Page 10 | I’m in a mood. What should be banned (lighthearted)

Merryoldgoat · 2025-01-10T19:05:30+00:00

Fucking door knocking charity callers. Why is it allowed? It’s intrusive and I bloody hate it. Pink deodorant - always cloying and horribly floral. Having to refill rinse aid I think the menopause is hitting hard today.

Maddy70 · 12/01/2025 23:15

Talking with your mouth full
Interrupting
Not using headphones while watching videos in public

MyDeepZebra · 12/01/2025 23:07

XenoBitch · 12/01/2025 22:35

My DP is a winter shorts wearer. He used to be a postie.

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Someone I went to school with recently posted a picture of her kids and husband in the snow, having made a snow man and having a snowball fight.

Husband was as pale as the snowman...wearing a ski jacket with a fairisle jumper visible underneath, trapper hat, ski gloves...and running shorts.

The comments were 90% women saying "FFS! Shorts!" "Shorts...🤢" "Why is Matthew wearing shorts?!" and she had replied "🙄 I know" to every single one.

He's got quite a formal office based job with an aeronautical engineering company...but maybe he secretly longs to be a roofer or postie and have his legs out all day.

XenoBitch · 12/01/2025 22:35

LaPalmaLlama · 12/01/2025 11:42

There was a radio show recently about people who wear shorts year round and people were phoning in. Nearly all the guys that do it work outdoors or were tradespeople so probably used to working in really cold conditions. I did wonder if it’s the working outside that has hardened them to year round short wearing or whether having a constitution that enables year round short wearing also enables you to do a job in the cold 🤣

One guy also made the valid point that it’s better than wet trousers if you do an outside job.

My DP is a winter shorts wearer. He used to be a postie.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/01/2025 15:18

JMSA · 12/01/2025 12:18

Shouldn't that be l8er 😜

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I sign messages to my DS with L8RZ 'cos I am down wiv da kidz .

It drives him potty !

blobby10 · 12/01/2025 14:57

Anyone driving on the motorway at the same time as me who either has no rear lights on cos they are using their DRLs or the tossers who had their fog lights on even though visibility was fine!

sodoffplease · 12/01/2025 14:35

Toothache

sodoffplease · 12/01/2025 14:33

Tourists on the tube during rush hour. Especially those with suitcases who convene at the entrance to the platform!

Latenightreader · 12/01/2025 13:02

Lorrymum · 12/01/2025 11:26

Mumsnet acronyms! Sometimes takes me ages to work out what I am reading.
Grown men who wear shorts in freezing conditions.
People who hang bags of dog poo on tree branches.

Especially the ambiguous acronyms - DF could be father, friend, fiancé, DS - sister, son…. Mostly it can be worked out from the context, but there have definitely been times when it isn’t very clear.

VodkaCola · 12/01/2025 12:44

ExceededUsefulEconomicLife · 11/01/2025 20:23

Horses for courses. The second I step in my house I take my jeans off and put my elastic waistbands on. I can’t relax in anything else.

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Me too. And I take my bra off as soon as possible. 😆

TigerRag · 12/01/2025 12:42

Train stations with no toilets

DPotter · 12/01/2025 12:24

female tennis players who grunt and moan and shriek when hitting the ball. Sometimes it really sounds like a porno movie playing in the background. Someone's watching tennis in the next room and all I can hear is eh!, ugh! oh! eh! Ahh! eh-eh-eh Urrgh! Oh! Ah! I'm thinking fucks sake! Shut up! At least its not as bad as Maria Sharapova used to be.

Some years back saw Serena Williams play I think it was Sharpova at Wimbledon. After a few times whenever Serena served, she mimicking Sharapova's weird wobbly 'grunt', maybe about 3-4 times - Sharapova stopped the 'grunt' for the rest of the match. Crowd thought it very amusing.

JMSA · 12/01/2025 12:18

CruCru · 12/01/2025 11:14

Anyone who writes "u" for you and "b" for be. "Will u b going to the shop later?"

