To be driven crazy by a few very, very common expressions on Mumsnet?

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Here are two to start with:

"Just that really." after the initial title of the post, sometimes accompanied by shrug emoji.

The word "surely".

Do you have any that irrationally irritate you?

a lot
not alot
I got stung by someone fresh from Pedants' Corner

And the assumption that everyone's work is typing into a computer from 9 to 5.30 so any variation from this is treated with suspicion.

And the assumption that anything less formal than an M&S blouse and navy skirt is "not appropriate workwear."

The holiday threads where the OP is stuck with a drunk DH or a drama queen friend:

'Can't you switch to a different hotel?'
'Can't you change your flight?'

Yes because everyone has a spare couple of grand in the bank to do this. I'll just call Zurich and move some money around 😉

I was evil enough to suggest that an OPs DH might not just be able to take a day off work because there was some (minor) calamity that meant taking the DC to school/ baby cannot go to nursery / looking after a spouse with a cold was not easy if ( for example ) they were a medic or similar .
Imagine if you'd waited months for an appointment to be told airily "we have to cancel your appointment , Dr Bloggs had to take his kids to school"
You'd think "Oh nice to see a husband step up"
Like Hell you would !

I got my hands and head in a bucket .

Not saw "take in some ironing " for a while.

Also DD is it dear daughter / darling dog ? In fact anything beginning with D ! Who ever thought of it in first place what’s wrong with saying my father sister husband wife etc - rant over 😩

Everyone hates the DXs but feels compelled to use them, me included. Why? No one knows. Here's a reddit rant about it from 14 years ago! www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/t54bp/can_we_quit_with_the_dd_and_ds_etc/

Yup. Bugs me but I use them about family members as it's easier.

I will not never ever use them about my gorgeous cat though. She is very dear to me, but DC is weird!

I’d forgotten how cringey I found all this Dear stuff when I first joined. Now I have to stop myself using them in other places.

Just had a read of that thread and they’re absolutely right. I’ve decided I’m going to stop doing it.

I always read FTM as “female to male” too 😆

I've never heard ick in real life. I hate it.

Threads titled "Recommend me a...."

I live in Dublin. It’s not a phrase I use frequently myself 😂 I’ve more to be doing than dwelling on any ‘icks’ I have but it’s a common term in eg media - just heard a piece on the radio about top ten icks - and on TV.

Really, have you never heard of or watched ‘Nobody Wants This’ on Netflix (if you haven’t, do, it’s brilliant!), which has a whole episode devoted to ‘getting the ick’ (hilarious & amazing)

I’m not saying you, personally, might use this word. But trying to say you’ve ’never heard it’ when it’s in widespread use across countries & continents is … surprising.

Maybe I've just led a very sheltered life 🤣

I've never heard it said in real life. I've never come across it except on MN.

Not heard of the show you mentioned. Googled it, not interested.

Go NC (no contact) is much, much less frequent o MN now but used to annoy me. Usually because it was over a very minor issue.

Grand so 😑

I never understand responses like this - Nodody Wants This was a huge success, and widely written about, with several moments achieving that ‘breaking the internet’ status. Of course you mightn’t have any interest in it or ever watch it but really, you never saw any of the many articles written in main stream newspapers, the reels on IG, the actors interviewed on talk shows? Like, you nearly couldn’t avoid it!

Perhaps not. But how does an adult exist not listening to the radio, watching TV, being on any social media or reading newspapers? All of which had copious coverage of this programme as well as the particular aspect I mentioned.

The threads that really annoy me are those where someone is playing the victim despite potentially actually being the aggressor themselves and who give partial information that could easily be painting a misleading picture but won't fill in details in response to questions from other posters. Those threads annoy the hell out of me.

Also the threads where you get hounded off them for expressing a different opinion, usually LTB type threads that build up a huge momentum of collective rage.

I also can't stand posters who say 'you clearly don't know anything about/have no experience of x,y,z' especially when I do have knowledge or experience of x,y, z.

The only actual phrase that I can think of that annoys me are posts that start 'Man here'. Otherwise I actually love a lot of the Mumsnet cliches and have to stop myself using them in real life 😂

What does hard Paddington stare actually mean?
“Use your words” irritates the hell out of me. We’re not toddlers Ffs.

I read The Times. I'm not on any social media except here. I listen to BBC Radio Three. I rarely watch television and never watch talk shows

The Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe Festival start at the beginning of August and my calendar is booked out for the whole month. I wonder have you heard of it? Or the Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Ballet. Does the Met Opera cinema screenings, Royal Ballet and Opera ring any bells with you?

I have used “Paddington stare” since I was seven. I loved the Paddington books; they are in a different league from the films. You have to read the books to understand the full effect of a well-directed Paddington Stare. (Although my dcs grumble that other people - like posters on here - don’t know that they are being reprimanded with a stare.)

I have also never heard of the TV show Nobody Wants This.

I have Netflix. It has never recommended this show to me.

I have Instagram. I have never been served a reel about this show.

I don't watch celebrity TV talk shows.

The newspaper content I read is largely recommended out to me through social media.

It is very easy in today's algorithm-driven world to imagine that "everyone" is watching the same thing as you, but actually we live in a series of niches. There is far less of a common culture than there was 20 or 30 years ago. TV shows are watched by far fewer people. Music is bought by far fewer. Audiences are splintered across thousands of different radio and TV channels.

Less than half of UK homes have Netflix.

I've recently been catching myself saying 'batshit' irl even though I've never heard anyone else say it irl, ever. I'm annoying myself with it, but it just keeps coming out. Maybe I need a Mumsnet break. 😂

Agree with most of these!

Yes - in real life, who is daft enough to say 'Did you mean to be so rude?' Apart from being such a therapist's cliche, it invites the other person to say 'Yes, actually I did!"

And 'No is a complete sentence". Only sometimes if you live in the real world.

Spot on. It's actually quite frightening how good the algorithms are at serving up more and more of the same, leading us to stick with the safe and familiar only. Decades ago we had so little choice on TV that lots of us ended up seeing things we'd not have picked for ourselves and yet often we enjoyed them and had that magic experience of being able to talk to just about anybody about what we'd been watching as half the population were doing the same - and all at the same time as there were no video recorders, never mind catch up services. God I'm old!

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g ash back to the days when people talked to eachother before it the bus stop,shops etc.
I still do it I'm at that age I'll talk to anyone if they engage.

I live in London where it's quite risky to make eye contact with a stranger, never mind speak to them, but am currently in a place where everybody says hello to everyone else as a matter of course. It's really lovely. Rather a contrast to MN where people claim not to answer their doors if they're not expecting a call and where an adult paying attention to a baby or toddler is an infallible sign that they are a predator.