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

637 replies

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?

OP posts:
Mumof2amazingasdkiddos · 26/08/2025 18:59

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!

Fucking hell I've read some mental stuff on here over the years but this is top 5, no screw that its first place gold medal crazy!! I'm not sure getting a gold medal from a complete stranger on the Internet will help take any of the sting out of this nasty comment but you have my utter sympathy for having to deal with such a self absorbed absurd woman!

I hope you are doing well love and you've kinda proven her point and been cured!

Pigeon31 · 26/08/2025 18:57

People who park on both sides of the road so the space between isn't wide enough for the bus to get through. Public transport is obv more important than you leaving your garbage car clogging up the (public) roadside for the 95% of the time it isn't being driven

DH not being able to put underwear into the laundry basket. It ends up in a pile on the floor next to the laundry basket. Go figure

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.

ItalianRedParka · 26/08/2025 18:57

If you don't like having 1 kid don't have more!

NewsdeskJC · 26/08/2025 18:56

Ill join.
Me and Dh
Dhs sister and bil
Only normal ones amongst all the siblings

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:55

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:53

Yes. Or people who ask you for your “professional opinion” on something when they have already decided to do the exact opposite of what you recommend. And listen to you expostulating at great length what you would do before saying “no I have decided to do x”.

Yes what they want is permission to keep doing what they are doing and hope magically that things will change.

Fluffypiki · 26/08/2025 18:54

People pushing their beliefs/religion/ lifestyle on me or my kids, I feel personally attacked even though most of the time it is well intentioned , if i am interested I will come to you and ask about it, you are welcome to explain how it changed/change your life and then move on.

Imlazyandiknowit99 · 26/08/2025 18:54

My friend is always bloody late. I've stopped meeting her because by the time she gets to us we've all had enough and want to go home. One time she was 1.5hours late. Also noisy eaters. My god it irrates me

Catsandcannedbeans · 26/08/2025 18:54

DH sleeps with his eyes open. It’s fucking weird and it looks gross, but I’ve never said anything because he used to get up earlier than me so I didn’t see because his ex used to be mean about it. It’s very weird looking and I’m glad none of the kids do it.

Just to be clear, he is very sensitive about it so I would never make fun of him or tell him I find it gross - but I do.

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:53

Oh actually my boss who insists on coming to my desk first thing in the morning to chat.
Before I even switch my computer on and have time to breathe she is right there.

I arrive at 9:00. At 9:01 she is there asking how my evening was. Just FCK OFF, FCK OFF, F.*.C.K O.F.F!!

😡

RM2013 · 26/08/2025 18:53

So many things where do I start?
Someone else up thread said picky bits - drives me insane.
The person that keeps posting passive aggressive quotes on Instagram - if you have an issue with someone just tell them!

So many more but I’d never stop!

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:53

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:50

People who ask for advice for how to improve a situation they constantly find themselves but don’t want to make any changes.

Yes. Or people who ask you for your “professional opinion” on something when they have already decided to do the exact opposite of what you recommend. And listen to you expostulating at great length what you would do before saying “no I have decided to do x”.

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:52

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:48

I hate that too: my DP is obsessed with not wasting food and has to scrape every last molecule off a plate. It drives me batshit.

He’d hate my father. He has to leave the smallest piece on his plate, whatever he’s been eating, as otherwise it’s implying that whoever prepared/served the food didn't make enough. And also it’s bad manners to eat it all and show you have no self-control!

soupmaker · 26/08/2025 18:50

@pinknailvarnish1@Earthbound4 MIL saw what happened when her brother died without a will but she’s still in denial. My DP both sorted POA in their early 60s. Both sadly gone and PIL know they had everything sorted so that me and DB didn’t have to worry about what they would have wanted. Grrrrr.

JHound · 26/08/2025 18:50

People who ask for advice for how to improve a situation they constantly find themselves but don’t want to make any changes.

HolidayInCambodia25 · 26/08/2025 18:49

DahliaJug · 26/08/2025 18:29

Rather than injustice? Wow.

