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CheatingCheetos · 23/11/2023 13:36

AIBU unreasonable to think no-one speaks like this or uses those words outside the tabloid press.

I’d add to this “flaunt”, meaning a woman engaged in wearing clothes in public.

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Squiblet · 24/11/2023 15:18

The thing is, it's really hard to write headlines! Don't, er, slam it till you've tried it.

I've never subbed for a tabloid, but I've always thought it must be such a challenge cramming your headline into a space that's only one column wide. And there are no short words for, say, architect, lawyer or backbencher. Even "confirms" or "denies" might not fit, and then what do you do?

ginasevern · 24/11/2023 15:26

How about "adorable" to describe just about anything the royal family are doing.

FrustratedCustom · 24/11/2023 15:37

‘Locks’ for hair.

And random reference to the price of someone’s house. Even if they are writing an article about their cheese allergy.

Utterbunkum · 24/11/2023 16:05

BigBarm · 24/11/2023 09:20

DM’s obsession with ‘mandarins’ really irritates me. Their loose definition of mandarin seems to be a person at any level of management working in the civil service.

eg “our investigation reveals thousands of mandarins are allowed to WFH”
😬

My brain immediately went to small peelable fruits....

selfselfiequeen · 24/11/2023 17:32

''She channels Marilyn with her newly dyed blonde locks''

MrsMoastyToasty · 25/11/2023 00:45

"Crooner " for anyone who has had a single in the charts.

Atwitsend99 · 25/11/2023 00:51

Derrière for me 😂😂

Doingtheboxerbeat · 25/11/2023 05:39

'She rocked a Red lip' to describe wearing lipstick winds me up so much .

Doingtheboxerbeat · 25/11/2023 05:40

'And a flat ballet pump'😖.

Okaygoahead · 25/11/2023 06:56

I think it was “Teenage sex change priest in mercy dash to Palace” @Samsonsmum - it was the priest who’d had the sex change

Okaygoahead · 25/11/2023 07:04

Garner - does anyone garner anything in real life?

Pop of colour. Just stop it.

Iudncuewbccgrcb · 25/11/2023 07:24

Nick Ferarri on LBC in the mornings is the only person I can think of who talks like this.

topnoddy · 25/11/2023 07:29

It's all the FURY and SHAME that twist my melon

Plus the X formally Twitter bollocks

KingsleyBorder · 25/11/2023 07:31

ImNunTheWiser · 23/11/2023 17:41

Everyone in tabloid world always ‘breaks their silence’ too instead of just, you know, speaking.

Yes, I was coming on to break my own silence about this but you beat me to it!

People also “style their tresses” rather than doing their hair.

Fluffycloudsfloatinginthesky · 25/11/2023 07:35

The ones that really drive me mad are the ones online - telling me 'the exact date you must turn your heating on' or the exact date I must do x or y.

SoupDragon · 25/11/2023 08:19

Also: (Profession) reveals the one thing you should never/always do when (doing the profession thing)!

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