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?

People who look down on non-gym users. Even as a tiny woman I still get the "oh you should join this gym" and get judgemental and offended faces when I say I'd rather not.

I'm happy with walking thanks.

People who move to new build housing estates in a village then start bleating about the next proposed housing estate "ruining the village".

Just to say lots of these annoy me too, nearly all of the stuff mentioned really pisses me off.

One thought I have had is that in 20 years time all the selfie pouters will have the very distinctive bar code upper lip wrinkles that a 40 a day smoker has

Parents allowing children to use social media when they do not meet the age guidelines.

Parents allowing children to play violent games such as COD when they are rated 18.

Adults posting inane aspects of their lives on social media such as a pic of their dinner.

Couples sending each other soppy messages via their status messages “you are my rock...”

Stupid messages on social media attempting to goad you into sharing by saying “I bet none of my friends will share this”.

Criptic social media updates designed to gather sympathy which typically involves a “u ok hun?” response.

People smoking in public.

People gathering around a shop entrance to have a big chat thus blocking entry/exit to said shop.

Drivers who tailgate me when I’m driving at the speed limit.

Cyclists who put their lives at risk by cycling on a dangerously narrow and bendy village road near my house when there is a perfectly good off road cycle path that runs parallel to said road. There is literally nothing on the road they could be stopping for so no excuse not to use the cycle path (which I myself make use of!).

Cycling clubs who frequently block traffic along the village by cycling in packs of 30/40 making it impossible to overtake them. If I wanted to travel to my destination at that speed I’d get my bike out (and use a cycle path!).

Anyone trying to engage me in small talk because they have to (eg checkout staff). It’s so awkward having a 17 year old student I don’t know enquire about my weekend plans!

Postal workers posting “while you were out” postcards through my door when I’m home.

The sheer predictability of most films these days - it’s like Hollywood is trundling out the same script template for years and years.

People who send their very sick kids in to school then refuse to pick them up until after lunch when called.

No less than 7 other kids now have pneumonia (the kid had been diagnosed and still sent to school ).

Stores trotting out Christmas decorations in September

People who believe essential oils can cure ailments

Posters coming to MN to ask if they should take their child to emergency ( my 2 yr old fell head first onto cement stairs and now is vomiting. Can I leave this to morning or should I take him in?)
What does your common sense tell you? Should you really be asking internet strangers to decide about your child’s health?

My SIL's boringly predictable opinions on any subject, even though I don't necessarily disagree with her.

Croaky female voices on advertising. You don't sound sexy or sultry, dear. You sound like you need some Strepsils.

Creeping Americanisms. Why can't we keep our quirky British idioms?

Grown men who think shouting insults at passers by is an acceptable way to behave.

Grown women who leave unwrapped used sanitary towels on the floor in the ladies, when there's a perfectly good bin they could use (ditto the ones who leave pee all over the seat).

The assumption that anyone who can't cook is lazy. No, some of us are bad at it, just like you can be bad at maths/spelling/sports/computers you name it.

People who can't go to things because 'there's no one to look after their kid' when they have an NT 15 year old who could easily be left unattended for an hour.

Pressure on women to cover up. No, wearing a knee length skirt and a t-shirt on a warm day in July does not make me a 'slut', thank you.

People with no sense of personal space walking so close behind me they're almost touching, in an attempt to make me walk at the same speed and in the same direction as them. I always make sure I stop suddenly and for no reason just to annoy those people.

The assumption that anyone who doesn't drink must be religious or have health issues.

Colleagues who think being told to put their phone away and do some work is a serious breach of their human rights.

Shop assistants who say 'darling' or 'sweetheart' five times per sentence but can't manage 'please' or 'thank you'.

Offspring of company owners/directors who were handed a job to them on a plate by their parent the minute they left education and have been there ever since, saying things like 'why don't all these dole dossers just get jobs?'. Well, you know, because other people actually have to look for them.

The assumption that everyone works days.

The assumption that all women are financially dependent on their partners, or want to be.

The idiots whose response was to whip out their phones and start filming, when that woman’s car caught fire in the lion enclosure a year or two ago. She had two children with her.

I have no words for that one.

Vaguebooking
Crowdfunding
Men expecting women to do all emotional and much of the house labour

Agree with all of these, but can I also add unicorns. Everything has to have a unicorn variant. Unicorn gin, unicorn hair....just fuck off!!! When did grown women become so giggly over stuff generally marketed at small children???
Also people who join a gym after Christmas apparently to just lounge about on the equipment taking their "new year, new me" selfies, who have all fucked off by Feb. People joining and making positive changes or doing something to benefit their health, more power to you, you're doing fab and keep it up. Selfie people....fuck off. All you do is make it impossible to park and create queues for the equipment. Fucking gymstagrammers.

The term fur babies. What happened to plain old pets?

Entitled people who think because their a mother then childless women are non entities.

Inconsiderate neighbours who SCREAM in the morning on school runs.

Weddings.

Anniversaries of friends (I do not care)

Bullies.

Baby showers (it's American, fuck off)

They're *

This is my new favourite thread ever.

Clothing for women being less practical, less warm, less waterproof, less well made and more expensive than the male equivalent.
Please, No more cutting holes in boots, jumpers jeans and dresses to make them less warm, impossible to wear with underwear, oh and skirts and shoes you can't run in. Or in some instances negotiated stairs.

Newspaper headlines that indicate some kind of crisis, but turn out to be something the reporter deliberately took out of context or overheard someone at a bus stop say.

Women being expected to look young and sexy and the whole media machine that pushes the idea that that's their main value.

Actors getting almost all the credit, and huge wages, for pretending to be a character created by someone else, written, filmed, dressed, made up by someone else, doing exactly what they've been told to do by someone else.

Products designed by people who clearly never use them.

And breathe......

People (in my house usually men) who show their disdain for doing any household chore by loudly sighing, clattering as if to say, 'if I have to suffer by doing this, you have to suffer and listen to me.' Just bloody well got on and do it like everyone else in the world has to.

Micro managers - if you don't trust a person to do their job, bloody sack them, stop hovering over their shoulder like a helicopter parent.

Men who cry watching sports, but don't get emotional about anything their wife/children/parents achieve.

@crosser62

"Those who put their fucking shopping on the till belt and don’t put a divider at the end of their shopping.. oh, going to pay for mine are you? I’ll just put mine on here next to yours Tracey, don’t look at me like I’ve done a shit in your trolley, just reach out 6 inches and pick up the god damned divider and put it on the belt... simple."

• I find if you just put your shopping on the belt and ignore the fact there isn't a divider they start to panic before it's their turn and do it! :)

Oh, the expectation that real life sex should be like prn, even the actors/actresses involved say it's basically being a sexual stunt person. Most people aren't having wild orgies, clamping their nipples and kicking men in the blls.

Sulkers...

People who call their exes psychos. Maybe you might have had one psycho ex, but if they all are, you're the common denominator I'm afraid.

People who have a checklist for their ideal partner and ignore the spontaneity of chemistry.

Treating children like adults. Smartphones, make up and Victoria's secret. Not happening in my house.

Contrived photo portraits in lavender fields. Nope.

Fucking hotdesking!

All this 'couple goals', 'friendship goals' etc blx, stop thinking about what looks good on social media and just enjoy your relationships.

Speaking of nonsense:

What is this all about?
p*rn

It's bad enough that swear words are perfectly acceptable on MN and that people still read it as the word that was intended to be.
But since when is porn a swear word?