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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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Usernamehistoryfull · 21/06/2025 22:12

When someone slows their car down to let you pull out of a junction, even though there's ZERO traffic behind them and absolutely no reason for them to do so. Why??

MeyerBennett · 21/06/2025 22:11

honeyfox · 21/06/2025 21:09

There's a girl in work who does this, two doors down the corridor. Almost screams.

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I'd kill her. I'm in a new job so I can't tell the loud sneezers to fuck off

ZamaZama · 21/06/2025 22:07

New-fangled signs for takeaways and barbershops that feature massive 3D illuminated letters. Main street in my town looks increasingly like Las Vegas.

Closely related - video displays in shop windows and the giant electronic billboards littering high streets and gantries.

Basically, the turbocharged in-your-face hoarding and advertising that’s everywhere now. Make it stop, please!

AMillionTomorrows · 21/06/2025 22:06

People who-
no that’s it actually. Just people.

BarnOwlFlying · 21/06/2025 22:06

InjuryMyArse · 21/06/2025 21:32

Shoes. I am very angry at shoes.

Specifically women's shoes that are not the shape of feet.

Stupid, uncomfortable, pointy, squashy painful shoes. Should be illegal.

Bare feet are worse; why do people get them out in public?

Daisy12Maisie · 21/06/2025 22:02

The answer above mine- that would drive me insane. So annoying.

BarnOwlFlying · 21/06/2025 22:02

The phrase ‘reach out’ instead of ‘ask’.

Daisy12Maisie · 21/06/2025 22:01

People that talk to me about non urgent things at work when I am clearly juggling multiple things. Because of my job there are time periods throughout the day when it’s manic and then quieter periods. Always the same times so it’s not a surprise. They will come and ask me something non urgent during a manic part of the day.
So annoying and I have to say I can’t talk now but I will come and find you when I have finished this.
Sometimes I feel like saying just f* off. You can see im busy.

Lallybroch · 21/06/2025 22:00

The mother on the bus every Tuesday who gives her toddler in its buggy a tv think that plays Paw Patrol constantly at a loud volume for the whole half an hour I'm on there.

Lallybroch · 21/06/2025 21:59

HaveCreditWillShop
Please do 😀

cornflourblue · 21/06/2025 21:56

Poor grammar.

And people who can't/won't reverse on single track roads.

RitaFromThePitCanteen · 21/06/2025 21:54

People walking ahead of you in a station, busy shopping centre etc who completely stop on the way out and gawp around them like it's the first time they've ever been outside, blocking all the people walking behind them. Just get out of the gangway please and then you can stop and stare in wonder at the outside for as long as you want.

FishPie2 · 21/06/2025 21:53

I could of done it - no, you could have done it.
Long dog leads on the pavement when the owner is one side and the dog the other and owner usually on the phone and not paying attention to what is happening and I am not going to do the high jump over your lead. I now shout and frighten them. 😃

Vodkamartini3olives · 21/06/2025 21:49

My kids inability to hang up a fucking towel. Whenever I go into the bathroom there is at least 1 towel just dumped on the counter or floor. I probably hang them up.3/4 times a day. I'm peri and I'm constantly fucking raging about fucking towels.

fish2311 · 21/06/2025 21:46

The toddler at number 24. Constantly loud in a very unpleasant tone. And his loud mum. Especially when she sings… (The child next door is loud too but I don't mind him, as he just sounds like what I’d expect a toddler to sound like.)

Everydayimhuffling · 21/06/2025 21:44

Next door parking not-quite-but-inches-from in front of our house instead of in their DOUBLE DRIVEWAY. I can't complain because they aren't actually in the way or in front of our house, but it totally enrages me.

People playing tiktoks/games/music out loud on the bus. Headphones exist, people.

Kipperpig · 21/06/2025 21:37

Window handles not at the correct angle.

Messy curtains.

DollydaydreamTheThird · 21/06/2025 21:37

Idiots on nextdoor.com or local Facebook groups/WhatsApp chats getting in a state because a cat has been seen in their garden a few times. It has to be lost from its home surely (sarcasm) so they feed it and encourage it to keep coming back. Then they all start throwing their two penneth in about getting it's microchip checked at the vets. JUST STOP FEEDING THE FUCKER AND IT WILL GO HOME FFS.

InjuryMyArse · 21/06/2025 21:32

Shoes. I am very angry at shoes.

Specifically women's shoes that are not the shape of feet.

Stupid, uncomfortable, pointy, squashy painful shoes. Should be illegal.

PeanutButterCheesecake · 21/06/2025 21:32

Windscreen wipers. Just going backwards and forwards in your eyeline being annoying and making their stupid squeaky noises.

DollydaydreamTheThird · 21/06/2025 21:32

InMyOpenOnion · 21/06/2025 21:26

Oh yes, that advert for deodorant for men's sweaty crotches. Bad enough as a concept anyway but the bum-sniffing is just too much.

It is seriously grim. Have a feckin shower. It's just giving them an excuse not to wash and some men do not need to be given that excuse.

grumpygrape · 21/06/2025 21:30

InMyOpenOnion · 21/06/2025 21:26

Oh yes, that advert for deodorant for men's sweaty crotches. Bad enough as a concept anyway but the bum-sniffing is just too much.

Oh, heavens, yes that one too.

RosesAndHellebores · 21/06/2025 21:27

Silly things that annoy me?

I can think of silly people (Mr Bean, Norman Wisdom), silly behaviours (usually inappropriate behaviours - general buffoonery), silly habits (bad table manners(. Silly things - whoopee cushions would be an example but they don't particularly annoy me.

Mostly I'm annoyed by people who are unable to clearly articulate what they mean.

danglybumbits · 21/06/2025 21:26

Slow drivers SERIOUSLY JUST GET OUT OF MY WAY (unless you’re a nice old person or you’re driving on a spare)

People who want to be your friend on Facebook but won’t make eye contact in the street

InMyOpenOnion · 21/06/2025 21:26

Oh yes, that advert for deodorant for men's sweaty crotches. Bad enough as a concept anyway but the bum-sniffing is just too much.