To ask about your fav Mumsnet cliches

[HeidiHaughton]

Ltb being mine.

Whenever something mildly inconvenient happens: I'm broken. Totally, utterly broken.

@NuniaBeeswax

Whenever something mildly inconvenient happens: I'm broken. Totally, utterly broken.

don't be mean.

It's already exhausting to be fuming/in a rage, so it doesn't take much to push you over the edge.

I am fuming because people who want me to do things are CFs and people who don't want to do things for me are selfish. I'm beyond broken. I'm just.....done.

I am fuming because people who want me to do things are CFs and people who don't want to do things for me are selfish. I'm beyond broken. I'm just.....done.

Just don't spit your drink everywhere

These are the people who are ‘literally crying ’ as well. As opposed to figuratively?

Oxbridge. Nobody uses that if they actually went! I went to Cambridge. Or I went to Oxford. Or I was at (name) college.

My daughter went to Oxbridge - no, she didn't.

Oxbridge. Nobody uses that if they actually went!

not true at all, some do.
They use "Oxbridge" when making a generic comment, they only named their own college when talking about their own experience.

"I am fuming because people who want me to do things are CFs and people who don't want to do things for me are selfish. I'm beyond broken. I'm just.....done."

I just spat my drink all over my phone. And by that I mean I sniggered a bit.

@Iknowwhatudidlastsummer

Oxbridge. Nobody uses that if they actually went!

not true at all, some do.
They use "Oxbridge" when making a generic comment, they only named their own college when talking about their own experience.

As a concept. Not a place.

Broken is marginally less irritating that "in bits".

If you cant see your child ribs they are probably very overweight and "you have lost sight of what a normal child looks like" and are probably feeding them devil food cereal or sandwiches!!
Both my kids were short and chubby until they were about 5 or 6. Then they grew upwards and now are both shorter than average and on about 25th centile (I can see DS ribs now though) ....most likely because their parents are fairly short and averagely built!

@Exhausteddog that's because you didn't teach them that they only need to nibble on a sandwich if they've had something hot for lunch. Gawd...

Well also their lunch box contents wouldnt pass muster with the average MN. They would more likely pelt me with "cut up peppers and cherry tomatoes" than actually eat them and then call childline

"If you cant see your child ribs they are probably very overweight and "you have lost sight of what a normal child looks like" and are probably feeding them devil food cereal or sandwiches!!
Both my kids were short and chubby until they were about 5 or 6. Then they grew upwards and now are both shorter than average and on about 25th centile (I can see DS ribs now though) ....most likely because their parents are fairly short and averagely built!"

Typical fatty excuses. I bet you fed your children nothing but cans of coke and greggs sausage rolls. My children have never even heard the word "chocolate".

Broken is marginally less irritating that "in bits".

But neither is as bad as "on my knees." Or "on its knees", inevitable in any thread about the NHS or education system.

The current sausage thread is making me giggle more than it ought to!

The sausage thread is GOLD

You could play MN food bingo on there!

@Exhausteddog yes! I barely ate anything as a child and was a big ball of dough. I'm skinny now, literally the same size as I was when I was a 10 year old kid. SOME KIDS ARE CHUBBY.

The sausage thread is 'unbelievable' I opened it hoping for some MN Gold and I was NOT disappointed

@CatalinaCasesolver

All of these are fucking bang on and hilarious 😂

I'll add:

Ddog
Dcat
Drabbit
Etc etc

I do NOT understand this. It makes me laugh / cringe every time.

See... I totally get DP/DD etc - because it's shorter and easier than writing "partner" or "daughter".

But Dcat? You've added a letter there, so saved yourself nothing!

🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

We are peaking now with the justification of BMI as to how many sausages is permitted. And the skinny active teenager ratio is at play... it's glorious!

Link to sausage thread please :)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4161836-How-many-sausages-per-person-with-bangers-and-mash-Are-we-a-greedy-family?msgid=104545525#104545525

Thank you, that's my evening sorted