Argh! Cardboard!

If there is anything guaranteed to drive me into a near incoherent rage - it's cardboard inserts in magazines. You know what I mean, those shiny shiny adverts that stick out in the middle of the magazine and totally ruin the flow of the pages.
I don't mind so much if they've got free samples like perfume or foundation attached. But to simply put a thick piece of card in the middle of the magazine for no reason with exactly the same layout, photos, text, and so on as a normal advert page!
The companies that place the adverts must think "this is a great idea, the magazine will automatically fall open to our advert!" But I think, what selfish idiots to ruin my magazine reading with their cardboard. I'm just settling down to enjoy a quiet afternoon with Vogue, perhaps writing my witty comments with a Sharpie, and it ruins the entire experience to have to fold or pull out cardboard inserts!

Hipster Hatted H'Annoyances

In the same way as David Attenborough examines and documents the habits of animals in the wild, I do so with Hipster Teens. If I were to catagorise this group, it would be a cross between a Yah student, with the attendant never-seen-a-brush hair and attitude, but they are more left of centre in their fashion choices. Think Topshop chic but more alternative in a very conventional way.
Fashion is a universal continuum so trends can be tracked as they wax and wane with the seasons.
In the Hipster Teen universe, scarves have gone the way of the dodo and would appear to be on the unfashionable end of the spectrum. Formerly, you couldn't turn a corner without bumping into a teen draped in a long, long scarf even in the hottest of weather.
The new trend is for woolly hats worn with incongruous clothing such as tshirts or shorts. Recently I've even espied teens wearing actual Arctic explorer style hats in bright sunshine with an otherwise summery outfit. Some teens seem to think they're taller versions of Shiloh Pitt, wearing furry hats made to look like bears or tigers. This unsettles me in a very specific way.