“The Broom That Just Won’t Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time

Many things tend to change over time, be it finding out that broccoli is actually not that bad or learning that crocheting can be fun even when you’re less than 70 years old. But even though time can change a person’s views on nearly everything, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s changed for the more positive.

Redditor u/Boring-Advice7763 wanted to learn more about how time can affect people’s opinions on things they do and don’t like. They asked members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community what it was that they started to dislike more and more the older they got, and redditors had plenty to share, covering everything from social media to loud noises, and much more. Scroll down to find their answers on the list below and see if you’ve started to dislike any of them yet yourself.

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time People. I used to be a people person, but people ruined it.

gmoney-0725 , Nicholas Green / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The lack of common sense and independent thinking in the world today

anon , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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217points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Social media. Literally f*****g everything about it. Grown people making f*****g staged videos for likes.

GO TO THERAPY!

RooDoubleYou , Tracy Le Blanc / pexels(not the actual photo) Report

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207points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time How rigged everything is in favour of rich people's interests, making maximum profit and screwing everyone at every possible opportunity.

Late stage capitalism, in my view is driven by pure psycopathy.

themodernritual , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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206points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Apps. I shouldn’t need to download an app for everything

TMacATL , Rob Hampson / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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192points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time People talking on speaker phone in public.

People, in general, just disregarding that other people exist.

MusicalAutist , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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185points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Influencers

Ornery-Ad8463 , George Milton / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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177points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Other drivers.

As you get older you begin to realize just how stupid the average driver is. It’s appalling, and I’m tired of having to constantly prevent accidents.

striker69 , Aleksandr Popov / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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176points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Starting to get really tired of manufactured outrage. Every day, there's something new to be outraged about across pretty much all spectrums. Politics, sports figures, celebrities, even just general life things that people write articles about, or tweet about, or whatever.

Constant outrage to get clicks and eyeballs. Gotta get people all riled up and steaming mad. Just getting sick of it, day in and day out. I don't know if there's an actual term for it, but to me I'd call it outrage fatigue.

kellzone , Korie Cull / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#10

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Anytime the grocery store rearranges itself. Goddamnit, it’s taco Tuesday, I shouldn’t have to hunt for the tortillas

cyanderella , Jack Sparrow / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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161points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time People with no manners or civility.

heathers1 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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#12

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Loud cars and trucks. I genuinely think it’s noise pollution and should be illegal.

FunHorror7466 , mike noga / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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153points

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#13

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time How my optimism that the world would get better has been crushed.

It’s 2023 and we’re going backwards on rights for almost everyone, we lionize idiots, and the environment is only slightly less f’d.

wembley , Dev Asangbam / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Loud noises.

nickeyjames , Ketut Subiyanto / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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#15

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Aging. In myself, I don't feel any different to 30 years ago. But my knee usually hurts, my back frequently hurts, and recently I've been getting sharp pains at the base of my spine. Getting old sucks it's just better than the alternative.

anothercynicaloldgit , Towfiqu barbhuiya / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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129points

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#16

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time I just know I like cancelled plans more and more now

caramel_butterxx , Adrian Swancar / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#17

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Every workplace feeling like high school. Just do your job, get paid, quit b****hing about everybody else, and go home and enjoy your free time.

anon , Redd F / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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123points

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#18

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Religion

AusCan531 , Noah Holm / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#19

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The lack of compassion in the world
People who are more concerned with winning than understanding
I feel we would all make so much more headway if we could agree to make an honest effort to understand each other and try to work for everyone's best interest instead of constantly trying to one up each other.

ThunderingTacos , SHVETS production / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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116points

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#20

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The expectation to socialise. Leave me alone and let me be a happy hermit.

doducksswimorfloat , Thriday / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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109points

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#21

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Sugar. I’m not a heath-nut by any means but any time I eat something sugary like candy, cake, ice cream, etc, I just feel like it’s too sweet and I feel like it’s rarely worth the calories.

theglenlovinet , Mathilde Langevin / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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106points

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#22

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Dating.

