What irritates you about other people?

My partner does this too! I don’t get enough facts

Me - I ran into Sue. Her sons moving to Brisbane
DP - Oh which suburb?
Me- I don’t know
DP - is he hoping to be working in the CBD?
Me - I don’t know
DP - Is he going to buy somewhere up there or just rent for a bit?
Me - I DONT KNOW!!!!

Also, people who tell me things in excruciating detail “We went for lunch at that new cafe. The man that runs it is really nice. I think it’s his wife who was behind the counter. Looks younger than him though. She had this really nice top on. Anyone Simon ordered the fish and it came with this salad. I think they make their own dressing. Laura had steak but it was a bit underdone….”,

im an introvert, socially inept and have the attention span of a gnat clearly

I know right! It's like I do things like walk slowly on purpose

How very dare you.

Dry begging , for gods sake just ask for what you want and stop hinting at it.

You are more polite than I am. I have had people try that with me and I just say 'I'm reading, please leave me in peace'. I am a very direct person, though.

People who don't drive long distances or on motorways and ask for lifts. People who don't indicate.

People in open plan offices who think everyone wants to hear their bullshit conversation.
A colleague annoys me so much I get the ick over him now. He butts in to every conversation, if someone asks a person a question he answers, he talks down to you. He waffles on to make himself sound intelligent. If you talk about something or someone he's never heard of he says something derogatory like I have better things to be interested in. He thinks he's the only person who's ever had a kid/ paid for childcare.
Sorry needed to get that off my chest 🤣🤣

People (DP) who think me reading a book is a sign I want to have a conversation. Fuck offffff DP.

People who email me a question at work. I reply to the question, they follow it up with a quibble. I respond to the quibble. They reply with a further quibble. Eventually I stop responding as I have already answered the question. They get annoyed and tell colleagues "Crypto never got back to me".

People who stand too close behind me in a queue. I step forward to make a gap. THEY step forward so they can resume breathing on the back of my head. URRGH.

People who phone me just to waffle at me, do I look like a captive audience? People who don't understand the phrase "I must go now as I am about to go into a meeting" and think I have time to listen to a few more sentences...

You want to try coming from Croydon

People overweight middle-class women who insist on riding their fat ponies down the high street, while it shits everywhere and holds up school run traffic. Selfish, ignorant, twats.

People approaching me (as a freelancer)in a business capacity describing themselves as ‘young start-up company based in (insert trendy London place)’ or ‘dynamic new brand with a focus on ethical something or blah blah’.
This little intro is always the biggest indicator that they’d gonna waste the fuck out my time, expect freebies, have no decision making capacity in the ‘company‘ , and procrastinate until the last second so that I have to bust my ass on the day before the project is due . At that point they’ll have forgotten their whole ethos, they won’t care if the components are from shipped by private jet from a sweatshop in China, they just want it out of their hair , and fast.

Payment, alas, has no such urgency.

Why are mouth breathers so irritating? I can't breathe through my nose!

Well, I can, but I have to really think about it, like now. My nose tubes are a bit squiffy I think

Everything on this thread, but will add people who think businesses can do what they want, because they are businesses. I have no idea where such deference comes from and it comes up again and again on here.

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People with very small minds or close horizons, who can only relate to anything in terms of their own experience. It happens a lot on here - someone posts an OP about a big or medium-sized issue and, within the hour, the thread's dominated by a handful of people banging on about how it doesn't affect them or isn't like that for them. Or they'd never go to London because they've heard it's busy 😕

My pet hate for this on here is when someone uses a regional expression and, when someone asks what it means, they mention that “It’s a Yorkshire / West Midlands / South West expression”. You just know it will only take a couple of posts before someone chips in with, “Well, I’m from Yorkshire / the West Midlands / the South West and I have NEVER heard that expression”.

Erm… could it be because those areas are fucking huge?! Yorkshire covers four counties and is home to some of the country’s biggest cities - it’s not just the villages from Heartbeat and Last of the Summer Wine and a few fields! The West Midlands is the most populous region of the UK outside of London - accents can vary significantly from one city/town to the next. It’s so bloody arrogant to assume you’ll have heard of every expression or cultural phenomenon in these places.

My real life example is a friend I had years ago who was a care worker, therefore used to working unsociable hours. Every week without fail she’d ask me if I was working that weekend. When I’d say no, I never work weekends she’d be stunned, saying “Not at all? Not ALL weekend?!” I get this wasn’t her experience, but surely she’d at least heard of 9 - 5?

People who say "Am I the only one who [insert platitude such as "loves chocolate" "likes sunny weather" "hates mondays". No obviously not.

People who put their bag on the seat next to them on a busy bus or train. It's totally ok to do that when there are a lot of free pairs of seats but as soon as only single seats remain free, it's just rude.

And then people who look at some modern artworks and say "my 5yo nephew could do this".

WandaWonder · Today 01:35

People who have to turn everything into an episode of EastEnders

Ah. You've met my sister in law.

This could be a thread in its own right, but I have to add people who interrupt. Didn’t interrupting someone used to be considered incredibly rude? Yet everyone seems to do it these days when you’re mid-story, or even mid-sentence.

It’s like they can’t cope if they have to wait a few seconds to speak. It reminds me of that one snot-nosed kid you’d get in every class at school who’d be making “Ooh, ooh!” noises and frantically waving their hand while the teacher was still talking because they knew the answer and just had to be first. You can almost forgive it in a child. In an adult, it makes me stabby.

The internet has sorted out the whole ' what was he / she / they been in before ' when watching the tele.
Mind you , I spend more time looking it up than watching the actual programme sometimes which causes its own problems ( or fall down a rabbit hole of ' I didn't know they did that film !'

I love I irritate so many people by being disabled

People who stay with their awful partners because they don't want to be on their own
Which is fair enough , but please stop moaning about them at every opportunity and try and find someone who will value you and treat you right.
People who turn every conversation into one about themselves ( see above)
People who can't say please or thank you
Costs nothing. Just common manners.
People who abuse retail or hospitality staff and get a kick out of it too :(
People who want their own way constantly

I'm only getting warmed up.

@Alchemistress get off that fence and tell us what you really think 😂