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.

A couple of posts on here have reminded me of some other things. Those couples who go on "A Place in the Sun" and you know they're dicking around, have no actual plans to buy a house abroad but like the free holiday.

People, particularly on soaps (Gary and Sarah from Coronation Street being repeat offenders) who answer open ended questions with "yeah".

Coronation Street Person: "So how's Gary doing?"
Sarah: "Yeah, he's alright".

My boss uses the word Pacific every time she wants to say specific which is a lot... I just want tobang her head on the desktell her the correct meanings

Ooh new user, I wonder do o know your boss?!

Of course only idiots ever win the National Lottery, cos only idiots ever play the National Lottery.

ducks

Anyone who starts boring on about couscous, olives or hummus.

😡🤢😱

'Famalam' instead of family
Makes me want to scream.

I have never seen this other than on MN.

P'haps my Scottishness is saving me?

Oh have any of you done "the dance" in the street? You know, you want to go one side and the opposite number does the opposite. Both of you are going side to side at the same time, hilarious!

When it happens to me the cure is NOT to make any more eye contact and just go for your exit strategy, then I alway say to other person, "thanks for the dance" laughter always ensues.

When anyone automatically assumes that a get-together/family meal/BBQ involves getting absolutely obliteratingly drunk. Grow up.

Pumpkin, yes!

How does a conversation ever get onto couscous, hummuals or olives?

I always think that with the product test feedback. Would you recommend this product? Err, I can't say I ever have conversations about kitchen cleaner/bin bags/......

I am older and bolder, and I live the way I want to!

Am one of those Mnetters who refuses to answer the door. In fact my doorbell has been disconnected for five years now. LOL

Gave it up years ago (no dcs here now happy days!).

Where I am our post service will put a box on your wall so they can deliver internet orders and you don't have to be there. It is magic.

The other callers are JWs, door to door sellers, dodgy driveway merchants and so on.

Anyone who wants to visit me knows all they have to do is text from outside. What is not to like.

From a grumpy old woman x

People who use the word - furbaby.

Amazon drivers who will move one of my bins in front of my front door to hide a parcel (that's not maki g it obvious as any normal person keeps a huge bin in front of their door) this is even worse when there is a very huge obviously unlocked cupboard right next to my front door. I've had 2 in a week do it to me

'just get an Uber home later' - an über? You mean a taxi? Just call it a freaking taxi.

Ubers aren't taxis.

Fuck off and take your trowled-on make-up face and your "botanical" products with you, you beauty industry brain-washed vacuous bint.

It's very hard to take advice from someone you think looks awful. There's an eyebrow place around the corner, and all the people that work there really need to stop. They're a bad advertisement. Not to mention the horrifically overmadeup look on nearly everyone at a cosmetic counter.

Oh, something I missed: people who carry on about how 'annoying' pan fried as a description on a menu is, saying 'what else would it be?'. There are these things called deep fryers, you may have heard of them.

I'm obsessed with the incorrect use of the words "three (or whatever) times bigger/faster/higher (etc) than...." when they mean "three times AS BIG (etc)". If it's three times bigger, it's FOUR times as big, isn't it?

Ridiculous make-up, as pp said. You can't make out where their actual facial features are. My niece does it and she looks bloody awful and trashy!!

Prom. The use of the singular noun- "going to Prom" - and the way the concept has been sucked up in this country, as just another major, crucial unaffordable event to crowbar into the fucking materialistic society that we have already become.

Gentrification and homogenisation of high-streets in the UK.

Automatic double shots of espresso as standard in cafes. Written in tiny print at the bottom of the menu board so that you don't see it until your coffee is already being made. No, I don't want to turn into a raging quivering twitching neurotic freak-out just because I had a drink here.

Reporting, two days after some murder/pile-up/massacre/terrorist attack/inferno, that the relatives/residents/locals are still coming to terms with what has happened. They did this after Grenfell, for example. Totally degrading and moronic.

Naff spellings of kids' names!!! I met a mum recently, on a train. Her little toddler had round her neck a cord to keep her dummy from getting lost. On the cord were alphabet beads (choking hazard), spelling out her name. Liberty-Lei with 'Lei' being pronounced 'Lee'. Lilli-Mai? Jaxon? Eevee?? FFS!!!

When I send a long message to one of the kids and get a reply of
"K"
😡😡😡😡😡😡 this drives me mad!!!

Sunglassally - You're a woman after my own heart - I never answer the door either (unless I'm expecting anyone).
And don't get me started on people who think it's a lovely idea to just 'pop round' (UNINVITED - WTF??)

People turnng up at your castle house unnanounced?

YES YES YES to this (did that sound like I just had a milultiplecorgasm?- is that ok as long as it's not about air freshener?)

You did ginger and that's completely ok

Ubers are taxis!

Sociopaths, Narcs and their enablers - cuntish behaviour in the extreme.

The negativity on here and the frequency of the phrase 'I wouldnt go/glad I wasn't invited' when someone is discussing an event - rude and unnecessary. Yes that always makes me feel sad for the organisers even though I've never met them and never will.