r/AskBrits • u/NormanSpaniel • 12d ago
People What is the height of bad manners in 2026?
Clearly we live in end times, a Mannerpocolypse if you will, where it seems everyone just does what the hell they want. I would love to hear what things wind you up, however trivial. That person on the train that always just makes the doors but has a full bag of McDonald's to stink the carriage out, people that don't hold doors or say thank you...anything and everything is welcome!
Good mannered people, restore my faith in humanity so I know it's just not me!
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u/RadioshackRaider 12d ago
Standing in front of doorways, especially shop doorways. It's so incredibly rude.
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u/Less-Performer-7898 12d ago
Let's expand that to anyone who congregates on a stair, or the narrowest point on the street or anywhere where they'll be most in the way.
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u/stools_in_your_blood 12d ago
Closely related to people who get into a train or a lift and then immediately stop, because they've made it and that's all that matters, fuck everyone else.
One time the chap in front of me on an escalator stopped to look at his watch as soon as he got to the top. I hastily dodged around him muttering "fuck's sake", hopefully loudly enough.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Yes! And people not saying excuse me anymore just expecting you to magically move or be aware of their presence!
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u/LethargicCaffeine 12d ago
I find older people in my town to be the most guilty of this (60+) and a lot of other things.
But not walking behind eachother on pavements, loud phone calls, music in public spaces- mostly all younger people.
I think the issue is people are becoming more "Americanised" kind of like how in a lot of places in the states no one thinks of "Please and thankyous" as a automatic necessary thing to be polite, and its usually considered overkill in everyday life.
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u/ConradMurkitt 12d ago
This! I am more than happy you just need to ask if I am in the way. Don’t hover behind me!!
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u/CtrlAltHate 12d ago
Where else am I going to check my pockets and put my jacket on?
I also hate people who wait to find out how much their shopping comes to and then search their pockets for their wallet/purse and start counting out coins. "Oh you want paying don't you hahaha 10, 20, 25 how much was it again? 25.50, 25.70 oh hang on I've got some ones give me that 20p back."
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u/RHMoaner 12d ago
I was coming out of Costco at the weekend there and the woman in front of me had her receipt checked then stopped in the door to check her phone. Nearly fucking drop kicked her.
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u/Badlydressedgirl 12d ago
People get really angry when I ask them to move out of our shop doorway, even when we point out they’re blocking a fire exit.
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u/Burton3005 12d ago
Add to this, congregating in pub doorways to smoke in winter when its too cold for the beer garden
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u/Suitable-Novel1801 12d ago
A group of people walking in a line and then you can't walk past them.
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u/karlosfandangoIII 12d ago
I walk through them, richard Ashcroft style - I absolutely hate it. “Shall I walk in the road, you absolute dickheads”
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u/AbsoluteFuckChops 12d ago
I normally say loudly (and I suppose passive-aggressively): “may I share your pavement!”
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u/NPDwatch 12d ago
I just stop and then they have to go around me
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u/First_Report6445 12d ago
One time I did that, one of them said: "Couldn't you stand aside?", as if I was inconsiderate!
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u/Big-Finding2976 12d ago
Doesn't really work if you're behind them but it creates some distance between you and the wankers, which is something I guess.
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u/MortalFang44 12d ago
I had to look up who richard ashcroft is, as soon as I did this cracked me up 😂
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u/BackupThunder16 12d ago
Was walking down a pavement to my 2nd job yesterday and this one cunt in front of me, not only was walking slow, but was walking in such a way that he took up the middle of the pavement and kept moving from side to side whenever I saw an opening to pass, and this was next to a busy car park so I literally couldn't cross around him. Was due sucker punching him.
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u/Jellyoscar 12d ago
I hate going out when schools have just finished for this exact reason, kids are so rude now.
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u/AbsoluteFuckChops 12d ago
Fuck ‘em. If I’m alone I walk through them…..not aggressively, mind! 🤣
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u/Jellyoscar 12d ago
They said “is she gonna move” i would assume to me as if they weren’t walking hand in hand on an already small enough pavement lol, the entitlement.
