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To have no time for 'nonsense' anymore

981 replies

scoobydoobydoooooh · 15/01/2019 10:08

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?

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Breakawaygirl · 17/01/2019 08:12

Totally agree with overabundance of porn (which is basically sex stunt people) and how it has warped what people like/expect out of sex. I think it's why so many are chronically unhappy with their sex life's and also why many young women have started looking like porn stars - the look seeped into mainstream culture slowly and now is everywhere.

The general over-tech of everything. I like that we can use phones and the internet, but it feels like we've stripped away the ability to call, talk in person, reach out, truly connect with someone, be patient, wait. I feel like it is changing human society, in some ways for the better but in many others for the worse. Even tech workers in silicone valley have admitted they worry about what they've created...

Lilyhatesjaz · 17/01/2019 08:15

The use of the word lush to describe anything other than vegetation.
People who put dog poo in bags and leave it hanging up or on the path. If you're not going to take it with you then don't bag it so at least it can decompose.
A lot of these others have just passed me by, I don't care about how other people look. And I am fortunate to not often have to use public transport.

hel123 · 17/01/2019 08:24

oh so so much....

I love this thread.

People who call their pets 'fur babies'. I have dogs but I call them dogs, as that is what they are. The expression makes me want to do a little sick in my hand.

Schools being stuck in the 1950s, thinking that one parent doesn't work, and therefore schedule activities for parents to watch during the working day. Do I want to come and watch my son read one line in a play? Yes of course I do, but do I really want to take half a day of my much needed holidays for it. Nope. As I need to take them to cover the kids holidays thank you.

My husband watching me stack the dishwasher and giving me a running commentary on how to do it properly.

The word 'hun', on social media. 'You ok, hun?', 'Thanks hun'..... ARGH!

People who leave cryptic posts on facebook in the hope of getting hun based messages. Tell us. Or don't. To be honest I don't care either way.

People who are habitually late. Why do you think your time is more important than mine?

Eyebrows. Oh sweet lord, why do all teenagers / young girls all want to look identical, and frankly weird?

Mums that want their kids to grow up to adulthood too quickly. Let them be kids for as long as possible...

People at work who talk a good talk but actually 'do' pretty much nothing. But seem to do well out of it.

Oh there is so much, I could write all day. Must go and sip tea in a dark room before I carry on....

Openup41 · 17/01/2019 08:40

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dollyandshirl · 17/01/2019 08:52

great thread, agree with most of these.

BOF 💐

People who use the phrase ‘like a boss’ all the time. You’re just doing stuff. If you were “working out like a boss” you’d be paying someone else to do it, you loon.

Phoney people. Gurning that huge artificial grin, gushing fake pleasantries and putting on a big act. People aren’t stupid, you’re fooling nobody.

Selfish fuckers who use their phones while driving, or in the cinema.

Bolshy, rude people who only see things their way and lack the self awareness to notice how much eye-rolling goes on around them, but march about booming about how rude etc other people are. Chip on shoulder much?

Those ridiculous eyebrows. Insta ready? fuck off. Ooh you’ve had your eyelashes done for the occasion? nope, can’t tell.

Know-it-alls who behave as though they know better than qualified professionals do. We’ll go with the specialist diagnosis and advice thanks all the same.

Slebs a la TOWIE, Geordie thingy, those Chelsea rahs, Big Brother nomarks. Get in the fucking sea.

And ‘elevenareef’ oh hell yes. Had a good few years of this bollocks from the cliquey playground mum at DS school. All the sly backhanded digs, and everything we did was treated like a competition. Its true that some women really do retain the same levels of high-school clique, popularity crowding and ostracism behaviour for when their children are at primary school. Regret not telling that dickhead to go sit on a cactus and spin, missus.

Passive aggressive Facebook posts. Piss off.

Nobody cares if your car has cameras at the back or an auto boot or whatever, much less want to see a demonstration you boastful insecure nincompoop. Its an entry level model bought on drip and with extra money from a mortgage anyway, so get back in your box.

that felt good.

