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to stop people 'making memories'

410 replies

DiplomaticDecorum · 13/04/2018 14:16

It's a pissy pants phrase - every time it's mentioned it makes me heave. Just stop, you sound ridiculous, every fucking minute of every fucking day is making fucking memories, it's how we as a species survive.

Bugger off and live in Disneyland with all of the little tweety birdies and pink bollocking princess fluffy crap. Start living life as an educated grown up, stop with the stupid filtered selfies, and stop being so bloody feeble. Hope this has made a new memory for you all. Now fuck off.

OP posts:
Icanttakemuchmore · 14/04/2018 23:01

Lweji 🌷I'm doing all x

billyfivebellies · 14/04/2018 23:18

Remember “ the nearly empty can with maybe a pea or marble inside rattles the most”

EthelredOnAGoodDay · 14/04/2018 23:25

Absolutely OP.
Trite, and cliched. Along with 'blessed'.
Pass the bucket.

SoupDragon · 14/04/2018 23:33

Pass the bucket.

Another trite and cliched phrase for the shit heap.

EthelredOnAGoodDay · 14/04/2018 23:38

Ha! True. But I'm half cut and bereft of original thought...

Kaybush · 14/04/2018 23:59

IME #makingmemories = #desperatetoholdontohusband

RiverTamFan · 15/04/2018 00:56

DH complained that I never post about how wonderful he is like X does about their partner. I asked him was he being serious because all the people who post this are lying through their teeth and he knows it!

Can't stand people who post #blessed or look for the "U ok hun?". Humblebragging or putting up a front for others because you want them to be jealous. Yuck.

RiverTamFan · 15/04/2018 00:58

Rather all the people he knows who boast about their partners with hashtags are lying.

LaurieMarlow · 15/04/2018 02:48

I can never understand why people just don't block/unfriend people who annoy them on FB. You're not compelled to read this stuff if you don't want to.

Teacher22 · 15/04/2018 06:27

Pretentiousness, virtue signalling and boasting under the veil of sanctimonious hashtaggery are the new hypocrisy. It used to be called humbug and puff. I am totally with the OP on #Making Memories. Memories are what you actually remember, not what you say you are going to recall in a boastful post. It used to be that showing off and those who did it were laughed at. Well, TBH, I still do.

PonyPals · 15/04/2018 06:45

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SoupDragon · 15/04/2018 07:59

Well, if you’re lucky she’s a MNer who will recognise your screenshots and drop you. Problem solved.

clockworklime · 15/04/2018 08:13

#makingmemories #giggles #qualitytime #famalam

FuckKnuckle · 15/04/2018 08:15

I shall remember this thread always.

Icanttakemuchmore · 15/04/2018 08:22

Ahh op I u der stand now. You're moaning about Facebook stuff/memories. I'm with you now. Yes I agree. I'm making memories by doing actual stuff with my family for memories when I'm not here, not for sodding Facebook. Or have I missed the point entirely with the ops post??

Icanttakemuchmore · 15/04/2018 08:22

understand

affectionincoldclimate · 15/04/2018 08:24

It's okay. All these moments will be lost like tears in the rain. Grin

confusedofengland · 15/04/2018 09:05

I have a friend who posts 100+ photos of each & every day out with her family (LEGOLAND part 1, LEGOLAND part 2 etc). The thing is they have Merlin annual passes plus annual passes to the zoo & the London castles, meaning they go to each place 20+ times per year. This means a lot of the photos are the same! They are always captioned 'A lovely day at x' Hmm Never a mention, like me, of a shitty day at X where the DC fought most of the time & Ds2 had a meltdown because he had to wait too long & we were skint for the rest of the week Blush

The sad thing is that it's all just hiding the fact that her husband has multiple affairs, resulting in numerous other DC & she only stays with him because she's too scared not to (money-wise) Sad So they do have lovely days out, but it perhaps compensates for the other stuff, so I can forgive her the multiple photos.

GinghamStyle · 15/04/2018 09:55

Geez, I just meant they're not things that are documented or on FB. Stealth boast or whatever, we've been on holiday. DS has ASD & ADHD my life is stressful as hell with him and amongst the stress, there are these little precious moments that I'll always remember. What's so bad about that?

Andthatsthat · 15/04/2018 10:26

SoupDragon

To be fair, a little bit of wee did come out whilst rushing to the shit heap to spit out the little bit of sick that came into my mouth...Grin

Moonandstars84 · 15/04/2018 10:57

Dd43 yes maybe it was an ill advised post. But as someone who has never had grandparents and with a dd who never had grandparents seeing post after post of something so private just seems like oversharing to me.
The original post was fine in a way but than a post a day for two weeks was talk g it too far imo.

Flexoset · 15/04/2018 12:34

I have a FB acquaintance who has coined her very own hashtag using her family surname... think the Ferguson family (not their real name) and the hashtag #fergusonmagic .

#fergusonmagic is wheeled out for every single post which celebrates any miniscule achievement by any member of the family.

I don't unfollow because it's got to the point where I get entertainment value out of my sheer fascinated horror.

#smugfergusons

TheFirstMrsDV · 15/04/2018 12:53

I was a third born child growing up in the 70s. The cost of films plus processing means that that there aren’t many photos of me as a child. I can believe that there are families with none

Me too. I don't own any photos of me.
We had some school ones done and the very occasional snap.

Peanutbuttercups21 · 15/04/2018 13:31

Photos do not equate memories

Lots of "memory making" is really "evidence collection". So that the parents insure themselves against future accusations by their offspring of having had a shit childhood.

"But look, darling, we had such fun! Look at us in Disneyland when you were 3! Cost an arm and a leg, we did it all for YOU. Look, here is a picture of you hugging Mickey, look....WTF DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T REMEMBER?! The evidence is HERE"

Serena1985 · 15/04/2018 13:36

Worse are the fully grown women who take vain selfies in the mirror 😗