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... generally just most people bug me

I'd also add the cultural trend towards constant perfectionism - having to look perfect, act perfect, be perfect. It creates this oddly inauthentic and sterile zeitgeist where it feels that people just say and do what will be deemed 'perfect.' Lack of authentic truth to people. I just notice it a lot around certain groups I have to interact with at times - all veneers and facades but no depth or true connection.

Grumpy old women moaning about everything

Live and let live.

I've found my people!

Seriously, grumpiness is like a national disease and it's so depressing to be around. I have no time for negative people who complain all the time. Avoid as much as possible.

Those terrifying eyebrows

Selfies

People on the "paleo diet"

Work colleagues who make things harder when it should be easier.

And pretty much everything else that's been said!

I love this!

This is going to be divisive: self-"diagnosis". You can suspect, you can identify as, but you cannot diagnose yourself with anything. This is prevalent in the autistic community, and whilst I understand and agree that you can highly suspect, and pretty much know, you're autistic (for example) before getting the official diagnosis, you still can't actually diagnose yourself.

People who park in front of dropped kerbs (DS2 is an ambulatory wheelchair user, and it grinds my gears when I have to add a ridiculous loopy-doopy which takes and extra 5 minutes to try and cross the bloody road).

Violence being advocated when it's against people the far left think are bad. Violence is not the solution, allowing discourse is.

Vilification of people on benefits while the rich laugh and count their tax-evasion profits in off-shore accounts, and MPs submit huge expenses bills.

People chewing. Always. Including my own children.

People saying they're a single parent for the night because their significant other is on a trip. Do fuck off.

Ridiculous salaries.

People on said salaries who try to claim to be ‘the squeezed middle’ and ‘just about managing’.

Endless offers to get into debt.

The consumer and throwaway society.

People who drive for everything.

Towns, cities and villages that are designed to prioritise cars rather than pedestrians and cyclists.

Facebook.

Huge groups of people taking up pathways or pavements. Have taken to standing still so they can decide amongst them which HAS to move while they shove past me tutting .

People who take endless selfies of themselves and who can barely take a single photo of their children without having their own head in the picture, before spreading it all over social media (usually with some WOKE quote to show how very cultured they are).

People who put dog poos in non degradable bags and hang them on bushes like Christmas tree decorations.

Arranging get togethers. Eleventy billion messages later and we're no further forward.

Trying to be 'fair' with meet up locations.

8 people. 5 live in the same suburb. 3, including me, live 40-60m away.

'Let's pick somewhere central to everyone'.

Person travelling 60m now travelling 52m.
I'm somehow now up from 40 to 60m.
Person 50m away now 40m.
Everyone local now driving 30m.

Nobody knows where to eat because nobody lives there.
No one can drink because we're all driving.
Everyone has to leave early.

And it's still not actually organised. And I'm saying yes to every updated sugesstion because I just want it to end.

People who book their calendars fully up 6 months in advance! Then complain when you organise something that clashes!!

Oh I do this. Sorry. It's annoying. I recognise that.

will try harder.

Parents who equate P&C spaces with disabled spaces.

Make up on pre teen kids.

Contestants being encouraged to tell sob stories on television programmes. Just bake your cake/do your dance/sing your song. No need to be telling us about your dying granny or how your mum raised you single handed on 2p a week.

"Clean' eating, 'clean' sleeping. Sleep 'hygiene'

the perpetually late parents.

this morning the bell went at by 9.05 and there were still only 3 kids in the classroom! where the hell were the rest? I managed to drop my other kids at a different school and get there by 8.50. In the same traffic as everyone else.
JUST BLOODY WELL GET UP EARLIER.

People who book their calendars fully up 6 months in advance! Then complain when you organise something that clashes!!

I also do the first part - but I don’t complain.

Pretty much everything already said by previous posters.

The vacuous brain-dead that are touted as "celebrities" now, purely based on their willingness to strip down to a teeny bikini or man-thong on camera.

