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.

This. Its my first real taste of language evolving from the way I use it and it feels so icky and wrong.
I remember by aunt feeling the same way about 'cool'. And another aunt about 'talk to you/see you later' as a way of saying goodbye.

Vocal fry. And nasal accents. Often the two go hand in hand. Really sets my teeth on edge.

I’ve never heard ‘search up’ until right now and I deeply dislike it. So thanks for that one 😬

When people press the stop button on the bus after I/someone else already pressed it.

Ironically, people who complain too much 😁

I’ve got a friend who sometimes reads his WA messages on his Apple Watch. When he does this you don’t get the blue tick to say it’s been read.
Just annoys the hell out of me.

When making someone a drink and you ask if they take sugar, and they answer yes. Well how much bloody sugar do you take 🤬

ooo this is a handy thread - I need to say that I have a colleague who constantly tells us that everyone loves HER - the inference being that they're not so keen on me or the rest of our team etc. "I called the premises manager up, he LOVES ME!" big grin, wide eyes. "I spoke to Tracey from the 3rd floor, she couldn't do enough for me!!" big grin, wide eyes. "I went to visit Mr and Mrs Clients, they LOVED me!!" in an amazed tone, more wide eyes. "I got a lovely message from Tony in the London office, I helped him out and he sent me such a lovely message!" "Did I tell you about Tony from London branch? He sent me a lovely message!!" excited squeak!

All these love stories will be repeated over and over again on that day and possibly even the next until she is very sure you appreciate just how fucking much she's loved. And you know what the worst bit is? Everyone apart from me DOES love her!!!

People who share those obvious scam posts on social media where it claims you can win a car or holiday etc. A quick click of the profile shows it’s very clearly not the official brand. Drives me mad.

Also, people that share posts about missing animals/items from about 5 years ago that have since been found. There is one woman on my Facebook friends list that constantly shares posts like these, quite often from different countries so sharing to her page won’t actually help anyway, and if you read the post it states they’ve been found!

I know neither of these things affect me directly and I can just hide them from my news feed but it still enrages me when I see it 😆

People who tell stories about things that happened in the past, using the present tense, eg 'I says to him, you can't do that, then he comes over and he says to me...'

People saying "spenny". Shut up, just shut up! It's not cool, cute or fun.

People who are obsessed with cleaning and want the world to know. If they want to spend hours cleaning that's fine but I DON'T CARE. There was a woman on MN once who sniffily announced that the only thing that should be on the kitchen benchtop is the kettle fgs.

People who write "ect" instead of "etc". It's short for "et cetera".

Now I feel better 😊

DHs loud nose breathing when he eats

The local dimwits on the Next Door app trying to start arguments about fireworks, people parking or dog shit.

The way my mum can't say :acceptable'

The way everyone in my house thinks it's my job to look for something in the fridge or cupboard when they can't find it. Both children and DH seem to be afflicted with a condition that prevents them moving items when searching for something..I take great pleasure in continuing what I'm doing and telling them it's definitey there keep looking..

If that's not illegal, it should be. 😬

People who refer to inanimate objects as "she". Almost always she.

Examples are items of clothing "oh she's pretty, she fits so well" or makeup "she's so creamy"

Since when do inanimate objects have pronouns - and why do we get to choose what they are 😝

My sil rarely posts on fb except to win free stuff.
90% of her posts are like and post to enter a competition for afternoon tea, a night in a hotel, a free supermarket shop ( that one is a scam) etc etc.
Nothing to do with me but really winds me up especially as they are very comfortably off.

Men who stand in the corridor with their legs apart ( like they’re trying to air their bits) while chatting to colleagues.

@Martha645 totally with you on ect instead of etc. I want to scream ect is electroconvulsive therapy you idiot.

People who post on Nextdoor asking why there is a helicopter circling, despite the fact that nobody in the history of Nextdoor has ever known the reason because, funnily enough, the general public are not informed of this.

People who address Nextdoor posts to specific individuals who are almost certainly not on Nextdoor, rather just addressing the issue with them directly, eg, "To the woman who always lets her dog wee on my driveway....". So pointless.

Someone l know who doesn't work always reposts job adverts on fb and l have visions of her thinking she would never lower herself to work but expects everyone else to!!

Nice to see other people have an irrational reaction to 'meal'. Gets on my nerves, absolutely can't stand it, no idea why.

Adults using 'yummy'. Especially if it's on social media AND they don't use punctuation - so a photo of their food and "made this lovely meal tonight yummy". I've muted three separate people for that because it was winding me up for no good reason. (Why is that lack of punctuation so common!?)

I’m not English and where I’m from people are very hot on hygiene. I can’t bear English people who do their washing up with a filthy wash cloth, washed in a weird plastic basin in their sink. It makes me feel white hot rage and I know it’s unreasonable because it’s so common.

This doesn't annoy me but if my son is talking about his dad to me he'll say "my dad" like I don't know him 😂

Sorry about your mum 💐

My contribution to the thread is people who crack their knuckles or neck etc. Really irritates me

Exactly
I also like some nice makeup and a clean house.

I was on a boat trip once and the scenery was stunning but 2 girls on the boat spent the entire time taking selfies and posing in their bikinis. One time she was sitting on the edge of the boat preening and she asked my partner to borrow his baseball cap for the photo, I genuinely felt like pushing her overboard.

So true 😂

The sound of groups of men laughing together. That loud, showing off, barking "BA HAAA" laugh they do at each other. I see red. It's the fact I also have a loud, barking laugh that makes my rage ridiculous