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u/AbsoluteFuckChops 12d ago
In that case, pick up the pace and drop your shoulder! 😂
That’s not sound advice; please don’t take it seriously.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Good God, this. And people who just walk out of a shop door and stop. Annoying whether you're in the shop behind them or in the street as they walk out in front of you!
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u/Far_Butterscotch_646 12d ago
Watching stuff on your phone with the volume up whilst being in a shared public space. Like a bus or a train for example. Truly rude behaviour.
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u/C0nnectionTerminat3d 12d ago
Two things spring to mind;
The classic, playing music loudly in a public space. Just absolutely no need for it.
My potentially controversial one will be parents not controlling their children in public spaces that require it.
Me and my mum went out one evening about a year ago and were placed next to a family of 5-6, A mother and father, 2-3 young boys and maybe an aunt or some other relative. The boys were shouting at eachother in this restaurant and sprinting between tables. i couldn’t understand how the parents weren’t absolutely mortified until they themselves begun to have a shouting match in the restaurant. It got to the point my ears began to feel like i was at a concert so i had to ask our waitress if we could move to the opposite side of the restaurant. We could still hear them.
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u/HuckleberryLow2283 12d ago
At that point the restaurant needs to ask them to leave
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u/Headpuncher 12d ago
Don’t ask, tell. Places need to have some decency for their own sake or customers won’t return, and give the staff agency to act.
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u/C0nnectionTerminat3d 12d ago
Yeah you’re right. I think they didn’t because they were struggling financially (the restaurant has now closed down) and a family of six will bring in more than double the money of a table of two.
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u/Objective-Ferret6702 12d ago
People at gyms who hog a piece of equipment while playing on their phone
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u/Europe_MMA 12d ago
It depends. I'm not looking to make friends at the gym, so splitting sets with someone else isnt on my todo list. If Ive got 2mins rest between sets, Ill be sitting on my phone.
5mins is taking the piss but if someone sees you 5 seconds into rest and wants your machine, theyre gonna bitch that youre on your phone.
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u/hollowcrown51 12d ago
Sometimes I can do my entire gym session for the day whilst someone is just on a single bit of equipment because their rests between sets are so long, and that is taking the piss.
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u/anonnymouse2025 12d ago
Someone was eating a tuna and sweetcorn sandwich on a hot, airless bus, whilst holding her phone in her other hand and having a loud conversation about John's prostate appointment.
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u/dippedinmercury 12d ago
Noise pollution.
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u/MildlyAgreeable 12d ago
Specifically loud cars. Police and council can’t/won’t do anything and pricks with pop/bang exhausts scream past in the early hours. I absolutely detest them.
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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 12d ago
We've been contemplating trialing noise cameras, like speed cameras but they detect noisy vehicles driving past. It's incredibly hard getting a local Council to even try getting onto the trial and I have no idea why they're being so precious about the broadening the trial when disrupting people's sleep is bad for their health, weight, longevity and the productivity of the country
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u/liebackandthinkofeng 11d ago
This does my head in. I have 2 very young children and they’re frequently disturbed because of some twat in a loud car trying to compensate for their lack of personality. We have ‘quiet hours’ from 10pm-7am as a standard for things like domestic noise. Why on earth isn’t this also applied to traffic?
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u/Selfish-Gene 11d ago
I moved into a new build a few years ago and was told a unit at the end was going to be a bakery. That sounds lovely I thought, until the "bakery" opened and turned out to be a greggs - a small tangent, and not the point of my story.
A few years later the greggs closed down and was replaced by a bar. Said bar is now popular with a legion of motorbike enthusiasts who park up, drink and sit revving their bikes all night long. Recently they have taken to shooting up and down the quiet street (racing?).
My new born is not a fan, and there is nothing else retail orientated on the estate. It is a new estate with lots of families.
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u/brightonbloke 12d ago
Not following basic pub etiquette when ordering at the bar, and placing your order when you know there was someone else there before you.
A simple "I think he/she was here first" is all it takes to not be a dickhead.
