To be fucking sick of show offs

[inthescrapheap]

I'm sitting near a very loud group, in twenty five minutes I have heard all about their holiday cottage Cornwall , their two night trip to a theme park where they will easily spend £500, their expensive trip to an adventure place where they can be like bear grylls, how only children at their expensive private school go to such places as it's not really for state school pupils, daily mail sad faces over parking charges (hello if you are on mn and lower the volume, I can hear you on the tables by the outside bar), long haul foreign holidays etc etc. Ffs shut up bragging.
Oh and you don't have OCD.

They are having a conversation, it isn't for your benefit, you are eavesdropping, move away. And I doubt you are qualified to assess OCD.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Rob their houses whilst theyre on holiday

Life's too short to sit and grind your teeth. Can't you move seat?

I do empathise

Are they bragging? Or are they just loud?

Both can be annoying but they're not the same thing.

They clearly don't have the insight to realize how silly they look. Do they assume the complete strangers they're trying to impress are looking at them with admiration? The reality is they're probably laughing at them.

I had this in the sauna just yesterday. Retired guy gets in (I know this because he told me) and proceeds to regale me with tales of his brilliant daughter/granddaughter (can't remember which) who was an academic in law. As an academic myself (a fact I didn't share) I know that all the stuff he was boasting about is commonplace and nearly every academic does it: she'd been on 'Women's Hour' (as are many humanities/law/historians in academia at some point - either that or 'In Our Time' - and it's really no great shakes; she'd written books, as everyone in that sphere does, and this was her class of degree, etc, etc. 'Oh, and as well as being highly intelligent she's stunning - do you know Holly Willerby?' Me: 'er, who?' Him: 'If you can imagine what Holly Willerby looks like, well she looks like Holly Willerby'. Me, nonplussed: 'I'm sure she's lovely, but I've never heard of her'. [long pause] Me: 'Anyway, it's getting a bit hot in here for me now, so enjoy your retirement!'

[Exit stage left].

FFS STFU man, I just want a peaceful sauna!

Interesting how you're bothered about what you perceive to be them showing off, rather than your jealousy?

I'd love to do all of those things but realistically it's not going to happen.

Good on them though if that's the sort of life they have and they're happy with.

@MarielVanArkleStinks

How utterly awful a presumably older man should be proud of his daughter or granddaughters achievements. What an utter bastard. I hope you told him so. I bet the fucker didn't have a uni education himself.

Remind me again, who was looking down their nose at who ?

I wouldn't want their life I just want them to stfu as they are like this every week and wherever you sit you can hear them as they are so loud. If OCD means only doing theme parks in term time then they have OCD if not they don't.

As I have a loud, and lovely, friend, Yabu op. Some people just talk loud. They're just talking.
Move or stop listening.

But here you are, stressing so much that you've actually started a thread on an internet forum to discuss them?

Just ignore or sit further away.

Or try to do something (I appreciate it might not be easy) fun for yourself, so you won't give what others have/don't have another thought.

I find it sweet when older couples boast about their grandchildren. Had some salt of the earth clients both left school at 16 but their granddaughter went to Cambridge and was a city solicitor AND her boyfriend is Chinese. Somehow the Chinese boyfriend was the icing on the cake! They were so proud

I fucking hate noisy groups of people.

Stop eavesdropping on them.

But is it the volume you object to or the fact they have affluent lifestyles? I really don’t think you can moan about people talking to friends about their holidays, interests, kids education etc. Would the same volume but more ‘affordable’ topics of conversation still have you starting a mumsnet thread?

Are they considerably richer than yow OP?

They are having a conversation, it isn't for your benefit, you are eavesdropping, move away. And I doubt you are qualified to assess OCD

And you are? As someone who has OCD the amount of idiots who claim they are “ocd” because they are clean and tidy is nearly a weekly occurrence for me.
YANBU OP.

MyOpinionIsValid I thought exactly the same as you. If she really did leave the conversation with, "I have never heard of her" then words fail me.

The volume, you can't escape from it. It is showing off as every week it's about material possessions or expensive days out with details of how much they spent.

Where are you that you have to sit near this same group every week?

What’s OCD got to do with it?

Would the same volume but more ‘affordable’ topics of conversation still have you starting a mumsnet thread?

This is what I wondered.

The old green eyed monster i see

So a group of friends discussing their social life and holidays together (and I don’t feel that a cottage in Cornwall is being overly ostentatious. It sounds very modest. If they were discussing a private island on the Caribbean or a mansion in Malibu that might be bragging but a cottage in Cornwall and 2 nights at a theme park for £500 all sounds very normal to me) louder than you would like them to talk is unacceptable and offensive to you but your complaining about them on a public website is perfectly justified in your opinion?

OP I agree with you. Loud people are annoying / inconsiderate.

YA probably BU but I'm fairly sure I'd feel the same way!