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Silly things that give you the rage

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Ontobetterthings · 21/06/2025 18:53

Maybe its cos I'm peri but we were out for a meal and someone was eating chicken wings and being very meticulous about using a knife and fork to eat them and very slowly. It was holding up the next course for everyone.

Do you have any examples of getting the rage over something silly 🤣

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iseethembloom · 23/06/2025 16:05

People who say ‘undertake’ instead of ‘do’
Those who say ‘utilise’ instead of ‘use’
People who say ‘seek’ instead of ‘want’

I could go on but I won’t because it’s already getting boring. These ridiculous pieces of corporate language really get on my tits. It’s so unnecessary.

ButteredRadish · 23/06/2025 15:57

DavidBrentsGuitar · 22/06/2025 00:10

My Asperger's DH :
-the endless monotone dry monologues

  • the wandering off
  • the zero need for intimacy and connection
-zero need to socialise -zero understanding that I have any needs whatsoever including socialising
  • the fucking verbal ticks (I have a highly sensitive startle reaction) so him shouting "mummy!" Loudly out of the blue really fucks me off
  • the walking 900 feet ahead
  • the stress over really stupid minor inconsequential things
  • the robotic sex where all the moves are there but no emotional connection and no desire for it
  • wandering off to do 'man jobs' without telling me in the middle of a weekend

I could go on and on and on. I never open up, never moan. But today has been a particularly hard and bad day and I feel isolated, lonely and depressed and constantly invalidated so please be mindful of that if anyone wants to attack me. Please not today 🙈.

I know this was meant to be light-hearted but , yep that's whats given me the rage today.

You knew he had Asperger’s when you married him! As a parent of a child with it, this was really hurtful to read. This is what my DC is up against 💔

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:55

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 15:52

Presumably you haven't met any Scottish academics, professionals, teachers or linguists...

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Quite the opposite. I'm married to a Scot ☺️ He says them the same. He's had to stop saying, "I stay in.." instead of, "I live in...", though. Oh, and, "Just now" instead of now.

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 15:52

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:50

Oh, I've met plenty of people. I suppose I generally associate with other academics, professionals, teachers and linguists, so perhaps people saying them incorrectly haven't entered my circle.

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Presumably you haven't met any Scottish academics, professionals, teachers or linguists...

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:50

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 15:47

Then you need to meet more people.

I pronounce them exactly the same, but plenty of people don't.

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Oh, I've met plenty of people. I suppose I generally associate with other academics, professionals, teachers and linguists, so perhaps people saying them incorrectly haven't entered my circle.

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 15:47

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:47

Just, no. No one I've ever met says, "Draw-er".

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Then you need to meet more people.

I pronounce them exactly the same, but plenty of people don't.

ButteredRadish · 23/06/2025 15:47

Hecksonaplane · 21/06/2025 21:14

Water running down my sleeves when I wash my face, I’ve now bought towelling sweat bands!
Catching my sleeve on a door handle
People not ready to move off instantly when the lights change to green
Having no one behind me on a road but have someone pull out in front of me either too short a distance and I have to brake or slowly and I have to brake
When I have to repeat myself
People that stop and stand in access areas eg a metro platform entrance, move down let people through, shop entrances, top of stairs
other than that I’m pretty chill 😅

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*pretty chillED

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:47

FeistyCat · 23/06/2025 13:41

They are pronounced differently, @SquashedSquid . Listen to the different pronunciations of the two:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/draw

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/drawer

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Just, no. No one I've ever met says, "Draw-er".

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 15:46

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:34

Names yes, but not when it's preceeded by my/your etc. Then it's not a name it's a noun eg my mum. Seasons don't generally need capitalisation except for things like "Summer Fayre" as it's the name of the fayre

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People who write Fayre instead of Fair.

littlegreydevil · 23/06/2025 15:46

Oh and the other thing that gives me the rage is people who issue statements instead of asking a question. For example: “the kitchen needs tidying”. So what? Are you wanting me to tidy it? Then just bloody ask!
I correct my kids about this all the time. Child: “I’m thirsty”. Me: “I did not hear a question”. Child: “Please can I have a drink?” Me: “Of course darling child.” Would be even better if they got their own drink but we’re at that in between stage where sometimes they can’t quite do it themselves.
This makes me so irrationally angry that I am so so close to using the same technique with colleagues…

ButteredRadish · 23/06/2025 15:45

JDM625 · 21/06/2025 21:11

My MIL!

