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

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gettingolderandgrumpier · 08/03/2023 18:59

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.

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SchoolTripDrama · 09/03/2023 18:49

BigLittleOwl · 08/03/2023 19:02

I have a friend whose mum works in our business, and she ALWAYS says ‘mum says ABC’ instead of ‘MY mum says ABC’ and it drives me insane. To be fair I have lost my mum so maybe it’s that

💜 I would have a quiet word with her about that. It's a tad insensitive

SchoolTripDrama · 09/03/2023 18:56

Basilis · 08/03/2023 19:28

People who put their hand in front of their mouth when eating, so you can't see them chew.

I do that if I need to speak with a mouthful of food. It's so the other person doesn't need to see the contents of my mouth Confused I HATE when people casually chat with a mouthful of food and you get an eyeful 🤢

GarlicGrace · 09/03/2023 19:00

Calistan · 09/03/2023 07:43

People taking the Internet personally and merailing.

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Merailing! What a useful word! Consider it adopted - I have a frequent use for it.

venus7 · 09/03/2023 19:03

MyCousinsNotVinny · 09/03/2023 13:46

@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

Seconded.....and I detest it SO much I wish you were an M.P.

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gettingolderandgrumpier · 09/03/2023 19:07

WoofWoofBeachLife · 09/03/2023 18:37

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

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i worked with someone who said Asdars also ALdi prounounced Aldees . 😡

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herbaceous · 09/03/2023 19:13

HeavenIsAHalfpipe · 09/03/2023 11:28

One thing that really annoys me - that has no actual effect on me whatsoever - is people walking along holding hands, or sitting down holding hands. One particular couple on Gogglebox on Channel 4 does this. (Annie and Ronnie I think their names are.) Just sit there watching TV, in separate chairs, holding hands.) Weird. Confused

I find 'holding hands' soooo awkward and uncomfortable and restrictive, and it makes your hands sweaty... I don't 'get' why people walk along holding hands, or sit down holding hands. I know someone will come along and say 'maybe they hold hands because they WANT to' 😜but that doesn't change the fact I find it irritating and weird, and as I say, wholly restrictive, and uncomfortable.

YES! It annoys me too. Partly as I couldn't bear it myself, partly as it seems proprietorial, partly as it's 'look at us, we're so loved up,' and partly because they block the bloody pavement as they can't bear to go single file for a single second in case one of them is eaten by a bear.

I have very many. People get on my tits pretty much all the time. Current one is people queuing at a petrol station to get to a pump on the 'right' side of their car, when all the pump hoses are long enough to go round the car anyway.

pinkpanthapp · 09/03/2023 19:34

People who spell 'bought' as 'brought'.

GarlicGrace · 09/03/2023 19:48

Traumatised, triggered and horrific

TheLaughOfRustyLee · 09/03/2023 19:52

When people have really excessively shaped/coloured eyebrows that look ridiculous and everyone has to pretend they haven't noticed, same with the silly inflated lips with ridiculous lipliner,

Both these things are so unattractive I don't know how they are popular.

JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain · 09/03/2023 19:55

TheLaughOfRustyLee · 09/03/2023 19:52

When people have really excessively shaped/coloured eyebrows that look ridiculous and everyone has to pretend they haven't noticed, same with the silly inflated lips with ridiculous lipliner,

Both these things are so unattractive I don't know how they are popular.

Spot on! I can't get my head around why some women spend good money to make their face look like they've been in a car crash.

GarlicGrace · 09/03/2023 20:00

GarlicGrace · 09/03/2023 19:48

Traumatised, triggered and horrific

Bugger, pressed the wrong button. Horrific, I'm traumatised 😂

I used to think all this was ironic; now I'm starting to suspect the current wave of mental ill-health is largely due to impoverished vocabulary.

You might have been upset, disappointed, alarmed, worried, disgusted, shocked, saddened, confused, bewildered or afraid. You might even find that articulating your response draws appropriate support. Then you'll probably find you aren't triggered quite so often and suffer no pointless PTSD.

Bonus: if everyone used the right words then, should anything genuinely, life-changingly traumatic happen to you, you're more likely to be taken seriously.

TheLaughOfRustyLee · 09/03/2023 20:01

When men gob on the floor during football matches.

I was told that it was because men need to get rid of the excess phlegm caused by intense activity, rubbish, even the managers do it! It's gross and rank.

Do athletes gob as they run along like this? Swimmers? Dancers? No they don't. Just rank vile footballers.

mrshenny · 09/03/2023 20:12

CarrieMoonbeams · 09/03/2023 08:25

These are fantastic!

I have 2 so far:

  1. My FIL, when he's been on the phone to my nephew, then has to tell us the whole thing using a kind of child voice for my nephew's side of the conversation.

So it goes:
"I said "how are you today pal?", he said "good fanks gan-gad", I said "how's the weather there?" he said "brrr cold gan-gad"" and so on and so on. My nephew is 31, married with a child, works in a bank and does actually speak like a fully functioning adult, so God knows why FIL still tries to make him sound like he's about 4. Bizarre.

