Really, really, really petty things that annoy you

[BuzzShitbagBobbly]

(and which have zero impact on your life!)

My list includes:

• Companies which have the owner's initials as the business name. I have no problem at all with (say) "Clare King Picture Framers", but "CK Picture Framers" winds the shit out of me.

• Similarly, businesses which merge two names to create one made up word as the name. For example, Clare goes into business with Jenny and they call it "Clajen Picture Framers" Grrrrr!

• People who use lame examples as brilliant suggestions. E.g. say someone (not me, I assure you!) wanted to organise a really original/unusual theme for a party. The Lamer would say "how about tarts and vicars". Nasty AND boring!

I'm sure I have a million more...

*FunTimes2020

That's not petty, it's gross!*

Yeah It gives me the rage, you're right

I’m sure somebody else has already said this, and if not the entire thread should be ashamed of itself.

Misuse of the word literally.

Horrible Histories should be applauded for their exemplary use of the word in the Viking Song.

@NotIncandescentWithRage is that instead of writing £500?

500£ is how my family abroad write currency - so it might be the British that’s weird for doing it wrong

@HungryForSnacks

On Amazon where you can post a question about a product and another shopper responds with "Sorry no idea".

Then don't answer the question! It wasn't specifically written for you! Winds me up every time.

omg yes this. Why do they bother to spend their own time actually contributing nothing? it just means there are more answers to scroll through to find the info you want. Incredibly annoying.

Why does the word kids bug you so much? It's part of many people's vernacular.

Oh the review thing makes me SO angry!

If you have nothing to contribute don't bloody answer!

Ditto with reviewers who are 'reviewing' something, and then say this:

Item arrived quickly, good service

Or

Not sure what the quality is like as I haven't opened it yet

Or

Item is for a gift but seems correct

😡😡😡😡

If you haven't opened, used, seen or inspected the item then DON'T review it yet!!!! If it's a gift for someone else, maybe ask THEM if it's any good before you review or let them write it themselves!

If I order a jumper I want to know - is the fabric soft or itchy, is it thin and rubbish or warm and fluffy, is the colour as described and shown in the picture, etc.

Not how long it took to arrive in the post!!
Raaaaaaa!

Sorry can you tell that touched a bit of a nerve 😂

As well as eating with your mouth open, sniffing, loud chewing, slow walking, and so on, my main ones are:
Any use of a car horn unless you are on a single-track road up a mountain or in a thick fog. It is not there for you to express your annoyance and scare passersby out of their wits.
Cyclists on the pavement, cyclists running red lights, cyclists generally being dangerous and breaking the rules of the road, but also cars driving dangerously around cyclists (I am a very rule-abiding cyclist).
The Prime Minister’s accent. I think regional accents are excellent but his is just vile. It sounds like he’s murdering the words on the way out.
“Balsamic” and “butternut” without “vinegar” and “squash” respectively.
This is really extreme, but “vibrant”, “bubbly” and “seismic” used to mean lively, outgoing and significant.
I think this is because there’s something wrong with my brain, but certain repetitive things, like people shaking their feet in my line of sight or someone practising a riff again and again and again.
Doctors asking you to tell you what the matter is over and over and over again, when they have the notes in front of them. It’s embarrassing enough the first time!
Misuse of reflexive pronouns.
Finally, describing certain events as historic. I don’t care what history is going to say about it, I care what’s happening now, and anyway it’s future people who get to decide what is historic.

I’m not even thirty yet.

Excellent list, Cecile.

"bubbly" and "vibrant" are awful - can we add "Quirky"

My fucking husband

[quote Grumpybuttons]@NotIncandescentWithRage is that instead of writing £500?

500£ is how my family abroad write currency - so it might be the British that’s weird for doing it wrong [/quote]
It’s just bonkers. We are taught, in the U.K., to write it with the £ symbol first. You wouldn’t write 500£.50p 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thank you Senseless. Quirky is another one.

People who turn their nose up when I ask for 2 sugars in my coffee and tell me how unhealthy it is - because it's so much worse to have 2 sugars in my 2 coffees a day than the 1 you have in your 17 cups a day! And my husband who constantly suggests I drop the milk and sugar as I'll get used to it. I don't want to get used to it - I like the way I have my coffee. 😡

When my DH leaved the lid to the dog treat tin off. I can instantly smell when he hasn't put it back when I walk in the kitchen but apparently he can't

This is really extreme, but “vibrant”, “bubbly” and “seismic” used to mean lively, outgoing and significant.

The trouble is that many people use "bubbly" to mean "the overweight person with the nice personality" but not everyone realises this, so it often causes offence. I would never describe someone as bubbly as it's basically a way of saying "You're fat". Someone described me as this once and I wasn't sure what to make of it.

I'm always referred to as bubbly. I'm 5'9 and a size 10/12. I don't think they're calling me fat. I am rather loud and exeuberant. I thought bubbly was a polite way of saying that by my overly staid colleagues

I’ve never encountered it used in that way (although I’m extremely shy and have no social life, which is possibly why). I see it quite a lot used to describe young people, sometimes after they’ve died, and think why not say they are kind, generous, outgoing, had loads of friends, just anything but a word which is also associated with baths and carbonated water?!

People who write "I'm fumming " or "The sun is shinning" well I didn't know the fucking sun had SHINS!
And are they sitting in the dinning room?

Disney; every time they bring out a film 'a new Disney classic'. If it's new it can't be a classic!

'If it's new it can't be a classic!

The most egregious instance of that being when Penguin agreed to Morrissey's demand that if they publish his autobiography it was under the Penguin Classics label and branding.

My exbf who always used to ask if I wanted a drink. Water? Gin and tonic? Coke? No, tea or coffee.
If you're offering me a drink, please just say " do you want a cup of tea/coffee?" Saves any confusion 😡

@fannyanney

People who call their children 'the smalls'

I know a couple who call their children Little Miss X and Master X - I had to unfollow them both on Facebook as it was giving me the rage.

@SanFrancisco49er I have the opposite problem. I have a name with an obvious shortening... But I don't like the short version. But people automatically shorten it. I'll introduce myself by my full name and people will say things like "nice to meet you short name". It like they've failed at basic listening and comprehension!
If I've introduced myself as my full name that's clearly what I want to be addressed by!

People who describe their taste in music as "eclectic". It just annoys me.

Lobsterquadrille2 what would you rather they said?

@DotDotDotty exactly that annoys me too. People are desperate to shorten names I find and i n always find it abit cheeky esp if they are distant relatives and putting the shortened versions on cards etc... bad etiquette.

@DotDotDotty my manager foes this to me. Apparently she doesn't like my correct name because it 'sounds very posh.' It doesn't, its a pretty standard three syllable name and not at all pretentious, in fact its rather common.