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...

*mimilamore
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Vocal fry? Infuriating, my three year old does it when she's tired. I tell her I can't understand her when she does that (and talking with her fingers in her mouth).

A friend has the most pathetic voice. She constantly sounds like everything is so hard and she's lost the will to live, even when talking about something upbeat.

DHs shit dishwasher stacking. If he'd do a shit job and set it off I wouldn't care (it's not 'things won't get washed' shit, just 'you can fit less stuff in' shit), but when he does a shit job and then leaves it I can bring myself to set it off without rearranging it and fitting another 25% in.

YouDirtyMare "leaving doors ajar so they softly tap tap tap away"
I do this to myself and then get furious when it happens!

HerBigChance "We couldn't find that file for you'"
Also when automated phone systems are all matey and colloquial:
"if you want accounts, it's 3. For sales, that's 4 and for a great big fuck off, just hit that 5!". And don't get me started when they say "you can get help faster if you go online". If your piece of shit website had the info I need, I wouldn't be on this bloody call!

Mimilamore "pwivecy'"
Not one single newsreader seems to be able to say "applause" (plaws) or "collapse" (claps) or any words like that.

Sniffing

Eating with mouth open

Neither are petty in my opinion

People who lick the inside of their lips and pull them into weird shapes, it isn't quite gurning so either do it properly so we can laugh at you or don't bloody do it at all.

People who say ‘a washing’ instead of the washing, some washing or a load of washing.

Crumbs in butter infuriates me so much that I have my own tub of butter!

@Megatron

People who pronounce 'kahki' as 'cackey' instead of 'carkey'.

Oh I'm the opposite - I can't bear it when I hear people pronounce it with an 'r' sound in the middle!

But there is an 'h' after the a so the sound is 'ah' which is pronounced more like 'ar' than 'a'

Thinking again it depends how you pronounce 'a' as well

Khaki is the sound like the the southern 'a' in bath (or barth) rather than the northern flat 'a' in bath.

@tectonicplates strangely the whole wool v yarn thing doesn't bother me at all.

My DH who every time he gets out of the shower always wraps the towel around his chest. Not his stomach. This has no impact on me what so ever but I fucking hate it!

Odd pronunciations by broadcasters on TV/radio. There’s a regular on BBC London news who refers to the London mayor as Zaadek Gan. I’ve also heard St Pancras pronounced St Pancr-e-as, also on one of the London stations.

The way the Americans round here say erbs not herbs and fillai not fillet but along comes niche and they call it a nitch.

The thing that gives me the most rage is people going up an escalator that get off and then decide to stand stock still and work out what direction they want to walk in, meanwhile everyone behind them on the escalator is trying to get off and not bump into them JUST MOVE to the side and then consider your options....arrrg

People who reply all to company-wide emails, leading to a chain of competitive responses that are one or two words longer than the previous one. We have 300 staff.

When my dh comes back from a run he is always absolutely out of breath, huffing and puffing and insists on giving me the Breakdown of his route and his strava segments. It gives me the absolute rage. Get your fucking breath back before you talk to me.

This shouldn't bother me really, I read the local community facebook stuff, The other week, four different women had been into the local village shop, and all bought a special small cake that was a bit artisan type. Later, all of them had posted a photo of the cake, on small fancy plates in their nice kitchens, They all had a couple of replies, and all replies.just saying Yum Yum. It doesn't annoy me, it's just so naff.

One thing on me being petty, is that I see a lot of pegs left on the washing lines outside, after taking the washing in. especially those plastic coloured pegs,which stand out more. I always take my pegs off and put them in a basket in the shed, I have done this for ever. I only use wooden pegs, and most of them were from my late Mum who died 15 years ago, and some of the pegs are from the 1940 era ha ha, so have to look after them.

Haitch, and “Are you ok there?” in shops - unbelievably petty of me.

Google ads; you tick the box that says'not interested' AND THEY KEEP POPPING UP! Why ask if you're going to keep sending them anyway?

People saying “sikth” instead of sixth.
Sniffing
Dh using my car and leaving the radio on some stupid sodding sports station.
Crumbs and sticky knives on the worksurface.

“Are you ok there?” in shops

OMG, yes, if I need help I’ll ask for it!

Haitch is the way it's pronounced in some regional variations and is as correct as aitch.

@DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong

Do you remember Bejam? It was a kind of prototype Iceland. They sold frozen food and kitchen appliances...

The name is an acronym for the first names of the directors, Brian, Eric, John And Millie.

😩

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bejam

I absolutely HATE duvet covers made from two different patterns at once. Will not have one in the house.

I think I've been reading the FWR boards for too long, as my first reaction to this was, "Misogynistic arseholes, how dare they put Millie last!"

With you on the duvet covers too - has to be an all over pattern. Ones with panels of different designs, or stripes across the bottom... ugh.

My dh when he says is dc bathing tonight, gives me the rage for 3 reasons.
1 why is it my job to get dc in the bath
2 dc has a bath every night because he's a stinky boy .
3 who the hell says bathing?
I let it go most of the time and just answer but I let the rage go the other week and he said I'm just asking , but he's not asked since .

“This is Kennington where this train terminates”

No, the Service or journey terminates, the train does not.

In normal times I have heard this many times a week for 20 years and it still irritates me.

Long slow rambling answerphone messages on your landline or from withheld numbers that culminate in a garbled speeded up number to call them back in and you have to replay the message 3 times to get it. SURELY leaving a clear message should be taught on day one of basic work experience?

Rediculous

Date night. (For going for a drink or meal with your DW or DH)

People who manage to block the whole freezer section by parking their trolley lengthways along it, and standing as far from it as they ban get with one hand in the handle as they contemplate frozen peas for ages, make a call, contemplate more peas...

Bad spatial awareness in supermarkets full stop.

@BuzzShitbagBobbly
I run our kitchen tap too; the water's always luke-warm to start with.

People who say ‘sickth’ instead of ‘sixth’.
Makes me want to slap them. Hard.

People who would once never have done it, who drop their Ts all over the place, in the hope of sounding a bit edgy or at least not remotely (shock-horror) posh.

People who do the rising inflection thing with a statement? Especially if they’re over 20? It makes them sound both stupid and juvenile.

This shouldn't bother me really, I read the local community facebook stuff, The other week, four different women had been into the local village shop, and all bought a special small cake that was a bit artisan type. Later, all of them had posted a photo of the cake, on small fancy plates in their nice kitchens, They all had a couple of replies, and all replies.just saying Yum Yum. It doesn't annoy me, it's just so naff.
That sounds like a logic puzzle! "Four women bought four cakes....."