to stop people 'making memories'

[DiplomaticDecorum]

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.

Dear god, it seems like the 'famalam' thing is an actual thing. I can't even bear to type the food hashtag thing. Both make me want to start peeling layers of my skin off. Go and have FAMILY time if you want to but just stop telling everyone about it!

What the actual JEFF is wrong with people?

God help us when all the Cyber War shit kicks off between the US, Russia and China over land, trade and power.

Nobody, but nobody, under 40 will survive 7 days without being a gibbering wreck.

I can't get worked up about how others live their lives, I make my own memories, but don't shout about it.
Maybe when they are grown up their dc will object to their childhood being documented for all to see.
This is the first generation to experience this, and it will be interesting to see how react to it as adults.
My dc hate me putting stuff on social media, so I don't.

@FrangipaniBlue i know someone who uses famalam.

the same family shortens everyones family names. So if your surname was Crompton you would be "the crommies". another family they hang around with is the farringtons so "the fazzas". It annoys the shit out of me everytime they post!

Facebook is a playground for adults still playing out their teenage shit. It’s completely useless and a medium for displaying your edited and fake life. I want to shake people and scream “these are not your real friends!!” And Suckerberg has now stolen all your data. I left years ago and now I’m pissed off I ever joined it.

Especially when 'making memories' seems to actually mean taking 134 pictures of your family trip to the zoo (yes Linda, I'm talking about you).

I fucking hate #makingmemories. “The weather was bad but at least we made memories”, “time to make some memories”.

Argh!! You don’t have to actively try to make them - they just are!! It’s like people using family as an adjective - family day, family weekend.

Fuck off!!!

You said it way better than I did Fox

Come on now, OP.

You certainly need to dance like nobody is watching.

Maybe on your hollibobs at least?

You should probably become a Luddite and live a more simple life if it’s that irritating to you. :-) I don’t understand it myself but allowing freedom of happiness is just as important. People feel so much identity from their online persona because really our communities are a little broken.

U ok hun?

@humousontoast don't really want to say on here, DM me

Hate FB and all that goes with it. It's a virtual platform for the needy to go and have their ego stroked! More fool those that oblige.

DiplomaticDecorum I love your OP

@ilovesooty I agree with the OP. It's up there with "making your own traditions" which always gets rolled out on here in the run up to Christmas.

You mean like the oh-so-out there crazy and never heard of "we all have hot chocolate"

Which probably takes all of 3 minutes to boil the kettle and spoon some instant into a mug and stir before drinking in another couple of minutes, job done. Yet is spoken about in hushed and revered tones like it is a millennia-old secret and blessed ritual of plucking, drying and pounding of the cocoa beans from the very tree it was grown on or however it is they make chocolate, I just eat the stuff!

@TheQueenOfWands Don't forget the twee signage

This is your staircase, isn't it. Don't lie.

#Blessed #LearningToDanceInTheRain #Memories

Actually this has reminded me; last night DH and I were out for dinner, sitting next to a Mum, Dad and daughter who was about 11/12.

The Mum spent the entire time moving around the table, getting a good angle for her selfies. One with the Dad, loads with the daughter. At one point she shouted at her daughter, who was mid-conversation with her Dad 'stop talking and look at the bloody camera'.

Just WTF is she thinking? Even five years ago that would have been rare, but it's so common now. We are teaching our kids that it's normal to stop conversations to take pictures of our own faces, and to jump up from the table mid-meal to do it too.

It's really fucking depressing.

What did people find to get riled about before Facebook, I wonder?

This reminds me of when I have helped out on school trips, and the teacher has stressed out about organising this fun and educational trip for the kids, but when we get back to class and they are asked "what was your favourite bit?"

50% say "lunch".
The other 50% say "the coach".
Poor teacher looks ready to cry

#makingfuckingschooltripmemories

Those stairs look like a death trap.

Suppose you'd fecking remember slipping down those buggers...

I think I have really non wanky friends and family because I only know one person who ever hashtags 'making memories'. Everyone else posts the odd cute /funny holiday snap and nothing much else.

What is famalam

Went to France for 10 days: climbed hills, went round castles, visited an amazing cave, swam in two rivers with the dog, endless ice creams, spent €10 on various hotwheels cars at flea markets. What's 6yo's favourite memory?

"When Daddy threw that apple out of the car window"

• apple core, small winding country lane, v slow, no one behind us...etc.

I said no to churros yesterday, ds cried for about 40 minutes #makingmemories

DS finally got to sleep at 4am on Christmas eve #lovemykids

DS said he'd rather go swimming with Daddy than me #feelingblessed

Memories tend to be associated with strong emotions.
So, if you want your child to remember that visit to a heritage site, maybe tell them in the middle of the visit that they're not really your child, but were adopted.
Or make them trip up and break a leg.

Clean your house. Slattern. Unless salmonella poisoning and cholera count as memories.

I can’t remember where the bleach is ... 😁