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 also hate the use of parent as a verb. It sounds a bit silly to me.

"First post nails/nailed it"
"You sound unhinged/vile/batshit"
"He sounds autistic" (about every asshole)
"(S)he could be ND" (about every asshole)
"You knew he had children when you married him"
"Put on your big girl pants"
Calling anyone who doesn't agree with them an "MRA"
"Cancel the cheque"
"What do you mean you 'brought a house'? Where did you bring it?" And any other fake confusion. wHaT dOeS iT MeAn?/

@parkrun500club

I also intensely dislike “parent” as a verb. It’s incredibly smug and self satisfied and also credits people with far more control over their kids than they actually have.

But parent is a verb. How is regular language smug?

Yes @HollyKnight

I hate "you knew he had children" it's so smug. There are so many variables involved that there could be so much about the children, and their parents that you truly didn't know. Life happens.

@Malahide

Parent is a noun, not a verb. You are a parent if you have a child. It has become a verb in the past 20 odd years because it’s been bastardised, in parallel with an industry of “experts” who believe they have the correct approach and everyone else is stupid, misguided or lazy.

It tends to correlate with people who are very quick to judge others for failing to adhere to the same standards as they do because it gives them a little superiority hit.

If you don’t understand how language can be smug you can’t have been on here long.

'This.'

it sounds so patronising, somehow. For the same reason, any post starting: 'Oh, OP.' Literally makes me shiver.

Hopefully 'off.'

Oh come on, brought a house is nonsense.

I had to google it the first time I saw it!

According to the Oxford dictionary, it became a verb in the 1600's.

Generally speaking the phrase “parenting choices” is people giving themselves air cover to be very judgemental about other very small divergences in the way others bring up their children which in the overall scheme of add up to nothing but allow the person dispensing the opinion to feel superior.

@ImNotGivingAwayMyShot

Wow OK: I’m genuinely surprised at this. Fair cop.

Still think it’s smug and awful though.

I do actually get what you mean by this. Even when I use it as a verb I think it sounds accidentally smug! Maybe just because it's not as commonly used?

It is smug and quite frankly bizarre of you to judge others for correctly using a verb* *that goes back centuries as a verb. Absolutely nothing to do with parenting choices.

I like « Do fuck off dear. »
Can we keep it?

@HungryLittleCrocodile

Given the price of fish and chips nowadays- sharing a portion with extra bread and butter makes sense !

@Malahide

It is smug and quite frankly bizarre of you to judge others for correctly using a verb that goes back centuries as a verb. Absolutely nothing to do with parenting choices

Hmmm, OK: you started a thread asking people to let you know what phrases they want banned and then accuse people of being smug because they tell you!

Don’t invite people to do this if you don’t want to hear the results.

This made me laugh!

@Minimili

I think sometimes though if you are on a few different threads where you discuss different aspects of your life - eg
you chat about your one child on SEN support thread, another child on the teenagers thread, something about your mum on the elderly parents thread, and update about where you live on a random weather thread, if someone thinks they may recognise you from one particular scenario you share, they only need to AS your name to confirm the likelihood of you being who they think you are .

Picky bits
Baby-dancing

Both make my toes scrunch up in the very ends of my shoes.

God, I've been on MN for years but have never got to grips with all the acronyms, though I know most of them.
I got fed up with always seeing HTH and saying "Hark The Herald" to myself that looked it up 2 days ago.
I thought, oh, that's nice, but I've missed where it's used pejorative.
Maybe I'll go back to "hark the gerald" after all.