SJWs are usually not fighting actual injustices

Thepeopleversuswork · 26/08/2025 18:48

largeprintagathachristie · 26/08/2025 18:42

A work colleague eats a yoghurt at her desk every day and seems to genuinely spend five minutes scraping/scrabbling around with her spoon in the container at the end of it. Scrape, scrape, scrabble, scrabble goes the spoon. Again and again and again

It’s finished! Enough! All the yoghurt has clearly gone!

I hate that too: my DP is obsessed with not wasting food and has to scrape every last molecule off a plate. It drives me batshit.

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:48

HolidayInCambodia25 · 26/08/2025 18:44

People who have no respect for wildlife. Was in a country park today. One woman running straight at young deer causing them to bolt. Then a man going out of his way to come off the path to where a young child in my company was happily watching ducks and chase, almost kick them, so they dispersed. Both adults age at least 30, not kids. Both completely unnecessary behaviour. Both people middle eastern to look at, my perception is some cultures just don't have the same norms towards wildlife and the countryside that the average Brit does. The second one looked right at us with malice as he did it, then pulled part of the tree above us off, just threw it on the ground and walked back to his group of relatives (we assumed) on the path - who seemed to have no problem with what he did.

And I didn't feel I could say anything in either situation, workout receiving abuse or worse, in front of the children I was with.

Edited

That’s just so sad. Those poor animals…

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

Closepile · 26/08/2025 18:47

I’ve got a friend who will say things that aren’t right. When I contradict her she’ll say “yes I know” 🤣

manicpixieschemegirl · 26/08/2025 18:47

One of my friends, who is so lovely in lots of ways, is so incredibly rigid and Type A that it can be stifling. It’s so hard to relax with her because everything is timed to nth degree. if I take 5 minutes longer to finish my lunch than she planned, I’ll look up to see her eyes boring into my soul, visibly irritated that I’ve not inhaled my food per her schedule!

My adult cousin is chronically online and has now started using Americanisms in every conversation - math, vacation, SODA 🤮

smallpinecone · 26/08/2025 18:46

largeprintagathachristie · 26/08/2025 18:42

A work colleague eats a yoghurt at her desk every day and seems to genuinely spend five minutes scraping/scrabbling around with her spoon in the container at the end of it. Scrape, scrape, scrabble, scrabble goes the spoon. Again and again and again

It’s finished! Enough! All the yoghurt has clearly gone!

I have a friend who does this. Last time we had lunch I just watched her scrape the spoon around, and around, and around… for a solid minute. There was nothing left. Absolutely nothing! Please stop! 😂

JackGrealishsCalves · 26/08/2025 18:45

pinknailvarnish1 · 26/08/2025 18:09

DH stuffing things into the bin. Never thinks to empty it into the outside bin, oh no, let's just keep cramming it in - someone else will empty it eventually - yes, always fucking me!!

And when you do come to empty it you
a) can't get the bloody bin bag out without wiggling it for ages (and it invariably rips)
b) stuff falls from the top of the bin onto the floor
Yes,,I have a bin stuffer too

HolidayInCambodia25 · 26/08/2025 18:44

People who have no respect for wildlife. Was in a country park today. One woman running straight at young deer causing them to bolt. Then a man going out of his way to come off the path to where a young child in my company was happily watching ducks and chase, almost kick them, so they dispersed. Both adults age at least 30, not kids. Both completely unnecessary behaviour. Both people middle eastern to look at, my perception is some cultures just don't have the same norms towards wildlife and the countryside that the average Brit does. The second one looked right at us with malice as he did it, then pulled part of the tree above us off, just threw it on the ground and walked back to his group of relatives (we assumed) on the path - who seemed to have no problem with what he did.

And I didn't feel I could say anything in either situation, workout receiving abuse or worse, in front of the children I was with.

largeprintagathachristie · 26/08/2025 18:42

A work colleague eats a yoghurt at her desk every day and seems to genuinely spend five minutes scraping/scrabbling around with her spoon in the container at the end of it. Scrape, scrape, scrabble, scrabble goes the spoon. Again and again and again

It’s finished! Enough! All the yoghurt has clearly gone!

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