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)

@SingleMamaG Back sniffing?

I know it won’t make me popular, but I kind of agree on the squash one. I’ve just never met an adult who actually drinks it, so I’d assumed most people thought of it as a children’s drink.

I remember an Australian friend telling me she found it strange that people in the UK don’t drink “dilute”. (And don’t get me started on her calling it “dilute”!) That was the first time I ever heard of adults drinking squash.

I think part of what puts me off is those adverts from when Robinson’s tried to do a “grown-up” range of squash (lemon and kiwi, strawberry and elderflower and so on). There was this precocious little brat who goes up to a woman getting wine out of the fridge and says “Lucy! I know you’ve had a hard day - but it’s only Monday! Do what I do - have squash!” Yeah, you’ll find out, you patronising little bugger.

This!!!!
Who the hell are all these people wearing adult sized pyjamas and clothes with Disney images on them?!

Omg I witnessed a lady in a soft play cafe not long ago doing this, all soft spoken and "oh Sebastian shall we go for a nice walk down the canal with daddy after tea, wouldn't that be nice" just letting the whole of soft play know what a wonderful wife and mother she was. Untill her son pushed over his little sister and he shouted loudly "sorry mummy, are you going to smack my bottom now?" The look of horror on her face. He's learnt that somewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

Do adults really not know what the word “abdomen" means?

Probably not.

Many adults say "belly" (which is a truly dreadful word).

And don't get me started on the patient who told me her chest was painful, when she actually meant her breasts.

While we’re on adverts, thankfully these ones seem to have died a death now, but that fashion a few years ago for ads where two women are having a cup of tea and a cake and one says “What's wrong Babs?”. Babs says, “Oh, I’m so constipated - and I’m having such HEAVY periods!” Babs’s friend then gives her a sympathetic pat on the arm and takes a magic cure-all out of her handbag.

I'm sorry, but if I invite you around for tea and cake and you start telling me about your heavy periods, you’re not coming over again. You can fuck off to Costa.

No I wasn’t. Snarky and a bit OTT I’ll hold my hand up to. I find it very irritating though when people with lots of choices about footwear gave a go at the few I can wear (see also a PP who ‘hates’ Birkenstocks).

People who use mumsnet to vent about what they don’t like but don’t have the balls to say it in person

I should of known this 🤣

Threads like this that I find are often quite nasty about other people, just because people are all different make me cringe, a bit superior.

Nope. I love Disney. I would go to DisneyWorld, without the kids, so I could enjoy it and savour it all

Well, not by asking “Can I get” unless you are asking to take over from the barista!

“May I have a cappuccino with skimmed milk please” and it’s “to take away” NOT “to go!”

British singers who sing with an extreme American accent eg, Joss Stone who is from bloody Somerset and Adele who is from Tottenham FFS!

Also, Anne Marie.. lovely voice but why the American gangster/ghetto accent?? Tom Walker.. who is Scottish for heaven’s sake.. does it too.

I don't think abdomen has been clear to me for the whole of my adulthood, no.

I also thought breasts were part of the chest. Both women and men have chests so I thought that for us it was the general area, including the breasts.

Adele sounds VERY London to me, both when talking and singing.

You would hate me then. I love Disney and don’t give two shits what some judgemental arse thinks about it. I also post my holiday photos on Facebook. It’s quite simple, don’t like what I post feel free to unfollow.

Agree

Sorry @Blueink but "May I have" sounds terribly posh and I've never heard anyone say that.
It's just how people speak in different parts of the country 😀

Agree completely with this

Really? I don’t hear that at all. I find her singing accent to be in extremely stark contrast to her her spoken accent.. which isn’t uncommon but with her it really is extreme. “Hello” being a case in point. I heard it and thought, eek she’s back with the fake accent and the (also mildly irksome) bunny boiler hankering-after-the-ex theme.

Other than these things, I quite like her 😂

Worse than this is „I’ll do“ as in „I’ll do the pad Thai“ do what to it?

I'm drinking fruit cordial today

I do sometimes drink squash

People who claim that 'the bank manager' won't like it when they buy something big. The bank manager doesn't give a shit.

People who put money in their 'bank' instead of in their account.

Parents who let their children wear bike helmets too far back on their heads, like it's a beret. It should be over the forehead.

I don't drink tea, coffee or alcohol. Am I only allowed water?

Edit: I have been upfront about the phrases that make me cringe. I’m sure I make other people cringe in other ways too - nothing wrong with being honest about it.

Has anyone added ‘littles’ or ‘smalls’ yet (in reference to children)? 🤢