Silly things that give you the rage

When people say “she’s ADHD” or “he’s ASD.” No, she has ADHD or he has ASD.

When people use “vagina” to refer to what’s actually the vulva, and then do things like talking about “shaving my vagina.”

People who shout "baddie down!" when finding a cache of desirable items at the charity/thrift shop.

What?

Another example of Scottish rather than wrong, so definitely fits the thread brief of silly.

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.

Oh and according to the internet (or AI, or whatever), draw and drawer are not, in fact, homophones…

Even worse on a Mac! As much as I love my Macs in most ways, because Mac users are assumed to not be very tech savvy some Mac error messages don't bother specifying the error but simply say 'An error has occurred'. The number of times I've wished the OK button said 'It's really not OK' (or something considerably ruder)!

Come to think of it, I haven't seen the message in a while, so maybe the developers have caught on to the fact that we're not all tech numpties. (Tbf, I am 😄but it must annoy non-numpties even more!)

People who use unnecessary capital letters eg "at School", "my Mum/Dad/Sister", "in Summer". Unfortunately my brother was in charge of my dad's headstone & notice of his death in the newspaper. So many unnecessary capital letters!

I've just pulled my Oxford English dictionary off the shelf and it does have "myriad" listed as both a noun and an adjective. Further investigation shows it has been in use as an adjective since the 17th century.

So I concede!

Of course, I am forgetting to mention the difference between:

drawer - the thing you keep socks in - ”dror” - one syllable,

drawer - a person who draws - “draw-er” - two syllables (however, I admit this may be an inherently Scottish accent thing).

I just looked it up. There's a lot more acceptable uses of myriad than some of us thought.

"All of the following are correct:

"There are a myriad of stars in the sky." (Myriad as a singular noun with "of")

"There are myriads of stars in the sky." (Myriads as a plural noun)

"The sky is filled with myriad stars." (Myriad as an adjective)

My DH habit of buying new trainers but not throwing away the ones they are allegedly replacing and then leaving said trainer collection as an assault course/booby trap over the bedroom floor to trip me up on my way to the bathroom when he's turned all the lights off.

I have to join in on the “draw”/“drawer” debate. I’m originally Scottish with a softened hybrid Australian twang, and draw and drawer are pronounced differently, in my opinion and experience, but not with one/two syllables - it’s more that draw sounds like ‘droh’, but drawer sounds like ‘dror’, so very similar (and pretty much rhyming - very much like thaw and Thor) but not the same.

I can totally see the differences in opinion though between say a London accent, and a broad Scots accent, where the former uses one syllable and the latter uses two.

I honestly don’t think either side of the argument on this thread is wrong, just differing in accent and dialect. Peace to all, and I’ll try to remove the splinters from my Switzerland ass!

Lol, this one really annoys me as well!

No, because we do say "a dozen"

The start of a reply on here with Nope (only ever see it on here and Twitter/X)

even if I agree with what they are positing the Nope has clouded my opinion

Or those who say "I am bias" or "you are bias" instead of I am biased, or you are biased.

The general dumbing down of society, the way people just don't listen or read or try to figure anything out for themselves, ever.

Historical fiction that presents itself as fact, especially if it unnecessarily changes the story to fit a narrative - it's unnecessary as the truth is usually juicy enough, and these were real people who can't defend themselves, and it's disrespectful to make them out to be villains just because it makes a good read/ good TV

People on social media who always think you want a fight when you just want to talk about an interesting topic, straight on the defensive! Why join SOCIAL media and a group for like minded people if you don't want to chat about the topic??

The Harry Potter films.

Cats

Cat people who never have any decent arguments, ever. Not one.

The weird, irrational and obsessive hatred for Meghan Markle

Love Island

Slow, faffy people who are completely unaware of a queue behind them.

People who don't reply when you invite them to do something, instead they wait to see what they are doing and then reply days later, or forget about you, leaving you hanging. How hard is it to just say "thanks for the invite, I just need to check such-and-such with so-and-so and I'' let you know by Thursday"

Just general flakiness

General lack of manners

Love Island

The way there's no shame or secrecy anywhere any more. Vibrators just clearly on display on the shelves in a supermarket today, and then at the deli counter, a staff member opening discussing her affair with her colleague "Yeah, he would wait until his wife was snoring, then come round to mine for three hours" "Oh, how long did it take for him to leave her?" "only a few months" "oh, that's not too bad" No shame.

People who say "eggy bread"

The laugh button disappearing on mumsnet, I know some people use it to be mean or belittling but also, sometimes things are just funny!

People who are always a victim.

I am from the South of England, so draw and drawer sound the same.

My friend is from Scotland and pronounces the er at the end of drawer.

It's really quite simple.

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

@Cosycover Well there is the Big Mac (not Big MC). So you can't blame them.

In Australia, McDonalds is colloquially known as Maccas. They even have it on some signs.

We don't say "a ten thousand" though.

The Duke of York didn't have "a ten thousand men" did he? So by your own standard "a myriad" is wrong.

Self help check outs that states they are card only and then you have to choose weather to pay card or cash. So so annoying

Online pop-ups that try to shame you into participating. For example, you can give your email and mobile number for x% off your first purchase - but to decline and get back to the main page you have to select NO THANKS, I HATE SAVING MONEY!!

People who conflate public policy/law with private/personal life - e.g., Brexit was inevitable - EVERYONE moves out of the share house once they can afford their own place! Or What do you mean single-sex facilities are sometimes needed for safety and privacy? MEN USE THE LOO AT YOUR HOUSE !!!!! 😤

People who shout "baddie down!" when finding a cache of desirable items at the charity/thrift shop.

People who address or refer to women as a group as "girlies" (or some even worse elaboration) all over the internet. Hey, NI girliepops!!! What's the best place to buy marshmallow mochi gummy bear perfume in downtown Ballycastle??? You be a girlie(pop) all you want; I prefer to remain a person.

Women that use peri as an excuse.

Double irritation points if it's followed up with an exclamation mark.

Oh god, the overuse of exclamation marks in general!

Some posters put one at the end of every sentence, which makes their contribution read like the ramblings of an insane person.

"Stop doing that!" deserves one, because I'm exclaiming.

"I was in the library!" - mad (unless someone's just wrongly accused you of murder in the kitchen.)

Also annoying is the fact that nobody is going to read my post and think "I'm guilty of that. She's right, it does make me look unhinged and I'm going to stop using unnecessary exclamation marks."