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Things that are fecking you off today. Feel free to share.

288 replies

Bolloxtoitall · 16/06/2026 10:11

Thought I would create a thread for all the everyday irritations that are too petty to share but get your blood up. Whether your oestrogen and agreeableness has deserted you or you are just generally feeling a bit pissed off with things- I feel it’s always better to get it off your chest. And in that spirit-I will begin…

I have a lovely relationship with Vinted (I buy too much shit on here) but it really gets on my nerves when people:

  1. post photos of shoes with foot cheese evident all over the soles (ick).
  2. soneone posts something with a stain saying ‘it will come out in the wash’. So wash it you dirty gopper.

Also ‘DH’ stop leaving your dribbling toothbrush and bog blocking shites in the loo for me to tackle. Fucking beast.

That is all today.

Possibly…..

OP posts:
Gardenisablooming · 30/08/2026 09:41

Still awaiting a shed from Tesco that was due on Friday.

BrokenJemima · 30/08/2026 08:07

My DH being able to swan around doing as he likes while my brain is frazzled by thought of feeding kids, walking dog, laundry drying in the pissing rain and endless trips to buy food for the aforementioned kids who eat and eat and eat.

TigerRag · 30/08/2026 07:49

Gettingbysomehow · 29/08/2026 21:07

Goddammed flies everywhere. I have no idea where they are coming from.

I had one fly on to me which made me jump

Being woken up by next door talking too loudly on his phone (I had ear plugs in and we've moved my bed from against the wall because of his noise)

thenightsky · 29/08/2026 22:31

Gettingbysomehow · 29/08/2026 21:07

Goddammed flies everywhere. I have no idea where they are coming from.

Yes, YES! Fuckers. I was trying to get dinner on earlier and every time I turned around there was another one crawling on my chopping board, spoons, jugs etc.

I'm getting good at swatting and sucking up the bodies with the hand held Vax.

Gettingbysomehow · 29/08/2026 21:07

Goddammed flies everywhere. I have no idea where they are coming from.

Netcurtainnelly · 29/08/2026 20:11

The weather's crap.

iloveanearlynight · 29/08/2026 16:25

dancehysterical22 · 29/08/2026 06:49

I haven’t taken anything away. If using foul language does it for you, carry on 🤷‍♀️

Honesty and a good vent do it for me. Not simply swearing for the sake of it. Jeez, you do have the wrong end of the stick.

Eddie16 · 29/08/2026 12:21

My DH. And various work colleagues who seem to have no clue that I dont care about their life outside work or the state of the room that they have to clean. I work as a hotel housekeeper, the toilets are always full of shit, ditto the bins and the state of the room that gets left. Leave me alone to my own work rather than finding me, whinging about your shitty rooms and stopping me from your work. No, I dont want to see the 'artwork' left behind on whatever surface in the room YOU are supposed to be cleaning, I hsve my own to look at.
DH, I love you but as a woman in peri menopause, I dont need to hear EVERYTHING that floats through your head, have you tell me how great the sex was yesterday, (I know, I was there) or what the school will.say when we go to Disney next year and we take DD out of school, I will cross the bridge when I get to it. And breathe. Good luck to you all out there, may you have the strength to get through the day without setting someone on fire xx

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 29/08/2026 11:52

@thenightsky i kind of hope that he drops a weight on his stinky/sweaty bare feet and gets a fungal infection…
although the latter would be unfair to other gym users.

HelpMeGetThrough · 29/08/2026 11:50

thenightsky · 29/08/2026 11:47

DH has just come back from the gym and told me this... a bloke today actually reserved a running machine by leaving his shoes on it whilst he went to lift weights barefoot. There was only half a dozen people in and no waiting for any of the machines. Its the Towel On The Sunbed mentality.

I was just thinking this is the gym version of reserving a sunbed.

thenightsky · 29/08/2026 11:47

DH has just come back from the gym and told me this... a bloke today actually reserved a running machine by leaving his shoes on it whilst he went to lift weights barefoot. There was only half a dozen people in and no waiting for any of the machines. Its the Towel On The Sunbed mentality.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 29/08/2026 11:44

People who arrive after the yoga class has started. 6 of them one after the other today. Those sodding metal drink bottles which get knocked over or dropped during class. Seriously you can’t go 45 mins without a sip of water? Stick out the way along with your shoes so it doesn’t get knocked over. Stop repeatedly knocking the bloody thing over every week.
whilst I’m at it - for the love of god switch off you phone in class or leave it in a locker.

and breathe and breathe….

Echobelly · 29/08/2026 10:42

We're on holiday at my parents' place which is lovely, but DH is on a real gym trip right now which means DS and I are sitting here twiddling our thumbs most mornings until he gets his gym trip in. I know he, and probably DS, are happy to just chill out in the house all day but some of us want to do stuff and I did wish he'd got out an hour earlier so his gym trip didn't eat in too our time.

Heronwatcher · 29/08/2026 09:28

dancehysterical22 · 29/08/2026 05:17

I think you can make your point without using such foul language, OP. It really isn’t necessary and takes away from the post.

🤣

Have you SEEN the rest of the thread? I’m finding it fecking hard to think of a swear word which hasn’t been used TBH.

