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! 😡

Wow just wow

Boils my piss

Gives me the rage

Meh

Also

'A and E/Police NOW', on any thread that the op is dithering about whether it's an emergency or not.

"Go for it" - usually when applied to doing a thing that needs extremely serious consideration before making the most sensible decision (which is not to do it.)

Also - You sound nice.

Boils my piss" is vile and overused.
Agreed

I also don't like "naice"

'Cockwomble' and other equally prissy insults. Someone on here recently referred to their husband as a 'wankpuffin'! Are they too afraid to swear?!

These as well. People (in general, not just on MN) who use these twee swear words like to think they're better than those who use terms like 'holibobs' and 'famalam', when the reality is they're two cheeks of the same arse.

Fanny gallops
Boils my piss
Fucked off
On the boob

Totally agree with pps who mentioned 'boils my piss' It is vile, vulgar, unnecessary - I hate it!

I also dislike when people say they 'pulled someone up on it' or the like. Who the hell do they think they are? By all means discuss with someone, challenge if necessary, but no, you do not have the right to 'pull someone up'.

The over-usage and constant armchair diagnoses of “gaslighting”. Telling someone they’ve put on weight is not gaslighting. Disagreeing with someone’s opinion is not gaslighting. And many other examples.

Not really a phrase but the advice to “bulk it up with lentils” makes me feel queasy. It comes up multiple times on a thread where people ask for help to cut their grocery spending or for some cheap meal ideas.

Since lockdown, I've noticed the phrase "we live rural" pops up all the time. Not only is it grammatically incorrect, but it also tends to be used in a slightly smug way which I find a bit grating.

“My oh would never dream of/ wouldn’t dare..” in response to some desperate woman’s post about her shitty relationship.

Even worse the responses to above post that go something like, “My oh brings me breakfast in bed, gives me a full body massage and sorts the kids out so I can have a lie in EVERY MORNING”.

Oh also fk and st and b**s

...the reality is they're two cheeks of the same arse

Now this phrase I do like! 😂

'Vanishingly small'.

I'm sure it's not Mumsnet specific, but I see it all of the time on here and loathe it.

”He's a good dad” after a totally justified rant about a lazy/nasty man’s behaviour or attitude towards their children.

@BritWifeinUSA after having made a lasagne with lentils I have to agree. Bulk anything up with lentils = make something tasty into bland stodge. Love a dhaal, am not averse to lentils but don’t just chuck them in anything vaguely sloppy.

'He's telling you who he is, you just need to listen'.

Maybe I need to stop reading MN (or some people need to stop reading wanky self help books).

@namechangetheworld what does that even mean?

All of these plus this:

TL;DR - only when it's posted at the bottom of a bloody post. What's the fucking point if people have got that far down already...

'Showed this to DH, and he said blah blah blah'...

As though he's part of the oracles of Delphi.

'Didn't want to read and run' followed by saying absolutely nothing useful

“Wow, just wow”

“Did you mean to be so rude?”

“Are you on glue?”

“Tinkly little laugh”

“Boils my piss”

“No is a complete sentence”

“NC for this, but long term poster- penis beaker, Mexican house thief, snapped and farted, screamed at the cisteine”

*sistine even

Dementor

I can’t agree with a few of these.

‘Naice’ is a classic MN word. Don’t knock the traditions! .

And African-Americans getting ‘Woke’ to systematic oppression is one thing, and I respect that. But what else do you call the Owen Joneses of this world, who want to virtual signal off the back of every single oppressed group’s struggle or perceived struggle? Woke dude bros are a THING, I tell ya!

Agree re: boobing, giving your head a wobble and ‘but he’s a good Dad, even though he’s a useless, work shy, abusive manchild’

“NC for this, but long term poster- penis beaker, Mexican house thief, snapped and farted, screamed at the cisteine”

Ah yes, because there's nothing more convincing that you're not a troll than reeling off the most known MN troll threads....