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Things that make you inexplicably angry

196 replies

ElsaMars · 12/05/2021 21:01

Things, not people.

Here's mine, when my 8 year old creeps out from randomly hiding from me and shouts 'boo!' which she does quite often, I always yell 'Jesus Christ!' (I never normally say it) and feel the most massive anger, its bizarre.

Also, people beeping their car horns as a greeting and loud motorbikes.

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NoLeafClover · 13/05/2021 07:20

Spitting, it's disgusting and I can't understand how anyone thinks it's acceptable.

The smell of fried food. It clings to your clothes/hair/skin and always smells a bit rancid.

The phrase 'totes adorbs'. It gives me the rage (which I'd imagine is a phrase that massively pisses someone else off Wink)

lollipoprainbow · 13/05/2021 07:32

Broken biscuits
Buttering crackers and they break ggrrr !!

Camrette · 13/05/2021 07:35

Being asked what’s for dinner
Crumbs. Left everywhere by every other member of my family every time they go near the kitchen. Just wipe them up.

36degrees · 13/05/2021 09:20

Scrambled eggs made in the microwave, not in a pan with lots of lovely butter.

the80sweregreat · 13/05/2021 09:32

Another vote for any fried food. It takes ages for the smell to go away ( my extractor fan is hopeless though )
The cordless vacuum running out of battery just as I want to use it.
Parking apps that never seem to work. Apps in general.
Phone in programmes where the host just chatters away over the person ringing in esp if they are trying to explain something a bit long winded or whatever ( side eye to james o Brian and Nick Ferrari ..)
Eastenders for being a big rubbish lately!
Life in general.

peaceanddove · 13/05/2021 09:46

When people have poor spoken grammar. It makes me irrationality furious. So does the mispronunciation of words e.g. hospickle for hospital, or pacific for specific.

I even feel tense having to write it down!

LettyLoman · 13/05/2021 09:48

Monkey emojis with the hand over the eyes. Grow up people!!! Rage!

LaBellina · 13/05/2021 09:49

Mansplaining.

the80sweregreat · 13/05/2021 09:56

Stupid posts on Facebook from people who don't give a toss about anyone in real life ( apart from themselves)
We know your game !!

tentosix · 13/05/2021 10:01

Mums in gigantic idling SUVs pumping out diesel fumes outside the school gates, where we have to walk by. Turn the effing engine off.

grapewine · 13/05/2021 10:06

@Jongleurterre

The sharing of Facebook posts that are obviously completely made up but have people falling over themselves to comment inane things.

Example being a photo of a baby with a facial deformity or a beautiful woman with no legs and the made up caption of ‘It’s my birthday today I bet I don’t get any likes!’

This is then followed by people wishing them a happy birthday despite it not being on the original post and the fact that it’s obviously been made!

Or a photo of animal cruelty where the perpetrator’s are stood next to the dead animal, usually a cat, dog or horse and it’s obvious that the photo was not recent and not in the UK.

People then post they will share the post so that they get caught and hope the abusers are found soon despite a simple google search that would tell them that it took place a decade ago and was in the Ukraine etc.

Yes! All of this. I always want to comment that engaging brain cells aren't illegal.
Cocolapew · 13/05/2021 10:09

The sound of someone else brushing their teeth.
The clicky noise some people when when they are talking.
Loud breathers.
Noisy eaters.
Getting caught on the door handle.
DD2 leaving the backing strip of her pads all over the bathroom instead of sticking them in the bin.

the80sweregreat · 13/05/2021 10:16

My jeans hook gets caught on the door handle a lot. It's a weird thing and winds me up no end !

RestingPandaFace · 13/05/2021 10:22

People who insist on stopping to let you cross the road even when you have waved them on. I am a cane user and need my hearing to cross, can’t cross safely if I can’t hear what’s coming and you are rushing me. Oh and just because you’ve stopped doesn’t mean that the traffic on the other side has.

I know they are being kind but it gives me the fucking rage!

RestingPandaFace · 13/05/2021 10:23

Oh and Lego! Since when did Lego need so many tiny transparent bits, and whoever invented clear Lego was obviously a psychopath.

Echobelly · 13/05/2021 10:27

Getting my clothing/bag strap caught on a door handle gives me the rage, as it always happens when you're in a hurry!

Giantrooster · 13/05/2021 10:32

If I get cello tape round my fingers so they stick together. It gives me claustrophobic rage.

Aprilwasverywet · 13/05/2021 10:32

The hoover plug coming out mid vacuum...

Jongleurterre · 13/05/2021 10:33

Watching someone lick their finger to turn a page or flick through papers.

Walking behind someone who doesn’t pick up their feet. I want to trip them up!

DiscoJanet · 13/05/2021 10:39

Men in vans who turn the wheel using only the flat palm of their hand. Fucking knobheads.

Male drivers who pull in to let you pass but then do that overly vigorous beckoning gesture to tell you to come forward. Yes thanks, I fucking know to do that, you've just pulled in to let me pass, I do know what to do. Idiots.

Both of those examples of annoying male power play.

WineandWellies · 13/05/2021 10:55

That it's only me who ever changes the empty toilet roll, put a wash on, clean the pots etc etc etc.
That my partner seems to dump his kids on me at every opportunity
That said children bicker incessantly, leave a trail of destruction that I'm expected to clear up and have no concept of personal space.
That I've had words with my partner today about him disappearing for over an hour to work every morning and leaving me to get said kids ready for school. That he's kicked off at my suggestion that he take them to the school breakfast club an hour early if he needs to work, rather than dumping them on me.
That me being too ill to go to work today has had no affect on this dynamic and they were left with me anyway.
That its close to ruining a close and happy relationship between said kids and me, because I'm getting resentful and snappy and keep effing off when I sense they're about to be dumped on me.

I've had it this morning, can you tell?

BIoodyStupidJohnson · 13/05/2021 11:01

'Unexpected item in bagging area.'

the80sweregreat · 13/05/2021 11:12

The bus driver today who pulled out in front of someone on a roundabout ( she didn't have right of way) and overshot my own stop even though I rung the bell in enough time. She seemed half asleep this morning.
The taxi driver way of turning a wheel in a car is annoying I agree! It's so blasé.
The fact that I never get 39 on pop master on radio 2. ( I did once a few years ago and nobody was around to hear it !)
It's always 9 or 18 points usually. Grr.
The Pointless quiz on tv. So much work for so little.
Winds me up.

Catmuffin · 13/05/2021 11:13

@BIoodyStupidJohnson

'Unexpected item in bagging area.'
Agree with you on that
grapewine · 13/05/2021 11:27

@BIoodyStupidJohnson

'Unexpected item in bagging area.'
Oh, definitely!