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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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HadEnough11 · 29/04/2024 22:01

Loud sneezing
Speaking too loudly.
The saying 'To be fair.' Or "Fair enough.'
Loud sneezing.
Humming and whistling.
People who walk really slowly in front of you or really fast behind you.
People who 'hover ' and get in the way on public transport.
People who chat at the check out tills holding everyone else up.
Facebook attention seekers.
People who narrate everything they are doing.
Many, many more.....

Applescruffle · 29/04/2024 21:51

abracadabra1980 · 29/04/2024 20:13

Anyone who shoves their phone in my face and orders me to watch a video-especially a long one.
Just fuck right off. And fuck off again.

I can't stand this. My sister does it all the time and they are so incredibly unfunny and very obviously fake but she thinks they are hilarious so I do a fake polite laugh and hope she doesn't show me another one.

TheDogsAFloofyFool · 29/04/2024 21:30

DP and the remote control…

We will be watching something, and the minute there is adverts, off we go, whizzing round the sodding channels… all the bloody channels, including the God channels, Al- Jazeera, all the foreign news and the obscure sports ones - but at such a pace, they become a blur!
If I leave the room to make a drink, we have quick snatches of programmes blaring out, and he thinks I don’t notice🤷‍♀️Just leave the sodding thing alone, for Gods sake!
He falls asleep with it on him, so I creep over and pinch it back, turn down the damn volume and then I leave the remote alone…
Good job he works away a few days a week… im too old for prison!😵‍💫

bakewellbride · 29/04/2024 21:20

People who give their kid a phone or iPad to watch as they're pushed along in the buggy

Annoying people in the way at the supermarket

My friend puts 'could have' and even worse instead of 'respite' she puts 'restbite' (wtf?) she's been corrected on both yet still does them

People who let their kids run riot / be a pain in the arse with zero consequence

Many more!

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 29/04/2024 21:18
  • “People that use a shopping trolley as a mobility aid, hunch over it and shuffle along.”
Aww that’s my DM. To add to your annoyance she needs a rest right at the entrance, creating a queue. It pains me.

Anyone who licks fingers before turning a page or handing me a bag.

Sniffing, sucking, breathing too loudly.

Surprise visitors.

TheDogsAFloofyFool · 29/04/2024 21:12

abracadabra1980 · 29/04/2024 20:13

Anyone who shoves their phone in my face and orders me to watch a video-especially a long one.
Just fuck right off. And fuck off again.

Oh yes, this!
And also insisting “you gotta read this” I can’t read my own bloody phone without my glasses, so don’t expect me to read your minuscule font!😡

TooTiredAndFedUp · 29/04/2024 20:40

GymBergerac · 28/04/2024 06:53

Dear God, mine isn't the only house where this happens then?! There's only two of us in the house and it ain't me, so I KNOW it's DH........ but just WHY?!? 😱 😂

I've got my suspicion it's DP although he won't admit it, he's also got a habit of switching lights on whilst it's not dark 🙄

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abracadabra1980 · 29/04/2024 20:13

Anyone who shoves their phone in my face and orders me to watch a video-especially a long one.
Just fuck right off. And fuck off again.

BabySnarkDoDoo · 29/04/2024 19:35

People who block the escalator/stairs at railway stations. My local one has signs asking people to keep right, but there's always some dingus obliviously managing to take up the entire step. It doesn't cross their mind, that perhaps people could be in a rush to catch a train?

CharlotteStreetW1 · 29/04/2024 19:18

CJ0374 · 28/04/2024 11:26

-Talking with a mouth full of food. I don't want to see the food mushed up in your mouth, nor have bits spat out me at when you continue to talk
-Referring to 'The CoviT'
-The term 'like I said or as I said' when they never said it beforehand!
MIL, I'm looking at you for all these. 🙄

My MIL is 93 this week and while she's relatively independent, her short term memory is going and she basically gives you her life history every time you see her. Every sentence starts with "of course".

"Of course the war started..."
"Of course I went to Blackheath Road School"
"Of course the country people hated us Londoners [during her brief evacuation]"
"Of course my school was bombed"
"Of course it was easy to rent then"

I FUCKING KNOW!!!!

AliceKyteler · 29/04/2024 17:46

dutysuite · 27/04/2024 23:17

People who park next to me really closely in an almost empty carpark and make it difficult for me to get into my car. Did my car look lonely?

Friends of mine went camping, it was a completely empty massive 5 acre field and were told to park anywhere they liked then another campervan arrived and parked right next to them (They then moved)
People are weird

Thevelvelletes · 29/04/2024 17:39

That's just selfish 😁

CatMum27 · 29/04/2024 17:38

Having been back into the office today I would like to add another one - people who use the communal microwave to heat up fish 🤢

Auburngal · 29/04/2024 16:15

craycray431 · 29/04/2024 13:12

For me working in retail we have the crappy Christmas music. It’s torture! No other time of year are so few songs played to death.
@Auburngal I always feel sorry for retail staff having to hear Xmas music - seems to start earlier every year too! you have my sympathy

The thing of playing Christmas music was to make people feel festive and buy more.

That psychological idea no longer exists. It makes us more miserable and want to do shopping online.

