To politely request MN stop using...

[Chifi]

The phrase "get your ducks in a row"

Ffs.

Locally to me they had to cull the male ducks as there were so many they were drowning the females as they hold them under water to mate with them.

From Twitter:

“Mathematically speaking any two ducks are already in a row. In order to have your ducks in a row, always own exactly two ducks”

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You need to quote that on all the DIAR Posts.

Yes I agree. "Ducks in a row," "NARCS," "No is a complete sentence," "50/50 housework," "CFs" - ban the lot of them! And who the hell in real life ever describes avoiding someone as "Go no contact?" It's another planet on here.

This is the mental image that the phrase gives me.

Yup, get your ducks in a row.
V irritating phrase

Along with

“when someone tells you who they are , listen’

Gaslighting

Classic narcissist

Free half hour with a solicitor

But my all time MN phrase that makes me want to spit is, in the face of extreme hardship or trauma

“Have a cup of hot sweet tea”

Quack! (I don’t hear an echo!)

Ducks in a row - I thought it was row (rhyming with now) as in you needed them as your back-up!!

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You got it! Don't forget to enroll in the Freedom program. Ring WA too

My ducks won't get into a row,
Should I log with 101?
Call 111 for advice?
Go no contact?!
Maybe one duck has SEN, and it can't line up properly, you wouldn't be able to tell from the small snapshot you have of their lives.

Chifi

I don't have any ducks. But if I did why would I want them to be antagonised and arguing? And what should they be rowing about?

References to Pearl clutching, and spitting coffee over the keyboard should be banned.

Funny crack at people going through domestic violence? Mind you don't cut yourself on all that edge.

"Gaslighting" and "safeguarding" have always made my skin crawl.

^ Rubylennox Agree re pearl-clutching. I have, regretfully, been on another thread where people think it's OK to swear at some random woman. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a pearl-clutcher. So, so not true.

From Twitter:

“Mathematically speaking any two ducks are already in a row. In order to have your ducks in a row, always own exactly two ducks”

I have two ducks, (Gerry and Duckypoos) so my ducks are always in a row.

Gerry's not averse to a bit of interspecies shagging either, much to the annoyance of my hens.

I hate most mumsnetisms actually. I don't know why I come here every day for ten years

Upstart. Nobody is making fun of domestic violence. It's the phrases thrown out on these posts. If getting my ducks in a row got me out of my DV situation 5 years ago it would have been great, but ducks don't help.

I offer up the have a spa day or get your highlights done mn panacea to any catastrophe
Like one just has the money/inclination/time to go for spa day or highlights
Nae leccy?nae food? Bailiffs at the door?get some caramel highlights and spa day