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

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

Leave the kids with him and go out all day."Said to the partner of a neglectful/alcoholic/dangerously useless father who has never had the children by himself, for good reason.
That annoys me.

Cocklodger, just sounds horrible.

And people who come onto posts simply to comment on other people's comments rather than discussing the actual thread.

@TheChippendenSpook YES, I feel exactly the same way about 'Discuss' too!

Azrail it's even more annoying when they have said some thing interesting.

I am too outraged with the 'and go' or 'discuss' to read any further

"can anyone recommend something for max £50 budget"

"Well if you can stretch to £60" < FUCK OFF... If they could stretch to £60 the budget would be £60....

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Used as a way of place marking a thread, usually the posters who do this do it on a completely inappropriate thread about something sensitive/traumatic and don’t add anything useful to the thread at any point.

Another vote for "get your ducks in a row." WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY FUCKING TELLING THEM TO DO? It's often used to help someone get out of an unhealthy situation, when they need clear advice and not a meaningless phrase.

I haven't Read The Full Thread so it may have been mentioned, but "I am going against the grain". It should be "go against the flow" or "go against the majority", be a dissenting voice, etc etc. Go against the grain does NOT mean what many on Mumsnet think it does. To go against the grain means to do or say something you personally wouldn't do or think e.g "I'll get up at 6am to watch the olympics opening ceremony, even though getting up that early goes against the grain", or "I'm going again the grain here but he stole the bike from you so you should steal it back".

To go against the grain means to advocate, do or say something you normally would never advocate do or say.

It does NOT mean to go against the opinions of someone else/other posters.

When a poster describes others as 'frothing' or 'getting worked up' simple because they have expressed an opposing view, no matter how calmly.

It's a form of placemarking

That's what "Watch this thread" is designed for! The Watch this thread link is both at the top of the page, and at the bottom of the page. So there is no way anyone can miss it. It is there specifically to add a thread to your Im Watching collection, so no need to post just to placemark. Even more annoying (and selfish!) are the idiots who post nothing in there post at all but a dot, a full stop like:

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These take up post space which really count when the thread is a hot one and fills up to a 1000 in no time.

Other irritating phrases:

twee (it sounds like something a 4 year old girl in a barbie dress would say, no one over the age of 12 years old should be using it).

Proper. Proper fight, proper angry - it really is bad grammar and does not even sound right. Whatever happened to real angry/really angry, actual fight/real fight? Does the word real no longer exist, and 'proper' (which seems to be used on every second post on every thread I read) has taken it's place, erasing 'real', 'really', 'actually' as words from the dictionary forever?

KettleOn919
I half agree with you on 'frothing' when it's used for any different opinion, but I do think it's really apt for some situations where a minor irritation or concern is turned into some massive drama.
Eg.
Reality: Everyone had made plans, unfortunately MIL had to take the dog to the vets for an urgent appointment so text to the group chat she'd have to not attend as the dog is poorly and needs tests.

Mumsnet OP: So, MIL has form and she strikes again. We had arranged a lovely lunch at a fancy restaurant for family where we had planned to announce to everyone that we are expecting the next Messiah. Everything was planned, including little gifts for all the family as a momento for this magnificent day. MIL who has no idea of the pregnancy announcement naturally had to make the day all about her and try to steal our thunder by announcing in the GROUP CHAT that she wasn't bothering to come because she'd made other plans with her dog. Of course our entire day was ruined because instead of a lovely meal, people were asking FIL about MIL and the dog. AIBU to think she should have made more of an effort and stopped being such a narcissist? She'd previously said that she would be willing to help with future childcare but now I'm not sure I can trust her with DC. What if she abandons them in favour of the dog, as that's clearly her preference. Would you advise going low contact with her over this?

I am biased.

It seems smug.

Good one mike
Have we had "smug marrieds" for any thread where posters correctly point out that marriage is a legal contract with rights and responsibilities so people ought to make informed decisions over whether to marry or not?

I am bias is even worse.

I think the most annoying posts are those where they have only half read the OP, and they post something judgemental.

e.g. OP - Divorced mum of 2, pregnant despite having coil fitted, with someone she's known a few months.

Post- Why on earth are you not using contraception?

A new one but seems to be cropping up regularly is “What happened to be kind”

Err nothing happened to it, we never agreed to be kind, and does being kind mean accepting shitty behaviour?

Not a phrase but people who brag about having a tall child on here really annoy me, as if it's some sign that they're a superior parent. So many on here claim to have children that are on 98th centile for height and 1st centile for weight or some other such bullshit.

Boil my piss- makes me want to peel my skin off, roll in salt and fire myself into the sun.

Another one: He has shown you who he really is

@EatingIsMyHobby

Yes! Totally unrelated mum brags. It's like posters that always manage to jam in how long they breastfed for, or how massive their baby was even if it is totally irrelevant to the topic!

I also think some posters start threads to get a pat on the back by disguising it as a query, eg 'My baby can crawl at 5 months old, is this normal?'

It's so obvious!

I hate ‘are you on glue’. No one’ really been taking glue since the 90s. Just sounds so snotty and out of touch

Wolfgirl. That reminds me of one poster Who shoehorns her "advice" on comparable education years between Scotland and England and what her beloved DS did into EVERY post she's on

Anything with the word cunt in it. Does it have some MC I'm a rebel me, status or something?

@Seetheprettysnowdrops that's absurdly specific, would love to see how she manages to bring it up lol

Are you on glue?

Every person that utters this phrase seems to think they are hilariously witty and droll. You arent. You sound like a moron parroting a phrase that was never witty or droll in the first place.

No one’ really been taking glue since the 90s. Just sounds so snotty and out of touch

Yes exactly! It’s the equivalent of “groovy” - no one says that any more, so dated