Teenagers draped over the furniture

[SquishyBones]

Lighthearted!

This is a phrase I’ve seen a few times on here and it irritates me! I’m a visual thinker and when I see this I get the mental image of lifeless slender man type figures folded across the backs of sofas and over coffee tables etc 😂

Another one is “I’ve just asked DH and he said ... “

I imagine a man sat in an armchair with a pipe and a brown tweed suit Proudly offering his wisdom to all the Unknowledgable women on mumsnet.

Anyone else get quirky visuals on mumsnet sayings and phrases?

“Parading” is another one. I always imagine the parader you be dressed like a kid in one of those majorette marching bands, twirling batons and little drums bashing away.

When I read draped over furniture I think of women in skimpy night wear draped over a piano so it feels a bit inappropriate when people say it about teenagers!

"Boils my piss" always conjures up ghastly images in my head

My dm used to say “ oh, here she comes, waltzing in at this time”.
Used to make me laugh, imagining myself spinning round through the front door with my sequinned dress and dance shoes! 😂

HRH the cat. I imagine a thoroughly spoiled cat nonchalantly returning home after its frantic owners have been up for days worrying and all it does is sit on a warm cushion being pampered licking its paws.

"Scooping up" babies and children. I imagine the person coming at them with a giant ice cream scoop.

“I turned around and said...” conjures a days of our lives/young and the restless type of exchange for me. With big bouncy soap opera star hair...

Someone yesterday was banging on about a child out playing in the sunshine with her underwear "on show". A couple of years ago there was a thread about a woman whose DH didn't like her having her arms/legs "on show".

It's such an odd concept. Like you're selling tickets

"Prancing". I've used communal changing rooms in the gym/swimming pool for 15 years. I've seen women briefly nude as they dry and dress (horrors!) but unlike half of Mumsnet, I've never once seen anyone "prance around naked". Makes me think of women with no clothes on boinging around the room like show ponies. Maybe I should change gym, mine is clearly missing a trick.

Give your head a wobble makes me think of those Bobbleheads toys with enormous heads and tiny bodies

Oh, and while it's not a Mumsnet thing, I do like the phrase "flying fuck". I'm sure I can't be the only one who gets the obvious mental image.

i really like the 'draping' phrase and use it alot here. it makes me laugh.

when people say unhinged i just think of door hinges.

I'm a visual thinker too. I didn't even realise I do this until I stopped to think about it. When I see 'rammed' as in 'The shops were rammed' I get an image of sheep rammed in to a pen. Also rampage - I see bulls running. Is this something different though that often I have visions of animals? Lol at the flying fuck I visualise winged pigs but msybecothers visualise other objects.

I hate the phrase 'running around' - i.e. She was running around in a short skirt. Just sexist shite.