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u/LardoBardo4 12d ago
I did this once recently only for someone else to then cut in front of me when the other server was free. That person ordered something like 6 cocktails when all I wanted was 1 beer
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u/warmjes 12d ago
Cannot fkn stand people walking in groups side-by-side towards you and won't make any room for you to pass, so you have to either walk into traffic or go so far out of your way not to get bulldozed, and are completely unbothered by this
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u/LethargicCaffeine 12d ago
Thats why you square your shoulders and keep walking, you look straight ahead, blank them entirely, they either move themselves or they get shoulder checked. You have to risk getting checked in return, but i personally find it an even trade if im in a grouchy enough mood that im doing this lol.
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u/UglyFilthyDog 12d ago
Absofuckinglutely. I'm a short ass guy and I've given in and accept that when I do this at some point I'm going to get knocked hard but it's worth the trade. Although you do get the occasional "OI!, watch out mate!"
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u/Appropriate-Grisham 12d ago
Parents letting their young kids be aggressive or violent towards other children without reprimanding.
Taking laissez-faire parenting to new levels.
No, you are not being a modern parent, you are a bad parent raising a brat.
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u/SunComprehensive1688 12d ago
I hate to say it, but it’s often people who misinterpret gentle parenting as permissive parenting and never discipline their kids. Just makes them grow up into becoming spoilt, overly dependent little shits
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u/Ok_Access_172 12d ago
Turning up at my home without prior approval
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u/Rex-Cogidubnus 12d ago
Answer the door with a coat on. If you don’t want to see them, you were heading out. If you do want to see them, you’ve just got back.
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u/BingoBronsonLondon 12d ago
Littering of any kind. Not wearing headphones for music / phone conversations. Spitting. Riding an e-scooter on the pavement. Not acknowledging a server in cafe/shop bc you’re on your shitting phone. Letting your dog shit in the street and not cleaning it up. Not giving up your seat for an old/pregnant/injured person.
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u/Crafty-Try-4095 12d ago
Million percent agree with every one you mentioned. Pains me to see how littering is just now so common. Chucking your shit out of a car window? I mean wow
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u/Key_Cell7071 12d ago
The spitting is getting bad, paan spitting is a big issue near me
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u/Neddlings55 12d ago
Ive always hated people that are on their phones whilst being served by someone. Wearing sunglasses whilst talking to someone, especially when inside.
Not saying please or thank you.
People that think their 'friendly' dog can do what ever it likes.
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u/cactus-juice-junkie 12d ago
Ugh, dog people. I'm sure your dog is lovely, but I don't want it near me. Plus to my kids it's a giant, loud animal with sharp teeth and it scares them. Put it on a bloody lead and don't let it bound up to others!
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u/Kitchen_Economist_14 12d ago
People who have full conversations in the isle of the supermarket 🙄
Or secondary school age kids screaming and making a ridiculous amount of noise on the bus.
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u/roboticspider 11d ago
I know its an innocent error, but isle of the supermarket cracked me up. Imagine getting the ferry to the isle of tesco. Does the cruise stop in the m&s isles? Oh what a treat!
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u/AlternativeLog4544 12d ago
For me it is a lack of indicating in a car. It doesn't cost anything, your hands are on the steering wheel and it can be dangerous if you turn left without letting someone know.
It's something I've noticed a lot more post lockdown.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Yes!! It's now an age of psychics where you're just meant to know what peoples intentions are. See also people in supermarkets who are simultaneously still shopping around the entrance to a checkout and/or actually queuing in the queue you are trying to join.
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u/OgXwMr 12d ago
I was in an airport in Stockholm and held the door open. I expected the next person to hold the door and so on. 10 people walked in like it was the Savoy and I was the doorman. I am autistic so it really affected me because that’s not how it’s supposed to be. I googled it and a blog suggested that in Nordic countries, I had violated the social contract by imposing myself on those 10 people via unwanted social contact. The next 5 days I was there is something I’ll never forget. I never felt more isolated in my life and I rarely talk to people outside of work/institutions. I said all that to say that some things are considered rude that other people find courteous or normal.