Smug yet vitriolic vegans - you know the ones. The ones who tell you how much good they're doing for the planet by eating their imported avocados from Chilli and pineapples from Peru, alongside their New Zealand apples and South African oranges(nice carbon footprint, you steaming pile of shit) whilst filling their facebook page with photos of abbatoirs and animals "suffering so you can eat meat".

Children. Dirty, smelly, revolting little packages of snot, shit, excessive noise, piss and vomit. Yes, I do appreciate the irony of saying this whilst being on Mumsnet, and having several of the environmental disasters in my life.

Tourists. The next time I find fucking tourists in my back garden on my bench eating ice cream from the cafe near me, I will take a spade to them. Or a hoe. Whichever is closest to hand. I am TIRED of chasing people who have no right to be in my garden out of my garden. Have some fucking manners.

Crowded pavements and that group that insists on walking four or five abreast, forcing others off the pavement. I am VERY confrontational with people like that. The elbows go up and if they walk at me, they walk right into my elbow.

I've been a grumpy old cow for at least 20 years now and I believe I've honed it almost to perfection.

This is all you need to think...

Agreeing with everything, I feel less like it's just me who thinks like this. Looking after a very sick kiddie (getting better) so too tired to contribute. Cheered me up, thanks OP and everyone.

The media going into panic overdrive every time a flake of snow falls or the wind blows.

People who spend money on irrelevant nonsense then expect everyone else to cough up or look sympathetic when they can't afford the essentials.

People who don't take responsibility for their actions.

People who get through the supermarket till and only then start looking for their purse, as if it's the first time they've ever been asked to pay.

People who fall asleep at traffic lights, thus ensuring they just manage to scrape through and you don't.

Drama llamas.

How long have you got?

Breakawaygirl

Agreed, but can I punt for the opposite also?

The idea that unless you're living some trashy, slummy 'SATC/Girls/Fleabag' life you're neither a proper feminist or worthy of giving a valid opinion?

The notion that you can't just actually be a sensible, nice, responsible person from the age of 21, because apparently making shit decisions is some kind of badge of honour?

Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.....

Will just add this to the mix from hell......

TV presenters who observe a highly skilled expert or craftsperson and say “ can I have a go......”

*also - HUGE ANNOYANCE

Everyone on MN who uses the ‘rare exception’ as a mass shield for their own bad behaviour/irresponsible choices! Exceptional situations are not the common norm! Stop using the fact that one person may land in a situation through no fault of their own- to justify why you’re in that situation 🤔

User (who has 5 children to different men and has never had a job): Birth control fails you know and people’s circumstances change!!! It’s unfair to blame poverty on parents

Me: YOUR birth control did not fail 😡 5 times and YOUR circumstances have not changed...other than you kept having children!!

1. Dry January
2. People doing Dry January
3. People asking me for fucking sponsorship for them doing Dry January

See also Stoptober, Movember, Januhairy etc etc ad nauseum.

Stupidly noisy cars. Yes Mrs Subaru owner who parks near my house. We can all hear you and no one is looking because they like the car. They are looking because you are a bloody nuisance

Filters, 60 year old men posting pictures with fecken bunny ears. Give your head a shake man.

I do agree loneliness can be a terrible thing, it always has been. It was terming it an 'epidemic' and going on and on about the health dangers of it. Overdramatising it and making it seem even worse. That does concern me. Although it is good if it means people are doing more about it. It can annoy me a bit when you see people moaning how lonely they are but not doing anything about it though, and expecting others to help them. Sometimes, it does take an effort.

The idea that everyone has to go to 'college' nowadays and the consequent invention of all kinds of ridiculous degree and diploma courses that are widely discounted by employers in the field, because they're just a load of nonsense.

Competitive 'last to leave the office' carry on. Just go home and have a life.

People who have 200 pairs of expensive shoes and 96 designer handbags. Get some values.