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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:
friedaklein · 20/08/2026 18:29

I am really struggling wth both my adult children currently living with me in my fairly small home while looking for house shares.
There's so much stuff everywhere. And they are always cooking!
Its hard in the heatwave.

BreakingBroken · 20/08/2026 18:17

My dd not giving me minute by minute details of a house viewing/offer details. I’m the one who spotted this gem on rightmove, I’m way too invested.

HollyhocksandPeons · 20/08/2026 18:11

LuckyHazelFox · 16/06/2026 11:01

Frigging flies in the house. Especially the one bastard that I just can't get rid of in the lounge. It's been buzzing around me for 3 days now.

Take Antibacterial surface spray - follow the bastard on foot closely. Spray it with the spray in the air, don't try to catch it motionless. After you catch it in the air with the spray, it won't be as energetic and you will be able to follow the flight trajectory on foot better, repeatedly spraying until it falls down and you pick it up in a bit of toilet paper and flush it.

Neuronimo · 20/08/2026 18:08

'Can I get' In cafes and restaurants. Where did that come from?

Gettingbysomehow · 20/08/2026 18:01

Thd fact that my urgent surgery that the surgeon said should be done the day I went into A&E wasnt done and now its 4 weeks later and I still dont have a date.
Not one bit of food has passed my lips in all that time because anything I eat comes right back up again.
Ive rung the dept every few days and the answer is always you'll have to wait.
How much longer will I survive on water? Im already very underweight.
Nobody has rung to ask if Im ok. Is this the NHS now. Well yes it is because I work for them as a senior clinician. I see this everyday with patients.

Barney16 · 20/08/2026 17:31

That since I gave notice to leave my house everything has broken or fallen apart. My husband died quite recently so everything is a complete ball ache. Water dripping through the ceiling, washing machine broken, toilet leaking. This morning I moved a book case literally five centimetres and the whole thing fell apart.

JaneJeffer · 20/08/2026 17:11

The incorrect use of fecking.

HateLongCovid · 20/08/2026 17:08

CelticSilver · 16/06/2026 14:35

Big bastard flies that keep coming in the house and seem to think there's an invisible forcefield preventing them from pissing off out of a wide open window.

🤣 absolutely echo this! I hate them!

Gettingbysomehow · 20/06/2026 09:45

It seems to have replaced "like".

Gettingbysomehow · 20/06/2026 09:45

People who start every sentence with: "Im not gonna lie".

Neuronimo · 20/06/2026 09:09

Oh I agree with the vinted items with a stain! The weather forecast is up there, I keep googling for better opinions but that number keeps rising.

People who lean on their trolleys with their elbows and drift down the middle of the aisle. People who change direction and walk straight at you. I am not invisible just because I am over 50. Cyclists rising side by side, with huge queues behind them, because they are allowed to. Skinny carrots, why just why?

Wiseplumnet · 20/06/2026 09:08

The camper vans and hire cars that clog up our very rural and single track roads. Stopping in random places of brow hills to photograph a cow, a COW!!?. They don't pull over to let other vehicles past and totter along at 20 mph.They have no idea how to reverse and end up ditches blocking the roads with recovery vehicles, making me late for work. And no we don't depend on your type of tourism for our economy!

Offherrockingchair · 20/06/2026 09:07

PetulaGordeno · 16/06/2026 16:08

My other half having no remorse for losing a hat I kept of my dad’s. Who passed away years ago and I had it in a box of things of his I treasured.
I should never have let him use it. My bad, it was a last minute offer as it was 32 degrees out a few weeks ago and he was going somewhere and needed a hat.
There is no point getting upset as it will end up being my fault and I will end up in tears.
My dad was an amazing man, I have 50 years worth of memories that nobody can ever take from me.
I brought the hat back from my very first trip from NYC. Designer, in the posh Barneys bag, he was delighted with it. It was a big dog eared and got relegated to his gardening hat.
I have asked about it a few times and he kept making excuses. He was only out for thee hours nowhere rowdy like a festival or taken it on holiday.
I never ever lend stuff, which he well knows, I did ask him to take really good care of it as he knew of its meaning to me.

I would be livid about this. Some things are irreplaceable.

neverbeenskiing · 20/06/2026 09:06

My 7 year old came into my room at 5.30am, fully dressed, to ask my opinion about various footballers I've never heard of. Fucking shattered and it's only 9am.