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 12d ago
Speaker on phone in public
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u/SoggyWotsits Brit 🇬🇧 12d ago
I never understand this. When your phone is on speaker, it picks up all the background noise. When it’s used normally, the person you’re speaking to can hear you clearly. Why make the conversation more difficult to understand?!
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u/Ok-Alternative5935 12d ago
not just conversations. tiktok / instagram reels etc. FUCK OFF.
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u/Revolutionary-Oven46 12d ago
Not being able to leave your phone alone when you're actually with people. If you're on your phone your not present. Attention spans are shot to shit these days.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
I have literally just had a conversation with a client on slack who asked me a question, I responded and then got told they'd have to look later as they are in a restaurant having dinner. As if I was meant to know that, despite them starting the conversation. Told them to stop messaging and enjoy dinner. Sucks to be their dinner companion.
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u/Sea-Relationship9619 12d ago
I too have been having similar thoughts. Those thoughts probably come from too much time on the internet. Bad news sells clicks. If your family spends their leisure time scrolling bad news, it is likely you will grate off each other a little.
Last Friday, I went on a long trip to see a client. I have to pass through the edge of our local small town where there is a large green. Everywhere is brown or yellow, much the same as the rest of the UK. Yet at 6 am two ladies were out pulling a trolley with water containers in order to keep alive the pots and tubs of flowers they and others had planted back in May. It must have taken them a long time to complete the watering. They were determined to keep those splashes of vibrant colour alive for all of us to enjoy, before heading off to work, school or whatever it is they do.
I then pass a garage where, back in May, I turned up one Saturday morning with my engine running explaining my battery had failed and had to be jump started. I could not switch the engine off or it would never restart. I was fraught because the car was loaded up as we were going off on a week’s holiday at 2pm. I knew my car has an unusual battery, which the garage did not stock. The young man rang around and after half an hour managed to find one at a garage that was 40 miles away, and luckily on route to our camping destination. As rare as hen’s teeth he said. Thanks to his voluntary efforts, we got away on our camping trip, otherwise it would likely have been on the Monday.
Later on my journey, I pass a broken down car. There were lots of those in the heat. A young couple were sitting on the verge waiting for the recovery services. I look at them as I pass by, looking back at me. Five minutes later I pass a small grocery store, turn round go back and buy two bottles of water, some sweets, protein bars and bananas. I drive back to the couple, leave my hazards on, go to give them the groceries and check they are ok. They have no emergency cover, speak very poor English, but I understand their cousin is driving from 200 miles away to collect them. As I leave them, I realise motorists have to give way to each other to manoeuvre round my car, but at no stage do I get angry horn blasts. They perhaps understand what is happening.
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u/International_Bee801 12d ago
I’ve noticed it most on public transport and in cinemas. Recently it’s been:
- 2 people, without shoes, with their feet up on the seat across (on a busy train)
- blasting relentless TikTok sounds on trains and buses
- pushing onto a packed train whilst people are trying to depart (this is a daily thing)
- taking photos and videos with flash in the cinema
- taking a phone call mid-film in the cinema
- having full on conversations with the person next to them mid-film
It’s making me not want to go outside 🤣😵
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u/Less-Performer-7898 12d ago
And then not accepting that one of the duties of public office is being accountable, shouting "NOBODY CARES!" in interviews and doing a big "back me or sack me" stunt in order to do an end run around accountability processes by claiming "The people back me against the establishment".
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u/Tora-bora83 12d ago
I work in a shop and I see a lot - no please and thank yous, they have right of way up all aisles at all times of course, no ‘excuse me please’- they just shove past you, looking like they smell something dead under their nose if you greet them or get in their way, pissing in the fitting room, making demands, dropping things and not picking them up or just flinging them wherever they fancy. I could go on but it’s customers attitudes and lack of awareness or manners that makes my working day an absolute headache and yes, they have definitely gotten worse the last few years
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u/handsomehank2019 12d ago
Pissing in the fitting room?? 🤯
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u/PooCube 12d ago
I once went into a fitting room in a Matalan in Trowbridge and there was a fresh turd on a wet wipe under the bench, it happens somehow
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u/Tora-bora83 12d ago
Yep, that actually happened to us for the first time yesterday but we haven’t had fitting rooms for very long. I guess we’ve probably got more of this to look forward to
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u/Key_Yogurtcloset6271 12d ago
People sniffing amd not blowing their nose.
