To have no time for 'nonsense' anymore

[scoobydoobydoooooh]

People expecting me to travel thousands of miles to attend their destination wedding.

People putting their name on waiting lists for designer handbags that cost thousands of pounds.

Pamper parties for 9 year olds.

Any other grumpy old ladies like to list the modern day nonsense they can live without?

"Unmumsnetty hugs"

Fuck off. You're either expressing support to someone, or you're not. No need to make a statement about whether or not MN thinks it's 'cool' to send hugs.

And by the way who is this Gemma Collins person? I pity Matt Evers when he has to do lifts with her!

People who will rudely turn away from a conversation and start to ignore you because their precious fucking little cherub hiccuped or some such minor irrelevance. My kids are taught not to interrupt conversations unless it's urgent.
On that note, entitled kids because their parents think they should be their best friend and give into every whim and not discipline properly. "Oh darling you know you shouldn't stab Johnny in the eye with a fork so why don't you have a cuddle for five minutes and think it over"
I am often told my kids are so polite and behaved with incredulous attitude as if I have some magic parenting secret.
No you assholes, I just make the effort to actually discipline them and point out when they have been rude or ungrateful. I don't ignore them running riot in public, I'm on it. And no I'm not here to be their best friend. They go to school to make friends. I'm here to love them yes but ultimately I want to raise decent human beings.
People who think their dogs own the world. Dogs are precious, intelligent and important I get it. But they are not more important than public health and safety. Stop leaving their manky shit everywhere and letting them run into my legs when I'm running. Number of times I've deliberately moved right over to give the dog a wide birth and the owner just gawps at me and let's the dog still run over and between my legs to try and sniff my crotch or some such fucking nonsense.
Cafes that insist on serving kids drinks in massive glasses filled to the brim. I asked for a small kid's drink, she's three. There's enough juice in there to drown her you dickhead and if she spills it, it's your own fault as it was so full to the brim you might as well have brought a fucking fountain to the table.
And breath...

Trowelled on make-up, slug eyebrows and fake talons in multi-coloured designs. Blue and green hair that has faded and looks dirty and ratty, dark roots, and highly bleached hair, especially with orange faces. Such a waste of 'stuff' and in many cases looks dirty.

The expectation that everything in life should come quickly and easily, forgetting that most things take time, perseverance and energy to build and maintain. Byproduct of throwaway culture...

people who say they have depression and/or anxiety and milk it - some of us actually have it and its awful

As someone who suddenly got ill with anxiety about six months ago (having been completely fine previously) I totally agree with this!

We aren't talking being anxious or worried about normal things, like a presentation or meeting, or worried about money or whatever. We are talking, legs turning to jelly, shit yourself, heart pounding, gut churning, limb tingling, waves of dizziness, terrifying anxiety that comes at you out of nowhere and for no obvious reason, so you are convinced you are going to die on the spot.

Lost shitloads of weight, bag of nerves jumping out of my skin if someone so much as dropped a pin, couldn't sleep, couldn't go out, could barely function.

Looking back I can see what caused it - not one thing but a culmination and combination of things - and have changed a lot of things in my life as a result and am well on the road to recovery.

I have the greatest sympathy with anyone who has suffered / is going through the suffering of real anxiety because it is a living hell.

Fake eyebrows. They give me rage.

Slug like eyebrows, orange foundation and trout pouts. You look STUPID.

Snap chat filters. You look like a twat.

Snowflake generation and parents encouraging this. A 24 year old I know gets driven to the station daily. 'Well, it's dark' FFS. Another one I know had never taken the train on his own (24!!), never done food shopping, never loved anywhere but with Mummy and Daddy.

Can we start the "Nonsense" political party? Perhaps there are very many of us out there, all secretly fuming, and we can overpower the visible social media (and all other media) idiots.

People who do things purely for social media, rather than because they want to.

I've heard people order things, buy things, wear things and go to places because 'it will look good on insta or FB.' Tragic...

Exercise boasters are my current pet hate. Probably because due to illness / disability, I can’t exercise. But when did people just start pure boasting about it and sharing a picture of their stats for every run. You wouldn’t do that if you had to print a hard copy and take it down the pub. So why do it on social media.

An exercise boast is an immediate 30 day snooze for me!

