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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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tobee · 10/01/2025 21:14

This thread is making me laugh a lot.

I was going to say lol a lot. But I thought best not to with some of you lot Grin

TheTwirlyPoos · 10/01/2025 21:13

Fucking dishwasher salt. What a total pain in the bollocks that is.

fixingmylife · 10/01/2025 21:12

Constant youtube adverts.

ToWhitToWhoo · 10/01/2025 21:10

Telemarketers!

Rollse · 10/01/2025 21:08

The word ‘poorly’

whynotwhatknot · 10/01/2025 21:08

yea ost of vinyl is absurd

can we just ban modern miusic-sorry tp be so general but its crap

therewasafishinthepercolator · 10/01/2025 21:08

MotherofPearl · 10/01/2025 20:54

Good call on vaping. Definite ban.

Also all the frustrating packaging. My worst is Weetabix. Would it kill them to design packaging for Weetabix that, when you opened it, didn't scatter crumbs across your whole kitchen?

Yes! I would personally fund a patent on a Weetabix dispenser that did away with this.

I hate the (rare) occasions DS17 decides to feed himself. At 3am. With Weetabix. I come down to a crunchy floor and it looks like Hansel and Gretel have been on a rampage. 😬

ItsCalledAConversation · 10/01/2025 21:08

Men who performative breathe in yoga classes

Runners with swingy ponytails

Slow walkers

Middle lane drivers

2025willbemytime · 10/01/2025 21:07

tobee · 10/01/2025 19:33

Ooh ooh! Another one. People are always "welcoming a baby". You can't just have a baby in the media

Also....Jonny and Bex are raising Jemima together. No one talk like that

ToWhitToWhoo · 10/01/2025 21:07

fixingmylife · 10/01/2025 19:41

Elon Musk.

  • 1000!
tobee · 10/01/2025 21:04

Everything online. I just had to buy a dishwasher very quickly and I can no longer go anywhere with a selection in stock to see what the difference between different models was inside. The local stores have all gone. The new dishwasher has annoying layout for loading.

It's true there's a big choice online and you can compare prices and reviews and get it delivered fast but there were not good enough photos or videos focusing on the interior.

There are lots of other things like that with online shopping.

Also much harder to buy presents for people as no one uses pens, paper, or physical records or cassettes anymore. Except my ds and dnephews like vinyl. But they are now collectible and cost a fortune. I end up buying gift cards. Which are dull and unimaginative. And basically say "I decided it was worth spending £30 on you"

XenoBitch · 10/01/2025 21:02

Videos on social media of someone seeing an animal in distress and filming the rescue. FFS, put your phone down, and get on with it. And mistaking the wild animal's freeze response as "wanting to be petted".

MyDeepZebra · 10/01/2025 21:00

Can we ban my SIL from cutting the hair of my beautiful little DNs herself? She's made the boy look like a cross between Ronald McDonald and the Beatles and the girl look like a ginger Prince Valiant/Lord Farquaad. I adore those babies but she's made them look like oddities and people openly feel sorry for them in the street. The ugliest fucking haircuts I ever did see.

therewasafishinthepercolator · 10/01/2025 20:59

Another vote for stupidly large cars / SUV s and the dicks who can't park them.

2025willbemytime · 10/01/2025 20:59

My ex husband

Pebbles16 · 10/01/2025 20:59

FanofLeaves · 10/01/2025 19:20

This kind of shite on facebook

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This is so cringe

SabreIsMyFave · 10/01/2025 20:59

Oh another one, those pissy pad adverts that are ALWAYS on at meal times, and it's only ever sanitaryware for women that is advertised too, even though similar products are on for sale for men.

Men have similar issues, but according to these ads, only women piss themselves when they sneeze/laugh/cough/fart! Hmm

Also, the 'spit blood in the sink' ads can fuck off too. Fucking GROSS, and again, always on at mealtimes!

XenoBitch · 10/01/2025 20:58

Pebbles16 · 10/01/2025 20:55

@Bluevelvetsofa have you seen the one for dalek which will cost a bajillion £ if you were so inclined to start?

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My sister used to collect one years ago. It was a dinosaur that started off as a skeleton, and you ended up with skin etc until you had a finished model.
Shops stop selling them after so many issues, so you have to order them directly from the supplier. My sister gave up on her model T-rex in the end, but if she had stuck with it, it would have cost about £300 overall. That was in the 90s. Similar magazines are so much more now. First issue is 99p... and the rest are a tenner.

ForOliveDog · 10/01/2025 20:58

Old people on mobility scooters flying round nearly taking my ankles out.

Slamming doors.

People tucking their shorts/leggings right in their arse crack.

therewasafishinthepercolator · 10/01/2025 20:57

Peel back cellophane lids that won't fucking peel back and other unopenable packaging.

therewasafishinthepercolator · 10/01/2025 20:56

MyDeepZebra · 10/01/2025 19:13

Orange men with tiny hands.

No surrender!

Oh wait... not those orange men.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 10/01/2025 20:56

Frostfrond61 · 10/01/2025 19:08

Hooded youths on scooters

Hooded youths wearing all-black on electric scooters, riding on the road and risking life and limb.

Pebbles16 · 10/01/2025 20:55

Bluevelvetsofa · 10/01/2025 19:49

Those adverts for weekly magazines that build into some random thing and people get sucked in for years.

Cold feet. I’ve have been cold all day.

@Bluevelvetsofa have you seen the one for dalek which will cost a bajillion £ if you were so inclined to start?

Fatloss · 10/01/2025 20:55

People who stand at various points on the stairs at the station- I need to actually use the handrail. First the ones that give me a disdainful look or don’t move.

Flowersfield · 10/01/2025 20:55

Paper straws
Electric scooters