MITCHELL33 · 17/01/2019 09:04

Banners by the road for Birthdays I seen one there so long feel like getting a Sharpie and changing the eight to a nine.

pintsizeprincess · 17/01/2019 09:07

This thread is ace.

"Lisa" on facebook who insists on posting about every sodding little thing she does all day like a running commentary.." just taking the bins out"!? Well just take the fecking bins out we don't need to hear about it." off to take rover for a walk" complete with pouty selfie of her and the dog looking like she'd wish she would hurry the feck up so it can do a poo. NOONE CARES.

Yes those huge montrosity of eyebrows that look like they are about to take flight. Evil looking things.

People who say basically every other word.

People who put cryptic messages on facebook so the usual suspects can fall all over themselves to put " you ok hun?" Just so they can write " pm me" when it was probably about something mundane in the first place and you know you shouldn't care but you just wish sharon had posted all about it in the first place so you can have a bloody good nosy. Selfish cow.

RockYourSocksOff · 17/01/2019 09:10

People who suddenly become an expert on Crohn’s!

I get “Friend of a friends Aunt Fanny uses Aloe Vera and has been cured!” - Shove it up your arse!

TK421 · 17/01/2019 09:18

@TheNoodlesIncident, your username reminded me I must re-read Calvin and Hobbes. Smile

TheSandman · 17/01/2019 09:29

Facebook.

That's it.

The world would be about 720 thousand times better if Facebook had never existed.

BorisBogtrotter · 17/01/2019 09:37

The idea that all opinions are equal, like climate change deniers/flat earthers get the same amount of air time and respect that experts do.

People who drive 4x4s in cities.

No mark celebrities like the made in Chelsea crowd, famous because of their family fortune, its stuff like this that brought on the French revolution the quicker Jamie et al face the guillotine the better.

People who congratulate themselves on their brilliance at buying a house in the right area at the right time, and think that this is the same as working hard to earn your money.

People who ignore all the privileges they had and put their success down to their own efforts, whilst making out that anyone unsuccesful is just not trying hard enough. Alright Doris, you went to private school, and were extensively tutored to get into your red brick Uni where you got a 2.2. Other people don't have the same advantages as you.

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 17/01/2019 09:38

People who judge me for having dogs and treating them as a much loved member of my family.

Pigwig10 · 17/01/2019 09:47

Hashtags after every post on ANYTHING, I mean I’ve counted 19 # on some. Makes me roll my eyes even when I’m on my own!! Duck lipped selfies - fucking smile for gods sake!
Kids photos when they’re trying to look all ‘Gangsta!’ or little girls making themselves look like bloody 25 year olds! Pfft 😒

JoroL · 17/01/2019 10:13

People who drive their children to school from 3 streets away

People who talk on the phone while being served at the shops

People who park in disabled bays without a blue badge

People who park on the path so you can’t get a pushchair/wheelchair past

People who talk to/click/whistle at my OH assistance dog as they walk past in shops etc

Breakawaygirl · 17/01/2019 10:24

yes, yes, yes to the idea that people who don't have as much are just lazy. If you start off on the last lily pad, you can work awfully hard but still not end up in first place. I know some people do and have but hard work is not always indicative of success, there's a major element of luck, timing, coincidence and connections as well as working hard. Some of the wealthiest people I know really don't work very hard at all.

Bloomcounty · 17/01/2019 10:29

Those people who are so earnest in their social justice warriorship, proving how woke they are to the world and so focused on being politically correct that they've entirely lost their sense of humour or delight in the world.

Organised religion. The wealth it hoards whilst it's own faithful starve in front of it. The lengths it will go to, to control our lives if it can. The blind eye it all turned, and is still turning, to abuse on a massive, worldwide, scale. The cruelty it seems to revel in. The way it rejects some and protects others, and how it always seems to be the wrong bloody way round. Protect a kiddy-fiddling priest and condemn an unmarried young mother. Bastards.

