Words that I see on MN that make my teeth itch....

[Leighhalfpennysthigh]

For some reason, since being on MN I have developed an irrational hatred towards certain words that are overused on here....namely, "tat" and "snacks" and I don't know why, because they are words I've used in the past! Now, ugh.

And also, even though I've used it in the title, I hate the phrase "makes my teeth itch" it's almost as bad as "boils my piss".

Does anyone else have words that MN have put them off using? Or am I just a grumpy old unreasonable bag?

Have to admit I’m guilty of a fair few of these ah well!

I’m in agreement with Hun/Hunny, Hub/Hubby/Hubster - but then I refer to my DH (sorry folks!) as my Fella and I’m sure that annoys some!

I get more annoyed at the try-hard posters who insist their child has never let chocolate pass their lips, or never had any “screen time” - just say telly FGS.

Posters who state on threads about trying behaviours displayed by young children that “it wouldn’t fly in my house”, or “I wouldn’t stand for that” without any actual advice to add

My biggest frustration is when posters tell an OP they’re ‘pandering’ to their children if their parenting approach is in anyway different to their own, I would rather pander on occasion to my twin toddlers and have some peace for a few minutes than use every single moment of every single day as a “teaching moment”.

Pud
Bottle of plonk
'd' in front of someone clearly not dear, for example 'dstbx' or 'dmil' in a thread about how awful that person is

My dh has a hobby but it's a bit outing so I'm not going to tell you all. But think repainting lifelike expressions onto the faces of action men and then positioning them on duvet 'mountains' at bedtime.

Get your ducks in a row op!

Run... run for the hills!

Leave the bastard.

Name changed as post quite outing.

Every time someone asks what to wear on a date- always a ‘naice’ top- you usually wear horrible tops?? Really winds me up!!!

Posters ending the wall of text with..

RANT OVER.

Yes, the ‘d’ in front of bloody everything. Ddog, dsil etc. STOP IT.

"Obtuse"

"Are you being deliberately obtuse?"

"That's very obtuse of you."

I always think these people must be really far up their own arses and think that they are right about everything. Even when the tagged poster is being a bit...well...the O word.

"Hello everyone, I'm Mary Fucking Poppins and I'm practically perfect in every way and anyone who disagrees with me and my exceedingly narrow mind and limited emotional intelligence is obtuse"

I find 'are you being deliberately obtuse?' is often used as a catch-all when someone disagrees with you, but can't be bothered or is unable to articulate a detailed response.

Oh fuck and "naice"

And "imaginary friend"/"spaghetti monster" directed at people with a faith. Actually, the deliberate disrespect of that makes me feel sad more than angry.

Any sentence that the person gets the word 'bought' and 'brought' the wrong way round

I bought home some wine - NO you 'brought' home some wine!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh

And "imaginary friend"/"spaghetti monster" directed at people with a faith. Actually, the deliberate disrespect of that makes me feel sad more than angry.

I agree with this too. Sooner or later someone always thinks they're being clever by talking about 'sky fairies' etc. if a poster references religion. You're not clever - if you want to disagree with someone's faith, do it with a modicum of intelligence and respect.

It just means you're an opinionated twat.

I hate 'naice' too, Namechanged, it's so stupid I almost feel embarrassed when I read it on here. Nobody says or writes it in real life. It's like taking the mick out of someone's accent but in a snobbish way - just plain rude.

'twee'. - It sounds like something a 9 year old little girl with a lisp would say. And despite being on here for a couple of years, I still don't even know what the word means.

I'm with posters who hate. "I have a friend, let's call her A". I always want to say.. er..lets not.

I hate Batshit and long time lurker.

Add "pootle" to that. Reminds me of aimless airheads getting in everyone's way

But that's exactly what people who pootle do

I quite like "naice", it seems to sum up the areas populated by affluent, leave-voting, Boris-voting person of a certain age very well.

'Batshit crazy'

Can't abide this

So many people say anyways. I sometimes feel as though I’m in a rerun of Deliverance.

'Oh god, baby name posts which include the official nickname ("nn")'

This is one of my bugbears (cue someone coming on to say they hate
'bugbear'. Or 'cue').

Prissy/smug parenting vocab gets on my nerves. Like 'instil' (or, as I sometimes see it on here, 'install', which is presumably what these parents think they are doing). ''Age appropriate' (useful concept, but the phrase drives me bonkers). 'Routine'. 'We're hot on manners'.

'Lifestyle choice', always, always paired with benefit bashing or some variant thereof.

Agree with @NameChange84 and @ScreamingCosArgosHaveNoRavens - so unkind, so intolerant and I say that as somebody with no discernible religious beliefs myself.

Apostrophes in the wrong place:

"In the 1990's..."
"How many Amelia's do you know"
"My DC's..."

I see this on and off Mumsnet from teachers - who teach our children grammar!!

It drives me absolutely batty but I don't point it out for fear of being one of 'those' people.

Saw another one today that made me feel irrationally angry...

"Vair"

"Vair posh"

"Vair nice"

Eudbduaiuwhbajsuisisjmsiodddnnekskisiwj

Also hate 'Vair'

Less instead of fewer. We was instead of we were. Was you instead of were you. Loose/loosing instead of lose/loosing. Where instead of were.