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what 'trends' really (maybe unreasonably) make your teeth itch?

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littlerayofsunshite · 02/03/2015 22:14

Some things really piss me off. Those wall stickers 'live, laugh, love' and other shitty phrases for example. Another is those glittery wine glasses/bottles being sold on every Facebook page. Then there are those books that have been turned into words and classed as art.

There are more. Wow there are more but before I go on, are these common pet hates or AIBU a miserable bitch

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nachohousekeeper · 03/03/2015 22:29

Answering YY when you agree with a PP.

YY to artisan bread

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KatieKaye · 03/03/2015 22:32

Pan fried indeed.

How else do you fry something? In a frigging colander?

Bloody stupid oxymoron. With the emphasis on moron.

TillyButton · 03/03/2015 22:41

Flippin chatty weather forecasters.I just want to know the weather for tomorrow,not what it was today.I also don't need to be told to wrap up warm ,remember my brolly or to "take care"

Nocturne123 · 03/03/2015 22:45

Ds ( 6mo) will not be pleased that you all hate his grey bedroom walls. Took him at least 2 days to finish too.

I agree with most of these .

At the moment I can't stand people staying how cute/ gorgeous their children are on Facebook beside a photo of them. Nobody cares. I should unfollow these people but then how could I complain?

fixedit · 03/03/2015 22:45

People who go on long tangents of shite on fb and end with this. RANT OVER.
I don't even know why that annoys me to Fuck.

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littlerayofsunshite · 03/03/2015 22:49

fixedit absolutely!! Rant over! Hate hate hate!
also that is all

Speak in fucking sentences and actual English!

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Cariad007 · 03/03/2015 22:50

Those fucking stupid memes and inspirational quote photos that people with no originality whatsoever post on Facebook. Especially the vintage style ones with crap like "Women don't fart, they whisper into their panties" etc. Vomit!

GallicIsCharlie · 03/03/2015 22:51

Wow, Noct, your six-month-old painted a bedroom in two days? That's so impressive, I'm more than ready to forgive his colour choice.

FoolishFay · 03/03/2015 22:52

I confess I do have what was sold to me as a 'jackadoodle' but he was wasn't expensive and I have always referred to him when asked as a jack russell / poodle cross.

The thing that drives me mad apart from the 'live laugh love' crap wall hangings is the way that perfectly normal products, like ketchup, are anthromorphologically packaged with shit instructions such as 'turn me upside down before pouring then store me in the fridge'.

Why?? Is the plain English version of that just too complicated???

fixedit · 03/03/2015 22:52

Oh and the amount of casually racist memes/photos floating around facebook.

Cariad007 · 03/03/2015 22:53

"Town/City X - I am in you"
"...Said no one ever"

SconeRhymesWithGone · 03/03/2015 22:53

LakeAmber Maybe pulled pork has not traveled well across the pond. It's about the least show-offy food I can think of. It's a staple of Southern comfort food; there are three barbecue restaurants within 5 miles of my house. I never make it at home though; it's impossible to get that authentic wood-smoked flavor without, well, wood smoke.

FoolishFay · 03/03/2015 22:54

Now I think I've left a syllable out of 'anthromorphologically' but can't be asked to look it up.

Cariad007 · 03/03/2015 22:54

Articles like "10 things parents of boys/girls should no". Just cut the pop psychology crap and let kids be kids!

Cariad007 · 03/03/2015 22:54

No? Know!

CactusAnnie · 03/03/2015 22:55

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Nocturne123 · 03/03/2015 22:55

Yes Gallic he's extremely gifted. In fact if he was slightly older I would be posting on Facebook about how outstanding his teachers think he isGrin

Laquila · 03/03/2015 22:55

AgentCooper, they're coming to a self-publishing platform near you some time soon...;)

Notso · 03/03/2015 22:56

U2TheEdge YES! Even my 2 yo keeps telling me he'll give it me Hmm

GallicIsCharlie · 03/03/2015 22:57
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LakeAmber · 03/03/2015 23:07

Scone no it's very popular! I think it's the "authenticness" that gets on my nerves in fact. None of my griping is aimed at you I hasten to add!

Disclaimer: I am a curmudgeonly old cow.

TimeSprout · 03/03/2015 23:12

Adding -gate to ANYTHING to imply scandal. Especially really-not-scandal-at-all things like 'Custardgate' on GBBO.

Portmanteau names for couples: Brangelina et al. I'm actually swearing at my phone now because it hasn't highlighted that as a non-word.

The word 'wellness'.

The use of chillax or totes amazeballs.

exWifebeginsat40 · 03/03/2015 23:13

the attribution of 'inspirational' quotes to entirely unrelated people. Facebook, of course.

one of my favourites was something about life being too short to not swing on the monkey bars or some such nonsense, attributed to C S Lewis of all people.

please take a moment to picture C S Lewis on a climbing frame.

SconeRhymesWithGone · 03/03/2015 23:18

Well, LakeAmber the true authenticity test is whether you can smell smoke when you get within a hundred yards of the restaurant. Grin

INickedAName · 03/03/2015 23:21

Digital photography has a lot to answer for.

In the olden days when being forced to look at other peoples boring holiday photos you knew it was kind of limited as there were only so many photos you can take with one film, now though you get shots of every single fucking thing from every fucking angle and you can't cheat be flicking through several at a time as usually someone is slide showing them on their device!

People who take close ups of a stone and then call themselves photographers.

Stampy Longnose.. I thought cbeebies presenters were too cheery, they sound like miserable twats after hearing stampy's cheery "hellllllo"