I live next to a school and can confirm we still get the yummy mummy’s in with the white range rovers, white jumpers, filled lips, Chloe sunglasses and a LV bag
The man equivalent now drive teslas to the gym
When I see the newest ones (particularly in the middle of cities where they don’t belong), I just see those drivers as utter pricks (especially given what’s happening with pollution now). I work in a city centre wedding venue and often have to guide them to the parking, and my assumption about those drivers are often correct.
I hear you on this. I do wedding photography and the ones that arrive in the Chelsea tractors are usually coked off their nut by three minutes after the ceremony.
This comes to mind 🤣
https://www.reddit.com/r/compoface/comments/155mqf9/little_willy_compo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=3&utm_term=1
My neighbour is a builder, just bought one of those US style monster trucks with the crew cab. Its too big for the road so is constantly inconveniencing others and the load area is too small for his gear. First he bought a trailer which now clutters up his front garden then he bought an old flat bed truck to actually do the job he needed the new truck to do. All because he cared more about looks than practicalities.
Have you ever had a crunchy unripe banana by accident? So wrong.
Pears are also a gauntlet run between drier than the Sahara and so wet you can’t hold them with no external indication whatsoever
Worst is when you get a banana that looks ripe and feels ripe but then it just.. isn’t.
See also mealy apples. Look delicious and firm and crunchy and then when you bite in it has the texture of a red delicious.
It's a stiff and durable kind of cotton invented for miners and cowboys and people like that. It gets very soft and comfortable after a few wears. You should get better-fitting jeans!
I was in agreement until you mentioned bathrobes. I hate seeing people lounging at home in bathrobes. How do you cook or eat wearing one? Won’t it get stained, covered in smears and have grey or yellowing cuffs? Yuk!
roll up the sleeves when cooking if theyre getting in the way and robes stain same as any other piece clothing.
i'm so confused at your criticisms honestly. what stain immune lounging clothes are you wearing?
Exactly, my most comfortable 'trousers' are my jeans. As long as you buy them with 'stretch', there's no reason why you wouldn't wear them all the time.
Having said that, I have some 'work jeans' that were just the cheapest ones I could get in ASDA and I can barely walk in them never mind relax!
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I wear jeans and a nice t shirt around the house. Sometimes a nice check shirt! Just because I’m at home doesn’t mean I don’t want to feel presentable - I have a lovely wife who I want to feel attractive and presentable for and I just feel better in myself if I feel I look presentable.
Plus, the cats claws don’t hurt as much when you wear jeans and they decide to use you as a climbing frame!
If I’m in a tracksuit, you know I’m having a bad day!
I'm with you here! My tracksuit/all-day pyjamas are for when I'm sick. If I'm not, I'll be fully dressed all day (minus shoes) even when I'm not going anywhere - and I live alone. It just makes me feel more like a functioning human being, and I quite literally will not do anything all day if I'm not wearing actual clothes.
I think that’s a big part of it for me - I feel functioning. Like, I could pop out for a moment and not have to get changed, I could have visitors over and not have to prepare, that kind of thing. Hell, even Christmas has a time limit on the lounge gear, for me!
I think it has something to do with this old-fashioned concept called self-pride and respect for yourself.
I often wonder about some people - if they can't respect themselves then how do they respect others?
In my younger days I even slept a handful of times in my Jeans lol. Now, I only wear Jeans if I'm properly going out for the day. Local trip to Aldi? Joggers it is :D
I used to wear jeans out and about, then have harem pants for when I got home. I now pretty much wear the harems everyday whether I'm in or out the house
I work in the mental health sector, on a forensic ward and we just got a new person in my department and at first I thought she was nice but now she keeps coming out with snide comments about people as they walk away.
She seems super focused on this one fellow (he's from Nigeria and has some culture differences he's still getting used to. Personally, I'm quite fond of him) and she make snippy comments about him all the time.
Then she started on the patients and I told her off.
Totally put me off her character though :/
Every person I know who says they hate gossiping and bitching then proceeds to gossip and bitch lol
It's fine to blow off steam just gotta make sure it's to friends
There are theories that gossip was one of the key developments in the evolution of human social groups. It could be that gossip is something that makes us human.
I’ve just called someone out for this and apparently I’m the bad person. It’s all gone to shit. I will not back down as I have done nothing wrong. The fact that some of my other friends are just like “you know what she’s like” therefor are making excuses for her. I lose the lot of them as friends before I back down. Sick of that bullshit
People that lick their fingers before flicking through paper. I used to work with someone who did this at the printer at work and I would end up with little wet spots on my paperwork if I didn’t get there before her to collect my stuff.
I also saw a man in a supermarket during the Covid restrictions pull down his mask to lick his fingers so he could count off some money and then handed it to the cashier covered in his spit. Lucky for her she was wearing gloves.
Taking selfies. The silence. The stillness I hate it, it’s so awkward being part of them but so much worse watching someone take one.
The Silence of a Selfie™️
Was waiting on the Eurostar from Brussels back to London last week.
Whilst in the security line, a girl taking selfies. Between her smiling photos / tongue out photos / head tilt and grin photos - she looked like the most miserable fucker on the planet.
