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Come the (GN) revolution, the following will be banned or severely dealt with!

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phoenix Tue 21-Aug-18 21:15:19

Hello all, please can this be treated as a light hearted thread? smile

First to be tackled, scratchy labels in clothes, especially around the neck area!

Then, over use of the word "like", as in "so I was like really angry, but they were like, so you should like just chill"

TV advertisements for electric tooth brushes (go on, just see, almost every ad break on commercial television features one!)And

Open for your additions!

Larissa67 Wed 22-Aug-18 07:55:41

Cyclists on the pavement.
Eating in the seats at the theatre and cinema, noisy and smelly. I've seen and smelt someone eating fish and chips just before curtain up in West End. Ugh!
Well known actors doing voiceovers on adverts. It's not like they need the money.

Dolcelatte Wed 22-Aug-18 07:23:22

1. Chuggers
2. Telephone answering services where you are put through multiple choices and multiple times before speaking to anybody (especially where being required to type in the credit number on the keypad and the first thing the person you eventually speak to asks for is your credit card number)
3. Cold calling (especially from people who say that I have been involved in an accident)
4. People who conduct business on their mobile 'phones on trains and other places where it is impossible to escape from them (annoying, boring and unprofessional)
5. People who try to board trains or tubes before the passengers have got off
6. Rude drivers - especially some men in white vans who drive early in the morning and think they own the road
7. Misogynists and racists

NfkDumpling Wed 22-Aug-18 07:17:23

Bras. I’m still looking for a comfortable one.

People who think rubbish vanishes when they thrown it from their cars should be put in stocks and pelted with plastic bottles retrieved from lay-bys - maybe ones half filled with mysterious yellow liquid which will burst as they hit.

Lack of pockets in women’s trousers. I demand equal rights with men’s trousers.

And I’m another who wants to ban scratchy clothes labels.

Marmight Wed 22-Aug-18 07:04:50

Drivers who hog the middle lane necessitating others having to leave the nearside to overtake them via the 3rd lane and then back into the nearside. Equally drivers who zoom past you and then slow down for no apparent reason apart from being bloody-minded, so you are stuck up the rear end of the car in front unable to overtake. Lane hopping in a traffic jam; it gets you nowhere and serves no purpose! (I've just been on yet another long motorway journey grin
Difficult to move sticky labels on anything but particularly gifts. I don't want the recipient to know it was 50% reduced blush

Billybob4491 Wed 22-Aug-18 06:41:15

I would ban the use of the word "basically" why does everyone have to use this word continually, drives me basically crazy!

Weather presenters on TV whilst give us the weather forecast have to stand in a field, or knee deep in puddles, or at a farm/Ascot etc., to inform us, we get the picture!

kittylester Wed 22-Aug-18 06:32:10

All the above plus those silly tiny roundabouts that are actually impossible to drive round.

ChaosIncorporated Wed 22-Aug-18 00:31:00

Drivers who accelerate as you are overtaking, because they look sideways and see you are a woman.

People who do not say thank you when a door has been held open for them.

Automated call systems with no option to speak with a human being.

GillT57 Tue 21-Aug-18 23:11:34

People who shout at their children or swear. Loud mobile conversations. Scratchy clothes labels. Politicians who lie and treat the public with disrespect and disdain. Peurile and vacuous celebrities who cannot differentiate between fame and infamy and those who 'follow' them.

varian Tue 21-Aug-18 22:54:55

Mindless thuddy thuddy Muzak in shops, pubs, any public places, anytime, including on tv or radio programmes when someone is speaking.

KatyK Tue 21-Aug-18 22:54:55

TV presenters who say was instead of were - 'we was on our way home' etc.

Eglantine21 Tue 21-Aug-18 22:54:36

Thanks Ginny ?

Joelsnan Tue 21-Aug-18 22:51:56

Auto renewing, house and car insurance and other subscriptions that auto renew, magazines etc. Which are devilishly hard to stop.

ginny Tue 21-Aug-18 22:48:35

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diu1k_5H45k

Hope this works Eglatine 21

Chewbacca Tue 21-Aug-18 22:40:18

People who park in the disabled or parent and child bays who are neither. They usually justify this by saying "I'll only be a minute. ..."

Doodle Tue 21-Aug-18 22:40:17

Public toilets that won't flush
The new type of food wrapping that won't open no matter how much you try and pull the join apart
People in cars who play their music really loud with the windows open
"Alexa" when she won't turn the f**** Lights OFF ?

gillybob Tue 21-Aug-18 22:39:18

Well you can go ahead and ban me if you like.

I’m a Geordie and proud of it ! Du yu know warra mean like ?

And btw we have very polite traffic signals that say “thank you” when you travel on or below the limit. Maybe they should say Ta very much....like

Eglantine21 Tue 21-Aug-18 22:36:14

Pavement parking. Pavements are for people!

Ginny can you say more about roundabouts. I have seen so much wrong signalling on roundaboutsthat I actually checked the Highway Code to make sure that it hadn’t changed since I learnt to drive and it was me thathad got it wrong.

It hadn’t and my signalling was correct.

Bathsheba Tue 21-Aug-18 22:35:42

Jars of coffee - or anything that is traditionally measured using a teaspoon - that are 50% taller than the average teaspoon so you can't reach the stuff when it's nearly empty.
Similarly, spice jars into which it is impossible to even fit a teaspoon as they are just too narrow.
And jars of sauce, cook-in-sauces etc, that have a kind of sticky out bit at the very bottom so you can't get the spoon into it to scrape every last bit out.
I'm getting very angry just thinking about these things!

ginny Tue 21-Aug-18 22:30:23

People who don’t know how to drive around a roundabout in the correct manner.
Feeling guilty about not wanting to go on holiday with MIL.
People speaking loudly into their mobile ‘phones in public places.
People who decide that one shouldn’t do something/ wear something/ go somewhere, watch/ listen to something just because you are a certain age.

POGS Tue 21-Aug-18 22:23:25

Bottle tops that are impossible to open , grr.

Flies , especially the little buggers that buzz you.

Solar lights that are rubbish ( why do I keep buying them [confused)

Drawer bottoms that are so weak they fall out and are impossible to fix even after trying to fix them using tacks, nails, super glue and tape.

MissAdventure Tue 21-Aug-18 22:23:20

People who carry out really personal conversations on their mobiles, on crowded buses or trains.

Anniebach Tue 21-Aug-18 22:21:17

Brochures and catalogues in the post, if I want something I will look for it, and it’s more to recycle.

Plastic wrapping around brochures and catalogues, I can’t recycle it.

Foul language

Mamissimo Tue 21-Aug-18 22:20:16

fofo ? and I want my food on a plate, not on a slate, a piece of wood or a shovel! We will bring back plates!

Mamissimo Tue 21-Aug-18 22:13:05

Adverts in the afternoon mugging you for £5 for the donkeys, to educate girls, to rescue dogs.....

Sandals with socks

Chat type help on websites

People who don’t use their indicators

Adtrackers on the Internet !

fofo Tue 21-Aug-18 22:11:06

Food in pubs coming to the table in an assortment of little buckets, pots and dishes all placed on the plate you are going to eat it off. What’s the point?