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*light hearted* minor things that give you rage.

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Borisjohnsonshairbrush · 19/11/2021 20:38

Mine today, it's nearly TOTM, I've donated blood tonight and so I feel quite weak and hormonal.
Dp offered to cook dinner tonight, I was having steak....he's fucking cremated the bastard thing!! A lovely 28day sirlion grey and thin looking. I could cry.

And DSS 15 is here there too, walked past me and ignored me when I said hi as he walked through the door. Nice.

I think I might have a hormone induced cry to sleep tonight.

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MatildaIThink · 20/11/2021 15:38

Stupid people, overcooked food, people who microwave fish at the office people who think a pile of limp lettuce is "a salad", people who drop litter, tail gaiters, smelly people, standing on Lego.

Wouldof · 20/11/2021 15:45

3 for 2 offers. I want one! But I want it at a fair price, not half the price of three. I am not buying extra just to waste. So annoying.

SequinnedShawl · 20/11/2021 15:49

People who repeat everything you tell them to everyone they know. I mentioned to a friend that I was going to the dentist and a few days later her neighbour (who only knows me by sight, never really chatted to) stopped me and asked how me when I was going (and could she have a lift to save her from paying bus fare into town!!) Hmm

OhGiveUp · 20/11/2021 16:44

Oh and another one.....
If my DH gets out of bed after me, he just opens one of the bedroom curtains partially.
Why?? What's the worse thing that can happen if you open the one on the left side too? Is it going to attack you if you go near it?
Either open them both properly or leave them closed, you wellyhead!! 🤬

CarrieMoonbeams · 20/11/2021 17:05

Whenever someone rings the doorbell at PILs, they both look at each other with shocked faces and say (together) "who could that be?" and then we have a few rounds of "ooh I wonder", "might be the postie", "ooh, we're not expecting a parcel" etc etc. Just answer the damn door and then you'll see who it is!

My MIL also wins the prize for the most meticulous present unwrapper ever. The sellotape has to be very gently picked off, she extracts the present and puts that to one side, then spends ages folding and smoothing the paper, and then puts it away, never to be seen again. I mean, I'm all for recycling etc, but she's done that for years and just keeps it in a big box in the loft and doesn't re-use it. Strange.

theseriousmoonlight · 20/11/2021 17:43

On gbbo when a baker says 'How long have we got left?' And Noel or Matt says 'You have x minutes / hours left'. Gives me the rage.

Cervicalflop · 20/11/2021 18:03

When people (looking at you DH and DD) leave the empty loo roll tube on top of the bathroom bin lid!

sueelleker · 20/11/2021 20:05

@Wouldof

3 for 2 offers. I want one! But I want it at a fair price, not half the price of three. I am not buying extra just to waste. So annoying.
Likewise tins of food with 50% extra; if 400g is enough, why would you want extra?
RiskyCookie · 20/11/2021 20:09

When screwing a lid back on and I drop it.

Whne my pocket gets caught on a door handle.

Hospedia · 20/11/2021 21:21

Films or TV programmes where an older male character is paired off with a much younger female character. Or the male character is much less attractive than the female character. Pair them equally please!!

Yes! Sitcoms, especially American ones, where the wife is relatively young, thin, attractive, tales care over her appearance, and is generally lovely while the husband character looks like a thumb. For example Kings of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, etc. The man is always a whiny man-baby too and gets up to shit that would get him very rapidly divorced in real life.

When people (looking at you DH and DD) leave the empty loo roll tube on top of the bathroom bin lid!

Empty tube still on the holder and new roll balanced on top Angry

INeedSixEggs · 21/11/2021 10:12

@mafted
I'm honestly thinking of swapping round with the dining room to have our lounge in the at the back of the house because of it.

GTAlogic · 21/11/2021 16:15

When you have been sitting there for hours and hours, doing nothing, bored out of your tree and no-one speaks to you but as soon as you pick up something you're interested in and want to get on with, everyone suddenly starts pestering you and you have to stop what you're doing. OMG the anger and frustration I feel!!

CoffeeBeansGalore · 21/11/2021 16:50

Singers who hold the microphone so close to their mouth it looks like they are trying to eat it.