Breakawaygirl · 17/01/2019 10:32

Where men get the mistaken idea from that they age so much better than women.

I see so many balding, wrinkled, fat men who think they are still hot, fit and young (must be the male ego) who criticise women who look far better than they do for not looking 21.

I think the majority of women actually age very nicely, they still groom themselves, keep their hygiene up etc. Lot's of men do not. I can only blame Hollywood for the idea that men age like wine and women like milk - never found this to be true in anyone I've ever seen!

Notpaintingthetownred · 17/01/2019 10:42

Being expected to do performance reviews and goal setting with a Manager young enough to be my son. Fuck off with that.

Sitting beside someone at the cinema who resembles a pig with its snout in a trough, snuffling and chomping and slurping and swallowing and digging around for the very last malteser in that nice big rustly bag. "I mean, all I've had to eat in the last twenty minutes is a big tray of nachos and a mahoosive carton of popcorn so I might starve if I miss that last sweet. Also I haven't annoyed people around me enough and this is my last chance. No, wait, I can also suck every last drop from those ice cubes melting at the bottom of my coke. Happy days!"

"I'm just reaching out to see if Millie could have Sam over for a playdate". No, piss off and take Mille with you - who probably isn't allowed stand up for elderly people on the bus because she's only 10 and three quarters and might lose her balance or her self esteem or something.

Birdsgottafly · 17/01/2019 10:43

Breakawaygirl, it's male ego. My DDs, in their 20's are regularly 'given the eye', come on to, by unremarkable men in their 50's. Sometimes with their Partners/Wives.

As the Meme says, 25 goes into 55, much better than 55 goes into 25 Wink

FleetsumNJetsum · 17/01/2019 10:55

When drivers seemingly kindly let other drivers do illegal things, like turn out in front of them when they don't have right of way but must have been waiting. It might be nice but there are road rules for a reason and everyone then gets confused! Just follow the damn rules

This is such a pain in the arse. And if you don't go for the 'kindly driver' you are seen as a prick, but if you do and there is an accident IT IS YOUR FAULT.

ginghamstarfish · 17/01/2019 10:59

I agree with everything already listed! The internet, while it has many benefits, also means that everyone thinks they're a 'celebrity', or desperately follows the latest trend no matter what it is, the millions of young women who are so covered in identical slap they look like amateur drag queens (there was one was on Coronation Street last week). I laughed out loud when I saw that particular young woman, so appalling was her makeup, but then I wonder if there are MH/self esteem problems in those who so slavishly - and poorly - copy stuff they've seen online.

Spudsandspanners · 17/01/2019 11:15

Ah I'm not alone it seems...

'must have' items. Please tell me why I 'must have' a certain style of top. My life doesn't fucking depend on it.

Not being on social media because it is a crock of hysterical vain bullshit, yet it still managing to infiltrate my life somehow.

Stealth bragging and competitive parenting.

Boris Johnson and JRM and other such self interested prats that are out of touch with reality. Please send them to America where they will love their foppish and pompous Britishness.

Men on jet-skis ruining a nice trip to the beach by riding to close to the beach and having the constant hum of an engine while they do it. Chodes.

The fact that getting people to buy shit they don't need all the time and trashing our planet in the process is pretty much what drives humanity.

JoroL · 17/01/2019 11:15

@gogogoforit
Blue badge holders are entitled to use a parent and child space if no disabled spaces are available.

I need the extra space to get me out and the extra space at the other side to get the wheelchair to the car door for my OH

Asgoodasarest · 17/01/2019 11:21

At 6 1/2 stone having been unwell for weeks I ended up with an IBS diagnosis. I certainly hadn’t eaten a shedload.

ralfeesmum · 17/01/2019 11:21

Reading yet another tabloid story about a 60/70 year old widow/spinster falling for a much, much younger lothario on holiday and being (surprise!) parted from her life savings by one sob story after another and then declaring "but I really believed him when he said he loved me...."

Gawd!

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