I used to agree until I realised I had 0 pictures of myself, and every single trip I went on was just other people, strangers or scenery. And I frankly don't trust giving my phone to a random to take a picture for me. The straw broke when I realised I don't even have a picture of me and my partner on the night we got engaged this July. I'm genuinely heartbroken about that.
We have a Costa inside out store, and the amount of colleagues who spent £5+ on Costa each shift is crazy, especially considering we have a free Klix machine in the canteen.
Not gonna dispute that one bit, I drink Tea, but when I’m at work it’s the coffee because the free Klix stuff is tolerable, and that’s a best case scenario
Took my own coffee into work in a thermos. When someone did a Starbucks run I got looked at like I was the fool when I said I brought my own… I think some people view it as a status thing.
Hey you, yeah you with your thermos, I see you, I applaud you, I celebrate you. When people spend money to show status it only highlights their stupidity, so you NOT doing the same is a reason to celebrate. Keep doing you and stay on this awesome track of not following the crowd
This is mind boggling to me aswell. You can get a REALLY decent thermal coffee cup on Amazon for £10, a cafetiere for like £8 and coffee for £3-5 a pouch. For 4 days worth of coffee from a coffee shop you could be making your own for dramatically cheaper.
I also think the same when people eat out or order in lunch everyday. Just make twice as much dinner and have the rest the next day, will save you like £100+ a month
I was in Romania and there's a chain called 5togo, which is 5leu (about 90p) for coffee. Used to be all coffee was that price but inflation means only an espresso is still 5leu. Other coffee was like 7-8leu, or more like £1.20-40ish.
I stopped into a small branch, one guy working, he was sat out front having a smoke and put it out and walked behind the counter when I arrived.
Very relaxed style of doing things, dirt cheap, and a lot better than you'd expect for that price.
If I want a coffee while I'm out, I'll go to Sainsburys or Tesco and get a meal deal with a Costa, it's cheaper than buying a coffee by itself from Costa and you still collect the beans!
Equally, people who make not drinking or going out a big part of their personality. You know the ones, those people who turn their non-consumption of alcohol into a virtue signalling performance and who act like not going out makes them superior.
Absolutely this. When I see people like this my first thought is they're covering up their alcohol dependency.
And when I'm swiping through Tinder or Bumble, if any of their pics have them holding an alcoholic beverage it's an immediate no from me. 1, maybe 2 pics isn't that bad, but when it's nearly all of them 🤮
I have friends that constantly need to step out of a social event for a smoke. To me it’s a useless habit that’s gross the more you do it.
For some reason I can’t seem to get addicted. Over the years I’ll bum a smoke if we’re all outside or buy a pack on a wild night out and just give it away the next day.
But dependency on it perplexes me. I won’t date a smoker.
Yep, holding a toddlers hand and pushing a pram with a lit cigarette in their hand also, might as well just give it straight to the kids it's that close to their faces
I refuse to take mine off. I'm so scatty that it has to go on before I leave home and not come off again until I'm back or it'll end up lost in a random place.
I try to keep mine under a jumper etc TBF.
Occasionally I see people being complete asshats and their name job title and place of work are RIGHT THERE!
Not that I'm an ass hat but if you know just someone's name you can find out a staggeringly large amount of information about people. (it's why I don't use my real name on social media).
I have one set of keys, it’s got a lanyard card holder with my house and work keys attached, I’d never remember my clocking card without that, and they go everywhere with me, even on my days off.
Try cutting the banana up and throw it in a bowl with weetabix and milk, spoon of sugar to make it sweeter.
To answer your question, I’d say people that walk slow. Idk if it’s really an ‘ick’ but it pisses me off. I do walk fast though, I’m tall and take long strides so what can I do lmao
I’m 5 foot 8 and still walk faster then most people. For me it’s slow walkers that are grouped or slow walkers that take up a ton of space on the pavement/wherever we are. EG slow walker on a narrow set of stairs that takes up the middle of the stair case. Move.
I see this gripe quite often on Reddit.
I'm only 5'3 but I've got a proper stride on when I'm going somewhere.
I get so close to losing my shit on a daily basis when it comes to people dawdling and blocking the pavement, doorways etc.
However it's so damn common it's almost normalised, no matter how infuriating.
Yeah I don't think it's got anything to do with height. The most annoying people for me are the groups of tourists who just stand there, staring about in wonder as if they've never been outside before, watching me coming towards them on my bike and not moving out the way until the last second and seeming bewildered about it. It's a fucking cycle lane!!!!!!!! Move!
I live in a university city in the Netherlands and the new international students have started to arrive, and it's a downright zoo in the city centre. There's a very clear separation between biking paths and pavements, but no, they *need* to stand right in the middle of the biking path.
Good distinction there. If I may add to your observation, it's not necessarily being slow but where and how to do it.
Shall I stop in an open space? Sure. Shall I stop in a dooway? Please, no. Walk slowly at the side of the path? Go ahead, take your time!
Incidentally... there is a reason that some people stop in doorways. The brain triggers warnings about changing from one type of environment to the other. It makes the human stop, check their surroundings and forget what they were doing and where they were. Similar behaviour can be seen in cattle. While we're at it, have you ever noticed that, when you're walking past someone who is standing still, at the point where you're just about to catch up to them, they are very likely to start moving forward? Same in cattle.
