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.

I forget to take any photos of my dc I just get on with being with them. I recently forgot to take a single shot of ds on his birthday.

delete facebook- does wonders for never seeing the 'memory makers' again! lol

I love making memories, non-expensive ones, running around park with kids, making daisy chains, making mud pies, playing charades(sp?).
all free and all memories.
And I never post about it because I don't have a FB lol.
this is one of the reasons that I deleted it too, this and because I couldn't give a crap about what whatserface from 2 doors up is having for her tea.

your welcome :-)

OP I love your post!

Just scrolling through my FB this morning there were "making memories" posts from a few friends.

And I do clearly recall the use "the famalam" in recent weeks.

There is one woman I see on FB who, when she posts anything, it is always about 'feeling blessed'. She then has lots of sycophantic friends calling her beautiful in either french or Italian and she then answers in said language even though English is her native tongue and that of most of her friends.

I have someone on FB with the surname Cameron, and they do #camfamalan things....

@DiplomaticDecorum
Well said.

Start living life as an educated grown up. On that note, can we add to this for people to stop referring to babies as pink and blue ones? It’s a boy or girl for crying out loud. Saying pink or blue sounds twee and quite frankly fucking stupid.

Also why can't anyone cope?!?!
All I see is "can't cope"

I have found my people.

I have a handful of good friends, I can count them all on both hands. Since we have our own WhatsApp group to share any photos/inane daily thoughts/pointless rants, Facebook just became a way of showing things off to people you barely know. What was the real point of it any more? I had a 150 vague acquaintances on FB that I never saw from one year to the next. Only a few were actual real life friends.

It’s so true that people no longer do anything without thinking of the best angle to put on social media that’s open to all hell of a lot of people who don’t give a shit. It’s like a form of life validation. Oh look, you got so many “likes” for your photo! You are now a beautiful, successful and popular person! Before social media this sort of thing died out by the time you left school.

It really is getting to be like the Black Mirror episode “nosedive”. If anyone has seen it, I’m the lady trucker

I am now pissing myself laughing at all the "memories" being shared on this thread.

My 4 year old is asking me what is going on & giving me strange looks

Quick turquoise make a memory

#MNhilarious #kidsocute #soblessed #solucky #internetrocks

@Whatthefoxgoingon

I have found my people

I agree with that totally!

It's always the
#blessed
#makingmemories
#lovemywife

When I get tempted to reply
#letsnotmentionthe2yearaffairyouhad

Can we add and the painful 'unboxing video' on someone's birthday. It's frigging opening stuff and since when was that a spectator sport?

In this house we let it go because hakuna matata and the bare necessities will always be our guide to infinity and beyond all it takes is faith trust and a little pixie dust while we just keep swimming we whistle while we work we believe in happily ever after and we know that life is always better under the sea because in this house we do disney.

(Lack of punctuation, capitals and any grammar whatsoever totally deliberate)

#makingmemories huns, #makingmemories

I couldn't be friends with anyone who thought that that Disney string of words was in any way a good thing. If I saw that on a wall in a house I'd run.

ollivanders reply is gold!!!

unboxing

WTAF??

That's a new one on me. What happens if they don't like the gift? How many edits is the video taker allowed. Do they get acting lessons first?
Head exploding here...

Yep I agree op it's all fake.

#letsnotforgettheaffairyouhad

Can we add and the painful 'unboxing video'

On the nerdier side of the world, unboxing videos are a thing for computers, electronics more widely and (because many are American) guns. They are intermittently useful: "Does that include the cables I need?" "Does it come with a decent case?" "Is it well enough packed to ship without getting more packaging?" That sort of stuff.

I didn't realise they were a thing for #makingmemories hunning.

I have to ask what is this # thing on FB? Nobody I know does it. Isn't it a twitter thing?

#confused

I only know one #makingmemories person and he's all over that kind of shit. He's got a beard, and DON'T WE ALL KNOW IT because everything is #BeardedDads #BeardedHero #BeardLove

It's bloody grating, I'll grant you.

The thing is, once your children become grown ups, the things they remember are not the lovely things you thought they would.

A friend of mine took her DD aged about 7 on a three week long-haul holiday. Beautiful beaches, mountains, lots of culture, lots of amazing experiences. In her news book back at school she wrote "We went on an airplane and Mummy washed our pants in the bath."

My best memory of camping at the Grand canyon when a child, was the candy corn in the gift shops. My parents were gutted that I was bored of yet another hole in the ground (various canyons).

Kids aren’t arsed with impressive stuff and far off places, they just want sweets, ice cream and a swimming pool/park. That is why we holiday in the uk, mainly staying at home and going to the pool, park and local ice cream shop. Cheap and cheerful! And I post f-all photos on FB because FB don’t need your permission to use your photos!