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?

we are pregnant. we had a miscarriage. And so on....

All we did was make the baby. we did not carry it to term!

So many,because they are trite, empty and cliched.plain stupid
did you mean to be so rude
hand hold
I’m here for you
Are you on glue Are you drunk
i just sicked a little in my mouth
boils my piss
your house your rules

Using your when it should be you're and vice versa. It takes a moment to check this before posting.

Mn psychobabble diagnosing narcissism for every unsavoury behaviour

Get some Highlights- the panacea to any life crisis. Foil & bleach will sort anything

"Imagine the role were reversed", like it's some kind of Aristotolean wisdom.

“Ignore the haters/perfect parents/perfect people”

From people who can’t seem to imagine anything other than extremes, apparently. And always aimed at posters whose only crime is to disagree with the poor hun posting the OP.

The one where someone posts a scan picture and says can anyone tell me the gender of my baby and some snarky plank ALWAYS says "gender is a social construct, you mean the SEX of your child" and while they're right, they knew full well what the OP meant 😡

I dislike "but to each their own", simply because on here, it's never used for its true purpose, but always as an insincere appendage at the end of a sneering, judgemental, moralistic post.

Which leads me on to the two things I dislike most on here: the moralising over things with no moral value (cake smashes, Botox, selfies, long/short hair, hula hooping in a park) and the absolute class obsession. They overlap a lot, oddly.

Obviously I still like it a lot to keep coming back (though I take extended breaks) but yeah, those are obnoxious.

"I gently said". Yes, of course you did.

"You/I need to set boundaries". What does that even mean, is one of the most overused things on MN and unnecessarily gives me the rage when I see it. Always used in relation to MILs.

"He's abusive/gaslighting you". So, so many posters fall over themselves to assure OP she is an abused woman and needs to get away from the DH. Very rarely is the OP actually in an abusive relationship. Takes the piss out of people actually in abusive relationships, and I often wonder about those saying it, how their relationships are as clearly they are so perfect and never had so much as a difference in opinion with their partners.

"I'd be going nuclear ". Yes of course you would.

op writes a fraught heartfelt post.For some arse clencher to say too long...Can’t read that . Use paragraphs
You said your did you mean you’re? Use paragraph

Cockwomble/twatbadger/insert other twee" insult" here

People from outside of Britain seem to love those insults, though. I've seen them make up their own along the formula. "Dickwaffle" was a favourite. I have an American friend who says she will always love Britain simply for giving the word "gobshite" to the world.

The answer to any conflict or poor behaviour on the part of the spouse is to leave the bastard. I wonder how folk manage real life relationships and resolve conflict if the first response is to walk away.

And folk who get badly judged (piled on) when they’ve had a bad day, snapped at their kids or openly acknowledge they haven’t deal with a parenting challenge well. I’d hate for my whole relationship with my kids to be judged on my worst parenting moments.

Also, "your body, your choice" as if that gives OP carte blanche to do whatever she wants, without taking into account other people or the situation

Mn is full of sofa social workers,patio psychiatrists.all opining and talking shite
ProclaIming narcissism, personality disorder and mental illness for any unsavoury behaviours

@Neron

Also, "your body, your choice" as if that gives OP carte blanche to do whatever she wants, without taking into account other people or the situation

What situations involving someone's body need to take into account other people?

Ah thank you!

I hate the responses where someone is worried about their adult child and posters reply ‘she’s an adult, it’s none of your business’ as if they’re sooo cool and wise. And as if parenting stops at midnight on a child’s 18th birthday. Eg

OP: ‘my 19 year old daughter has dropped out of uni to work on webcams and I strongly suspect she has a drug addiction. What should I do?’

MN: ‘she’s an adult, her decision, none of your business.’

Mn is full of sofa social workers,patio psychiatrists.all opining and talking shite
ProclaIming narcissism, personality disorder and mental illness for any unsavoury behaviours

^^yet you're still here

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 it really that LOL-worthy? Surely loads of people have never been to Scotland?

One that gets me is the overweight kids threads. Got at letter about Wilmas weight but Wilma dances twice a week and swims and only eats a salad for dinner etc etc.

Ok few kids will be muscle that's giving them a high BMI but a heck of a lot are just fat. Open you eyes is your kid fat?

When someone asks in aibu about the people on the table next to them in a restaurant complaining loudly about the ops children who were 'behaving beautifully' er ok, I have never seen a child behaving beautifully that warrants a complaint from others. Some parents really do think their children are little angels and the rest of the world should manoeuvre around them.

Or those that call children 'spirited' we all know what that actually means!

I was blue lighted to hospital.

Blimey, if everything on this thread was stopped, there’d be no MN left!

@StillCoughingandLaughing

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 it really that LOL-worthy? Surely loads of people have never been to Scotland?

It's Scotland not Deepest Darkest Peru. If you're in the UK it hard to believe anyone hasn't had some exposure to hearing or reading something from a Scottish person. They're even on telly! Chewing the fat, Still Game, Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle (ugh), Rab C Nesbitt, Trainspottong, T2........