Can I add to the list of things which piss me off “sanctimonious preachy posters on Mumsnet who add nothing to the substance of the debate but nit-pick pointlessly at the poster or another person’s reply.”

Floppyearedlab · 29/08/2026 08:52

DH moaning like mad when we got caught in the rain on a dog walk that doggo was really enjoying and wanting to come home straight away rather than go for a coffee, yet happily getting up and going off to park run in the pouring rain this morning.

SilverBlue4 · 29/08/2026 08:50

Sons first adult holiday away with friends, flight got cancelled (not enough crew?? Ok and you only knew this after it was meant to take off?) he's had to go to Gatwick 3 hours away, stay overnight and hope the new flight actually goes this afternoon.

My cat has been in the cattery while we had some work done last week at home and he hasn't stopped meow shouting since he came back.

My neighbours son has a new BMW and likes to rev it outside my house, I can feel it as well as hear it so I guess that's what's going to wake me up now even when it's cool enough to shut the windows.

I'm fat and can't get any weight off without eating under 1000 calories because I'm so short.

Etc etc.

HelpMeGetThrough · 29/08/2026 08:48

Sunloungerhogger · 29/08/2026 08:36

do we have the same DH?! Oh my god the amount he tells me about the electricity tariff, when we should charge the car, when to use the oven and washing machine etc etc….how much electricity we’ve saved. And just general techy stuff. I just nod and make interested sounds whilst my eyes glaze over.

He’s also forever switching off lights (well, those remaining lights in the house that can actually be turned off with a light switch, that he hasn’t converted to Hue and to be controlled by the bloody Alexa but that’s a whole other thing…), saying “have you finished in there?” - well, no actually! - that’s why I left the bloomin’ light on!

I was worried I was going to get like this when I got an electric car. Looked into it and started to prattle on about it. I could see my OH glazing over.

It’s not worth changing to an EV tariff for us, as it would end up costing more. So I just plug in now and forget it. I know it’s going to cost about 18 quid a month.

Tariff geek was soon kicked out the door!

Sunloungerhogger · 29/08/2026 08:36

Bolloxtoitall · 16/06/2026 10:51

Ah! Yes - yea olde info dump about stuff I couldn’t give a shiny shite about. This includes protracted conversations on anything contract/white goods and Which recommendations/ your electric car and tariffs (the fuck) and the sense in putting the white good on in the early hours re cheap tariff. Also never wanting to buy a carrier bag and preferring to juggle the shit to the car on point of principle…

Oh yes and switching off lights.

So weird.

We are not poor/up against it.

He doesn’t mind trading his car in every few months with the cost that involves!

do we have the same DH?! Oh my god the amount he tells me about the electricity tariff, when we should charge the car, when to use the oven and washing machine etc etc….how much electricity we’ve saved. And just general techy stuff. I just nod and make interested sounds whilst my eyes glaze over.

He’s also forever switching off lights (well, those remaining lights in the house that can actually be turned off with a light switch, that he hasn’t converted to Hue and to be controlled by the bloody Alexa but that’s a whole other thing…), saying “have you finished in there?” - well, no actually! - that’s why I left the bloomin’ light on!

HelpMeGetThrough · 29/08/2026 07:37

I’ve got a massive cyst on my hip and have been on tablets all week, the wrong bloody ones. Went back yesterday and a different GP asked me “why did you have those prescribed? They won’t work!”. No shit mate, that’s why I’m here. Prescribed two different ones and I’m bloody worse today. Have hardly slept all night.

Bloody cyst feels like a football!! Not great when immunocompromised.

I’m well fecked off!!

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 29/08/2026 07:15

Having to get up early. I am retired. I didn't retire just to have to get up early.

Even though it is to do something fun, and I know I will be fine once I'm out there doing it, I still resent missing out on a couple of hours of sleep.

WellConfusedandDazed · 29/08/2026 07:00

I just started working FT again after years of working PT and I don’t think I can do it. I am utterly exhausted, anxious and stressed. I’m annoyed I can’t seem to handle it. What’s wrong with me.

MeetMeOnTheCorner · 29/08/2026 06:51

Yes! The title of this thread.

dancehysterical22 · 29/08/2026 06:49

iloveanearlynight · 29/08/2026 06:07

My goodness, I can't quite believe you think that's foul. It's incredibly therapeutic to use them occasionally, (including the correct version of the actual word.) Swearing isn't a problem on Mumsnet and I value a thread where we can release our annoyances honestly without covering up for delicate eyes and ears. It obviously isn't the thread for you, but please don't take away the facility for other people's healthy rants.

I haven’t taken anything away. If using foul language does it for you, carry on 🤷‍♀️

Nofeckingway · 29/08/2026 06:32

Went to do some tasks in my elderly relatived . Change lampshades, put up cabinet . Everything went wrong . Unable to do it , spent hours trying and worse can't put things back the way they were . So a nice effort has turned sour . I felt so bad and frustrated.

muddyford · 29/08/2026 06:24

Projectprincesschaos · 28/08/2026 10:28

Aches- just wtf happened to my body in the past week?

Weather - one extreme to the other and my UK holiday next looks rainy and scrappy rather than warm and sunny. I booked it later so peak heat temps would have passed. You just can’t chuffin win.

I knew once it started raining that it wouldn't stop for six months. And I have a UK holiday in two weeks.