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 virtually spontaneously combust about other people having coffee in the street (and harming nobody), while having no problem at all with people spewing filthy cigarette smoke everywhere in the street, making others stink and damaging their health (and then possibly treating the ground as their personal ashtray), just because people have been doing the latter for longer.

People who are bitter about having had to keep a stiff upper lip in their own youth resenting and criticising younger people who let any emotion show as 'snowflakes'.

Constantly being told to be 'strong' all the time in life. IMO occasionally breaking down, crying, getting angry (at the gym rather than at a person) are all normal outlets before you can go back to being calm/stoic. The idea that repression of emotion is strength, when usually it's just a recipe for a tumor down the line.

I get annoyed at so much but the most recent thing - people loading their shopping on to the conveyor belt before you’ve finished unloading yours! Why?! I’ve got a trolley full of shopping and not even unloaded half and then people come and put the divider on and start unloading theirs, leaving me to have to pile it all on top of each other like some sort of food mountain and hope when the belt moves it doesn’t send a punnet of grapes flying in to aisle 2!!

Adults that think you have to make a massive fuss about their birthdays and have a hissy fit if it doesn't happen.
Companies that encourage the above by fixing an annual leave day to your birthday.
Politicians who are so busy party point scoring that they forget to get on with the job in hand - like getting the best deal for the people of this country.
Politicians, full stop.
Parents who don't parent.
Total lack of respect for other people.
Litterbu

People who live by and impose odd constraints on themselves and others, i.e. you can't study at your age, it's too late to travel now, oh I could do that but am too old and set in my ways now to get healthy etc.

There are very FEW things in life that have a time limit. For everything else, all you need to do is be ready, willing and able.

I hate anyone telling me I cannot do something/wear something/eat something/go somewhere because of an archaic self-imposed rule that makes them feel better about the limitations they've placed on their own life.

People who tell me they can't come into my office for a meeting "that early" because they "rely on public transport".
Lots of people get to work earlier than that on public transport. Just because you aren't coming in for a job, doesn't mean you can't catch an earlier bus or train. I am, in fact, trying to help you with something and this is the most convenient time for me.

Fancy home coffee machines.

Or at least, have them, but stop making such a big deal about them.

Yes people who talk about proper coffee as if it is a secret only they are aware of

People who just arrive at your house with no prior text or phonecall.

People who arrive but bring extra people so you thought two people were coming but five turn up and you feel awkward.

People who 'walk' round the supermarket half hung over their trollies. Stand up you fuckwit - or is your back broken?
I do this and, no my back is not broken but I do have a slipped disc and sometimes it's the only way to get pain levels down a bit so that I can get the shop done.

Oh yes, 'wellness rooms' at work. What new wankery is this?

They're usually provided by the type of employers who expect their staff to work all kind of unpaid hours and be contactable 24/7 on their phones, while depriving them of any job security or pension rights. They have also usually brainwashed them into thinking that their parents generation, with their safe pensionable 9-5 jobs, overtime pay and decent work/life balances are a bunch of drones losers. It makes me very, very cross.

Also young girls going out in outfits that are skimpier than my underwear and covering their white cold looking flesh with a layer of orange gunk that they think makes them look golden and tanned. It doesn't, honestly. Just put some clothes on.

The expression 'boils my piss'😡

And the expression "bear with..."
Bear with WHAT ahhhhh

Bellends who stand at airport security putting back on their belt, shoes, scarf, watch,jewellery etc etc etc AT THE EXACT SPOT WHERE ALL THE TRAYS COME THROUGH. Move out of the way, morons.

Also the intellectually challenged who blame the BBC for whatever view point they don't like on the TV. Don't shoot the messenger, people

All social media would die if people stopped using it..just saying!
I don't see much of the #makingmemories shite as I don't use any of that stuff on a personal level (just for work).There were social networks in the early 00s that died as they were superseded by new ones.
I TOTALLY agree about the age limit thing breakaway, it's so odd how rigid the rules seem to be about just when you do bloody everything.

All social media would die if people stopped using it..just saying

I wonder how many of the people on this thread who have said they have no time for social media actually use social media?

The catastrophizing in the news. Just report the facts and stop drudging everyone up into a tizzy.

The way that people constantly talk about diversity in terms of human population but completely ignore wildlife (diversity of allowing other species to live freely is equally important and yet completely ignored as an issue.)

People who use their phones/social media at the table. If I wanted to watch someone on their phone, I wouldn't have come out to meet you (bar emergencies.)

People whose idea of fun is getting pissed every Friday. Work colleagues who think you're boring if you don't go to their dull weekly work drinks.

Hmmm, ok
The BBC for the last few years has had journalist interviewing journalist. Obviously hard up and can't afford an "expert" but surely even random man on street would be better.
The hd eyebrow trend. The whole face is just massive eyebrows!!!
All the food policing In schools, online and at work. That has got to be leading to an increase in eating disorders.
Too many young people telling me house prices are stupid high. Then when I show them the 300 houses in my area less than 100k it's dismissed as a blip. No love you just want a 3 bed detached with garden and drive on lovely street, but can't pay the price. A terrace with on street parking in need of some work won't cut it for you. But hey fuck it, you will never have a deposit any way

Oversharing everything. Is nothing sacred? i.e. posting photographs from hospital beds of them and, even worse, their relatives and divulging personal information.

Still on health, talking loudly/needlessly on telephones in hospitals when people in earshot are anxious, maybe awaiting distressing news and don't want to hear about what you're having for tea.

Hmm, just thought of another one. People posting selfies on social media of themselves in a hospital bed, stuck full of tubes etc. I mean WTAF? It's sick.

Oh god, I’m such a grumpy old cow that I’d better not...

One thing though: people who would rather look like they’re doing good than actually put in any effort to do good, especially if it means challenging their own ideas of who they’ve decided is good and who isn’t.

@pineapplecrush

Completely agree re oversharing. One of the reasons I came off of FB is because I was sick of seeing couples Valentines plans, people in hospital beds, people sweating at the gym, people's near nude photos....I mean...why can't you just do it and not share it? I understand it's social media and people share things but I still feel there should be lines of decency. I had to come off in the end to avoid the voyeurism aspect which sometimes made me feel icky. I love my friends, but don't really want to see every detail of their life's or for them to see every detail of mine.

I don't know how we got through 22 pages with nobody mentioning people who vape?!

I don't know about you lot but I have found this thread so cathartic! I'm actually normally quite positive but it's been so nice to let it all out!!!