What annoys you about someone that has no effect on you whatsoever but still irritates the hell out of you.

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a colleague will not put her phone on silent ( in case of emergency) but will leave in her bag and every times it rings and it’s often a cold call she will leap in the air in panic to turn the phone off .
I’ve said leave it on vibrate , leave it on your desk so you can turn it off quicker but no . She never answers it and grumbles that it’s cold calls .
I’m not bothered about the phone ringing but this leaping up in panic and a mad scramble for her phone makes me want to hit her with her daft phone .
why not leave on your desk or stop panicking every time it rings I don’t get it .
i know it has no effect on my life but I’m worried she may have a panic induced heart attack ( I’m joking ) .
share with me lighthearted irritations that you have.

According to you other people find the makeup laughable and ick so no idea why it affects you at all. Why not just rock on happy that you aren't giving anyone the ick rather than worry that you are being judged as not woman enough.

I agree with this. But is Fluffy Boy acceptable!?

People are getting so triggered by the make up post 🙈

People who, having queued for some time in a café, wait until it’s their turn to order before deciding what they require.

Oh God yes! I recall just as we were being allowed out more after the lockdown I took my granddaughter to her favourite 'cafe in a field' in North Norfolk. The sysyem was that one ordered at the window from huge boards and then they notified you when it was ready. There were about 4 in the queue, we were 4th, the woman in front of us got to the window and then decided to ask her party what they would like dahling, she then sent another dahling over to the table to ask if someone would like etc etc, you get the picture. Total pita . Not normal for Norfolk at all except in the Summer when so many decamp up here,

Young British men, who speak with an accent that would have you believe that they were born and raised in Jamaica. You're from Birmingham mate, just stop it.

People who say the word "like", about 20 times in every sentence.

I have a friend who says the last word of my sentences with me. So, for eg. If I was to say "I wonder if it will be sunny this afternoon", she will mouth the first part of the sentence along with me (a millisecond behind), and then she will say the word "afternoon" out loud. Why?

Men who "swagger", so they walk normally with their left leg, but when their right leg hits the ground, they go lower on that side. Usually accompanied by shorts that are almost underneath the bum cheeks, with boxers showing. They think they are so cool! I feel like saying "You're 18, you don't know anything about anything!"

The word Cuppa. Makes me wince!

@Goldenboysmum My girl cat's full name is Her Serene Highness The Princess Mittens ♥

Work with a male colleague who insists on still wearing a facemask (optional at our workplace) but finds it a bit much so takes the loops off from behind his ears but tucks the middle bit into his glasses. The result is a mask that flaps all over his face and steamed up glasses.

Oh god I hate “little man” so much, makes me want to punch people. Completely irrational.

But… it is a meal.

What else are you supposed to call it? Tea?

'as binman bin Mam? is another of my favourites.

"making memories" , argggg makes my skin crawl

I see your 'making memories', and I raise you 'holibobs' 😡

Mum's who say they never get a break.

Teachers who say they work every holiday

Bought/brought

Draw/drawer

Hes/his

Attached parenting types

Women who can't go out without make up on.

I do that because most of the time when you bag stuff and lift things it messes up the scales and an assistant has to override it. I hate doing it that way though.

This one used to affect me, to boiling point, which is why we've reached an uneasy truce:

My DH will be glued to the TV watching something I'm not interested in, so I'll be silently reading, doing a crossword, crocheting, etc. However, every damn time there's an advert break, his attachment to the TV stops instantly & his attention has to go somewhere else. So he'll start talking to me, breaking my concentration. Then, the moment his film or whatever starts again he's back on it; & I'm forgotten & left to amuse myself without him. This repeats all the way through the bloody thing.

Once, I'd had enough & I blew my top. So now when it's something he's glued to & I don't want to watch, the adverts come on & I feel him snap back to the real world & WANT to say something to me. But then he remembers that once, a long time ago, he got told off for it. So he doesn't. I keep my eyes on my crochet & pretend nothing's going on. But he probably senses me steeling myself as I studiously ignore him & the fact that the adverts are on.

And that's married life, children.😂That's how you get through 40 years without killing each other.

People who automatically get into their pajamas when home even though its only 3pm in afternoon, same applies to dressing gowns. Pyjamas are for bed

And they boast about it! “As soon as I get home from work, I draw the curtains, get into my PJs [it’s always “PJs”], curl up on the sofa and I don’t have to see anyone until the morning. Bliss.” Makes me want to bring up my lunch.

People who write 'breath' when they mean 'breathe'. You're going to say it's an autocorrect fail but it isn't

My mum seems to have about 58 friends called Jackie (must be her age).

at any given time I’m supposed to automatically know which Jackie she is talking about without any explanation (oh Jackie from Church not Jackie Johns mum!)

How am I supposed to know????

Women that name their cars.

or name their cat something like Mrs Meowington.

Not my types.

I see your "making memories on our holibobs" and I raise you "with the famalam"

😂

Other women who never wear a hat because It "makes them look stupid" and then stand there moaning about how cold they are.

I do that 😜

I'm the same - when I have to use it in a sentence and there's no alternative, I feel really weird, as if I'm being pretentious or deliberately old-fashioned for effect.

Worse than PJs: sometimes it’s comfies. Makes my slapping hand itch.

People who call the Police "Feds". If you want to be American, move there. When you're living here, they are the P O L I C E.

People collecting their kids from school and are walking along busy main roads glued to their phones. I want to shout at them that their kids have been away from them all day, give them 5 bloody minutes of your time and keep an eye of them.