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?

Cake-smashes

Gender reveal parties

People documenting and validating their entire existence on social media

Gender as a real "thing" rather than a construct

People who are surprised that "things change" and who take no account of the possibility of change in their plans but then expect others to bail them out

People having children with seemingly no plan or intention of supporting them with even the basics in life

People who encourage the above with crap like "always room for another" or "all they need is you to love them"

People who can 'afford' things but don't have a pension plan or savings.

(Lease cars, £45/month phone contracts, shopping habits...)

Just because the money is in your account, doesn't mean you won't need it in the future.

Oh and the verbalisation of words... Such as " the next station is Kemble, carriages a and b will not be platformed"... Ffs platform is not a verb.
Same for olympians... " the Kenyan runner has podiumed".... Wtaf... You mean the Kenyan runner has won a medal and will be standing on the effing podium.
Ditto anyone being described as 'medaled' as in one a medal but the medal becomming the verb.... Oh god I am fuming just typing...

I am a curmudgeonly old bat who now realises why old people always seem so out of touch. Because they cannot be arsed with nonsense!

I hate the whole look at me, selfie, boasting social media shite - all of it. IN MY DAY (I'm 128 you know) we would have been embarrassed to bore on about ourselves like that - now it's basically a social requirement. I can't bring myself to do it and so am left out of modern life, but I just find it all too unbearably cringe.

Likewise the "I'm so important because I'm trans/autistic/depressed/dyspraxic/have anxiety/probably all of the above and everyone must make all the allowances for me that I demand" brigade. Yes these things matter and yes we should make allowances to an extent, but everyone has things they find difficult and everyone should make allowances for each other. It's like a lot of people now think that all that matters about them is their special status, not what they actually do or achieve or contribute. I fucking hate it. And I do speak as having various "labels" myself, but what happened to the concept of just making the best of what you have and getting on with it? Some stoicism or maybe even a bit of humility until you actually have some useful skill/experience/contribution to make?

I feel like some kind of Calvinist puritan throwback from the 1600s for even daring to think this.

Oh and I will add, people who walk along the street holding a phone out in front of them kind of lying flat in their hand, while having a loud conversation. I know they're not harming anyone but it drives me nuts.

Oh no do not get me started on fecking trans....

Everything mentioned so far I endorse - plus, and I will probably get called a miserable old git for this but I don't care.

I hate the way everyone makes such a huge deal out of birthdays. Landmark birthdays - ok fair enough - 18th, 21st maybe, 40th etc. But every fucking year?

You've just got another year older - big deal! I don't even mark my birthdays, don't get any cards or presents and don't want any. I certainly don't want parties and big nights out to celebrate the fact that I'm one year closer to the grave. "What are you doing for your birthday Jitters? " Fuck all is what I'm doing. It's just another day as far as I'm concerned.

But with others I know it's a week long bloody celebration, themed nights out and massive fuss over the fact that they've just turned 23 or 31 or 46 or however old.

Oh we're all dressing up as Peaky Blinders (or whatever) and going out on the town for my birthday and what's worse, people spend hard earned money buying the costume. I speak from personal experience here - a friend of mine spent £40 on a cap that he will never fucking wear again! Others rush round charity shops trying to find what to wear to do a pub crawl around town looking like a bunch of twats!

Oh we're all going to this massively expensive restaurant (expecting those of us who attend to pay for ourselves) in a town 20 miles from here (so paying for taxi / minibus / transport) for my birthday! You might be, but count me out.

We're booking a (massively expensive) holiday cottage in the Cotswolds for the week-end of my birthday. Your share will only be £350 or whatever. Er, no it won't because I ain't coming!

Does my head in.

Yeah man I'm on board. Ain't nobody got time for that shit.

