To wish that 'hubby' was banned on MN?

[merrymelodies]

I see more and more posters are referring to their husbands as "hubby". I can't stand the abbreviation and wish it would disappear.🫥

Fellah is very Jackie circa 1982.

Just normal vocabulary surely

I dont have a problem with it.
It's not a word I use but I have friends who do.
If any word was to be banned it would be 'naice' i know where it comes from on Mn, ( yes I'm as old and i remember oh so hilarious shopping lists) i

💯 agree. Wish all the males on here would go away.

Also " game changer" and " reach out"

Don't ask me why, but they bloody annoy me. I see GC a lot re: HRT on the menopause board. Maybe because HRT is " game changing"?

Reach out, just reminds me of someone with a very long arm, trying to reach something far away! 🤷‍♀️

Hubby is indeed such a silly, twee abbreviation.

Is it really so difficult to type out hubalub in full?

Agreed. Naice 🤢🤢

There’s another word on here - limerance? 🤢🤢🤢🤢 Not sure what it means exactly but it belongs in Room 101 with naice.

Oh please can we ban vile. This is not a word I have ever heard in real life. It's peak mumsnet.
It's a pretty regular word.
Ive already heard it being used once today. A teen i work with said my breakfast was vile and how could I eat it. ( Greek yogurt with a banana!)

To be honest men being on here full stop really irritates me. Is there nothing that women can have without it being invaded by men.

I've never noticed them unless they've announced it tbh.

Agreed

Oh, for a moment I thought you were alluding to your own husband, who has been on here having a few rants! 😂🫢

it means, cheeky as in self indulgent when they know they really shouldn’t,
already have food in the house, so its a little naughty, impromptu maybe,
feeling the need to explain or excuse themselves, slightly abashed

@Sasskitty 😂😂 hilarious! I had to use an emoji as I am actually laughing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence
I wouldn’t lump this in with an acronym ban on here.

I think if we banned hubby because of some people’s personal preference, it would open a can of worms to cancelling most phrases as there’s always going to be some people who don’t like them!

Ill probably be in the minority here as I know it’s a huge mumsnet norm, but I’m not into all the DH, DD, DSS, DPIL, DS, DGP, DGD… it goes on! I once spent so much time trying to work out that DPIL meant “darling parents in law” that I wish the poster had just written “my in laws”… trying to guage context and work out of DS is darling son or darling sister…is it really that much harder to write “my granddaughter” than DGD… I am getting used to it now but I wish they’d never been invented.

And don’t get me started on stories with “person A did this, person B thinks this, then person C said this”… I can never follow who’s who on those!

Hate that too, and especially when people phrase it as: "Don't be scared to reach out." Erm, no I'm not scared to get in touch 🤔

Just thought of another thing that I find annoying on here. Where people respond ‘didn’t want to read and run’ .. if you had read and not responded, no body would ever know! Do you seriously respond to every thread you read!?

I hate that one. Posters who use it think they're being wry but instead, they just come across as thick and silly.

Another pet hate is, 'Sending positive thoughts'. Meaningless drivel!

I use hubby in my daily vocabulary 🤣

Haha this always makes me smile too! You're spot on, who would know that they'd read it anyway?! 🤦🏼‍♀️

It's usually used to bump a thread that might otherwise drop off the page. It's a kindness for someone who's struggling.

So just respond without saying ‘didn’t want to read and run’, surely?

“The ick” has to be on the ban list!

erm …how can you expose yourself like this @Sasskitty I’m embarrassed for you !

Going off the thread - but the Pankhursts were not killed and Laura Ingalls Wilder was a teacher and an author…

But I agree with your point!