Name ONE thing that irritates you about modern culture

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I can't understand society's obsession with foul language, and how it's always seen as a laugh or as appropriate words to use when angry. It's just gutter-talk that doesn't describe anything. It seems foul language is acceptable when one could just be more creative with their words. Or maybe just say nothing at all.

I also hate how the R word has become so prevalent and accepted in society. It is one of the most misused words on the planet used as an insult. I hate the R word. I'll let it go if it's actually referencing a decline in something, like something scientific; that's what the word's supposed to be used for. But whenever someone used that word as an insult or a way to call something or someone stupid, I want to hit them with a sledgehammer.

^ Totally agree.

So so much I can't begin to tell you - I'd have to write a book!!

I curse way too much, but I don't even realize I'm doing it. I'm certainly not trying to sound "cool" or "tough." I sometimes joke with people that I use the F word as a preposition, and they laugh, not realizing that I'm only exagerrating a little.

How people can get caught up in trying to keep up with everyone else in the latest fashions, technology advances, etc. I went through a period when I was caught up in it, but only with the basketball jerseys
It's one thing changing for when you need to (which I can see, but still struggle with); and changing just for the sake of change? What's so wrong with certain things that make you have to change?

You'll end up miserable trying to keep up. Most people can't, yet they still try to.
And how people get caught up in certain gossip about certain people, and gossip channels like E!. And pretty much Reality TV.

Always has baffled me....

what annoys me is how girls would always choose the "bad" boy and end up getting in broken relationships and claim that there are no good men and you happen to know that girl

Jersey Shore, but I still watch it sometimes anyway, lol.

Once upon a time I would've said noise or noise pollution, as several others have.

Then I thought of the essay On Noise (link), by Arthur Schopenhauer. Not reading German, I'm having difficulty figuring out when it was written. But I think he finished it sometime before 1840. However, the only substitution I would need to make to make this a replica of my own situation is "Harley Davidson" for "whip." Some days it seems like every white person in this town owns one (except me), all with some sort of modification that renders the muffler useless. A group of five or more going by outside at one time will literally render conversation impossible inside my apartment. They're that loud.

The more things change...

Most of the things already mentioned though I try to keep my cell phone on me (and turned on) for safety reasons whenever I go places - so I can call if I need to ride home or get lost).

One of the many things that bothers me are the kind of parents that let their kids walk all over them and let them have whatever they want even if it's bad for the kid.

Also society requiring you to 'sell' yourself if you want a job and all the stupid figurative hoops you have to figuratively jump through to survive at all anymore.

(Survive = To stay a live you need a job to get money to buy/rent place to live/shelter, food, water, clothes and other needed stuff, maybe extras).