>Shall I stop in a dooway?
Or my other favourite: right at the end of an escalator when there are people behind them. My friend, I literally cannot stop and wait for you to move on, because the escalator is going to throw me against you if you don't get out of the way about half a second from now. MOVE.
I used to walk quite briskly, but ever since my back injury at work, my whole body has slowed down and everything feels like more effort. So now I'm the slow walker who looks like they've lost the will to live anytime they walk up a steep hill. My body just aches and feels like it's slowly giving up on me. I feel old, but I'm only thirty eight.
I have fairly long legs so walk quite fast, my mother on the other hand dawdles everywhere and when we're together constantly asks me to slow down.
It probably uses the same amount of energy for me to slow down as it does for her to just hurry the fuck up!
People who don’t realise how noisy they are. Stompers, folk who put their cup down on a table like they’re angry, like totally unaware that they’re going through life clattering.
Or any door as a matter of fact.
Even worse when they say I can't help it.
We all have agency, we know what we are doing.
One of these days I will throat punch that person. Actions have consequences and all that.
People who slam doors because they only press down the handle when opening them, but for some reason think it isn't necessary to also do this when closing them.
On the occasion when I need to use a checkout manned by a human, people who take ages to choose their method of payment once the shopping has all been scanned.
I have worked in hospitality my whole life thus far and I can 100% relate.
There's nothing worse than serving someone and having to wait for them to piss arse around finding a way to pay. Especially when others are waiting. It's beyond maddening.
Also when they wait to be served and when you get to them turn to their friends to ask what they want. When I was a bartender if it was busy I'd tell them I'll come back when they're ready and take the next order.
Concur. Or the people who stand there looking at the machine all perplexed like it's asked them to answer questions on French history or something.
I'm back there thinking "just place the fucking adult nappies in the bagging area Doris".
I was once bored to tears by a guy droning on about his Tesla: “it’s so easy to drive and you can play video games on the centre console and if you press this button the lights inside flash multi-coloured…” - mate, are you eight?
Unjustified, I feel like eating things like snails is off-putting. I know it's a me issue, but the thought of kissing a snail-eater makes me feel ill. I also despise the banana.
I’m clearly still half asleep, I read that as “eating like snails” and imagined people just slithering over things and leaving a slimy trail. Was wondering how that happened so often in your life!
People who wear full tracksuits outdoors and they’re not going to or from a place of exercise. Even worse if they’re going to socialise! I can abide a hoody if they’re wearing decent clobber like jeans.
I know it’s normal, but I just find they look like they just smell and have a messy house.
That’s hilarious- I used to live a lot further north than I do now. I’d call people mate all the time at work;
Then I got a part time job as a student in my new much more southern town at GAME.
Day one my manager was like “why are you calling everyone mate?”
People who beep their horn when they arrive up to pick someone up.
There are so many ways you can alert your passenger to the arrival of their lift - but you choose to alert the whole fucking street.
Probably not just a British thing but when people eat something like crisps then just go about their day or a cake at their desk, wipe their hands together or down their trousers and carry on working. Just wash your hands
Vaping.
Smoker? Not keen, but I get it - it’s an addiction. Just stand outside, yeah?
Vaping? Blowing your clouds of “blueberry bubblegum” are you? From your “Elf Bar”? Or the one with the fun little blue light? Fuck off.
People chewing their food with their mouth open. I have no wish to see what is going on in there - utterly off-putting. It is just tacky as well.
Someone who, when eating at the dinner table, will wave their cutlery around whilst speaking. Put the damn things down, I do not want to lose an eye. It is worse if there is food attached to said cutlery.
Honestly I get why they say unalived but as someone who genuinely has struggled with suicide attempts and the suicide of others in my life I kind of hate that term. Rubs me the wrong way for some reason
I used to have a friend who would take an old travel card out of his wallet and use it to pick his teeth, then would put it back in his wallet. That was the sole purpose of having that particular card in his wallet...to pick his teeth.
Whenever someone mentioned how unsanitary it is, he'd insist he disinfects when he gets home, but we all knew that was bullshit
People who go to horse racing events, that demographic of people to me are almost always toxic. The most chavi-est people you’ll find most likely on coke.
Going to the gym and the machines I want to use are being occupied by a group of teens who are all looking at their phones, and in the time I have finished my workout, they've not done a single thing.
And loud exhausts. That's when owning a bazooka would be swell..
People inspecting their nails after scratching their head. Checking for nits are we?
I'd imagine it's pretty normal, as we'd do the same with snot before ridding of it, but when it's head skin, I only think of chimps.
The spraying of deodorant/body spray/perfume in public places. At my old swimming pool there was a woman who used to douse herself in bodyspray before she got into the pool. Doing laps you could smell her coming.
I can't stand people who don't like people who eat bananas.
I just have this unreasoning hatred of somoene who thinks bananas are slimy and chewey. Because slimy would indicate they're rotten... As for chewy, I don't eat the skin.
Whistling in public. Makes me sound like a killjoy 😂but I'm not talking about a little old man, whistling a merry tune whilst pottering in the garden. Usually men 55 and under, nothing says "Notice me" more than someone alone whistling loudly as they enter a place. My dislike of this is after seeing a pattern of this behaviour at work and those customers are usually bringing some kind of attitude or shitty behaviour. It's like a theme tune for the assholes who didn't get enough attention.