Can we start the "Nonsense" political party?

I thought we'd already got plenty ... ?

People who stay in the outside lane on motorways, when it's clearly signposted that traffic is being merged, and then cut in ahead of you, because they are VIP BMW drivers. I drive straddling two lanes and ignore the hooting, flashing and rolling eyes but I like lorry drivers to do it for me because I'm really a wuss.

Manufactured pop like The Voice, The X Factor etc.

A bottom pinch 30 years ago is surely not such a traumatic experience that you have been reliving it every hour of every day since?

It is if there is money involved! What about female bum pinchers, it happened frequently, maybe men have more backbone.

Protein balls, protein shakes, protein this and that. Nonsense. Just eat protein.

Green / blue / purple etc hair - sorry but it doesn't make you "alternative" and it mostly looks crap (I realise that this will not go down well)

Eyebrows in their current fashionable form. I don't have time or inclination to add eyebrows to my list of things to do

People who buy from breeders rather than adopt rescues.

Dcs being given so much autonomy and choice that they have little respect for adults. They dont appreciate what they are given and expect to have everything that their friends have. Teachers have very little authority so education system rubbish. So called books on modern parenting systems dont help either. Dcs grow up quicker tban they used to. Worlds gone mad. Its sad.

People that don’t vaccinate their children and/or have relevant travel vaccines or medication.

Just bore off to your own planet.

People who buy products that contain palm oil. It is in a lot but it's not THAT hard to avoid.

Exactly Jitters. I am not by nature an anxious person and this hit me like a bolt from the blue - sweating/shaking/puking in the work toilet before meetings - fucking awful. Lost over 2 stone due to being unable to eat. Medication took an age to kick in. Husband fucked off as shagging someone else was better than dealing with a sick wife. Hey Ho! We will get there!

Getting fat. It can piss off. It's well hard to lose weight.

^ This too [angry[

And on the subject of selfies, people taking pictures of beautiful scenery and (a) insisting on being in said picture and (b) doing a dramatic pose.

Oh photos, I could be here all day.

People taking ages to takes a photo on their phone, it's not a Hasselblad and you're not Ansel Adams, just press it.

People expecting anyone within the hemisphere of their snap to move, usually from the Far East.
People insisting that they want a picture of everyone in their group, trip, No, I don't do photos, in thirty years of worldwide trips I'm on none of them. They then tell you you're being 'selfish' and they'll photoshop you in later, did that guy every find out how he accidently wiped his entire memory card??

OMG all of these - with bells on! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who finds the self-centred, vacuous, selfie 'culture' utterly rage inducing.

YY to huge, tattooed on eyebrows, fake lashes and trout pouts. To people who boast about anything and everything, social media in general, selfie sticks, virtue signallers of all kinds, fucking Instagram, moronic photo filters, hashtags on everything (#making memories), throwaway fashion, adults who need their parents to do everything for them, parents who need to feed needed and have raised dependent adults who can't do a thing for themselves, entitled, selfish people everywhere who shove and push to the front, take up loads of space, block everything their huge great buggies (usually empty of their DC and full of coats and bags), people who put bags on seats of full trains, people who won't give their seat up for those less able ... I could on and on ...

So many things...
Snap chat filters and 'beauty face' she doesn't look 'fabliss' , she doesn't look like that at all.
Noisy people, noise everywhere. Just be quiet.
If you make a noise in the quiet carriage I will end you.
The perpetually offended and 'woke'
Vaguebooking and attention seeking on social media -U OK hun?
Passive aggressive shite
Epidemic rudeness and cheeky fuckery.
Your low carb/keto/paleo diet, I don't give a shit let me eat my carbs in peace.
Women who say 'as a mum' as if having a child makes your opinion more important. I imagine that most childless people don't approve of child abuse either.
Conversely some of my childless acquaintances who act as if having a child is the end of life as we know it. Having my DS has never stopped me doing anything.
Modern obsession with holidays and travel - I like being at home thanks, it doesn't make me a freak.
Bloody fancy dress.
Adults who boast about being pissed or hungover. Grow up - it's not big or clever.
People who post memes about how they don't like 'adulting'. Adulting my arse, grow up and get on with it, you aren't a child you entitled, lazy baggage.

I need to stop now but I feel so much better