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.

Pissed=drunk
Pissed OFF=annoyed
They are not interchangeable.

Adele singing Hometown Glory live or not.
She always over enunciates ThicK and OpaQue.

Place name of Wymondham.
Pronounced 'Wind-um'.
Sorry, but what?

Also, Meopham. 'Mep-am'.

Absolutely infuriated me when people say things like "mum bought Bob and I a present". No. You wouldn't say "mum bought I a present" so stop guessing and trying to sound correct and push, when you just sound like a knob.

ExDP's poor attempts at using the word "irony". Mostly used in sentences when things were just... similar.
And his inept use of colons and semi colons... and being asked to help him with learning which goes where... then bitching and complaining because I was always correcting him. Either accept the help you asked for... or don't ask for help.

Yes... I'm tired and currently struggling with sleep. I don't usually rant this much..

Colleagues misusing “myself”. They’ve all got degrees.

DH saying “can I get” when buying coffee.

People on the high street trying to get you to sign up to utility providers.

The bloke who busks outside my office. His songs all sound the same.

[quote RubaiyatOfAnyone]@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.[/quote]
Thanks for the reply, I'm using chrome on android and the search is really annoying. Normally I scroll up, but as this is Petty things that annoy you inordinately, I thought I'd mention it

Absolutely infuriated me when people say things like "mum bought Bob and I a present". No. You wouldn't say "mum bought I a present" so stop guessing and trying to sound correct and push, when you just sound like a knob.

I use the hack of taking out the "and bob" which is what you have done there.
Bob and me went to the pub
.... .... me went to the pub
Bob and I went to the pub
... ... I went to the pub

I’m another ‘myself’ misuse hater. And when someone buys something, they haven’t brought it, they’ve bought it. First post on a thread I’ve just read. Was it a typo? No, because the poster brought something else. 🙄

Let's see.
People who wander along shopping aisles PULLING the trolley.

Adverts featuring women eating yogurt like it's some forbidden treat (with obligatory shoulder hunch)

I'm apparently a snob because I don't shop in Aldi or Ldl (sp?)

The line "kids will be kids".

People who don't put things back if they change their mind and leave chilled items laying on a shelf of biscuits or something.

Wow, this thread has taken off
I can't read it all just now, but this caught my eye: Families or couples who insist on walking two or three abreast on the pavement when there’s only room for one person each way. And expect me to - what - step onto the road or into the gutter?
My local high street has narrow pavements and quite busy traffic. People (families, couples, pairs or groups of friends, two people each with a double buggy) do this walking abreast thing, even when I'm visibly approaching and am on my own.
I no longer step into the road for them. I either avoid eye contact and keep walking, or just stop and let them navigate round me (with tutting usually; them not me).
SO entitled.

Anyone who says 'it is what it is'

Aaarrrgh.

Also, people who start sentences with, 'So'..

Also. "Cheeky Nandos"

Fake Essex or Sarf Landahn accents, you just sound stupid.

Being thinner or slim automatically means healthy. I used to be overweight and had all the usual nasty comments then I developed an E.D and lost a lot of weight and I was immediately praised for how great I looked because I was no longer "disgusting".

What really annoyed me this morning

Gravity

I hate it

@Chunkymenrock Phoebe does this all the time on Friends and it's so annoying!

People that don’t let you pass when you’re clearly faster in a swimming lane.

@melonhead

When local businesses whine on FB about how people should shop locally instead of giving more money to Bezos et al, yet when you do buy something from them, the product and/or service is shit.

This is not petty. This is, quite honestly, the core problem with the world because of a ridiculous sense of entitlement. I do not even rage about this any more. I just calmly and simply refuse to darken such doors ever again.... even when it actually inconveniences me. A principle is a principle

People who only go on FB/Twitter etc when they want to punt something and then act surprised when they don't get a response. It's ridiculous, especially as I'm always banging on about how people should use SM however they like. But it infuriates me irrationally.

Adele singing Hometown Glory live or not.
She always over enunciates ThicK and OpaQue.

Adele full stop.

When her new song came out, there were two sizeable threads running on MN with 99% of people saying they weren't impressed.

And yet the media is wanking itself to death over her new album.

Hype, hype, hype.

Carnt instead of can't carnt isn't a word

Car adverts where no one gets stuck in traffic.

I want a car ad where all they're doing is stuck in traffic/ kids arguing etc but the car looks comfy so it says 'our car your life, at least it's comfy'

Another thing - yes placenames designed to catch you out or to be pretentious

like Altrop for Althorp

And maudlin for Magdalen.

People who turn the comments off their posts on Facebook. I assume it's because they don't know how to turn off the notifications.

@SnowyPetals

When there are loads of free spaces in the car park, I park and someone parks right next to me while I'm trying to open my door to get out.

Or the opposite, where you spot a lovely space but it's next to another car and as you go to drive or reverse in, you notice they are sitting in their car and are giving you a hard stare so you sigh and go somewhere else. Why do people spend so much time sitting in their cars in car parks apparently doing nothing? I know I am being unreasonable, there are loads of reasons why you'd sit in your car but it's so annoying when you want the space next to them.

Thank you @Triffid1 ! I feel seen!! I've had three examples in the last couple of week - I bought a salad from a new deli and there were bits of egg shell in it. I told them and they said 'it's because we use fresh ingredients'!

In a local boutique I went to buy a leather bag and saw some of the stitching was coming off - they said it was 'because it's artisan'!

Lastly, I ordered a cake for my daughter's birthday from a local cake shop from an expensive place where the owner is vocal on FB about people buying local. It was £40 and obviously frozen and I found the exact same one for £12 on a food services website. I texted the owner and she said she'd 'had some help this week'!!

I'm done with buying local.

My MIL saying "go toilet" instead of "go to the toilet" or even better "go to the loo". It sets my teeth on edge.

As in "do you need to go toilet before we go?" to my DC.

Argh!!!