Really, really, really petty things that annoy you

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(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...

If I fall asleep in bed while reading then my husband always takes the book and carefully puts the bookmark back in before putting it on my bedside table. But my bookmark has a fancy long tassle on one end which obviously should hang out of the bottom of the book. Except DH always puts it hanging out the top of the book and it drives me insane

Does the computer name Amstrad wind you up?
Alan Michael Sugar Trading.

Bows on bras

@Mimilamore - vocal fry. The work of the devil

People who say super all the fucking time.
They use it instead to the word very and it fucks me off.
That autocorrect is created by a puritan force that every time I type fucks it tries to correct it to ducks.
Duck off autocunt

People who call their children 'the smalls'

I haven't rtft but the phrase 'pre-book' does my head in. Surely to secure something in advance you just book it? What the hell is pre-booking? Booking before you book?
Arrgh I'm getting wound up even writing it down.

Houses where the curtains are never opened or even worse when the curtains have been opened halfheartedly so there's an odd gap or only one curtain pulled back.
People who choose to sit in the seat/table nearest to me when there are loads of available spaces (hopefully coronavirus has put paid to this)
People who leave their bins out for days on end for me to dodge each time I walk past.
The DC putting dirty washing in the laundry basket five minutes after I've put the last load in.

All the neighbourhood kids that insist on playing by my house simply because there is a public footpath and conker trees. The constant noise is making me incandescent with anger.

We have certain buses for certain routes in our town and it winds me up something awful when I see, for example, the number 10 bus on the number 8 route 🤣

*hired
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I hope you're not my neighbour, DH is a bigger for half hearted curtain opening.

People who suggest that you "speak to" some item on the agenda for a meeting. I could could speak to you about it. I could speak of it. I could explain it. But if you want me to speak to it, give me and it five minutes for our little private chat, and then I'll rejoin your fucking stupid meeting ...

People who don't understand that both the rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciations of words are perfectly cromulent.wink

Fair enough but sometimes people go too far. There was a thread the other day on the baby names board which was “boys names ending in A” and when I clicked into it the OP’s suggestions were things like “Casper, Jasper, Oliver” etc

Mm, no. Sorry. Those names don’t end with an A. Think ahead. Your child might not spend all their lives in southern England. They may venture elsewhere in the world and get the shock of their lives to discover they own an R.

When singers change the pronunciation of 'angel' so it sounds more like ayn-jell'. Robbie Williams and Annie Lennox are amongst the guilty.

People getting all stressed when someone else's phone rings and they don't answer it for a nanosecond. 'Yourphonesringingyourphonesringingyourphonesringing...' Yes, I can hear it, thank you. I've got ears. I'll answer it in my own time.

Apostrophes in the wrong place
Rubbish left in the vicinity of the bin but not actually inside it.
Someone I know who says things like "We can't go on holiday at the present moment" -and for a lot of moments to come! This person also regularly says" I can manage a walk today" which sounds as though leaving the house is a major operation , which in her case it isn't .

People who say vino for wine or bubble or fizz for champagne.

Just say the real words!

Just remembered another one, people referring to coronavirus as Rona.
Why do some people feel compelled to shorten every other word? It doesn't save that much time.

People who use the term "play date"

My friend, who is dyslexic, misspelling words on Facebook posts or using the wrong form.

I appreciate she struggles and I never point it out to her because that would make me a dick but I get so irritated. Especially when it's their, there and they're. That's the worst.

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.

I would definitely do this and enjoy every second of it 😂

Packaging that talks, such as ‘I’m dairy free!’ ‘Try me on toast’, ‘I’m one of your 5 a day!’
Shut the fuck up groceries!

The khaki things why do people pronounce bath as barth, grass as grarss etc, then? No r in the middle there either.

Love this thread. At the moment the sound of my DH drinking a glass of water makes me want to kill. So gulpy, like it's a sexual experience. Aaargh. Also EVERY TIME DH goes outside and the sun is shining he'll look at the sun and sneeze. Loudly. Twice. 😂😬😬😬

When you're leaving someone a voicemail and a)the automated voice is overly friendly (stop with your pseudo-friendliness!) and b) the bit that says, "when you've finished recording, press 1...." I fucking know how to leave a message! You've wasted two seconds of my life! Whoever The Voicemail Voice is, I'm afraid she is my nemesis. Sorry lady