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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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Tomasinabombadil · 10/03/2023 22:38

●People who post on sm their in A&E and won't say why

People who don’t know the difference between …there… their… they’re.
Your… you’re.😂 May be the fault of autocorrect, check spellings before posting.😳
Doesn’t affect me in the slightest but just gets my back up…
Also people who hold their knife like a pen or pencil when eating. You’re not writing a letter or an essay.

wellstopdoingitthen · 10/03/2023 22:38

People who hold their knives & forks like pens.

People who dip down to take their food from their fork/spoon rather than sitting up & taking their food to their mouths. - makes me think of pigs at a trough.

Noisy eaters

People who make a silly noise/talking when they yawn.

People who park selfishly

I'm sure there are more!

Alcemeg · 10/03/2023 22:50

Stopsnowing · 08/03/2023 23:47

Bemused. What is wrong with “meal” and what word would you use instead?

This is worrying me too!!!!!!!

justcallmebozo · 10/03/2023 23:05

I never before realized how many people hate the word "meal". I thought it was just me.

Also hate the word "face"

Maternityleavelady · 10/03/2023 23:56

ClaraThePigeon · 08/03/2023 21:13

People referring to three and four year olds as toddlers.

The NHS defines toddlers as aged 1-3 (!) and a child from 4 onwards. But YANBU about people calling a 4 year old a toddler!

ellyeth · 10/03/2023 23:57

If people want to wear make up (I do) and to their best to keep their house clean and tidy (me again), I don't see why it should irritate anyone. I'm not asking them to do the same.

Alcemeg · 11/03/2023 00:02

SchoolTripDrama · 09/03/2023 18:49

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

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It's not, though..? It's perfectly normal to refer to our own mother as either "my mum" (generic noun qualified by "my") or just "Mum" (proper noun)... We just can't see the capital M in speech.

My mind is still boggling over "meal" though! So many people hate this word, whyyyyyyy?!?!?!?! It's like taking a dislike to "house" or "walk" or some other nondescript word. What's going on?!

HeavenIsAHalfpipe · 11/03/2023 00:08

People saying their child who is 2 years and 9 months old, is 33 months old. Angry

Alcemeg · 11/03/2023 00:34

justcallmebozo · 10/03/2023 23:05

I never before realized how many people hate the word "meal". I thought it was just me.

Also hate the word "face"

Oh god!!!! And now it's "face" as well and there will be an avalanche of people agreeing and I will never dare string a sentence together ever again!!!!

How about "door"?!
"Bowl"?
"Coat"?
etc...?!?!?!

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 00:39

Borris · 10/03/2023 21:23

This is slightly niche - but at my church there is one man who uses "Lord" as punctuation whenever he prays out loud. So it goes something like "Lord, we thank you Lord, for all that you do for us Lord and we ask Lord that you will be with us Lord this week and Lord that you comfort those Lord that are suffering Lord ..."

His record is 34 Lords in one prayer. I can't help but count when he starts now 🫢

😉

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 00:39

Northernsouloldies · 10/03/2023 20:36

Hell is other people.

Sartre

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 00:41

midsomermurderess · 10/03/2023 21:29

Upspeak, making statements into questions. Going up at the end of a sentence. So eg ‘I like baking’, a statement, becomes a question with a rising inflection towards the end. Written upspeak ; eg ‘But Paris isn’t in Belgium?’. You know it isn’t, you are making a statement, why turn it into a question? It’s everywhere, including here, everywhere. It irritates me. Look, you can ask a question with no rising inflection at all: have you got your keys; are we taking your car. The question is implicit in the sentence structure. Why turn statements into questions?

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This is what a lot of Ozzies do?

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 00:44

Ionlydrinkondaysendinginy · 10/03/2023 22:18

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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But where does it go when out?

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 00:46

ASMR videos aren't relaxing as they make me want to attack

People who reserve their spot at the library but aren't even there for like six hours. Fuming!!!!!😡

Mamanyt · 11/03/2023 01:22

Cocolapew · 08/03/2023 19:14

I work with someone who talks about herself on the third person.
So, Betty needs her coffee, Betty is starving, Betty said to him..
It's madness.