Oh my word, where do you even begin?
People who gripe about not having enough money, then tell you they 'HAD to have' that new pair of shoes for £90.
People spending money that they haven't got, on stuff they don't need, to impress people they don't even like.
The entitled, inconsiderate, egocentric way some people go about their lives. Even down to the littlest things like parking their car. Surely there's a balance between not being ruled by others' opinions and just acting maturely and considerately?
Man. I'm only 29. Goodness only knows what I'll be like when I'm 70..!

Anyone who thinks their hideousl tattoo is actually 'art work'

Anyone who actually believes their child can change sex with some pills and a different outfit

People buying fashionable dogs from disreputabe people then dumping them when they go out of fashion

Agree with the incompetence too. The number of people who claim to be unable to do something or don't know where to catch the bus or how to put a shelf up. FFS LOOK IT UP. LEARN. We have this thing called the web! And even when we didn't, people somehow acquired skills and found stuff out!

I am in fact in my 40s

When I have these rants at home the kids do an impression of a little old lady.

Oh yes, that reminds me:

People who try to spend my money for me.

It’s mine and I’ll decide what to buy or do with it, thanks all the same

The video clips online say for example with new stories which put very slow easy to read subtitles on. It makes me feel silly just reading them. Probably just me though.

Also youtube clubs of people going on about something cringy like how they dyed their beard in great. boring. detail. Just why?

I am a cranky old bag.

People who suddenly ‘identify’ as a member of the opposite sex. women.

Using gender instead to f sex.

Weight watchers , slimming world, I don’t care about points, syns, how ‘good’ you’ve been, how ‘naughty’ you’ve been. Eat the feckin food if you want it.

All fad diets.

Boasting about exercise, I’m thrilled you ran 20k before work but really I don’t give a rats arse.

thecatsthecats

^^
yours made me laugh out loud

God yes, the deification of bloody birthdays

" I got bad news on my birthday"

Grow up- it's just a birthday, these things happen, move on- you're not a special unique creature. There's billions of us- get over yourself

Parents who go on the defensive anytime a neighbour or teacher criticises their badly behaved child.

Celebrities giving their kids stupid names because they're far too unique and arty to call them Emily and James like 'ordinary' people.

People walking around the street drinking coffee.

news stories

People being deceitful and you know they are lying and everyone else thinks there wonderful 😡

Oh, the new thing of 'power' food as well, instead of 'diet' Special K for example 'powering you'. Yep it's great (before anyone says anything' we're powerful women etc, but it's just another thing where everything is now about 'power'. It's still just cereal FFS. It doesn't give you 'power'.

thakyou op for this

i know its already been said but selfies pouting in particualr

reality "clebs" with no talent
and yes im specially referring to gemma collins who keeps saying shes a role model for larger people yet charges the earth for her clothes and strops off at anything she doesnt like

teens having botox and and fillers your face doesnt move why is that a good thing!

Detox.

Measuring things about yourself and comparing, things like steps taken, farts, food eaten, making graphs and getting anxious about it. Whole group of people winding each other up, about such stuff. Bizarre.

As well as "power", all the crap about "energy" in food as well. Fecking "energy ball". You mean calories. Calorie ball is what it should be called. Because the "energy" you get from food is, yes, calories. That's what calories are. Oh but "calories are bad, while "energy" is good.

Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhh

Everything to do with food annoys me.
Why do we have to be eating and drinking all the time?
Coffee on the go - got to grab a coffee on the way to work cos I'm so busy and want to look cool with my coffee.
Nonsense diets - clean eating bollocks.
Kids having to have a snack every five minutes.
Lunchbox police at schools.
People permanently passing comments on other people's food.
Every food seems to be unhealthy these days - can't eat anything without feeling like you are going to die.

This thread is so Bernard Black. Brilliant stuff.

I would like to add to the pile people that are rubbish at staying in touch but constantly update their social media accounts. Whatever happened to calling or texting to say hello?

Also (another sm thing) , people that post pictures of their child/partner in hospital being prepped for an op or similar. I just find it bloody weird.