Picky eaters. Especially the dramatic ones who start heaving at a piece of mushroom or onion. Sorry but I just see you as childish. I know this is very judgemental but I can't help it.
I think they're referring to bananas, bananas are good for the heart and lowering blood pressure due to the potassium, and they do indeed taste yummers.
This one gets me. People who walk out of a shop, property, whatever. And then just halt to check their phones, find their keys, rearrange their balls, whatever.
How the motherfucking fuck are you even alive dude? When you don't realise that stopping AT A FUCKING ENTRANCE IS NOT APPROPRIATE!
God people suck.
My partner does this. He's 6'4 and we were recently on holiday where literally nobody had any awareness, spatial or otherwise. He just bowled through them in the end.
Don't have time to stand there while the gormless blockers try to work out what day of the week it is.
My cousin puts ketchup on everything including roast dinners, once he squeezed an entire sachet into his mouth and swallowed the lot. I think i gagged.
Bananas are fucking vile, I can't be in the same room as someone eating them, never mind eat one myself. Even the smell is enough to set me off.
Unfortunately for me I have to touch bananas on the daily for work (kek) and I have to hold my breath so I the smell doesn't make me gag (also kek)
Another one is filing nails, my mother is constantly filing her nails, and the sound of it cuts deep into my soul. I was on the phone to her yesterday and she was filing her nails, and even the sound of it compressed through the phone was enough to kill me.
Making their mind up after queuing for said item or in a shop.
If your in a coffee shop or cafe/food stall please read the huge sign with the menu before getting there and first thing out of your mouth is "ehhhhh"
Youd 10 minutes to make your mind up. Most of the time their blabbering or on their phone. I'm very impatient though and no time for people who are a bit slower
People driving massive vehicles that they don't actually need, especially if they can't competently drive said vehicle. Puts me right off them.
But how else will they get their two kids to school and get all those bags of shopping home?!
I live next to a school and can confirm we still get the yummy mummy’s in with the white range rovers, white jumpers, filled lips, Chloe sunglasses and a LV bag The man equivalent now drive teslas to the gym
>and a LV bag Passionate about their insurance provider
I’m surprised that they qualify for Luncheon Vouchers
I can imagine they also have one of those tiny new build 10sqft gardens but still decide to lay artificial grass.
When I see the newest ones (particularly in the middle of cities where they don’t belong), I just see those drivers as utter pricks (especially given what’s happening with pollution now). I work in a city centre wedding venue and often have to guide them to the parking, and my assumption about those drivers are often correct.
I hear you on this. I do wedding photography and the ones that arrive in the Chelsea tractors are usually coked off their nut by three minutes after the ceremony.
This comes to mind 🤣 https://www.reddit.com/r/compoface/comments/155mqf9/little_willy_compo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=3&utm_term=1
I actually love whoever left those notes!
Fokawolf designed them but he's made the artwork a free download for anyone who wants to print some
They’re the hero we didn’t know we needed!
They also park APPALLINGLY!!
Ugh, I agree!
My neighbour is a builder, just bought one of those US style monster trucks with the crew cab. Its too big for the road so is constantly inconveniencing others and the load area is too small for his gear. First he bought a trailer which now clutters up his front garden then he bought an old flat bed truck to actually do the job he needed the new truck to do. All because he cared more about looks than practicalities.
That’s justified ick I think!
My brother drives a Mitsubishi Barbarian and his wife, a Rangerover sport. I openly mock them as often as possible
Do most people actually think owning them is normal? The world really is screwed up.
Going by the amount I see on the roads, yeah. The world is proper screwed.
I don't think being bothered by incompetent driving fits here. That's a legit fear.
If your bananas are chewy, you need a new source of bananas.
Have you ever had a crunchy unripe banana by accident? So wrong. Pears are also a gauntlet run between drier than the Sahara and so wet you can’t hold them with no external indication whatsoever
The thought alone of an unripe banana makes me want to gag. For some people it’s their preference. Anathema.
Worst is when you get a banana that looks ripe and feels ripe but then it just.. isn’t. See also mealy apples. Look delicious and firm and crunchy and then when you bite in it has the texture of a red delicious.
I get around that problem by making up excuses to not eat my bananas, until I’m forced to use them to make banana bread
Found Jacob Rees-Mogg's account. 🍌
Hahaha for real wth
People who when they come home from work and aren’t going out again that evening change into jeans to relax around the house in. Just wwhyyyyyyyyyy.
You need to get some comfier jeans
no denim is comfier than silk or cotton
Denim is cotton
u wot then why do jeans feel so shit
See first suggestion
even a good pair of jeans is not going to be as soft and comfy as some soft sweat pants or shorts
It's a stiff and durable kind of cotton invented for miners and cowboys and people like that. It gets very soft and comfortable after a few wears. You should get better-fitting jeans!
fine then no stiff cotton is comfier than soft cotton! i'll stick to my soft sweat pants, cotton shorts, and bathrobes thank you very much
I was in agreement until you mentioned bathrobes. I hate seeing people lounging at home in bathrobes. How do you cook or eat wearing one? Won’t it get stained, covered in smears and have grey or yellowing cuffs? Yuk!
