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?

Are you incandescent with rage?
Have a hot sweet tea.

Has anyone said spa day yet?

"is this a reverse?"

If someone does something you don't agree with.

But also people who write scenarios as a reverse. Usually very unsympathetically to the person there meant to represent so it's really obviously a reverse.

Wellbehived .. Yes.

It was out of my mouth before I knew it but I actually said to somebody, pushing in front of me in a queue , "Did you mean to be so rude" . It came from nowhere but it did defuse the situation as I looked shocked and laughed . We ended up chatting in the end..

Mn at its worst

Sorry, 'they're' not 'there'

the majority of acronyms on the conception and pregnancy board annoy me.

DTD - just say you had sex. You're an adult. The worst one I saw was BD, or 'baby dance'. 🤢 AF for period. I felt I couldn't actually read most of the threads on the conception board due to the huge amount of acronyms.

Quite a lot recently.

HTH after some sanctimoniously patronising.

‘It’s gender, not sex’ when someone on the pregnancy boards asks to have a guess of their gender scan )

Related to the above, some original smartass will chime in with ‘its a baby’

‘I’ve found my people’ 😂 althoughbthos is not exclusive to mn.

Picky tea

Sanpro drives me nuts I scroll past/ click off threads i can't stick it,

Referring to private parts as foof, boobed to sleep it’s a teeth grinder. referring to ones children as m beautiful little boy or girl..

Oh yeah and “posting for traffic..”

People who add to a thread to placemark - use the watch this thread function fgs rather than add reems of pages before the op posts again!
Ducks in a row
Failure to use google before starting a thread.
Starting a thread and never returning
Sanpro
Vulva
The DC - just say kids/children. Actually D anything is annoying.

I absolutely hate ‘batshit’ and ‘batshit crazy’

I'm seconding "just that really"

It does my head in!!!!!

Just remembered another one I hate - people turning 'mumsnet' into a verb (e.g. 'Tell DH you're having a bath and mumsnetting for a bit' or 'I'm going to have a cup of tea and mumsnet then get to the shops'). For some reason that drives me mad.

Foof yes, also toot! Just seems pathetic from an adult tbh.

Picky bits

Vile

I think you'll find that... Just comes across as sanctimonius. No, I won't find that dear Sophia is miles ahead of her class in reading and due to be knighted by the Queen for it. I don't care.

Exclusion

Head tilt, are you on glue, tinkly laugh - people using these seem to think these are bomb proof arguments and they'll gobsmack everyone with their wit

People who post whole lyrics of songs in a posted reply. People who make up poems in response to a post. Both give me the rage.

Those titles where the poster is " absolutely fucking raging/fuming " usually over something that doesn't warrant either.

An old one but I sigh whenever I see "No is a complete sentence".

"Cool wives" gives me blinding rage though.

Lots already referred to on this thread plus anyone who writes 'dear reader... '. It, without fail, makes the poster sound idiotic.

I am often baffled by posters who claim 'never to have experience' or 'never seen' very common things. Such as sexism, or another form of discrimination.

How everyone automatically has dementia/sen. Some people are just dicks you know

"Interesting first post OP." They could have name changed you fucknugget.

Don’t mind the “d” stuff mostly- dh, dd etc. But when people just use it instead of children - all the dcs were in the playground screaming, I have 2 dcs. That. You’ve just said “all the dear childrens” or “2 dear childrens”.
It just grates for some reason

Cancel the cheque is getting irritating