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To ask , what is your least favourite word/phase?

422 replies

SteveAs · 07/03/2018 18:54

I will start

Beast from the east- just cringe

OP posts:
CaptainCabinets · 08/03/2018 11:34

"Turned around and said", why are they turning?

Myself/yourself - just fuck off with that

Yous/yourn

At the end of the day

DP says something is 'horseshit' when he is displeased by it and I don't know why but it just makes me want to strangle him Blush

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 11:46

And I was like....

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 11:50

And I says...and she says...and so I says

ad infinitum

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 11:50

And so on and so forth

LuckyBitches · 08/03/2018 11:52

'Passed' instead of of 'died'.

OutrageousFlavourLikeFreesias · 08/03/2018 11:52

I automatically downgrade my opinion of anyone who uses "methinks" or "albeit".

beguilingeyes · 08/03/2018 11:53

‘Like’

It’s become a verbal tick. I can’t help it - I count it in people’s sentences.

Have you seen Miriam Margoles (sp) correcting Will.I.Am on Graham Norton every time he says 'like' (almost every other word). It's very funny.

LimonViola · 08/03/2018 11:58

Yous is awful but never heard of yourn CaptainCabinets!

Agree 'passed' for died. So weirdly sanitised. 'Died' isn't a dirty word.

CaptainCabinets · 08/03/2018 12:00

Limon it's the WORST!

It's not mine, it's yourn. Omg Envy

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 12:00

Oh god, there is now a “pest from the west”

Argh

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 12:01

Get a grip

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 12:01

Oh my days

LuckyBitches · 08/03/2018 12:03

'Veggies'

InterstellarSleepingElla · 08/03/2018 12:09

It is what it is

And

Talk me down (I don't mind it so much when it is someone who is in a true crisis but when it is used in the context "talk me down .... from buying cheap cheese (obviously that is just a bizarre example but no more irritating than some of the threads if seen lead with that ....)

Well I glad I got that off my chest 😂😂

ToothyMcPuthy · 08/03/2018 12:10

Prep
Hun
Hubby
My other half - no, you're a whole person.

BevBrook · 08/03/2018 12:15

Really? People who say, "Really?" in a snarky way. So, for example, "Another cake sale. Really?"

My ten year old does this, it drives me mad. He must have got it from somewhere, I don't know where.

MyMarmitePurrs · 08/03/2018 12:16

Hollibobs - could cheerfully strangle my other half when he says it - what the hell is wrong with holiday ???

LeighaJ · 08/03/2018 12:19

annandale
"'Everything happens for a reason'
IT SO SO FUCKING DOESN'T."

It's something people say when I don't think they know what else to say and have forgotten that they were also born with the ability to simply shut the fuck up rather than spew out drivel like that.

Frogletmamma · 08/03/2018 12:21

LITERALLY aargh

Farfel · 08/03/2018 12:24

'Passed' instead of of 'died'

Written as 'past'.

Littlechocola · 08/03/2018 12:24

Gifted. ‘The table was gifted to us’ ( Give, given, gift).
Sourced. ‘We sourced the wood from a local scrap yard’. (Found, purchased).
Foodie. ‘I’m such a foodie’. (Greedy fucker).

annandale · 08/03/2018 12:26

'peter Stringfellow on a beach in a white thong'

Aargh! Considered, you are an evil genius.

LeighaJ · 08/03/2018 12:27

'Wee'

The first time a midwife asked me if I could "Do a wee?" while handing me an empty cup, I probably looked at her like she just said "Don't worry your daughter will grow into her tail." 😑

If you want my urine to test then just ask for it like I'm an adult and you're a medical professional rather than like I'm a 5 year old and you're my teacher. Angry

Littlechocola · 08/03/2018 12:28

Forgot DS’s latest.. ‘I know, right’. For everything!
Time for bed. I know right.
You need to leave soon. I know right.
You did really well in your test. I know right.
We need to go shopping. I know right.

Grr

RoseWhiteTips · 08/03/2018 12:33

Giving me grief