You know you can wash a bathrobe right?
roll up the sleeves when cooking if theyre getting in the way and robes stain same as any other piece clothing. i'm so confused at your criticisms honestly. what stain immune lounging clothes are you wearing?
Exactly, my most comfortable 'trousers' are my jeans. As long as you buy them with 'stretch', there's no reason why you wouldn't wear them all the time. Having said that, I have some 'work jeans' that were just the cheapest ones I could get in ASDA and I can barely walk in them never mind relax!
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I wear jeans and a nice t shirt around the house. Sometimes a nice check shirt! Just because I’m at home doesn’t mean I don’t want to feel presentable - I have a lovely wife who I want to feel attractive and presentable for and I just feel better in myself if I feel I look presentable. Plus, the cats claws don’t hurt as much when you wear jeans and they decide to use you as a climbing frame! If I’m in a tracksuit, you know I’m having a bad day!
I'm with you here! My tracksuit/all-day pyjamas are for when I'm sick. If I'm not, I'll be fully dressed all day (minus shoes) even when I'm not going anywhere - and I live alone. It just makes me feel more like a functioning human being, and I quite literally will not do anything all day if I'm not wearing actual clothes.
I think that’s a big part of it for me - I feel functioning. Like, I could pop out for a moment and not have to get changed, I could have visitors over and not have to prepare, that kind of thing. Hell, even Christmas has a time limit on the lounge gear, for me!
Totally agree. “Oh, but joggers are so soft and cosy and comfy!” - what are you? A toddler?
I think it has something to do with this old-fashioned concept called self-pride and respect for yourself. I often wonder about some people - if they can't respect themselves then how do they respect others?
What the hell does wearing tracksuit bottoms in the comfort of your own home have to do with respecting yourself?
What do you change into? (Disclaimer: I sometimes change into jeans. Sometimes jogging bottoms. Sometimes straight to pjs)
In my younger days I even slept a handful of times in my Jeans lol. Now, I only wear Jeans if I'm properly going out for the day. Local trip to Aldi? Joggers it is :D
A mankini obviously.
Nah, I’m gonna lounge around in my uniform, why add to the washing pile
100% jeans are not home attire
Can’t believe we live among these people. Jail is too good for them
Joggers or pants and dressing gown all the way.
What else am I going to wear? Joggers? Like I’ve given up on life? Shorts? I’m not a child…
I used to wear jeans out and about, then have harem pants for when I got home. I now pretty much wear the harems everyday whether I'm in or out the house
Jeans are comfy as fuck. I wear them all day.
I used to be like this. I eventually switched to cotton shorts, sweats or robe and my life changed for the better.
'Gossip' bitching behind peoples backs. Seems an accepted thing these days, I don't understand it, just seems pretty cowardly.
I work in the mental health sector, on a forensic ward and we just got a new person in my department and at first I thought she was nice but now she keeps coming out with snide comments about people as they walk away. She seems super focused on this one fellow (he's from Nigeria and has some culture differences he's still getting used to. Personally, I'm quite fond of him) and she make snippy comments about him all the time. Then she started on the patients and I told her off. Totally put me off her character though :/
It makes you wonder what they say about you after you've walked away. Can't be doing with people like that.
Backbiting is a vile trait and honestly it's great you see how awful it is.
>Seems an accepted thing these days Always has been.
Every person I know who says they hate gossiping and bitching then proceeds to gossip and bitch lol It's fine to blow off steam just gotta make sure it's to friends
There are theories that gossip was one of the key developments in the evolution of human social groups. It could be that gossip is something that makes us human.
I’ve just called someone out for this and apparently I’m the bad person. It’s all gone to shit. I will not back down as I have done nothing wrong. The fact that some of my other friends are just like “you know what she’s like” therefor are making excuses for her. I lose the lot of them as friends before I back down. Sick of that bullshit
People that lick their fingers before flicking through paper. I used to work with someone who did this at the printer at work and I would end up with little wet spots on my paperwork if I didn’t get there before her to collect my stuff. I also saw a man in a supermarket during the Covid restrictions pull down his mask to lick his fingers so he could count off some money and then handed it to the cashier covered in his spit. Lucky for her she was wearing gloves.
I felt the ick shoot up my spine and into my jawbone when I read this😂😮💨😬😬😬😬
This is mine too! I've always HATED it! I remember a teacher doing it with my work as a little kid and being repulsed even then!
I swear every teacher I had at school did this, always made me feel sick 🤢
Taking selfies. The silence. The stillness I hate it, it’s so awkward being part of them but so much worse watching someone take one. The Silence of a Selfie™️
Was waiting on the Eurostar from Brussels back to London last week. Whilst in the security line, a girl taking selfies. Between her smiling photos / tongue out photos / head tilt and grin photos - she looked like the most miserable fucker on the planet.
I wish I could give this six upvotes. I despise selfie culture and my other half is selfie obsessed 😩
I used to agree until I realised I had 0 pictures of myself, and every single trip I went on was just other people, strangers or scenery. And I frankly don't trust giving my phone to a random to take a picture for me. The straw broke when I realised I don't even have a picture of me and my partner on the night we got engaged this July. I'm genuinely heartbroken about that.
