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What do you irrationally hate?

194 replies

PepperSteaks · 25/11/2018 09:12

For me it’s letterboards. Especially on instagram. Especially with some joke about pregnancy/parenthood. I have no idea why but it makes me cringe every time! I don’t really have a reason to dislike them. Maybe I’m envious I don’t have one?

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poundoflard · 26/11/2018 07:53

the way the news is portrayed these days with headlines such as;

'is this the worse person in Britain?'
'why women are smarter than men'
'I did it because...'

just state facts don't try to lure me into reading shite, proper news and headlines or I'm not reading (directed at BBC News you rubbish journalists)

LuckyDiamond · 26/11/2018 08:02

Weather presenters who presume to know what the viewer will feel about the weather...

“Bad news there will be showers later in the East”

Maybe it’s good news for me. Maybe I like the rain.

derxa · 26/11/2018 08:41

Weather presenters who presume to know what the viewer will feel about the weather... Yes. I was seething during this years drought when we farmers were worried about feeding our animals when the weather presenters were all gushing about 'lovely weather'. Hmm

ShotsFired · 26/11/2018 09:08

Job adverts stuffed full of completely pointless wording.
Especially when they want the person to be passionate about it.

e.g "we want someone who is passionate about "

Or "reliable and trustworthy applicants only"
As if local Bob The Fraud will look at it and go "well, that's me out of the running then!"

Or "competitive salary". Competitive vs what? Is it 20k or 200k? let's not waste each other's time when it could be a shit job with an OTT title or a great job with an underplayed one.

Or "quirky" ads. there was one I saw last week and people were "dying laughing" over it in the comments. It was just so naff and twee.

LuckyDiamond · 26/11/2018 09:22

Soap plot lines as news stories. Have we as a nation become that dim?

Teddy1970 · 26/11/2018 09:57

LuckyDiamond, that one annoys the hell out of me too, why do weather presenters assume we want mild sunny weather with no rain? I want rain or snow sometimes!

Limpetry · 26/11/2018 10:19

Absolutely to weather presenters assuming we all want permanently warm and sunny I used to live somewhere which was permanently warm and sunny, and had no distinct seasons, and bot, did it get dull fast and, as a corollary, people who go on about the weather all the time like it's some kind of particularly passive hobby, and/or who let weather they regard as sub-optimal wreck events or their attitude to them, and assume everyone else is cast into gloom at a spot of drizzle on a walk, or that a day at the beach that involves jumpers and a walk and chips, rather than sunbathing, should be punctuated with sighs and shakings of head.

To hear my mother on subject of the wet wedding day of an old family friend, you would think the bride and groom had been swept away in a flood or something 'Oh! You've NEVER seen anything like the rain! It was a washout! And it would have been so LOVELY otherwise!' when in fact the entire wedding party are cheerful, outdoorsy wild camping types and didn't turn a hair (as, in fairness, marrying in the west of Ireland, you'd be an idiot not to predict rain), the bride was wearing a short red dress so no struggles with yards of white tulle, and they were well-prepared so there were lots of lovely photographs of them kissing under bright umbrellas and the little bridesmaids in matching wellies etc.

God, it felt good getting that off my chest. Grin

ShotsFired · 26/11/2018 10:26

This morning (and every time it happens):

The itunes version update thingy updating and them immediately re-popping up on screen to say "checking for new updates". WHY?!

(I know, I could have just stopped with "itunes" - hateful software...)

RosiePosies · 26/11/2018 10:36

Bean bags - it's bordering on a phobia

onelittleclara · 26/11/2018 10:44

Girls clothes ( Dd age 7). She only has a choice of being a mermaid, unicorn, a mighty girl, clothes my granny would have worn or two way sequins. Crap. Tbf adult clothes aren't much better at the mo.

People swearing when in public. I swear like a fishwife but not in the street ffs.

Being told my sex is the same as my gender.

Twee prints/slogans on walls.

People on Instagram/FB declaring all their fitness/veganism victories. Nothing wants me to not exercise/eat crap more. This includes anything with a hashtag of goals e.g. lifegoals/familygoals.

Grrr. And Mondays.

DoctorTwo · 26/11/2018 10:52

Have we as a nation become that dim?

Yes. Yes we have, ever since we decided to coach our children to pass exams instead of educating them. Bastarding school league tables. Angry

Lost5stone · 26/11/2018 10:53

Tarmac driveways
Personalised number plates
Yankee candles
Pandora
Ellie Goulding
Leggings/Jogging bottoms etc worn unless you are exercising (i'll give a hour hours leeway on that)
Wax jackets/country wear on people who are not even slightly outdoorsy.
#makingmemories
Tom Cruise
Michael Kors anything.

Ladymargarethall · 26/11/2018 11:21

Dressing gowns. I have one because I.had a hospital appointment which said 'Being dressing gown and slippers'. The nurse said No idea why they put that on there' so it sits on the back of the bedroom door just in case I have to go to hospital, and every now and then I wash the dust off!
Pyjamas - I hate all that fabric between my legs.

Ladymargarethall · 26/11/2018 11:22

Bring, not being.

Thesuzle · 26/11/2018 11:22

Joe Sugg

Lionso · 26/11/2018 12:06

Long fingernails, whether false or natural. Disgusting harbourers of germs and other things.

I know its irrational as most people keep them clean but ugh shudder

Angharad07 · 26/11/2018 12:46

The word ‘fab’

alfagirl73 · 26/11/2018 13:32

People saying "100 percent" all the time.
Lorraine Kelly... I have to change the channel immediately otherwise my TV is at risk of being smashed.

brizzledrizzle · 26/11/2018 14:33

100% agree with you there Alfagirl.

Now where did I put my coat?

brizzledrizzle · 26/11/2018 15:47

Soap plot lines as news stories. Have we as a nation become that dim?

Yes. If we weren't then there wouldn't be programmes like Jeremy Kyle and there would be no tabloid newspapers.

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 26/11/2018 15:55

Tess Daly.She enrages me

Donthugmeimscared · 26/11/2018 19:32

My cats they anoy the shit out of me. (They were exes but he didn't take them) I would never be mean to them but they give me the rage every time they knock the bloody bin over.

poundoflard · 26/11/2018 20:03

onelittleclara

my thougths exactly with 7 yr old girls clothes. beedin awful, my dd is definitely nothing mermaidy or unicorny in any way.

Phrases like 'moving forward' or on talent shows 'you owned it' load of bollocks.

and people describing their significant other as 'my rock'. It was laughable when a guy was dating someone for about 5 minutes and called her 'his rock'. Didn't last.

MsTSwift · 26/11/2018 20:11

Shop assistants who are really really young calling me my love etc (am mid 40s). Weirdly don’t mind if they are older than me but when they are late teens it’s abit odd

MsTSwift · 26/11/2018 20:15

Limpet you have perfectly described my mil. The most negative woman ever esp weather related. Standard response on being told we going to Spain for example “ooh it will be too hot tut tut” (she genuinely tuts). Maddening.