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.

One of my colleague's living room is so untidy and cluttered that it's all I can look at when we have team meetings.

I want to go round and tidy up for him. There's a spare computer chair covered in paperwork and clothes and for ages there was an empty dehumidifier box, massive and not even folded down.

He has a wife and two kids and they must all just be used to the mess but it makes me itchy to look at!

Hate ‘slap up meal ‘ also hate when people say ‘all the trimmings’ too no idea why it annoys me.

I’ve wondered about this, I think “I texted her” sounds clumsy.

I worked with someone who would say "whenabouts were you at Tesco" when she was asking "when did you work at Tesco?" (We worked in recruitment vetting hence the question about employers)

She didn't learn, everyone she asked made her explain what she was asking so it didn't even save time!

I'm not kidding but every time I look at this thread I find more things that really don't have anything to do which me but annoy me no end.

I also can't bear it when women use the word 'treat' as in 'treat yourself' or 'I'm giving myself a treat'. It annoys me because it's part of the whole system where men get nice things as and when as of right but women have to justify something nice as a special thing - a treat. When did you last hear a man say I'm treating myself? Or even read any media using the word treat in that context in relation to a man?

For this reason I can't stand the word treat generally even when applied to children.

It annoys me so much. It's like nails on a blackboard to me.

I'll go one further, I hate the word "property" when people are buying somewhere to live. It's a house, not "property", like you're the Duke of Devonshire managing half of London.

The word MUMMA - hate it with a passion.

Ah my disabled 4 year old calls me Mumma. It’s the only word he can say. I love it for that reason 🥰.

Yes I hate this too. I also hate the expression "it's got a lot of character" when talking about a house. I get what it means, but it annoys me for some reason. Often they could just say they like the beams, instead!

I worked with a woman who did this and it annoyed me too. She used to book vacations, her DH drove the automobile, called the pavement a sidewalk and took her grandchild to play on the teeter-totter.

Flowers once turned up at work and she ran around looking for a vayyz to put them in. Drove me bonkers because she it was all said with a broad Yorkshire accent and the American link was she vacationed in California once a year 😂

Also don't like the saying there's a lot to unpack here or let's take time to unpack this.

And they are not talking about emptying shopping bags!!

Thought of a totally unreasonable one.

Opposite the end of our street is a very worthy fair trade shop, selling Ecover, bamboo socks, unattractive nicknacks etc. it’s been there forever, and is run by a lovely old couple.

Every evening they park up their Fiat panda, on the double yellow, and faithfully, and painfully slowly, decant their stock of eco loo rolls and paper towels into the car. This involves crossing the road, via the pelican crossing, numerous times.

Why? No one’s going to break in to steal loo roll. And if they did, it wouldn’t be a total monetary disaster. And why not move the high value stuff?

Bugs me to death, but it’s totally harmless.

Yes. My manager likes this word. They are also a frequent user of impactful.😡

People who do that silly speaking style of every sentence sounding? Like a question?

Just speak in your normal voice you utter pillock

Just come across another one - new (new to me, anyway) corporatespeak expressions:

"drop into my DMs" and "drop a comment"

Now I know we have the expression "drop someone a line" but I still don't like either of the above!

Anyone who puts a hyphen after words like for example wordy.

They will say word-y.

Lots of likes " I was like driving down like X Street" Where you driving or not and what street were you on.

No need.

People who write a question but don't use a question mark.

what did you want for your dinner.
what did he say when you challenged him parking in the parent/child space.

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Why does that annoy you

People who use more than 100% e.g. I am telling the truth 110%/200%/ 254.34% WHY? 100% is enough for goodness sake, that is why it's 100%!!

People (in the UK) who use the word "cops". We aren't living in the 1970s America with Starsky and Hutch. They are the police.

Women who take their handbags on walks with their dogs.

People on reality shows like The Traitors who say how much they love the other contestants. No you don't, you've known them 3 days.

This thread is brilliant.

People who feel the need to shoehorn Scotland into every MN thread. Someone starts a thread about swapping life in the Home Counties for “Up North” - one of the first replies will inevitably be “Do you actually mean the north of England? Because the north of the UK is actually the highlands of Scotland, which is completely different”. Everyone knew they meant the north of England.

People who say “off of”. As in “That woman off of breakfast telly” or “I got 15% off of the original price because it was damaged”. What do they think the “of” adds?!

Haha, see any pronunciation thread if someone dares to use an “r” to show how they say the “a”: do you say bath or “barth”? Along come the faux-puzzled Scottish crowd pretending they’ve never been on the internet before and never seen someone using it this way: “Why would I pronounce it like a pirate? There’s no R, why are you doing this?” Then an advance name search shows they know full fucking well what that poster meant and they just like to be arsey. Or arrrrrsey. (I love you, Scotland, and I know it’s not all of you who do this.)

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My husband has a new colleague whose name is Juan.

My husband started calling him ‘WHOOAHN’ but with extensive, elongated and guttural emphasis on the ‘Wh’.

When I pointed out this was unnecessary and also driving me insane, he has started saying ‘ONE’.

Not sure which is worse.

Is your DH Uncle Matthew from the Mitford books, @Schmutter ? 😂

Lol. Yes. A man doesn’t say “I’m going to treat myself to a couple of pints” or “I think I’ll treat myself to a ticket to the game.” Like a lot of things, if you reverse the idea you appreciate how ridiculous the original idea is. Women often feel they have to justify being good to themselves.