Petty things that annoy you inordinately

[IntermittentParps]

Mine is when I pour a mug of water for tea and the teabag tag gets dragged into the mug. SO tiny but SO irritating.

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

I know what it is, I'm just saying that nobody really calls it that out loud do they?! In Scotland essentially it's all 'juice'. Fizzy juice at a push.

Again, my Scottish friends do.

I will add to petty things that annoy me are posters that can’t seem to accept that people do things on different ways.

@PurpleDaisies

Language turning American annoys me. People seem to watch a movie instead of a film, or go to the movies instead of the cinema these days.

Many countries around the world, mine included, have 'British' words as part of their language due to colonisation

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

I know what it is, I'm just saying that nobody really calls it that out loud do they?! In Scotland essentially it's all 'juice'. Fizzy juice at a push.

I’ve looked back and you literally asked me “What the hell is 'breakfast juice'?”

You can see how I thought you didn’t know what it was from that question.

@MusingOnStarlight

Isleham.

It is a village in Cambridgeshire. Should be pronounced ‘I’ll-ham’ right?

No it’s pronounced as it is spelt.

What, like 'Izzle-ham'?

Many countries around the world, mine included, have 'British' words as part of their language due to colonisation

Absolutely. I guess I meant that the words cinema/films being replaced with movies annoys me. It’s something I’ve only noticed happening recently.

@PurpleFadesToGreen

The 46 year old man I work with speaking like a toddler, Bikky wikky Jelly welly Cakey wakey Cutty cutty

I'm not sure how I've not murdered him by shoving his cakey wakey down his throat.

Fucky fucky? Cunty, Cunty????

PSA: Juice comes from FRUIT! And the cola Berry!!!

When people don't close a packet of biscuits properly and leave them open so they go stale then nobody else can eat the rest of the pack.

@PurpleDaisies

Many countries around the world, mine included, have 'British' words as part of their language due to colonisation

Absolutely. I guess I meant that the words cinema/films being replaced with movies annoys me. It’s something I’ve only noticed happening recently.

I was light-heartedly pointing out the irony in that sentiment is all.

Getting out of a lift to find people right up against the door ready to burst in SHOCKED at the fact that there's someone in there. Trying to get out.

People lacking self-awareness in general. Like someone coming down a narrow grocery aisle with their shopping cart stopping exactly opposite someone else with a shopping cart and then both of them staring dreamily at the shelves while I try to get past. The genuine shock on their face that I exist baffles me.

People sneezing. Honestly if they could just stop.

@Twospaniels

The incorrect use of ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’ Incorrect use of ‘sat’, ie, “I was sat on the chair”. It should be “I was sitting on the chair”.

This!

And to add to the “less/fewer” error, people who use “amount” when they mean “number.”

Um...you know this really doesn't matter right? You can actually just stop posting about this any time.

@BlameItOnTheBlackStar

Um...you know this really doesn't matter right? You can actually just stop posting about this any time.

Right back at you. I don’t like being effectively accused of lying. I notice that you haven’t commented on whether you meant to do that or not.

@MusingOnStarlight

Isleham.

It is a village in Cambridgeshire. Should be pronounced ‘I’ll-ham’ right?

No it’s pronounced as it is spelt.

It’s because the etymology of Isleham is Anglo Saxon, from “gisle” (hard “s”) meaning home or dwelling place and therefore different and distinct to that of the Latin-rooted word “isle”, meaning peninsula or island even though they are now spelled the same.

Every day’s a school day and it ain’t just Americans who come along and muck around with our language

“Spag Bowl.”

It is spaghetti BOLOGNESE. WHY ARE YOU CALLING IT A BOWL?

@BonesInTheOcean apologies, I was responding to this post
Grown ass people who say they have an idear....wtf is that? It's an idea!!!! 🤬
I was just asking the poster if she was pronouncing “idea” differently from me, because in an RP accent “idear” doesn’t sound very different to idea. I said that if she meant in written english, however, that was obviously annoying. I used the acronym “you ADNBU” which stands for “you are definitely not being unreasonable”and gets used a fair bit in AIBU.
There were only a few responses when i posted so i didn’t think it was of interest to anyone else to quote the post as I was just interested in whether different accents pronounced the word differently.
I’m sorry it was so annoying to you it made this list. In your position, i think i would have just used the search function to find the post if i was that bothered by it.

Anything James blunt makes me cringe

The overuse of the word 'ass'. Grown ass, bad ass, blah blah.

It does not make you sound cool.

Ditto for Americanisms such as cupcakes, candies, cookies etc.

Another annoying thing is that DH will be getting increasingly irate from two rooms away because he can't find something.

Either he'll find it just as I give up on ignoring him and leave what I'm doing to help him, or I'll find it immediately when I get to the room. Because it's right in front of him.

I swear men have some sort of weird 'thing in front of them and also where it should be' blindness.

My car has swanky electric seats and we all have our own settings at the touch of a button

However if I need to push my seat back for any reason, I have to do it electrically. At this point I glide into position in slow motion while trying to look nonchalant and not like a knob

Every single time I have to do it I am incensed far beyond what is proportionate. If I didn't love everything else about the car so much I would actually trade it in

The tiny cups provided in hotel rooms for hot drinks, meaning I need to make at least 3 cups of tea to feel remotely sated.

My husband leaving wet tea towels all over the house after getting distracted midway through washing up. I always know when he's home because there's tea towels everywhere. He may as well just fly one as a flag to show he's in residence.

People who say "it's not rocket science" as if rocket science is the most complicated subject for comparison. There's nothing inherently difficult about the basics of rocket science. There are far more complex fields, quantum mechanics for one, and I say this as someone who's crap at science.

@MusingOnStarlight

Isleham.

It is a village in Cambridgeshire. Should be pronounced ‘I’ll-ham’ right?

No it’s pronounced as it is spelt.

Also, see the Cambridgeshire village of Mepal.

You would think it would be pronounced the same as Nepal, right?

No.

No, no, no. It is pronounced like 'people' and 'steeple'. Mepal. It irrationally winds me up. What is it about Cambridgeshire and its stupid place names?! Isleham winds me up the exact same amount.

People saying 'hey' instead of "hi'. It sounds so bloody rude, along the lines of 'oi, you!' Hey is an exclamation, not a greeting. There is no need for it whatsoever.

People saying 'off of'. Butchering language. Just off will do. Or from, for example: 'I bought a suitcase from Amazon.'