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Little things people do that are irritating....

410 replies

TooTiredAndFedUp · 27/04/2024 22:48

Just for fun.

I'll begin...

Taking the toilet roll of the toilet roll holder and not putting it back on...why take it off to begin with.

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SinnerBoy · 06/05/2024 17:19

It hadn't really bothered me hitherto, but I'm now worried that I won't be able to miss it and be driven mad!

CoffeeCantata · 06/05/2024 16:50

SinnerBoy · Today 16:35
I'd not heard of vocal fry before, but having looked it up and watched a video on YouTube...

Snap! I hated this speech habit and now I know what it's called and that other people feel the same.

It's a real American teenage thing, but other demographics are guilty too. I saw the most recent version of A Star is Born and afterwards Googled Bradley Cooper to see if he'd had his some kind of surgery on his larynx. He hadn't, but he spoke with 100% vocal fry throughout - it was SO distracting. I've heard him in other things and he didn't do that, so it must have been is take on the character.

SinnerBoy · 06/05/2024 16:35

I'd not heard of vocal fry before, but having looked it up and watched a video on YouTube...

notedbiscuits · 06/05/2024 16:19

Mums telling their kids to stop fucking swearing.

Ilovecleaning · 06/05/2024 15:47

Adult son had a mate for many years. Mate had a girlfriend for 5 years then they moved in together. Lasted 5/6 weeks. All in their late 20s.
Adult son offered mate a house share. Lasted a few weeks and my son said he knew why relationship had ended.
He said his mate lived like a six year old. Made jam sandwiches and tea; left jam jar open on worktop, left bread open and all the slices fell out like a concertina and started to go stale, butter left out of fridge, milk left out, used teabag on worktop, buttery and jammy knife left out, tea caddy left open… That’s just one small example. he was like that throughout the house in every room. My son ( who is no domestic god lol) couldn’t stand it. Mate went back to parents.

Sheknowsaboutme · 06/05/2024 15:35

The loo roll thing, replacing it and not putting the card in the bin to burn.

leaving the fridge door ajar.

flushing the loo with the lid up

there are many more!

TigerRag · 06/05/2024 12:34

People in lifts who don't move back to let others in, people who try to squeeze into a lift when there's no room

CJ0374 · 05/05/2024 07:33

People pronouncing ask as aks/axe 😝

Auburngal · 05/05/2024 06:36

People who toss empty energy drinks cans everywhere. On litter picks, we can’t do one without picking up these.

Obviously they don’t contain enough energy for them to put can into a bin……

Plus the smell of original Red Bull and Monster! How can anyone drink that foul stuff?

Katemax82 · 04/05/2024 22:14

CurlyhairedAssassin · 04/05/2024 15:50

well the nice part of me would say that YABU as you never know what the rest of their week has looked like eg maybe they’ve just come home after being away all week, or a hospital stay etc

then I remember my inlaws, despite being retired and having no commitments during the week now, still insist on doing a supermarket shop on a Sunday morning. I think with them it’s just pure habit. It’s what they’ve always done and they can’t comprehend doing it any different way. I don’t get it because my local supermarket is a goddamn nightmare at the weekend. If I need to do weekend shopping I rush in half an hour before closing and do a whip round.

I think it’s only a matter of time before Sunday trading laws get changed again as it’s busy till the last minute though lately.

luckily wednesdays were oap days at the supermarket I worked at. unfortuneately I worked on wednesday

notedbiscuits · 04/05/2024 22:06

A friend in Leicester is upset about M&S in the city centre is closing down.

Asked her when was the last time she shopped in there. Her response - years ago.

You aren’t going to miss a shop closing down when you are not a regular customer!

mjf981 · 04/05/2024 21:52

Vocal fry.
We’ve hired someone who does it. It’s driving me batty and I want to fail her probation because of it.

Katemax82 · 04/05/2024 21:47

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 28/04/2024 08:02

Having loud conversations on their phones on public transport. OR not talking but having the other person’s activities on loud speaker, I listened to someone washing up last week. No words, just washing fucking dishes.

The shittest, most crappy horrendous music on loud speaker on public transport.

people who leave their crap and rubbish on trains.

People who put their hold luggage sideways in the overhead bin on a flight so other people have to rearrange it so another 2 people can get their bags up there.

Arseholes that drop litter or throw it out of cars.

People that spit.

People who do not pick up their dog shit.

People who’s dogs are “just being friendly “ as it jumps up all over me or my child when out.

People who insist that their dogs would cure my terror of dogs.

People who don’t put the divider on the supermarket belt after their shopping.

People who put their shopping trolley diagonally across the isle so no other fucker can get past.

People who are late.

People who talk about themselves and no fuck all about who they are talking to because they haven’t bothered to ask or show interest.

