Page 10 | Things that PISS you off, but you can't really say so.

pinknailvarnish1 · 2025-08-26T16:12:38+00:00

I have a few. Can't say them out loud (except to DH). MIL & FIL - multi millionaires. Spend loads of money on themselves, lavish holidays, sports cars, only the *very* best restaurants etc. Never ever do they give a penny to their adult children (and one is flat broke). This is despite them both having been given property and a thriving business by a parent themselves. My Dad - Overbearing, alcoholic, violent outbursts etc, all through our childhood. He's now decrepit and I have to do so much for him. I resent it. Brother - keeps saying he's broke, whilst living like a rockstar. Just spend £20k on a holiday, lives in a £600k house, drives top of the range car, but often claims poverty - stop lying! And breathe...... Anyone else?

Kurokurosuke · 27/08/2025 06:46

Doingtheboxerbeat · 26/08/2025 17:27

My chicken Kiev leaked all the buttery juice all over the foil and I'm absolutely distraught 😳.

A burst chicken kiev is just the worst. Always makes be sad!

Gymnopediegivesmethewillies · 27/08/2025 06:37

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:17

@pinknailvarnish1

Do we have the same MIL? 😄

When I told mine I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, she gave me a long blank stare, then turned to my husband and said “Well obviously, her having cancer is better than having hay fever like me. I’ll never be cured of my problem”

I didn’t expect any sympathy, so I wasn’t surprised!

OMG! I don’t think anyone can top that. Bloody hell!

Hiphopahip · 27/08/2025 06:35

The guy at work who is the biggest kiss arse to the MD but also the bitchiest twat I’ve ever known. Slags off everyone behind their back including MD. But I can’t say anything remotely bad about him because he’s the golden boy and and I’m the only woman so of course I’m seen as the trouble maker.

ThatBlackCat · 27/08/2025 06:34

When people say nail 'varnish' instead nail polish. Sorry OP. 😊I cannot stand it, I just want to stamp my feet and say it's POLISH you imbecile! I also hate when people say 'telly' for tv, as if they're in the 1960s. Even worse when they say the telly.

Also the sound of people crunching loudly. And the sound of typing on computer keyboards really loudly.
Loud clocks that sound like a ticking time bomb. I could go on and on.

twoleggedpirate · 27/08/2025 06:22

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:17

@pinknailvarnish1

Do we have the same MIL? 😄

When I told mine I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, she gave me a long blank stare, then turned to my husband and said “Well obviously, her having cancer is better than having hay fever like me. I’ll never be cured of my problem”

I didn’t expect any sympathy, so I wasn’t surprised!

I rarely reply but I can’t believe she said that. Oh my goodness. I’m sorry and hope you are doing ok x

LillyPJ · 27/08/2025 06:14

Tryonemoretime · 26/08/2025 23:35

The F word and the C word. I spent my early years in a tough mining village where people swore all the time - but no one never used those words.
Casual blasphemy. People don't use Muhammad's name in the same way. Why use Jesus'?
Apostrophes in the wrong places. Pass me a black marker pen....
People who use the last sheet of the loo roll and leave the cardboard roll on the hanger....
Sniffers. Use a tissue. Please.

People who use four dots for an ellipsis?

Thepeopleversuswork · 27/08/2025 06:07

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:17

@pinknailvarnish1

Do we have the same MIL? 😄

When I told mine I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer, she gave me a long blank stare, then turned to my husband and said “Well obviously, her having cancer is better than having hay fever like me. I’ll never be cured of my problem”

I didn’t expect any sympathy, so I wasn’t surprised!

That’s off the chart bad. And I speak as the child of a narcissist.

MrsClatterbuck · 27/08/2025 06:05

Earthbound4 · 26/08/2025 18:24

You can always just say I don’t want to deal with it and let solicitors step in.

I have told my DP’s if they don’t sort it they will be at the mercy of social services and solicitors unless my siblings step in. I have shown them all the resources to help them with POA and if they choose not to do it that’s fine. I’ve never been an inheritance chaser so I can live with my decision.

I don’t want to be POA but I’ve made it clear if they don’t appoint one they are leaving their futures in the hands of SS and solicitors.

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I told a relative that if they didn't do a POA then the office of Care and Protection would be deciding their financial affairs aka the government. They eventually did one.

abracadabra1980 · 27/08/2025 05:58

MaidOfSteel · 26/08/2025 22:02

The Americanisation of our language. I hate, hate, hate it.

Agree - it’s always happened over the years, however the current ‘gotten’, ‘I appreciate it’ and ‘have a nice rest of your day’ drive me make me want to scream.

mammat72 · 27/08/2025 05:40

my mil drives me insane has never made me feel welcome, asked me to abort my ds when i was told i couldn't have kids, spent years under mining me with my step children and husband. messages husband every single fucking day can i eat fish that's been in the fridge for a day. can you take stuff to tip, oh its raining i hope your not wet, oh its sunny today stay in the shade ffs woman the man is 54 years old cut the fucking apron strings.

monkeysox · 27/08/2025 05:40

Suninthe · 27/08/2025 00:11

This just made me cry laughing... I had a work colleague who used to microwave sardines and eat them in my windowless office...

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That would definitely get a response from me. Dirty fucker.

Personperson · 27/08/2025 05:34

Katemax82 · 26/08/2025 18:37

My 12 year old daughter has an eating disorder she's having treatment for. If she needs a snack or anything she will just come and tell me she is hungry but won't say what she wants, I have to list everything we have in the house. Last night I had spent ages tidying the kitchen after my 5 month old finally fell asleep and she did it, I got slightly irritated with her not just saying what she wants so she stormed off to her room and wouldn't talk to me. Then my husband bollocked me because we have to get her to eat more. My 7 year old autistic son will constantly say "I want a snack" but not specifically what. It's like I spend my life thinking up snacks and stuff

Can you make a list for her to choose from like a tick board? And always have those things in?

