Sayings / arguments on Mumsnet that you hate?

[Polkapoo]

There's a few but one I see often that just makes me is 'what if they were your kids?'.

It's obviously always said in response to someone who is not the child's parent and therefore surely a completely pointless argument?!

What others do you always see and eye roll at?

Variations on 'here come the perfect parents' when posters agree that being rude/violent is not acceptable behaviour from a child.

I also can't stand 'ignore the cool wives', which seems to usually translate to 'another woman has different boundaries in her relationship/enjoys something less vanilla in the bedroom but she couldn't possibly be happy with this situation and is obviously selling out all of women kind to please her man'.

Love "get to fuck" but I'm Scottish.. One thing I love about MN is cock lodger. Tell the cock lodger to get to fuck. 😄

"Sorry, but the virus isn't going anywhere."

"There won't be a vaccine for some time I'm afraid."

I’ve only just now realised how annoying this is!

I also can't stand 'ignore the cool wives', which seems to usually translate to 'another woman has different boundaries in her relationship/enjoys something less vanilla in the bedroom but she couldn't possibly be happy with this situation and is obviously selling out all of women kind to please her man'.

Yes! It’s a sneering cop out.

Not so much a saying or an argument but I absolutely hate the way people can not accept that some things differ around the UK. And then accuse posters of lying because they simply can't believe it. I've been here for about 15 years under various user names. In that time I have been accused of lying about the following (to give a mere selection of the gems on offer):

Not needing to MOT a car after 3 years (it's 4 years for a first MOT) and not being able to have a garage carry out the MOT

Having to pay school fees even though it's not a private school. (A couple of hundred pounds per year, not thousands, but it's not optional). Secondary school uniforms not being available to buy in supermarkets. Never seen that in my life and I can't imagine Tesco or M&S would even consider making all the different colours anyway as it wouldn't be financially viable.

Still having to provide my GCSE results for every job I have ever applied for, despite having taken them 30 years ago and having a degree. That's just the way it is here. If you don't fill in that part of the form, or you can't provide your certificates, you won't get the job, whether it is to answer the phone or run the company.

I could probably write about 50 more examples but you get the idea.

Not wanted to be ‘outed’. Does anyone give a shit who you are? No they don’t. Just say whatever it is. No one cares.

"Not your circus, not your monkeys" makes me cringe, I don't know why!

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them". Great quote by a great woman, but so overused on here, also makes me cringe.

Why is everyone always RAGING here on MN?

DH, DS, DD, DM, DMil etc. Just type my husband, my son or whatever. Who is that strapped for time!

People who come on to slag off Britain - a very common pastime on MN - comparing it to how perfectly things are done 'in my country'. When you ask them what country that is, they get all coy. Why talk about how wonderful 'your country' is and then be so mysterious about it?

Agree with above poster. I hate ‘name changed for this’ .... and your point is?? Why do you feel the need to say you’ve ‘changed name’ ..?? Why? Just why?!

DH, DS, DD, DM, DMil etc. Just type my husband, my son or whatever. Who is that strapped for time!

I thought that when I first joined but after a while I realised it's just easier for the reader, especially if it's a long post.

To be fair, I've taken more from this site than I've given (though my observations are without doubt the wittiest on here) but even I blanch at the ridiculous amount of self-aggrandisement that goes on.

“Call someone out on something”. Sounds like playground talk.
“Gaslighting” - completely overused. It completely trivializes the mental torture some people endure for years when you say that your husband is gaslighting you because he made a casual comment that you look fatter than you did last year (and he’s probably right).
Someone already mentioned “think...” as in “we stayed at a chain hotel, think Hilton, Holiday Inn”. We all know what a chain hotel is, for crying out loud. Either give the name of the chain or just say “we stayed in a chain hotel”. It’s not Crimewatch. We don’t need every minute detail.

DH, DS, DD, DM, DMil etc. Just type my husband, my son or whatever.
It's more confusing when there's even more acronyms used, cant think of the example but some are so confusing!!

@SaltyAndFresh

'the risk is vanishingly small'

'You're clearly not stable enough to do your job so why don't you resign and let someone else do it?'

Guess the context

Brain surgeon? Air traffic controller? Lion tamer?

‘That doesn’t work for me.’ Sounds so artificial.
FGS just say, ‘Sorry, I won’t be able to do that.’

cba rtft, has ne1 mensunned ddog yet?

Oh, and I too hate all the stupid textspeak. Wot R U? 5?

‘I think you’ll find.’

‘Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that.’

@Seychelles98

'Could of' is my pet hate! For the 1000th time it should be 'could have'!! I just can't understand how someone cannot know the difference between 'of' and 'have'... What is so difficult about these words?

This!

"Well your child must have done something to provoke the dog"

Someone already mentioned “think...” as in “we stayed at a chain hotel, think Hilton, Holiday Inn”. We all know what a chain hotel is, for crying out loud.

My favourite ‘Think...’ example ever came up recently. A poster said ‘We’re going somewhere near to Australia, a bit like Australia, but not Australia. Think New Zealand’. So fucking New Zealand then!!

People not quoting whatever it is they're replying to, even if the post is pages back:

@ RandomPoster
That was hilarious - I tried it with peanut butter but it sank

or something. It's probably really boring but I want to know just in case it's not.

"How dare they tell you your child is overweight??!!" when replying to somebody worried that their 8-year-old is on the 99.9th centile for weight and the 23rd for height, and are wider than they are tall.

Another vote for
Give your head a wobble and get your ducks in a row.
The other thing I hate is the superior type supermum.
OP: I'm really struggling with my toddler and newborn
Replies : my DH had 15 min paternity leave, all my family live 10 hours drive away, I had 6 children under 4 and went back to work when the youngest was 3 hours old, so I think you'll manage.