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

Plus... selfies but especially with a stick
want to stick it somewhere else!!!!

@pippilotta, language and phrases and behaviour ARE trends too!

There was someone else with a takeaway coffee in church today. I wasn't annoyed but it does show a change in habits!

Selfies (at all) and carry on suitcases. Especially the ones people insist on wheeling about rather than carrying.

I was shocked that people have died due to taking selfies in dangerous situations, such sad and pointless deaths.

The Machine Stops is my favourite short story, very prescient indeed.

People not wearing socks and having their smelly sweaty feet sliding about in leather brogue type shoes.
Minging.

agree with the Alexa/gadget dependency.
"Alexa, wipe my arse"
"Alexa, tell me what to think"

Social media
Selfies taken by anyone over 20
The easily offended
Starting sentences with "So..."

The Machine Stops has been a favourite of mine since I was a teen...I have referenced it so many times in recent years as it is just as prescient (In some ways even more perhaps?) than the more famous 1984.

Any kind of tip or advice being presented as a 'life hack'. Urgh. Also people talking on the phone, but not properly. Either holding it somewhere near their face, but parallel to the ground, or on headphones with a microphone on them so it just looks like they're talking to themselves.

Bucket lists!

There was someone else with a takeaway coffee in church today

Disrespectful.

or on headphones with a microphone on them so it just looks like they're talking to themselves.

If you are unfortunate enough to spend a lot of time on the phone, that’s the only way you won’t screw up your neck, hands and shoulders. My work just issued everyone (from graduates to the CEO) with headphones as we’ve ditched desk phones altogether in favour of Skype on our laptops (and I work for a fairly old fashioned British company, not some trendy tech place).

I agree with so many of these, but not vegans. I've met dozens of vegans (I used to belong to a vegan and vegetarian group) and NOT ONE was preachy. One bloke was admittedly a miserable sod, but there's always one, isn't there? I wish I had the self discipline to be vegan.

Anyway, I'd add:

Shop loyalty cards. It got to the point where I'd have needed three wallets to carry them all in, so I've given up on all but half a dozen.

Black Friday - an Americanism too far for me. I'm not joining in.

Branding anyone who complains about injustice, a "snowflake" or claiming that they've been "triggered".

Well it seemed odd to me. My dh asked for a drink of water when we were sightseeing in a church recently and I said "but you can't be swigging from your water bottle in a church, c'mon!" So I must feel that somewhere quite deep but he doesn't.

(When we have gone round Buddhist temples he seemed to get the no eating and drinking thing without me reminding him.)

Buying something online and forever after being bombarded with daily emails by the shop. Or worse, buying from Boden and getting spammed in the post by every related company they can sell your details to. GDPR was sweet, sweet relief.

Hotdesking (sorry, “agile working”). The company may as well stick in its employee handbook that they consider you to be (very well paid) battery hens. It’s unbelievably irritating if you have a long busy commute and don’t want to drag everything back and forth every day.

Selfies. Seriously, put the damn phone down.

Adults playing YouTube clips out loud in deeply inappropriate public places like in the middle of a restaurant, or the quiet carriage on a train. I had to re-train my husband not to do this!

People who are looking down at their phone as they walk along the footpath. It’s annoying for you and dangerous for them if there’s traffic. I’m extra judgy if said person is pushing a buggy as they’re also putting their child at risk.

The Kardashian/Jenners. All of them.

Dramatic long pauses when revealing the winner of a competition

Xfactor

People posting their charitable acts, really charity is humble and anon

Crushed velvet sofas

People who refer to themselves as empathy usually has a crystal collection, spends their weekends astral projecting

Psychics and people who believe In them irritate me even more

Gullibility see above ^^

Fleurie, my workplace has moved to "agile working". It now takes 20 minutes to set up in the morning (get laptop and headset etc out of locker, find a free work space, plug everything in, find a chair and adjust the height). It also takes ten minutes to put everything away in the afternoon. That's half an hour wasted, per person, per day, all in the name of saving money.

*empaths not empathy

General ‘event’ hysteria, Halloween?

God yes, this! When it's grown men, I want to punch them!

Oh dear. This could have me going all night.

Wine/gin o'clock

Making Cunting Memories

Having to have a 'safe space' to talk about every fucking thing

Americanisms... 'can I get' etc

The utter shallow, self-obsessed shite that is Instagram

I'm a seething ball of resentment a lot of the time. Like a brilliant meme I saw says - the most exercise I get these days is shaking my head in disbelief

People saying that they are super something, as in super excited, super keen, super proud etc. And starting sentences with so.

People putting on social media or on MN that they are weeping over something that may be mildly upsetting, but not worthy of tears. It's the exaggeration.

Selfies, pouting, those stupid dog faces etc on faces. People who walk along the street glued to phone, richocheting off of passers by, and then looking peed off when they are the culprit.

People who hold their phones like Sallie talkies, or FaceTime on the train, or who type loudly on laptops on the train.

Drag queen type make up on young girls. They are covering up their youthful glow with chemical shite. When they are older they will be trying to replicate that natural glow with more chemicals.

Slug eyebrows. On men as well as women.