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Things people do that make you cringe?

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Cleanfreshsheets · 10/11/2023 19:03

People posting photos of their holiday on social media with a caption like “this is how my Monday morning is looking”. Like calm down Joanne, you’ll be back in the office by next Monday.

Middle management telling me they pay my wages.

People thinking that are different and edgy because they wear Dr Martens (I do still love the boots though)

OP posts:
animalcrossingfan2021 · 11/11/2023 18:06

My colleague who uses the term wee wee infection for a urine infection

spookehtooth · 11/11/2023 18:08

I'm quite tolerant, I think, however I draw the line at people showing off their actual bare arse crack in public. Usually men, when bending to do something 🙈 I'm glad I can't visualise in mind things I've seen sometimes.

I also don't like men walking around changing rooms or using communal showers naked, forcing me to look away to avoid seeing other men's dangling bits. It was more common when I was a little boy, so I'm thankful it's less popular now

PinkyDinkyDoodle · 11/11/2023 18:10

I haven’t read the full thread yet.

Time to make myself a nice glass of squash and start at the beginning…

Towwanthustice · 11/11/2023 18:10

I do a few of these lol..
People talking really really loudly on their phones.
This Inc in car convos on loud speaker.
Blowing snots out of their nose
Hockling
The older I get the more annoyed I am lol

backtowinter · 11/11/2023 18:10

merryhouse · 11/11/2023 18:05

Please can somebody explain Jaiy? Is it that the "y" becomes a diphthong?

(I admit my expectations are low here. Noone managed to explain pork not rhyming with fork in a way that I understood...)

The letter J is pronounced jay

Some Scotts (not all) pronounce it J-eye. To rhyme with eye

JudgeJ · 11/11/2023 18:12

Hippobot · 10/11/2023 23:04

Writing apostrophes whenever a word is plural.

The incorrect use of apostrophes makes me annoyed though it's probably a dead cause!

cannaecookrisotto · 11/11/2023 18:13

I cringe whenever I see a time-hope memory thing on FB from 10 years ago.

"Would you like to repost this?"

No. No I fucking wouldn't. I was early 20's and my posts were everything and more from this thread 😂.

cannaecookrisotto · 11/11/2023 18:14

And also "I writ"

It's WROTE ffs.

JudgeJ · 11/11/2023 18:14

SilverGlitterBaubles · 11/11/2023 08:52

Grown ups referring to their DPs as 'mummy & daddy'.
People boasting about how much they are spending on Christmas presents/ holidays/ cars etc especially in the company of people who they know don't have a lot of money.
SM posts telling your DC/DH how much your love them and proud you are of them - especially if they are not even on FB so they will never see the post. Maybe just tell them in person.

I read the last word of that as 'prison'!!

OneForTheRoadThen · 11/11/2023 18:16

Starting emails with 'happy Monday!' Etc.

Lattims83 · 11/11/2023 18:19

People who walk around holding their phone and talking on the speaker instead of just using it as a phone. Always waiting for a car to run into one of these idiots.

People who stand on the moving walkway at airports. How lazy are you?!

cannaecookrisotto · 11/11/2023 18:19

Thought of another.

When people put GO at the end of a post.

Example:

"Good takeaways for Chinese.
Go."

rollonretirementfgs · 11/11/2023 18:20

People singing along to radio/music in their ‘best voice’ always makes me feel really uncomfortable 😂

rollonretirementfgs · 11/11/2023 18:21

cannaecookrisotto · 11/11/2023 18:19

Thought of another.

When people put GO at the end of a post.

Example:

"Good takeaways for Chinese.
Go."

Uuuggghhhh I hate that! And “bonus points if……”

fetchacloth · 11/11/2023 18:27

Toesaresoweird · 10/11/2023 19:47

When men wear really tight trousers.

Edited

Same here, looks unsightly.
Also men wearing tight fitted shirts when really they shouldn't.
I don't want to see stray bits of chest hair and stomach thanks 🙄

RaraRachael · 11/11/2023 18:32

Pregnant women holding their bump. It isn't going to fall off!

fetchacloth · 11/11/2023 18:33

Softplayismysecondhome · 10/11/2023 20:23

Men in uncomfortably tight looking trousers teamed with loafers and no socks.
People who clearly rate themselves and are constantly looking around to see if anyone has noticed them.

I make sure I look at them. And visibly smirk 😆

theduchessofspork · 11/11/2023 18:37

maddiemookins16mum · 10/11/2023 20:08

This will cause uproar on here but people that eat their way around the supermarket and dump the empty sandwich wrapper and half drunk Innocent Smoothie container on the check out.

Nobody is that ‘starving’ or near collapse that they can’t pay first.

Cringeworthy and uncouth.

It annoys me (and I even get annoyed at myself for letting it annoy me so much).

Oh I do this occasionally.

I can see someone eating when they walk round the shop is somewhat uncouth, but don’t see why ‘dumping’ an empty sandwich container on the belt is any different to a full one?

settlingsusan · 11/11/2023 18:37

When friends post about new partners on SM with grandiose statements of how they will never let them down/leave them/be like the "dreaded ex".

Shouty people with terrible laughs who seem to think everyone is interested in what they have to say while out for lunch with their own families.

theduchessofspork · 11/11/2023 18:38

.. I also go through squash drinking phases

Duchydutch · 11/11/2023 18:39

When someone in your group is loudly and obnoxiously drunk.
eating with their mouth full.
Older generation repeating phrases only used by young.

Buffs · 11/11/2023 18:41

People who use ‘that’ instead of ‘who’. The people’ that’ do this get an immediate YABU.

romatheroamer · 11/11/2023 18:45

Illiterate spelling. Your for you're and what's this weird thing with plurals with an apostrophe as in heard dog's barking instead of dogs?

Hazey19 · 11/11/2023 18:46

hahahahha some of these are brilliant

MoonCharged · 11/11/2023 18:47

People who use rising inflection and everything sounds like a question?

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