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"First post nails it."

81 replies

Incelebration · 20/12/2025 00:35

Really wish this smug and overused comment would be banned.

(I realise it's entirely predictable what will happen at the beginning of this thread...😄)

OP posts:
araiwa · 20/12/2025 00:37

Giraffes? Giraffes!

justpassmethemouse · 20/12/2025 00:38

araiwa · 20/12/2025 00:37

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Ay?

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 00:38

Sometimes it really does …yeah, it’d be better in that case if no one else bothered posting after that.

Zippideeblahblah · 20/12/2025 00:39

araiwa · 20/12/2025 00:37

Giraffes? Giraffes!

Nailed it

TinselTitts · 20/12/2025 00:39

araiwa · 20/12/2025 00:37

Giraffes? Giraffes!

You should've put 'hammer' 😁

PollyBell · 20/12/2025 00:39

I think the word smug should be banned it is constantly overused and always a label people give others because they have issues going on

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 00:39

Zippideeblahblah · 20/12/2025 00:39

Nailed it

Nah, giraffes can’t use hammers

ilovesooty · 20/12/2025 00:40

Agreed. It's irritating.

Kingscallops · 20/12/2025 01:01

I agree.

Misscoffee · 20/12/2025 01:03

The word smug i dont mind it, why you may ask im full smug tonight.

SnowFrogJelly · 20/12/2025 01:05

First post nailed it….

Kingscallops · 20/12/2025 01:05

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 00:39

Nah, giraffes can’t use hammers

😆 🤣

NuffSaidSam · 20/12/2025 01:32

I don't mind it.

I hate 'make it make sense'.

Not2identifying · 20/12/2025 01:38

People often say MN is unfriendly but I see that comment as being supportive of somebody's answer, publicly expressing agreement. Although we can privately signal agreement with the react button, the OP won't know if people particularly agree with something a PP has said unless posters say so. And sometimes the first post really does do a good job of answering the OP.

Incelebration · 20/12/2025 01:47

PollyBell · 20/12/2025 00:39

I think the word smug should be banned it is constantly overused and always a label people give others because they have issues going on

Haha!

I say "smug" because who made the person who made that comment the arbiter of what "nails it"?

I guess sometimes they're right, but it's getting a bit repetitive as an observation imo.

OP posts:
gillefc82 · 20/12/2025 01:51

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 00:39

Nah, giraffes can’t use hammers

But could giraffes be used as hammers….?

Incelebration · 20/12/2025 02:02

Please could someone explain the giraffes?

OP posts:
AffableApple · 20/12/2025 02:02

This thread is unhinged.

LifeOfAShowgirl13 · 20/12/2025 02:05

AffableApple · 20/12/2025 02:02

This thread is unhinged.

Hinges need nails to hold them in

JudgeBread · 20/12/2025 02:05

Incelebration · 20/12/2025 01:47

Haha!

I say "smug" because who made the person who made that comment the arbiter of what "nails it"?

I guess sometimes they're right, but it's getting a bit repetitive as an observation imo.

Agreeing with the first poster on a thread doesn't make someone smug.

AffableApple · 20/12/2025 02:09

LifeOfAShowgirl13 · 20/12/2025 02:05

Hinges need nails to hold them in

🤣

Breadandsticks · 20/12/2025 02:14

Sometimes it does and there is nothing more you want to add but to acknowledge how amazing that answer is

OriginalUsername2 · 20/12/2025 02:22

I hate “Well this is Mumsnet so everyone is going to say (blah blah blah) but I think..” (insert apparently superior opinion)

It’s so stupid, like you are on Mumsnet right now, you are one of us 😩

And show me a thread where everyone agrees with each other.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 08:29

Incelebration · 20/12/2025 02:02

Please could someone explain the giraffes?

You should be able to, you said the start of the thread would be predictable. Wasn’t it?Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2025 08:32

OriginalUsername2 · 20/12/2025 02:22

I hate “Well this is Mumsnet so everyone is going to say (blah blah blah) but I think..” (insert apparently superior opinion)

It’s so stupid, like you are on Mumsnet right now, you are one of us 😩

And show me a thread where everyone agrees with each other.

It’s particularly silly when the opinion of poster is very much in line with the majority of other posts on the thread, which of course they’ve not bothered to read.