Foot fidgeters (DH). Anything in reach of his feet he jiggles/kicks/moves constantly. I do not want your sweaty socks being rubbed round the biscuit tin thank you. I have frequently moved the item away.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 21/11/2021 18:56

Waiters or waitresses who interrupt you mid-sentence to ask 'Is everything all right?". I get that they have to ask, to prevent customers snarfing the entire meal, then claiming there was some problem at the end, and refusing to pay. But show some basic manners and let the customers finish their sentence.

WotNoLoobrush · 21/11/2021 19:09

When I return to my phone which was supposed to be charging, only to realise the switch wasn't on at the wall. Aargh!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/11/2021 19:23

People using the Sellotape and not folding down a corner when they’ve finished, so it’s impossible to find the sodding end! 🤬
I tried four sodding rolls of the stuff earlier!

Doodar · 21/11/2021 19:26

people who constantly sniff

daisyjgrey · 21/11/2021 19:31

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

People using the Sellotape and not folding down a corner when they’ve finished, so it’s impossible to find the sodding end! 🤬 I tried four sodding rolls of the stuff earlier!
I bought a dispenser to solve this issue. I couldn't deal with the rage otherwise.
desperate4spring · 21/11/2021 19:41

The use of the words 'to' and 'on' incorrectly:

What do you think to my new coat?
He did it on accident.

There are loads more examples of this but I hate to think of it, so I'll let you listen out for them and cringe whenever you hear them too.

SequinnedShawl · 21/11/2021 19:43

When my left-handed husband puts the scissors down on my craft table on the wrong side to where I (right-handed) need them!

nildesparandum · 21/11/2021 20:09

Yes to the Facebook posts about their baby/toddler birthdays.They usually start the sentence with ''As if my little prince/princess is how many years old today''.''Mammy loves you so much it hurts her heart''
Not that the child can read any of it.

Borisjohnsonshairbrush · 21/11/2021 20:29

Making DSS's lunch or dinner and takes about 20mins to come out of his room/off his game and come down to eat it.

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Christmasdinner · 21/11/2021 20:30

@CheshireChat

Oh and taking the hair of all his Playmobil characters, just why?!
My 2yo is obsessed with taking all their hair off too!
HaroldSteptoesHorse · 21/11/2021 20:43

Others getting a compliment and me being left out and only ever being told how great my work is, fuck off I want to be told I look nice too, fuck my work
Others being so bloody young at work and I’m the old fart!!!

NeverDropYourMoonCup · 21/11/2021 21:08

There are multiple food items where I've bought the next one so we don't run out and he's immediately opened the new one. At present, for example, we have

3 half tubes of tomato puree
1.78 bottles of olive oil
Two packets of cheese, both left unsealed so they've dried up.
Two packs of ham, one with 1.3 slices left in it.
1.000000000000000007 litres of milk.

Add to that the determined stance that because nothing can be in the slightest way better than the cheapest possible version, we have two open packs of butter whilst anything that comes my way will have shitty spread put on them because it's too much like hard work to have to apply pressure with a knife to get real butter onto a slice of toast. And half a tub of 79p palm oil full peanut butter he's abandoned in favour of opening the large tub of posh stuff I bought because I fucking detest the taste of palm oil.

Mr I Can Eat Anything has also got half a cupboard full of dirt cheap wheat based snacks. Strangely, the month's supply of expensive gluten free snacks I bought for myself have disappeared in 6 nights.

There's also the confusion between cast iron and anodized steel or enamelled tins. The cast iron griddle was scrubbed to death, left in the sink and then shoved in a cupboard still wet and was thrown away whilst I was at work. But the others aren't washed before using again, so they have a thick layer of baked on, blackened grease on them.

Oh, and the snippy 'I thought I'd be allowed to eat my dinner first' when I suggested putting the full meal of leftovers in the fridge instead of leaving it out overnight. An hour after we'd eaten. And the washing up in 'warm' water that could give you frostbite.

I've had a good weekend cooking lovely food in a clean kitchen. He's now decided that normal service is resuming. Like fuck is it.

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