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

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pinknailvarnish1 · 26/08/2025 17:12

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?

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Cherrysoup · 26/08/2025 19:13

bert3400 · 26/08/2025 18:20

My inlaws are mean and tight, they stayed in our small house (we live abroad) for 6 weeks, came to dinner about 4 times a week, not once did they bring any wine to have with dinner or offer any money for bills. They were happy drinking the wine we bought though. They expect us to pay for meals when we go out and we recently rented a beautiful house in the English countryside...paid for everything, they were the only ones out of 15 that didn't offer a contribution. I'm getting to the point I can't stand to be around them as the expectations are really pissing me off. I have told my husband how I feel and he agrees but what can we do ...I don't want him not to see them.

Group WhatsApp, discuss a schedule for shopping/cooking?

Piratesue58 · 26/08/2025 19:13

My DS answers every message with K what's wrong with OK!!! It's one more letter
Also everything is my bad, always no sorry or anything else just my bad...

DahliaJug · 26/08/2025 19:12

StepsInTime · 26/08/2025 19:10

People who start as message with “I hope you are well” with a full stop, not even a question mark.

It just makes me think you don’t give a shit but you want to look like a nice person.

I’ve even had it from a friend who knows I have cancer but has not asked how I am since I told her months ago. She was so upset a mutual friend went round to comfort HER. Neither of them ask how I am but both start messages with “I hope you are well”

But it’s grammatically correct. They’re not asking you a question, just saying they hope you’re well — not that they necessarily do, just because it’s a conventional way of starting a communication.

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 19:11

StepsInTime · 26/08/2025 19:10

People who start as message with “I hope you are well” with a full stop, not even a question mark.

It just makes me think you don’t give a shit but you want to look like a nice person.

I’ve even had it from a friend who knows I have cancer but has not asked how I am since I told her months ago. She was so upset a mutual friend went round to comfort HER. Neither of them ask how I am but both start messages with “I hope you are well”

I hate this too. Its so fucking insincere. Like you give a shit how I am.

autienotnaughty · 26/08/2025 19:10

My mil makes petty comments but claims she wants us to be friends
mil and fil favourite sil kids
my dad is gross he rarely baths has so much dirt under his finger nails he turns my stomach
my eldest dc can be spiteful I don’t like that side of them
my bf is hard work always crying and complaining about her life but never accepts advice for how to fix her issues.

StepsInTime · 26/08/2025 19:10

People who start as message with “I hope you are well” with a full stop, not even a question mark.

It just makes me think you don’t give a shit but you want to look like a nice person.

I’ve even had it from a friend who knows I have cancer but has not asked how I am since I told her months ago. She was so upset a mutual friend went round to comfort HER. Neither of them ask how I am but both start messages with “I hope you are well”

arcticpandas · 26/08/2025 19:09

outingouting · 26/08/2025 17:26

I am completely BU and obviously can’t repeat this IRL but I’m currently next to a middle class Boden mum on the train who is driving me potty with her perfection.

Her son’s eating vegetables and nuts (tomatoes!!! Pistachios!!), he’s well behaved - adorable, in fact, they’re on their way to daddy who is cooking dinner for them (‘aren’t we lucky, Oscar!’) she’s got designer jeans on, pronounces her Ts, has a clean buggy, is pretty and slim. And I wish she’d just fuck right off and stop reminding me some people are just better at life!

She doesn't really exist, she's just following a script of "how perfect middle class mothers behave on trains". I bet her poo smells like bliss as well because she will have an anus attached fragrance spreader. You just can't compete with that.

AxolotlEars · 26/08/2025 19:09

The word 'Lush' used in any context other than a tropical rain forest!

NegroniMacaroni · 26/08/2025 19:08

When we stay with my DM on holiday she's incapable of leaving the house any earlier than 11am. Our DS has already been up for 5hrs by that time. Sometimes she says she's woken at 7am but just relaxed in bed for 2hrs.
However, when she has friends staying with her she's miraculously up at normal times.

Lotsofsnacks · 26/08/2025 19:08

speckledfens · 26/08/2025 18:12

How on earth do you suffer this

I would purposely change the conversation back to me, everytime, they did this. Just keep talking about yourself, looking oblivious to the fact you’re doing it. You could have great fun with this!

Catwalking · 26/08/2025 19:07

Drivers who sit in long queue for roundabout , then once on (& completely regardless of pile of traffic behind them), stop ??? to allow others onto roundabout????? Obvs cannot tell them it’s actually illegal even?

TheFormidableMrsC · 26/08/2025 19:07

People who say “we’re all on the spectrum somewhere”. No we’re not. Fuck off.

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 19:06

People who, on a thread like this, wheel out the words “holibobs”, “hubs” and “famalam”.

Its such a roaring cliche: everyone hates these words. Its a bit like saying you hate being poor or sick.

Have you really not got the creativity to hate anything which isn’t mentioned in a million other threads?

