AIBU? Don't care if I am! Getting grumpy!

[strawberrisc]

Don't get me wrong I'm not an unhappy person by any means and I have a lovely circle of friends (of varying ages) who "get me" but the older I get the more the little, tiny things PISS ME OFF. You don't even need to answer as I know I'm BU but the feelings are real. Things such as people dropping litter or putting their feet on the seats on trains have always been up there but is it weird to be apoplectic with rage inside about such things as?:

Grown adults using the term "simples"?

Ditto "Snowflake"?

Haribo adverts where adults are dubbed as babies?

That kid that keep harping on in a simpering voice about how long Daddy is taking with the washing up bottle?

Young people (DD included) saying "like" every third word in a sentence?

People taking pads and pens to the most brief meetings at work?

Same people asking a thousand irrelevant questions when everyone just wants to go home?

Having a brief comment about old people annoying me deleted from MN when all around people are calling each other "see you next Tuesdays?"

Women on adverts having multiple orgasms about air freshener?

People checking sheafs of lottery tickets at the local shop during the lunch hour. Or ever, actually?

Any train station outside of London not having a self-service ticket machine?

People thinking their birthday should be some kind of national holiday?

People in front of you staring at the ATM like they just landed on Mars?

People turnng up at your castle house unnanounced?

Constant references to "Brexit" - or the DM in general?

Stupid new buzzwords like 'babymoon' and 'throwback snap (i.e a photo taken a week ago).

Plastic chairs.

Breastfeeding Nazis (and I breastfed).

Prams with the kid's name emblazoned on the quilt and hinges.

Asda changing the tinned mixed-bean recipe to cut out all sugar/flavour?

Lorraine Kelly?

Idiots always winning the National Lottery?

Ok, all irrational and I know I'll be flamed off here but that felt SO GOOD.

I'm with you on all except:

• notepads at five minute meetings - my boss is a dick and will ask me to do 7 things in one of those, and;

• the wanky abbreviation you used for the word cunt

But then frankly I'm an old woman at 28...

I'm bloody with you!! I am a right grump! The older I get the less tolerant I get! In my teens I let it all roll by! ... not now!!!!

The only thing YABU about is to use the phrase "see you next tuesday" It's a twee, babyish way of swearing without swearing. Either fucking swear or find another word. Gives me the irrational stabby rage. You're a big girl. If you're old enough to know what it means, you're old enough to say/write it. Call a cunt a cunt.

and breathe

^^ see above. Can't say some old peiple annoy me without it being deleted but can say cunt.

Mwhahah.

So many things are cuntish. Crack on OP!

Just call me victor meldrew.

Everything pisses me off these days.

No because that is generalising ageism. Cunts come in all shapes and ages. Mumsnet loves a good swear. We've had whole threads about cunts.

Ha ha ok. New make up. Wtf is that? I had eyeshadow, lippy and mascara. My DD has a veritable buffet of perplexing pallets and highlighters and shiners and shimmery stuff. And her eyebows need their own postcode. I love my plucked, 80s brows but she practically begs me to get them "refiilled". Is that even a thing?

YANBU. Tolerance levels for all of those things are in my shoes. The spurious reporting of posts and deletion criteria here is annoying and nonsensical. Those posts of people using the C word remaining (can't write that word either) whereas others that are bit testy / opinionated / directional to a particular group but not offensive get removed because someone is slighted. Bizarre.

Not ageism at all Starry. To be clear old people, young people, tall people and short people all piss me off.

Oh I just thought of a few more. "Hubster", "Fambo" and "Holibobs".

Someone (who happened to be in a wheelchair) was horrid to me at the shops last week. Thankfully (or not), my dad's wheelchair bound, so when I had a moan at him he turned to me and went 'oh scribble, just because she was on wheels doesn't mean she wasn't also a dickhead'

There are lovely and awful people in all shapes and sizes!

No I think it was the "old people can be a menace" line that got your post deleted. As for swearing I think you're good as long as you don't swear AT another poster. My last post would be fine with the multiple swears but if I said Strawberrisc you're a cunt, that wouldn't be. As for me, I just hate pretty much 80% of the population.

Gah!

Can I add:
Performance parenting (the phrase, and the actual doing of it)
Poncy food- anything pan fried with jus can just fuck right off
Excessive consumerism of stuff- currently back to school everything- it's only been six bloody weeks!
Anyone who thinks prosecco is amazing and vocalises their alcoholism on Facebook
Period house - what fucking period? Every house was built in a period. You cannot have a 'very period house' SIL I'm looking at you- what you mean is characterful and typical of its period which is not the same thing.

Aaaaah that feels better!

I agree with most. Except the haribo advert... I like that!

Oh my God Holibobs boils my piss. And Leccy. HATE fucking leccy with an unreasonable amount of passion. Just say electric you lazy classless twats!

Haha with you on all those things. I want to add: dawdling whilst taking up the whole pavement and being completely oblivious to anyone who might be walking behind. Gives me the rage. As does stopping in doorways to check phone/backpack/whatever.

And people who leave a shop and as soon as the get in the doorway they have to stop and check they have their purse and rearrange the baby's blanket, all the while BLOCKING THE SODDING DOORWAY.

Performance Parenting! That was the one I was trying to remember!

And "quintessentially English".

Starry - I get what you're saying but in the context of the thread I still think it was RIDICULOUS that it was deleted. What if I said "teachers can be a menace" or "sheep can be a menace".

Someone raced me to the cash point in the bank this week, literally barged me out of the way. Then on reaching cash point took five minutes to find bank card before able to transact

I'm loving the casual cunting on this thread!

Would you say "black people can be a menace"? No. Because it's racist.

What you said was ageist.

Cunt is just a word.

I'm an old bird now - and just about everything on your list gets me so yadnbu.

Prosecco is amazing though - it gives my life meaning in all this wilderness

Prosecco gives me heartburn so it can naff off