Words and phrases that give you the rage light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

What phrases do you hate? It gives me the rage when my mum says put up and shut up. I know that some things are not within my control and that i have to do things i don't like.

“Finger buffet” has been used for years and as far as I can see means the same thing.

I dislike 'finger food' as a term...it just has the wrong implications, to me. It makes me think of fingers (poking into things, being licked etc) rather than food.

There was a discussion on another thread recently about this point - it's really hard to find a synonym for the dreaded p*y b**s. Even nibbles isn't quite right - it implies very small salty things you'd eat with drinks rather than a very casual light buffet meal...and again, 'nibbles' isn't a very appetising term.

It's reminded me that I don't like to talk about a 'spread' either (in the sense of a layout of food). I don't mind it if it's referring to Dairylea or Marmite!

Not sure why but I really hate “Useful Idiots” and when women call their boyfriends/husbands “Daddy” 🤢

True. I think my dislike of parenting as a verb is that it turns being a parent into something that people think they are doing to a script, whereas most of us bring our kids up as best we can any old how.

Also in the work context - people don't talk "about" a topic anymore, they talk "to" it. Does anyone know where this came from?

What did "about" do to people. See also "excited for" when people mean excited about or looking forward to.

Yes, I like it, especially in regards to cake.

Yes - those are also very irritating.

I just hate the way everyone parrots these expressions mindlessly. Honestly, I've asked a few clever people who write or lecture for a living and they just do a Mona Lisa smile but give no answer whatsoever as to why this daft 'speaks to' stuff has become so universal.

And with history documentaries, or anyone now talking about history, commentators have clearly been instructed brainwashed to use the present tense all the time. God, it grates.

"So in September 1939 Hitler marches into Poland..."
"Richard III shuts the princes in the Tower..." etc.

I hate the name Karen being used as a term of abuse, usually online, usually by men. It's so spiteful somehow

There's been many a MN thread about this. I agree with you. We don't have an equivalent for men, so odd that isn't it.

How dare women of a certain age have opinions!

So do I, guess what my name is! Its gone from being a fairly common 60's ordinary name to an insult, and if you're feeling a bit sensitive it can really get you down🤨

I see it on here occasionally and it’s.

“use your words”

so patronising

Date night

Authentic self

@IfItsNotOneThingItsYourMother
Ah yes, when I was on my journalist training course, we were told to “avoid all clichés like the plague. Including this one.”

Gonna, wanna, kinda, sorta, and possibly the worst, which thank goodness I’ve seen only once, ‘tryna’, meaning ‘trying to’. 🤬 (not lighthearted!)

Bestie! Unless you’re no more than about 7. It honestly makes me cringe to hear grown women use that word.

People saying "it's not that big of a deal/problem" etc. The "of a" is superfluous; in fact, it's nonsensical. It's all over the place at the moment.

I hate it when I see adverts for food advertised as ‘fridge fillers’ like the object isn’t to choose nice foods that you’ll enjoy eating, no, it’s just about filling your fridge up to the brim with any old cheap crap.

Should of
could of
myself
yourself
in a restaurant “I’ll do a…”
”I did this thing…and honestly…?” Grrr
“He/she is my sole mate”
”lived experience “ (is there any other kind?)

Like 'sleeps', as in 4 'sleeps' 'til my holiday. Infantile.

Yes to 'jumping on'.
I used to work in a charity shop, and one day the manager asked me to jump on the till for him.
"Well I could do, but I might damage it ! "

Also we are pregnant, no you're not !.
QVC announcing a mega joolery sale
Drawring instead of drawing.
Picky tea, picky bits.
Iccle bubba argggh.
Maybe I'm just a grumpy old woman 🤣

Any “wet food” words- dollop, splodge, blob - really common on Mumsnet food threads, dollops of homous or blobs of Greek yoghurt

“let’s Normalise x, y, z”

my current hate on social media is the whole ‘my grandmother explained xxx ‘ or my grandmother showed me xxx and then proceeds to show you something really modern, and I just think “no she didn’t” 🤣

Oh and picky tea or picky bits. Absolutely hideous, makes me think of eating scabs 🤮

In our house it’s “a buffet tea”