People who park over 2 spaces.

People parking on a narrow pavement meaning prams/elderly/wheelchair have to go down the curb and onto the road to pass.

People who park badly so you can’t get out of your car.

People who are flabagasted that they need to pay at the till then spend the next few minutes searching their bags and pockets looking for a purse or bank card. No attempt to do so while standing in the queue…WAITING TO FUCKING PAY.

In other words, any one who is selfish, self absorbed, the only person in this world that matters…to themselves.

Ban them, ban them all.

omg you read my mind

Livingtothefull · 04/05/2024 19:30

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/05/2024 18:31

People who apparently don’t know the difference between ‘worse’ and ‘worst’.

And people who pronounce ‘sixth’ as ‘sickth’.

The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/05/2024 18:31

People who apparently don’t know the difference between ‘worse’ and ‘worst’.

And people who pronounce ‘sixth’ as ‘sickth’.

CoffeeCantata · 04/05/2024 18:07

Ooh another...

People (mostly women, but I have seen the odd bloke) who have hair which they seem to need to constantly push or stroke back from their face - or make as if to tuck behind the ear, except they never actually do tuck it properly.

Either really tuck it properly behind your ears, tie it back or learn to live with the 'curtains' effect. The absolutely constant touching of hair which then falls back immediately is maddening to watch. It's clearly a sort of compulsion, like biting your nails!

Meghan Markle is one of the guilty ones. Leave your hair alone, woman!

And while we're at it, Harry, with his constant buttoning and unbuttoning of this suit jacket while walking drives me crackers.

CoffeeCantata · 04/05/2024 17:58

Lack of spatial awareness. People who stop in doorways when they need to move aside to do whatever they're doing. People who block supermarket aisles thoughtlessly. People who walk 2 - 4 abreast on a path or pavement and mow down people coming in the opposite direction.

I once came across a queue for a cashpoint (remember those?) in London (so a busy street and a wide pavement) which was at a right angle to the street instead of in a line along the wall. Pedestrians couldn't walk along the pavement and some were stepping on to the road. I hate being bossy but I suggested we all move and line up along the wall. They looked at me as if I was mad...but did shuffle over. Each one of them was in their own little world and oblivious to the chaos they were causing.

Auburngal · 04/05/2024 17:37

@CurlyhairedAssassin move to Scotland - no restrictions with Sunday trading.

At my work, we struggle to get colleagues to work Sundays, esp if its to cover sickness and holidays

CurlyhairedAssassin · 04/05/2024 15:56

JusWunderin · 28/04/2024 21:01

People who don’t put the toilet seat down on those toilets where the flush button is literally hidden behind the open toilet seat so that you have to put it down and stop shit and piss particles flying at you, to reach the button.. how are these people flushing and not putting the seat down?!

Maybe it’s just been cleaned?

Bignanna · 04/05/2024 15:51

Alalalalalongalalalalalonglonglilong · 27/04/2024 22:56

Putting apostrophes all over the place. If you don't get the rules, that's fine, leave them out.

Thank’s for the grammar lesson’s!

CurlyhairedAssassin · 04/05/2024 15:50

notedbiscuits · 04/05/2024 12:23

People in their 80s and 90s shopping on Saturday mornings.

Had the audacity to say it’s busy when they have all week to shop.

Lost my cool with a couple. “Please leave Saturday morning shopping for those who work”.

A couple said to me that they don’t understand what do the very elderly actually accomplish when shopping on Saturday mornings.

well the nice part of me would say that YABU as you never know what the rest of their week has looked like eg maybe they’ve just come home after being away all week, or a hospital stay etc

then I remember my inlaws, despite being retired and having no commitments during the week now, still insist on doing a supermarket shop on a Sunday morning. I think with them it’s just pure habit. It’s what they’ve always done and they can’t comprehend doing it any different way. I don’t get it because my local supermarket is a goddamn nightmare at the weekend. If I need to do weekend shopping I rush in half an hour before closing and do a whip round.

I think it’s only a matter of time before Sunday trading laws get changed again as it’s busy till the last minute though lately.

ArchaeoSpy · 04/05/2024 15:29

people that stand in the middle of the isles of supermarkets then look across at the items

ArchaeoSpy · 04/05/2024 15:28

assume there is lots of milk just be cause theres 3 different types, and not considering the levels of the amounts of milk available

notedbiscuits · 04/05/2024 14:57

When driving down a road with parked cars, the car going in the opposite direction doesn't pull in when they have fewer cars on their side. I had someone who did that this morning. I the one that had to reverse 4 car lengths into a side road.

HotChocolateNotCocoa · 04/05/2024 14:23

People who like your Facebook status when everyone else has used the laughing emoji. You’re ruining my record! 😆

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