Modern trends that annoy you

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Following on from the modern dining trends that annoy you what general modern stuff annoys you?

Mine are:

People taking selfies in toilets

Being asked for my email address at a till

Wasteful plastic tat in the shops

The sinister marketing of alcohol towards mums/women. 'Wine/gin/prosecco o'clock', 'Prosecco made me do it' 'Mummy needs wine' etc...totally normalising and trivialising something habit forming and potentially dangerous as the antidote for the pressures of motherhood/work stress. The endless memes and shop bought tat with these slogans angers me beyond measure.

Instagram 'models' who are always taking trips on their own to Dubai

Rampant consumerism around Hallowe'en, Christmas, Easter etc. Are there really people out there buying completely new sets of Christmas decorations EVERY SINGLE YEAR and reusing nothing?

Mindless consumerism and tat.
Slug eyebrows
Too much filler/botox
Americanisms
Criticising others about how they choose to eat, not being vegan etc
Virtue signalling
YouTube and Instagram "celebrities"
Influencers
Disposable fashion
People who "train" at the gym
People who "travel" instead of go on holiday. The dictionary definition of "tourism" is traveling for pleasure.
Associated inspirational quotes about travel enriches the soul etc etc
Young people spending a fortune on eating out, disposable fashion and holidays then complaining they're broke.
Safe spaces
Everyone being perpetually offended

Caterpillar eyebrows and loads of make up. Everyone looks like they are wearing identical masks.

Phone conversations on speaker.
Being asked for email addresses at he till

Adults celebrating their birthdays for a week either side of the date.
Fucks me off up to the eyeballs.
The constant need to indulge and congratulate oneself for just about everything. Having lunch. Getting a sandwich.
Give yourself a fucking medal for being a competent adult.

Its probably already been mentioned but:

People who change their sofas/dining table and chairs/ beds because they've redecorated and 'fancy' a change.

People who have to buy new decorations for their themed Christmas every year.

People who ask for free stuff on fb groups because they've just got their new house and have nothing but then proceed to turn everything down because it's not quite their style or the colour palette they had in mind. Shut up you ungrateful fuckers and take the free stuff you've been offered. My first sofa was hideous, my second sofa was hideous, it wasn't until I got my 4th one that it was brand new. I really get the rage with people like this

i so agree whirly i read ads on freecycle etc all the time desperate for fridge freezer must be silver in colour for instance if you are so desperate it wouldnt matter if it was purple with green spots

Consumerism. Supermarkets can create aisles of mostly plastic tat months before any event in the calendar. School uniforms on sake in June but come September 1st if you have misjudged how much your child has grown and want to but any uniform you will be laughed out if the shop because school wear will be replaced with Halloween shit and shrinking plastic boxes of Roses. Easter eggs on sale before new years eve gas com e and gone. Buying shit is rammed down our throats months before it's needed or I want to be buying it. We gave been conditioned into buying school uniform in June when really if the shops weren't going to replace it at the end of August with Halloween and Christmas tat we could all buy it in August without having to guess if our kids will grow normally or gave a sudden growth spurt!

Offended people or people that find offence in any situation. We are all offended from time to time but I must be living a shit life because I don't have the mental capacity to get offended by some of the stuff prople claim that offends them. Especially when no offence has been intended. We had a woman in work offended (made a huge song and dance) because a man held a door open for her as he was very obviously implying she was a was pathetic weak female unable to open the door herself and not just being curteous and not letting the door slam in her face as she was just a few paces behind him.

Healthy people ruining themselves with needless cosmetic surgery.

Identity politics.

Biological males insisting they are women.

The word "transphobic"

Woke beardy dude bros.

Another thing that annoys me is the overuse of the word disgusting aka discusting Everything is blown out of proportion, "the customer service I received today was disgusting", Er no love you just didn't get your own way, it was a bit annoying at best bust disgusting, no 🙄

Great one, agreed - checking in to hospitals on facebook and hoping people will ask what's wrong!!

People who ask personal questions - this year I was asked which way I vote by a new colleague I'd just met, how much I had in savings by a friend and in the past I have been asked by friends what salary I get and friends have speculated about how much other friends paid for their house!
Also as a mum to be/ now new mum I've been asked countless times whether I would be/am breastfeeding often by colleagues or people I hardly know - not something I've even mentioned to my own family as I don't see why people need to know other than to judge!

Ugg boots on adults their hideous.
Teenage girls and women wearing leggings without covering their bum with some clothes. Yes your leggings are invisible and I really don't need to see your cellulite!!

People might not approve of what i am about to say but here goes;
Those posts on FB about loved ones in heaven with sad face pics and some hideous poem/twaddle about voicds in the wind and on and on...
I lost a parent at aged 9 and have carried that, successfully and unsuccessfully in the intereveing years without once feeling compelled to share my thoughts about him in heaven with the world at large.
Call me repressed or not in touch with my grief, but it just twangs my last nerve in a way I find hard to describe.

Agree with all the posts on this thread.

Somebody posts a selfie on Facebook,they look like they have been out on the piss for 7 nights running! and you can guarantee someone will post "STUNNING"!!!!!

lolaflores sorry to hear that. I feel similarly about those things. Not for me to do with early experience of loss and coping but more because I find a lot of it ‘mawkish’. But that really is just me. I totally respect that some gain comfort from things like that but it makes me feel very uncomfortable personally.

Saying absolutely instead of yes
Bloody use of awwwww instead of the perfectly fine ahhhhh
Making a stupid heart shape with their hands
Saying sorry when they want to get past. You mean excuse me please.

Absobloodylutely to the heart shaped hands and pretend phone and hand over mouth when laughing (I know this last is a cultural norm in some places - I mean where it is not a cultural norm but a cutesy affectation !)

Deep cleaning. How can you 'deep' clean hard surfaces? Fgs, just say a thorough cleaning, unless you are referring to a carpet in which case deep clean is perfectly reasonable.

Alexa and the like. People can't even turn their lights on without help....

Anyone who hasn't read The Machine Stops is galloping towards living it instead. Anyone who has read it will end up having to live it anyway, thanks to the mass stampede towards helplessness.

archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

Calling something a ‘modern trend’ just because you don’t like it!

Ugg boots and leggings are a trend
Constant selfies and slug eyebrows are a trend
Asking personal questions or saying absolutely or sorry or disgusting are not really what I’d call a ‘trend’

Yes I'm always telling people about the Machine Stops by E M Forster. What a prescient piece of writing that has turned out to be.

Hinching,Hinchers and Hinch Army get on my nerves people follow on fb groups and Instagram just so they can brag about how full there fucking cupboards are....it's not fucking Narnia it's a fucking cupboard with shit in it!!

Harry and Menstuator - thanks for the suggestion of The Machine Stops, I've googled it and it looks like a great read.

Elf on the shelf

Christmas eve boxes

Polyester clothes.

All of the above

Men in suits that are too tight, look like little school boys.
Men's penguin trousers, watch them waddle, haha
A pop of colour anywhere.
Words of wisdom stuck or painted anywhere. Eg 'love lives here'
Smokers right outside buildings or shops smoking.
People with their coffee, phone and fag, walking around!