to ask: what makes you want to hoist up your judgey pants?

[butterflyballs]

For me, it's the ignorance on vaccinations and the belief that measles is just a regular childhood disease. Makes me want to beat people with a large stick.

Free range toddlers in pubs and restaurants.
People who don't pick up dog shit.
School run parents who park anywhere they can fit in and cause chaos.
Cyclists on pavements.
Cheap leggings. I don't need to see the pattern on your pants.
People who dress for the beach in cities.

Being tailgated, ALWAYS by Audi's or Beemers. I judge you - I think you must be an ignorant, arrogant, snobby hooray Henry who thinks your journey and speed and showing everyone the size of your knob is more important than road safety or common courtesy.

Therefore I judge all people who drive BMWs or Audi's. I can't help it.

With you on the BMW/Audi thing....I always wonder what came first, the car or the prat? Do you turn into a prat the minute you set foot in one or are prats inclined to buy these cars?
And fwiw I only gave my DD milk or water and she hates anything fizzy.Can't stand seeing toddlers drinking coke.
Squash etc in bottles is horrid too.
Why is it charming to say dummies are the height of chavvyness? There's nothing worse than seeing a tiny baby with a great think stuck in its face OR a toddler running about with one impeding it's speech etc etc

The use of the words chav/chavy/chavvyness

It just comes across as a little desperate the need to appear better than ....

Reminds me of Pam we are considerably richer than yow

Drunkeness, sorry just winds me up to see adults slurring and falling over, thinking they are terribly amusing, and having no control over their behaviour.

Young men (and some not so young) who insist on wearing their jeans halfway down their bum. Sorry it does not lot cool, or sexy!

Leggings worn as trousers

People who treat a trip to the supermarket as a family outing. Two parents with two/three/four kids totally bored out of their skulls so behaving badly, why can't one parent take them to the park or something, while the other does the shopping!

People who judge others without stopping to consider for one moment why they might behave that way.

But if I am allowed to hoik my judgeypants on in any event: well where do I start? People who allow their young children to watch 15 and 18 rated films and play 15 and 18 rated games.

And smokers. Come on, how long have we known it's bad for you? And it's always been stinky and yucky. And expensive.

Oh god, yes. Whenever I had a bad experience with some twat tail gating me it was ALWAYS a BMW. I've not noticed problems with audi's.

Unfortunately, I now make the automatic link - BMW owner = knob end.

Thought of two other major annoyances

People who stand on the LEFT on the underground. Oh my fucking god, just MOVE.

Likewise, people who try and push onto the carriage before other people have got off. I hope this doesn't sound totally twatish, but it's gotten a lot worse recently, and it ALWAYS seems to be non Brits who do it.

I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they just haven't been here long enough to twig yet. If they were Brits they would be getting told to get out of the fucking way.

I'm hoisting my judgy pants up again, here goes;

families with young children who go away on all inclusive holidays and just get wasted while they expect the holiday reps/ other people to look after their kids.
We went to Spain on an all inclusive one year and witnessed the wost example of parenting, particularly from one family who literally did nothing but drink and eat near the pool all day while their toddler ran around unsupervised, near the pool! Felt sorry for the kid, it was obviously a holiday for the parents to get smashed at ten in the morning while reps tried to stop their kid from drowning!

Much worse than a baby having a dummy is the baby screaming constantly and nobody getting any sleep!

I'll you the one thing that really gets my goat.

People who say 'Oh I'm gluten free/dairy free/vegan/only eat raw vegetables because it's soooooo much healthier' (not because of Coeliacs etc) and then proceed to drink a bottle of wine every night.

Alcohol seems to get off scott free with a lot of health nazis, and I really don't know why.

Or you could pick it up and give it a cuddle, Sirzy...

yeah bloody dummies, giving babies comfort, pah!

Hahahaha, you mean you aren't supposed to leave them lying in the cardboard box with the dummy in - who knew!!

Oh shrunken thanks for pointing that out, I would never have considered it otherwise

I was enjoying this until I saw someone comment on children wearing clothes that are too big for them. Stopped reading then? What exactly is so offensive about that? I pass my son's old clothes onto a parent at school who's family income dropped due to redundancy. The clothes are slightly too big for hi but he will grow into them. Why is that offensive? Should this boy's parents be spending money they don't have on perfectly fitting clothes?

Ridiculous.

People who are irish immigrants to this country moaning about other immigrants
People who come to live here from Ireland aren't classed as immigrants, there is complete freedom of movement between the two countries and they can settle here as freely as the many from here who have moved to the Irish Republic. They are as entitled to moan about immigrants (rightly or wrongly) as anyone else.

I like judgey pants. Bring them on. I feel sorry for judgement itself. It's going down the tube. But, hey. That's progress, I guess.

Rude pensioners. Especially ones who nearly plough you down doing 50mph on their mobility scooters, you move out of the way and not so much as a smile or thanks

I agree, there are some who don't have manners while on the scooters. I remember one chap who would come up behind people and ring a bell to get them to move out the way.

Once he came up behind me and this was on a narrow path where I would have had to breathe in and press against the wall or step in the road to allow him room to pass.

I'm partly deaf, and I didn't hear the bell. I heard him yelling at me to "stop being so ignorant and move out the way". This from a bloke who thought it acceptable to just ring a bell rather than asking politely.

I did tell him what I thought of his poxy little bell, and him/his rudeness. I also pointed out that not all disabilities can be seen.

I've since seen him around and while he's rude to others, he's more polite to me now.

"People who are irish immigrants to this country moaning about other immigrants
People who come to live here from Ireland aren't classed as immigrants, there is complete freedom of movement between the two countries and they can settle here as freely as the many from here who have moved to the Irish Republic. They are as entitled to moan about immigrants (rightly or wrongly) as anyone else."

But, I'd imagine when those Irish "immigrants" who had the freedom of movement moan about European immigrants who have the same right, it kind of grates a bit. (I'm not the original poster of this comment but I can see the irony)

" I'd imagine when those Irish "immigrants" who had the freedom of movement moan about European immigrants who have the same right, it kind of grates a bit."

well when someone has met this mythical Irish moaner, maybe they could post the quote here?

Dog shit not picked up.
Dog shit in bags thrown into trees.
Babies with earrings.
Kids left to run riot in restaurants.
Kids unsupervised while the parent is on the phone for the entire park trip.
Swearing at kids.
Kids in buggies because their parents can't be arsed to make them walk.

"well when someone has met this mythical Irish moaner, maybe they could post the quote here?"

There's a few at my children's school, either first generation irish or fresh off the boatRyan Air Flight who seem oblivious of the fact that they are economic migrants too, just the same as the Polish families.

Cross out fail!

The pregnant women outside our hospital smoking.

For me, never mind your big problems. I'll give you raising intonation at the end of a sentence, cutting a bread roll instead of baking it, confusing bought and brought and continual sniffing.

Kill kill kill, never mind judge.