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?

Cookery books that cost the earth because they're full of glossy pictures of the chef's kids helping to stir the mixture, or eating a piece of carrot, or gathered around a garden table full of designer crockery.

Bloody noise everywhere. Loud music in shops and restaurants, cinemas turning up the volume to ear blasting level, teenagers shouting instead of talking on public transport, cafes with no floor or table covers and painted walls so every sound echoes at magnified levels all over the place.

My people!

I've not given a toss about most of the above nonsense since my teens and thought I was the crazy one. Never saw the point of fake tan and overly made up faces etc. and now, in my mid 30s i can finally bloody say it! I honestly used to get anxious that i didn't care enough 🙄

Love island/The bachelor
Crossfit
What school you're sending your kids to
The SAME photos of poolside cocktails on fb from your twice a year sunny resort holiday for the last 10 years..
How busy you are. Don't care. Make better choices.
Your current food fad/restrictive diet. I really really don't care.
Hair removal. I hate the pressure to wax my undercarriage once a month.
An app for everything.

This feels good. I'm sure I'll be back.

I always thought destination weddings were an effort to NOT have people in attendance. Like, "Here's a way we can invite all the people we're expected to invite, but not actually have to deal with all of them on our special day".

For me, it's mostly technology being given to kids at an early age.

And Pandora charm bracelets. I don't get the appeal. I had a charm bracelet when I was 8. I don't want one now.

Jitters

Little story to increase your blood pressure.

Friend A gets engaged. Tries to plan hen do abroad. Fucking disaster - looks like easily £600 for 3 days. Friend B supremely ungraciously declines and makes her feel like shit (all the rest of us at least tried to be nice when saying WTF). Friend B chews my ear for months about hen do, saying that she won't have one when she gets married.

Fast forward to Friend B getting engaged. Now she's having a hen do. Oh wait, it will be abroad. That's fine, because it's also 'for her birthday'. Two months later, she creates a separate event for her birthday, and removes all references to her birthday from the hen do event.

oh and younger generation being offended all the time-fuck off

people attention seeking on fb, im so pissed off-and then all the whats up hun-oh i dont wanna talk about it

piss off then

Oooh, love this.

People being rude to other people just doing their job, eg contact centre staff;
people who think they are the first people in the world to have children and theirs are somehow special;
public transport that is shit!;
reality 'stars' who have no talent whatsoever yet are never off the bloody tv screen;
dog parents who cant control their dogs and upset mine;
fuckwit cheating husbands...

Trends.

Of any kind. Fashion trends that are hilariously awful (wide legged cropped trousers, I'm looking right at you and the numpties who wear you). Make up trends (slap on the thick foundation and sculpt those cheekbones so you, too, look like a transvestite covering up the stubble). Social trends (blue hair, mermaid themed shit, being non-binary, having one's head so far up ones own arsehole that you can see what you ate for dinner).

The "in" stuff - music, movies, products, lifestyles, activities, the way we look, the way we talk, the way we live.

It's ALL A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.

At what age does one qualify as a Grumpy Old Woman???? Looking at these posts I feel it's getting younger and younger!
I'm 71 next month so I joined about 50 years ago.

Talon nails.
I wang to swab underneath your nails and show you what grows there. Terrible.
They also look like they could perform a DIY circumcision.

Can't stand the over-groomed look that teenagers and young people go for these days. They look like dolls. It's hideous.
Fucking selfies all social media.

The fact that so many teenagers are now trans. Ok, so some are genuinely born in the wrong body etc.... but a large proportion are just doing it because it is "cool" at the moment.

Also hate hate hate how so many people have food allergies and intolerances meaning the whole world has to revolve around them. Y
Yes, some people really do have a problem but most of them do not.

People saying "I'm a bit OCD". "I'm a bit autistic"
Yeah, I hate anybody claiming to have some kind of condition/issue/mental health issue when they haven't - they may have some traits of something but that does not mean that they actually have the condition. It means those that genuinely do can be ignored because "everyone" seems to have autism, ADHD, OCD, anxiety.

Oh God... just mentioned anxiety... don't get me started.
Anxiety is a genuine mental health issue. It is NOT you feel a bit nervous in some situations. Fucks sake.

The fact that I have to justify every single one of the statements above with "some people genuinely do...:" because otherwise some twat will flame me on here and tell me that some people do etcetcetc. If there weren't so many fuckers claiming to have/be things they are not we wouldn't have this problem.

People and their fake intolerances and allergies , making life hard for people who really have them.

Fur babies.

Tiny fucking dogs everywhere.

People who post about their kids being their world etc and do ANYTHING to be rid of them and are horrible to them when they are around. Words mean nothing.

People pretending to be well off with their curated online lives. With their massive loans and lease cars.

Being expected to work many many hours more than the job is for as standard. I walked away from a 37 hour job where really they wanted you to work 50. Fuck off cheapskates.

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.

So negative, depressing people make you, er, grumpy! You don't do irony, do you?

Pointless meetings at work. I am supposed to be going to one this afternoon but am going to hide in my room and pretend I've forgotten about it.

People who can't go out for a walk without changing into designer leggings and a designer jogging top and carrying a fancy looking water container with them.

