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

The fad of pronouncing "Anna" as "Arna". If my thicko SIL says it once more in reference to people who are not Disney characters I will shove that Frozen DVD up her North Mountain

Big open plan "spaces" in houses - you mean having your kitchen , dining and living rooms all together without walls or doors. Oven fans blaring, kettle boiling, TV on, fridge doing the noise, dishwasher on (unless it's in the laundry). No Kirsty and Phil I won't live in a barn - I like rooms and DOORS thank you. Caveat - your house is big enough to have lots of nice CLOSED OFF rooms and a big humongous "space" to cook the tea at the same time.

There I'm old fashioned.

The phrase Baby Daddy/Mommy
grrrrrr actually makes me want to slap the person saying it and when 'ask' is pronounced 'arks'

Having to cook your own meat on a hot piece of stone in a restaurant. Went somewhere recently where everything had to be cooked on the "hot rock". By the time steak was cooked veg and chips had gone cold!

How about this to go with all the wordy utensils & ingredients? It's individually hand-crafted using recycled natural materials, obvs.

Do you think it'll make my fortune, or do I need to squeeze a 'Keep Calm' in there somehow?

Oh god I hate the "pulled" meat thing. It just makes me think someone has been sitting around pulling the meat I'm about to eat to and fro with their hands. Yuck. And the "slaw" thing as well!

And the stupid words on walls, don't you feel a bit awkward if you have "LOVE" over your bed glaring down at you when you have a bit of a row? Although I did hear about someone buying a set that said "HOME", throwing the O away and writing "MEH" over their fireplace:o

Or even worse are those personalised posters you can get describing your family or whatever. How egotistical!?

And CactusAnnie Yes!
"The entire world of red lipstick, 40s/50s, stupid 'up do' hair, knitting/crochet/whatever, baking, cupcakes, big skirts, jitterbug, all that crap. As if global war, the Holocaust, bombs falling on cities, and a frightened subsequent retreat into domesticity is something to want to fucking go back to."

Totally! I remember the very first time I encountered this kind of faux-vintage, throwback floral cupcake domesticity, it was among some indie kids I was playing in a band with. I was so shocked when the women came in in their second-hand flares and retro floral tops with a cake they had baked for the men, and everyone cooed over it. I wanted to ask "so you really think that's where you want to go back to? Doesn't feminism mean ANYTHING to you???"

And I've just worked out that that was 13 years ago! That particular teeth-itching trend has been around a looooong time.

OMG, Outrageous, you've given me a new favourite website!
Pretentious bollocks exposed

You've got no friends.. you've got no fans. Want sum? i'll give it to ya.

I laughed loads when I watched the video but I am sick of my teens going on about it.

NSWF/K

Yy to pulled pork. Who on earth decided that was a treat? Yuck.

Jam jars as glasses, hipster beards, rockabilly fakery, street markets being taken over by poncetastic food vans when you used to be able to buy things like flowers, baskets and cheap household bits and bobs.

Business letters that address you as "Hi first name" instead of "Dear Ms Surname".

Haha all bomb scares here in belfast are an elaborate hoax-never just a hoax!!

Using 'super' all the time..

My super clever friend.
This is super amazing.
Had a super awesome night out.
Etc.

Yay we made it onto the mumsnet Facebook page

"Shop" as a verb meaning, "to go shopping in". As in, "I shop farmers markets". Eugh. Not that common but I see it creeping in.

Also, and MN may well come down on me like a tonne of bricks for this one, but people who think it makes them sound intellectual by complaining about Americanisms. I don't mean like the cake smashing complaints on this thread, such as "I hate cake smashing, I wish it had never come over from America", but complaining about linguistic differences such as using -"izing" instead of "ising", or completely different words like "jello". I know people in real life who act like these things make them want to tear their hair out when they hear them in US media, it just sounds so stupid and pretentious to me. People are perfectly capable of accepting that not everyone speaks British English in other nations, so stop boring on about America.

Yes Minty its known as 'street food' which is another teeth itcher for me.

Upcycling (Or to everyone else, painting old shit)

Had pulled pork on a burger once it was like eating hair!

Yy to pulled pork. Who on earth decided that was a treat?

Eastern North Carolina is the holy grail of pulled pork; the cooking method (whole hog cooked very slowly over wood in a pit in the ground) and the sauce (vinegar based) seems to have originated with Scottish immigrants from the Highlands and Islands.

Photo booths at weddings with props. Do people really look through their albums with 10 million pics of their guests holding the same moustache on a stick over their face and say 'that's soooo hilarious"?

Baby name thread titles like 'What is Tarquin's sister called?' We don't bloody know. She hasn't been born yet. We don't even know you Just say 'what names go well with ...?'

We had slaw made from red cabbage and Greek yogurt in a trendy cafe recently, it sounds really wank, but it tasted nearly as good as normal COLEslaw.

Bamboo, eucalyptus, seaweed

Sounds divine, Trills. I'll have fourteen.

Uh, pulled pork on a hamburger? This is what people in the UK are doing with pulled pork? No wonder y'all hate it.

It was in an american themed restauraunt!

Hashtags, selfies, duck faces, and what now seems to be becoming the new duck face - selfies with your mouth open a bit and your tongue half out!!!