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

Those stupid fucking thick eyebrows that start with a fading hard edge and then have a harsh arc wtf.

Selfies. Especially slanty teenage girl selfies with tonnes of makeup, ‘those’ eyebrows, spray on clothes, a weird model-like pose and pouty ‘smile’. Then the mums who comment on their daughters’ selfies with such things as ‘my beautiful baby’, ‘stunning baby girl’ or ‘love ya’. I would not be encouraging such weird behaviour.

“Love ya”. What’s with the ‘ya’ ?? If you love your child or your friend surely you should not give a half arsed ya. And don’t get me started on ‘hun’ 😂

Grey, grey & grey. It’s tasteful and smart but has been so overdone and in a few years will look so dated and add to more unnecessary consumer waste.

Asking for email address at the till when I’ve only bought some bin bags. I hate the constant bombardment of buy-our-shit emails so always decline.

The whole middle-aged alcohol women thing. We’re not all obsessed with gin or Prosecco. And what’s with the £60 gin advent calendar in Sainsbury’s, my kids asked who actually buys that kind of thing (and why did mummy buy one today with little windows that just show a picture & we all have to share 😆)

Americanisms, I fear for the proper pronunciations of our language.

Saying ‘nailed it’ all the time whether it be a quiz show, talent show, fucking eyebrows, whatever, just hate the overuse of it.

Mirrored furniture

Gender

Virtue signalling

Twatty names for coffee. Small, medium, large. That's what they are. Not grande or whatever word you've stuck on the board.

Whilst I'm in a coffee shop, flavoured coffee. Minging. All of them. Bleurgh.

Current fashion gripes: tucked in tops (not with my stomach), cropped length trousers really? in the winter?!) and huge clunky trainers a la 1997 again.

Grey rooms. Nit bits, but the 100% grey ones.....Thought it was a grey scale filter on Instagram but no, it appears people have entirely colour free rooms. That must so homely 🙄 sarcasm

Shouty, unintelligent politics and politicians. For exhibit A see the current President of the USA who appears to have all the brains of a three week old dog turd and similar social graces.

Agree with beards. Very few men can really carry them off. Mostly they just look unprofessional, unkempt and more than a bit oddly ginger, no matter what the hair colour of the owner.

Preachy Vegans who only converted recently and now tell everyone within a forty mile radius just how ethical and environmentally friendly they are. Often still apparently wearing Primark clothes and seemingly give less of a shit for the humans who made them in sweatshops than the poor fwuffy animals.

Oof. That feels better 😁

Oh my days..I keep hearing people saying it and it makes me wince

Self scan tills.

Garden centres.

Why do they have to be all things to all people? What happened to just selling some plants, garden equipment and Xmas trees. Now they all have to have cafes, gift shops, toy shops, pet shops,, fish and reptile centres, they sell stationary, clothes, homeware and you can even do the weekly shop in the one by me (albeit in most expensive mini supermarket you will ever step foot in). Sometimes I just need to pop in and buy some bloody grass seed but have to fight my way through all the above to do it.

Don't even get me started on garden centres at Xmas time. Absolute carnage.

Can I get
Gotten
I was /am sat
My bad
It needs done
Yum

MYSELF, e.g. "you can come and speak to myself about that if you have any problems" NO NO NO, it's: you can come and speak to ME. What is wrong with "me"? Myself is grammatically incorrect in that sense. Myself is fine when you refer to yourself directly: "I'll do it myself", "I'll find it myself". Grrrr. You just sound like a plonker otherwise.

Consumerism, capitalism, racism and misogyny. Not that modern but everywhere and very annoying.

The fad of being vegan

This. It drives me mad. I don't give a shiny shit about your food choices, that's entirely up to you. But I do object to being made to feel like my own food choices are somehow wrong or ill-informed. Someone has started posting leaflets about veganism at work and I want to tear them down. Plus all that coconut oil and soya protein has to be imported from overseas - not quite so great, is it?

Joke:
How do you know if someone's vegan?
Because they'll tell you.

And another thing: the way trends, memes etc are leapt on by marketing departments and then done to death on the high street. Foxes, owls, pineapples, unicorns, grey everything. It's like people are scared to like anything different.