  1. I used to work with a woman who loved to complete the end of everyone's sentences, just a beat behind. So if someone was talking about going Christmas shopping, she'd chime in at the end "......ping", someone talking about training for a marathon got ".....thon". Once I noticed it, I realised that it was harder for her to do it with one syllable words, so I took great delight in trying to end every sentence like that. It worked for a wee while, until I had to develop a fake coughing fit one day to cover up my laughter when I'd said that I'd taken my dogs out for a pee, and she went ".....ee" 😂😂. Bless her, she was absolutely lovely, so I let her live.

And I, of course, am practically perfect in every way 😇

Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/03/2023 20:20

WoofWoofBeachLife · 09/03/2023 15:21

@ifIwerenotanandroid this is exactly my DH. Every night when I decide to read or do my daily word game and there's a break in his football, he starts checking out recipes on Instagram. Not content with annoying me with tapping and scrolling he starts saying "oh look" we can have this next week, or I've just sent you this, turns screen round. He knows by my stony face and says oh will I shut up now? Aye ffs shut your chops lol 😆

Thoughts & prayers.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/03/2023 20:24

NooNakedJacuzziness · 09/03/2023 14:01

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.

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😂Is this thread in classics yet? The lizard-lip-licker, the gan-dad conversation...

ArianahX · 09/03/2023 20:24

I find certain individuals irritating at work.

Especially those who sit at the desks on their phones pretending to do important paperwork while the rest of us do the actual work!!

And I get irritated by a newly married colleague who is a massive flirt but who outdid herself recently when she sat herself next to our attractive new colleague and delivered the cringe line '' I'll sit here next to you and you can tell me all about how clever you are.. ''. He of course then proceeded to tell her very seriously how he achieved his degree...

(Obviously I'm NOT a bitter singleton who couldn't flirt to save my life!! )

neilyoungismyhero · 09/03/2023 20:29

During all the commercial breaks DH grabs the remote and grazes the other channels often getting invested in other programs for a couple of minutes..it drives me nuts

icelolly12 · 09/03/2023 20:30

Gingerlygreen · 09/03/2023 11:57

People at self serve checkouts who scan their shopping and stack it on the packing bit without bagging it.

They then pay and hold the queue up while they pack it.

Oops I do this.

In my defence every time I have attempted using my own bags and weighing them first, it still comes up with an error at some point in my packing accompanied with a flashing beacon to alert the rest of the customers of how inept I am. I then need to angrily patiently wait for a staff member who is gossiping to a colleague and not looking my way. I now pay then pack! I do it quickly though!

SchoolTripDrama · 09/03/2023 21:01

pinkpanthapp · 09/03/2023 19:34

People who spell 'bought' as 'brought'.

THIS!!!!!!

SchoolTripDrama · 09/03/2023 21:06

Partyandbullshit · 09/03/2023 15:37

SO many things about my MIL. Most recent is that she's taken to pronouncing the word "sweet" as "swit" always - ALWAYS - accompanied by a wince. She's mildly diabetic and my GOD don't we know it. She can't eat mangoes: too swit. Can't eat grapes: too swit. Can't have plain yogurt ffs: too swit. Bakes with no more than a third of the sugar the recipe calls for and then complains whatever she's made is too swit (never mind that it tastes fucking rank). Everything in her fridge is low fat and diet - and still too swit. My DC refuse to eat at her house now, which is terrible but I can't really blame them. God she drives me mad with this swit shit.

For balance: my DM drives me mental with her hyperbole. Nothing is every mildly irritating or annoying or just bad. No. Everything is "horrific" or "horrendous". Had to wait 3 mins on hold for the GP's surgery: absolutely "horrendous" wasting her time like this (she's retired and basically does fuck all all day). Bit nippy today? Horrific weather at this time of year. Temporary traffic lights prolonging her 7 minute drive to Tescos to 13 minutes? Horrendous delays, horrific traffic.

Please please pleeeease 🙏 correct your MIL's pronunciation of sweet 🙏

GladysGeorgina · 09/03/2023 21:11

My MIL sounds the g in bolognaise. So “bolog - neys” Makes my toes curl!

Children in pushchairs looking at a phone rather than what’s around them.

Parents who clog up the front of the high school where I work by dropping their children right next to the playground. Your children have perfectly good legs. Drop them down the road where it’s quieter and safer and (shock horror) they can walk a few metres (and you won’t get in my way when I’m trying to get into the staff car park

My DH eating grapes. Makes me want to rip my ears off.

That was cathartic. Thanks op.

OngoingCrisis · 09/03/2023 22:58

People who add an "s" onto something that doesn't have it e.g tescos, asdas, aldis

OhMaria2 · 10/03/2023 00:28

1982mommaof4 · 09/03/2023 08:15

Omg I write ect... 🫣🫣

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I do it too, and I know its wrong

I just can't stand reading etc in my head.

Bristoluser · 10/03/2023 01:18

People who don't know the difference between to and too, people who walk too close behind me and don't overtake but expect me to get out of their way, people who expect you to pet their bloody dogs, mothers with massive prams or noisy babies or toddlers in cafes.

Bristoluser · 10/03/2023 01:22

Parents who don't wipe their toddler's noses. Teenagers who pout and pose with their stupid phones, people who have fake tans, fake eyelashes, hair weaves who take endlessly about mental health and being kind

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