What I don’t get is the toy shop The Entertainer. CEO is a devout Christian - shops are closed on Sundays. Yet play Xmas music in mid October! It was the Friday before Oct half term and walked past the shop in my town. Heard Rocking Around The Christmas Tree. FFS!

craycray431 · 29/04/2024 13:12

For me working in retail we have the crappy Christmas music. It’s torture! No other time of year are so few songs played to death.
@Auburngal I always feel sorry for retail staff having to hear Xmas music - seems to start earlier every year too! you have my sympathy

Auburngal · 29/04/2024 12:37

Applescruffle · 29/04/2024 10:02

Honestly, it drives me mad every year.

People think its because I am a misery who hates Christmas but it's because I love Christmas and don't want it spoiled and the magic diluted by dragging if out for half a year. November is still autumn FFS.

I just feel like noone wants to wait for anything any more. Noone wants to just enjoy the wait and the build up and get excited for something. Its just now now now.

And it does affect me because there's lights and decor everywhere from Nov 1st. People don't just keep it in their living rooms, it's right not there everywhere I look and shops follow suit to meet with demand. So I can't get away from it and I feel its actually ruining the season for me and getting in the way of enjoying Autumn before winter.

Christmas bedding? Fuck off

The whole family wearing the same PJs at Christmas. Chavvy SM sadness.

For me working in retail we have the crappy Christmas music. It’s torture! No other time of year are so few songs played to death.

thepastinsidethepresent · 29/04/2024 12:26

PrincessFionaCharming · 29/04/2024 00:53

Yeah. She was a total user she just wanted me to fill an hour (and for my 9 year old to babysit her youngest so she could sit on her phone). She wasn’t interested.

Ah, I see. I think I'd have done the same!

Catsmere · 29/04/2024 10:29

zingally · 29/04/2024 10:10

Loud chewing/gulping.

And those people who swallow compulsively halfway through a sentence, which always looks really painful and odd, when they stop randomly, do a huge grimacing swallow, then continue the sentence.

And people who sound really "wet" when they talk. Like they've got a mouthful of unswallowed drink in there, swishing about.

First audiobook I bought was a dramatisation of Dracula, many years ago. It was awful - the bloke playing Dracula did that slurping talking. I listened to it once, that was more than enough.

Maverickess · 29/04/2024 10:25

People who phone to book something we offer either in the windiest place on earth, from what sounds like the middle of a concert or with appalling signal - and then get shitty with me because I can't catch what they're saying properly.
Go somewhere quiet and don't ring me from somewhere you've got one bar signal and then blame me for it when you can't be heard or can't hear me!

zingally · 29/04/2024 10:10

Loud chewing/gulping.

And those people who swallow compulsively halfway through a sentence, which always looks really painful and odd, when they stop randomly, do a huge grimacing swallow, then continue the sentence.

And people who sound really "wet" when they talk. Like they've got a mouthful of unswallowed drink in there, swishing about.

Applescruffle · 29/04/2024 10:02

Auburngal · 29/04/2024 05:50

@Applescruffle I agree with the Christmas tree in November thing!

Had a colleague who puts up her tree mid Nov and about 10 days before Xmas Day, she’s moaning about she’s sick of the sight of the tree etc. DON’T put up your tree that early then!

Based on the few households in my road, my parents’ - those who have their Christmas decorations and tree up in Nov, most of them are down by 27th Dec!

Honestly, it drives me mad every year.

People think its because I am a misery who hates Christmas but it's because I love Christmas and don't want it spoiled and the magic diluted by dragging if out for half a year. November is still autumn FFS.

I just feel like noone wants to wait for anything any more. Noone wants to just enjoy the wait and the build up and get excited for something. Its just now now now.

And it does affect me because there's lights and decor everywhere from Nov 1st. People don't just keep it in their living rooms, it's right not there everywhere I look and shops follow suit to meet with demand. So I can't get away from it and I feel its actually ruining the season for me and getting in the way of enjoying Autumn before winter.

toomanyy · 29/04/2024 10:00

GoodHeavens99 · 29/04/2024 07:53

Me too.
I'm convinced that i turn into a hologram whenever i leave the house.

My husband didn't believe me when I told him, until we went shopping one day.

It’s baffling isn’t it? I try to stay put and let them move for once but I’m so used to them just standing there or tutting that I move.

Maybe it’s not even conscious for them and they’re just unconsciously entitled.

TigerRag · 29/04/2024 09:09

People walking down the middle of the pavement and expecting me to move into the road. Because I'm happy to almost get run over instead of you moving a few inches

HotChocolateNotCocoa · 29/04/2024 08:26

DerekFaker · 28/04/2024 18:08

People who use the exit doors to enter my local supermarket, and vice versa, and who have the nerve to give ME a funny look as if I'm getting in their way.

There are now 'Exit/Entrance Only' signs on the doors. Doesn't stop them though.

And the twatarses who use both sets of stairs to climb up from a train/tube platform - and do it verrrrry verrrrrry sloooooowly to boot - then look at you like you’re the arsehole because they have to move to let you past to get down. Just walk on the left you cuntfaces!!

GoodHeavens99 · 29/04/2024 07:53

toomanyy · 28/04/2024 00:45

People men who expect me to move out of their way all the time. It’s unthinkable for them to move around me for some reason.

Me too.
I'm convinced that i turn into a hologram whenever i leave the house.

My husband didn't believe me when I told him, until we went shopping one day.

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