We had a President who did the same thing for four LOOOOOOOONG years (and still does). Of course, he's quite mad, and going madder by the day.

Inbetweenie993 · 11/03/2023 01:29

People who try land line, and finding it engaged call my mobile! If the land-line is engaged I am speaking to someone!!!! What makes them important enough to interrupt???? Thanks, I enjoyed getting that off my chest!

ComeTheFckOnBridget · 11/03/2023 01:35

Whats a landline?

MyMumSaysALot · 11/03/2023 01:57

People who hate famous people like singers, actors, royalty - they don’t know them, they’ll never meet them and they have no effect on their lives whatsoever, but it seems an all-encompassing rage that occupies their online life.
What a waste of time.

T1Dmama · 11/03/2023 02:30

LindorDoubleChoc · 08/03/2023 19:09

Women who wear a ton of make up every day. I just think you are wasting hours of your life on this meaningless pursuit which actually many people find laughable/a bit ick.

Same re women who spend hours cleaning every day.

(Indirectly these DO affect my life though because as a non make up wearing houework avoider I do get judged by the standard of what it is to be an acceptable woman).

Same … although I sometimes wish I had the time and energy to apply makeup & do housework 😂😂 but I simply don’t LOL

T1Dmama · 11/03/2023 02:36

I hate it when you’re in public and there’s that one person who likes to talk loudly and check out that people are overhearing their conversation…. Like their story or whatever is sooo important that everyone in the cafe should hear it…
Same applies to people talking very loudly on their mobiles….. no one else is actually interested or wants to hear that their little Penelope passed her ballet exams or whatever 😂

SchoolTripDrama · 11/03/2023 02:43

33goingon64 · 10/03/2023 20:40

This one's really none of my business at all and doesn't affect me one bit but still annoys me. We live in a lovely friendly village, but not cliquey or weird - a great mix of people from all over (all walks of life) and large enough to offer a range of amenities including (for young families) 2 good state primary schools, 2 private day nurseries, a nursery school and a playgroup. We're on a road really near one of the primaries and in the mornings all the kids from the street walk down to school and all know each other. Except one family who moved here from a large city half an hour away and the mum insisted on driving their DC back to the city for nursery for a whole pre school year (for both DC so this lasted about 3 years) and now drives them to another (state) school outside the village. Didn't even visit the two village schools. I am always friendly to them when I do see them but they are hardly around. Why move to a village with a lovely community if you're going to spend no time in it? As I say, nothing to do with me, but it irrationally annoys me.

How do you know that their kids don't have unseen learning difficulties? Or perhaps she works near their existing schools so she kept them there 🤷🏼‍♀️

SchoolTripDrama · 11/03/2023 02:50

@Makingamess4212 That would drive me round the bend! My mouth stays closed unless I'm eating, drinking or speaking.
I remember as a kid, never being able to watch Mr Bean for long as Rowan Atkinson does it constantly 🤣

SchoolTripDrama · 11/03/2023 02:52

How the fuck did you pass your driving test? If you can't control the vehicle you're driving... scary that people like you are free to be on the roads!

This!!! HmmConfusedConfusedConfused

SchoolTripDrama · 11/03/2023 02:54

@midsomermurderess It's known as the 'Australian Question Inclination'

ABSOLUTELY DESPISE this

MarvellousMonsters · 11/03/2023 03:05

LindorDoubleChoc
Women who wear a ton of make up every day. I just think you are wasting hours of your life on this meaningless pursuit which actually many people find laughable/a bit ick.

Same re women who spend hours cleaning every day.

(Indirectly these DO affect my life though because as a non make up wearing houework avoider I do get judged by the standard of what it is to be an acceptable woman).

Meow! I have a full face of make-up and it takes me 10 mins. It makes me happy, it is my look. I get a great response from it but if anyone secretly finds it laughable then that's on them and their insecurities

Actually @QueefQueen80s if you wear a full face of make up every day it's you that has insecurities.

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