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.

My Dad, when we get a takeaway. Conversation around the table will be flowing nicely, until he decides to offer his left overs to everyone.

"Who wants some of my chicken?" "Look, I've got chicken left"

Whoever was talking, has to stop mid sentence, to allow everyone to say "no thanks".

Conversation resumes, then 1 minute later, Dad asks every person individually, whether they want his left overs, so that could be him asking 6 different people, and when they say no thanks, he persists with "go on, have some" and "don't be a wimp" or "you're a let down", on and on it goes, so you just have to stop having a conversation altogether.

Half the time it's non sensical anyway, for eg. he will offer you his chips, even though you have half of your own left. Other times, what he's offering you is nothing you'd want, like the left over teaspoon of juice from his curry.

Every. Single. Time.

Oh I know another one. Referring to your girlfriend as Mrs. Get fucking married, for now she's not your Mrs. Or even telling about someone's wife "he bought it for his mrs". What's wrong with saying "he bought it for his wife"?

I'm with you on "meal". Urgh!

My mother texted and said "I'll call in a while, just finishing our meal."

Yuk.

I don't know what is so awful about it tbh.

people who start an answer with the word 'so'.
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YES!! Most contestants on Pointless are guilty of that.
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Not just Pointless, but Tipping Point and The Chase, too.

And Only Connect!

People who have teens or kids who are like 10 using the parent and child bay. I don't have kids so it's not like I'm gonna use them! But I just feel they are for ages (or abilities) where the kids need support getting in and out of the car. Not for 18 year olds!

Another one... When people don't ad plural the years, weeks, months when talking. I'm by no means a grammar pedant and actually enjoy varied use of language but this annoys me.

My husband,and daughter, slurps his first coffee of the day. He doesn't do it with any other cup.

That reads like your husband and daughter are the same person ...😁😁
(Sorry)

I hate "comfort zone too". They sound like abysmal career coaches.

I get irritated in a restaurant in a group when people order drinks but when the drinks arrive they seemingly can't remember who ordered what. The waiter holds up a drink "red wine?" and no one claims it, everyone's looking around. FFS. Why can't you remember you ordered the red wine?
Then the same thing happens again when the food arrives. It's just weird.
Waiter standing around for ages with a plate "the salmon?" and people just sit there looking around. Why????

@Partyandbullshit
My kids complain that everything is too sweet, I'm also diabetic. I think once you give up sugar you notice the natural sweetness in things as well as anything added,but I say sweet not swit.

That I say everything is too sweet, need an edit button

Usually with the hideous, huge fake talons nails

I would not be able to stop myself telling him to fu of.

Az 😂

@bussteward yes I do tell him regularly. It doesn't make him stop though - it really is like some weird compulsion for him.

QueenMabs Colleagues that aggressively whips tea back and forth rather than stirring circularly.
Google says Under no circumstances must you stir tea in a circular motion! The 'proper' way to stir is to place the spoon at a 12 o'clock position in the cup and softly fold the liquid back and forth 2-3 times to the 6 o'clock position, and never ever leave the tea spoon in the cup

I think men are rude when sitting with their legs wide open. I don’t want to see there balls.

I can’t stand women who laugh with a screeching sound. There are certain tv programs I can’t watch now because it has become the fashion.

I know I am going against everyone but the word kids, grandkids, furkids and furbabies.

Sniffing people, I offered a man a paper hankie last week on a train cause it got too much for me.

People who, when arranging a time to meet, say "Oh I'm free any time, send me a date". I do so, and they immediately say "Oh no I can't make that. Any other time?" Repeat several times, without them actually saying when they're bloody free!

I hate "The wife" as well, nobody says "The husband"

O yes they do!

I hate "The wife" as well, nobody says "The husband"
But they do! Or to wind MNers up, often refer to him as ' the hubby'
Maybe its a local thing but its a normal saying where I live🤷‍♀️

I've honestly never in my life heard a woman say "Gotta get home to THE husband" Hubby by itself yes.
We all have different experiences though.

Also "Perpetrator" or even worse "Perp"

People that don’t stand in the proper place in a queue, like they’re 4 ft away, or at a jaunty angle, so you have to ask them if they’re queuing. Makes me feel unnecessarily anxious when I’m stuck behind them.

Urgh someone I used to work with always said, I'm off to Asdars 🙄

Those people who CONSTANTLY, repeatedly lick their bottom lip. Why?! Why do you need your bottom lip to be permanently wet?!?!