My dad's family have family surnames as their middle names. My brother and I have grandparents first names as our middles.

It's the snowflake generation.

They melt.

These are the same people who moan endlessly when it's cold :-/

A relative of mine does have his grandmother's surname as his middle name. But it is a proper boys name.

I do moan about the heat and the cold. Too much heat gives me migraine and the cold messes my chest up.

And I bet nobody hears a peep out of you when it's 0c.

I think I might be one of those people then! I really struggle when the temperature is anything really above 14c. I've always had terrible headaches in any kind of heat and it's not for me. People on my Facebook know that and accept it.

It was terrible at school when it was hot like it is now. I'd be struggling and people who didn't get it just picked on me endlessly because of it. Everyone's different, that's how I look at it.

I may not be "normal" when it comes to coping with any heat, but dismissing anyone because of it is wrong in my books!

People who think it's OK to run and push others out of the way because it's raining, and/or to catch a bus or train.

People who get angry if I don't let them in after me as I enter the office. This is at a company that's about to have a major ISO inspection, and where security has recently been tightened because of a burglary. If you work here, you know this; and have, like me, been warned over and over again not to let unknown people into the building. If you don't work here, you should be using the main entrance, where security will help you (and there's a notice reminding you of that!)

The assumption that, in any work of fiction, any woman aged between 13-60 needs to fall in love and/or have a child; purely because she is female. Especially cringeworthy when done in series based around someone's profession (police / legal procedurals, medical dramas, etc.) where a high-powered woman will hit 35 or 40 or 50 and panic that she's left it too late to get married or have a baby! Thereafter, this will be the focus of her character and it will be done in such a heavy-handed and poorly written way. I seem to remember one of the characters in House had this ...

The train guard who shouted at me and threatened to have me prosecuted because I couldn't find my season pass - which I did have with me, and eventually found. I wasn't raising my voice or being rude. I said calmly that if I couldn't find the pass in my bag I would buy another ticket; and he started shouting about fare evasion and prosecution because "I saw you get on the train early! You had plenty of time to buy a ticket!" I believe he thought that, if he made a scene, I would be "embarrassed" in front of the packed train carriage and would give in and pay a penalty fare. He was embarrassing himself more than anyone else.

Rain and people who gush about loving rain. There's nothing to love. I want to move to California; a friend who lives there described it as being like living in a simulation where the weather is the same all year round: warm and sunny with little variation. I don't know if that's true, but it certainly sounds nice ...

Fecking ice cream truck music.

changing my bed sheets . bloody hard work

Those people complaining about not being able to register to vote in the EU referendum, who only realised after about 10.30pm last night that they hadn't yet done so. The date of the referendum was set on 20 February - you had more than THREE MONTHS to register, so why wait until the last 90 minutes?

Agreed. The duvet in particular

Bet you any money you like they were never going to vote anyway and are using 'missing the deadline' as an excuse.

I've done away with this annoyance by putting a top sheet on underneath the duvet.

People would dump stuff outside charity shops despite notices clearly stating they should not do so.
They may get a 'feel-good' feeling for donating, or they may be congratulating themselves that they have managed to dump a load of old tat that they couldn't even shift at the jumble sale but the fact is that it is little better than fly-tipping which attracts scavengers (mostly human).
It makes an eye-sore which the shop staff have to clear up with little benefit to the shop.

Not having a dedicated thread for Peppa Pig.

You see, I really have trouble sleeping because I just don't know what Daddy Pig's profession is.

You see him come home from work with the black briefcase but, is he a doctor?

Or might he be an estate agent?

Architect according to Wikipedia!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppa_Pig

Parents who trot along to the Registrars Office to register the name of their new born baby without giving it a thought about the spelling, so the poor kids end up as Shawn, Chellsey, Kaolin and Stassey.😁

Earworm from the songs in the Cotton Eye Joe thread

Estate Agent not a stones throw from a Chartered Surveyor really then - thanks for the info!

Micheal

My parents were one of those people. I once had to correct my dad (on Facebook, of all places...) on how I spell my name.

People who lurk on Facebook and never write/interact.

Tattooed women. Who are they trying to impress, convicts?

Here's an easy method: turn the duvet cover inside out first, then put your arms inside it, grab the two nearest corners of the duvet through the material, and shake the cover down.

Like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCaly7PXak

(you can go straight to about 1:15 to skip the waffle.)

Oohhh don't get me started, this is endemic in Australia nowadays - I've friends who have turned names like 'Ebony' and 'Shakira' into anagrams...'Eboneigh'....'Shakeerha'....honestly! what about the poor kids who will spend the rest of their lives correcting how people spell their names? a close friend named her son 'Jaemee' 24 years ago and he got so fed up with it being spelled 'Jamie' that he eventually changed it. They only do it to make themselves 'special'.


A friend I've known since childhood posts status updates that are generally interesting to read but....she never ever replies to comments her friends post on them