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

These aren't MN specific but teeth itching, piss boiling, keeping eyes peeled, and any phrase comparing pregnancy stages to "cooking" phrases literally make my eyes water. I have a genuine visceral reaction to them.

Get your ducks in a row irritates me slightly just because it's so over used

"Think" As in "I went to a large supermarket yesterday, think Sainsburys"
Just say you went to fucking Sainsburys, you absolute dullard!

Not a phrase, I'm afraid, but something I would like to ban here is the quoting of the entire OP by posters.

If you're on the thread and you make a comment addressed to the OP, then I think we're all intelligent enough to realise that you're commenting on the OP.

Hubby 😤

Can I have a handhold ….makes me sick.
I was shaking and crying.. also makes me sick.

@HungryLittleCrocodile omg yes!! I hate "reader" with a passion.

Just ”hobby” for me

Or Hubbie

Disagree

How bloody "triggering" absolutely everything ever is 😤

Didn't want to read and run.

Also - ‘sanpro’. Another one that makes me genuinely squirm! Never heard anyone say it in real life (thankfully)

mocking and deriding someone who doesn't eat large amounts of food by snidely calling them 'teeny tiny' fucks me off! I once said that DH and I share a large battered fish and a standard bag of chips, and have a large pot of curry sauce with it, (from the chip shop,) and a slice of bread and butter each. Several posters said 'LOL, teeny tiny! Do you have a massive salad for lunch?!' Someone said I was weird, as no-one does that unless they're 'very elderly

The comments when you’re not a huge eater are awful especially the ‘teeny tiny’ and MN salad brigade.

I thought of another one, ‘did you mean to be so rude”. I’ve responded to that a few times, yes, I actually did.

I absolutely loathe:

How old are you, 12?

Thankfully "hubby" has yet to take proper hold on Mumsnet

It's so awful

PMSL
First time poster, long time lurker

Starting posts with ‘So…’

’D’ anything. It’s archaic, twee and totally unnecessary.

Any post that starts ‘Lovely ladies’ or ‘Hello mummies’ or the like. Nauseating.

And I agree with the ‘let’s call her Zoe…’. Always followed a post that demonstrates it was unnecessary to call her anything at all.

Use your words

What kind of patronising arse says that to an adult in real life?

darked on and that bloody stupid spider willy rubbish that's posted on washing threads

No ?
You would do that though no ?

I couldn't get worked up about .....whatever the post is about

So what, the OP cares enough to post and you clearly are worked up enough to share how cool and unbothered you are

One I currently hate, and it isn't just in mumsnet, is when people finish with,

"just a thought"...

This would my choice too. DC, DS, DD, DH, all really naff.

If this is all you have to worry about...

As if people are incapable of being concerned about more than one thing, and at different levels.

Absolutely agree. So much easier to say none of my business