Its specific not Pacific
Its covid, not The CoviT
At any meal, MIL will shove food in then still try to talk, so bits come flying out of her mouth!
People that lie their breasts/chest and body over shopping trolleys and use them as mobility aids.

People saying: Recommend me......, we was at ...., I done ....., You get me? Innit.

Biscuit Some of us can’t walk round a supermarket without leaning on the trolley. I’m so sorry my disability is so offensive to you….Hmm

littlegreydevil · 23/06/2025 15:39

Work related but the amount of companies, tech ones being the worst offenders, who use “solutions” instead of describing their products/services.
“We deliver work-based solutions blah blah blah…” It’s wanky and/or lazy. What is that solution you speak off? Software? Advice? Food? For the love of all that is holy, please just use simple English!

outerspacepotato · 23/06/2025 15:37

Walk right, pass left.

You would think it's quantum physics the way people block the way on the stairs and escalators for the trains.

In my fever dreams, someone with a large metal suitcase is charging the stairs sending those standing on the left flying around like bowling pins after a strike.

idolikealiein · 23/06/2025 15:30

My absolute pet hate is the trend for people to ask themselves questions whilst they are talking ie "would I have preferred to be alone? Yes I would". Rather than " I would have preferred to be alone". It drives me up the bloody wall. Why do people do it?

CruCru · 23/06/2025 15:20

I hate it when people write “SMH” at the end of posts (not so much here as other places).

Partly because I am firmly middle aged and for ages thought that a load of young people were saying “Smerrrr” / “Smurrr” at people they disagreed with for some unknown reason.

Now that I know what it means, I hate it even more. Shaking your head at someone while they are speaking (it doesn’t matter if you disagree) is unacceptable in polite society.

IFoundYouShoppingInEuropaOnWardourStreet · 23/06/2025 15:05

Bloody everything at the moment 😡

ohyesido · 23/06/2025 14:54

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:52

How about Maccie-D's?? 😊

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How funny i mentioned Maccy D’s on another post only to be told by other users that they’d never heard of this…

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:52

ohyesido · 22/06/2025 14:52

Or worse, Donald’s.

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How about Maccie-D's?? 😊

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:48

BubblinTrouble · 22/06/2025 13:12

When people don’t put their weights away after their done at the gym
Our intern responds with ‘huh’ rather than ‘pardon’ or ‘please can you repeat that?’ It reminds me of my 4 year old and the urge not to correct the intern is hard

Oh gosh yes, that irritates me. My dear old dad had a habit of going "mmmmmm?", going high at the end like a question. I went through a phase of pretending i didnt hear it until he said pardon! My dd's boyfriend goes "huh"? too and it seems to be after just about everything I say to him!

Mumof681 · 23/06/2025 14:41

Katy Perry... enough said!

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:34

comeandhaveteawithme · 23/06/2025 14:25

Places and names should always be capitalised.

Days of the week, months of the year and events should be too, so you could argue that season also fall into this category.

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Names yes, but not when it's preceeded by my/your etc. Then it's not a name it's a noun eg my mum. Seasons don't generally need capitalisation except for things like "Summer Fayre" as it's the name of the fayre

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 14:30

I know a lot of people can't help it but pronouncing "th" as "f" gives me the rage, especially professional people who are providing a service. We went to a few workshops over the past weekend & I heard several of the staff saying things like "I fink", "fank you", "nuffing" etc. It seems to be getting really common these days, much to my annoyance

FamilyPhoto · 23/06/2025 14:29

Bad or no manners.

19lottie82 · 23/06/2025 14:28

When people say brought, instead of bought.

Whammyyammy · 23/06/2025 14:28

People that sit in the lane 2 of a motorway doing 65mph when lane 1 is clear.
People that drive at 40 mph in a national speed limit area.
People that pull out on you, then drive slow.

People need to learn to drive

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