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Sayings on MN that you cannot stand!

507 replies

Namechangedforthreadbackafter · 07/09/2021 12:31

Inspired/copied/due to lack of my own ideas

What phrases/come backs/irritating things do people say on MN?

OP posts:
Howareyouflower · 07/09/2021 14:57

I hate the abbreviations. I use a laptop mainly so I have to type out whole words, but on a phone it's easier to put in H and have husband come up as a suggestion. DH DS DD etc irritate the hell out of me.

MazyontheDipper · 07/09/2021 14:57

boiling my piss.

grinding my gears

red flags

cocklodger

FWB

shitshow

shitfit

The word 'poo'........really grinds my gears...Wink

x2boys · 07/09/2021 14:58

@LukeEvansWife

Oh and if someone has a problem with neighbour noise "perhaps you should move to a detached property somewhere in the middle of nowhere" Hmm
Tbf there are an awful lot of moaners on mumsnet who are annoyed by everyday noise from neighbours just being in their own garden.
LittleLottieChaos · 07/09/2021 14:58

Another vote for the family abbreviations… DH, DSC, DD, DS… especially as they never are ‘dear’ and… just make it stop.

Oh and throw in ‘don’t want to drip feed’, we’ll just don’t then and don’t use that phrase either.

TableFlowerss · 07/09/2021 14:58

‘That’s mean spirited’ 😠😠😠 it makes me cringe!

Waitingforthecowstocomehome · 07/09/2021 14:59

@ComtesseDeSpair

Cock lodger. It doesn’t even make sense. In virtually none of the situations where it’s used is the OP exchanging lodgings in return for some great sex and companionship - which she might see as a fair exchange. It’s almost invariably just a shit relationship.
I hate that one too. It smacks of middle aged women trying and failing to sound cool.
LittleMysSister · 07/09/2021 15:00

@eddiemairswife

When someone who has problems getting children to different schools on time is told 'learn to drive' or 'move house' as if either of those can be done in a couple of weeks.
YES.

It's all the unrealistic replies that wind me up the most. Like what you've said here, or what someone mentioned earlier about writing a completely unrealistic rude message to, for example, a MIL.

Also how so many posters are quick to say everything is abuse.

LukeEvansWife · 07/09/2021 15:00

Tbf there are an awful lot of moaners on mumsnet who are annoyed by everyday noise from neighbours just being in their own garden.

True, but suggesting that they (or their neighbours if they are the ones being irritated) move to the middle of nowhere is fairly pointless! I am sure they would if they could!

LukeEvansWife · 07/09/2021 15:01

Narc
Gaslighting
Abusive

All well and good when that is generally the case, but sometimes things are relatively mild and people compete to jump on and say this.

Brefugee · 07/09/2021 15:02

"wedding breakfast". Just stop it.
Plus most of the others mentioned.
(bastarding, boils my piss and several others I learned in the Army though)

LittleMysSister · 07/09/2021 15:02

@LittleLottieChaos

Another vote for the family abbreviations… DH, DSC, DD, DS… especially as they never are ‘dear’ and… just make it stop.

Oh and throw in ‘don’t want to drip feed’, we’ll just don’t then and don’t use that phrase either.

Hate this too!! The whole 'dear' thing is so cringe.
LittleMysSister · 07/09/2021 15:05

@LukeEvansWife

Narc Gaslighting Abusive

All well and good when that is generally the case, but sometimes things are relatively mild and people compete to jump on and say this.

Yes, this is what I mean in my post above.

Almost every thread about a row or even a disagreement between 2 partners ends up with posters saying the partner is abusive and controlling. Especially if partner is male.

HailAdrian · 07/09/2021 15:05

Also, posters who claim that they would respond to difficult situations with a kind of badass attitude (a lot of telling people to fuck off, etc.) but in reality are too scared to answer their doors.

Uh oh, I'm on one now. I like MN but it's a funny place sometimes.

GeorgieFlame · 07/09/2021 15:06

Put your big girl pants on. It just reminds me of Olive from On the Buses when they go on holiday to Pontins and she has issues with her girdle. Grin

Plumtree391 · 07/09/2021 15:08

I don't like 'judgey', prefer 'judgemental' and have never heard someone abbreviate it like that in real life - though they probably do since Mumsnet.

Regarding other things people have cited: being 'thrown under a 'bus', is a phrase widely used and there are people who say, "No", quite plainly so it is a sentence.

Some of the acronyms are irritating. Why is everyone 'Dear' when in real life you wouldn't say, "Dear daughter, dear mum". GP could be grandparents or your doctor.

The use of swear words in every paragraph of a post, sometimes more than once per para. I would think once is sufficient.

'Rent out' rather than 'let'; that has found its way into mainstream British conversation but it isn't correct. In any case, the unwritten rule is that you write more formally than you speak.

(I have noticed when posting on here something happens occasionally where a word I thought I had posted comes out as something else, or with a 'greengrocer's apostrophe' when none was typed. I suppose we can't help that, it's down to the software.)

ToykotoLosAngeles · 07/09/2021 15:08

"Piss on your/my chips" is often used incorrectly. These sayings do not "piss on my chips" because it doesn't mean to Nnoy someone, it means to spoil someone's fun, take the wind out of their sails, etc.

Plumtree391 · 07/09/2021 15:10

@GeorgieFlame

Put your big girl pants on. It just reminds me of Olive from On the Buses when they go on holiday to Pontins and she has issues with her girdle. Grin
I don't like that either, it's silly.

So many people are 'narcissists' nowadays too :-).

QuinceTamarillo · 07/09/2021 15:11

"The Mumsnet hive mind." Any and every fool can register and post here, and probably does.

"Am I a Karen?" I don't know, why not upload your passport/driving licence so we can check for you?

"Bits and bobs" always makes me think of vibrators (battery-operated boyfriend).

Sunshineandflipflops · 07/09/2021 15:27

What drives me mad is:

"Maybe I'm just being hormonal but..." Why does everything have to come down to women's hormones and why do we have to use them to excuse shit behaviour from others? Surely most of us know where the word 'hysterical' came from, but for those who don't:

This was a condition thought to be exclusive to women – sending them uncontrollably and neurotically insane owing to a dysfunction of the uterus

BlancheB · 07/09/2021 15:29

The Teeth itch phrase is truly awful Envy

As is big girl pants - and for some reason all the self proclaimed "introverts" on here are mildly irritating tooHmm

TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY · 07/09/2021 15:30

not sayings as such but all this D bollocks in front of describing people.
do people talk like that in real life?ive never heard it.

ive been here years and it gets my gander up every time i see it

Olinguito · 07/09/2021 15:31

I agree with so many of these. Also can't stand 'he's a keeper', 'burn the house down with fire' or 'you win the thread'.

DrSbaitso · 07/09/2021 15:32

"He's a great dad", always said about some absolute arsehole who's useless at best and downright abusive at worst.

I think women sometimes think it's a sign of moral virtue to praise a shite man. It isn't.

BlackShadowCat · 07/09/2021 15:39

I actually really hate it when people write poems, but loads of people seem to think they are brilliant.

HocusPocuss · 07/09/2021 15:43

When people say ‘gently op’ before saying something that doesn’t sound gentle at all!

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