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

[littlerayofsunshite]

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

Pretend mounted animal heads. Why would you want fake dead animals on your wall. The real ones are disgusting.

This thread has made me reassuringly enraged. So many things I'd forgotten I dislike.

Agree with everything, except the chips in a bucket. Just never thought to get annoyed about it and it means they don't take up too much room on the table.

I have one bit of grey wall but it's because I spilled red wine down it and had to paint over it with something darker.

Another vote for "vintage" - so you mean old or second-hand?

Calling a room a "space". A local cafe is an "artistic space" - so a room with cups of tea and some pics on the wall then?

And yes to "sourced" - you mean you saw it in a trendy magazine and went to a shop and bought it then?

And the ubiquity of prosecco - middle-class mums' modern-day version of babycham.

All those TV programmes where people insist on saying 'property' instead of 'house'. And 'apartment' instead of 'flat'.

Constant misuse of the word 'piece' to mean anything from item in a radio broadcast ('at the top of the piece'=at the beginning of the report/item/feature); to item of clothing (some of my favourite pieces this season are...) and lots more I'm now too irritated to remember.

Almost all politician speak. My (least) favourite is 'Look, let's be clear about this', which actually means: I am about to start fibbing.

Well I've just painted my bathroom in Chic Shadow which is a luvverly shade of grey, looks fab IMO!

I've just recently discovered 'cake smashing' which is utterly awful. Thats now up on my hate list along with with those goddawful 'quote' stickers in script font that people have, they're tacky as. And as I'm preparing to use reusable nappies for PFB I've discovered a whole community of idiots who are prepared to pay £40 for a bit of fabric that is designed to be pooed and pissed in. Utter madness.

YY to the children dressed like they're from the 1950s. Sometimes I take DD to the park in the trendy part of town, it's full of kids who look like they've escaped from an Enid Blyton novel, dads with neck beards, tweed jackets, and workwear jeans with huge turnups and mums in full pinup outfits complete with fashionable tattoos. The only people who don't appear to be in some kind of bizarre fancy dress are the au pairs, who must find the whole thing baffling.

Ah, most of the above. I'm easily annoyed.

I had some chips served to me in a mug last Christmas

I really really REALLY loathe "mmmmkay". As in (on the internet):

"Smugbullshitsmugbullshitsmugbullshit, mmmkay?"

Oh god just FUCK OFF

Coffee served in something approximating a cereal bowl. Coffee should be served in coffee cups, dammit. And I maintain that anything bigger than a coffee cup for a hot drink is vulgar, with a notable exception for a mug of tea.

YY to food served on a chopping board & chips in a mini bucket. I ask for a plate.

Papering the up bit ( technical term!) of the stairs in different bits of wallpaper.

Shabby chic. Just fucking shabby.

People banging on about paleo diet.

THIS. Especially when they start making disgusting paleo 'treats' and Instagramming them like they are champagne truffles infused with gold leaf and the Virgin Mary's own breastmilk.

Just googled Paleo- oh yes annoying wanky crap.

Yes to oh so many of these.

Especially shabby chic. We stayed in a shabby chic holiday cottage. Everything was mismatched (don't mind this really although I do like a knife and fork to feel balanced) but nothing fucking worked! The shabby chic gas oven took an hour to heat up and had me in fear of my life.

Cake smashing. Waste of good cake.

Gender reveal parties. Apparently this is "a thing" (people who say "a thing" irritate me too ). Dh saw an advert for an idea from the Duchess of Cambridge's mother where you "reveal" your baby's gender at the cutting of the party cake which turns out to be blue sponge or pink sponge depending on baby's sex. Just ugh.

Actually, while I'm on the subject - people who treat me as weird because (horror!) I have actively chosen not to find out the sex of dc2. No it really doesn't make planning it any harder! And if it's a boy it really won't mind having the odd pink vest!

Yes rude a "smokey eye" translates to 'model is a cyclops'. :)

Selfies. With fucking duck lips.

Aaarrrgggghhhhh

Oh babyonboob, you've got a perfect one there. I HATE IT TOO!

What is cake smashing??
Do you throw it on the dance floor like the Greeks throw the plates?

Agreed to whoever cakesmashing above! Sick of seeing it all over facebook. I don't want to bloody well look at 400 pictures of your child eating a cake like children do (ie face first).

Hate hate hate shabby chic. Never understood why anyone would actively want their home to look like they've literally just ripped up the carpets, nailed a load of wooden planks to the walls with felt tip writing all over them and splashed some hideous green pastel paint all over each piece of wooden furniture with inexpert sloshing motions.

Anything served on a slate or a long thin rectangular plate is pretty much a no-go for me.

Body butter. What exactly is its purpose? Isn't it the same as moisturiser? Why not call it that?

Gigantic bun doughnut ring things. Hideous. It's just a Croydon facelift with a bun on top. And FYI the same can be achieved with a sock according to a number of irritating "life hack" websites. Thankfully these seem to have disappeared recently.

Nappy cakes at baby showers. Can you really not just serve me cake? Are baby showers necessary at all?

POP UP BARS/RESTAURANTS. If it's so good why is it only available for 3 weeks during which it's impossible to get in there because you've advertised it to within an inch of its like and every last hipster in Shoreditch is trying to get in!?

Also - great example of ridiculousness - The Cereal Killer Café. Look it up. What a waste of time. Trendy people eat cereal and pay £3.50 for a bowl. Unbelievable really.

MonstrousRatbag in Scotland they refer to houses as villas and their rooms as apartments.

Bizarre.

All the predictable rubbish that prospective buyers come out with on property programmes:

"It ticks most of our boxes"

"Yes, I can see myself cooking in there whilst still chatting and having a glass of wine with friends"

"Oh yes (looking at a tiny balcony overlooking the gas works) I can see us sitting there having breakfast/a glass of wine after work"

And my favourite......

"And this is the master.........." No it's not !! It's the biggest bedroom in a 3 bed semi so you might get an extra chest of drawers in. If it has an en-suite, a dressing room and you need a sat nav to find your knicker drawer then ok, but otherwise, just NO...................

'Salted' sweet things. It tastes vile, it ruins the sweet thing. Got a box of salted chocs for Christmas and couldn't even stand to eat them as the last resort emergency chocolates that you just eat for the sake of it. What a complete waste.

Selfies, particularly the ones people take in the bathroom mirror with the toilet seat up. How glamorous. The absolute only acceptable excuse for taking a selfie is when you are standing in front of something interesting and you want to send it to your gran, even though she's more interested in having a photo of you than the view.

In fact, there is NO excuse for photos of toilets with the lid/seat up anywhere. I cannot believe the number of house particulars I see with this. Aren't you TRYING to make an effort?!

from what I understand cake smashing is where you pay top dollar for a very fancy beautiful cake and then sit your child in front of it and take hundreds of photos as its reduced to a pile of crumbs! I'm not sure what it is about this particular thing but i find it really distasteful, yet it definitely growing in popularity. Think is started in the US as with most of these "adorable" things and is the thing nowadays.

Baby showers full stop is also on my list. My BB was most upset when I refused to allow her to throw me one. [hmmm]