What decorative objects annoy you? Let's have a MN rant thread (for a change)

[Bucketsofdynomite]

This week I am mostly hating decorative picture frames for tiny photos. Especially ones with teddybears on but that's not the point. Whether they're 6" across or marginally bigger than the photo itself, wallet-sized photos belong in wallets.

LMAO Buckets!

I love it that smoking on the bog was considered normal behaviour.

It's just that maybe in a young person's house they just might be "ironic". In an old person's house they are always "heinous".

That's probably ageist isn't it?

Either way, I can't bear the things!

Anything inspired by Linda barker.

I remember my friend spending some shocking amount of money - circa £500 I think, on pewter "Lord of The Rings" mugs for her boyfriend's birthday. I just thought, "Why?"

My grandmother left me two garden gnomes when she Passed On.

So we call them George and Allan after her two husbands.

cappucino SNORT at suffocating children

at those shy-kids

they are HORRIFIC

YIKES

It's like the last scene from the BlairWitch project

fish tanks, curtain pelmets, ANY professionally-taken photo of LOs (especially when including a sheepskin/'pretend cloud' background/photographer's stuffed toy that the child had no emotional attachment to before it was given to them to cuddle for the picture because it looked 'cute')...sorry, I have quite negative feelings about professionally taken photos...didn't mean to rant!

Ellaroo I know what you mean about professional photos

especially ones with white background

I mean they may as well have framed a cheque for £1500 made out to VENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED

I know I'll have nightmares about shy kids tonight. They were scary enough without Bucketsofdynomite going all Stephen King.

HAte fake dado rails esp with different wall parer above and below.
Laminate floors.
Gravelled gardens.
Louvre doors.

Exactly Morning Paper, the whole point of a photo of your LO is surely that they are unique and wonderful to you...all these hideous professionally-taken photos do is put their uniqueness onto a nasty conveyor belt and churn them out all looking much the same. It is contrived and totally awful.

Having said that I love the school photos just because they are so naff and mark the passing of time in a very traditional way that is nice to look back on by the time you're years later. However, I believe these should be kept in a box and never ever be put on a wall, mantle-piece or any other surface where they could be viewed. They are purely for time capsule purposes imho!

Filthymindedvixen - round here PAMPAS grass in your front garden indicates swingers......I set fire to ours when I moved in, the bloody thing wouldn't die and I didn't want the neighbours to think I was up for it (they are dreadfully ugly!)

Those shy kids are really freaky. [shudder]

Oh god I have twigs in a vase too - AND they have little fairy lights on them...I love 'em...

Jesus, I just looked at the shy kids link - how freaky is that?

I might buy one and stand it in the corner of DD's bedroom just to scare the crap out of her.

That's a joke by the way.

Worse than Chucky!!!

they are AWFUL

I think I am going to have nightmares

They don't have FACES

Do they actually have faces? I am just imagining this scary blank face...

x-post morningpaper

I have visions of reaching out and slowly turning them around, and ther will be scream faces or worse(((((((((((runs off to hide behind the sofa!!)))))))))))

Outside garbage bins covered in that bright green 'camouflage' stuff - makes them stick out like a sore thumb. Imagine being able to make a rubbish bin 'tacky'...

Ornaments. Of any kind.

Plastic flowers.

Door mats with slogans on them.

Lace curtains

Hooks for displaying cups/kitchen utensils/keys etc etc on your wall. Why? They are not decorative objects. Put them in a cupboard.

Garden poster scenes. Again, why?

Garden solar lights for paths which are less than 2 metres long.

If you watch that 'Beat the Bailiff' or whatever it is called,on datime tv,you will notice that the people featured seem to have a lot of these quality items in their homes.

OMG, those shy kids - do they actually have faces? They certainly don't seem to have necks...

And that shoe is truly an abomination - how big is it, ffs??

Must confess I had a load of those pewter dragons in my youth - finally gave them all away last year and ooh, I feel strangely cleansed!

But my elder brother still has several orc armies strewn across his surfaces....

Personal hatreds: Dolls, cannot bear them, anything 'joke' like that godawful bigmouth billy bass thing, those featureless statues usually of a couple hugging/snogging/shagging, net curtains, swagged pelmets, austrian blinds (or whores-drawers as my mother calls them) and italian dining furniture (you know, the super-shiny stuff that looks like it's been dipped in a bucket of toffee), to name but a few... don't mind dado rails, but I hate borders just plonked randomly halfway up a wall (esp when the wallpaper's the same colour beneath - why??)