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?

*jjwelcomd - oh God, the poems . . .

Wow, just wow!
Ducks in row
Entitled/grabby
CF
Ddog/Dcat
DSIL- We know what SIL stands for, you do not need to put a D in front
Have a biscuit

"unmumsnetty" hugs

That "not your monkeys, not your circus" or whatever it is phrase people use.

Have a biscuit doesn't bother me so much, but have my first ever biscuit is really irritating.

Saying 'baby' instead of 'the/your/my baby'

'When baby gets here you'll feel differently' or 'I was putting baby to bed and...'

I know it's trivial, but it winds me the fuck up

Saying " It makes my teeth itch." Teeth don't itch!!!

If you say something makes you stabby you should bog off too.

*Saying 'baby' instead of 'the/your/my baby'

'When baby gets here you'll feel differently' or 'I was putting baby to bed and...'

I know it's trivial, but it winds me the fuck up*

Totally agree! I hate this.

“PICKY TEA”
“GOADY”
“DUCKS IN A ROW”

Wow. Just wow
Ducks in a row
Placemarking
Makes my teeth itch (that's another one, I am not saying it )

Thank you all. I thought LTB meant "Let it be"... Even though middle starts with an i Never questioned it.
Now it all makes sense!

ALSO “on the boob” STOP IT

Sanctimonious people who pretend that they don't gossip about others, don't judge others etc etc. Yeah right.

People who go onto a thread to point out that the poster must lead a boring/charmed life if that was all they had to worry about.

People who respond to a poster having a really shit time with their partner by boasting about her their partner is vastly more superior

Almost all responses to infertile women including the classic why do you post on MN if you don't have children

The crass assumptions that if you don't have children you are out partying, going on holiday every 5 minutes and have stupid amounts of money and you are also irresponsible and not grown up and should never request anything from your parent friends ever.

at the clown/boob imagery...

The whole crossing out shit, that for some bizarre reason you didn't have the balls to just to type minus the crossing out, does my head in. It's usually some kind of insult (esp when used in AIBU posts) and strikes me as supremely passive aggressive.

Not actually directed at you OP, just my genuine MN gripe! I hate it.

Floods of tears.
Talk me down.
We are pregnant.
Let's call him/her..... when explaining who's who.

Oh and also how some people use how we should all support each other cos we're women as a way of shutting down often legitimate criticism.

Or being accused of being jealous to shut down a debate.

Oh and all these hobbies that men have that are identifying. Get over yourself, nobody cares.

It's not a mumsnet saying - but a work one I hate the most in life

"moving forward"

grrrrrr every time I hear some one say that at work I just cringe

Also, some of the expressions such as 'reverse' - what IS a reverse, please? I admit I might not object to it once I actually know what it means.

@VickyEadie A reverse is when someone writes a post/scenario from someone else's point of view but doesn't say so - usually to try and get more people agreeing with them.

Eg. Someone writing "AIBU to do (something or other) to my friend/daughter/MIL/etc" when they are actually the person it is happening to and they know that the other person IBU.

I can't stand ducks in a row. I had never heard that saying before MN.

I can't stand the long posts with no paragraphs and punctuation. So hard to read.

The use of the words "SEN aside..." in a way that doesn't ever stop to consider how it actually is for those kids and families, usually on threads about school and kids' expected levels of independence and social life. There's a 'showing to acknowlege /care but not actually bothering to get involved' that doesn't always stand out but it does irk me often.

I have a soft spot for all these idioms - Mumsnet is like a really ace, really fighty, really clever, really loopy family. Some of the posts & comments and phrases are absolutely maddening, but I immediately leap to MN's defence if anyone IRL dismisses or criticises it, as though it were a wildly intellectual and good-hearted but prickly maiden aunt that put people's backs up.

I know it has been covered several times, but it is so awful I just have to say it again: boobing, boobed, on the boob and any variations thereof.