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

I know, right? Many men start off by being wonderful and loving and attentive and kind and nice to women. And this is why women fall for them, live with them, get engaged and get married to them, and have babies with them.

In SOME cases, it's after you've got married, (moreso after you've got pregnant and had children,) that men seem to turn dismissive, moody, passive-aggressive, and argumentative. They start going quiet for no reason. and become more critical, picking on everything you do, and generally being an arsehole half the time... Leaving you wonder what the fuck you did wrong.

And they become quite lazy - and they start doing anything they can to get away from the children and the wife. Lots of extra hours at work, and lots of new hobbies. And then they start becoming a bit too friendly with other women - and then making you feel like you're the problem when you're not happy with it. Seen ALL of this on here.

And then when you start complaining on mumsnet (that you're not happy in your marriage,) you get a chorus of LTB! You've got kids together, you've got pets together, you've got 2 extended families together, you've got a home and a mortgage or joint tenancy, and you've got enmeshed finances. And probably two thirds of women would not be able to survive on their own financially. Especially if they have kids.

I hate it how some posters make out that it's so easy to pack everything into two suitcases and just fuck off somewhere else, and start a shiny new life on your own/with your kids. Like you're just going to walk into £150,000 a year job, and a lovely three bedroom house (which will be just waiting for you to move straight into) and be financially secure and happy for the rest of your life on your own. You will never ever struggle or live in penury or have to work 60 or 70 hours a week to keep a roof over your head. Life will be just peachy!

Some people do talk shit!

I'm getting pissed off with seeing that too... about Starmer... When I see a poster write that, I don't read anything else they have to say.

Also, as a pp just said 'use your words' is a horrible wanky patronising saying ... probably said by the same people who say

'reader, I married him.'

and

'kindly OP, you are a bit pathetic and stupid'

and

'are you on glue,' 'I live in a naice area,' and 'you eat at MCDONALDS?! I don't. I am too middle class and like actual proper food!' 'Oh and I also cook everything from scratch and make my own dresses from wheat.'

'Posh chocs'
'Picky bits'
'Spag bol'

So sick of the unnecessary abbreviations 🤢

What was his/her name? What were they like? Would you like to tell us about them?

So trite and false.

"Just pop..." as in "just pop the baby in a sling" or "just pop the toddler down for her nap"...

Any instruction starting "Just pop" is inevitably a ridiculous instruction to try something that obviously has already been tried and abandoned because my kid is just way more complicated and difficult than your one.

'You sound like hard work'

It's so fucking rude!

"you need to explain to them that..."
Especially when they're referring to a toddler.

raises hand

There's a lot of it about around here

Lots of veggies.

I have only read an amount of pages but mine are

Makes my teeth Itch (What? How?)
Makes my blood boil
Reader, blah blah
At the end of an OP the addition of the word discuss
Anything Naice
Ducks in a Row
Is He/She Unhinged

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This is very true and I hadn’t considered it.

Thank you, it does make sense in a lot of ways and i understand the desire to be a bit more cautious now.

It seems that some people have genuine reasons not to share information that might genuinely “out them” then, but I do think some people take it too far with the “outing hobbies” and refusing to share which supermarket they shop in like pp referenced.

Unless of course it genuinely is an outing hobby like keeping scrap books of garden centres they visit or collecting yoghurt or toenails or something similar!

Funnily enough, I came to say "cringe" when used incorrectly, as in "it's cringe" or "the cringe" or "so cringe". Equally "cringy" in place of "cringeworthy".

Cringe is something you do. Like cry, sneeze, or fart. You wouldn't say "baked beans are so fart". You would say "baked beans make me fart".

Likewise, it is not correct to say "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons IS so cringe", rather it would be "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons MAKES me cringe".

Or, "my mother doing the Time Warp after six vodkas & tonic, standing on a table in Wetherspoons is so cringeWORTHY".

Rinse & repeat for the word "chill".

Presumably also all written by adults.

Ah, so many grating words and phrases!! Worthy list so far covers lots of my non-faves. Let me add:

“she’s not respecting your boundaries” ALWAYS about a MIL daring to visit new grandchild.

“could they be neurodivergent?” Every time some kid’s bad behaviour is reported. Or adult’s bad behaviour! FFS, no!

LTB - for, well, anything.

HTH - because I still don’t know what it means.

And another vote for “NC as incredibly outing” (proceed with banal story); two votes for “hubby” - conjures images of a very unattractive middle aged man.

HTH = Hope This Helps.

Loved your comment on LTB @redalex261 😂

HTH

(not exclusive to Mumsnet, but just rile me up)

D - anything. DD DS DSS DF DH DDog DNHS.

Hubby.

Give your head a wobble.

What on earth are you talking about? (To something incredibly simple).

It’s a salary one!

It’s a MIL one!

ODFOD

Never heard of them. Who? (On a thread about a celebrity).

Dmoth, Dspider, Dplant.
Is this site full of kindly old ladies who call everyone (& everything) "dear" ?!

'Give your head a wobble' really annoys me for some reason - and it's so overused on here. Just think of another way to say it! Even 'Have a word with yourself' would be preferable.

However, the general rule seems to be that any which is in vogue soon goes out of vogue. Everything has a sell by date, but how to predict it?

We live in a ‘naice’ area.

DS is 6 foot 2, excelling at rugby and all subjects at private school. He can eat 2 full chickens and is still ravenous on an evening where as I’m slim and get full on a side salad which lasts 4 days.

MIL wants to visit my newborn 2 weeks after arriving home from hospital. I don’t want visitors. I just want to enjoy the baby bubble with DH and my own mum who will be helping with night feeds as DH will need sleep for his 7 figure salary job. AIBU?

The accuracy!! 🤣

I'm going to add how much it annoys me when posters ask completely irrelevant details of the OP.

Is it really important to know what the OP had for breakfast when they've asked for help to motivate their hamster to generate electricity?

I once saw a poster use ‘DDiPoW’, meaning ‘Darling Diana, Princess of Wales’… horrendous!

I couldn't get worked up about this

Give your head a wobble

Gives me the ick