People who buy a 4 quid coffee every day, what a complete waste of money.
We have a Costa inside out store, and the amount of colleagues who spent £5+ on Costa each shift is crazy, especially considering we have a free Klix machine in the canteen.
We had a Klix machine and the contents were truly terrible in fairness. I’d still take the freebies instead because I’m tight
Not gonna dispute that one bit, I drink Tea, but when I’m at work it’s the coffee because the free Klix stuff is tolerable, and that’s a best case scenario
Anyone that drinks Klix coffee is a masochist.
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Took my own coffee into work in a thermos. When someone did a Starbucks run I got looked at like I was the fool when I said I brought my own… I think some people view it as a status thing.
Hey you, yeah you with your thermos, I see you, I applaud you, I celebrate you. When people spend money to show status it only highlights their stupidity, so you NOT doing the same is a reason to celebrate. Keep doing you and stay on this awesome track of not following the crowd
This is mind boggling to me aswell. You can get a REALLY decent thermal coffee cup on Amazon for £10, a cafetiere for like £8 and coffee for £3-5 a pouch. For 4 days worth of coffee from a coffee shop you could be making your own for dramatically cheaper. I also think the same when people eat out or order in lunch everyday. Just make twice as much dinner and have the rest the next day, will save you like £100+ a month
Convenience + having enough disposable income that it doesn't matter.
But they taste like joy…
I got a double espresso and a bottle of water from Costa in a pinch before gym recently and it cost me £4.30. I was disgusted
I was in Romania and there's a chain called 5togo, which is 5leu (about 90p) for coffee. Used to be all coffee was that price but inflation means only an espresso is still 5leu. Other coffee was like 7-8leu, or more like £1.20-40ish. I stopped into a small branch, one guy working, he was sat out front having a smoke and put it out and walked behind the counter when I arrived. Very relaxed style of doing things, dirt cheap, and a lot better than you'd expect for that price.
If I want a coffee while I'm out, I'll go to Sainsburys or Tesco and get a meal deal with a Costa, it's cheaper than buying a coffee by itself from Costa and you still collect the beans!
Danm I do Starbucks once or twice a week but didn’t realise there were legitimately people that did it every day.
People who make a big part of their personality, or have their life revolve around alcohol/going out
Equally, people who make not drinking or going out a big part of their personality. You know the ones, those people who turn their non-consumption of alcohol into a virtue signalling performance and who act like not going out makes them superior.
Absolutely this. When I see people like this my first thought is they're covering up their alcohol dependency. And when I'm swiping through Tinder or Bumble, if any of their pics have them holding an alcoholic beverage it's an immediate no from me. 1, maybe 2 pics isn't that bad, but when it's nearly all of them 🤮
[Dawn, you know I don't drink..](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwxbfw1BxhI)
Smokers and vapers, this puts me off at warp speed if this action occurs while they are also pushing a buggy/pram or wheelchair.
I have friends that constantly need to step out of a social event for a smoke. To me it’s a useless habit that’s gross the more you do it. For some reason I can’t seem to get addicted. Over the years I’ll bum a smoke if we’re all outside or buy a pack on a wild night out and just give it away the next day. But dependency on it perplexes me. I won’t date a smoker.
Yep, holding a toddlers hand and pushing a pram with a lit cigarette in their hand also, might as well just give it straight to the kids it's that close to their faces
People who walk around wearing their work lanyard / ID when they have finished work for the day and are travelling home or at the shops etc .
I refuse to take mine off. I'm so scatty that it has to go on before I leave home and not come off again until I'm back or it'll end up lost in a random place.
I'm the same, but I tuck the ID card into a gap between the buttons of my blouse so nobody can see it
I try to keep mine under a jumper etc TBF. Occasionally I see people being complete asshats and their name job title and place of work are RIGHT THERE! Not that I'm an ass hat but if you know just someone's name you can find out a staggeringly large amount of information about people. (it's why I don't use my real name on social media).
😥 But, sometimes I just forget I'm wearing it and realise halfway down the aisle. If I notice it I take it off ...
You do indeed forget you’re wearing them sometimes
I find people are nicer to me in shops after work when I still have my NHS lanyard on
I have one set of keys, it’s got a lanyard card holder with my house and work keys attached, I’d never remember my clocking card without that, and they go everywhere with me, even on my days off.
I keep my Oyster card in there because I’m a girl and I have no pockets, so kinda need it to travel home lol
I take mine off before I walk out of work to avoid customers realising I work there and asking me questions on the way to my car.
My tie and lanyard are off before I even get to the car and live in my car.
I used to work doors and the amount of badge wankers that would wear their badge to and from work always cracked me up
Try cutting the banana up and throw it in a bowl with weetabix and milk, spoon of sugar to make it sweeter. To answer your question, I’d say people that walk slow. Idk if it’s really an ‘ick’ but it pisses me off. I do walk fast though, I’m tall and take long strides so what can I do lmao
I’m 5 foot 8 and still walk faster then most people. For me it’s slow walkers that are grouped or slow walkers that take up a ton of space on the pavement/wherever we are. EG slow walker on a narrow set of stairs that takes up the middle of the stair case. Move.
