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?

@rayoflightboy

How every MIL is a Narc.No matter what she has done.

Would love to hear teh Mils take on it sometimes.Bet it would be eye opening.

I do wonder the if it crosses over the amount of MIL and mums / other relatives that get complained about are the same ones used for child care?

@Stinkyguineapig

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.

Conversely, I hate “oh my GAWD parenting is SO hard, I cannot COPE” from people who have completely average home situations with no additional challenges.

It’s not that hard if you’re not ridiculously precious and needlessly dramatic, IMO.

not rtft but thew one that's winding me up at the moment is

"try telling that to those who have lost loved ones"....how about you don't because we fucking know how it feels thank you very much, we don't need others to speak for us.

Anyhoo really irritates me too!!

'Are you on glue?'
'Boils my piss'

Urgh! Hate those 2

Spidey senses. I have no idea what these are, but there are everywhere apparently. And they tingle.

*Conversely, I hate “oh my GAWD parenting is SO hard, I cannot COPE” from people who have completely average home situations with no additional challenges.

It’s not that hard if you’re not ridiculously precious and needlessly dramatic, IMO.*

As it's a parenting forum I guess people might look here for support. I had PND after my 2nd child and felt such a failure that "others" (seemingly) were being great mums with 3 or more kids and I couldnt cope with 2. If I had been on MN at the time I would have felt even more shitty about it.

“D” H left skids on the toilet/ate the family cat/insulted my mother/hasn’t been paying the mortgage for 15 years/only bought me a dead bouquet of flowers for my birthday/was flirting with the postman and so on so I brought it up with him in a jokey way

I hate “jokey”

@Stinkyguineapig

*Conversely, I hate “oh my GAWD parenting is SO hard, I cannot COPE” from people who have completely average home situations with no additional challenges.

It’s not that hard if you’re not ridiculously precious and needlessly dramatic, IMO.*

As it's a parenting forum I guess people might look here for support. I had PND after my 2nd child and felt such a failure that "others" (seemingly) were being great mums with 3 or more kids and I couldnt cope with 2. If I had been on MN at the time I would have felt even more shitty about it.

I’m more thinking about the posters who can’t spend a couple of hours at a park without it being a production or worrying that half an hour in the car was going to be an insurmountable hill to climb, tbh.

The double standards.

Poster: “I have no sex drive and my DH is becoming extremely frustrated by it.”

MN response: Well, maybe he should be the one doing the housework and cooking the dinner and do his fare share. Besides which he doesn’t have a right to sex. I would seriously consider leaving.

Poster: My DH has no sex drive. He works a lot but he just never seems to have the time for sex with me and I’m becoming frustrated with it.”

MN response: “this must be very frustrating for you, TBH I couldn’t live in a sexless marriage. I would consider leaving.”

@Lex345

Spidey senses. I have no idea what these are, but there are everywhere apparently. And they tingle.

It's a pop culture reference, Spider Man. He does whatever a spider can.

@caughtalightsneeze

And the worst thing about this is that no one would ever say to a parent who was complaining about their own teenager/child, whatever 'you knew what having kids would be like...' because people seem able to accept that actually no, a lot of people don't know what it's like until they have them and therefore things can be a bit of a struggle sometimes.

I'm not so sure about that. I'm thinking of all those posters who ask if it would be terrible to have a doze on the sofa whilst their 3 year old watches CBeebies on a Saturday morning because they aren't feeling well and are just worn out. Loads of people will jump in with 'you knew that there would be no lie ins with children, it's just lazy parenting'. Then they'll produce a newspaper story about a child being abducted from their own home whilst their mother dozed on the sofa as proof that if you aren't staring intently at your child at all times, they will be abducted and murdered. But the story will be from 25 years ago and it will be from somewhere like Brazil. And this will be the gotcha moment used as evidence that a child living in a middle class suburb of a UK town will be in grave danger if their exhausted mother has a doze whilst they play.

No I do think if a poster came on and said 'ive had enough of my teenager, they are so rude to me' etc etc... There would be far more support from posters than if someone came on and said 'im sick of my STEP child, they are so rude to me' etc etc... It would be FULL of 'you knew he had kids' and all the rest of it. And someone, at some point would suggest you were the OW and that his kid is only horrible to you because they are so traumatised about their parents separating 10 years earlier when they were 2 years old.

It's laughable.

'Not my monkeys, not my circus"

The posters who say it obviously think they are such a sage

"Wind yer neck in".

Loathe this expression.

Ha ha...I like ‘wind your neck in’...it’s so descriptive.

I don’t think of it as a mumsnet expression though. I first heard it when I was about 18 and thought it was brilliant.

People very quickly labelling certain behaviours as abuse. And also labelling men as narcissists. I imagine the actual number of narcissists is a lot lower.

Modelling.

"we sit with DS and model good table manners"

No you don't. You eat a meal at the table with your child, just as thousands of other parents do.

@SilverOtter

Not a specific saying, but people who come on and, ignoring the actual question/point of the post, ask some unrelated question that is clearly a sly dig/way to turn the blame on/undermine the poster.

This ^^ With bells on.

And I have noticed it's quite often the same three or four usernames doing it and they inevitably start the ball rolling for others to pile in and say the same as if they too hadn't read the actual OP and are just going with the absolute horse shit the GoadyFuckers have posted.

@oohmama

'Get to fuck' 'I'd tell him to get to fuck' Really? You'd say those words? Those exact words?? Because A. I've never ever heard someone say that and B. Where is fuck? Is it a place? Do you mean fuck off?

Gets me everytime ..

If you're Scottish you're probably say it or know someone who does.

The hills are that way >>>>
A&E now!
The long, detailed and ever so desperately trying hard to be witty text responses. Or the ones that just suggest you respond to some twonk at work by shouting about his 'micropenis' across the office. Apart from being incredibly juvenile, in my experience most people would have a full on heart attack if anyone even said the word 'penis' at work (unless you're urologist.)

I also hate how, on many threads, any kind of pushback or disagreement with the OP is instantly defined as the OP being given ‘a hard time’ or a pile-on’. I know MN and particularly AIBU has a reputation for harshness, but it’s like some posters are so scared of honesty that they rush to knock anything that isn’t ‘awwh, sending hugs OP ’

I forgot the phrase 'HUGE salad'. No-one ever has anything other than gargantuan salads on MN, which are of course SO filling they can only manage 'a few bites' of lasagne.

And lentils are the answer to everything. You've got teenage children who won't stop eating everything in the fridge? Easy, 'bulk out' that bolognese with some lentils. And serve with a HUGE salad. And Greek yogurt if they must have dessert.

"Did you mean to be so rude?"
Rest assured if you ever feel the need to ask me this then yes. I did.

"Food of the Gods"
Usually used to describe something like Dairylea on toast.

"Cockwomble/twatbadger/insert other twee" insult" here. "

Just cringey. Please stop.

" Fuck off to the far side of fuck etc etc"

As above. Get to fuck does just fine. (and lol at the poster saying they've never heard anyone say get to fuck; clearly never been to Scotland)

"Is English your first language OP? /ARE YOU AMERICAN?????"

So fucking what if they are?

And YES to the HUUUUUUUUGE SALAD. Usually found in a post moaning about all the fatties offending their vision these days and how they're always slurping/ guzzling/ gorging/ munching/ chomping/ pigging/ stuffing/ troughing because no one just fucking EATS on MN.