Phrases to be consigned to 2018

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Mine:

toxic

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call out

Nonsense of the highest order. Anyone else?

Re: snapped and farted. I remember it vaguely, I didn’t think it was that funny myself. The OP wrote one of those OP’s that’s just a big wall of text. If I remember rightly she was angry at her boyfriend and she ‘snapped and farted’. As in snapped at her boyfriend but she put ‘and farted’ in there as well. It was a nonsense post that I think was deleted in the end.

'think' instead of 'like' or 'such as'. Especially when the poster could simply say what they're talking about.

"I was making a thinly-sliced-meat sandwich (think ham)"

Trigger warning. You know it's going to be something pathetic.

I'm obviously alone with snapped and farted but I still find the thread hilarious. It's in classics so preserved. If you don't find toilet humour funny then it's not for you... I still see the expression used in threads even now

Embarrassed by boyfriend www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/3277729-Embarrassed-by-boyfriend

I'm surprised people don't like "ducks in a row". I love a quirky British idiom. Says so much, so succinctly.

The only phrases that spring to mind as annoyances are those which people use on here which they think are cleverer than they really are, such as "are you on glue?" and some of the syntax errors. I quite like the modern "super" as I've always used the word. Teenage slang doesn't count as it's designed not to be understood outside its sphere.

Hollibobs

In media terms "x SLAMS such and such" what ever happened to had a fight or tiff

Calling out - why does talking to someone about an issue need to be some big confrontational drama.
Drama Llama - I'm not sure what this term is about or where it's from but it makes my toes curl.

Literally. Like.
Makes the speaker sound thick.

OH I AM GLAD TO HAVE SEEN THIS THREAD.

GIFT/GIFTED

I gifted her a

PIL gifted us

It's I gave/we were given

STOP with the mother fucking GIFTING

It's a stealth boast humblebrag

OOO LOOK AT ME AND MY LARGESSE

What happened to "bought a present"

It's wankiness in its extreme and is part of the narcissism generation so that the present reflects well on the giver and not how it benefits the receiver

IT REALLY FUCKING NEEDS TO DIE and now I'll go back through the thread and high five anyone else who has brought this 2018 atrocity up.

give your head a wobble

catch yourself on

are you on glue/meth/ [insert stimulant of choice]?

To be fair, these are all MN specific.

Thanks, GrouchyKiwi. I'd never heard that one before.

I agree with "swapping out". I'm not a fan of "waiting on" either, what's wrong with "waiting for"?

And I think this is American English, but it has to go - "I could care less".

@MrsMoastyToasty @LordNibbler and @BigMosquito

Massive high five for also mentioning the worst phenomenon of 2019 : GIFTING

ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS

And quite often makes no sense.

As seen on another thread about upcycling unwanted presents

"Why don't you gift it?"

WHAT HAPPENED TO JUST GIVING SOMETHING AWAY.

How is it a positive self reflecting act of goodwill if you yourself don't want it and are just looking for an unsuspecting person to dump it on

It's repackaging shite and making it seem like a nice thing to do

Utterly enraged whenever I see it

"our little family" is right up there with "making memories" : bleagh!

Our little family
Woke
They've had their turn
Gifting
Hosting

Oh God, yes to "Give your head a wobble". "Catch yourself on" has been around much longer than MN has existed.

Cattenberg, “waiting on” is used in Scotland where we’d say , “waiting for” in England.
The Scot at a bus stop is waiting “on” his bus - to me, that should mean he was serving it dinner!
When I first moved to Scotland I found a lot of differences in the language. Scots go for a “ carry out” instead of a takeaway. They say he “has went away” instead of he’s gone. They say “the rain’s on” instead of “it’s raining”. Oh, and they “boak” instead of vomit, and “dry boak” instead of retch!

Triggered has been a perfectly valid thing for people with MH issues for a long time, eg thinking about your triggers, why they trigger you etc. It seems to have become a term now used for 'that causes me to feel (anything)".

One. Word. Sentences. (e.g. Oh. My. God)

Gifting is truly awful, but regifting sums up rewrapping and giving an unwanted present to someone else perfectly.

Extra.

The young 'uns in my work use it for bloody everything.

Snowflake
Entitled....yawn!

So #blessed with my little familam

'huge' and 'enormous' as in Claudia on SCD 'huge love' and 'enormous luck'. Sometimes Tess tries it and doesn't quite pull it off.

While I'm thinking of tv, IACGMOOH's 'smashed it' can get to fuck too

Got my hair did

📣 'I suffer with...'

[then insert important-sounding term / acronym eg 'FOBR - Fear Of Being Rejected' that acts as a way of pathologising emotions which most people would describe as 'I feel quite X when X happens]

In fact I am wholly ready to consign all pathologisation of normal feelings to the 2018 dustbin. But that doesn't really count as a word or phrase.