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.

*remembered, not remember - I'll add myself to the list of irritating things then, for not proofreading!

You’ve described Jenny Ryan from The Chase to a tee 😁

@CarrieMoonbeams lol I crack my knuckles and my toes it drives my Husband mental 🤣

When people don't know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'.

If you mean the OP then you are most ironically the one who doesn't know the difference. Affect = verb, Effect = noun, except in the verb phrase "to effect change".

OK... How about eating an ice cream cone in public? Should a spoon be used?

Your fun 🤩

My fun what?

The awful mangling of the verbs, To Stand and To Sit.
James was stood by the window, instead of James was standing by the window.
Kate was sat in the corner instead of Kate was sitting in the corner.
I’m going to start saying things like “Ella was run at the gym “ and “ Jake was took the suit the dry cleaners” to make a petty point. 😂

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Please, please say it. I'm being serious, it will be the most cathartic and therapeutic thing you could do. Otherwise this will eat away at you until the end of time.

You do realise the foil is sterilised before it's added to the lids?! They don't just shove any old foil on from the factory floor! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know someone who talks really fast and all this spit builds up around the corners of her mouth and I want to hand her a tissue. I've just had to learn to try and focus on her eyes when she's talking and avoid all the stringy spit building up in her mouth. 🤢

You would say ‘was sat’ (past tense) or ‘Is sitting’ (presence tense). Or is that what you mean??

Yeah I’d have to say something like ‘guilt / regret is an awful thing!!

Re licking the foil of yoghurt pots, I always think they are going to cut their tongues on the sharp edges! Think DM told me this.

I was on the bus (not seated next to them, fortunately) and person takes out nail clippers and procedes to cut nails. Snip, ping, snip, ping. Gross. At least they didn't tackle their toenails!

T1Dmama · Today 01:14
MidsummerMimi · Yesterday 23:45
The awful mangling of the verbs, To Stand and To Sit.
James was stood by the window, instead of James was standing by the window.
Kate was sat in the corner instead of Kate was sitting in the corner.
I’m going to start saying things like “Ella was run at the gym “ and “ Jake was took the suit the dry cleaners” to make a petty point. 😂
You would say ‘was sat’ (past tense) or ‘Is sitting’ (presence tense). Or is that what you mean??

I would say,
“Last Tuesday James was standing by the window, he was looking out into the car park and watching the the snow falling and wondering about the best route home.”
That would be describing past events that went on for a period of time.
It you wanted to describe past events that happened quickly, it would be “Last Tuesday, James stood by the window, looked out into the car park, watched the snow fall and wondered about the best route home”
If you decided to go with the “ was stood” option and applied this to all the verbs, you would get
”Last Tuesday, James was stood by the window, he was looked out into the car park, he was watched the snow falling and he was wondered about the best route home”
Apologies about the petty grammar rant.
There are far more important things in life.
The “ was stood/was sat “ just sounds wrong to my ear.
I have a very multi cultural family and I actually don’t care about grammar rules as long as we all understand each other.😂😂

@MidsummerMimi
The awful mangling of the verbs, To Stand and To Sit.

Like I said before, this thread is only serving to draw to my attention many more things that annoy me that I hadn't really registered. Again thanks @MidsummerMimi !!!

This reminds me of a similar one that really annoys me which is modern mangling of verbs to bring and to take. I think the misuse is so prevalent that it is becoming standardised English usage amongst the young. The Mail Online and much tabloid media are major culprits

as in Actress brought her children to the Oscars instead of the correct from took her children to the Oscars. You see a lot of "brings with" present tense when not only should it not be the verb to bring at all but it definitely shouldn't be present tense either.

Correct usage here should almost always be take because -put simply - bring is only correct when the user of the word is really saying "carry something with you to me or where I am". A journalist online writing a third person account of a past event is never or almost never writing about bringing something to them or where they are. If you think of it as bring with the silent words "to me" at the end of it you won't go wrong

She brought her children to my house.
She took her children to the neighbours house.
She took her children to the Oscars.

Bring me a cup of tea please.
Take the cup of tea to Sarah upstairs.

Never bring the cup of tea to Sarah upstairs.

Really grates with me all this bringing with.

Confusion of 'floor' and 'ground'. Your toddler didn't drop his ice cream on the floor in the park. It is the ground.

And totally agree re 'sat' and 'stood'. Saying 'I was sat on the wall' makes you sound like an inanimate object, put there by someone else.

Also, 'comprises of' and 'myriad of'. And talking of unnecessary prepositions, on Masterchef they always 'roast through', 'fry off', 'sweat down', etc. Twats.

Many male runners do. It's disgusting and there's zero need.

But last time there was a discussion on here about it some female runners said they do it too. Well they are also disgusting.

Even worse, when people use impact instead.

I would rather people mangle affect and effect than use impact :)

That does affect you though.

I run myself but find joggers who run on the roads when there is a perfectly good pavement next to them (and no cars are parked on it!) really annoying. Admittedly some pavements are a bit uneven in the dark, but you can run in the road when there are no cars around and move over when a car comes along.

Oh God, an ex who managed to bring 'when I lived in Country X' into every conversation with people. They'd ask more and he'd have to admit it was 6 months backpacking 40 years ago. Their faces in response. So embarrassing.

My ex used to write "where" when he meant "were". I have no idea why. He wasn't from a part of the country where it could potentially be part of the dialect.
I never asked him why, I suppose I didn't want to seem rude. He must have known that you don't write "were" "where" as he was a prolific reader. So I wonder if it was something he did for effect.
Wound me up no end though!

It does affect me, yes. I apologise profusely for posting it on this thread.

I have another one. People who start their posts like this: Sigh. Makes me want to punch them.

"My DM who talks while eating, displaying big mouthfuls of whatever she's eating, clearly unable to finish chewing and swallowing before talking at us. It's gross."

My mum does this too, and kinda shuffles the food to the front of her mouth and talks around it. Makes me gag.