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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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whynotwhatknot · 10/01/2025 21:08

yea ost of vinyl is absurd

can we just ban modern miusic-sorry tp be so general but its crap

Rollse · 10/01/2025 21:08

The word ‘poorly’

ToWhitToWhoo · 10/01/2025 21:10

Telemarketers!

fixingmylife · 10/01/2025 21:12

Constant youtube adverts.

TheTwirlyPoos · 10/01/2025 21:13

Fucking dishwasher salt. What a total pain in the bollocks that is.

tobee · 10/01/2025 21:14

This thread is making me laugh a lot.

I was going to say lol a lot. But I thought best not to with some of you lot Grin

2025willbemytime · 10/01/2025 21:15

LaPalmaLlama · 10/01/2025 19:56

and also the UN should enforce standardised bedding sizes globally and also duvets should have an arrow pointing to the top so you dont waste time putting the cover on sideways and having to redo it.

I got an emergency quilt from Asda, just as good as the M&S one which cost four times the price btw, and it says on the bottom which way round it goes.

Hugattack · 10/01/2025 21:24

Parking apps. Especially when they charge you a convenience fee for using your phone and your data to make a payment to them.

XenoBitch · 10/01/2025 21:25

Hugattack · 10/01/2025 21:24

Parking apps. Especially when they charge you a convenience fee for using your phone and your data to make a payment to them.

They need to be yeeted into the sun. There is a lovely country park where I live, and it is in a signal blackspot for my mum. She can never get the app to work. She ends up putting a note in her windscreen saying she tried.

CeliaCanth · 10/01/2025 21:28

Chatbots, especially when they can’t understand a basic question

Face and body unguents that come in excessively fancy packaging and cost eleventy million pounds. They can’t be THAT good, so stop trying to make me feel like an utter skinflint for not buying them

Describing, e.g., mashed potato as “plant based” with accompanying fanfares

KitchenDancefloor · 10/01/2025 21:30

Work colleagues who won't use electronic calendars (which we all have).

Stop accosting me in the corridor/staff room/loo to insist we need to talk about X project and then not do anything about it. See when we're both free and organise a meeting.

I'm in a stand off with someone who 'urgently' wants my help with something since October but won't organise a time to talk about it. It only occurs to them when I'm eating my lunch in the staff room.

'My calendar is always up to date, feel free to book a time' on repeat for months.

And no I won't organise your meeting for you when you are already trying to ask me for a favour you lazy sod.

Ooh, that felt better.

Youngheartsalittletogetherness · 10/01/2025 21:31

Knowitall69 · 10/01/2025 19:20

Best stay away from Northern Ireland on the 12th July, then!

Or they have an oompah loompah for a neighbour.

Ubugly · 10/01/2025 21:33

coffee
corporate wankyness

Lowironrightfedup · 10/01/2025 21:33

People talking across you. Like am I invisible? Especially when I am trying to join in and get ignored.

Merryoldgoat · 10/01/2025 21:34

This is honestly cheering me right up.

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LZ5M · 10/01/2025 21:36

Having to create a PASSWORD for fucking everything!

Merryoldgoat · 10/01/2025 21:36

LZ5M · 10/01/2025 21:36

Having to create a PASSWORD for fucking everything!

Fuck yes

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HRTQueen · 10/01/2025 21:36

Over friendly shop assistants. Or rather companies instructing their staff to be this way

I just want to be left alone to try things myself

HRTQueen · 10/01/2025 21:37

worse than the password is the text email to clarify who you are after putting in your password

or are you human quizzes

DrizzleTrip · 10/01/2025 21:38

Aubergines
dogs that smell and don’t leave you alone
’i hate to tell you’
’but i don't understand’
‘can’t you do x?’ (no, or I’d have fucking done it!)
balloon arches
badly fitting bathplugs
calcium
wellies
’a tad’
pulled pork
Dawn French

Lossyfloss · 10/01/2025 21:41

Dogs. Or rather the entitled owners of some dogs.

People sitting in a quiet waiting room having a conversation on speaker phone or face time, holding the phone up to them. About nothing important.

Men walking Importantly Around. Refusing to deviate even a little because they're So Important and assume everyone will move out of their way.

Those clicky heeled shoes some men wear. And the dreadful relentless whistling. Sets my misophonia off like nothing else.

Young people who can't answer a question in a professional setting and think that saying ' I don't know, sorry' in a flat tone is a sufficient answer.

I've had a trying day. This felt good!

Judgejudysno1fan · 10/01/2025 21:42

Moonshine5 · 10/01/2025 19:27

Vogue (married to Spencer) doing that washing pod commercial. (You were exposed after your tantrum on the airline)

Ooh lala, tell more!

KnightsTemplar00 · 10/01/2025 21:44

when it comes to voting people voting if they have not studied the policies of who they are voting for especially afterwards when then they then criticise how x govt is doing and then its like you voted for them,

BilboBlaggin · 10/01/2025 21:44

Buses pulling up at the bus stop outside my house at the exact moment I decide to go out in the car (the buses block the drive). Nine times out of ten times I go out this will happen. However if I went out and waited for a bus it would likely take twenty minutes!

Couriers who dump a parcel on my front step and run, with just a cursory touch of the doorbell, not waiting to check if anyone answers. I'm on a main road (with said bus stop outside) and they always leave the parcel in full view of passers by.

KnightsTemplar00 · 10/01/2025 21:46

Judgejudysno1fan · 10/01/2025 21:42

Ooh lala, tell more!

is this spencer Matthews as in made in Chelsea spencer ?

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