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?

Oh, and 'you sound angry'...what? Is that supposed be be insulting?

I also really dislike 'discuss.' Although you don't see that very often, thankfully.

Okay so not a saying or argument but something I see as well that always makes me laugh is the competitive workers on here.

Like I can't believe how many MNetters would or like others to think they would still go to work with a limb hanging off.

For some reason taking a sick day when needed on here is one of the deadly sins.

Not a saying or argument but getting right on my tits lately- 'accidental' spelling mistakes designed to generate some top bantz and get into classics. Tedious.

"Let's call them..." in threads featuring more than one person.

"My friend and her DH - let's call them Carol and John."

Let's not.

@Spidey66 the joint finances thing. ‘I just don’t understand why you would have separate money, it’s family money.’ If you can’t possibly understand any conceivable reason that people might maintain separate finances, maybe you’re not quite bright enough to be giving financial advice.

Some poor OP who is in shock and still digesting that her marriage of 20 odd years is over is getting henpecked and criticised for not walking out the door by page three of the thread.

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Give your head a wobble (this is the very worst)
Are you on glue? - surely this was never funny. It’s so pathetic
Boils my piss/makes my teeth itch/eleventy billion - I only ever see/hear these on Mumsnet and it just makes me think the poster has zero originality of thought

Alongside the log it with 101 crew is the "it may be the missing piece of a jigsaw" as if the police are sitting there with loads of evidence, but were just waiting from the call from Mrs Smith at number 3 to say the person seemed a bit shifty before they could swoop in and arrest someone 😂😂

That’s just made me laugh and will continue to do so every time I read it from now on 😂

@DillonPanthersTexas

Some poor OP who is in shock and still digesting that her marriage of 20 odd years is over is getting henpecked and criticised for not walking out the door by page three of the thread.

OOOOOO this. Absolutely.

People just want to watch a live soap drama unfold. Really annoys me.

Usually followed by telling other posters not to bother giving OP advice because they won't take it anyway flounce off thread .

"'So and so' is crossing your boundaries", when DH/boyfriend/friend/MIL has done something mildly irritating but not that big a deal really. Lots of people must've read the same self-help book because I regularly see talk of "boundaries" and I now hate the word!
Similarly, "She would never see my kids again if it were me" and "She's unhinged, go NC!" When a MIL has done some typical old person things, usually to do with the grandkids.

End of. It's so rude and Wetherspoons like.

Oh what about the 'you haven't got the flu' lot.

"I had the flu and I would never have been able to post on MN, I couldn't even have lifted the phone at all, you just have a cold"

I've had the (swabbed and diagnosed) flu and it was like a really shitty cold, but could still do stuff.

Maybe covid will have spoiled those threads this year though.

Need MN bingo with all the things people couldn't do for themselves on it 🤣

"You sound like hard work"
"You sound entitled"
And my absolute FAVOURITE
"What about the other 29 children in the class" (as am excuse for my DC not to get an education)

@pasturesgreen

Put your ducks in a row. I can feel my blood pressure rising already

This ^

It's the most irritating saying ever.

Give your head a wobble! I hate it!

"Is it a cultural thing, OP?" It makes me cringe and it also feels like the poster is looking for an excuse to dismiss the problem/situation because the people involved are (gasp!) foreign.

When an OP posts to say he is a man and you just know he's going to get absolutely dragged for everything he says from there on out 😂

I can’t stand it when people say ‘are you always this anxious op’
So patronising!

The constant use of 'think' instead of 'eg' or 'for example'. No idea why it annoys me so much but I hate it.

Picky bits - makes me think of scabs and toenails 🤮
Tinkly laugh/head tilt - fucking smug passive aggressive nonsense. What would that even sound like? I mean try and make your laugh tinkly; there’s no such thing. It’s often offered up as a solution for people who have been on the receiving end of real unpleasantness.

I’d never heard the phrase “makes my teeth itch” before mumsnet and it’s a really horrible phrase and reading it feels like nails down a chalkboard! And it has the air of superiority about it, probably because I mostly see it on the grammar police threads 😬

I hate it when posters say “only on MN....” then act is if they’re the uniquely intelligent ones who’ve spotted the “MN sheep mentality”.

Which doesn’t exist.

Annoys me every time.