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?

thank the lord for this post! pre 40...easy going, nothing fazed me. woke up the morning of my 40th birthday and wham, everyone and everything gets on my last nerve. usually the more insignificant, the more it gets my goat. keep these comments coming, ive not disagreed with a single one yet.

BadGe could I forget:

Bad manners and selfishness

Gender stereotypes, and that lots of people generally expect women/girls to 'just be nice!'

I swear that there's some posters on Mumsnet who make it their business to pounce on women with any sort of personality with the phrase, 'Why wouldn't you do something kind for your DH/DC/Twatty Neighbour/Abuser/Satan?'

I forgot overuse and incorrect use of space e.g. referring to a room in a house as a ‘space’, hero e.g. ‘hero that protein’ Masterchef Australia - style. ‘Reaching out’. Why not just ask?

I am a vegetarian but tend to get a hard time from people who eat meat and vegans maybe being vegetarian is no longer cool/hip/fashionable.
Indecisive people, make up your mind and go for it.
Being expected to make plans months ahead. I tend to only plan a month ahead for good reason.
This one is an Irish annoyance. Since we repealed our 8th Amendment there is a body of people very, obesslively so, interested in why women opt for abortions or ‘kill babies’. They protest outside clinics and are incredibly judgemental. It is none of their business.
Car insurance companies expecting a small fortune to cover the car for one year.
I am sure I will think of more.

People taking a bite of food and going "mmmmmmm". Just eat the fucking thing and shut up.

Loving this thread!

Entitled Adult Relatives/Family Members who think that others are there to help them live their lives and just love to argue that that is what you are there for...WTF!!

People on decent salaries who cannot get their priorities right.... running up mountains of debt on "making memories" with their kids on expensive foreign holidays and designer clothes, eating out etc. Then moaning that they have no money!!
e.g. they have no money for bills but ask for money for their birthday to put towards a designer handbag costing £700!!!...unbelievable!!

Oh and everything else that everyone's mentioned above already!

Any TV show that pads out its content with 'here's what's coming up after the ad break' and 'here's what you just saw before the ad break.'

Game shows that treat their viewers like very small children. 'Tracey has five points and Bill has seven points. That means Tracey needs three more points to take the lead!' When the numbers are on the screen in front of us.

People who think their RP accent makes them superior and regional speech variations are completely beyond the pale.

People who think a 17 year old is a child and can't be trusted to stay a night alone, make decisions for themselves or take on any responsibility, but an 18 year old is an adult and so should receive no parental support whatsoever.

People who walk up or down a flight of stairs in a tube or train station and then stop right at the top/bottom. I understand if you need a moment to figure out which direction to go in, but get out of everyone else's way first please.

Those selfies with the ridiculous cartoon ears/nose superimposed on top.

'Literal violence' being used to describe someone saying something that offends you, or that might hypothetically offend someone else. I actually argued this with someone in an academic context and asked if they might mean Bourdieu's concept of 'symbolic violence' - which to me is still overstating the case a little, but is at least logically sensible. No, they insisted, words you don't like aren't symbolic but literal violence.

*how.

FUCKING autocorrect pisses me of too as it makes me look stupid!! (Had to correct this sentence twice, luckily I checked before posting)

MN not allowing you to edit your post for the above reason!!

taking photo's of what you are eating, face timing on public transport, reality TV, date night, play dates! where do I stop?.

All of the above!

Stupid made up 'traditions' like Christmas jumper days and Christmas Eve boxes... we refuse to take part in this house.

Valentine's Day... don't we all have friends who have recently been widowed/ divorced/ dumped? I find it insensitive and horrible.

The whole eyebrow thing, especially on 12 year olds. I just don't get it and neither does my teenage daughter.

Silly expressions like 'reaching out' and 'playdate

@Lydiaathebarre this is for you:

oh, another one...

People who take their children out of school in term time to go skiing.. (and deliberately say skiing instead of holiday). The insinuation being that it is OK because it's skiing. No, you are taking your child out of school to go on holiday I don't actually have a problem with you going on holiday in term time, nor care. Just don't try and dress it up as something important and worthy of missing school.

Strategic incompetence. The inability of people to know how to do the simplest thing when it's something that they don't want to do and falling to pieces if asked to multitask. The same people who have highly skilled technical jobs and pride themselves on multitasking when playing Xbox.

youokhun

Oh this thread is tremendous!
I was so laid back once, but as I approach 40, grumpy old git!

• kids on tablets and phones everywhere
• lip fillers. It's rarely an improvement
• kids at the cinema, especially mine. Ruined my viewing of The Incredibles 2
• instagram. All of it but especially the hauls/brightened photos/themes and obviously overspending 'for the gram'
• obnoxious parking in massive cars
• cropped jumpers/teeshirts/ripped jeans. Not paying for half a garment sorry tween dd

People telling you they haven't had alcohol for however long. Unless you're an alcoholic I don't care.

My best friend’s DH has just died aged 42 of cancer and I have been absolutely shocked at the grief tourism and virtue signalling, it's been really quick shocking how people want the inside track on how his final hours panned out, no sensitivity or respect and how some have needed to broadcast what they’ve done to support her instead of quietly getting on with it. So for me it is the capacity of some to make everything about themselves.

People who say "oh my DD won't wear trousers/shoes without a hole in the top"
Of course she won't, you've never put her in them. You bought a whole new wardrobe of effing pink frilly pompom stuff instead of using the perfectly sensible clothing you had for your DS.
Oh wait, your DS' baby clothes all said "here comes trouble" and "babe magnet". I forgot.

Blue hair. Purple hair. Fake grey hair (which thankfully seems to be over).
Fluffy slippers on the school run.
People who tell their DDs they'd better not get that outfit dirty. Why send them outside in it?

The spending nonsense

Prom nonsense v signing shirts and drinking cider in the park.
Overseas hen mini holidays/weekends v a raucous dinner out
Massive themed birthday parties v friends for tea with cake & crisps
Ipads & phones for small kids v not running out of present ideas by 7.

And the child as King nonsense
Can't stand/sit on knee on the bus
Sound on when watching f'ing Peppa Pig in public spaces.
Sound on when playing games in public spaces
Must eat out even when they clearly hate sitting still
Must be fully occupied at all times, can't sit in buggy looking at the world, must have phone and/or food.

For all these things people and children are no happier than they were in the 70s, 80s and early 90s before these things started to take over so what's the point ? Although our economy is built on all this shit now!

Celebs with no writing talent being given publishing contracts to write novels and children's books. Writing is a skill. You don't see JK Rowling giving concerts at the Albert Hall, or Jacqueline Wilson being asked to join the Royal Ballet.
So why is it okay to invite a member of a boyband or a TV presenter to write a book, while rejecting manuscripts from genuinely talented writers?

Oversized cars

Parking on pavements - as someone said above, the fact that our society is so car-centric

Getting offended on others' behalf - stop virtue signalling

Using "parent" as a verb

Smoking

Kids on scooters

Dogs as "part of the family"

Silly hashtags

Oh and people who are noisy in the quiet carriage of trains.

All of the above
General poor manners, self entitled selfishness of huge amounts of the population.

But its not just us ladies of a certain age.. My dd and dsd both aged nearly 18 said recently ' I don't really like people very much'

Luckily one is going to med school and wants to be a pathologist and the other is aiming to go into politics... ☺ I laughed they will be perfect

also, irrationally

Pandora bracelets and 'Love you to the moon and back' as everyone's 'special phrase'

Men who say they're women if they 'feel like one' and try to shit all over our rights and protections.