Silly things that give you the rage

"Pre-existing" is the one I cannot abide the most, although it's fair to say it's a crowded field. There is no need whatsoever for the word "pre" before the word "existing".

Another as I'm checking LinkedIn for the first time in a week because I've been on holiday.

Why do so many recruiters/headhunters not even both to read at least the intro paragraph on my profile before messaging me??

It's particularly annoying as I'm looking for a new role right now so got a bit excited seeing all the private messages. But no. Obviously half are trying to sell me stuff but of the others some were just so inappropriate to my actual job history (I work as a commercial contracts lawyer in-house and always have done).

I was contacted (amongst others) about jobs in IT support, as a residential conveyancer, head of tax, admin support and my personal favourite, catering assistant and cleaner at a company I used to work for as a lawyer.

Do they just word search eg 'tax' or 'company name' and because those things are listed on my profile just fire off the message?

There wasn't a single suitable thing in over 50 messages!

Such a waste of my time trawling through 😡

Another husband related one. H is a bit of a hoarder, especially with electrical things. He currently has three(!!) extension cables, each with four plugs plugged in the vast majority of which are for broken/unused items (e.g. a charger for an old phone which is broken and doesn't fit either of our actual phones). Our flat is tiny and I have to navigate this web of cables and the old electrical items they're attached to in order to get to the sofa.

I thought when he tripped on a cable and fell into our new TV he might get rid of some of it but no. Complete refusal as 'we might need them again in the future!'

Something that's annoyed me no end since my first computer in the previous century: Windows telling you that it's stuffed things up or failed in some way, then expecting you to click "OK", as if it really is OK.

Yes! I hate it on the front of buses 'Sorry, I'm not in service' with a sad face, as if we're children waiting for Thomas the Tank Engine to tell us he'll take us into town for sweeties.

Similarly, packaging that 'talks' to you like you're 16. I recently opened up a beauty box order to find the words 'Hello you!' on the inside of the lid. 🙄 (Not an overtly 'yoof' brand, where I'd have said fair enough.)

Oh, and on a tangentially related note, I've just thought of another one: 'Hang tight' when an app or webpage is taking forever to load. Double irritation points if it's followed up with an exclamation mark. The faux breeziness does not ease the annoyance of the wait if you're in a hurry.

(I know, I know - totally inconsequential first-world problems - but the thread title did specify 'silly' things that give you the rage. 😄)

And I hate “pre-plan”. The only way “pre-book” works is if you need to confirm your booking at a later date - I was once told by a hotel that they nearly gave our room away because, although my husband had booked it, he hadn’t called again to confirm it (it was a strange hotel in many ways).

"Needs gone".

@UnctuousUnicorns no comment on the pronunciation of "drawer" I'm just thrilled to see one of my favourite bands, Wire, mentioned on MN 😀

I secretly hate the term "pre-warn" for the same reason.

I cannot thank you enough for this!

Oh brilliant - for some reason it just so gets my heckles up - if you try it you will see how disoriented the space invaders get when the trolley buffer zone is in play - at the supermarket I keep it there too while I’m packing so I CAN BE THE ONE STANDING IN FRONT of cashier to pay when it’s my shopping being paid for!! The trolley holds my space while I pack!!

they don’t like it those space invaders!! I find petrol station & Dunhelm queues to pay the worst

I once learnt on a training that apparently we are not weird, there is something in the back of our necks/heads that watches out for danger and that’s what gets stimulated when people invade our space - to do with cave women times and danger

@Backtoreality1 I use lifts now due to limited mobility, but that used to infuriate me when using escalators back in my more mobile days. Get out the fucking way you idiot!

People who stop immediately when they get off an escalator and then look baffled when you walk into the back of them!

’Draw’ is one syllable with a vowel, ‘er’ is the second syllable with a vowel @GoodOldTrayBake We all need to get over to Pedants Corner.

Utterly rational and reasonable, @BeanQuisine - I do exactly the same thing!

Good job turning a lighthearted joke post into toxic culture war nonsense. I am aware people have different accents. I was following the theme of the thread i.e. lighthearted and joking about what gives you “rage”.

Try not to take everything so seriously and turn something fun into something toxic. There was absolutely no need to bring culture wars and insults into play.

Food packaging that's made to sound human. "Heat me up and I'm good to go" or "Shake me up and keep me in the fridge". Or some such nonsense.

Or autism or dementia

Marketing emails that start ‘Hello lovely…’. AGGH! Fuck off!!

Joining a FB group about a specific topic to get support, hints and guidance only for several people to use it as their own personal journal with several daily selfies and an hourly run down of their their kids’ boring ‘antics’ (in a candle making group for example)

This is so ignorant and elitist. The majority of Scots would say drawer pronouncing the r at the end. English people mostly have non rhotic accents, but most Scots, Americans, Canadians and the Irish have rhotic accents. Both are fine. You clearly don't get out much if you haven't picked up on this.

Could of, would of , should of. I know it's my problem, language evolves etc, but it really annoys me.

A man I know calls me gorgeous at the end of every sentence do not think he has ever said my name. Should be flattered? No I want to strangle him I am going to flip on him one day.

This sends me over the edge but at the moment everything does😬

People who stand at the door on the tube and won’t move along - I could kill