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?

I've only managed to read 5 pages so far, but agree with nearly all of it. Also hate: great big displays of small Easter eggs appearing in the shops on Boxing Day; fake Jamaican accents; being tailgated when I'm doing the speed limit; people thinking they have to invite me to their house on Christmas day because they feel sorry for me living alone (I'd far rather spend Christmas on my own doing whatever I like)...

The TV and radio news programmes that tell us that 'later today XYZ politician is going to make a speech'... and then proceed to say what is actually in the speech then offer comments and pick it apart. FFS, let them make the bloody speech and THEN analyse it and comment. Why do they release the contents of the speech in advance? Surely we could wait till they actually give the speech? It makes me furious.

Factiak TV programmes that repeat on a loop what they are going to tell you. They could be half the length or actually achieve some depth of detail if they stopped that particular nonsense.

Another one for me is comment presented as news. Maybe I didn't notice this in the past but now it seems the norm. Just give me some factual info, with some background from experts if possible rather than your correspondent's take on things.

Factual!

Typing on MN seems a bit of a nonsense too! Autocorrected then not autocorrected.

Posting again as once unleashed the nonsense keeps coming.

Middle class socialists of Shoreditch who speak as the people and don't realise the people don't give a flying fuck.

Young non binary gender you tubers who rant and rave about their unfair straight normative oppressive education even though their teachers i.e. me KNOW they had studied extremely seminal queer texts and demanded hours of my time for their ( failed) Oxbridge interviews in their exclusive private schools and now act like 'working class' victims. And they get media and air time ( Ash Sarker that's you).

Ditto other poster who mentioned brioche bread for burgers and included in that is all the crap food gets served in.

Anything that suggests 'how to look as if you've read all these books but haven't' type things.

Facebook memories of people and their kids, we all saw it first time.

I like brioche bread for burgers. Well, for halloumi burgers anyway. I don't even come from Shoreditch!

I feel so last century...I've just had to google cis. I'm learning so much from this thread. Does this make me "down with the youth"?

Christmas. I fucking hate Christmas. I hate every single thing about Christmas and my heart only lifts around the middle of January when things go right back to normal. Yes, I appreciate I'm in the minority on this one, but I don't give a toss. I hate the whole thing. The "getting together with family and friends". Pish. The overindulgence and expense. Double pish. The enforced jollity and pressure to join in, despite saying you'd rather just have a quiet time with a book or two, a few nice long walks and a cat on my lap. I HATE being pressured by extroverts into toeing their line. It's not MY line, so you can fuck off to the other side of fuck.

I hate the rich food, that always upsets up stomach. I hate the noise. I hate the flashing lights (epileptic). I hate that people just turn up at your door expecting a great big welcome when you'd no idea they were planning to come (oh it was just an impulse, we thought you'd be lonely) when your entire plan for the night was to eat your favourite tea, snuggle on the sofa with the cat and watch a classic movie quietly. In silence. Which has now been shattered by two adults, three older kids and the oldest kid's baby, who's screaming her head off cos she isn't allowed to grab your elderly cat by the throat, the teenagers are surly and yet also high on their sugary Monster drinks and you just want to stand in the centre of the chaos and wail and wail and wail until they take the hint and FUCK OFF.

Phew.

That felt good.

You're not alone. For the past 3 years I've slowly started to hate Christmas.

I used to love it but now ....I can't be bothered with it. I like the following bing presents bit but not fussed on getting any myself.

Giving presents bit*

I also hate autocorrect.

I don't hate christmas itself but I hate the fact that it starts in the summer holidays and elf on the bastard shelf and fucking christmas eve boxes and inventing traditions and secret santas where shite is being circulated for eternity and destroying the planet

Oh god, secret Santa and the works do.

Never again.

O yes Christmas, how could I forget this horror? Getting emails from well meaning but patronising friends to spend the day with their forced fun family because I have 'no one to be special with". Excuse while I ram the entire collection of Western and Eastern civilisation's literature up your smug arse as I have books to spend Christmas day and Netflix and I WANT to hide on my own for a whole two weeks and laugh and chuckle at the whole institutionalised, back-breaking, one party state solution to getting through winter.Thank you.

Endless endless blogs and articles about parenting. Just shit up and get on with it!!

Yes to Christmas. Load of old arse.

There I was, thinking that I was the only Christmas hater in the country.

*My two pennyworth - modern publishing. Repetitive, slow, badly written, plot driven, crap characterization, rushed often unsatisfactory endings... Don't they have editors any more?

You can't trust the so called reviews and endorsements on the cover : ' Extraordinary!" says a writer you actually admire. Fuck off! Very likely the full sentence was 'Extraordinary this dross was actually published'. *

And the puffs from the author's old colleagues -"Book of the year" says The Times... then on the inside bio page you read the author was a journalist on The Times for 10 years...

"new and improved". No, you've messed around with it for the sake of a slightly bigger profit margin and made the product worse.

Faddy diets. FFS, all bollocks.

Perfume ads....what the hell?

Sanitary towel/ tampon adverts....oh for Christ's sake.

All the self righteous fuss over the Gillette advert, I haven't seen it and don't want to, I know how to raise decent boys without some arsey company trying to sell me stuff and telling me how it's done

Enjoying this thread. My grumpy rant for today will be all about Brexit:

• David Cameron for starting the damn thing and then fucking off
• Boris and Gove for being devoid of a soul and treating the whole thing like a public school debating game
• Theresa May for being crap
• Other politicians for sniping at Theresa May for being crap whilst not having any better ideas
• Corbyn for failing to shit or get off the pot
• People who say "just leave" or "just get on with it" without any suggestion for how to do this without breaking everything
• Remain voters hoping to change leave voters' minds by calling them thick and racist
• People who are "bored of Brexit" - are you bored of having food, medicine and a job?
• Brexit existing

The term "wine flight". It kills me. Probably compounded by the fact it accompanies a tasting menu. Nonsense.

Had the wine flight at L’enclume, but it paled into insignificance when I asked for tea after we’d eaten.

Remember that scene where Rowan Atkinson wraps the necklace in Love Actually? This, with bells on and a sand timer.

I’m afraid I got a fit of the giggles .

The term "wine flight". It kills me.

To my shame, I don't recall the term for the bread version of this. I was at a food event/restaurant where the multi-course meal had the option of the equivalent of a bread flight.

Sayings like
At the end of the day
Moving forward
Diversity
Play date
Best foot forward
Learning from our mistakes

Stupid filtered pictures especially ones with silly eyes and hair pieces and I hate the stupid comments even more. Yummy mummy. Gawjus bae.

Being called racists at everything you say or do.

People putting their whole life on social media including pictures of their roast dinners. All roast dinners look like shit even if they taste great. It's a plate of mush with gravy.

Team building events. Parents on their phones when they collect their kids from school.

I could go on forever but then I'm a grumpy old cow.

Sports programmes that spend an hour before the football match telling you what might happen, and another hour afterwards dissecting it.