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!

People that don't cut those ribbony things from inside the shoulders of knitwear.

@Teacup34

When someone puts juice in a mug!! Mugs are for hot drinks use a glass ffs.

Yes this. I can't drink cold drinks from mugs either and it gripes me when people do. Oddly I prefer water from a plastic tumbler instead of a glass (but appreciate that's just me).

People walking in front of me slowly.Fucking hate it there should be lanes on pavements imo.

People who don’t punctuate. I use a screenreader so if a sentence/paragraph isn’t punctuated it reads it as one continuous string of text...

Am a bit by the PP who said “You don’t butter a whole slice of bread,” of course you do.

@Rainbowandscarlett I think Fugley is "fucking ugly"

There should. Also people who take up the entire width of the pavement with just themselves and a dog, making you walk in the gutter to overtake because they're walking so slowly.

That was a rely to Aries the Ram!

@Maireas yes!

@TheAntiSpice

People who say 'do' instead of 'visit'. You aren't doing Australia, you are visiting Australia fgs. One work colleague is particularly guilty but is great in every other way so I keep quiet but my face must be a picture!

That is really really annoying. I especially hate it when people said they “did Europe”. Nope, you visited a small selection of European countries. You did not DO Europe. You did not even visit all of Europe or even most European countries.

When people don’t cut the thread that holds together the vents on the back of new coats and jackets. Thinking of carrying scissors around with me so I can snip them.

When people (and it’s mainly men) use the palm of their hand to move the car steering wheel

I can’t explain why it makes me so angry as I don’t know why

@MaidEdithofAragon

People who say 'two choices' for two options. Choosing between two options is making one choice.

Oh God THIS. Yes...

"You have two choices..."
"I'll have both then."
"No - you can only have one."
"But you said I could have two choices. I chose that one... and then I chose that one..."

...after I'd eaten both doughnuts my DD never did THAT again.

People who say they are 'pissed' when they mean pissed-off. Unless there really are a huge number of drunk people out there...

My current pet peeve is people who advertise bikes for sale without saying what size frame they are.

@VicMackey

People who cut the rind from brie

????

people do this?

The co-op near me have some local made brie which is amazing, but the rind is always kind of wet and sharp tasting. I cut that off.

When you list something on Facebook (normally for free in my case) and say 'no holding, collection only' and then ten million people straight away ask you to hold it or deliver it.

People who set up Instagram accounts for their pets/babies and write the posts as if they are the animal/child. “Mummy took me for a walk today, aren’t I a good boy!”

People who say "she turned around and said", when its quite clear the person hadn't actually "turned around". Where did that phrase come from.

Using myself inappropriately. Just say me or I ffs! It doesn't make you sound intelligent at all.

I'm dyslexic but people that use their, there and they're incorrectly drive me insane.

Random R's written in words, for example brought instead of bought. How can you mix that up?

@soschreibfaul

Poo for shampoo. Awful.

Eggy Bread for French toast. Pots for potatoes.

People who put x at the end of texts or posts on Mumsnet.

Well you did say really petty.

What about gypsy toast?

People who write as though they are the pet, I’m with you, @leftovercoffeecake! Ugh, makes me fume, particularly when they spell words incorrectly as though the dog/cat/whatever is trying but failing to write properly. I could kick the idiots!

When the weather forecaster tells us all what the weather was like earlier today. Thanks for summing it up for us

The way some American people pronounce forward 'fuh-ward'

Facebook updates/birthday wishes to people who will never read them, like 2 year olds.

The way everyone who does a Ted Talk speaks in the same cadence and rhythm. Heard one, heard them all.

The fucking stupid kettle DP bought which has a lid you have to pull off entirely instead of just flicking up at a switch. I can't wait for it to break.

@Frangipaniflower

'Teens' for teenagers and chrimbo for Christmas - drives me crazy

My cat was called crimble, he was white and fluffy and we called christmas, crimble at school

Every single word or phrase to do with covid

Bubble
Bubbling up
Shielding
Isolating
Following the rules
New normal
Tiers
Levels
Blah blah blah

And all the online learning shit we need to now know. It's driving me mad!