What modern habits of younger generations do you hate the most? Lighthearted

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Lighthearted.
What are the things that you can't stand today that just reminds you that you don't understand younger generations any more (I am 40s)? Not dieing on a hill for anything, just sharing some grumbles.

I'll go first:

Boys and men who walk around without a shirt the moment the sun is out. I am talking high street, trains, buses. Nobody wants to see you in a state you are in when you take out the bins, Steven. Bonus points for "going out" in crocs.

Crocs/flipflops + socks for anything more than taking out your bins, haha. This one is unisex, looks crap on both men and women. Ew.

I love the idea of a ‘rat girl dinner’ lol

I have been laughing for 20 mins 🤣

I think the name is awful and the concept is not at all new or original. It's basically what I eat every lunchtime when I'm WFH and what we all have at weekend teatimes.

How on earth can some silly teenage girls think they invented uncooked meals?

Bottled water has been around a long time so it's not that.

There were studies that came out in the late 1990s showing the wide ranging cognitive advantages of allowing children access to water in the classroom.
Those children that first benefited from those studies are the millennials now.

I see men of 40-50-60 ogling these teen girls pants and open shorts and it makes me want to shake them. @oliviaAustin

Shake the men, presumably?

Of course it is the men’s fault for ogling. But equally they are walking around with their knickers on full show so I’m sure some of those men are more just shocked to be seeing pants front and centre. Either way both groups need a shaking - it’s inappropriate to look at young girls and for young girls to wear their clothing half undone. However the girls can blame silliness of youth whereas the men cannot.

They don’t think they invented it… they’re giving a habit a funny name.

Omg and they pronounce aesthetic as est-etic like Americans. Annoying.

That and saying ‘it’s so whimsy’ instead of whimsical. Hate that even though I’ve checked and technically it’s a correct older usage.

Quite a few of the things mentioned here are things I'd associate with an older generation - namely shirtless men, selfies and music/phonecalls without headphones 😁

Wearing those scrunch bum leggings.
Wears leggings that literally draws attention to their ass crack.... someone looks at their ass and is called a pervert.

Hogging the weight machines in gym, sitting there and scrolling phones in between reps taking a long to time.

For me it's the lack of facial expressions in many people aged 18-25. I don't know what causes it, too much screen time? Parents who had Botox? It's like talking to a robot, especially with the slightly monotone, Americanised voices and the minimal eye contact.
Also the reluctance to help with information "it's on our website/in the app" - yes but you could just spend 10 seconds telling me instead of me searching for 10 minutes!
Generally I feel sorry for that age group because I think they got the worst of Covid and global events disrupting their childhoods and futures, but still it's disconcerting how disconnected many seem irl.

Water bottles I can cope with, but what's with the need to carry your entire 2l of water for the day around in one ridiculously giant bottle? Can't people just use a normal bottle and refill it? See also Stanley Cups.

Just thought of another one - those patterned stick on spot patches. The young woman who joined my team recently had a green four leaf clover stuck to her face the other day - why?!

It’s not Botox. Nobody that age needs it and very few have it despite what everyone thinks (they can’t afford it for one). Also I have Botox (in my 30s) and I can still move my face and make expressions and have warm eyes - I just don’t get a massive line on my head when I do.

I think this manner is an affectation, done to seem cool and detached combined (a bit like the 00s Indie Sleaze/whatever) with some anxiety and possible social lack due to COVID during school years.

Technically this is a very old trend as it’s what they did in the 17th Century too

My step children would ask “can we have, like, pizza for dinner?”
To which my inevitable response was, “What, something LIKE pizza, or do you mean actual pizza?”

Walking round with a phone in their hand held out in front of them.
Fake eyelashes , I saw lots yesterday, are some of them supposed look fake ? No one would have natural lashes like some I saw.

Vaping!!

The posing, and the lack of self-consciousness around it. I was on holidays recently and 2 women in their early 20s asked me to take “some photos” of them. Not “a photo”, “some photos”. Then they went through a clearly well-practiced routine of poses, probably around 6 altogether. And not one ounce of awareness that they looked like narcissistic prats and were holding up others who were queueing at the particular spot for photos.

Nothing wrong with crocs it's just your opinion.

Girls pouting in photos. Looks so grumpy, and just looks silly when there is a group photo and every singel girl is pouting. They will surely be cringing looking back on photos in years to come. Why not smile?

Isn’t this an ageist thread? If you had changed younger to older in your title, the older posters would be outraged…

@Silverbirchleaf you need to read the Highway code

Jesus my 6 year old seems to begin every sentence with “Wait….” It’s so annoying.