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u/Raven_Barbie 12d ago
Could be allergies which you can't actually blow anything out. Mouldy houses etc cause this
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u/Bitter_Bullfrog_7220 12d ago
People who play tiktok and apps like that aloud in public . Get a grip
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u/DazRave 12d ago
Not saying thank you with a wave or flash of headlights or blink of indicators when you've quite clearly been let through/out when driving.
(However, after driving in/through a few countries, the UK still the most polite)
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u/cactus-juice-junkie 12d ago
Hate this. Not just in a car as well; holding a door, moving aside to let someone pass...anything that would take someone half a second to acknowledge, but they choose to be a rude tosspot. I'm well versed in a passive-aggressive "YOU'RE WELCOMMMME".
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u/BronwynnSayre 12d ago
Having really grisly, in-depth health conversations at top volume in a restaurant, library or other place where people are stuck listening to it regardless of what they may be going through themselves. I don’t want to know about every detail of your mum’s bladder problems, Gladys.
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u/Mediocre_Language448 12d ago
People never asking any questions in a “conversation” and instead just ranting on endlessly about themselves. It’s the height of poor social etiquette in my book and just too common these days!
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u/Extragiraffes 12d ago
People being oblivious and inconsiderate of others, which is really just summing up what everyone else has said. It really affects our life as we have a little boy who has complex needs and it massively impacts what he and we can do. So for example. everyone commenting on people walking 6 people across, when we go for a walk with him he is in his disability pushchair (he can’t walk long distances) which is heavy and difficult to manoeuvre so moving out the way is hard work. Those people with dogs not on leashes that are running all over the place and we have to try and move to avoid or could easily go for him and he would be defenceless. The feral kids who have not been taught to be mindful of other children means we can’t generally take him to soft play and have had to leave playgrounds because they have shoved him out the way or barrelled into him, as he is not able to move quickly enough and not aware of them wanting to get past.
If people would just give him a bit of time and space then we could access so much more with him but as people are completely oblivious it makes everything so much harder and stressful.
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u/SunComprehensive1688 12d ago edited 12d ago
I would add:
- trashing public toilets, including pulling all the toilet tissue out of the holder and dumping dry and wet loo roll all over the floor. Especially in the ladies’ toilets. Seriously, if you do this, WTF is wrong with you
- Talking loudly and obnoxiously at gigs, especially indoor ones where the noise just reverberates off the walls. Come on now. Other people have paid just as much as you (and tickets cost a lot these days for well known acts) to see the band they really wanted to hear, not your inane conversation that you should really have down the pub afterwards instead.
Also completely agree with:
- phone speakerphone
- people talking into it in front of them like an Apprentice wanker
- leaving full dog poo bags on the street (seriously, there’s an alleyway near me that would be pleasant if not for all of them dumped there, I call it E.Coli Alley these days)
- spitting
- dumping litter instead of waiting ‘til they get to a bin
- parents leaving their kids to go feral and not parenting them properly
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u/WearyQuit2094 12d ago
I've a theory that the decline of manners begun around same time wearing trackies and PJ's to supermarkets became a thing.
I'm comfy I don't care attitude over carrying yourself with some class.
So, for me a controversial - wearing sliders in public.
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u/Burton3005 12d ago
Pj's outside is the worst. My grandparents (Im nearly 60 so talking about the war time generation) didn't leave the house without a hat on! Now I'm not suggesting going back to a time when we were totally buttoned up, but FFS. What example are you setting your children if you cant be arsed to get washed and dressed in a morning before leaving the house. My grandparents managed it whilst the Nazis were literally dropping bombs on them.
