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Things that make you irrationally angry

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Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 22:14

Just that really. Lately I've been getting seriously angry about stupid things but I can't help it. I have no patience and get furious inside! So many things piss me off. For example:

  1. The wind, I hate the stupid wind. Why is it so windy? My hair in my face, shit blowing everywhere.
  1. My bra strap falling down. Even though I'm too lazy to tighten it. Pisses me off!
  1. Dropping stuff..I keep dropping things. Spoons, tea towels, anything really. Fed up picking shit up.
  1. When the water runs up my arms when I'm washing my face. I want to claw my eyes out or smash the mirror.
  1. People who can't shut doors. Like why? It's a cupboard, is it supposed to be left open? NO
  1. Crumbs sticking to my feet! Pisss off
  1. Things that beep at me from the kitchen. "BEEP" your washing is done, better hang it up. "BEEP" dishwasher is finished, better put it away. "BEEP" oven is done.."BEEP" air fryer is done better get dinner out. Fucking BEEEEEP!

Please join me!

OP posts:
Theseboobsweremadeforwalking · 21/04/2023 00:01

Today learnt that the phrase "Jacobs join" used in an email makes me want to reach into the screen and punch the sender. Never even met them.

Theseboobsweremadeforwalking · 21/04/2023 00:02

I also shout fuck off to the wind while running.

LaughingCat · 21/04/2023 00:03

Oh, adding one more - companies that reduce the size of the product but the supermarkets stay the same price. Comfort Maxinightime pads have gone for 18 to 14 in a pad, Tampax have reduced from 16 to 14 and Simple bodywash has gone from 500ml to 450ml, all in the last three weeks or so. My furious muttering in the supermarket must properly weird people out.

MistySkiesAreGone · 21/04/2023 00:28

PMT makes me irrationally angry.

Thighdentitycrisis · 21/04/2023 00:48

local supermarket has the genius idea of installing barriers to exit the shop after you have finished paying at the self checkout (loads of them) To open said barrier you must scan a receipt. Hardly anyone picks up their receipt as we are all paperless these days and pay on our phones.

I refuse to engage with this lunacy

Dustyblue · 21/04/2023 04:11

Best thread in ages.

Packaging. On bloody everything. My foundation and lipstick are so enshrined in plastic it takes a knife & 10 minutes to get at them. Vitamin bottles, anything with that supposedly perforated strip for ease of tearing. Angries my blood.

Passwords. On freaking everything. And they all need one capital, one symbol, 9-17 digits etc etc. I have a notebook full of them that defeats the purpose of so-called security anyway.

I feel better for that, thank you.

GobbieMaggie · 21/04/2023 04:22

Cyclists

Cocteautriplet · 21/04/2023 04:27

The hair round my hairline particularly near my ears! it refuses to grow longer than an inch or two and sticks out at mad angles no matter how I pin it or try to smooth it down making me look like an unhinged owl.

agutrew · 21/04/2023 04:32

Adults talking about their "pinky" fingers - gives me the absolute rage - grow up ffs.

daisychain01 · 21/04/2023 04:35

Coldpizza2 · 20/04/2023 22:22

Dramatic coughing or sneezing!

Scraping every last stupid bit out of a yoghurt pot

Oh God, don't get me started on DHs performance sneezing and coughing. Really really annoying grrrrrrr.

unleash your inner petty anger, OP, it's good, the more trivial the better. I get angry at everything. I think I'm turning into Victor Meldrew. In fact I'm bloody angry that the makers of that VM character made him a man. Yet another example of men getting all the nice jobs!

daisychain01 · 21/04/2023 04:37

GobbieMaggie · 21/04/2023 04:22

Cyclists

I'll raise you

Drivers

I'm both btw, I'm fine it's all the other bastards.

SargentSagittarius · 21/04/2023 04:40

Arriving at the kitchen bench I’ve just wiped down for the zillionth time this lifetime, to find crumbs on it.

Turning the tap on slightly too hard to rinse a plate other other horizontal object and sending water literally everywhere except where you need it to be.

Crackers that crack. You cut a slice of cheese, apply it to the cracker … and it collapses in your hand. You have one job. ONE JOB.

