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

[Merryoldgoat]

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.

XL bullies

People who litter

Artificial sweeteners

People who don't have their tickets ready at the ticket barriers in railway stations and dither around blocking the way for ~me~ others

Motorcycles (the sound of them is hateful)

Quad bikes

Playing music/watching videos on phones in public without headphones

Speaking on mobile phones on public transport (a 2 minute really urgent call is fine)

What do you wear when relaxing? Particularly at home.

Frost no I don't want to spent twenty fucking minutes getting into my car scraping my car making sure I can see out of my car only to get in and have to wind the fucking windows down because I have a hot flush and steam up the car so I'm hot air blowing the window clear while freezing my ass off also keeping the window clear 🙃

Agree with the celery crunchy water has no place in society

People who can't match speed to filter in on M'way. Drivers who sit with their foot on the brake pedal so the brake lights flash on and off randomly. Drivers who speed up and slow down for no reason when I'm on cruise control. Actually lets just say ALL other drivers. Elaine Page (aka the Hyena in our house). Definitely the people who stop at the end of escalators or when they go through a door. Anyone who thinks a supermarket aisle is the place to meet up with friends. People who only answer one question when there was 3 in the email.

Digital menu displays in cafes (looking at you, Costa).

Good call on vaping. Definite ban.

Also all the frustrating packaging. My worst is Weetabix. Would it kill them to design packaging for Weetabix that, when you opened it, didn't scatter crumbs across your whole kitchen?

Paper straws
Electric scooters

People who stand at various points on the stairs at the station- I need to actually use the handrail. First the ones that give me a disdainful look or don’t move.

@Bluevelvetsofa have you seen the one for dalek which will cost a bajillion £ if you were so inclined to start?

Hooded youths wearing all-black on electric scooters, riding on the road and risking life and limb.

No surrender!

Oh wait... not those orange men.

Peel back cellophane lids that won't fucking peel back and other unopenable packaging.

Old people on mobility scooters flying round nearly taking my ankles out.

Slamming doors.

People tucking their shorts/leggings right in their arse crack.

My sister used to collect one years ago. It was a dinosaur that started off as a skeleton, and you ended up with skin etc until you had a finished model.
Shops stop selling them after so many issues, so you have to order them directly from the supplier. My sister gave up on her model T-rex in the end, but if she had stuck with it, it would have cost about £300 overall. That was in the 90s. Similar magazines are so much more now. First issue is 99p... and the rest are a tenner.

Oh another one, those pissy pad adverts that are ALWAYS on at meal times, and it's only ever sanitaryware for women that is advertised too, even though similar products are on for sale for men.

Men have similar issues, but according to these ads, only women piss themselves when they sneeze/laugh/cough/fart!

Also, the 'spit blood in the sink' ads can fuck off too. Fucking GROSS, and again, always on at mealtimes!

This is so cringe

My ex husband

Another vote for stupidly large cars / SUV s and the dicks who can't park them.

Can we ban my SIL from cutting the hair of my beautiful little DNs herself? She's made the boy look like a cross between Ronald McDonald and the Beatles and the girl look like a ginger Prince Valiant/Lord Farquaad. I adore those babies but she's made them look like oddities and people openly feel sorry for them in the street. The ugliest fucking haircuts I ever did see.

Videos on social media of someone seeing an animal in distress and filming the rescue. FFS, put your phone down, and get on with it. And mistaking the wild animal's freeze response as "wanting to be petted".

Everything online. I just had to buy a dishwasher very quickly and I can no longer go anywhere with a selection in stock to see what the difference between different models was inside. The local stores have all gone. The new dishwasher has annoying layout for loading.

It's true there's a big choice online and you can compare prices and reviews and get it delivered fast but there were not good enough photos or videos focusing on the interior.

There are lots of other things like that with online shopping.

Also much harder to buy presents for people as no one uses pens, paper, or physical records or cassettes anymore. Except my ds and dnephews like vinyl. But they are now collectible and cost a fortune. I end up buying gift cards. Which are dull and unimaginative. And basically say "I decided it was worth spending £30 on you"

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Also....Jonny and Bex are raising Jemima together. No one talk like that

Men who performative breathe in yoga classes

Runners with swingy ponytails

Slow walkers

Middle lane drivers

Yes! I would personally fund a patent on a Weetabix dispenser that did away with this.

I hate the (rare) occasions DS17 decides to feed himself. At 3am. With Weetabix. I come down to a crunchy floor and it looks like Hansel and Gretel have been on a rampage. 😬