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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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NippyNinjaCrab · 23/06/2025 05:02

When my dogs stand on the back of my Slippers following me around at feeding time (or the hour before) drives me mental! DH thinks its hilarious 😂 the dick.

When posters use the term unmumsnetty hug! It's worse than the give your head a wobble.

aintnospringchicken · 23/06/2025 03:05

JockTamsonsBairns · 22/06/2025 22:51

I'm Scottish, and draw is pronounced differently to drawer.

Drawer has a very audible 'r' at the end of it, whereas draw doesn't?

I’m Scottish too and totally agree.
Draw and drawer are definitely pronounced differently.

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 23/06/2025 01:39

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 22/06/2025 19:37

That’s it…let it all out.

Nice deep breaths…

Feel better? 😉

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Thank you! I do… a little 😅

HarkerandBarker · 23/06/2025 01:39

That' new lynx advert is so unnecessarily graphic! Like the sanitary towel adverts! Now they have to pour red liquid on them....just incase a women doesn't know exactly what colour blood is. But thinking of it now as I write, maybe it's for men who think they're women. Just so they don't think it's a nappy! 🤣

HarkerandBarker · 23/06/2025 01:24

Just remembered another thing that really annoys me. People who say 'from the get go' what's wrong with saying 'from the start or the beginning'

BeanQuisine · 23/06/2025 01:02

Coasters sticking to the bottom of my mug or glass as I raise it to drink, then falling off and rolling under the table or across the room.

Makes me furious and I'll snarl: "Yeah fuck you too!" or suchlike, quite irrationally.

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/06/2025 00:32

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 23:17

Haha the irony of your edit 😂 You’ve given me a good chuckle before bed. Have a good night!

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I never claimed to have perfect English. I was simply pointing out the irony of laying claim to the "correct" pronunciation of a word, while using very obviously incorrect grammar in that same sentence. FWIW I pronounce "drawer" the same as "draw" myself, but as an English person who's been living in Scotland for twenty-nine years, I'm well aware that not everyone does. We have a wealth of regional dialects throughout the U.K. and I don't think any one of them is "right" or "wrong".

Nackyposter · 23/06/2025 00:29

Other drivers.

HerRoyalNotness · 23/06/2025 00:26

A friend on every single Instagram post ended with “Just thought I’d share” . Every single one.

I messaged her and suggested she didn’t need to add that as sharing on Instagram showed she’d thought to share. She stopped doing it for many years and has recently started again.

BenKingsleyClownUnion · 23/06/2025 00:21

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 23:03

I’m sorry, but no. Any accent pronouncing the “er” is incorrect. There’s a right way of saying it, and it’s one syllable only.

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Sanctimonious people with non-rhotic English accents who think that their way of pronouncing words is the only correct way to speak. It might be in your corner of little England, hen, but it's not in everyone's.

BellevueRDV · 23/06/2025 00:16

People who post on Facebook seeking some sort of advice and start their post with “Bit of a strange one,” or “Bit of a random one,” and whatever they’re posting is neither strange or random and just some banal nonsense. I don’t know why but it enrages me.

nakaji · 23/06/2025 00:07

People holding their phone perpendicular to the ear. Never necessary. Not even for voicenotes. You look stupid. Keep it flat to your ear you twat.

JockTamsonsBairns · 23/06/2025 00:04

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 23:07

Nope.

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Nope what?

Dramatic · 22/06/2025 23:49

KrazyboutKillian · 22/06/2025 00:24

@DavidBrentsGuitar

asda is called ‘ the Asda ‘ round here

as in
do You want anything from the Asda ?

funnily enough , not the Lidl or the Tesco

You live in Hartlepool then? 😂

BenKingsleyClownUnion · 22/06/2025 23:35

HaveCreditWillShop · 21/06/2025 21:11

As a hobby genealogist, I feel your pain. I could make an entire thread on Ancestry rage.

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Oh, please do it! I've got about 90 examples in my head already!

InterestedDad37 · 22/06/2025 23:34

People who walk straight out of shops onto the pavement without looking, and don't even notice that they've made you stop. I bet they're the same people who do pull out from junctions without looking, when driving.
Ooh, I could crush a grape! 🤔😀

iseethembloom · 22/06/2025 23:29

lovemycbf · 21/06/2025 23:46

People sniffing repeatedly….just blow your nose 🤬

Oh god yes. I was on a train back in April I think, and this woman was sniffing really loudly about once a minute (but irregularly). It was constant. I don’t know how she could stand it.

i had to change seat very quickly. Thank goodness the train wasn’t busy.

Tartankilt07 · 22/06/2025 23:25

People who yap incessantly on their mobile phones during coach journeys

People who smoke right in the doorway to shops, restaurants etc

People who insist on waiting until they have packed every last bit of their shopping before searching in their bag for their purse to pay

Cyclists who hold up traffic on busy roads by cycling in the road instead of on the cycle track that runs right alongside.

Peanutlicious · 22/06/2025 23:20

People who called covid 'COVID-19'.

So unnecessary. We've only had one covid so drop the 19 snd why the capitals?! Particularly, when people refer to it as COVID-19 multiple times in the same passage.

I know Iabu but it drives me mad.

Bridgetjonesheart · 22/06/2025 23:17

When people talk to me through a yawn. Or carry on talking through a yawn. It drives me mad!

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 23:17

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 23:11

I.e. I wouldn't criticise people's accents while mangling the English language myself, if I were you.

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Haha the irony of your edit 😂 You’ve given me a good chuckle before bed. Have a good night!

MrsO3 · 22/06/2025 23:16

Doggielovecharlotte · 22/06/2025 12:19

Oh gosh I know - I now put my super market trolley behind me for a buffer zone - and in dunhelm!

a friend once said I just step backwards and go “oh sorry I didn’t know you were RIGHT behind me”

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Omg I’m stealing the trolley buffer zone idea! Thank you! Haha. Like just get the fuck AWAY from me if I don’t know you! 😂

aintnospringchicken · 22/06/2025 23:14

People who walk at a snails pace 3 or 4 abreast taking up the whole pavement and you can’t get past them without stepping out onto the road.
Fingerprints on computer screens that are not touch screens. No need for it( in my opinion)
Leaving one square of toilet paper on the roll. Why?
People standing on a busy bus or train who won’t move towards the back so others can get on.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 23:11

I.e. I wouldn't criticise people's accents while mangling the English language myself, if I were you.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 23:09

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 23:06

You are inhabiting the wrong world. “Drawer” has one syllable! Oh my god I most definitely feel pure rage right now at the thought of people going around pronouncing the “er” thinking they’re saying it right!

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"Saying right"

You wot now? 🤷‍♀️

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