What MNisms irrationally annoy you?

[wellBeehivedWoman]

I know IABU to complain about something so petty but I don't care. Come and share your trivial mumsnet annoyances! What phrases / abbreviations / MN colloquialisms drive you crazy? I'll start:

1. Any time anyone uses the phrases 'boobing', 'boobed' etc when referring breastfeeding. Not only does this give me a mental image of a clown squirting milk from a comedy flower in their lapel, it also has a kind of juvenile, jolly-hockeysticks false cheer that makes me want to die.

1. Pg as an abbreviation of pregnant. No idea why I hate this. Maybe because it doesn't really resemble the full word? Irrationally despise it.

1. 'Little one' instead of baby or child. Too twee to be allowed. V similar to the phrase 'our little family', usually used when someone has a new baby and wants the equivalent of a papal enclave to keep friends and family at arms length. Absolutely loathesome because I am a grumpy and unreasonable cow

Any others that really wind you up?

I hate 'toxic toxic friend/partner mil whoever I just hate it!

@MsFrizzle I agree so much!!!

The regularly appearing MN reply along the lines of 'on this thread people are posting x, but a week last Thursday posters said y!'

As if MN responders are a handful of really fickle women, rather than the posters to a particular thread being a random selection out of literally thousands of people who use MN, all of whom have different opinions.

Oh piss off @SalemBlackCat

You sound like a right nobhead.

Starting a thread with the word "So..."

The aspiring creative writers who put "dear Reader..." in their replies to emphasise shock/delight/horror at something.

And all the twee, ridiculous terms for vagina needs to stop! Grown women using fanjo, min-min vajay need to stop

Mooncup : (ugh) please keep some stuff personal or post in the appropriate topic
Nom nom: it's an adults' forum keep child talk for your child
There's loads more but there's a couple for starters.
I expect a flaming and instruction to don my hard hat. Oh and biscuits, I am expecting those too
Over usage of text speak and emojis

While I haven't spat my tea over my keyboard, can I just say that I did laugh inside my head when someone upthread said she thought LTB meant Let it Be! The Relationships Board would be completely different if that's what LTB meant!

My pet hate is when women call their boyfriend their DP when they've been together for only a few months.

When someone says they're going to pull up/put on their "big girl's pants".

Also when someone who has written a perfectly reasonable response to a poster is accused of getting "in a froth" or "worked up" simply because they have disagreed.

Salem has just invented Yanksplaining

Lol @Kiwiinkits I am not a yank.

"Also when someone who has written a perfectly reasonable response to a poster is accused of getting "in a froth" or "worked up" simply because they have disagreed."
Oh definitely.....

"Mind your own business"--said to people who are concerned about friends and close family members.

Oh dear yanksplaining that's a first for me
How about torysplaining ?
You heard that here first

Oh GOD yes, the vagina/vulva correctors.

Do they get equally pedantic if someone says "stomach ache" (instead of the anatomically accurate "intestine pain")?

WE KNOW WHAT THE ANATOMICALLY CORRECT WORD IS, THANK YOU.

"We see you". It is new.

You either sound like a numpty or it is vaguely threatening and only one step away from "We are coming for you".

I usually just write the person off as a wanker though.

Another for 'just that really'

Your house, your rules
Your DC, your rules
Your body, your rules
Your dog, your rules
Your hair, your rules

'rules' for bloody everything

Financial Abuse. If a man doesn't pour every single penny of his earnings into a joint account and treat it all as 'family money' he is financially abusive. Any woman caught up in this kind of situation must call Woman's Aid...and start getting her ducks in a row (if he's not willing to share all his money he is having an affair/planning to leave)

Normal, every day occurrences in a relationship are frequently described as a 'red flag': "We went shopping and DP said we should go to Asda's rather than Sainsbury"
MN: "Is he always so controlling? This kind of behaviour is definitely a red flag"
MN2: "OP, It's Asda not Asda's (sorry for the derail..)

What I really hate on Mumsnet is when people come on to these sorts of threads, quote the language of adult children of dysfunctional and abusive families (no contact, gaslighting, narcissistic personality disorder and so on) and bemoan the fact that it all gets thrown around so easily these days. As someone who did grow up in an abusive family, whose mother is very likely NPD, who got gaslighted the whole time, who eventually went no contact - I really wish that it was true that it was all anyone ever talked about because maybe then I would have realised earlier how abusive my mother was and still is and would have had insight into the anxiety and depression that I have lived with from such an early age that it just feels like my character now. I would have known to cut my mother out of my life before she ever met my children (I thank God every day that they were still small and that despite making excuses for her to myself I was still smart enough never to leave her alone with them.) I know for a fact that the only people who you will put off using these terms, by complaining about it on a "things I hate about Mumsnet" thread are people who have been genuine victims of abuse. It's a symptom of abuse that you don't believe you were abused, and you don't expect others to believe you, because you've been told - gaslighted, in fact - that what happened to you didn't happen, and if it did it wasn't abuse, and anyway you deserved it. And when people come on here and condemn the use of the language we use to describe it, they are attacking abuse victims, whether or not that was their intention.

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my annoyance at some terms is entirely rational

And people who put fuck of Daily Mail in the username or post as if the Daily Mail cannot use cut and paste.

That circus/monkeys one is the actual worst.

Also wow. Just wow.

And “so what did the police say when you called them” type posts. Horribly passive aggressive.

Messianic belief in moon cups

Vulva insistence

Endless trans threads

References to mysterious non disclosed hobbies

Poorly, for example, is a word used to mean unwell by a vast swathe of the north of England

Well I never knew this was a northern thing. I thought the use of poorly was widespread in English to mean unwell. And I do know that there is great regional variation in the English language. Try buying breadcakes in Birmingham or London for example.

I find Americanisms like gotten, can I get or many others I can't remember right now irritating. Maybe I should go on a US based chat forum and tell them how wrong they are .