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.

People on MN who complain that no one has started a thread on Y news story but that there's one on X. Do they ever think of starting a thread themselves? Apparently not. They wait until enough time has passed so that they can berate everyone for not starting a thread on Y even though they didn't do so either.

Ageing millennials

Not individually of course, most I actually know are wonderful. But as a generation they seem to have realised they’re hurtling through their 30’s having led a very entitled life (not necessarily their fault but they need to recognise it now) and now they’re desperately trying to stay relevant to the younger generation (who don’t give a shit) by trying to be cool by spouting gender nonsense.

I guess I’m Talking about the likes of Owen Jones, Laurie Penney, Jameela Jamal, Meghan & Harry, Aiden Comerford, Jack Munroe and the other Twitter luvvies who claim victim hood at every opportunity and how everyone else is evil except for them and how no one else understands them unless they agree with everything they say.

I’m not sure if this view is irrational or not, on one hand I don’t know any of them and really don’t give a shit what happens in their (very sheltered) lives but on the other hand, I see the crap they spout and feel my rage is entirely justified!

I am in that age group and I entirely agree with you.

Love Island and every other similar reality programmes. Shows filled with plastic, talentless narcissists desperate for their 10 minutes of fame, watched and fawned over by the complete and utter braindead.

@JohnnyYenSetHimselfOnFireAgain

Love Island and every other similar reality programmes. Shows filled with plastic, talentless narcissists desperate for their 10 minutes of fame, watched and fawned over by the complete and utter braindead.

It takes one to know one, OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Annoys me when people press the button and there's no traffic for miles, then proceed to cross without the Green Man. By the time the Man appears, guess what, pedestrians have long gone and the traffic has arrived...

My friend when drunk who will continuously nudge me. Drives me mad
Same friend who mispronounces a lot of things - apparently she was on 'furluff', while everyone else was on furlough

Upspeak. It Irritates the hell out of me. And it seems to be becoming more and more prevalent. Written upspeak. It's all about over this site. A statement, but look there's the '?'.

O yes!! Clive Mirey is the most annoying. It worries me that younger people listening to him reading the news may think this is the normal way of intonation and copy.

People holding their knife and fork wrong…

People who message you and when you reply they send a thumbs up. 👍 hate that bloody thumb.

Have I hit a nerve?! 😂

Women making an over-dramatic fuss about a spider.

That's me with a daddy long legs 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Or me with a wasp!

People who leave a huge gap between themselves and the person waiting at the front of the counter. Just move up to a normal space!

Same for people who leave at least a car's worth of gap between their car and the car in front. Just move up!

People who have their pronouns in their email footers. I don’t care.

People who write messages to family members on Facebook like ‘happy birthday darling ds, mummy and daddy are are so proud of you’ or even worse ‘happy anniversary dh, ten amazing years together’.

Oh and GARDENING LEAVE. It's not Gardening leave! It's GARDEN LEAVE, as in the analogy that you have been asked to leave the house but you are still entitled to be on the grounds, ie the "garden" of the house rather than still in the actual house.

It is not for "doing the gardening!"

People who have their pronouns in their email footers. I don’t care.
We have to put them on our work email.

Came on to post this.

Also people sending me "cute" pictures of their children covered in food. I genuinely feel sick looking at the kid encrusted with beans/weetabix/chocolate/whatever, I can't look. (Fine with it in person as it's just a task to clean up but I don't get why this is supposed to be adorable)

My old colleague is a "yep" "yep" person - "I've just been on the phone to HQ" "yep" "and they said" "yep" "that next week we're going to" "yep". I constantly feel the driving urge to go OH REALLY SUE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY.

I don't think that's right, the OED has "gardening leave" from 1981 and "garden leave" as a variation only from 1990.

I don't think your garden analogy makes much sense as usually you aren't allowed to be on the premises either. I think it's just a euphemism for being paid to do bugger all (e.g. pootle about in the garden).

Are you my mum? She LOATHES it, when I was a kid and she was at the doctors with me she once responded to the doc's question "And what does mum think?" with "I don't know - what does your mother think about it?" 😂

Literally everything but I do have ADHD. Yesterday my colleague's voice as she has a sore throat was so grating I had to put headphones on all day. LOL. I know it is unreasonable but I've always been this way.

Fake people with false attitude smirk. Then, when you walk past them, they put on a show not matter how much you ignore it.

My mum is still around and this still pisses me off big time. I feel like telling them to grow the fuck up.