few mums on here, they are on maternity leave. Next you'll be saying this is MUMSnet.

Never underestimate the crushing dullness of office work

Office work??? Oh but they are super busy high flying professionals with fancy illustrious careers, travelling the world, and living their super dooper jet setting lives.

Surely THAT is not boring!

Being at home all day, and not having the life and career they claim to have would possibly be boring though.

"Trotted out" I hate. Makes me think of some sort of wierd pig line up for some reason!
Anything like "picky tea", "nibbly bits" or, the worst, "picky bits" genuinely makes me feel sick.
"Cool wife" because it's usually used by women to put other women down for having different relationship boundaries.
"Funds" or "spends". Just say money!
Posters who have a sob story prepared if they are found to be unreasonable.
Posts where the smug OP just wants a pat on the back.
Loads more but I'm going to bed now!

Oh it's boring all right

Lawyer / boring and frustrating and tedious
Accountant \ dealing with wrongly filed data and endless tax and payment problems
Sales - constant rejection
Consultant / rejection and failure
Management / dealing with arseholes and poor performance

And most people scratch a
Living in major cities anyway !

That's my glass is half empty opinion anyway

Oh but they are super busy high flying professionals with fancy illustrious careers, travelling the world, and living their super dooper jet setting lives

Surely you only know all the above because they're carrying around a take-away coffee.....?

posters who have a sob story prepared if they are found to be unreasonable

Yes . And you can never ever call them
On it

I learnt that the hard way

When people refer to general household shite as "admin"

E.g. - "I do 75% of the childcare, work 40 hours a week and do the household admin".

How much "admin" can a house possibly have unless you're running a business from it?? I have visions of a woman sat there in a little office sorting through piles of paperwork, making millions of phone calls and compiling folders of documents on a daily basis! In my house the "admin" consists of opening a letter, briefly scanning its contents and then chucking it in a drawer. Takes two minutes!

@stopfuckingshoutatme THIS 'i just shot my neighbour because she blinked at me i hate her she's so creepy her presence ruined my life aibu' after yes yabu comes back with 'meant to add i used to have issues with food, i have 20 kids my boiler just broke and i've self diagnosed myself with a chronic anxiety condition which is cuntitis but it's anxiety have a heart you bully and know that i am never responsible for my actions because i am a VICTIM of ANXIETY. P.s. Sorry to anyone who found this triggering re boiler - i'm just all over the place right now. Any hand holds gratefully accepted.' In real life it would be acceptable to tell these people to fuck off. Mumsnet is wildly off the mark sometimes.

quite

I'm an academic. I procrastinate for Britain.

I don't like "only on MN". Many of us meet much the same people day in day out. On MN, the variety is bigger; and it often turns out our own niche has different rules to the wider world.

That said, I love towel changing threads. Hourly or annually with little in between and disgust at the slovenliness/ wastefulness of the wrong sort. Peppered with "only on MN" of course.

Perhaps filing towels and socks in the right drawer is part of household admin, ProverbialOuthouse?