And yes, what's with the drinking coffee in the street? Can you not wait until you get home and put the kettle on for a quarter of the price? Absolute nonsense!

Fecking "energy ball"

These piss me off too. They look like the things your nan used to buy for her budgie, not for human consumption.

Bloody noise everywhere. YES. Although, I went to Croatia on holiday last year and the BUSES had loud shit Europop playing At least we don't have that in the UK

People judging other people

but a large proportion are just doing it because it is "cool" at the moment.

If having a leg off was deemed the in thing there are many who would follow!

Middle lane hoggers on the motorway and also the idiots going down slip roads at 40 miles an hour to join the motorway. get your fucking speed up.
Fake everything already mentioned
Grown woman on snapchat with dog ears and filters. We know what you really look like Sandra.
Add to that their stupid friends who post 'looking gawjuss'

Reality stars and TV
Every decent show being ruined by the celeb version
Over americanisation of our culture
The perpetually offended

Cold callers, be it at the door, or on the phone.
Charity collection bags that come through my letterbox.
Charity muggers on the high streets.
Mormons in our high streets.
Those fucking annoying "I'm a teacher and this week I'm teaching my class about internet safety, so here's my picture, lets see how far our photograph gets" memes of utter pish that infect the internet every so often.
Celebrities. All of them. Do your job and fuck off home like the rest of us.
Chain letters or messages on Facebook. Delete. Delete delete delete.
Women's glossy magazines - 90% adverts and the remaining 10% is designed to make you feel crap about yourself. Why?
Marks and Spencers entire womenswear design team. You SUCK.

Expensive anything for teenagers.

Make up - it's fucking tragic that 14 yo are plastering £££ foundation on their skin and being told by YT stars it's about 'expressing themselves', not pandering to beauty standards (conveniently, all these stars are showing techniques that involve painting a conventionally beautiful face on top of your own face).

Clothes - wear fucking handmedowns.

Tech - just wait? Do without? Earn it?

Husband just bought his teen brother an Armani giftset - he's fucking 18. What happened to slumming it a bit as a teen and having shit eyeshadow poorly applied?

Omg thankyou!! I was literally having this conversation the other day with someone who thought it was okay people shelling out £££ on holiday hen parties and expensive wedding requests.

I think it's so selfish, you never know how someone is struggling financially and a lot of people go broke trying to hide it. You found someone you love, congrats, like, why do we all have to pay a price for it!!! Marriage is meant to be about building a solid relationship, not fleecing all your friends and family. Considering the rate of divorce, I'd rather lose a friend than shell out such stupid amounts of money. I would never ask others to do it.

Yabbers

People thinking about judgement as a bad thing.

Not one single piece of progress this miserable race has achieved was not made without someone exercising their judgement.

Also totally agree with the 'anxiety' thing. Of course it is a genuine MH issue for some people. But for others it is a 'me me' thing. 'I suffer from social anxiety so can't be expected to do this, that or the other'.
I am very shy and get extremely nervous before parties or weddings or anything like that. But I do not suffer from 'social anxiety' and wouldn't dream of self diagnosing myself with it and then trotting it out on here as a reason why I can't behave like a functioning adult.

It must be doubly annoying for people who do suffer with their mental health and with extreme anxiety to have other people hijacking their condition in a precious, attention seeking way..

Ha! Good thread OP; thanks.

My life changed when I did three things: stopped internalizing other people's negativity, stopped being a people-pleaser, learned how to say 'no' politely but without explanation, and mean it. In tune with the lighthearted tone of this thread:

Strategy away days. Complete with all their corporate psychobabble and 'going forward'. Take your 'blue-sky thinking' and shove it, please.

The Tube. Take your Oyster Card and shove it likewise, to use the immortal words of the Amateur Transplants.

The word 'impactful' sets my teeth on edge. Oh and 'upcycling'. Renovating' served well enough for the preceding generations.

Dangling modifiers. 'My bad'. Er ... my bad what?

Weddings. I'll add my downvote to the cutesy little nursery rhymes asking for money. Twee coupled with rude isn't a good combination.

Stag/hen holidays, ugh. No. As for sharing flights with people en route to these things, double-plus-ugh-no. Sit down and shut up. Oh, and get a room.

Air rage/train rage: ditto. The more alcohol they imbibe, the more raucous (and often abusive) they get. It's getting just as bad in the mornings: why are people incapable of staying off the sauce for the duration of a 2.5 hour journey? As for boarding a train on a Friday evening, forget it: the transport police apparently have.

And finally, another 'WTF' in response to those picture filters with the silly little dog ears and noses. Just why? Are you off on a date, or getting your leash on to go to the park for a shit?

Can I just thank the OP for starting this thread?

I haven't had this much fun since the popcorn incident.

This is heaven! I agree with absolutely everything !! In fact I was walking the dog this morning and feeling quite fed up with modern life.

I'll add the people wanting to rewrite history or trashing everyone from the past because they didn't live a "woke" life. I read yesterday someone castigating Dickens and calling for him to be banned from university syllabi because of his unequal portrayal of women. FGS - he was writing 200-odd flippin' years ago!

I would also include the BBC and their stupid "on message" adaptations of classics in my ire. The Agatha Christie ABC Murders at Christmas. WTF was that?!