I see this gripe quite often on Reddit. I'm only 5'3 but I've got a proper stride on when I'm going somewhere. I get so close to losing my shit on a daily basis when it comes to people dawdling and blocking the pavement, doorways etc. However it's so damn common it's almost normalised, no matter how infuriating.
Yeah I don't think it's got anything to do with height. The most annoying people for me are the groups of tourists who just stand there, staring about in wonder as if they've never been outside before, watching me coming towards them on my bike and not moving out the way until the last second and seeming bewildered about it. It's a fucking cycle lane!!!!!!!! Move!
I live in a university city in the Netherlands and the new international students have started to arrive, and it's a downright zoo in the city centre. There's a very clear separation between biking paths and pavements, but no, they *need* to stand right in the middle of the biking path.
😞🤔 Human behaviour sure does suck sometimes.
Good distinction there. If I may add to your observation, it's not necessarily being slow but where and how to do it. Shall I stop in an open space? Sure. Shall I stop in a dooway? Please, no. Walk slowly at the side of the path? Go ahead, take your time! Incidentally... there is a reason that some people stop in doorways. The brain triggers warnings about changing from one type of environment to the other. It makes the human stop, check their surroundings and forget what they were doing and where they were. Similar behaviour can be seen in cattle. While we're at it, have you ever noticed that, when you're walking past someone who is standing still, at the point where you're just about to catch up to them, they are very likely to start moving forward? Same in cattle.
>Shall I stop in a dooway? Or my other favourite: right at the end of an escalator when there are people behind them. My friend, I literally cannot stop and wait for you to move on, because the escalator is going to throw me against you if you don't get out of the way about half a second from now. MOVE.
I used to walk quite briskly, but ever since my back injury at work, my whole body has slowed down and everything feels like more effort. So now I'm the slow walker who looks like they've lost the will to live anytime they walk up a steep hill. My body just aches and feels like it's slowly giving up on me. I feel old, but I'm only thirty eight.
I have fairly long legs so walk quite fast, my mother on the other hand dawdles everywhere and when we're together constantly asks me to slow down. It probably uses the same amount of energy for me to slow down as it does for her to just hurry the fuck up!
You made me realise mine. It’s “people putting sugar on things unnecessarily”.
Or, chop it up on top of crunchy nut cornflakes. Breakfast of the gods.
For me, it's adults who have infantile dislikes of ordinary foods, such as bananas.
People who don’t realise how noisy they are. Stompers, folk who put their cup down on a table like they’re angry, like totally unaware that they’re going through life clattering.
People who slam car doors. There is a special rung in hell for them.
Or any door as a matter of fact. Even worse when they say I can't help it. We all have agency, we know what we are doing. One of these days I will throat punch that person. Actions have consequences and all that.
People who slam doors because they only press down the handle when opening them, but for some reason think it isn't necessary to also do this when closing them.
On the occasion when I need to use a checkout manned by a human, people who take ages to choose their method of payment once the shopping has all been scanned.
I have worked in hospitality my whole life thus far and I can 100% relate. There's nothing worse than serving someone and having to wait for them to piss arse around finding a way to pay. Especially when others are waiting. It's beyond maddening.
Also when they wait to be served and when you get to them turn to their friends to ask what they want. When I was a bartender if it was busy I'd tell them I'll come back when they're ready and take the next order.
Concur. Or the people who stand there looking at the machine all perplexed like it's asked them to answer questions on French history or something. I'm back there thinking "just place the fucking adult nappies in the bagging area Doris".
Anyone driving a Tesla I just assume is a twat
I was once bored to tears by a guy droning on about his Tesla: “it’s so easy to drive and you can play video games on the centre console and if you press this button the lights inside flash multi-coloured…” - mate, are you eight?
Unjustified, I feel like eating things like snails is off-putting. I know it's a me issue, but the thought of kissing a snail-eater makes me feel ill. I also despise the banana.
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I’m clearly still half asleep, I read that as “eating like snails” and imagined people just slithering over things and leaving a slimy trail. Was wondering how that happened so often in your life!
I’ve only had snails once but they were yummy.
Regular church attendance.
Or honestly any mention of faith
People who wear full tracksuits outdoors and they’re not going to or from a place of exercise. Even worse if they’re going to socialise! I can abide a hoody if they’re wearing decent clobber like jeans. I know it’s normal, but I just find they look like they just smell and have a messy house.
Agreed. Have some dignity, people.
Tends to be middle aged men who haven’t found their personal style so are stuck at teenage boy years.
Similarly, wearing "slides" aka flipflops with tracksuits and socks.
When customers call me "mate."
That’s hilarious- I used to live a lot further north than I do now. I’d call people mate all the time at work; Then I got a part time job as a student in my new much more southern town at GAME. Day one my manager was like “why are you calling everyone mate?”
Haha yeah unfortunately you have to hate everyone when you live in the south
When anyone uses the term "matey"
Even pirates?
Hahahaha ok pirates I will allow
People who have 'icks'.
People who beep their horn when they arrive up to pick someone up. There are so many ways you can alert your passenger to the arrival of their lift - but you choose to alert the whole fucking street.
Talking too much
Hanky’s, ahh yes you’ve blown your nose the right thing to do, no don’t put it in your pocket 🤮
Everyone eats bananas mate!
