Things people do that make you cringe?

[Cleanfreshsheets]

People posting photos of their holiday on social media with a caption like “this is how my Monday morning is looking”. Like calm down Joanne, you’ll be back in the office by next Monday.

Middle management telling me they pay my wages.

People thinking that are different and edgy because they wear Dr Martens (I do still love the boots though)

Oh no I'm incredibly cringe!! I am a DM wearing, squash drinking, wrong way driving adult who likes Disney and chats to her clueless baby!! I also have furbabies, surely I've won cringe bingo by now?! Haha

On another note... I think it's cringe to take the piss out of people less educated than you or who may have dyslexia or who are in a hurry and mistype. You must have pretty low self esteem to feel superior to someone because you know the difference between of and off.

What else are they supposed to say?

@Allthatwegotisthispalebluedot 'I've heard some people find the thought of death a comfort.'

That's because we IT people don't want to wear ties in the first place, so if you make us wear them, we will take the piss. It's called "malicious compliance".

Those 'amour' lights in people's bedrooms/wrapped round the headboard. Just no.

People who basically share their entire life story and every little thing they do on Facebook. Who cares!?

@AInightingale

a plain black coffee might be an Americano (an espresso with extra water) or it might be a filter coffee. Similar but not identical. In Pret a filter coffee is half the price of an Americano.

Lies.

Those celebs who announce their offspring’s arrival by an arty picture of a foot or seemingly disembodied arm or something. It’s pretentious in that ‘look at me but don’t you dare look at me’ way, and does no more to convince me that the baby’s not a PR invention than a simple announcement in a press release.

Frequency of use is not an indicator of correctness cf “should of”.

But since you insist…

“Today, the usage of rooves is so low as to approximate zero. Bryan Garner, in his book Garner’s Modern English Usage, estimates the disparity to be 535:1. In other words, there is only one correct plural form of roof—and it is roofs.
Rooves is always considered a spelling error.

Garner's Modern English Usage
Oxford University Press

Quite.

Mean girls out in force here :(

@Maelil01 Would you also embrace 'pacifically?'

People picking their noses and eating it. See it everyday in traffic.

Women who put up with shit male life partners and sort of make a joke out of it but it’s not funny cos it’s actually ruining their life.

People who say "Pacific" instead of "specific".

I messaged a woman the other day about doing my hair. I don’t know her, have never met or spoken to her before and she was straight away calling me hun and beaut and putting x at the end of messages. I do not in any way speak or write like that so she wasn’t doing it to match my register. I found it a bit rude and over familiar, and it made her come across as being a bit thick. She did a good job of my hair though.

Having worked in food packing warehouses small children's shoes are the least of your worries!

Yup! She’s a ‘say it like it is/warts and all’ person. The attention seeking was too much.

Exactly! That's why I wondered why people are so worked up about children standing in them.

People licking their finger before turning pages.

People who sneer at perfectly innocuous, everyday things that others like but they don’t on anonymous Internet forums

That awful BBC lunchtime soap Doctors. Nothing makes me cringe more than the acting, script and storylines in that.

😆😆 well I'm a Disney-loving, Doc Marten wearing spaghetti chopper who discussed the merits of various products with my six month old all around the supermarket.

So cringe away!!

People make me cringe by ...
Trying to sound more knowledgable than they really are, especially at work.
Using "my lil Prince, my lil princess" to describe their children.
Show off endlessly about very ordinary certificates that every child receives at some point in the school term.

People using “super” instead of “very”
all the time

Oh DS please stop. Its sooo bad. And stop trying to rap. Just stop. And video footage of this will be the ultimate cringe fest in a couple of years

You need this thread 😂www.mumsnet.com/talk/telly_addicts/4923031-bbc-doctors-hands-off-it-might-be-rubbish-but-its-our-rubbish?page=28&reply=130628717