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Silly things than annoy you

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Nottodaythanku · 07/08/2023 17:20

just a light hearted one..little things that annoy you.

I will go first…

going out for a meal with a friend tonight and still having to cook for kids before you go

your turn.😛

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Russooooo · 08/08/2023 09:00

DP ‘digging’ for butter. Grrrrrrr.

And people (usually men) walking two/three/four abreast and not moving out of the way to let others (me) pass so that we have to move into the road.

JauntyJinty · 08/08/2023 08:52

Website: Please enter your e-mail address

Me: J

Website: THAT'S NOT A VAILD EMAIL ADDRESS!

Me: I know, crikey, it was only the first letter I'm not done yet!

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 08/08/2023 08:41

Dh telling me he’s coming down with a cold. The next day I wake up feeling like death warmed up and he’s swanning around the house like he feels a million dollars. Bastard gave me it instead.

The cat pooing in litter tray just as I get comfy in bed.

fitofthegiggles · 08/08/2023 08:36

Our adult still-at-home kids never folding the bath towels after a shower (I've given up asking!) and leaving them in a damp crumpled heap on the towel rail.

I've come to the conclusion that it's up to them if they want to use towels that consequently very quickly go smelly and manky as they have no chance to dry.

The thought of rubbing them on my skin is definitely ughhh! so I use my own which I keep separately.

It's still annoying though.

BusySittingDown · 08/08/2023 08:32

People who stand at opposite sides of the path letting their dogs greet each other, whilst having a chat. Where am I supposed to walk? In the bushes? On the road? Or shall I jump over the dogs and their leads?

Same people walk next to the kerb and have their dogs on an extendable lead taking up the whole path. I have nowhere to go except walk on the road. It's infuriating!

Littleelffriend · 08/08/2023 08:32

People saying to my youngest “are you pretending to be shy?” No, she fucking is shy because she doesn’t know you and you’re in her face talking in a stupid voice

TakeNoNoticeoftheNoise · 08/08/2023 08:26

Jason Kaye reading the news on Radio 2 - that clackie noise he makes - urgh!
Slow drivers - stuck behind driver doing 19mph in a 60 last night.
Shoppers having conversations in supermarket blocking the whole aisle.
My boss calling me at 1 minute to 5pm every.single.night!

Coastalcreeksider · 08/08/2023 08:24

Plastic toothpaste tubes. When you get near the end, you have to keep pushing up the blasted tube to get the toothpaste to the top. Then you have to repeat every time you clean your teeth because the paste doesn't stay there.

Wish it was still the metal tubes, you could roll it up and the toothpaste would stay at the top and you could get more out before binning the empty tube.

Etihad · 08/08/2023 08:22

This. It makes me cringe every time I see it.

Silly things than annoy you
WellINever1 · 08/08/2023 08:21

Coat hangers - everything about them.

When people use personification for a country/place they have visited : 'London - you were incredible.' URGH.

Apostrophes for plurals.

AllAboardTootToot · 08/08/2023 08:21

People who combine two words as of it were one word, I.e ALOT.

Oh and bin men you leave your bin 6 houses away, did you find it there you lazy git?

BakedTattie · 08/08/2023 08:20

Pretty much everything seems to annoy me.

But if my mother in law says ‘pacifically’ one more time I think I will scream.

Berlinlover · 08/08/2023 08:13

People spelling lose as loose, it’s everywhere on the weight loss thread.

GoodnightJude1 · 08/08/2023 08:07

On the rare occasion DH decides to get the washing off the line….

He leaves the pegs on the line and doesn’t put them in the peg bag 😡 it irritates me in a completely irrational way!!

Busubaba · 08/08/2023 08:07

DogDaysAreOverr · 08/08/2023 07:57

All packaging- it's just so fiddly, annoying, hard to get to things. No satisfying rips, whole pulls, tears... just frustrating time wasting!
Also, predictive text...

Cable ties that secure scissors to the packaging that you need a pair of scissors to cut open but you don't have any and that's why you bought some new ones but you can't get them out of the packaging..... arrrrrgh!

pictoosh · 08/08/2023 08:05

SunshineAndFizz · 07/08/2023 23:49

Filters. Social media pics with filters.

Oh me too. So childish and vain. We know what you look like, stop kidding yourself.

ObiKenobi · 08/08/2023 08:04

To be fair …

birdling · 08/08/2023 08:03

People using 'less' when it should be 'fewer'.
Drives me mad 😡

DogDaysAreOverr · 08/08/2023 07:57

All packaging- it's just so fiddly, annoying, hard to get to things. No satisfying rips, whole pulls, tears... just frustrating time wasting!
Also, predictive text...

QueenOfDuisburg · 08/08/2023 07:42

At our local swimming lessons - people who leave their kids' towels and clothes in cubicles before they're out of the pool/shower so that people who shower at home and want to get changed straight away (us!) have nowhere to go 😡

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 08/08/2023 07:41

Tothepoint99 · 08/08/2023 07:22

And then when you start it, the layers separate so the rough inside is the now outside, and you have to rewind it.

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OMG yes!

ssd · 08/08/2023 07:40

BlueBellsArePretty · 07/08/2023 23:55

Said this before on a similar thread. When you're paying with contactless, it bleeps making you think it's gone through, you put your card away and go to finish packing and the cashier says 'its not gone through you'll have to put your card in the machine.' So you have to stop packing and get your card back out 😡 I mean why does it bleep as if everything is all right then?

Its a different sort of bleep.
Its a pain. I work in a shop.

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 08/08/2023 07:33

People referring to Elsa as a princess. She is for the first 7 minutes or so and then becomes Queen and should be treated as such.

Busubaba · 08/08/2023 07:30

Abbreviating the word you to just u. I can just about tolerate it in a text but there is no reason to do so on Facebook messenger.

It's just lazy.It's just two extra letters!

tonystarksrighthand · 08/08/2023 07:28

SM4713 · 07/08/2023 23:24

We done this!
We was at the park!
I done that! 😡

Yes!!! Makes me literally vomit.