To as what you don't like about modern life and stuck two fingers up to?

[thelastshadowpuppet]

For me, it was my mobile phone and apps.

I felt like I couldn't get away from notifications, the beeping, bopping and hopping of my phone drove me mad.

Presumably this isn't the football coaches' full time job? Also I would estimate that a football coach would be dealing with 20+ sets of parents. Imagine if none of those parents used the app. They would be 'pulling to one side" 20+ people and trying to keep track of it all.

Gee, I wonder how sports coaches managed for the years before we had apps!

Going into a coffee shop, restaurant or bar and seeing most tables on their phones and not interacting with the company they're in.

They aren't do they don't have to do it. We're all busy so making it easier is surely better.

The absolute fuck up the government are making of everything. Unable to book driving tests for months, 13 hours wait for ambulances (for elderly fallers), hospitals always at over full capacity, ours usually has around 40 people waiting for a bed. House prices, keeping poorer people out of the housing market, as they don't have a deposit from mum and dad.
Lying politicians, but hey, he's a lad our Boris.

Working forever. Fuck that shit.
I've retired early (mid 50's) and DH will follow later this year.
We're going to travel, holiday, and party the
rest of our lives away instead of work work work for what seems like forever and maybe enjoy a few healthy years.

Filters on every photo ever posted . We all know Madonna , the Kardashians , Katie Price etc does not look like that .
I know someone that every photo she posts had her looking like , well , I can't even say a 16 year old at nearly 40 because not even 16 year olds look like it , it's almost alien like. The sad thing is because her children are often in the pic they also are heavily filtered which isn't a good role model as her daughter is a teenager. Even her Dad looked like his face was made up including long eyelashes , and eye liner , not a wrinkle or facial expression among them.

Dishwasher. Got rid of the one that was here when we moved in and got an extra freezer

London
Working in an office
Getting the tube!

The expectation to have an amazing career alongside being a parent. I feel like I'm killing myself working full time and being a mum. All I hear is how great it is to earn my own money or to be doing something for myself. Well all my money gets spent on childcare and my work definitely isn't getting done 'for me', it's getting done for my boss who couldn't give a shit about me!

Connecting my phone to my car, I have a phone at home, a phone at work and voicemail on my mobile. I really can't think why I need to be available to be distracted by conversation while I'm driving. If I'm purchasing music I still prefer something physical like a CD or record to hold and keep.

I hate that I'm starting to really feel ashamed of how I look and have succumbed to tweaking a few photos to get a profile pic I'm happy with, probably due to people taking pictures of me randomly at every occasion then posting on SM, forcing me to see how old and haggard I look now.

It really struck me as odd yesterday, we were waiting in a theatre for a show to start and everyone around us was taking selfies to post on SM, surely most people on your SM already know what you look like? I'd rather see a picture of the beautiful old theatre we were sat in, or read a little bit about how good the show was than just see the same filtered face telling me where they are.

The notion that transwomen are actual women. No they are biologically male but wish to identify as a different gender. Fabulous, crack on. But for gods sake stop with the 'fact' that you are now exactly the same as me. No you aren't and it is totally disrespectful of you to think you are. I am a 5'4" middle aged white woman. If I said I was Usein Bolt people would be rightly concerned that I was having a mental health issue or they would laugh and say ' sure you are'.

Yes, I think some of the climate change-denying rhetoric on social media has done enormous damage. People believe the conspiracy theories, and have access to them more readily than actual proven scientific data. Confirmation bias too I guess, as climate change is a very inconvenient truth for many. I'm a firm believer in, and defender of, free speech. But, only to a point, as scientific misinformation could literally contribute to the end of life on Earth as we know it.

Controversially on mumsnet - 'suffering' from anxiety/depression.
It seems like everyone has it to varying degrees these days. In my estimation about 10% of people truly have a diagnosable condition - the rest just need to harden up and crack on with life instead of wallowing. I'm sick of dealing with people at work refusing to do things no-one likes to do, as it 'triggers their anxiey.' So I get stuck answering the phone/manning the front desk/dealing with the difficult client etc. Just get on with it and stop overthinking everything.

The need to own a dog and take it to the pub, cafe, restaurant - everywhere, and have it sit on my lap, or sit on my chair, whilst i stand or sit on the floor, take photos and share them via social media. Alternatively let the dog lie flat out on on the floor, whilst everyone else trips over it or gets bitten when passing by.

The expectation that everyone has to have a car, meaning our streets are lined with ugly metal boxes, some of which are barely used, and grid lock traffic everywhere

Online supermarket shopping. As long as I am fit enough to carry a basket/push a trolley around the supermarket I will continue to do so.

I really hate filters and Photoshop. It makes everyone feel inadequate when in reality, nobody looks flawless.

Not being able to do anything without a reservation, but if you have to cancel, you often lose a deposit.

Snapchat. So many teens are bullied without evidence because photos and messages disappear.

Having to get an app to order a meal, pay for parking, use vouchers, etc.

Accepting bloody "cookies" on every website.

Needing to provide a phone number and email address for every purchase, only to be spammed with marketing emails even if you opted out.

Spotify/YouTube Music not having all artists and songs, so you can't actually have a complete collection of music that you like.

Searching through the utter drivel on Netflix/Prime/Disney+ just to watch something decent, only to have it removed from the service part way through a series.

Laundromats that require change (that nobody carries anymore) but don't have an ATM or coin machine.

The quickly disappearing community services (free toddler groups, antenatal classes, youth groups, etc.) alongside rising council tax.

Interesting how some posters hate things that have absolutely changed my life ( for the better)
Online shopping
Bank apps
Kindle
Astonishingly, Twitter

Someone i know worked in a job where there was some evening overtime most weekdays, shared out between 4/5 staff.

One guy dropped out of the rota because his pet was suffering from anxiety and needed company.

They weren't expected to be available in that position 24-7 nor all their responsibiliies outside of the role that the advance of technology requires. You paid bills when they came in. You dealt with work stuff 9-5... Need I go on?

phone (used only for authentication codes when logging on to websites)
car (never had one, so did not give it up)
debt & work (saved and retired in my 40s)
holidays (I'm on permanent holiday)

@andi6

"The need to own a dog and take it to the pub"

Since we've had hostelries, that's been the case, so hardly a modern phenomenon. A modern happening is dogs not being the norm and not being able to go in places/on beaches etc.

Mine is how expensive sending your primary aged child to school has become. Dress up days/own clothes with donation/money for this and that and school badged clothing. Other than harvest festival WC people didn't pay to send their children to school. There were free uniforms, coats and dinners for those that needed it. Also some of the unrealistic expectations on children and the disconnect towards the lives people lead and human emotions/reactions to the professional behaviour wanted in school.
The lack of affordable facilities for children and young people. As well as housing.
Zero and low hour work contracts, the need for 24/7 flexible workers. In theory people can get two jobs, but in practice not when set hours aren't given.
The lack of public transport coupled with out of town work/shopping.
I can't criticise apps, including Alexa etc because I know many disabled people who can be more independent because of them.

I am still resisting a smartphone. I am not on FB/Twitter/Instagram. I don't have a contactless debit card, and I still use cash.

I agree with the pp about TW are not women. How can a TW have my lived experience?

Shame you can't play cds in modern cars today.

I was also a smartphone refusenik for many years, I got my first one in 2016. In the end I had to reluctantly accept that for better or worse they have become an inescapable part of life in the 21st century and that not having one had become a significant inconvenience. I still don’t have to like the bloody things, though.