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 fucking xmas elf

This.

I lost my rag with ours last Christmas when I'd gotten snuggled into bed, all cosy and warm, and realised I'd forgotten to move the fucking thing. I ended up tossing the smug faced little bastard into the wheelie bin and wrote the DC a note saying he'd been "urgently recalled back to the North Pole for an important mission". I'm trying to be conscious about how much waste my family sends to landfill but I made an exception for that stripey legged cunt.

I don't know what pisses me off more. The idea that they're Santa's spies, the extra work having to stage the little fucker every night, or the one-upmanship on social media. My elf, hiding under a coffee cup. Social media elf, descending from the ceiling while a choreographed laser show plays and Michael Bublé croons "White Christmas" live from beside the perfectly decorated tree. Have you seen you can get accessories for them now!? Clothes, signs, pyjamas, furniture, babies. There was a huge display at the shops today.

Fucking elves.

People constantly asking for sponsorship for things, having to buy cheap acrylic costumes for various events, made up bullshit traditions like elf on the shelf and Christmas Eve boxes, grown women feeling the need to have advent calendars with teeny pointless bottles of creams etc in, people supposedly raising awareness on social media about whatever the condition is ("what people with X want you to know") - just makes me cringe and has very little to do with real awareness and a lot to do with self-pitying naval gazing.

Constant proliferation of more and more extra products and conveniences we don't need, overly familiar 'humorous' packaging, cutesy adverts positioning their products as heart-warming family essentials. Starting every answer to a question with "so". Unicorns, mermaids, pineapples etc. Excessive packaging. Hipsters with their tattoos, vinyls, carefully coiffed beards, real ale and pugs - very fucking 'alternative' mate.

Oh and hashtags can piss off too

Wonky photos! I just want to straighten them
Selfies. Photos of people clearly taken by someone else but they've called it a 'selfie'
Hashtags. Especially when there's hundreds of the bloomin' things

Expensive advent calendars which instead of chocolate are filled with toys, stationery, beauty products etc.

So instead of my DC being happy with a chocolate advent calendar costing me £2 max, they expect these bloody £25 things...

People who go on and on about how busy they are. I don’t care!

My youngest is 20 there was no Elf a decadeish ago i have no idea when or why it came about and poor parents having another bloody thing to do

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.

I'm sad about people who judge others on a snapshot of their day. I spoke to, sang to, interacted with my baby pretty much constantly, but I was also trying to keep my business afloat and so needed to answer emails etc.

That dog snapchat filter.

Pretty much everything already mentioned on this thread.

@thewisewomanfear I don’t want wet things in my bag though. I just end up not buying stuff instead so business that refuse to provide their own straws (happy to use reusable ones so long as I don’t have to carry them around) loose my custom. Maybe I can find some that have little caps on the ends to keep my stuff dry from somewhere. Or maybe some that will fit inside my jeep cup. I tried carrying around my own disposable ones but they ended up all mangled and I don’t want to carry a huge box. Would rather I didn’t have to think about it though. It’s just one of those things that doesn’t make any real positive impact to ban but can have a negative impact on a lot if people (not thinking of me now but people with some disabilities need them).

@dementedma nowhere has paper straws. Not sure whether it’s because they haven’t established supplies yet or whether they’ve just decided not to have them.

Men wearing lounge wear joggers shopping! Seriously I can see the outline of your cock and it looks disgusting.
Feel I need to shield my poor 70 year old mothers eyes when we go out shopping together .

Afternoon tea and worship of sugary shit incl cocktails
Bottomless brunch - all you can drink for a maximum of two hours urgh
Talentless twats on YouTube

Yy to show homes and cleanliness obsession
Fake stuff eg fake flowers, fake eyebrows, overwhitened dayglo teeth

@Racecardriver surely you would just need to wipe the straw on a napkin and put it in a resealable sandwich bag? Will keep your stuff dry and straw clean.

the sheer competitiveness of times like Christmas what with elf on the flippin shelf and xmas eve boxes
selfies
the constant updating on social media this is me just got up this is my breakfast this is me off to take kids to school etc etc who flippin cares
the way you are made to feel guilty at every turn these days for the way you live your life

Re usable straws come with a container my friend has them

@nerdybird it’s wet inside though. And reusable sandwich bags just seem vile to me. Surely they never dry properly? I could do it with disposable ones I suppose. An awful lot of faff. I think I’ll jist hold off in the hopes that pret etc sort themselves out with some paper straws or something.

People who can't walk along a street without a coffee in their hand. Just have one at home love.

Luckily my DC are too old for stupid creatures on shelves, I can't be doing with any of that nonsense. I can barely be bothered with Christmas at all to be honest. Not religious, not consumerist, hate parties, don't drink alcohol, no relations I want to see outside of immediate unit. There's very little left after that.

My standard reaction to anyone asking for my email at the till is to ask for theirs. "Are you going to give me yours? How nice to swap. Ah, you're not going to give me yours? Well, I won't give you mine then, that's fair isn't it?"

Most of mine are food related:

Mayonnaise as the default sandwich spread, instead of butter.

Everything in cafe's / restaurants coming with a pointless side salad or garnish. Such a waste.

Salted caramel. It's just caramel with added potential for thirst.

Using forks for cake.

All interior decoration being grey (though I'm tying this from my grey chair in my grey living room).

Being expected not to start maternity leave until you are literally ready to pop!

Constant snacks for kids.

Comedy eyebrows, sometimes they are so shit I have to stare.
Too much contouring on young girls who would look lovely without.
Everything being glittery or silvery.
Everyone carting take away coffee around.

'Busy'

Everyone is busy ALL the time. So busy they can't take time out to truly look around them. Often the same people who spend much time on social media.

Ooh, gender reveals!

Woke bro's

the sheer competitiveness of times like Christmas what with elf on the flippin shelf and xmas eve boxes

Can I add to this, photographs on FB on Christmas Eve from around 9/10pm onwards - huge mountains of presents with the caption "Santa has been!". Usually followed up next day with a photo of the DC sitting in front of an arranged stack of unwrapped presents with the caption "what a haul!" or "spoilt rotten!"

I don't care how much someone buys for their DC, do Christmas your way and be happy with it, I buy my own DC what some would probably class as a little bit too much but the photos are vulgar.

I hate the rubbish lying around everywhere even when a litter bin is a few feet away.

I hate the rudeness - the "Fuck You" attitude that is prevalent. No common courtesy anymore it seems.

Sex. It seems to be the main theme of everything. The be-all-and-end-all. I give not a jot what anyone does in private and between consenting adults. Nor do I give a toss whether you shave wax or pluck your body hair. Your body, your business.

On the same theme the sexualization of women is worse now than ever, I believe. The total pits is that it is women themselves who are doing it.

Salted caramel. It's just caramel with added potential for thirst. And raised blood pressure.