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What are your really petty pet hates?

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AintNobodyHereButUsChickens · 01/12/2020 16:02

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!

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TheSandman · 01/12/2020 23:28

@WunWun

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.
But how do you cut rind off Brie anyway? By the time it's ripe enough to eat it's impossible to cut anything OFF it without making a hell of a mess.

I suppose you could squeeze the middle out like toothpaste...

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 01/12/2020 23:29

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).

Not just you. I found a big plastic cup in the cupboard a few weeks ago. Holds much more water than a glass and have been using that since. Much prefer it to a glass now.

WunWun · 01/12/2020 23:30

@TheSandman You just need a very sharp knife.

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WunWun · 01/12/2020 23:32

People who keep talking about brie online until I really, really want some.

MooChops89 · 01/12/2020 23:33

Loads of stuff, but I can't get past the bread and butter thing

Henio · 01/12/2020 23:33

@grassisjeweled

Elf on the shelf shit.

Just people, really.

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Gingaaarghpussy · 01/12/2020 23:34

The colour yellow. I cannot buy anything in that colour. I can cope with looking at it, just. But anything else is beyond me.

Frieswithanythin · 01/12/2020 23:34

Outside our school were parking is very hard to find a space, there is about 3/4 parents who leave big huge gaps between their cars. I mean huge but not large enough for a vehicle. This bloody annoys me every day as a lot of us are running late, maybe coming from work. If they moved up a bit another bloody car could get in!!

Bloodypunkrockers · 01/12/2020 23:39

@Cherrysoup

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!
I have a friend who does this. she signs off "wuv rover, woof"

I hate non Americans using Americanisms such as seasons (series), fall, parking lot, takeout and pissed.

Cheesypea · 01/12/2020 23:40

People who go ahh when they drink tea. Apart from when I do it, that's fine.

ineedsun · 01/12/2020 23:41

People who say less when they mean fewer

Henio · 01/12/2020 23:42

I remember when everyone suddenly started adding 'gate' to everything, it's meant to be about scandals but, for example, people were saying pizza-gate if they got the wrong toppings delivered or fridge-gate if someone used their milk etc.. annoyed the hell out of me

BritInAus · 01/12/2020 23:42

People who make a photo of their child/ren their profile picture on social media. I don't mean people who have a photo featuring their children as well - but JUST their children.

Champagneforeveryone · 01/12/2020 23:43

There's a big house down the road from us that had been dilapidated for some time, with a very overgrown garden.

About 4 years ago it was sold and the new owner has slowly but surely done it up, as well as cutting back the trees. This has revealed the porch which, for reasons I cannot quite explain, fills me with a deep and slow burning wrath.

The porch is on the wrong side of the house. It's horribly built. It's got horrible steps. The door is on the wrong side and is completely out of keeping with the rest of the beautiful house. Driving past it makes me feel faintly murderous, which is irrational behaviour for a porch (particularly one that's not mine)

DH often jokes that if we had bought it, before I had fixed the holes in the roof I would have pulled the porch down - he's right Grin

pronxcessxo · 01/12/2020 23:55

people confusing there is and there are. also, lying/lay/laid.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456 · 02/12/2020 00:06

People who start sentences with the word "so". Especially in a work context. For example
"So, I looked over the data you sent over..."
Totally unnecessary word. Save yourself the bother.

The font Comic Sans MS.

Twobrews · 02/12/2020 00:08

People who walk on my grass instead of on the path.
In general I hate it when people make tiny shortcuts that must save about 2 seconds walk. In the local retail park so many people climb over a wall with bags of shopping or even pushchairs instead of walking a few steps extra along the pavement.

BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456 · 02/12/2020 00:09

People who write posts on FB to their dead relatives as if the relatives are reading from beyond the grave.
"It's been 6 years since you were taken. Miss you so much Nan, love you xxxx"

thenightsky · 02/12/2020 00:22

@BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456

People who write posts on FB to their dead relatives as if the relatives are reading from beyond the grave. "It's been 6 years since you were taken. Miss you so much Nan, love you xxxx"
'Fly with angles'.
ShrimpSymphony · 02/12/2020 00:27

When people say draws/draw instead of drawers/drawer it just fills me with inexplicable rage.

ImaSababa · 02/12/2020 00:28

People who point to the person they're standing with in a photo. Usually small-time American celebrities. Utterly moronic.

TheSandman · 02/12/2020 00:31

'Fly with angles'.?

"thirty two degrees left... right aileron down twenty degrees... coming about on heading two seven zero... This is x-ray delta dead-granny tango pappa..."

ChaosTrulyReigns · 02/12/2020 00:34

People on Masterchef who announce that "Today I have made..."

Really???

Glad you clarified that, thought the scallops with raspberry crumb touched with haggis foam was cooked 17 days ago. Hmm

AlwaysLatte · 02/12/2020 00:45

Traffic ones!
People who enter a roundabout from your left in heavy traffic while you're already on it and have right of way, so you can't get off it, therefore blocking people trying to go the other way which is clear. That happens every day at a particular roundabout on the school run!!
On the same school run but return journey, people who tailgate me for doing the specified 20mph speed limit (son is coming out early ATM so light traffic and people seem to think I'll ignore the speed limit).
Finally, when overtaking a cyclist in a 20 or pulling back in front of them after overtaking the car behind rushes past at the same time but at eg 20 mph they don't have a space to tuck into! So dangerous.

ZolaGrey · 02/12/2020 00:52

The word "hubby".

Breath instead of breathe.

Noses out of masks.

Whistling noses.

Loud chewing.

People who mispronounce 'pronunciation'.

All people who drive cars with those loud exhausts.

Whippets.

'Lol'.

Jeremy Vine.

Bruised bits on bananas.

People who can't parallel park.

Tapping/rattling/jiggling/jostling.

Dry skin.

Jazz.