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

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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?

Foof

Calling a hot drink a brew.

"PJs" (pyjamas - the word and the item -are fine. It's just the infantile twee abbreviation that I loathe)

"Brew" (inexplicably hate the term when used for tea)

"Huge salad" (always "huge" as a virtue signal for the poster)

"Vile" and/or "you sound like hard work" (just because they're awful)

I hate it when posters say "think" as in "I have two children with traditional names. Think Sarah and Edward".

I don't know why but it just annoys me!

YES! Me too. Hate it.

Vile
Munching

Spa day.

Never been on one, they sound boring as fuck. But after being on here, the idea makes me feel stabby.

I also get completely irrationally annoyed at:

"Pack up" (for packed lunch)
"Press" or "Hot press" (for cupboard/airing cupboard)
"Chapping" (for knocking on a door")

Has zero impact on me, but still irritates me!

And yy to the poster who said about over-justifying choices to preempt people jumping on them.

I know it's not unique to Mumsnet, but 'DTD.' Are there pre-schoolers here, that we have to call it that?

Entitled. People are entitled to something or have a sense of entitlement but are not merely entitled.

Judgy - lazy stuff, it should be 'judgemental'.

As someone has already mentioned - “picky bits”/“picky tea”

'shit or get off the pot', just fuck right off with this one.

Oh, and “princessing”

People who refer to “mum” and “baby” instead of THE mum and THE baby.

“Does baby feed a lot? What does mum think?” type thing. Health visitor patronising bollocks.

Any variation on 'why did you chose to have kids with this man' on serious threads about abuse and such. Victim blaming nonsense, no one 100% knows exactly how someone will change or know the things people hide about themselves.

Sanpro. I know it's a helpful word, as a catch-all to avoid writing out every option or the exact type you use but it looks like a name for life insurance or a drug company.

People who pick that one tiny inconsequential detail from a post. 'My house burned down the day I got fired and my car was stolen and my leg fell off, aibu for asking my sister to help make the DCs tea' and a line of responses faking confusion about cups of tea instead of a meal or picking apart a typo or of course several answers of just 'How old are the DC?'

'Long time lurker'

'Gifted' gift is a noun, not a verb.

Here are some verbs: 'Gave' 'given' 'giving'

Especially annoying for some reason when it's not really something I'd normally classify as a 'present', as in, 'my mother gifted me left over potatoes from her garden'.

That said, I find people correcting other people's spelling and grammar far more lacking in class than any grammatical or spelling error so I would never point it out in the thread itself. Thank you for starting this thread so I can get it off my chest!!

Oh god- and 'boob' 'boobing' and any variation thereof in reference to breastfeeding

Wolfing, scoffing, munching, chomping..

Usually used to describe a partner who has deigned to eat something out of the cupboard that the OP might have thought about eating within the next year.

@sycamore54321 I've just woke my husband up laughing so much at this!! 😂

Does anyone think that the OP would otherwise cross the country to go to someone else’s local library for toddler story hour?

Blobby Also used by people who 'sip' their lattes and 'nibble' or 'graze' their single square of 'good quality dark chocolate'.

At least 70% cocoa of course Vicious.

“Very”. Used to ensure a degree of passive aggressive superiority. Never written in italics but I always imagine it to be.

Are you very thick? Is you partner very hard of thinking?

Oh, and “hard of thinking”!

@Everydaylife YUCK, I worked with someone who used to say picky bits and it grossed me out every time.

Brew - it's regional, I don't get why that annoys people. I find my teeth itch when someone refers to a cheese batch as a cheese roll or bap, but I'm not a dick and I know that there are regional names for a batch that are not the same as what i call it.

I loathe the expression "sups" as an abbreviation for supper (which is a snack before bed where I'm from, but I can see that it means tea/dinner/evening meal elsewhere). Just say bloody supper. It's the equivalent of calling it "din dins". Stupid.

I also get the rage with people who claim to have spat tea on their keyboard or woken the baby/dog/husband/Madge in the next street because they find something funny or outrageous. Really?? You must have very loud laughs and an easily startled household. Even Billy Connolly has never made me laugh so loudly that DS was disturbed as a baby.

I'm also grumpy and probably unreasonably sour this evening though!