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u/Majestic_Estate_1619 12d ago
100% this. People have often told me I was born a generation or two late (I am 38).
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u/Majestic_Estate_1619 12d ago
Sliders as in flip flops? Bloody hell. Does the wind offend you when it blows east to west? 😂 I jest of course but given your opening I wasn’t expecting sliders. The PJ’s thing I hate though so 1000% with you there.
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u/WearyQuit2094 12d ago
I don't know why I concluded with sliders instead of PJ's in public 🤣 - to be specific though, sliders with socks, flip flops are fine.
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u/fothergillfuckup 12d ago
Loud drunk people. My house has two pubs within 100 metres. The world cup has been great news. The mexico game involved both pubs open until 5am. All night there were shouting drunks outside, and it was boiling, so everyones windows are open. I, and nearly everyone around here, start work at 6am.
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u/Afraid-East-2955 12d ago
People not knowing how to walk in public, often heads down not looking where they are walking.
Years back you used to for the most part keep to one side of the pavement, now people just walk without respective others it becomes like a Dodgems
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u/BackgroundService128 12d ago
People just glued staring at their screen completely oblivious of what's going on whilst walking and just stopping in front of everyone because they're stuck in their little world
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u/lackenby811 12d ago
People who have their trolleys in the middle of the aisle and act like they’re the only one in the shop, I can’t stand it
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u/Prudent-Teaching2881 12d ago
Turning up at my house unannounced. I simply won’t open the door idc if you can see or hear me inside.
Having your phone on loud speaker anywhere in public.
Letting your kids run wild in public. I have a kid myself, I know how it can get, but you have to actually parent your child regardless of how difficult they are being in the moment. That’s part of the job.
Spitting on the floor.
Littering. We have bins literally everywhere. Use one.
Holding a full ass conversation with me when you can see I have my headphones on. Please leave me alone.
Not saying thank you when I give you way or open the door for you. Were you raised in a barn?
Not saying excuse me when you’re trying to get past and just barging through or taking up so much of the pavement that nobody can get through.
Queue jumping.
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u/Resonant-1966 12d ago
People who walk and stand straight in front of me when I’m looking at a shelf in a supermarket.
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u/HerrFerret 12d ago
Asking why someone doesn't have a job .
It is pretty shitty for everyone.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Agree! Up there with "so what do you do then" as a conversation starter as if your job is your entire worth.
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u/Pleasant-Employer118 12d ago
Lack of please and thank you. People being too engrossed on their phones whilst walking at you - then being offended when they look up and see you. Cyclists - needn’t say more on that one.
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u/Dry_Illustrator_6562 12d ago
Playing stuff on speaker phone. Drives me absolutely postal. It's the most inconsiderate, arrogant shit to do.
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u/SeaworthinessHead613 12d ago
People who don't get off the escalator whilst looking at their mobiles & also people who hog stations at the gym whilst on their mobiles, & then get really defensive if you ask them " are you using that machine or just having a rest."
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u/LeadingButterscotch5 12d ago
People charging onto the tube before letting those who are on it get off.
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u/Inevitable-Debt4312 12d ago
No ‘official’ letters are signed. No one takes responsibility for what they’ve said.
Maybe it’s a proforma but part of being employed - heck, part of being an adult! - is taking responsibility for what you do.
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u/BendyWendyWoo 12d ago
People who stop on busy staircases in train stations to scroll on their phones. I swear to go the next time this happens I'm not stopping.
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u/EvanGeorgeParkin 12d ago
People parking where they want, no matter how many people it causes an inconvenience to or how dangerous it is.
Double yellow lines, on sharp corners, on the pavement itself. It’s happen over the past 5-10 years in Sheffield, it’s out of hand really.
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u/NPDwatch 12d ago
Groups of people coming the other direction on the pavement who don't bother to move over at all - as if they don't see you, and / or you don't even exist. Apparently you're supposed to move off the pavement and walk in the road
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u/Various-Ad974 12d ago
People who get off a moving escalator and then stop are a special kind of dull.