AliceOlive · 21/04/2023 04:46

Sodie · 20/04/2023 22:50

Bags for life, just the feel of them.
Henry hoover.
The sun shining when it isn't summer.
Opening a tablet packet and getting the side with the leaflet.

I don’t know what half of this means but suspect we would get along marvelously. I was angry just reading it.

AliceOlive · 21/04/2023 04:47

🙀 the crackers. You are so right.

Crackers that crack. You cut a slice of cheese, apply it to the cracker … and it collapses in your hand. You have one job. ONE JOB.

SargentSagittarius · 21/04/2023 04:48

AliceOlive · 21/04/2023 04:47

🙀 the crackers. You are so right.

Crackers that crack. You cut a slice of cheese, apply it to the cracker … and it collapses in your hand. You have one job. ONE JOB.

Life has enough disappointments….

AliceOlive · 21/04/2023 04:50

@Dustyblue

Passwords. You are so right. They are stupid and evil. I’m certain mine are all over the dark web. And that the only person being kept out of things by my passwords is me.

Awoooga · 21/04/2023 04:52

People with allocated off street parking who park on the road. I just cannot get my head around it, but 50% of my neighbour’s driveways sit empty so they can park a few steps away, holding up traffic and preventing visitors to the non cunty houses parking close by. I hate them.

AliceOlive · 21/04/2023 04:53

SargentSagittarius · 21/04/2023 04:48

Life has enough disappointments….

If I have cucumbers I use those instead of crackers.

Down with crackers. Such a disappointing delivery mechanism.

FlorenceOrTheMachine · 21/04/2023 05:25

FlamingoCroquet · 20/04/2023 23:06

When you're driving towards a green traffic light and the bastard in front of you slows down for no reason, meaning they just get through the lights as they change to amber and you don't. Utter utter fury. For two reasons: a) inconsiderate and b) just why?

I occasionally do this, but only when the idiot behind is tailgating. Means they don't get to follow me through so I lose the tailgater.

Itslookinggood · 21/04/2023 05:52

credit card apps.

when I try to make a payment to my credit card through the helpful, customer-friendly cc app. I have to authorise this payment in my current account app. I come OUT of the cc app and go IN to the current acc app. Authorise payment. back to cc app and thr ‘pleas authorise this payment through your bank account’ screen has disappeared…..

have to reopen cc app, no sign of any payment.

Money returned to current acct. I think I have fucked up, repeat (several times).

end up making a direct debit paymnet from current account which goes through immediately.

gives me the rage.

TheaBrandt · 21/04/2023 06:53

M&S packaging. Everything swathed in plastic even their clothes. Other brands send brown paper M&S no layers and layers of plastic. Noticed they’ve quietly dropped their “planet B” campaign. Get word salad emails if I complain.

Also passwords and wiping surfaces must spend years of my life doing that

SinnerBoy · 21/04/2023 06:57

Sodie · Yesterday 22:50

Opening a tablet packet and getting the side with the leaflet.

Every
Bloody
Time!

Cosycover · 21/04/2023 07:00

People who say macdonalds instead of mcdonalds. I mean it's right there for all to see. It is not mac.

TomAllenWife · 21/04/2023 07:11

I'm with the Henry/Hetty haters!
She got stuck on fucking everything, then I would pull and the fucking hose would come out.
I swear it was possessed, I ended up thinking it was going to kill me after it knocked me down the stairs in a freak accident!
Left it out for the travellers

Others:
All other drivers - slow, dithery, fucking makes me so angry
People who take babies & toddlers to 5 star city break hotels, FUCK OFF, when mine were little we went to a 3 star apartment with kids entertainment - now I'm older and can have nice trips I have to listen to peoples fucking babies whinging, crying, listening to an iPad at high volume through breakfast
IT DRIVES ME INSANE

HereBeFuckery · 21/04/2023 07:13

Shit that doesn't work. I tried to buy a snorkel (to be clear, an INERT PLASTIC TUBE) from Amazon, went to checkout only to be told it cannot be delivered. The link in the error message suggested that either the SNORKEL is too dangerous to be delivered (WHY SELL IT THEN?) or I am not in Mainland UK. I am. I can see out my fucking window Amazon.
So fucking annoyed.

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