vampirequeen I'm with you on the automatic messages and irritating music on company telephone lines - especially hearing "Your call is important to us" when, after hanging on for ages, it becomes patently obvious that my call is not at all important.
Violent and gory films - and the increasing nastiness and violence that is now so commonplace in "soaps".
Words like "snowflake" "virtue signalling", "champagne socialist" used to belittle others, and the term "humbled" which is now so frequently used
"Round robin" letters detailing major house projects, exotic holidays, children's achievements and the minutiae of the lives of friends and relatives who are unknown to the recipient.
The phrase "Keep Calm and Carry On"
People who tut and grumble when you ask them to move over so that you can sit down on the bus/tube.
I'm fairly easy about food, with the exception of Christmas dried dates (yuk!)
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Littlejohn, Jimmy Carr, Keith Lemon, Carole Malone, Edwina Currie, Margaret Thatcher
Lovely pieces of classical music being used on TV adverts/
TV adverts interrupting tense dramas