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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:
Thurmanmurman · 01/05/2020 14:33

Just thought of another one 'your Spidey senses are tingling'. Really? Hmm

DrDreReturns · 01/05/2020 14:37

Boils my piss
Trust your gut - I've made several bad decisions doing that.
Posters giving incorrect legal advice because they're not lawyers.

MagnificentMillie · 01/05/2020 14:42

Or giving incorrect legal advice because they are

derxa · 01/05/2020 14:58

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. Yes. They seem to want to convey a Miss Marple existence. I live in the countryside or 'very rural' except it's on a farm. Not an Aga or wooden beam in sight. Plenty of sheep shit and silage though.

derxa · 01/05/2020 15:02

Also 'Do you realise...? So patronising.

EatingIsMyHobby · 01/05/2020 15:04

When people make threads and refer to people as A, B, C etc.

'Friend A shit herself so friend C said she wouldn't talk to friend B again'

So fucking confusing!

Judd · 01/05/2020 15:06

"Said"
As in: "there's a big house at the end of our street. I was walking past said house...."
I never hear it being used in real life or even read it often but it's used on here loads and I don't understand why...

MissHoskins · 01/05/2020 15:11

Judd
I've wondered about said as well, seems to be more frequent and it's very irritating.
The only time vag was funny was when the poster meant to say boil in the bag but she missed and typed boil in the vag.

Samcro · 01/05/2020 15:13

people who say are you "insert name of person being ripped apart"
hate it

sneakythecat71 · 01/05/2020 15:16

Yes to the spidey senses! If someone mentions that in their first post about a suspected OW, I immediately think it's a made up story!

sneakythecat71 · 01/05/2020 15:19

Speaking of vag, there's always one that pops up to say 'actually it's a vulva'

Olliephaunt4eyes · 01/05/2020 15:19

"No is a complete sentence".

I mean, yes it is, but it's also bloody rude at times.

Batshittery · 01/05/2020 15:20

Another vote for 'spidey senses' what a load of shit.
ducks in a row
give your head a wobble
cockwomble - and people that post that it's such a great word - no it's not.

TinselTortoise · 01/05/2020 15:24

'Thank your lucky stars' really irritates me for some reason.

U2HasTheEdge · 01/05/2020 15:27

Boils my piss/ my piss is boiled
Naice- so old and not funny
Entitled
Spidey senses
Suck it up buttercup

TrafalgarSquare · 01/05/2020 15:27

naice. no, grim

Tootletum · 01/05/2020 15:27

The fact that any bloke who has fucked something up and got defensive about it is "controlling" or "abusive". In Mumsnet world, any verbal argument that involves either party saying anything that isn't very nice is abuse...

NameChange84 · 01/05/2020 15:29

“You are deliberately being obtuse”

“She/he/you sound/s unhinged OP”

“naice”

LolaSmiles · 01/05/2020 15:29

Some of these I agree with, but I can't agree with woke. There needs to be a word for the increasingly navel-gazing lefties who spend more time trying to be professionally offended online in a game of identity politics top trumps than actually championing employment rights and decent centre left or left wing policies.

"but teachers are Gods/think they are so special" on any thread where people suggest spending less time ranting on Mumsnet and more time raising the issue with the school staff on question.

GreytExpectations · 01/05/2020 15:32

"Gives me the rage" makes so unreasonably angry! You can't fucking being "given" a feeling. It's not an object!!! Really wish people would stop saying it.

Also, "No is a full sentence" is bullshit because outside the Mumsnet bubble you cant just fucking say no to someone close without any explanation.

"LTB" Yes, there are definitely cased where an OP's partner is abusive, cheating or just not a relationship worth continuing. But this gets trotted out for one mistake in a 10 year relationship when really some open communication would work better

And basically most other ridiculous things said on Mumsnet haha

GreytExpectations · 01/05/2020 15:34

The fact that any bloke who has fucked something up and got defensive about it is "controlling" or "abusive". In Mumsnet world, any verbal argument that involves either party saying anything that isn't very nice is abuse...

This is so true. In mumsnet world no man is allowed to step out of line for a tiny second otherwise he is abusive/controlling and needs to be dumped. But yet women are more than allowed to make plenty of mistakes and wrongdoings in a relationship and the man should be understanding

tomthomas · 01/05/2020 15:35

Rant over.
Gives me the rage
Discuss.

TinRoofRusty · 01/05/2020 15:39

Eat less, move more.

'support'. Disagree and you're 'unsupportive', often linked with 'be kind' attempts at shaming.

Pleasebeafleabite · 01/05/2020 15:40

Who is this SHL. In what way are they shit hot

My SHL did not have to do anything. His mere existence was enough to make XDH take his own proper legal advice in which he learned that his business was indeed a marital asset and not his special precious

read and run

I don’t mind if it’s used to bump for the OP where there is not much traffic and she is posting something potentially distressing

Batshittery · 01/05/2020 15:46

'so many red flags' and 'is that Sharon'

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