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To not know what this means?

46 replies

Beautifulblue · 05/08/2018 21:47

Biscuit I'm intrigued... think I've learnt most of mumsnet abbreviations now but not sure what a biscuit means!! Help a girl out?
OP posts:
Aintnothingbutaheartache · 05/08/2018 21:48

No comment

RosaMallory · 05/08/2018 21:49

I think it means 'come back when you've got a real problem ' or 'stop wasting my time '.

Bunchofdaffodils · 05/08/2018 21:51

“You take the biscuit!” Means someone has said something very, rude, selfish, surprising

SecretNutellaFix · 05/08/2018 21:52

Biscuit is used as shorthand for "no comment"

Singlenotsingle · 05/08/2018 21:52
Grin
WomanInBoots · 05/08/2018 21:53

It's a biscuit? I thought it was a flower.

fruitshot · 05/08/2018 22:08

Never knew that was a biscuit!

underthewillow · 05/08/2018 22:09

I thought it was ‘feed the troll!’ 😂

missmouse101 · 05/08/2018 22:13

It always makes me want to nibble on a jammy dodger.

MadeForThis · 05/08/2018 22:15

Always makes me think of a bumhole

meditrina · 05/08/2018 22:16

'Calm down and have a biscuit'

Disquieted1 · 05/08/2018 22:18

I thought it was the Japanese flag.

DroningOn · 05/08/2018 22:19

Onto the next one..... Can someone explain the "is this a reverse" type comment?

UpstartCrow · 05/08/2018 22:20

Gordon Brown was on Mumsnet and some numpty asked him 'what's your favourite biscuit'. He wouldn't comment. Thats why its shorthand for 'no comment'.

Bugjune · 05/08/2018 22:23

It's a tit, surely?

Rebecca36 · 05/08/2018 22:24

It's something to be dunked into tea or coffee.

Aridane · 05/08/2018 22:25

But it’s not used as no comment but as an insult to posters...

Justgivemeasoddingname · 05/08/2018 22:25

Isn't the reverse thingy when someone posts a scenario, being the victim, but in RL they are actually the peretrator- who in their story they have described as the third person??

Bluntness100 · 05/08/2018 22:26

I don't think it's as polite as no comment, when someone says have a biscuit, it's more like go fuck yourself. The poster isn't being nice to you.

itis · 05/08/2018 22:28

I thought it was a pineapple ring Confused

Ellie56 · 05/08/2018 22:28

I've never understood "reverse " threads. Why do people do it? What is the point? Hmm

Bluntness100 · 05/08/2018 22:29

A reverse is this

My mum did x y and z. What do you think of it.

When actually it's the mum posting. It's that kind of thing, when you reverse who you are in the op.

argumentativefeminist · 05/08/2018 22:29

I always read it like "here, have a biscuit to cheer you up because your problem is so very sad" but sarcastically because the problem is actually a load of meaningless crap. So it's like the sarky equivalent of flowers for people who don't actually have real problems.

Notevilstepmother · 05/08/2018 22:29

Reverse is when someone has fallen out with someone else and posts it from the other point of view in a distorted way so that people will agree.

DramaAlpaca · 05/08/2018 22:30

It's certainly nothing nice. It was originally used to mean no comment, but these days it's mostly used when someone thinks a poster is deliberately being goady or a bit of an arse.