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I’m in a mood. What should be banned (lighthearted)

531 replies

Merryoldgoat · 10/01/2025 19:05

Fucking door knocking charity callers. Why is it allowed? It’s intrusive and I bloody hate it.

Pink deodorant - always cloying and horribly floral.

Having to refill rinse aid

I think the menopause is hitting hard today.

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sodoffplease · 12/01/2025 14:35

Toothache

blobby10 · 12/01/2025 14:57

Anyone driving on the motorway at the same time as me who either has no rear lights on cos they are using their DRLs or the tossers who had their fog lights on even though visibility was fine!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 12/01/2025 15:18

JMSA · 12/01/2025 12:18

Shouldn't that be l8er 😜

I sign messages to my DS with L8RZ 'cos I am down wiv da kidz .

It drives him potty ! Grin

XenoBitch · 12/01/2025 22:35

LaPalmaLlama · 12/01/2025 11:42

There was a radio show recently about people who wear shorts year round and people were phoning in. Nearly all the guys that do it work outdoors or were tradespeople so probably used to working in really cold conditions. I did wonder if it’s the working outside that has hardened them to year round short wearing or whether having a constitution that enables year round short wearing also enables you to do a job in the cold 🤣

One guy also made the valid point that it’s better than wet trousers if you do an outside job.

My DP is a winter shorts wearer. He used to be a postie.

MyDeepZebra · 12/01/2025 23:07

XenoBitch · 12/01/2025 22:35

My DP is a winter shorts wearer. He used to be a postie.

Someone I went to school with recently posted a picture of her kids and husband in the snow, having made a snow man and having a snowball fight.

Husband was as pale as the snowman...wearing a ski jacket with a fairisle jumper visible underneath, trapper hat, ski gloves...and running shorts.

The comments were 90% women saying "FFS! Shorts!" "Shorts...🤢" "Why is Matthew wearing shorts?!" and she had replied "🙄 I know" to every single one.

He's got quite a formal office based job with an aeronautical engineering company...but maybe he secretly longs to be a roofer or postie and have his legs out all day.

Maddy70 · 12/01/2025 23:15

Talking with your mouth full
Interrupting
Not using headphones while watching videos in public

MrTiddlesTheCat · 13/01/2025 14:34

Winter. Winter can fuck right off. It should be banned until it learns to only activate snow mode when people are home with nowhere to go.

ToWhitToWhoo · 13/01/2025 15:07

MrTiddlesTheCat · 13/01/2025 14:34

Winter. Winter can fuck right off. It should be banned until it learns to only activate snow mode when people are home with nowhere to go.

+100!

JudgeJ · 13/01/2025 20:33

VodkaCola · 12/01/2025 12:44

Me too. And I take my bra off as soon as possible. 😆

When I was still teaching and there was a hot summer I would often remove my bra at the traffic lights, I could do it quite quickly though having the soft top down occasionally caused problems.
Now as an elderly retired lady it doesn't often go on unless I'm going out!

ScottBakula · 14/01/2025 16:11

Biffbaff · 10/01/2025 19:55

It should be illegal not to print the bedding/sheet size on the care label.

It would surely be very simple for them to print S , D , Q , K SK on the tags wouldn't it.
To beat this issue I write it in in permanent marker as soon as I unpack them.
I also write Top and side on the quilt s themselves.
It's the little things that make life easier.

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:15

Tiny pockets in women's trousers that your phone/keys/purse fall out of.

TreeSquirrel · 14/01/2025 16:24

Teenage boys/men wearing tracksuit bottoms in public. DS was a teen in the 2010s and would have been ripped to shreds for dressing like that. No idea why it has now become acceptable post-Covid.

Tracksuit bottoms are for lounging at home, not in the street or even in bars and restaurants as I’ve seen recently.

XenoBitch · 14/01/2025 16:28

TreeSquirrel · 14/01/2025 16:24

Teenage boys/men wearing tracksuit bottoms in public. DS was a teen in the 2010s and would have been ripped to shreds for dressing like that. No idea why it has now become acceptable post-Covid.

Tracksuit bottoms are for lounging at home, not in the street or even in bars and restaurants as I’ve seen recently.

I saw a lady out today that was wearing tracksuit bottoms, with high heeled knee high boots. Was quite the sight!

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:47

Lemon curd.

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:47

The phrase "right back at you".

Wavescrashingonthebeach · 14/01/2025 16:49

Fucking heelys

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:51

Politicians starting replies with the word "look...", doubly banned if they hand gesture at the same time.

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:51

The Royal Wave

Ineedpeaceandquiet · 14/01/2025 16:54

Those footsie feet coverings - wear proper socks!!

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 16:57

Whamageddon

dizzydizzydizzy · 14/01/2025 16:58

The woman who insisted on a 40-minute speakerphone call in a cafe with her son in Australia. It was only her and me in the cafe and she didn't use headphones. I was trying to read and wasn't interested in the details of her son's flight and his stopover.

People who let their dogs jump up in the park, get my clothes muddy and then tell me he is very friendly and only playing.

Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Nigel Farage. No explanation needed.

White or cream clothes (they make me to spill my food down them)

Granny Smith Apples - yuck

Bad coffee - a crime

denhaag · 14/01/2025 17:02

Submitting expenses on a system that has been designed with only the Chinese financial staff in mind.
The English "translation" makes no sense.
It is the least intuitive system I have ever had the misfortune to have to work with.
I have cried.
Should not have tried it when I was already in a mood with DPD!

itsstillmehere · 14/01/2025 17:08

People in cafes with dogs

DangerPigeon · 14/01/2025 17:16

Arthritis

FarmGirl78 · 14/01/2025 17:33

username299 · 10/01/2025 19:13

People who stand in shop doorways talking.

Or around the exit of an escalator. 🤬