DreamyBalonz · 26/08/2025 19:05

JustPassingThruHere · 26/08/2025 18:47

My MIL only asks after me as a lure to trauma dump on me and if I don't beg her faux problem from her or seem sorry enough about her pathetic non issues she blanks me and never even gives me a chance to address her fake concern about how I'm doing. 6 weeks or so, 25 plus years, rinse and repeat.

DH has inherited his parents idiocy. Short fuse, lives to complain and do nothing to sort issues but puts others down who do the same as deflection.

DD is a princess. Never had hardship and will make my life hell to ensure this remains the case.

Mother is 25+ stone, complains about aches and pains but swears she eats 1000 calories max a day.

I'M SO FED UP so I tell DH I need some space to get away from the negativity. Might book myself a few days away somewhere, so he asks if I want to go for a coffee with him?????

NO NO NO NO NO

Thanks for listening

My mum was the same ..she eventually became bedbound because she was so fat she couldn't walk, then she had a fucking huge stone in her kidney. This put her in hospital for 6 months. She eventually died of a heart attack brought on by her obesity. However my stepdad was totally in denial and acted as if none of it was her fault (as in "doctors say she is a big woman but she has an under active thyroid so that's why etc) funnily enough my sister also has one and isn't fat

arcticpandas · 26/08/2025 19:05

BananaBreadWithCustard · 26/08/2025 17:22

Yeah, that’s so annoying!! I really hate it when DSS says ‘math’ instead of maths. It massively grates. And ceram wrap rather than clingfilm. I love him to bits but it’s so jarring.

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How can you hear the difference btw math and maths? Is he American or has he watched too much tiktok?

DoLoveAVent · 26/08/2025 19:05

I'm in a relationship with someone I love very much and which is pretty healthy in most ways. We have differences on occasion but have quite complimentary skills and approaches. We work well together under stress, share life goals and values and things like that. BUT they have an ex that they believe they are good friends with, and this ex has done every thing they can do to throw little marbles under the feet of our relationship. Loads of "well
intentioned" complaining about me behind my back, giving the impression that because of me they don't feel comfortable socialising in the group I'm part of, dropping little snippy passive aggressive comments in here and there, letting me know they've been speaking about this or that. Casually making comments that suggest the ex is the font of all wisdom to my partner. I'm mostly annoyed that my partner genuinely seems to not see any of this. Its the one thing that makes me question whether we're really that compatible or its really that healthy. And it would be helping the drama the ex is hoping to create if I react at all

LillyPJ · 26/08/2025 19:05

MyDogHumpsThings · 26/08/2025 18:57

I realised I’m going to get flamed for this, but I despise all of the mumsnet acronyms! All of them, all the time. I hate them.

Ikwym. Lol.

MarryMeTomHardy · 26/08/2025 19:03

Doingtheboxerbeat · 26/08/2025 17:27

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

You need to cook it on a slice of bread - then if it leaks you get a bonus slice of garlic bread!

Justcashnosweets · 26/08/2025 19:03

My DP is really fucking boring. He literally has no idea how to communicate on any emotional level, or indeed have a laugh. I have no idea how or why we are still together.

RJ2023 · 26/08/2025 19:02

I work for one of the large insurance brokers and every quarter we have an all staff meeting/dial-in (or "Town Hall" as they like to call them).

Every time we have to go through the Q&A at the end where people ask the most tedious and pointless questions (normally using the word "synergies" a lot) and 90% of the time the Q&A concludes with some nobhead asking the panel "what keeps you awake at night?")

I would love to interject and ask "are you honestly interested in the answer to your BS question???" but I would likely get sacked!

LillyPJ · 26/08/2025 19:02

My hypochondriac friend. She's always got some new complaint (which she's found after searching the internet) but her GP doesn't agree so she spends a fortune on private quacks and 'alternative' meds. I get pissed off that everybody has to fit in with her because she says she can't travel, can't use buses, can't eat certain foods, can't do anything before 2pm, can only go to certain cafés etc. I know I should be more sympathetic!

Louisa298 · 26/08/2025 19:01

People with fake grass

CakeFace1234 · 26/08/2025 19:00

My DH doesn't have a wee before going to bed and he doesn't get up in the night either. He drinks a lot of tea too. I think his prostate is going to get its own back one day.

MySweetMaggie · 26/08/2025 19:00

pinknailvarnish1 · 26/08/2025 18:05

MIL and FIL only ever talking about themselves. If we throw something into the conversation about us or the kids, we get a blank stare, no comment, until they can think of some way to turn this into a conversation about them. Example, we said DS was going to get married in France. Cue long stares, then FIL pipes up about the last time he was in France. No other comments made about the fairly big news that was.

My father is exactly the same. I just listen to him talk about himself once a week when I call now and don't bother telling him anything about us.

BreakingMe · 26/08/2025 19:00

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