What are your really petty pet hates?

[AintNobodyHereButUsChickens]

It really annoys me when I'm walking behind someone and you can see flashes of white on the bottom of their shoes where they haven't peeled off the labels. That's the first thing I do when I buy a new pair of shoes, peel off the sole labels!

The word sickly. It’s worse than moist.

I say it on all of these threads, but the word "nope". It's becoming so ubiquitous and drives me mad, it's so smug sounding.

Gluten-free rice. It’s rice. Of course it’s bloody gluten-free. (*disclaimer - I’m talking about packets of plain, white or brown rice, not fancy, flavored rice, which changes things.)

On the school run when parents are walking two abreast and taking up the whole pavement and don’t move to single file so your DD doesn’t have to walk into the road get round them. I admit one day I’d had enough I walked in front of DD and it was clear they weren’t going to go single file so I just kept walking into her. Not proud of it, but I’d had enough.

Kids are different or when the parent is with a child, but adults have no excuse.

When people end a sentence with “no?”
Drives me crazy

Men wearing baggy/bootcut jeans with smart shoes. I have to look away.

Call me old-fashioned but men who wear hats:

• inside

-at table -that are too small -that are placed too far backwards on their heads...

eg Sir Mark Rylance - marvellous actor - very poor hat-wearer!

(The too far on back of head thing can also be true of female horse-riders in films.)

Oh yes and nuns on TV and in film. They never quite get the costumes right. Except on the Derry Girls. (Sister Michael could be a cardboard cut out of my religion teacher, Sister Kathleen, back in the day .)

Patronising technology...our washing machine beeps insistently and repeatedly when it finishes the cycle and you can’t turn it off. I’LL decide when to attend to you, you self important bloody appliance.

Agree about men in jeans and dress shoes. It’s a fairly reliable twat beacon imo.

When people type "loveeeeeeeee" in comments online, which CLEARLY reads like a two-syllable word ending in eeeeeeeee - even though what they apparently mean is to emphasise "love" by stretching out the middle vowel sound.

See also "cuteeeeeeeeee".

Twats

People hanging cloths over taps

@ShortSilentNight

When people type "loveeeeeeeee" in comments online, which CLEARLY reads like a two-syllable word ending in eeeeeeeee - even though what they apparently mean is to emphasise "love" by stretching out the middle vowel sound.

See also "cuteeeeeeeeee".

Twats

This bugs me too. It makes no sense.

Kevin the carrot, ie, merchandising from bloody adverts.

My husband breathing at night when I'm trying to get to sleep.

Bingo adverts.

Ofstead. Its Office For STandards in EDucation aka Ofsted.

Aptimal. Its aptamil.

Non-Americans using 'gotten'...

Oh, and for some weird reason people I work with have suddenly started using the word 'adaptions' instead of 'adaptations'. WTF??!

@ZoominMoomin

Those ugly salmon coloured pants middle aged, middle class men wear
Even worse is when they are worn with red socks and brown loafers. Almost every man who wears salmon coloured trousers goes for that look.

People who insist on moving from the middle to the inside lane and back out again (and repeat again and again, no matter how short the distance to the next car to be passed) on a busy motorway, and at the same time complain about others who think it makes more sense to just stay in the middle lane. Stupid...

Cushions in cars and cuddly toys all lined up on the back seat, and not just any old toys either - really naff ones.

Bits of food in the plughole in kitchen sinks. Yuk.

Large lumps of fluff on dogs that never get groomed. I hate seeing that.

@JuniLoolaPalooza

I'd just break it sorry but I couldn't cope with that either. Just drop it accidentally.

Who uses the kettle most?

That would be my deal breaker.

I hate his toaster. I can cope currently
as it goes In the cupboard once it's been used.

The way Ben Shepherd pronounces "CongraDulations" at the end of Tipping Point.

It's "Congratulations" FFS!

Absolutely does my head in.

(Sorry to all Tipping Point watchers.. once you hear it, you can't unhear it)

@BarryWhiteIsMyBrother

People who refer to lunch as dinner, and to dinner as tea. Hate that!

People who refer to their dinner as lunch and their tea as dinner Even worse people who call their tea, supper.

Elaine Paige’s throaty chuckle. Agh.