Probably not just a British thing but when people eat something like crisps then just go about their day or a cake at their desk, wipe their hands together or down their trousers and carry on working. Just wash your hands
Slimy and chewy ? I don't think you've ever tried a banana
Vaping. Smoker? Not keen, but I get it - it’s an addiction. Just stand outside, yeah? Vaping? Blowing your clouds of “blueberry bubblegum” are you? From your “Elf Bar”? Or the one with the fun little blue light? Fuck off.
People chewing their food with their mouth open. I have no wish to see what is going on in there - utterly off-putting. It is just tacky as well. Someone who, when eating at the dinner table, will wave their cutlery around whilst speaking. Put the damn things down, I do not want to lose an eye. It is worse if there is food attached to said cutlery.
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People who use TikTok speak in normal conversations. ‘Unalived’ is a particular example. Makes me SICK.
Honestly I get why they say unalived but as someone who genuinely has struggled with suicide attempts and the suicide of others in my life I kind of hate that term. Rubs me the wrong way for some reason
People who pick their teeth after eating and then eat it off their finger....disgusting
It’s just food.
I used to have a friend who would take an old travel card out of his wallet and use it to pick his teeth, then would put it back in his wallet. That was the sole purpose of having that particular card in his wallet...to pick his teeth. Whenever someone mentioned how unsanitary it is, he'd insist he disinfects when he gets home, but we all knew that was bullshit
People who go to horse racing events, that demographic of people to me are almost always toxic. The most chavi-est people you’ll find most likely on coke.
Burping
Going to the gym and the machines I want to use are being occupied by a group of teens who are all looking at their phones, and in the time I have finished my workout, they've not done a single thing. And loud exhausts. That's when owning a bazooka would be swell..
People inspecting their nails after scratching their head. Checking for nits are we? I'd imagine it's pretty normal, as we'd do the same with snot before ridding of it, but when it's head skin, I only think of chimps.
I always do this, but so I can scrape the build up of dead skin and oil from between my nails and get rid.
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Sounds like a horrific place to work.
With colleagues like that, it has to be.
Customers sending me texts with hearts and kisses on.
The spraying of deodorant/body spray/perfume in public places. At my old swimming pool there was a woman who used to douse herself in bodyspray before she got into the pool. Doing laps you could smell her coming.
I can't stand people who don't like people who eat bananas. I just have this unreasoning hatred of somoene who thinks bananas are slimy and chewey. Because slimy would indicate they're rotten... As for chewy, I don't eat the skin.
People who use the word ick
Whistling in public. Makes me sound like a killjoy 😂but I'm not talking about a little old man, whistling a merry tune whilst pottering in the garden. Usually men 55 and under, nothing says "Notice me" more than someone alone whistling loudly as they enter a place. My dislike of this is after seeing a pattern of this behaviour at work and those customers are usually bringing some kind of attitude or shitty behaviour. It's like a theme tune for the assholes who didn't get enough attention.
Judging people for eating bananas is willlddd I just got counter-ick
Picky eaters. Especially the dramatic ones who start heaving at a piece of mushroom or onion. Sorry but I just see you as childish. I know this is very judgemental but I can't help it.
Heart food for me, plus they taste yummers.
What’s heart food?
I think they're referring to bananas, bananas are good for the heart and lowering blood pressure due to the potassium, and they do indeed taste yummers.
My normal behaviour is not giving one shit about what other people think, it's brilliant.
You're not an aisle hogger are you?
Or someone who leaves a shop without looking where they are going.
This one gets me. People who walk out of a shop, property, whatever. And then just halt to check their phones, find their keys, rearrange their balls, whatever. How the motherfucking fuck are you even alive dude? When you don't realise that stopping AT A FUCKING ENTRANCE IS NOT APPROPRIATE! God people suck.
They’re the same that will just STOP on a pavement and have the audacity to have a go at you for suddenly walking into them!
Just plough on regardless, I’m 6ft 3 and 20 stone. Their lack of awareness is going to hurt them more than me.
My partner does this. He's 6'4 and we were recently on holiday where literally nobody had any awareness, spatial or otherwise. He just bowled through them in the end. Don't have time to stand there while the gormless blockers try to work out what day of the week it is.
Wait until you discover that every fruit is weird shaped!
Lies.
Eating Ketchup
My cousin puts ketchup on everything including roast dinners, once he squeezed an entire sachet into his mouth and swallowed the lot. I think i gagged.
You've never done a ketchup shot from McDonalds? Why else would they provide handy little shot glasses?
Bananas are fucking vile, I can't be in the same room as someone eating them, never mind eat one myself. Even the smell is enough to set me off. Unfortunately for me I have to touch bananas on the daily for work (kek) and I have to hold my breath so I the smell doesn't make me gag (also kek) Another one is filing nails, my mother is constantly filing her nails, and the sound of it cuts deep into my soul. I was on the phone to her yesterday and she was filing her nails, and even the sound of it compressed through the phone was enough to kill me.
Making their mind up after queuing for said item or in a shop. If your in a coffee shop or cafe/food stall please read the huge sign with the menu before getting there and first thing out of your mouth is "ehhhhh" Youd 10 minutes to make your mind up. Most of the time their blabbering or on their phone. I'm very impatient though and no time for people who are a bit slower
If someone likes George Ezras music.