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?

In reference to the people who don't like the use of 'dessert'- I totally get it, but to me, 'Pudding' is British slag and I find it really cutesy and annoying.

Most parts of the English speaking world call the sweet course you eat after dinner 'dessert'. Not all mumsnet users were raised in the UK. For them Pudding is a specific kind of dessert (ie a wet cake!)

Cake and custard?

Haven't RTFT

"Boobing".

FUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK OOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Ah that's better. As you were.

@Soon2BeMumof3 let's be friends

As a mother. Or anyone who thinks we are interested in what their husband has to say on any given subject.

"bits and pits" - makes me feel a bit sick.

'Methinks' - irritating af

'Ye Gods!' - SO forced and affected-sounding

"Hubby" and "simples" to a lesser degree I dislike the word "snacks"

"Jesus wept". An overused phrase.

@turnthebiglightoff

Most parts of the English speaking world call the sweet course you eat after dinner 'dessert'

I think we need to start a separate thread about this.

Everyone I know (in the English-speaking world, that is) calls it "pudding", which is (in my view) correct.

Virtue Signalling

Only ever heard this on here and it annoys me so much!

Oh yes princessing. Why would a grown woman use that term?

Pudding makes me think the writer is a palid, doughy looking Verucca Salt type character, it just seems so incongruous with an adults vocabulary.

"DH, DC and I were at the local NT type place". Does no one ever have fun, non education days out and buy plastic tat and generally be a bit slummy. Does everything have to be virtue signalling?

Norks/norkage used to irritate me. But it seems to have completely died out. So that’s good.

Pudding makes me think the writer is a palid, doughy looking Verucca Salt type character, it just seems so incongruous with an adults vocabulary.

it just seems so incongruous with an adults vocabulary.

I choose this. How snobbish and superior can you get?!

Pudding is a perfectly acceptable word, even if middle class southerners don't think so.

Can someone explain why they don't like snack /snacks? What do you use instead?

I've seen mumsnet hatred of the word "meal" before too. I don't get it, what do you say instead?!

Boobed the baby to sleep. Makes me cringe .

Bubba

snacks
Picky bits
fur baby
of instead of have
baby daddy

I detest ducks in a row
Not read the full thread then proceed to give obvious advice that’s been given 50 times
Don’t want to read and run
Sanpro
All the people laughing so hard they are either crying and dh is asking what’s up/ they have woken dh. Nothing is that funny that you are physically combusting

"Woman up".

It just seems so try-hard.

Lol. Or any text speak. But that in particular.

PP have interesting points on pudding/dessert. I call it pudding due to a DGM who went to a Quaker school in India. DH's family are from East Anglia and call it dessert.

Pack up
Plated up
And seeing at an unusual rate recently, ' he as' instead of has. I expected to see it on my local fb groups but to see it on MN is somehow more annoying

FUCK OFF... just write "kid", it's one letter longer than "LO" and many letters less than "little one".

A kid is a baby goat. I don't have one.

My pet peeves are hubby, discusting (sic) and hun. Hubby and hun didn't used to bother me, but they seem to be on the increase and are often coupled with dreadful advice for some reason.

'I think wives have a responsibility cater for their hubby's sexual needs if they want to keep them' and 'If it's only the first time he's hit you, I think posters saying LTB are overreacting hun'

@Newbiemumsy66 you can change your username if you don't like it. (I hope it was you that said that, I read it a few minutes ago now!)

'Pack up' instead of packed lunch.

Sounds unbearably twee and out of an Enid Blyton book (used to love EB by the way!)

BATSHIT... everything is batshit on MN.

The vomitous ‘D’ infront of any family member. I mean - how twee can you get, especially hilarious when it’s ‘DH is having an affair’ etc, oh yes, how very D of him. It’s funny as a lot of these D baggers hate ‘hun’ and sign offs with x yet cannot see D’ing everything is just as melty.

Hubby is just shit. A long with ‘noms’. ‘This is incredibly outing’ is also very strange, especially when it’s not. ‘NC for this as I ate some toast this morning and that could be incredibly outing to anyone who knows me’.

Pudding is the correct term, I’m afraid. I hate it and thought it was the term poor folk used, but no.