Shouldn't that be l8er 😜

OurChristmasMiracle · 12/01/2025 11:58

People who say “I know you’re on lunch but….”
socks/pants/clothes thrown NEXT to the empty wash bin
crumbs in the butter.

LaPalmaLlama · 12/01/2025 11:42

There was a radio show recently about people who wear shorts year round and people were phoning in. Nearly all the guys that do it work outdoors or were tradespeople so probably used to working in really cold conditions. I did wonder if it’s the working outside that has hardened them to year round short wearing or whether having a constitution that enables year round short wearing also enables you to do a job in the cold 🤣

One guy also made the valid point that it’s better than wet trousers if you do an outside job.

neverbeenskiing · 12/01/2025 11:33

The use of the phrase "one hundred percent" on The Traitors.

DH suggested turning it into a drinking game, but if I took a drink every time one of them said it I'd have passed out by the end of the episode.

Lorrymum · 12/01/2025 11:26

Mumsnet acronyms! Sometimes takes me ages to work out what I am reading.
Grown men who wear shorts in freezing conditions.
People who hang bags of dog poo on tree branches.

CruCru · 12/01/2025 11:14

Anyone who writes "u" for you and "b" for be. "Will u b going to the shop later?"

IdylicDay · 12/01/2025 11:11

People that open plastic packets that have that re-seal strip and they don't re-seal it and just leave it wide open so the food goes stale.

As of this second, female tennis players who grunt and moan and shriek when hitting the ball. Sometimes it really sounds like a porno movie playing in the background. Someone's watching tennis in the next room and all I can hear is eh!, ugh! oh! eh! Ahh! eh-eh-eh Urrgh! Oh! Ah! I'm thinking fucks sake! Shut up! At least its not as bad as Maria Sharapova used to be.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 12/01/2025 09:40

CenotaphCorner · 11/01/2025 20:36

Politicians (and others) dolled up in full (clean) hi viz vests, hard hats, safety glasses and boots even if nowhere near anything remotely hazardous..

To be fair to politicians (and it hurts me as much as it hurts you), there are some sites where you have to wear protective clothing on the entire site, even if you are nowhere near the dangerous bits.

JudgeJ · 11/01/2025 22:51

Middlemarch123 · 10/01/2025 20:22

Ant and Dec.
Tesco pickers who meet in a busy aisle for a chinwag with each other, then roll their eyes when you politely ask if they could move so you can actually reach a shelf.
Amazon boxes that need scissors to open, only to reveal that half of the contents is bubble wrap, last time round socks fgs.
Pigeons that get on my pigeon proof bird table and hoover up all the little birds food.

When I was still teaching the caretaker brought a fairly large box up to my classroom, it was very light though. I opened it and there was nothing in there which I found quite puzzling. It was only a while later, when I was on the point of chucking it out, that someone said, What's that under the lid? There was a book we'd ordered, just a smallish paperback, it was stuck in a plastic envelope to the inside of the lid!

XenoBitch · 11/01/2025 22:22

MrTiddlesTheCat · 11/01/2025 22:07

That sodding tesco, I've got the power, advert.

Yes! I fucking hate it.
And the Lidl one... "ooooh". Arg!

MrTiddlesTheCat · 11/01/2025 22:07

That sodding tesco, I've got the power, advert.

FloraPostIt · 11/01/2025 21:45

Police officers on TV shows saying GSW when 'gun shot wound' has fewer syllables

XenoBitch · 11/01/2025 21:10

slingshotarrow · 11/01/2025 20:37

Dog shit on the pavement, people who don't pick it up should have it posted through their letterbox.

Well, it is already banned. You can get fined for leaving dog poo in a public place.

ScottBakula · 11/01/2025 21:08

evtheria · 10/01/2025 19:17

Ice on steps, roads, and pavements, please. Allowed on rinks, ponds, and other places of that sort.

Also: Bananas in smoothies, while we're at it.

I agree with this, you could put 20 different fruits in a smoothy and it would be fine , add a ¼ of a small banana and it becomes a banana smoothy.