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

"With a twist"

Conversating. Even my spellchecker doesn't recognise it as a word.

@likeknitting yes yes yes about the re recording of upbeat songs as depressing dirge!!! Fricking hate that!

Little girls wearing jo jo bows ....note to parents the bows look ridiculous and are bigger than your beautiful little girls head...and yes I have a 7 yr old daughter so I know all about this!!! Ditch the bows!

Jeans with lots of slashes in them ( your grannies granny would feel sorry for you) Fuck it. I feel sorry for you
People who have to walk around with a coffee in their hands
Facebook does not need to know you argued with your partner, or a photo to show how poorly your child is and you spent the night up looking after them.

Waah! so much!
Facebook/Instagram bragging and checking
Big eyebrows
Make up vloggers and the endless obsession with bloody make-up - the price of this shit! Young women of the world: spend your money on education, travel, not on eyebrow tinting and reflective primers, you ain't gonna change anything that way!
Phone conversations in public - quick check in, "I'm on my way', or trying to use dead commuting time to book appointments, fine. But do I, a stranger on the train, need to know about your boyfriend's latest epic fail? (Clue: No)

Overuse of the word "REALLY".

copy and paste! No thank you I will not leave one word to say how we met just to validate your existance and make your insecurities go away...ugh!!!.

Elf on the shelf, Christmas Eve boxes, Ridiculously expensive advent calendars with a gift for every day. Buying Christmas presents in July.

Ridiculous contoured make up and big eyebrows.

Those horrible bows on children.

Lack of manners in general and overall culture of self self self.

A gazillion ways to have your coffee in a coffee shop resulting in queues out of the door. I am convinced that 99/100 people would be perfectly happy with a decent plain filter coffee.

There are probably hundreds more as I am turning into a grumpy old woman.

That ugly pout face people pull in photographs. Thank God for the person who observed that it looks like they are eating spaghetti!

If you want a laugh, Google 'spaghetti duck face'. It makes everything better, I find it quite relaxing.

Clothes having a big bunch of annoying labels stitched into them.

People who come to visit and you're chatting away to them and then you realise they're on their phone and not even listening. So rude.

People who act horrified when you say you watch a reality show as if it's going to melt your brain cells. Yes I watch documentaries as well.

Food served on anything that isn't a plate.

JaneJeffer my husband is a quiet, unassuming intellectual type. Until I'm a Sleb starts every year, then he turns into a child getting all excited about it starting 😂

Festival looks...plastering yourself in glitter that'll all end up down the plughole and walking around looking like a christmas tree.

Just go and enjoy the music, it's not a fashion show. You are not a mermaid.

Wellies if it's muddy definitely but not when it's 30 degrees.

40th Birthday trips to New York, or is it just my newsfeed full of them for the last few years?? I feel like the only woman who turned 40 and didn’t go to New York with a bunch of women friends to ‘celebrate’ (I went to the seaside and had fish & chips instead 😆)

I don’t wear sunglasses on my head all year round either. I just want to walk round the supermarket smacking them off the heads of all the middle aged women.

Horseless carriages.

MammaSchwifty

Thanks, I googled ‘spaghetti duck face’ and you’re so right 😂😂😂

I agree with everything on this thread but it’s made me feel sad. There’s more to be celebrated than hated in modern life, surely? (Sorry I know that’s not the point of the thread!)

This current thing about adoring sparkly unicorns , mantras about sparkly unicorns and even wishing that you were one. For anyone over about the age of about five ?

Sharpie pen eyebrows with almost pantomime dame eyelashes also orange tinted foundation.

People so glued to their phones they end up walking right into other people or objects.

Numerous hashtags after every online message . Even the most simple every day ones.

Being asked at the checkout for your email address. Liked the upthread suggestion to ask for theirs in return .

The trend for putting obvious signs up like Sleep for by the bed and Bath in the Bathroom

Elf on a shelf ...

Men who wear v neck or low cut tops. it turns my stomach not envy.

Over groomed men with teeth like those rectangular chewing gums, fake tans and plucked eyebrows. I'm all for men looking after themselves but I'm not sure about them being more kempt than me...

Yes, a choice of 500 different coffees, or... one bog-standard type of tea.

Notso, upthread, YES! I thought it was only me that noticed the weird strangulated 'Fank Yew' of the young - like it's killing them to say it, or they want you to know that they don't mean it!

Don’t you just hate it when you’re having a good old moan and someone says ‘let’s look on the bright side?’

. ferntwist I actually agree. But it was good to get some of those things out rather than have gnarled twisted face of disapproval all the time

I hate how Greggs now does hot drinks at the till, so I have to wait ages while they fanny on making teas and coffees when I just want to sink my face into a pasty

People txting/talking on cell phones during a meal in a restraurant.

Seriously people, it's just plain rude. If it's THAT important,excuse yourself and leave the room. If you've gone out for a meal with people, presumably it's because you want to TALK to them, not be checking your phone every 5 seconds. You wanna do that, stay home!