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

531 replies

Merryoldgoat · 10/01/2025 19:05

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.

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JMSA · 11/01/2025 10:41

Irregular Choice shoes. I can't believe fully functioning women wear these monstrosities. They belong in a child's dressing-up box.

MoonlightMemories · 11/01/2025 10:29

The "tear here to open" tabs on biscuits/crackers etc that hardly ever work, just break off without opening said packet and then you end up having to open it with a knife or pair of scissors etc. Also on that note, vacuum-sealed type packaging on things like knives, scissors, electronic items etc that you ironically often need a very sharp pair of scissors to open in the first place. They are infuriating!

Bluevelvetsofa · 11/01/2025 09:53

People who park their trolleys in front of the shelf you need to get to and roll their eyes when you politely say ‘Excuse me’. As though they’re more important and should be allowed to monopolise the shelves.

Men who wear shorts when the temperature is below freezing. Particularly when they wear them with a beanie hat and a puffer jacket. Even more particularly, when they wear them with sliders.

BlueRidgeMountain · 11/01/2025 09:34

totally agree with passwords, that must contain 7647 letters, numbers, special characters, accents, umlauts, wingdings, etc, then it has the nerve to tell you it’s not secure enough and try harder. I’m trying to order bedsheets, it’s not bloody Fort Knox!

I’m adding blister packs tablets come in. This fresh new hell of the blister packs that has the tablets encased with some sort of foil/plastic combo, so that when you eventually manage to get the foil off there’s a thin layer of plastic still to fight your way through. Gives me the rage every time, since I can’t get a thumbnail to pierce it, so once I’ve used my teeth/ scissors/butcher knife I’ve either pulverised the bloody tablet or launched it across the bathroom never to be seen again. Ironically, it’s my arthritis meds that now come in this so it’s like I’m being punished for having crap joints and must pay by either having to lick grim tasting tablet dust, or scrabble about on hands and knees searching for the launched tablet. Then because of the crap joints I can’t get up again 🙄

TigerRag · 11/01/2025 07:37

LZ5M · 10/01/2025 21:36

Having to create a PASSWORD for fucking everything!

That you will never remember because of the requirements

monkeysox · 11/01/2025 07:08

3isnotacrowd · 10/01/2025 19:31

Shaving all your body hair off (but only if you are man lol)

Agree. It makes it itchy. Eww. Stay hairy my real man.

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 11/01/2025 07:00

KIlliePieMyOhMy · 11/01/2025 06:57

Orange men marching down my street in West Scotland.
Lots of kids involved, but the whole premise is dodgy.

There's a great sketch about that on a Scottish comedy show...I'm damned if I can remember which one .I think it had Gregor fisher and Tony roper in it.

KIlliePieMyOhMy · 11/01/2025 06:57

Orange men marching down my street in West Scotland.
Lots of kids involved, but the whole premise is dodgy.

Latenightreader · 11/01/2025 06:47

Nightsweats. Waking up damp all over and vaguely vinegary and having to change pyjamas at 3am. Thank goodness for the electric blanket.

And after trying to type that three times, autocorrect. I didn't want to type nightweather!

ShampooCoveredTurd · 10/01/2025 23:53

Play-along quiz shows that don't leave the often-detailed question up on the screen and/or scrunch it down into a fraction of the screen, so you can't read it or see the important pictures/graphics unless you have a huge home-cinema-style TV.

Only Connect (connecting wall) and The 1% Club are terrible offenders. Absolutely don't ban the programmes themselves; just show us the question clearly, on the whole screen, and not the contestants or random bits of the studio whilst the actual question is active.

cakewitch · 10/01/2025 23:50

Chewing gum

ShampooCoveredTurd · 10/01/2025 23:45

Sinks that are too small and/or the taps are situated non-centrally, so you either have no room to rub your hands together to wash them or keep bashing them against the porcelain.

As for the idiot who invented taps that require one hand on there permanently to push them down to get any water out: death penalty. By stark contrast, the person who invented taps that give you 20 seconds of water with one push: knighthood/damehood.

Ridiculously tiny text and/or similarly coloured text and background. If you are a creative designer and you genuinely think that yellow on white or grey on black are a great idea, you should be forced to retrain and move to another profession.

Cookies that can't all be turned off with one or two clicks. Also, the shady concept of 'legitimate interest' cookies - especially when I've supposedly 'rejected all non-essential cookies' but you leave the LI ones active in a background screen - you arrogant, lying frauds.

Blister packs for tablets - especially tiny ones like Levothyroxine. Horrendously wasteful and frustrating for those of us with hands that don't work perfectly/as well as they used to.

MotherofPearl · 10/01/2025 22:53

Whistling. I find it enraging.

Thelnebriati · 10/01/2025 22:52

Food making you fat can fuck right off. I'm not talking about gluttonous quantities, just normal portions.

Swalwey · 10/01/2025 22:21

Knowitall69 · 10/01/2025 19:16

Jars/containers with stickers that are really hard to remove.

Makes reusing them difficult.

Bloody annoying.

Haven’t RTFT, but just read in the newspaper yesterday that nail polish remover does the job easily! HTH

CheesecakeOnTheLanai · 10/01/2025 22:19

Those annoying 'click all the boxes that contain motorcycles/traffic lights/random shite' puzzles that every website seems to have, just to prove you're a human.

ILoveCheeseThatsAFact · 10/01/2025 22:16

People that block the path while chatting. Items being high up in a shelp so I can't reach them (Im a short arse). People chewing. People parking on double yellow lines. So mine is mostly other people....

KnightsTemplar00 · 10/01/2025 22:07

car drivers that cut you up or dont look at roundabouts for cyclists and try to shoot straight across, should be retrained

MyDeepZebra · 10/01/2025 22:01

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 10/01/2025 21:54

People who don't say thank you if you hold a door or step aside to let them by.

People who dramatically step aside when there was plenty of room to pass anyway and you didn't need or ask them to move and then huff and loudly exclaim "THANK YOU" when you fail to thank them for doing nothing that was remotely polite or helpful.

This is aimed specifically at the tiny 60 year oldish bohemian looking woman who did this outside Sainsburys recently when there was enough space to fit about seven people between us. Lady, I thought you stepped off the pavement to hail a cab. I'm a size 8 woman who was a good five feet away from you, not a house on wheels careering down the street out of control. Unclench. I owe you nothing. YOU are the rude one.

XenoBitch · 10/01/2025 21:58

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 10/01/2025 21:47

Aaaargh that just creates the illusion there's loads left.
While we're on the subject of after eight's haven't they become ridiculously tiny!

Yes, it is getting to the point that a mint tasting postage stamp would be cheaper (and bigger)

tobee · 10/01/2025 21:57

Raindropskeepfallinonmyhead · 10/01/2025 21:52

People who swim side by side and take up the whole lane so we all have to swim at their pace

And kick you as they go by. Often in the breast 😩

KnightsTemplar00 · 10/01/2025 21:56

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 10/01/2025 21:47

Aaaargh that just creates the illusion there's loads left.
While we're on the subject of after eight's haven't they become ridiculously tiny!

and pricey

LyndaSnellsSniff · 10/01/2025 21:55

Praline chocolate. Manky stuff and the only remaining chocolate left over from Christmas. So now I HAVE to eat it and it sucks. Would give right arm for a box on After Eights right now.

KnightsTemplar00 · 10/01/2025 21:55

there should be lane dividers in the supermarkets to prevent the browse and take up the whole isle while not focusing on the trolley and then wonder why they nearly crash the trolley