Young guys Instagram pages with endless pictures of them in their cars gazing "sexily" into the phone camera.

Absolutely hundreds of "relationship" experts, :"influencers", "cleaning" gurus on YouTube.

Pictures of food that's being eaten. #blessed

I'm no longer on any Social Media as in my view it's just pointless effluence for the ether. Why people think they're that interesting I'll never know and worse the people that follow their every word and picture. "Aww babes, you're amazing".

Hen and Stag nights that cost the friends hundreds and hundreds of pounds to attend. 😤

Twitter
Facebook

People asking on Facebook eg "what time does Tesco open?" FFS google it you lazy attention seeking sod.

I also don't get what's wrong with being inclusive?

Eyebrows.

Definitely the hashtag thing. As PP said, fine if you're searching IG for something but just a weird way of saying things that you can't really get away with...

#eyebrowsonfleek #allthefeels #oopsforgottoflushtheloo

It's just attention seeking.

The obsession with holding a party for bloody anything these days, dh nephew and his gf so far have had baby showers, gender reveal parties, baby naming parties, a over the top christening, massive parties for each birthday for their kids and now they are planning a massive wedding in 4!! years time ffs!!
Also can’t stand grey tracksuits especially the really skinny leg ones on men.
Also hate the need to celebrate everything extra early these days. Around my way people were festooning their homes with Halloween decorations 2-3 weeks before the 31st and I’ve started to notice Christmas decorations going up as well. I’m getting old!!

I didn't realise how angry I was about so many of these things until I read this thread .

Garden centres - yes!! With all the tat, particularly the shoddy Christmas stuff.

Consumerist nonsense constantly telling us all that we look shit, or need more stuff..

Gender. I just want us all to be freeeee from it completely.

Selfies, and living through our phones in general and all the self-consciousness and sense of competition with others this can bring.

Our sense of separation from each other and from nature.

Self scan tills.

The trend for young people, ie under 30, to not like anything except burgers / KFC/ Subway and make a fuss about it at the office Christmas lunch in a nice hotel, so the over-worked chef has to rustle up some 'plain burgers' because none of the 3-choices-plus-a-veggie-option on the menu, including a roast turkey dinner, is acceptable.

Mind you they paid the same as the rest of us. Daft!

Love this thread!
Can I add...
All the shitty "gifts" that grace the supermarket shelves the day after Halloween. It's all useless stereotyping tat. Unicorns, glitter and makeup for girls, gamer stuff and starwars for boys, beer things and stupid games for dads and prosecco/gin labelled tat or crappy toiletry sets for mums.
Also, magazine gift idea pages. Yet more crap! But this stuff is always ridiculously expensive.
Young men wearing super tight jeans that don't fit over their arse walking down the street constantly hitching them up.

Phew, that was cathartic.

I can't bear all of the shaders and toners people wear on their faces now, walking down oxford street today there were so many strangely coloured complexions it was quite weird. It's just a way for make up companies to make more money. I'd love just to see skin and freckles and normal eyebrows again. When you think how much money women are expected to spend on hair colour, make up, nails,clothes, 'self care' etc, it makes me weep for their bank balances.

Emotive posts inviting you to get upset about something which every right minded person would be upset about (you know, cancer, war etc) and contain very specific details about how to share (cut and paste into your timeline..no clicking that easy button) and who will share (only my real friends).

What is the point? Why do you want me to do this? Didn't we stop that real fwends stuff when we were 9?

Red velvet cake

I must be getting on in life as I agree with all of this...
Selfies: just fuck off with your pouting, you look ridiculous and learn to smile like a normal person
Face Fillers/lip fillers in celebrities-especially the young ones, like the lost soul that is Kylie Jenner, who the hell told them they looked good?
Consumerism: it's completely out of control
Snapchat filters in adults: my god, I get disproportionately angry every time I see it
Social media: is fuelling vanity, low self esteem and competitiveness
Hashtags: #gofuckyourself
And my pet hate-Americanisms. Please can we preserve our own culture and identity and not let it be bastardised please!!!

That is all.