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To ask about your fav Mumsnet cliches

811 replies

HeidiHaughton · 06/02/2021 15:29

Ltb being mine.

OP posts:
FoxyTheFox · 08/02/2021 12:31

It comes from some solicitors offering a free 30 minute consultation about your problem so they can set out which service(s) you'll need and roughly how much it'll cost, it's basically a 30 minute sales pitch. If they can't help you, they'll pass you the details of someone who can. If you can't afford them, if they're nice, they'll point you in the direction of charities/free legal services who might be able to advise you further. Some people on MN decided that this means all solicitors are obliged to provide the entire population with 30 minutes of free legal advice per person and so it became fact.

Fuckingcrustybread · 08/02/2021 12:36

@Riapia

“I’m going against the grain here.” You’re just being a smug twat.
Especially when it's obvious that said poster doesn't know the real meaning of the phrase "going against the grain" Also use of the word said, never used irl, used on MN for pomposity, sometimes deliberate.
GoodbyeH · 08/02/2021 12:39

I often think If we heard the other side of the story from the DH, posters wouldn't be so quick to tell OP to LTB.

It would be pretty easy to write about an argument or disagreement I had with DH and make it sound like I'm the victim!

Conundrumofsorts · 08/02/2021 12:50

@FoxyTheFox

It comes from some solicitors offering a free 30 minute consultation about your problem so they can set out which service(s) you'll need and roughly how much it'll cost, it's basically a 30 minute sales pitch. If they can't help you, they'll pass you the details of someone who can. If you can't afford them, if they're nice, they'll point you in the direction of charities/free legal services who might be able to advise you further. Some people on MN decided that this means all solicitors are obliged to provide the entire population with 30 minutes of free legal advice per person and so it became fact.
I have been free advice from solicitors in the past, I agree it’s usually to set out what they can do though.

The posters that do the hysterical laughing faces at the suggestion because they seem to think they are way cleverer than the average person come across as very smug.

Conundrumofsorts · 08/02/2021 12:50

*had

NotReallyTheVicar · 08/02/2021 12:55

A stranger is incredibly rude to you.
MN: You don’t know what’s going on in their life.

Could be that they’re just a nasty person!

Eastie77 · 08/02/2021 15:05

There js a thread running at the moment with some classic MN armchair diagnosis cliches. OP has described several instances of bullying in different workplace settings. At least a dozen responses have quickly diagnosed the her with autism (and a couple have thrown in that she certainly has ADHD too for good measure) because it is not usual to experience bullying so many times and so she is clearly 'mis-reading' people.

Just waiting for someone to tell her to jack in her job and take in ironing.

LouJ85 · 08/02/2021 15:05

It's DSD19's house too. Give her the double room. Your three teens can share. You and DH sleep on the couch."

"And make her meals and clean up after her, but don't get in the way of her relationship with her Dad, leave them to it... but don't keep leaving the room every time she's over, you'll come across as unwelcoming and cold..."Hmm

LucasLeesEyebrows · 08/02/2021 15:47

@Eastie77

There js a thread running at the moment with some classic MN armchair diagnosis cliches. OP has described several instances of bullying in different workplace settings. At least a dozen responses have quickly diagnosed the her with autism (and a couple have thrown in that she certainly has ADHD too for good measure) because it is not usual to experience bullying so many times and so she is clearly 'mis-reading' people.

Just waiting for someone to tell her to jack in her job and take in ironing.

I really want to post on that thread some classics highlighted in this thread: Supercilious Twat here. You’re obviously hard work and have ADHD. Just take in ironing. You won’t have to interact with anyone ever again. I obviously won’t because the woman hasn’t done anything wrong and wouldn’t get that I’m being sarcastic.
feistyoneyouare · 08/02/2021 17:21

@Exhausteddog

99% of MN seem to be hermits introverts and hate speaking to colleagues , neighbours, family, friends (in RL and on the phone), would find it a chore to go to a wedding, dont answer the door etc ....but none of this has had any impact on them getting a 100k a year job with bonuses. that they can do from home
Thank you so much, you just reminded me of another MN trope... being nasty about introverts. Hmm
TheRaccoons · 08/02/2021 17:30

IThe I Don’t Need Any More Friends mumsnetter in the threads about not knowing anyone/feeling left out in the school playground.