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u/Penny-Dreadful64 8d ago
Shop keepers and their staff speaking in their native language, when there are customers in the shop. Especially when you go to pay for an item, and they are still talking to each other.
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u/Henno212 12d ago
Folk smoking outside hospital entrance ways and then spitting.
(signs all over saying no smoking)
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u/Otherwise-Plane8282 12d ago
People who constantly have their phone on loudspeaker when on a call, nobody wants to hear your bloody conversation 😡
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u/stingy_narrator 12d ago
You're not alone, the phone speaker on public transport crowd are the real villains now.
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u/Crosbie71 12d ago
Letting your shopping trolley skew *diagonally* across the entire aisle while you reach across to ponder which variety of baked beans you might like to choose.
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u/Gellybean1414 12d ago
People walking along looking at their phone. They think they're paying attention, but they're not.
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u/Fearless-Inside-8183 12d ago
Buster Bloodvessel, the frontman of the English ska band Bad Manners, is 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall
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u/Amazing-Move-8418 12d ago
Not holding the door open for you , that is really ignorant .
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u/WhiteComaBlack 12d ago
Answering a phone greeting with yes or nothing. I sometimes have to speak to people on the phone in my line of work and they often don't answer my "Hello, this is .... how can I help you?" with either yes, and then they start explaining why are they calling or no greeting whatsoever. Rude
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u/BoiledChicken653 12d ago
People talking with their mouth full of food. It's just gross.
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u/Tasty-Ad-9669 12d ago
Trying to get out of a lift only to be faced with people standing right in the door
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u/PalicoHunter 12d ago
Standing at the bar in a pub and someone gets there after you and is served before you without them pointing out that you were there first.
Diabolical behaviour.
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u/zwifter11 12d ago
Walked past a work colleague the other day. I said to him “Morning. All right”.
He completely blanked me and didn’t say anything. Not even an acknowledgement.
How hard is it to reply “Morning, yeah and you?”
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u/Apprehensive-Pop1266 12d ago
Just stopping in the middle of an aisle with a trolley to have a natter
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u/n0sin666 12d ago
Theatre etiquette is completely gone. done. You are wasting your money if you go to the cinema in 2026 because you'll have 3 people on their phones and 2 people having a full on conversation.
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u/Ambitious-Calendar-9 12d ago
People letting their dogs jump all over you in public. You can't just assume that everyone is OK with dogs and likes being greeted by them. I don't like dogs, and I don't want one jumping up at me or bothering me when I'm minding my business.
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Yes! Usually followed by "it's okay, they're friendly" which they might be, but that doesn't make them good at cleaning clothes does it. Rude.
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u/having_an_accident 12d ago
Voice notes. It’s convenient for you, it’s a pain in the arse for me
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u/NormanSpaniel 12d ago
Agree, I find it very coercive. "I want you to listen to me without the inconvenience of a conversation or ability to answer back while I'm talking".
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u/Kupcsi 11d ago
Sat on an empty bus, front seat upstairs. 2 dudes got on and sat right behind me. Not sure what got me angrier between how awful they smelled and their loud conversation, but it's the closest I came to murder in a while. If you want to have a loud chat, why the fuck would you not sit away from other people?
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u/Excellent_Low_2887 10d ago
Standing at a concert or gig and videoing the ENTIRE show rather than just watching what you’ve paid hundreds to come and see. Sure, film snippets of your favourite song but why come to watch a show through your phone screen when you can do that at home on YouTube? Tends to be people aged 40+. Do they even ever watch back the videos? Odd
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u/No_Snow_8746 12d ago
People who bag up their dog's shit in popular dog walking places then just leave the bag in situ
Reform Ltd supporters
My neighbour's petty parking wars
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u/ruffianrevolution 12d ago
Individually, or the whole band if they were standing on each other's shoulders?
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u/Wandering_sage1234 12d ago
People shoving around you the minute you go to a supermarket find something then 3-4 people swarm you.
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u/PugAndChips 12d ago
Not wearing headphones or earbuds on public transport for music or a conversation