(lighthearted) petty things that make you judge a person

[witchycat2]

People who don't like any hot drinks. A hot drink for me is the ultimate comfort. Someone told me they don't like them because they don't want to have to wait for their drink to cool down if they let thirsty. Who drinks a hot drink due to thirst?!

People who say they don't like water. How? You need water to survive. Not liking water is like not liking oxygen. And when you're dehydrated there's nothing like water.

Personalised number plates. What a waste of money and why would you want to be recognisable when driving.

I don't buy things at all. Problem solved.

But in retail, shops start bashing it down your throats from August onwards. You can't help but not notice it sadly.

People that don't iron their clothes and believe that you can't see it.....

people who don't like dogs. (unless they have a serious phobia or an allergy)
I just think they're weirdos!

I just don't look at them. Can't imagine letting some shop shelves work me up that badly tbh. Christmas isn't about that for me. 🤷‍♀️

Tbh I do absolutely understand people who don't celebrate it, like I said. It's just the moaning that bores me. People will be having a nice chat about it and someone comes and complains, derailing conversations or threads if it's online. There are loads of things I don't celebrate; I don't see the need to spoil the fun for everyone else. The worst is Halloween tbh, people who haven't got a clue about Samhain convinced it's an American import. 🥱

Anyway, I'm off to have a Bailey's and mooch the cheese. I do (genuinely!) hope it's not been a bad week for you.

Sadly when you work in retail you have no choice!
I don't do Halloween either, fyi. :)

I don’t iron my clothes, and I don’t care if you can see it or not.

Ahhhh okay, to be fair I can see why that'd grate! Did a stint myself and it's not so much the stuff...but the people! 😂 But I'm a reet wee grump, so it was definitely not a fun job for this (somehow obscenely festive?!) grouch.

@magicalmrmistoffelees @Cornwallinverness

I don't iron my clothes either, we don't even own an ironing board. A colossal waste of precious life imo, so I try and buy clothes that don't need it.

One day you're going to die, I don't want to have wasted a second standing there ironing

You are correct!

People who say ‘outside of’, when just ‘outside’ is all that’s needed. E.g. ‘outside of the town centre’.

I’m going to show my age here. I would judge and not trust a man who left in a room with the tea tray did not take off the tea cosy and put it on his head.

Ditto not liking cake or hot drinks - just can’t trust an alien!

Using the word "gotten".

Saying some one lives "on" a street rather than "in" one.

Referring to a railway station as a "train station".

Using the word "gotten".

Many things surprised me when I first found MN all those years ago, but the hatred for such a boring, everyday word was one of the biggest.

Well you must get irritated by everyone then. As I live on a street, as does everyone I know. No one lives in a street.

People who say some one rather than someone.

There's a train station on my street it's quite noisy but tbh I've just gotten used to it now.

By the way Shakespeare used 'gotten' and so did Chaucer. And Walter Raleigh. It's not new.

In Scotland we say ‘outwith’ instead of ‘outside of’ which I only realised recently (when it kept coming up as a spelling mistake in Word) isn’t an actual official word. It should be!

I know, fairly sure my house rests on the street not in the ground of the street.

As for train station, fairly normal parlance. Especially as you will be travelling by train. Do we say get in the train or on the train, now I’m confused.

Gotten is the actual proper old English term.

Its not physically possible to live 'in' a street, so you are wrong there. It is live on a street.

A train station is where you catch trains. You don't catch a railway.

Your colleagues earn too much

Why though? I’m genuinely interested in why you judge this - some people, me included, just don’t. Your child might be the most precious human on earth to you and being a parent the most fulfilling role you could imagine, but we are all different and not everyone thinks the same about that.

I'm really not convinced that the person/people responsible for programming the spellcheckers in Word or the autocorrect on phones have actually ever encountered native speakers of English; much less are they themselves native speakers.

Outwith has been a very standard everyday word for millions of Scottish native English-speakers for an extremely long time; for it not to be recognised by automated spellcheckers - which oddly enough have no problem with recognising trendy new TikTok-friendly words - means that somebody somewhere has simply not done their job adequately.

Your house ought to be at least partly in the ground of the street, otherwise its been badly built!

I very much agree with this. Surely the only issue arises when people who don't like/want children, cats, dogs or whatever bizarrely nevertheless have them.

If people who want them have them; and people who don't want them don't have them - surely that has to be a win for everybody concerned?!

I guess it’s just a bit odd in the same way that saying ‘I don’t like adults aged 50+’, or ‘i don’t like people between the age of 30-50’ is odd. The only thing that those people have in common is their age.
But yes I agree that as long as people who don’t like children don’t have them or otherwise interact with them beyond the very superficial, it doesn’t really matter.