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

Oh another one... being 'obsessed' with everything. Can't people just be fond of, or like things any more?

Young people who do nothing, but are constantly tired.

The use of ‘go-to’ to describe a preference for something - as in my go-to outfit, my go-to breakfast etc. Just stop it!

People having a sense of obligation due to the effects of social media. They're like sheep. I. E. Have to go to soft play, have to eat avocado's, have to write your meal plan on the fridge, etc. They do it because they feel they ought too, and because it's cool.

Such a boring hive mind. I wish people were individuals.

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.

OMG YES - this!!

duck lips = you look stupid

HD eyebrows = ditto

rose gold, yuk

your loud silly ringtone, turn it down, not everyone wants to hear this!

The way that people answer questions, thus:

“How are you today?”
“Yeah, I'm good”
Or
“What did you think of...”
“Yeah, it was great”

The answer to an open question is NOT “yeah”

They even did this on the Archers today.. gah!

People who say "Hi, how are you?" and carry on walking past when you were about to answer.

Door to door salespeople. No longer confined to double glazing, a gypsy seling pegs, or the JWs. Now there are a succession of visitors wanting you to sign up to their pricey vegetable boxes, frozen meat products, boxes of ingredients with recipe cards, political canvassers, window cleaners, roof menders and charities which chummy personal questions and only take sign-ups for a monthly amount on the doorstep, not a one-off amount.

Baby scan pics on FB

Boring cryptic attention seeking FB posts

People who can't function/have a conversation with you without checking their phone every few minutes. They'll all end up as hunchbacks, no doubt

As per a friend's 50th recently - groups of people taking constant selfies almost the whole night, all in the name of showing their best 'look at me having fun fun fun' side on social media. Abhorrent vanity

Pretty much everything gives me the rage to be honest. I think I have some kind of syndrome. Currently it’s Holly Willobooby grabbing the I’m a Celebrity job. She’s everywhere like shit in a field.

Selfies at the art gallery makes me rage, how did we get to a point where people think the point of art is to have a selfie with it instead of actually looking at it? I’ve seen so many people just going from painting to painting doing a duck pout and not even looking at it. Do they think they painted it?!

Also the selfie has eradicated the opportunity for social interaction when you ask a random trustworthy looking person at a holiday spot to take your photo.

Amateur food bloggers on instagram. Basically people with lots of time and money who go around all the hipster cafes eating brunch, fawning over them (not a proper critique in any way as then they wouldn’t get a free lunch next time) and pretending they’ve discoverd them when everyone knows about them anyway. They bang on about supporting local independents while all the little cafes that don’t happen to have Edison lightbulbs and Nduja go out of business because people would rather queue for the latest instagramable brunch den than just sit down and have a nice coffee.

Cake jars unimpressive sponge cake in a jar with an inflated price tag

I think this is possibly my favourite thread ever, I wish you were all my friends.

The overuse of mental illness by those not actually suffering from it. Gives the real victims a bad press.

All the over exclamation on Facebook in general. E.g 'love you princess to the moon and back (insert lots of emoticons flowers and stars and hearts) proving you love your baby? Why do you need to prove it to strangers!?' to the moon and back ' in general. Such a cliché.

limp I was just going to say I'm fed up with people saying "it gives me anxiety" or "im so depressed" . You're not, you are having usual nerves or something has made you a bit sad. You are making a mockery of the thousands of people genuinely suffering with mental illness, stuck in a system that lets them down but you just carry on with your shit. I feel better getting that out.

And "life hacks"

Use of the word 'gotten'

'My bad' - makes me so angry

Being online.

I'm annoying myself right now!

Black Friday. Works well in the US but not here...

Cold shoulder tops

being accosted in the street by people wanting you to sign up to charities let me do my shopping in peace!
sick enducing adverts on tv for xmas its only november and im sick of them already since when do we need to be bombarded so soon with the ideal family having the ideal presents at the ideal christmas its all kissy kissy and love you what happened to the kids having melt downs cos they dont like the stuff you saved 12 months for and you have no batteries to start the noisy pile of crap cos you didnt read the directions properly father pissed in the corner mother sticking her nose in trying to take over the dinner preparation mum getting pissed on baileys as shes had enough and its only 10 in the morning

@whirlygig that's exactly what I mean. Well said!

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