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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask what commonly used 'MN catchphrases' really get on your wick?

450 replies

bathsh3ba · 01/05/2020 11:03

For me, it's 'and rightly so'. It sounds so bloody sanctimonious and grammatically it just feels wrong! 😡

OP posts:
Redyellowpink · 02/05/2020 06:50

“Male opinion here” oh fuck off

Agree, it's very 'behold, a man has arrived'

ThisIsNotARealAvo · 02/05/2020 06:50

All of the above, especially think and said.

I find the Envy emoji followed by 'not envy' totally pointless when it's so obvious. "DD just picked up a cat shit and tried to eat itEnvy(not envy)."

As if you'd think the poster was envious of the toddler getting to the cat shit first if they didn't clarify.

madamehooch · 02/05/2020 07:29

Reader. I married him/shagged him/fed him to the hamster

Wendyhtghkk · 02/05/2020 07:32

Poor you. It sounds so condescending.

Ninny67 · 02/05/2020 08:26

Cockwomble, tear a new one, hill to die on.
And people who are outraged that people challenge and disagree ('vile') when someone's posted on something called 'AIBU?'

Giespeace · 02/05/2020 08:27

“My 64 month old DS...” - That shit should stop after the kids first birthday Angry

“You knew he had kids” to step parents - nobody says “you knew babies cried” to struggling parents, do they?
“Existing kids” - all 5 of the kids “exist” now, not just the eldest 2 by the ex, so it’s a pointless sentence whatever you’re going to say.
Picky tea, it’s a invite not a summons, he’s showing you who he really is...

comeasyouare91 · 02/05/2020 08:37

Everything that annoys me on MN has already been covered already but can someone tell me what 'sanpro' means please?

OrangeSlices998 · 02/05/2020 08:40

@comeasyouare91 It means sanitary products.

hopeishere · 02/05/2020 08:43

Sanpro = sanitary protection eg pads or tampons

I dislike "it doesn't sit well / right with me".

HalfTermHalfTerm · 02/05/2020 08:43

“You knew he had kids” to step parents - nobody says “you knew babies cried” to struggling parents, do they?

Grin

Sanpro means sanitary protection. Or at least I hope it does!

TheCanterburyWhales · 02/05/2020 08:49

"This will out me because my sister in law uses MN."

Er, then you've both told each other and outed yourselves you daft bat. Don't blame the hundreds of thousands of us who don't give a toss.

Likewise, I find it helps with the "husband's outing hobbies" if I close my eyes and imagine the MN saying to him "oh darling, do put some trousers on before you get the penny farthing out again"

RabbityMcRabbit · 02/05/2020 08:55

When posters write "could of" - it's could HAVE
Also using apostrophes when they're not needed eg "he say's"-aaargh!
Or indeed any incorrect grammar or spelling error that should count as basic grammatical knowledge eg "been" instead of "being", incorrect use of two/too/to etc-I know I might sound like a grammar Nazi/stickler, but I don't care!

TheCanterburyWhales · 02/05/2020 09:14

Muphry's Law tells us you don't feel the same about the correct use of commas, Rabbity.

BettyUnderswoob · 02/05/2020 09:24

Ah yes, I’d forgotten about “Spidey senses”.

A PP said it sounded like something a child would say. Well, it does because it’s from a bloody COMIC. Fine on a lighthearted thread, but when a young mum with is seeing suspicious behaviour from her partner, it’s so cringe and flippant of someone to tell her that her spidey senses are tingling.

Also “gut”.
Yuck. No I won’t “Go with my gut”. How are my intestines going to help me make a decision? I think I’ll use my brain instead, if it’s all the same to you.

Waitingwaiting12 · 02/05/2020 09:44

“that’s grim”

panther1982 · 02/05/2020 10:49

@ThisIsNotARealAvo
I find the envy emoji followed by 'not envy' totally pointless when it's so obvious. "DD just picked up a cat shit and tried to eat itenvy(not envy)."

Yes! That’s what I mean. It’s like they just say it because it’s the ‘done thing’. If you really think you have to explain an emoji, why use it? It adds nothing to your point

BearSoFair · 02/05/2020 10:56

ODFOD. If you want to tell someone to fuck off at least say it properly. It's only 2 characters longer!

Are you on glue?

And not really a catchphrase but 'you need to move' as a solution, as if it's the easiest thing in the world to just pack up home and relocate!

Pixiefringe · 02/05/2020 11:02

Because I don't know what they mean:

  • Give your head a wobble
  • HTH
  • adding a lone biscuit emoji to a thread and nothing else
zippyswife · 02/05/2020 11:05

... is your friend.

Eg

OP : can you recommend a simple t shirt?
Poster: next is your friend

Next is not your friend, Next is a clothes shop... gob shite

LizzieLoafer · 02/05/2020 11:08

Just move house.

MissHoskins · 02/05/2020 11:13

Unhinged.

Kingjarvis · 02/05/2020 11:18

Being accused of being a Tory bot just because it goes against the Left’s acceptable thinking.
Horrid and vile are two words that make me shudder
Also ‘cross’

RedRec · 02/05/2020 11:39

The ones that feel the need to proclaim their mumsnet longevity by saying 'penis beaker', 'pom bears', 'cancel the cheque', ad nauseum.
Does anyone actually give a flying shit?

MissHoskins · 02/05/2020 11:40

Going against the grain. It's used to mean the poster doesn't agree with the majority opinions on the thread, that's not what going against the grain means.
Going against the grain means that you're about to do or say something that you yourself fundamentally disagree with.

Sonichu · 02/05/2020 12:05

I forgot how much I hate "grim".