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

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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.

M NHQ
Please can we have all threads with c**t deleted
It makes me 😡and nothing at all to do with subject

Slow people walking in the middle or two/three abreast on a pavement. Please kindly keep to a side so I can walk to work a bit quicker. This is mostly tourists walking through our identikit town.

Also 'Hi Guys!' Piss off

Twice now been handed meal on a slate, twice now I haven't said 'Please take it away and bring it on a plate '!!

Even 60 years old life can get 'complicated '

People hashtagging everything.
Bad spelling.
People who use 'brought' instead of 'bought'.
People who stop in middle of a supermarket aisle to have a long conversation, blocking the way for everyone else.
Being referred to as 'guys' when eating out. When I used to work in hospitality I always used sir/madam.
People who post constant Facebook updates while on holiday. Get off your phone and enjoy yourself!

Was your post about "some" old people annoying you ageist interpreted as ageist? I fucking hate it when people clutch their pearls about swearing and then say something bigoted, so I think Y possibly ABU there. MNHQ don't tend to remove posts without reason ime, so if it wasn't ageist then I can't think what else it would have been deleted for...

A woman I went to university with frequently used an offensive, disablist word to describe people who were being a bit foolish. She then got a touch of the vapours if anyone said cunt in front of her. I told her how much more offensive her choice of words was to me, but she disagreed. I wrote her off as a friend at that point. She was a bit of a cunt anyway .

I get that this is meant to be a humorous thread, so sorry if you think my above comment is a bit too serious! There are loads of threads like this on here and some of them are really entertaining.

'Feeling blessed'.
'Making memories 'with my lil famalam'.
People who can't park.
The woman in the supermarket the other day who was so fucking rude to the member of staff at the customer service desk that she made her cry. (Yes I told her she was totally out of order)

Specific to MN:
'I'm going to go against the grain here' usually following by a post agreeing with ever other fucker anyway.

No? At the end of a sentence i.e. 'But surely we can agree to disagree, no?' Fuck. Off.

And the one that really pisses me off - the oh so patronising 'So what did he do when you challenged him on this?' whilst knowing full well from the OP that they are clearly struggling with something, hasn't challenged anyone and is asking for advice. It's a wanky thing to say as it's designed to get the OP to say that they haven't, so that they can then be called to 'grow a pair' or similar.

People saying 'uni' - makes me cringe. I'm going to force DD to do an apprenticeship so I avoid having to say 'uni'

Oh I forgot "guys!" Someone I love dearly starts all group messages with "Hi guys" and all I can think about is Catherine Tate's TGI Friday waitress sketch!

And what is this new trend of ending a sentence with a plethora of !!!!!!!! or ????????? It really doesn't make your (usually irrelevant) point any more relative.

This thread has made me really happy and I have found my tribe.

Who on earth coined 'holibobs' anyway, and why haven't they been thrown into a dungeon with rats?

People who block the way in multi storey car parks while waiting forever for someone else to come out, and then take 14 manoeuvres to get their car in, even when any idiot can see that there are plenty of spaces on the next level.

Any mother on any TV ad who just smiles tolerantly and shakes her head in that 'precious little darlings, , what can you expect?' manner, after kids have just left mud or other filthy mess all over her floor/walls, before reaching for the Magic Kleenoff.

Pissed off at the "vegan health and lifestyle event" I visited recently, that I was really looking forward to getting some insipration from. But where a 1/4 of the stalls were selling cake (I like it but not that much!), 1/4 selling really shit looking home-made food, and the rest selling "healing" crystal pendants (fuck off), tie-dyed T-shirts with pictures of calves on (nope), and vile processed meat and cheese substitutes. Mainly a bunch of stereotypical crap (although I did buy some massively expensive vegan "cheese" so all was not lost).

But the thing that bugged me the most was being given the marketing spiel by a women selling beauty products, despite me saying that I was happy with my very basic beauty habits of using oil to remove make-up, washing the oil off with a bar of soap (she looked horrified), then putting on moisturiser. She said "the very minimum beauty regime we should have is cleanse, tone and moisturise" before showing me her serum. Fuck off and take your trowled-on make-up face and your "botanical" products with you, you beauty industry brain-washed vacuous bint.

People who dawdle in the street. I realise some will be physically unable to move faster because of some medical condition, but judging by the speed people go in my town I'm the only healthy one! To top it off they also have a tendency to end up in my fucking way!

Twice now been handed meal on a slate, twice now I haven't said 'Please take it away and bring it on a plate '!!
Oh god, I have. I asked that my meal be put on a plate instead as the food was in danger of falling off (plus I think it's horribly wanky and they can fuck off).

People who are never ready to 'go' when the traffic lights change to green....
People who stop in front of you in the shop doorway to put their purse away/get their umbrella out etc
Shoppers who leave their trolleys in the middle of the aisle while they go and get things off the shelves.
'Holibobs' 'Hun' and 'Dude'
Am definitely getting less tolerant as I get older.....

Oh and 'making memories'
Cos I do fuck all with my kids on holiday....
And 'famalam' WTF???

I can't stand people using the word "Nazi" to desvcribe someone who isn't an actual Nazi. It's a word we need at the moment. Using it to scribe someone who is over zealous about breastfeeding is reprehensible.

Grafitti is one of my pet peeves.

And of course idiots winning the Lotto because this idiot wants to win the Lotto.

And how many people buy tickets for the postcode lottery and never win a sausage? They never tell you the odds which must be very long indeed.

BertrandRussell

@BertrandRussell Yes yes yes

I don't think I disagree with a single post yet, except lyn's disapproval of all the cunting.

I've thought of another one - those awful wall stickers that say "Love, Laugh, Live" etc, seriously tacky and cringey!

And when people go 'live' on Facebook whilst clubbing or at parties - fuck right off!

So many things on you list piss me off especially the Haribo advert

Now I am mid 40's I don't care that I appear pissed off and love to have a good moan when I was younger I wanted to appear happy so I would be liked more especially by men w what a fucking idiot I was

It's just now I don't care if I come across as moody or miserable that actually makes me feel happy

I find people so self absorbed now I blame Facebook

And often just too serious about everything

Nazi is used often in humour

I am quite sure people understand that they are not talking about people of extreme right political views

Hashtags

People who don't use indicators

People who say they hate gossips whilst gossiping about someone else

Bertrand often pops up on threads to tell mere mortals what we're doing wrong.