These people think anyone who feels lonely, who are possibly new to the area or who feel left out of groups of mums who may already know each other, are needy and irritating for feeling miffed that noone has so much as smiled at them in the playground. ‘You sound hard work’, ‘I just don’t need any new friends. Sorry.’ ‘To be honest I’m just so busy to even smile at anyone, I wouldn’t even notice you to be honest.’

Iyiyi · 08/02/2021 17:42

@ilikebooksandplants I have loads of salad and veg with my dinner too, because I have a very large appetite and poor portion control having been brought up on my stepdad cooking and dishing up dinner. Me and my sisters all got given the meals of adult men 😂

Iyiyi · 08/02/2021 17:48

There is a consistently unpleasant attitude to sex workers - not just because they’re normally mentioned in the context of someone’s husband cheating but specifically to them.

Everyone gets told the LTB and then the same people pop up to tell stepparents- many of whom are so because they did exactly that - they should have known what they were getting into. Or commenting that they would never want to be a stepparent.

LookofEvaBraun · 08/02/2021 17:50

I hate the way grim is used on here so much, I don't know anyone who says it in conversation.

SecretSpAD · 08/02/2021 17:56

The constant suggestion of the names Otillie and Florence on the baby name board.

One of those names is my middle name. I love it so much that ditched my first name in favour of it when I left school!

Iyiyi · 08/02/2021 17:57

@LookofEvaBraun - I say it quite a bit I think Blush I wonder if it’s seeped into my head from MN?!

sammylady37 · 08/02/2021 18:18

@LookofEvaBraun

I hate the way grim is used on here so much, I don't know anyone who says it in conversation.
It’s often used as an insult towards women who actually enjoy sex and who have casual sex by women who think sex should be some mystical, deeply spiritual encounter with their husband.
feistyoneyouare · 08/02/2021 18:48

There is a consistently unpleasant attitude to sex workers

That sentence would have worked quite well without the last word too, tbf. IMHO there's a perennially pearl-clutchy, prim attitude to anything sexual that isn't straight/vanilla sex with one partner and one only, in an ongoing monogamous relationship. It's as if it's not quite naice to enjoy anything that doesn't fit into a neat, conventional box.

bloodyhairy · 08/02/2021 18:57

The whole LTB thing has just become ridiculous. It's like a man has to be perfect at all times, or else.

bloodyhairy · 08/02/2021 18:58

And there's a general hatred of Cadbury's chocolate Hmm

Baws · 09/02/2021 00:09

This thread has made me laugh so much. Thank you posters, I was about to delete my account due to the utter bollocks from absolute twats on here but you’ve all shown me that there are normal people on here! SmileGrin I read so many threads on here with a WTF look on my face and a feeling of satisfaction that I don’t know anyone like this in real life!

Hyppogriff · 09/02/2021 02:36

please guess the gender of my unborn child ... just for fun

mooncats · 09/02/2021 09:13

OP: does anyone like this dress ?
MN: yuk no, it's polyester

LouJ85 · 09/02/2021 10:08

@bloodyhairy

The whole LTB thing has just become ridiculous. It's like a man has to be perfect at all times, or else.

Agreed, the perception of men seems to be extremely skewed on here Confused

LouJ85 · 09/02/2021 10:09

@feistyoneyouare

There is a consistently unpleasant attitude to sex workers

That sentence would have worked quite well without the last word too, tbf. IMHO there's a perennially pearl-clutchy, prim attitude to anything sexual that isn't straight/vanilla sex with one partner and one only, in an ongoing monogamous relationship. It's as if it's not quite naice to enjoy anything that doesn't fit into a neat, conventional box.

Yes!! And this. Bizarre.