To have no time for 'nonsense' anymore

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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?

I must agree with the breastfeeding. I too bf quite long term and never encountered any hostility.

I remember once seeing a woman at a National Trust property get out both pendulous boobs and lay them on the table and the baby lay on the table. Euuugggh. And then - and this was the worst - there was that smug beatific look around. Made me feel quite ill - the smug expression more than the floppy boobs on the table.

Also the very silly "bf mafia". Anyone remember that awful woman who was not allowed to take her baby into a hotel spa for a hen day (breastfeeding or not, no children were allowed) and she got up a campaign on MN and people were getting very excited about going to have a "feed in" at the hotel. What entitled prats.

Children being allowed to take over wherever they go - tearing around libraries making a right din, screaming and shouting in restaurants, scooting around the supermarket, because they've 'as much right to be there as anyone else'. Yes, they do, but I would also object to adults doing those things.

I must agree with the breastfeeding. I too bf quite long term and never encountered any hostility.

I remember once seeing a woman at a National Trust property get out both pendulous boobs and lay them on the table and the baby lay on the table. Euuugggh. And then - and this was the worst - there was that smug beatific look around. Made me feel quite ill - the smug expression more than the floppy boobs on the table.

Yes, yes and thrice yes!

It's the holier than thou smugness of it all. Look at me, I am a breast feeding mother sitting opposite you in this restaurant with my tits on the table and I just dare you to challenge me. They sit there with fingers crossed hoping someone will take the bait.

How is it that for generations and generations, women have breast fed their babies quietly, discreetly and without fuss? You did, I did and I'm sure countless others have too.

Internet shops called "Sprocket & Dangle" or "Lyla and Me" which sell perfectly ordinary enamel cups and strange wonky shelves made out of chicken wire for vast sums of money

Internet thumbnails describing a piece of clothing as "lava" or "shadow" so you can't work out whether the dress you want to buy is brown or black or grey

Internet shops selling "artisanal" goods that project an iritatingly perfect lifestyle in a clapboard cottage with a rose-filled garden - including an updated section on their cutesy Jack Russell terrier called Arthur - when we all know the products they sell are maunfactured in a factory in an industrial area of Luton or for zero hour wages in Romania.

People that buy a beautiful house and then proceed to tear out everything that made it beautiful to 'do it up'.

People needing to eat CONSTANTLY
Pretty much any TV show with the word Celebrity in the title
Everyone has some sort of disorder. I'm not bashing those who genuinely have diagnosed depression/ anxiety etc but people seem to have forgotten that just because you aren't happy all the fucking time, that doesn't mean there's something wrong with you.

People who do crowd funding when they are working and its something they should have got insurance for like a bike that's been stolen or for vets bills.

Its just blatant scrounging.

People who talk like twats.

"Riiiiight."
"That's all fine"
"Just wanted to touch base with you"
"Did you reach out to XYZ?"
"moving forward"

People who pull out in front of me causing me to brake and then insist on driving at a snail's pace. You wanted to get ahead, so step on it you fucking twats!

Having to have 'goals' and 'objectives' as part of your work role profile.

My 'goal' is to earn a living, my 'objective' is to get to Friday without dying of boredom.

In fact any of that bloody office lingo:

Blue sky thinking
Thinking outside the box
Good for your personal development (usually involves taking on extra work)

And organisations that have wellness rooms and free bowls of fruit and other gimmicks while depriving staff of their basic employment rights.

People who have an issue of some sort and speak to me about it, i then offer advice in order to fix that issue but they wont do it as its too much effort.

Girls who go to the gym with a full face of contoured make up and perfect hair and then casually stroll on a treadmill whilst on their phones or take endless selfies in front of the mirrors. If you dont finish a sweaty mess why are you even there.

Duck face selfies with those stupid filters if you're older than 13.

Parents who expect everyone else to watch their children.

Ignorance & small mindedness in general.

DONALD TRUMP

whydontyou I think the poster was talking about people who self diagnose with anxiety etc and use it as an excuse to avoid things. Several posters on here have said that's unfair and undermining for people like you who genuinely have those conditions.

Shitty fucking reality shows eg Geordie Shore, Love Island, Celebrity Big Brother: they're thinly disguised voyeurism because all we're waiting for them to shag each other. It's disgusting.

People who don’t enjoy things as they’re happening, because they’re too busy filming it. It drove me nuts last year when we were away in some really incredible places, the sort of places you want to absorb everything that’s going on, and yet every amazing thing was surrounded by arms holding up fucking screens. Can’t enjoy the simple and incredible pleasures of a sunset, a concert, or a theatre performance without idiotic people clamouring for an angle, whilst they miss the entire bloody thing.

That said, the fact that it winds me up so much, ends up driving my DH equally mad! I’m then not ‘in the moment’ because I’m muttering about what the idiots with their phones out are doing. Ahhh, it’s a vicious cycle.

Oh and yes, Eat Well For Less should be renamed - ‘Line up of stupid people that don’t understand that it doesn’t cost £30 to make a lasagne”

As said in yesterday's Times... people who virtue signal about not using plastic straws but still fly to their 5 holidays each year!

Beards. We had peak beard ages ago. Yes, we know you reckon you're "alternative" but take a look at all the other identical, horrible, rectangular beards.

Social Me-me-meeeeeeeeeeedia

Weather presenters' clothes. Sack everyone in all the wardrobe departments!

Celebs eating disgusting things like maggots, live cockroaches etc. because the staged show requires you to enter the pretend competition on a set with a few "jungle" plants and you might "win".

Mindless cartoons (yes, I know our own parents said the same, but they have got so much worse).

Wandering around

Yes to most of these.
And (if it hasn't been done) grown women who try to manage their preteen child's friendships in a strange intrusive manner. The child would have more friends if you weren't such an interfering horror.

The whys and wherefores of Brexit.

(Not current day Brexit issues, views, parliamentary news - i mean the endless rehashing of why people voted as they did in 2016)

People obsessing over how many steps they've walked.

"Do you know, we've walked 4000 steps today on our day out in London?"

I think yes, I do know I've walked a lot because my legs have been moving, my shins hurt and my feet ache. I don't need a gadget attached to my body to tell me what my own body is telling me. What exactly are you going to do with that information? Oh of course, put it on facebook. Aaaahhhh............

These kinds of threads start off amusing but often get nasty and unfunny.

Lists are boring. Just say a couple of things, don't ramble on.

wanderingaround, that made me laugh! I might use it in my next review!

Agree with every single thing on this thread. Amongst many many many other things, I bloody hate how every other person is now a celebrity and every other programme on TV is about food in some way.

I'd love to go and live somewhere where I could create my own little world exactly how I like it with a rigorous selection process for who else can live in it with me.

Fake food. IF you want to eat bacon, eat bacon - not
facon created from an unholy marriage of a vegetable and various unpronounceable additives

Graduation ceremonies for children leaving pre-school or nursery
School proms especially at the end of Primary school
People that post on Facebook wanting to know shop opening hours or what’s on at the cinema. Just google it for god’s sake.