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AIBU?

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Most over used phrases and sayings in AIBU?

111 replies

FeelingGuiltyAlready · 20/12/2017 19:45

I offer up:

Get a grip

Keep your beak out

I feel sorry for your children

You sound like a bit of a cunt

OP posts:
BulletFox · 20/12/2017 19:47

AIBU?
YANBU?
YABU?

goose1964 · 20/12/2017 19:49

LTB

FeelingGuiltyAlready · 20/12/2017 19:50

LTB is in Relationships surely?

OP posts:
Greenshoots1 · 20/12/2017 19:50

Narc

QOD · 20/12/2017 19:50

No is a complete sentence

PeanutButterIsEverything · 20/12/2017 19:51

And you had children with this man why???

twiney · 20/12/2017 19:52

(Lighthearted)

Tinkerbec · 20/12/2017 19:52

Batshit crazy

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 20/12/2017 19:53

Tinkly laugh (as part of crappy advice: "Say x and then give a tinkly laugh")

You have a DH problem

It's an invitation, not a summons

Get a grip

Go NC

onalongsabbatical · 20/12/2017 19:56

Personal favourites - Are you on glue??
Off you pop, cuntychops!
Fuck off to the far side of fuck, and when you get there, fuck off some more!
I'm fond of naice ham, but I don't think that's very AIBU.

Cocolepew · 20/12/2017 19:58

Wow. Just wow.
I hate that one.

Tinkerbec · 20/12/2017 19:59

Laughed so hard I spat my tea/coffee on the keyboard.

Tinkerbec · 20/12/2017 20:01

Name changed.

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 20/12/2017 20:03

DH has a hobby. I can't say what as it would be outing.

DH works very long hours.

Laiste · 20/12/2017 20:03

Bloody hell bullet i was coming on to say that Grin

Laiste · 20/12/2017 20:04

That was to bullet btw it's not a phrase or saying!

ohnonotanothernewbie · 20/12/2017 20:04

^^this

CauliflowerSqueeze · 20/12/2017 20:06

^^ this times a million

FeelingGuiltyAlready · 20/12/2017 20:07

Oh yes, I absolutely loathe "wow just wow".

I honestly don't understand why AIBU is such a bear pit. If someone is so unsure that they feel moved to ask the question, then that suggests there is some doubt in their mind. So usually the situations are quite subtle really.

Another one is YADDDNBU! Too much of that bollocks.

OP posts:
CauliflowerSqueeze · 20/12/2017 20:07

“I would be spitting with rage” (loosely translated as “I would probably roll my eyes once and ignore it”)

NightRaven52 · 20/12/2017 20:10

Report to 101/council

astoundedgoat · 20/12/2017 20:12

"You should nip this in the bud" - usually said after a poster says her partner has been a total cunt to her for about 12 years or has just been found out shagging her sister for the last six months.

"You dodged a bullet there" - usually said after a poster has had to throw out her partner of several years and father of her 5 children after he has had an affair/has confessed to drug habit/revealed bigamous marriage in Kettering.

On these threads you never want to be the pedant asking if the poster fully understands either phrase, because it's often in the context of a thread where the OP is genuinely seeking advice, but still. #deepbreaths

(This is what this thread is for, right?)

putonyourdancingshoes · 20/12/2017 20:12
Xmas Biscuit
Babababababybel23 · 20/12/2017 20:13

Poor kid

astoundedgoat · 20/12/2017 20:14

Nope. It was most overused on AIBU, not most annoying on Mumsnet. Sorry. Blush

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