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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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heathergem · 03/12/2020 07:10

People who start sentences with "So"

missmouse101 · 03/12/2020 07:58

'Party wall'. So irritating. Are you referring to a partition wall or are you whacking a piñata against it? Can't you just say 'partition' or 'parti' wall, if you must abbreviate?

ShouldHaveCouldHaveWouldHave · 03/12/2020 08:03

@Lipz I think in real life we could be best friends Grin

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Yorkshireswithallroasts · 03/12/2020 08:10

The use of ‘pop’. As in ‘pop that over here’, ‘pop out’, ‘pop in a bag’ etc.

Saying ‘purchased/purchase’ when you could just as easily say ‘bought/buy’. I know it’s not wrong but it irritates me no end.

People following the same path as me around the supermarket so every time I turn around THERE THEY ARE. It makes me feel a weird kind of shopping pressure and irrationally annoyed.

EggysMom · 03/12/2020 08:13

A party wall is a specific thing in English planning law. IANAL but it's something to do with the wall being shared (a bit like a shared fence) so you have to consult the neighbour (co-owner) before you build onto it or demolish it.

EggysMom · 03/12/2020 08:18

My "petty pet hate" is small talk, I really don't care what a stranger in a bus queue thinks of the weather, or where a hairdresser is going on holiday, or what work colleagues think of the latest episode of IAACGMEOH. I certainly don't believe that anybody benefits from hearing my opinion on such things. I can be the most talkative person around on specific topics, but with people who share those interests. Much of the rest of the time, I prefer silence to banal conversation.

Yes, I am aware of the irony of sharing this opinion with you all Grin

Chemenger · 03/12/2020 08:27

@peridito

Sainsbury's labelling all their small citrus fruit as "easy peelers".

Yeah ,how easy it is to get the skin off is all consumers are interested in .
Satsumas /clementines/tangerines - who cares? They have different flavours you say ? Pshaw ! It's the ease pf peeling we care about .

Totally agree. I once started a thread about this on here but nobody felt the same. Clementines are lovely, satsumas not as nice.
YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 03/12/2020 08:54

People who say myself should be shot

Also people who use multiple exclamation marks to show how fucking funny they are. Fuck off!!!!

People who persist in making the same mistake when a) you have corrected them, b) you have offered to proof read and c) they are getting paid more than you.

MrsGusset · 03/12/2020 09:20

People eating a meal while holding their knife as if it were a pen.

BarryWhiteIsMyBrother · 03/12/2020 09:27

Or their spoon/fork as if it were a shovel.

ImNotCutOutForThis · 03/12/2020 09:36

People driving 30mph on a nsl 60. And keep braking for no reason!
When I go shopping there's a long 60mph Rd and I swear I get caught behind a driver like that near enough every bloody time..

carlaCox · 03/12/2020 09:44

Or their spoon/fork as if it were a shovel.

I also can't stand the American way of eating where you put your knife down and swap your fork into the other hand. I have some American friends and watching them do it makes me so irritated. Obviously I would never say anything but in my head I'm screaming: You're a grown adult! Learn how to use a knife and fork properly!

soschreibfaul · 03/12/2020 12:15

People who drive at 37mph on a nsl 60, then continue at 37mph through a village with very clear 30 or even 20mph limit.

AlannaOfTrebond · 03/12/2020 15:32

People who put ribbons on their luggage. What's wrong with a bloody luggage tag?

Nose hanger outers, makes me feel ill.

BluTangClan · 03/12/2020 17:08

@missmouse101

'Party wall'. So irritating. Are you referring to a partition wall or are you whacking a piñata against it? Can't you just say 'partition' or 'parti' wall, if you must abbreviate?
A party wall is a shared wall between buildings. A partition wall is a non- load bearing 'stud' wall seperating rooms.
Chemenger · 03/12/2020 17:15

People who don’t put ribbons on their luggage and stand right up at the luggage carousel manhandling bags to see luggage labels instead of spotting their distinctive ribbon from a distance and grabbing the right bag first time, every time.

TheSandman · 03/12/2020 17:26

@AlannaOfTrebond

People who put ribbons on their luggage. What's wrong with a bloody luggage tag?

Nose hanger outers, makes me feel ill.

I'd guess ribbons are easier to see from a distance and more easily identifiable. Five identical cases on the carousel all with luggage tags and only one with a bright yellow ribbon. Got to be easier to spot.
TheSandman · 03/12/2020 17:43

A party wall is a shared wall between buildings.

And it's not a modern usage/change of spelling. My 1861 Chambers has it, as well as 'party fence' which is a fence which does the same thing... but outside.

ontologicallou · 03/12/2020 19:21

You guys

JoandLily · 03/12/2020 19:43

People (over the age of 5) who pronounce words with th in as F

"I fink so"
"One, two, free"
"I'm firsty"

Argh speak properly!!

Voyager54 · 04/12/2020 07:20

@heathergem You are right people starting a sentence with the word "so" or the overuse of amazing and again the overuse of the word "like "it gets on my proverbial'!!.

Or sports reporters that scream and shout the same as soap opera actors. Traffic information announcers on LBC slow down so that we can hear where the issues are located! Even worse adverts on the radio where the voice over person speaks at 100 words a minute to explain the terms and conditions. Does anyone understand what they are saying or can even remember?

clpsmum · 04/12/2020 07:24

Dogs in onesies and babies with their ears pierced

sueelleker · 04/12/2020 07:33

I'd guess ribbons are easier to see from a distance and more easily identifiable. Five identical cases on the carousel all with luggage tags and only one with a bright yellow ribbon. Got to be easier to spot.
Woven luggage straps with names were a good idea when they came out, but now everyone has them; and you still need to be close enough to read them.

ZoominMoomin · 04/12/2020 08:47

@JoandLily

People (over the age of 5) who pronounce words with th in as F

"I fink so"
"One, two, free"
"I'm firsty"

Argh speak properly!!

Sorry about this, it's my accent. It only happens on a few words though. I would say 'fink' and 'firsty' (sounds more like 'feersty') but would say three correctly. The mind boggles.

Mine are:
Those ugly salmon coloured pants middle aged, middle class men wear. They wind me up beyond belief.
People who make a weird, subtle clicking sound at the back of their throat when they breathe in - made 10x worse when it's done within touching distance. Makes me want to bork.
When old men walk with their hands behind their back, bent forward so they end up walking like an oversized duck. What is that about? Do they think they're more aerodynamic? I'm often tempted to ask but I fear the answer.

AlannaOfTrebond · 04/12/2020 08:57

I was on a flight last year and about 75% of the bags were identikit black wheelie cases with some shade of red or pink ribbon attached. The couple I was standing next to at the carousel were busily trying to remember if they had put pink or red ribbons on their luggage.... Kind of defeats the point.