DavidDoesDallas , René Ranisch / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#23

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Going out and partying

BeardedRenegade , cottonbro studio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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94points

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#24

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Waiting for things/other people. My patience has gotten progressively worse

llcucf80 , JÉSHOOTS / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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92points

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#25

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Fashion trends. Loved them when I was younger. Now I feel like a crotchety old woman when I look at low rise jeans coming back in disgust.

Now I get why older people sometimes get stuck in a decade clothing wise.

anon , Mizuno K / pexels(not the actual photo) Report

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90points

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#26

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The internet. I came here for bluey memes and cat vids not people being d***s to each other

Rogang4thewin , John Schnobrich / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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88points

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#27

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Patriotism - I speak from the USA, but I think it applies to all countries. It's b******t, all this energy poured into us first, us great, us alone, Yada Yada. My country right or wrong makes for a whole lot of of wrong. As George B. Shaw said, "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is the best country in the world because you happened to be born there."

ststeveg , Jonathan Meyer / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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83points

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#28

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Normal things that sometimes don't work like they need to like the broom that just won't F*****G STAY STILL FOR A GOD DAMN SECOND ON THIS F*****G WALL And little s**t like that

anon , Karen Grigorean Report

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82points

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#29

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time How despite working a good job with ostensibly good pay, things are going backwards and opportunities contract.

ImpossibleLoss1148 , Marten Bjork / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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72points

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#30

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The uber wealthy. Unchecked capitalism. Technology. Republicans. Religion. Cops. The military.

The same exact things I've been screaming about my whole life.

middleagerioter , Natilyn Photography / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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70points

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#31

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time People who enable abuse. Not general society, I'm talking family members and neighbors and friends and spouses who let their kid get abused by their spouse because tHeY nEeD tHeIr DaD or mom.

Crasmortuus , Karolina Grabowska / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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69points

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#32

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Shopping. Especially clothes shopping. I used to enjoy it. Now I find it mostly a chore.

jbarinsd , Artem Beliaikin / unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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66points

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#33

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Holidays—especially ones that involve mandated gift giving. I LOVE to give gifts and often do throughout the year (I make a mental note of people’s interests). I prefer to give gifts on a random day simply because I saw something that reminded me of someone or just because. The over commercialism of holidays nowadays is just awful.

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66points

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“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Everything, in fact I find myself more irrationally angry at things. What an awful feeling for sure.

Rogelnaut , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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54points

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#35

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time watching the news, used to love it as a kid

KMiller152 , Amanna Avena /unsplash (not the actual photo) Report

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#36

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time -gestures vaguely-

TempAcc64 , EKATERINA BOLOVTSOVA / pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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53points

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#37

People. People are disgusting. In high school I had s**t on my car door in a grocery store parking lot. It was a 8 year old sedan, base model other than having an automatic trans and power windows. I cannot fathom what brought somebody to do this other than a mental illness.

As I have grown older, all I see are people that don’t care about anybody but themselves. I see trash getting thrown out of cars weekly, if not daily. Diapers on the ground in parking lots. Drivers getting mad I am only going 9 mph over the speed limit, just to have to slow down for a tunnel 1 mile away because everybody here is afraid of tunnels for some reason. Only reason I don’t go slower is because I am likely to get hit going the speed limit. Accidents daily, if you can call them that. I don’t consider somebody weaving between lines of traffic an accident. I consider them a moron who should get fined for reckless endangerment. I have had a new car I got (precovid, when you could actually afford one) get door dings and also somebody backed into it within a few months of owning it. I only ever parked at the back of lots or away from people, so this was 100% on purpose.

If the housing market wasn’t so bad right now, I would move to the country with 20+ acres of land and not be near anybody.

Sadly, with all that said. I know I am only seeing the lower 20% (or maybe even 2%) of the population. You don’t see the people doing the good things or people picking up somebody else’s trash. You only really pay attention to filth you see doing bad or stupid things.