Katemax82 · 20/06/2026 09:01

I'm already completely exhausted. At midnight my 15 month old started crying hysterically and wouldn't calm down because he's poorly and my now 13 year old daughter came crying into my room cos she's too scared to sleep alone. I ended up sleeping with them both on the front room floor. Its her birthday today and was awake at 7 and I hadn't wrapped her presents yet as she always lies in till late normally and was going to do it first thing. Ditto the 20 helium balloons I got for her. She's now asleep on the sofa so I've got to do the balloons elsewhere

Katemax82 · 20/06/2026 08:57

MyOtherCarIsAPorsche · 16/06/2026 11:28

I would like to know how copious white speckles of toothpaste get on the mirror, on the towel radiator and on the window sill. H swears it's not him and I know it's not me. It's an absolute mystery.

Also, who has piddled up the tiles at the side of the loo?

who has opened the cereal box upside down?

who sprinkled rice all over the kitchen floor?

who leaves packets of biscuits open so that they go soft?

who puts on mud encrusted boots with deep tread and leaves dried clumps of mud/grass throughout the house, including kitchen, sitting room, hall stairs landing?

who crammed the towel down behind the radiator instead of folding it in half and sliding it on?

who uses one teaspoon until it goes dark brown and rough textured?

who spills a drink across the entire length of a room and carries on as if they're completely unaware of it?

who always coughs/hoiks up globs of mucus before they enter a room/before they begin to speak?

who bellows hello into their phone in the most irritated and aggressive fashion to everyone who rings?

who innocently pretends not to hear so that you have to repeat things several times?

who has the audacity to ask direct questions when I'm counting stitches?

oh I could go on ...

and he denies it all

My mum did the crusty teaspoon thing ...I've no idea why!!!

IAMFLUFF · 20/06/2026 08:43

Screamingabdabz · 19/06/2026 09:03

Trying to speak to a gp to ask one simple question about an error I think he’s made with my medication.

Omg I could just cry. Rang first thing but told I can’t call, I have to fill out a form on the website. Okaaay.

The form says don’t expect a reply for days even though I need a quick answer today. 😕

And it asks what your query is about and lists hundreds of health conditions (presumably you diagnose them yourself) but no box that just says ‘speak to a gp’ or ‘ask a question’. Ughhh. 😩

So I tick admin even though I suspect that it will go to the bottom of the pile because none of the other options are remotely suitable - no I’m not having a stroke - but now we wait… 😢

Just tick the worst medical condition on the list and they will soon be in touch. Then say, oh no I haven’t got XYZ I did it to get some attention!

loislovesstewie · 19/06/2026 19:14

May I confess that today my DS is driving me crazy. He has a stammer, it's bad today, not sure why but so is his OCD. I'd love it if he didn't talk for about 30 minutes, to try to reset his brain. But his ADHD won't let him. I love him to bits but....

Bananananna · 19/06/2026 18:26

Use of the following expressions;

Little miss
little man
LG
LO
I seen

Unrelated to those, people who cross the road instead of waiting for the green man meaning all the cars have to come to an abrupt stop, then end up having to wait as the light changes to red again.

Mimilamore · 19/06/2026 18:23

Scammers… just had to let my burger and wedges go cold while I spent nearly an hour cancelling my card and speaking to fraud team about accessing my account on line again. 5 days until my new card arrives and had to change everything…. there had been payments to an Italian museum… I bloody wish!!!

Pistachiocake · 19/06/2026 18:04

Having to wait for a scan and then having to chase it up myself. I feel much sorrier for people with disabilities or needs which make this much harder for them, though, and it makes me upset that this is the case for them. Why should patients, who are already unwell, have to chase this, instead of the hospitals just doing it as they did in the past?

ImWearingPantaloons · 19/06/2026 18:01

Someone who had never done a spin class turned up two minutes late today, so the instructor had to get off the bike to show her how to set up, intermittently shouting instructions to the rest of the class.

If it’s your first time at least have the decency to turn up a couple of minutes early!!!!

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 19/06/2026 17:50

And my husband's tooth infection. He is genuinely suffering and I feel so bad for him but it's been four days now of him in constant pain and me giving him constant care and sympathy while managing the house and kids alone. It is very privately starting to grate on me

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 19/06/2026 17:48

Also the fact that I put the pasta on for dinner but I didn't put the switch on for the stove so it's just been sat in water doing nothing for 10 minutes

MrCollinsandhisboiledpotatoes · 19/06/2026 17:47

My daughter.
She's driving me insane.
I genuinely thought that by 8yo, she'd be a bit more independent and I'd get a bit of peace but no, she needs constant attention and can never just do something independently.