Unfortunately your husband right although I get it's tedious. Mental health is no joke and I do empathise.

cafenoirbiscuit · 27/08/2025 05:33

The Mumsnet pop up asking me to turn off my ad blockers. Which I do.
and within a couple of minutes, the same message reappears. Ad infinitum. Ffs

Personperson · 27/08/2025 05:32

tooyoungtoopretty · 26/08/2025 18:32

All the hard work that goes into staying slim, and others taking ozempic.

That's because some people need help.

No need to look down on people because they desperately need help to change.

Surely it's better to get thinner no matter what helps to get there. Being obese causes so many future problems.

It's been proven it's not just a will power thing, there are all kinds of reasons at play as to why some people struggle to lose weight.

One of the things that I've heard is it stops the food noise, allowing the person to be able to eat better and make better changes.

Plus it doesn't mean that people aren't also making changes when on ozempic.

secretrugbyfan · 27/08/2025 05:20

Soitwillbefine · 26/08/2025 23:27

Visitors who say ‘right, we are off.’ Then start another conversation at the door for 6/7 minutes. Then leave. Then start another conversation at the car door for 6/7 minutes. Just say you’re going and bloody go, I don’t need a final act.

I know 4 people like this and I’m irrationally angry every time it happens and it ALWAYS happens.

Sounds like an Irish goodbye......

Flatandhappy · 27/08/2025 02:34

@Enigma54 It’s shit, isn’t it.

DH used to tell me how well I was coping, well lying in the middle of the street wailing and having the “it’s not fair” tantrum I wanted wasn’t really an option. He meant well but it did bug me.

elliejjtiny · 27/08/2025 01:42

Bil and Sil going on and on about their expensive holidays and expensive everything and then sneering if i say the things we are doing. Then MIL telling people "Well my OTHER daughter in law does xyz, has a very important job, etc etc" when I'm standing right there.

McTootsBagpipes · 27/08/2025 01:29

My neighbour, let’s call her Kate. She has taken to wearing a kuffiyeh in support of Palestine. Which would not be noteworthy, except she was on FB last year posting accusations of those wearing them of cultural appropriation. She is the very first to scream cultural appropriation about anything and has form for this, but has forgotten her rants as she wants to be seen wearing one everywhere from the local One Stop to gardening out the front.

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · 27/08/2025 01:00

NotQuiteUsual · 26/08/2025 18:14

How DH takes ages to wake up on a weekend. He can wake up just fine on a work day. Yes he's groggy and a bit slow paced in a morning. But that's fine because he's out of bed. He takes fucking ages to wake up at the weekend and I have to wake him or he'd sleep all day.

I tell him how much it pisses me off to be faffing about trying to wake him for 10,20 minutes. But it never changes. Claims he can't help it. It makes me wanna cry with frustration.

Tbf that's my only gripe with him. So I'll continue to start my weekends with a quiet fury and resist the urge to shake him. At least for now.

Why can’t you let him sleep?

Gingernaut · 27/08/2025 00:47

The sewer that is reality television and the identikit z-list slebs it's spawned

Some vacuous twit in a bikini who was runner up on Love Island four years ago is not worth pointing a camera at

I don't care who won Big Brother nine years ago

I truly don't care about the self inflicted 'drug and drink hell' some Essex fella has put himself through and I am genuinely perplexed about how much coverage some swimsuit clad 'babe' is getting when we are facing war, famine and pestilence

TV used to be intelligent and thought provoking and now it's a portal into a world of inanity, absolute nobodies 'throwing shade' at each other with bitchy remarks and the general dumbing down of society

flowersandfizz · 27/08/2025 00:45

People who say ‘expresso’ instead of espresso.

Also, I know a fair few women who gave up work when they started a family. Nothing against this but a) don’t pretend it would be impossible to manage working again when kids are older primary/senior school age, and b) don’t moan about how disengaged and uninvolved your partner is on the domestic front, if they are providing for the entire family on their single high income!

NoKidsSendDogs · 27/08/2025 00:37

People who say "irregardless". Oh. My. Fucking. God. Regardless already means without regard, why the fuck would you think it warrants a negation? Also, "I could care less". No, that doesn't mean what you think it means, it means you COULD care less so you DO care some. Ugh.

moto748e · 27/08/2025 00:34

Soitwillbefine · 26/08/2025 23:27

Visitors who say ‘right, we are off.’ Then start another conversation at the door for 6/7 minutes. Then leave. Then start another conversation at the car door for 6/7 minutes. Just say you’re going and bloody go, I don’t need a final act.

I know 4 people like this and I’m irrationally angry every time it happens and it ALWAYS happens.

It used to be a universal social skill to know when to clear off! Lke many others, it seems to have been largely lost.

Mom2526 · 27/08/2025 00:25

I have a family member who phones you up for a chat, talks about themself then without fail, every time says "anyway I have to go, I've got friends waiting". Why phone then? I'm never sure if it's a boasting thing or they just can't be bothered to ask you how you are. Or they've phoned you to reiterate you're completely unimportant to them. It's such an odd thing to do.

Bunny44 · 27/08/2025 00:25

I let my friend stay at my house, which I usually rent out, for a month as a favour, saying if she could just water my plants, however she keeps trying to do deep cleans and reorganise things, but breaks things or throws stuff out without asking me. She also pruned things in my garden which shouldn't be pruned, especially not now. It's driving me bonkers but I know she means well so I can't say anything except reassure her that she doesn't have to do anything. I can't wait for her to move out though!