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)

I never, ever drink with work colleagues for this reason!

So with you.

When somebody gets out a guitar and starts singing when there's a get together and everyone's just enjoying a few drinks having fun. Die inside at the awkward silent listening 💀

People who project their own insecurities and weird perceptions onto others, for example by assuming that others who wear Doc Martens do so to appear 'different and edgy' rather than just because they like Doc Martens

My friend who refers to her husband as Mr C (their surname initial)

A male friend in his 50s who constantly posts photos of himself without a shirt. Also in the 50 shades peak era said ladies kept referring to him as Mr Grey (I doubt it)

hun, hubby, ickle baby,

@LimitIsUp agree with this. Docs aren’t edgy. There’s a shop on the highstreet near me fgs.

Some of us have shit feet (wide, bunions, collapsed arches) and need shoes like docs to get through the day!

Same!

At work, it annoys me when colleagues welcome new starters to "the family".

A workplace/employer is not a family. Families tend not to pay people to stay, and those that do are usually thought to be dysfunctional.

Calling the workplace a family puts an unreasonable expectation on employees to blur boundaries between work life and non-work life.

Instead, please welcome new starters to the company, the school, the hospital, etc or to the team. All of these can be friendly, caring, sociable, etc, without being a family.

To get po-faced for a moment - a lot of the language usages that people so enjoy cringing over are reproductions in writing of how things sound. Either someone is not thinking about what they write or they don't know the difference due to issues with learning or their education. Social media have a lot of downsides but I happen to think the way they engage people of all levels of education in written communication is a good thing and sneering at how people use language in these formats has an uncomfortable implication of 'plebs, know your place '.

I enjoyed Disneyland Paris when we took DCs but I’d never go just as an adult in my own. Same for Legoland etc - I do have a very sensible and intelligent friend who loves it 🤷‍♀️ horses for courses.
I do love Harry Potter though and would love to go Universal Florida for that reason even though I shouldn’t be doing rides any more medically 😆

Got another, people who make excuses for the FACT Micheal Jackson liked to sleep with children.

Twice on FB this week I've seen someone obviously outraged by something posted and using "discusting" to make their point.

It's only ever on FB that I see this.

I have to go home before it gets to that stage because it's brain-bleach.

the thought of some ugly creep acting like they're God's Gift with a woman on each arm (more fool them) because they've downed 6 pints and a few shorts. Delusional pathetic

I worked in a garden centre checkout years ago; a bloke dumped an empty biscuit wrapper and other food detritus at the till, and told me I should be grateful he was honest, the tosser. It's over 20 years ago and I still remember his shitty attitude.

@SpongenotSpiker same here. If people are not washing unpackaged produce before using it, clearly that’s more disgusting. Do what works - it’s classic ableism, no consideration that there are people who do this because they have to, not want to.

@ChocolateCakeOverspill if supermarkets have the special needs trollies at all they only have one. Should disbability parents draw up a rota to see which one family is allowed to use the supermarket at any one time….?

Women who wear witchy clothes like purple velvet robes etc, with fading blue/ green hair, and clunky moon necklaces for £1.39 off Amazon.
Get a wash!
Go home and dust your house!

Ditto "the Strictly family" etc. So false.

What a nasty post. This thread is bringing out some real bigotry.

Fair point.
Still makes me cringe though.

Wow. You sound nice.

This thread is getting less about cringing and more about airing prejudice and bigotry under the guise of ‘so cringe!’

Where do you buy clothes? Maybe that will make someone else cringe.

Children in families where sign language(s) is used start producing signs at about 6 months. They babble in sign before that.

I'm going to admit I have done the eating as I supermarket shop.

The amount of cringing MNers apparently do would make me cringe myself if the irony or whatever it would be didn't stop me.

You do get competitive cringing on here. One poster tries to "defeat" another by saying, "Omg I'm cringing for you." Other poster responds, "Omg I'm cringing that you're cringing" and so on.

I think the average MNer must be always cringing, sobbing and shaking in real life. No wonder we get outed all the time.