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

I only do a full face of makeup (which is somehow “natural look” according to some blogs) if I’m going somewhere nice. False eyelashes are only for VERY special occasions!

A girl on my old MN antenatal facebook group hired a MAKE UP ARTIST to come to the hospital and do her make up before she would have any pictures taken of her and her new baby. False eyelashes and everything. Had to be ‘insta ready’

She’s 36

Empress is that phone box maybe the Harry Potter one that's the entry to Ministry of Magic? (Off to be nosey....)

Cult of the self, I wouldn’t mind if it made people happy.
Rampant consumerism, wouldn’t mind if it made people happy.
The rejection of the natural female face and form, I wouldn’t mind if....,..

Instagram in general if I'm honest. I don't like it.

Fame for fame's sake.

MLM- I'm aware these things have been going for eons but they're so damn ubiquitous and stealthy these days it annoys me. I could avoid easily the body shop at home or virgin vie or whatever- seems like there's a new one everyday now.

So much body modification- I'm thinking more like lip fillers and Botox on young people than piercings and tattoos- when did this become so normal? It makes me sad.

Inspirational memes.

Those weird fuzzy eyebrows. Loads of my students have them - they look like cartoon eyebrows to me.

People walking on the pavement looking down at their mobile phone and despite me saying increasingly loudly 'excuse me' they continue doing so until they bash into my now stationary mobility scooter. Then, of course, it's my fault for being on the pavement

People who take photos or selfies everywhere. Meeting the queen. Funerals. Stabbings in the street. RTAs.

I'm from Essex and have no idea what an Essex blow dry is either!

I hate the HD eyebrow thing and the excessive make up that seems to be the fashion.

I hate the obsession with people's houses having to look like show homes all the time ( maybe that's an Essex thing too!) Each to their own though I suppose.

Also hate the way people are so aggressive and rude on social media. I'd never say anything to someone on Facebook or WhatsApp that I wouldn't be prepared to say in person.

Eyebrows

Gastro pubs and chain pubs. I occasionally fancy a pub meal. Its either gastropub with £30 price tags for gastro scampi and chips, or a hungry horse style chain pub where it's £8 for a plate of shite.

Hashtags. I understand you can search Instagram with them, so maybe #tenerife is useful if you’re planning a holiday, but why would you also put #funinthesun #gottaputmyfeetup etc etc. Its just so try-hard!

Christmas hysteria

General ‘event’ hysteria, Halloween?

Food everywhere you go and people stuffing their faces

Being "woke"

Those videos on FB, Twitter etc where heart wrenching acts of kindness happen where someone just happens to be filming them.

That you have to watch a video review on you tube for everything you buy, with an over exuberant American presenter giving a 20 minute discussion about the packaging and how to open the box (I'm glaring at you DS 👀)

Grown adults on scooters, on pavements

Sense of entitlement - especially the blogger ones.

I’m sad about people who walk along the pavement glued to phone, whilst their baby/toddler is in a pushchair having no interaction from them whatsoever. Don’t they realise that children need conversation to stimulate them and develop their speech.

People drinking coffee whilst shopping in the supermarket.

the trend for baby showers and gender reveal ...and posting it all on social media

Oh I forgot the reveals for the sex of babies! Good grief, no.

Selfies with duck pouts. what happened to a lovely smiley faced pic.
Work colleague went to Mexico for holiday of a lifetime. every single picture was "here's me at the airport (selfie) Me at these amazing waterfalls (selfie, no actual pic of the waterfall) relaxing on the beach (pic of her knees)
Every picture was of her, not a single one of the sights.

False eyelashes so badly applied that you can see the glue on the lash line.
Selfies.
Make up that appears to channel the tin man from wizard of Oz.

Empress is that phone box maybe the Harry Potter one that's the entry to Ministry of Magic? (Off to be nosey....)

Just Googled, Embra, and it looks like the Harry Potter one was a prop set up about half a mile away.

Maybe a lot of them think that though!

False eyelashes.

They look fucking stupid! They never look natural - people with naturally long eyelashes usually have long bottom lashes. I'm sick of seeing women with massive doll like eyelashes on top and then bald looking bottom eyelids!

I was at a wedding last weekend and every second woman looked like a drag queen with their stupid Bambi eyelashes.

Christmas Eve boxes. Soon we'll have Christmas Eve Eve boxes

Also trout pout lip fillers. No your lips don't look full and sensuous - you look like you've been smacked in the face with a shovel, love!

Litter. Especially smokers who think it’s ok to toss their cigarette ends out of cars.

the fucking xmas elf