To be sick of people calling everything a 'hack'?

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Why is everything suddenly a hack?
Just watched a video about a 'Disney land park hack'

What was it? Taking a massive churro and breaking it in half for 2 small kids.
How is that a fucking hack? It's just common sense??

Reminds me of a Louis CK stand up bit where he talks about the overuse of the word genius.

”In the past, you would have had to discover a new element or invent a new number to be considered a genius, nowadays…” etc.

😂 so annoying when that happens though

YANB!! It's fucking heinous, I hate it, they mean a tip or suggestion

A hack is something you do on a horse, or slang for journalist.

Want to avoid wet sheets in the morning?

Go to the toilet instead.

All these hacks drive me mad. Always accompanied by the taunting headline 'you've been doing it wrong!' when some Australian mother explains how she keeps her oven trays clean...... Piss off!!

Definitely not BU. It's annoying and weird.

I'm irritated with the 'secret' button that is discovered by a journalist that heats the rear window, or a big handle that when pulled stops the car from rolling away.

Drives me wild. I read one the other day. This genius hack aimed to reduce energy bills by........

Opening your curtains during the day to let the sunlight in and closing them at night to keep the cold out.

Call me old fashioned, call me out moded, outdated even, but drawing the curtains is not a fucking HACK

I'm off to scream into a pillow.

I fucking hate the concept of a 'hack'. They are always shit and I lay the blame purely at the shoes of mumfluencers on tick tock and Instagram.

While I'm at it, I also hate these terms:

Being 'obsessed'
Anything P.O.V.
A trouser
A bold lip

There are lots more. I can show you a great hack about them all later, it's called Hack Off 😡

Hack - slang for journalists; horse ride; illegally breaking into someone else's computer / phone or other technology with software....

Most 'hacks' now are just common sense and have been known for decades (or longer)!

I also hate the use of 'dupe' for a cheaper copy (usually perfume, skin care or designer item of clothing, footwear or bag). Dupe means 'to deceive or trick' (also defraud, swindle, hoax, hoodwink or cheat).

I think the thing that annoys me most of all is wobbling everything held up to the camera.

I think the thing that annoys me most of all is wobbling everything held up to the camera.

It’s the clattering of the long plastic nails on an item held up to the camera that makes my hackles rise.

YANBU. This has annoyed me for ages!

If a hack in this context is anything (and it isn't, so it's extra pointless), it's a cunningly clever work-around that you would never have thought of.

@StormingNorman and @Ifailed Thanks for thinking of penis tips and "I think you may have a problem" 😄

Screaming into a pillow is a great hack if your dc has only just gone to sleep ! 😂

I remember when my DM bought magazines like Bella , Best and Chat they always had "top ten tips" , 99% of them were rubbish. I am sure either the editor made them up or people sent the weirdest thing in that they could think of just to get their name in print

It's mainly been surpassed by 'hack' but 'Tips and Tricks' drives me bonkers. They are just tips, no tricking is needed.

Best one was a Pampers advert on YT with some influencer/D-lister saying her hack was literally buying the Pampers for Newborns 🤣 dead serious, her hack for new born nappies was... buying nappies!

I used to like Chat Tips when mags were still a thing .

Yes! Why do they do that?!

Yes! I remember this thread from a while ago. So many non hacks!

IT'S NOT A HACK! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4658705-its-not-a-hack

And all those 'little known' 'new' rules that are decades old and you'd have to have been living under a rock to be unaware of.

But this is still my favourite ever response to someone's hack that they thought was so revolutionary:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-journalist-mocked-for-video-on-making-sandwiches-as-a-lunch-hack-a3540626.html

Exactly this.

And while we’re at it, I’d like to line up and shoot every single instagrammer who taps their hideous fake nails on every one of the 75 products they’re applying to their face.

Dabralor · Yesterday 22:35

While I'm at it, I also hate these terms:

Anything P.O.V. Yup!
A trouser Yup!
A bold lip Yup!

I hold a particular hatred for POV, it's meaningless in every case where it's used.

Maybe it’s actually polyester and they are fabricating that it is cotton?

I find it frustrating too. There seem to be a huge amount of words losing meaning, which also means that more people are confused when listening to others and unable to actually communicate clearly what they mean.

I am old enough to know better (sanitary towel slippers tip era) and yet I still fall for the click bait hoping I'll learn something new. Alas I never do.

It's not even a tip, it's just bloody common sense.