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What tiny things make you irrationally annoyed?

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Bikergran · 07/01/2026 06:28

Just that, really. I'll start with a few.

The way discount pop-ups scream at you on a shopping page as soon as you click on it. Excuse me, I haven't had a chance to look at the product yet, I don't KNOW if I want a 15% discount!!

Daytime TV adverts. Either they are for funeral plans, featuring perky older couples chatting gaily about "lovely send-offs" or overpriced tat that requires them to repeat the same information repeatedly for several minutes in the hope you'll be hypnotised into ordering it.

Supermarket layouts. Always moving stuff about, completely random grouping of items. For instance, my local Morrisons has just moved half its meat products on an aisle away from the butchery department.

I have dozens more, nothing major, but niggling.

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DiamandaTheGreat · 03/02/2026 09:00

Sorry to resurrect but just thought of another one and I KNOW it will chime with someone here!

When people say "based in" when they mean "located in"...as in: "Our cosy little campsite is based just outside Trowbridge"...what, and it moves around depending on it's mood??! NOPE.

TrickyD · 16/01/2026 17:20

Posts which start ‘So’ .
Excessive and pointless use of ‘for context’.

WalkDontWalk · 16/01/2026 10:57

‘DC’, ‘DH’, ‘DSTBXSMIL’

All those MN shorthands piss me off out of all proportion to their importance.

dailyconniptions · 15/01/2026 19:02

nam3c4ang3 · 14/01/2026 18:25

People who ‘dig’ at the butter. I mean WHY can’t you just do it in a nice, clean, sweeping way?! My kids are the worse for this.

The worsT!

NimbleHiker · 15/01/2026 12:24

People who block the isle on a train and they look gormless when i say excuse me. People who are incapable of wearing headphones. I don't want to listen to your rubbish music or crap adverts. People who want to get on a train before people have got off.

ForProudPinkPombear · 15/01/2026 10:26

BIWI · 09/01/2026 17:57

Oh dear! Being gender critical does not make one transphobic. HTH.

How about finding a collective term that excludes transphobes if the distinction is so important to you? I'm not binary about my thoughts on the weighty issues involved in the debate but I believe fully in the right to self-expression & freedom to be accepted. Either you do or you don't.

ForProudPinkPombear · 15/01/2026 10:16

SweetHydrangea · 12/01/2026 23:22

Staff fulfilling click and collect grocery orders during opening times so customers who are physically in the shop can’t actually get to anything they need. I know it’s not the staffs fault but those orders really should be done out of hours so customers can actually shop.

The group of gossiping parents at the school pick up and drop off who think it’s acceptable to stand and gossip on the drop curb of the only safe crossing outside the school. (they stand on the yellow bumpy pavers blocking the whole drop curb and pavement so no one can get past). Always say sorry when dozens of people ask them to move every single morning but are too thick or ignorant to not stand there in the first place.

I get that the supermarket thing is annoying, but if the customers the orders are for were actually there the shop would be busier. More importantly though, are you advocating for even more pressure on staff to work outside 'normal' hours? It's so damaging to disrupt natural circadian rhythms, people are being paid FA to stay out of the way & give themselves lifelong health conditions from sleep disruption & unnatural physical workloads, I don't think suggesting adding to this is well thought through

DancingFerret · 15/01/2026 09:45

"A women". 😬

threescoops · 15/01/2026 09:37

DKPeanuts · 15/01/2026 09:02

Ordering something online, and instead of receiving a factual email confirmation, an asinine auto response like, ‘Yay, DKPeanuts, you’ve got great taste, amazing haul’ etc. in my head, I say F off when I read it.

‘Gentle’ reminders at work 🤢

And could ‘of’ etc every time.

To add to the “gentle” reminder (no different from any other reminder), I’d be glad not to get any more people “reaching out” to me. Sounds so dramatic, when they’re just asking something. Have they all been listening to The Four Tops?

DKPeanuts · 15/01/2026 09:02

Ordering something online, and instead of receiving a factual email confirmation, an asinine auto response like, ‘Yay, DKPeanuts, you’ve got great taste, amazing haul’ etc. in my head, I say F off when I read it.

‘Gentle’ reminders at work 🤢

And could ‘of’ etc every time.

Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService · 15/01/2026 08:57

Newname71 · 14/01/2026 20:33

People who say “9 am in the morning”!

I really love the Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly song Moonlight Shadow, but that line spoils it for me.

I realise that 'four o'clock in the morning' or 'half past four in the morning' don't sound as smoothly fluid, but there must have been a tweak that was both accurate and smooth-sounding.

I find the same with the last verse of Amazing Grace - with TWO grammatical errors in it!

DaisyMayBojangles · 15/01/2026 08:52

Performance parenting 🙄

Politicians247UnderwearExtinguishingService · 15/01/2026 08:51

DiamandaTheGreat · 14/01/2026 17:07

Just thought of another one!!

When "clean" Insta influencers blather on about UPFs or skincare with "ingredients you can't even pronounce". Are you fecking serious lads. Pronounce-ability is NOT a reliable indicator of how toxic something is.

Ooh, and to add to that, also the people who say 'pronounciation' - ironically when they're telling somebody else off for their pronunciation of a word!

Newname71 · 14/01/2026 20:33

People who say “9 am in the morning”!

nam3c4ang3 · 14/01/2026 18:25

People who ‘dig’ at the butter. I mean WHY can’t you just do it in a nice, clean, sweeping way?! My kids are the worse for this.

TheSalvadorsStickbymebaby · 14/01/2026 18:24

SchnizelVonKrumm · 14/01/2026 17:18

I bet they're against anything containing dihydrogen monoxide Wink

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Had to Google that one😁❤️

HappenstanceMarmite · 14/01/2026 18:11

DandyDenimScroller · 07/01/2026 17:50

Facebook status's saying And just like that...followed usually about how their kid is 1,2 etc etc.
You're not Carrie Bradshaw ffs...just some slag from Portsmouth.

“…just some slag from Portsmouth” 😆

SchnizelVonKrumm · 14/01/2026 17:18

DiamandaTheGreat · 14/01/2026 17:07

Just thought of another one!!

When "clean" Insta influencers blather on about UPFs or skincare with "ingredients you can't even pronounce". Are you fecking serious lads. Pronounce-ability is NOT a reliable indicator of how toxic something is.

I bet they're against anything containing dihydrogen monoxide Wink

DiamandaTheGreat · 14/01/2026 17:07

Just thought of another one!!

When "clean" Insta influencers blather on about UPFs or skincare with "ingredients you can't even pronounce". Are you fecking serious lads. Pronounce-ability is NOT a reliable indicator of how toxic something is.

RobertaFirmino · 14/01/2026 15:01

On the subject of spelling mistakes, there is a special place in hell for those who use 'wheet\wheatabix' (excluding dyslexia etc.).

The correct spelling of Weetabix is in bloody big letters on the front and top of the box!

Byeretail · 14/01/2026 14:27

At a retail park with about 24 shops and a massive supermarket. Shoppers who push trolleys around these other shops. Despite most of the shops having signs or staff in the other shops asking customers not to push their trolleys inside, they ignore. It clogs up aisles

Why not if go by car - put shopping in car from supermarket. Then shop in the other shops? If went by bus or taxi, other shops first then supermarket

Morereadingthanposting · 14/01/2026 13:26

Sweet rustlers in theatres
people standing on the wrong side on escalators
people holding hands three abreast on pavements
how long my DD takes to pack up after body pump
the way no one else on my house ever bins the inside cardboard tube from toilet roll but leaves is next to the toilet

Byeretail · 14/01/2026 13:02

Parked in a (c60 spaces) car park. Only one bay vacant. Yet two couples were in bay having a chin wag. Asked them nicely could they move as only empty bay is this one. They got bloody shirty with me!

BarbieShrimp · 14/01/2026 09:56

dailyconniptions · 14/01/2026 09:21

I wasn't trying to belittle you. It was just a spelling correction.

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Funny, you can spell, but you can't read the room.

dailyconniptions · 14/01/2026 09:21

SweetHydrangea · 13/01/2026 19:56

Well if you could tell that to my local Tescos it would be appreciated because they do it all through the day and it makes it impossible to shop.

Yes aware of how to spell it, my phone must have autocorrected but thanks for trying to belittle me 👍🏼

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I wasn't trying to belittle you. It was just a spelling correction.

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