MN phrases that you would ban

[Malahide]

I’ll go first..

Potty shot. 🤢
Makes me squirm. Nobody needs to be sharing their scan photos for strangers on the internet to (probably wrongly) guess their baby’s gender. The whole thing is ridiculous

“Makes my teeth itch.”

FFS, see a dentist.

It is what it is 😵

I hate the sharing of scan pictures, they're sharing their babies genitals online willingly. Yes it's not a fully developed baby yet but it's showing a horrible lack of respect for their child's boundaries. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

'Who pissed on your chips' -it gives me a horrible mental image of some old lady wearing a headscarf peeing on a bag of chips.

If my (now teenage) DD found out that I’d been sharing photos of her genitals online before she was born I don’t think that she would ever forgive me - I wouldn’t blame her either! Can’t believe that people think it is appropriate

It's a hill I would die on. Eurghhhhhhh

‘No skin in the game’ someone used it once, suddenly, everyone has ‘no skin in the game’

’Ignore all the other posters!’ Why? What makes you think you’re the oracle?

HTH. As if that’s all that needs to be said on the matter.

Any reply that starts ‘Er…’

" nip it in the bud"
Usually said about mothers in law daring to want to spend time with their sons or grandchildren

‘You don’t have a MIL problem you have a DH problem’ - perfectly possible to have a ‘both’ problem

”I’m baffled”
”I’m confused”
No, you’re not baffled or confused your being passive aggressive in your question.

Tinkly laugh and head tilt (who actually does that?)

“death grip”

Boils my piss - so hate this expression

I have never heard it said by anyone other than on MN.

'Wow. Just wow.'

I really detest this one!

”Gives me the ick”

Oh my god the CRINGE whenever a presumably adult person writes this!

🤢

HTH

It seems to be the way to emphasise “I’m right and you’re wrong”. Maybe it was once used in a truly helpful non-sarky way, but I’ve never come across it.

TBH these are all just forumisms.

Jumping the shark is common here but I wonder if there are any truly unique to MN ones???

Anyone familiar with a popular motoring forum will know theirs is "fisting the kumquat"

"Not your circus, not your monkeys" is incredibly annoying.

Quoting a long post just to say :

This

Or

Exactly This

Yeah thanks for your invaluable insight

Hubby
Let's call her Jane

Absolutely hate this phrase. One of the worst for me!!!!

I hate DH/DD/DDog just say the word! It takes maybe 4 seconds to write "my husband"

"I'd have told him to fuck of."

No you wouldn't.

The made up name posts are particularly tedious.. some OPs sound like they’re writing a GCSE English language creative writing piece!

You don't have a DH problem, you have a MIL problem.

Calling something BIZARRE when it really isn't.

In fact any feigned confusion at all "I'm baffled by this" "this is so confusing".

Any organising of ducks into an orderly line.

"Are you quite well?" I'm quite well enough to tell you to fuck off Jemima