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.

When the person in front of you at the supermarket, has an empty conveyor belt, and unloads their shopping on to the end that's furthest away from the cashier, thus meaning that you cannot start to unload your basket.

T Junctions, when the driver in front of you, wants to go right, and you want to go left............they position their car in the middle of the road, instead of on the far right.......meaning that you do not have space to pull alongside them and turn left. At super busy T junctions, you could have turned left 20 bloody times, if they had put the car where it was meant to be!!!!

100% this!

The only kind of person who is likely to have natural luscious thick eyelashes are either children or those young women blessed with the weird kind of 'doe eyed' beauty that is so rare you're unlikely to have it! And it's nearly always on those with huge dark eyes.

I'll concede that they can look ok in photos, but are you seriously wearing them on the off chance someone will pap you? 🙄

Apparently there are natural looking lash extensions that are undetectable? but obviously talking about those thick, fake looking lashes currently in favour.

I agree.

There's a reason they're worn as part of stage make up, and that's the only situation and setting they look good, in my opinion.

• Myselfing and yourselfing
• Furbaby
• Loud sniffing and that horrific hawking up of phlegm
• My truth/ his or her truth/ their truth
• People giving simplistic statements of opinion on complex subjects they are not expert in, but with a finality of tone suggesting it’s an incontrovertible fact.
• Headbands on baby girls

@BigLittleOwl @jays re "mum says"

on a similar theme, it REALLY annoys me when people (typically social work, some lower level medical roles and charity support services) refer to a person connected to you as mum/dad/baby without a possessive pronoun.

as in

"When was mum first diagnosed with dementia" instead of "your mother/mum"

Or

"How old is baby now?"

Or

"Has Dad been seen by occupational health"

Apart from being grammatically irritating, I think it annoys me because it is so dehumanising reducing them to a category rather than a person and also because in cases of mum/dad etc it is not the mother or father of the person speaking to you and they have f*cking no business using that term.

It's made worse because it usually takes place in sensitive situations - medical or social support - when you are already stressed and tolerance for things that are annoying is low.

I HATE IT SO MUCH THAT IF I WERE AN MP I'D INTRODUCE LEGISLATION TO OUTLAW THIS AS A FORM OF OFFENSIVE DISRESPECT TO HUMAN KIND

My mother purposefully (I believe, although she denies it) mispronounces peoples names when she doesn't like the person. I have two childhood friends she dislikes because she percieves them to have slighted me or my sister. She will not pronounce their names properly, even thought they are the children of people she still sees.

She manages to mangle really common names.

My pet hate is workspeak. I know that I'm unreasonable. I know that we need a way to talk about basic work communication and tasks. But every time someone says they'll "feed that back" (or worse, "feed that up"), "reach out", "actioned it", it grates my psyche.

People who wear slippers outdoors.

My DH will open a new bottle of something before the old one is finished. Why? Went to get some red wine vinegar the other day - there were 3 opened bottles in the cupboard. We are low on storage space in the kitchen! I have taken to writing on bottles "Finish me before opening a new one".

He does it with sun cream on holiday, as well. So at the end of the holiday, we end up with 2 half full Factor 15's. If we had used one, we could have thrown that empty bottle away, and taken the full one home. Now our options are to ditch both bottles, or take two home, which takes up more suitcase space. Aargh!

It’s not quite the same, but on a similar note, I hate it when TV characters talk about “the baby”. “Can you see to the baby while I get the dinner started?” “I'd love to go, but who’s going to look after the baby?”

I’ve never heard anyone say this in real life. Once people have named their baby, they talk about Sophie or Alfie or Beauregard or whatever the baby’s name is! Why would anyone say “the baby” unless they don’t know its name - which presumably most parents do?!

"Let's go for the low hanging fruit"

"Let's kick this in to the long grass"

Bog off!

This is a genuine quote from a meeting I was in a view years ago:

”There’s quite an appetite for a bit of a ra-ra around this, so really it’s just a case of following the ping pong.”

Making memories on holibobs with the famalam

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Men who wear shorts outside on the coldest days of the year.

Oh I've got one like that too, literally has foamy toothpaste running down his forearm and all over the sink - it's meant to go in yer gob FFS! And he goes at brushing his teeth like a terrier shaking a rat.

I'll raise your annoying Yummy, nom nom dinners and give you Lummy.

I know a grown woman who describes all food as 'Lummy'.
I want to stab her with a fucking fork every time I hear it.

For me its when ADULTS refer to young children (either theirs or nieces/nephews) as their best friend.
If this 4 year old is your best friend, you really have zero friends! How sad! Also, creepy!
A young child is not your best friend!

WTF is Lummy?!

People who don't put appropriate spacing in their phone number (e.g. when sending you their number, or in their email footer):

07777777777 is so much harder to understand than 07777 777 777

What about famalamadingdong? Is that exaggerated enough to make it ironic?

(I use famalamadingdong, I swear it's ironic).

Pmsl 🤣🤣 flapping hands.

@MyCousinsNotVinny - 100%!
Many years ago baby DD2 spent long periods in hospital. I don’t expect Doctors on a ward round to know or remember parents’ names but WTF is wrong with the vocative “you”? “And how are you?”. I found “How’s mum?” patronising and dehumanising. I always wanted to reply “I’m fine thank you, how’s doctor?”

The phrase "Gives me the ick"
It sets my teeth on edge no idea why. Also in my fifty odd years of life and living in many different places in the UK I had never heard it even once until mumsnet.

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People who, when asked a question, start the answer with a totally unnecessary "So".

For example:

Q: Where are you from?
A: So, I'm from London...

GRRR!