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#38

Current Pop music

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#39

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time The general public

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#40

Bad infrastructure

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#41

My back. It hurt less when I was younger.

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#42

Screaming kids playing and I'm talking about the high pitched shrieks that I cannot tell if it's fun or if someone is being killed. (entirely possible where I live). I used to try to check...now I contemplate recording it and filing a noise complaint. Again, to be clear, random multiple screams, sometimes all at once. Though I live in a city proper it is a nice quiet neighborhood and the home emitting the noise are nice good people. And this is happening after dark so I think it's reasonable to expect quiet. It's a neighborhood of very very small yards and there's a great football field size park a hundred yards away. My parents would have beat me silly.

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#43

Leaving the house 😂 just let me hug my cat in pjs

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#44

Unsolicited advice

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#45

Household items that are made of plastic.

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#46

I’m nearly 40.

What I dislike? How much all the old people around me complain about everything almost everyone who is old complains about.

I like parties, I like going out, I like people and I don’t like when plans get cancelled. I don’t care if you’re late, or early. I like new music. I like old music. I’ll hang out with 20 somethings and 60 somethings, if they’re just happy and not a buzzkill. Even a lot of teenagers have good ideas these days and seem better and smarter than when I was a kid…. Idk man, I feel like I’m getting happier as I age.

So I guess I’m starting to really dislike how much people my age complain.

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#47

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Mail. Noting good comes by mail.

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#48

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Life.

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#49

Housing market, media critics (movies music and video games) and b******t gas prices that seem to change based on the whims of a pre-teens hormones.

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#50

wintertime

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#51

Standing in concerts

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#52

People misbehaving in public, talking on the phone in public transport often with a speaker, having hats indoors, walking slowly, not standing on the right side in the escalator.

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#53

Politics. I used to give it so much attention and energy. But it never moved the dial in my life. Now, I just try to keep my head down and take care of my business as sustainably as possible and without hurting anyone. If at any point in my life I have more influence, I can start to give politics more attention. But not anytime soon.

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#54

Heat

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#55

Conservatism.

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#56

Alcohol.

Life’s better without poison

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#57

“The Broom That Just Won't Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time Teenagers…MCR was right

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#58

This one is going to get so much hate, but dogs. When I was younger I loved dogs! Had between 2 and 4 until I moved out. When I moved out I got a cat. So easy so low maintenance. Still loved dogs. Then I got a kid. I would walk the neighborhood and every single dog would loose it's mind as I walked. Then I got a job where I go into people's houses. All day everyday I get barked at. I still pet dogs, I am still cordial with them but I no longer want to own a dog.

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#59

AAA video game companies. It's 90% s**t now.

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Malls in texas

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Tracy Wallick 10 months ago (edited)

Men. I don't like it, and goddamn am I *trying* to fight back against it, but it really feels like as I get older, I've really lost my empathy for men as a group. I feel like I've just been worn down too much by misogyny; I've retyped this comment many times and the only way I can describe it is compassion fatigue. It doesn't make the problems men face less real or valid, but I've found it harder and harder to muster sympathy when it comes up. I don't know if I'm the only one, and I have no idea how (or if) it can be fixed.

9points

amy lee 10 months ago

You're just seeing through the patriarchy.

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witchling 10 months ago

Crowds. Used to love big events. Even if I just sat on the side and people watched. Now I find myself turning down opportunities because I don't want to deal with the crowds. Also, change in routine or expectations. I have a mental list of things I'm going to do on a given day and curse the person who messes that up. I try not to be cranky about it. I know I'm being unreasonable because it's usually not something important I'm neglecting. It just wasn't in my plans today damnit!

Hinchess 10 months ago

I don't like that people still do balloon releases. Isn't that littering?

7points

Some guy 10 months ago

Yes, and it endangers wildlife.

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“The Broom That Just Won’t Stay Still”: 40 Things People Started To Hate Over Time

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