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Things that have made me irrationally angry this Christmas (lighthearted)

131 replies

Nospecialcharactersplease · 29/12/2023 13:56

Someone has been stabby with the butter, so now there are deep craters in it and I can no longer do my pleasing swipe and curl. Yet to determine who this is, but may report it to the police because he/she is clearly a serial killer in the making.

TV has been record breakingly shite, despite spending up to our eyeballs on streaming platforms. And why does every documentary these days have a musical score created by an intern on acid? It’s supposed to be ambient music. AMBIENT.

The weather is also a pile of shite. I have had to choose between smiling at my guests indoors or fucking off for a walk into hurricane billy bob the second, never to return.

Everything worth eating and drinking is giving me indigestion.

I have had about 17 minutes to myself and now I have to start planning for new years guests. With limited options for activities, because we’re forecast another fecking storm.

Please share your examples so I know I am not the only one full of seasonal rage 😤 🤣

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Whatnowfgs · 29/12/2023 23:28

@EspressoMacchiato I am so sorry that does sound awful and you deserve to make them all do Christmas over again so you can eat whatever you like Flowers

My gripe is that the trifle is finished and I want more trifle. Also fed up with teenagers who take no responsibility for their own stuff.

baileybrosbuildingandloan · 29/12/2023 23:29

decemberwasshit · 29/12/2023 14:39

Being given dozens of bath bombs and face masks for Christmas. Neither of which I use or asked for.

Oh me too!! I have masses of the things and have never used either!!

shellyleppard · 29/12/2023 23:30

Its the endless cooking and when you finally sit down.....the request for any supper going??? You know where the ***kitchen is!!!

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Nospecialcharactersplease · 29/12/2023 23:31

shellyleppard · 29/12/2023 23:30

Its the endless cooking and when you finally sit down.....the request for any supper going??? You know where the ***kitchen is!!!

And then thinking… second thoughts, don’t touch the kitchen, it’s finally clean. Just starve.

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J316 · 29/12/2023 23:36

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 29/12/2023 15:11

Only having three days off and having to go back to work the day after Boxing Day, amid loads of SM posts from everyone spending the next week in their PJs.

The pissing rain. Dog and I tired of being soaked. I also have raging Athletes Foot but count myself lucky not to have Webbed Foot. Can't dry any washing and Christmas guests mean all beds have been slept in and need change of bedding.

DD3 hosted Christmas Day lunch. This means all food was taken over there. And I never got to taste the cheeseboard before I had to come home to go to the aforementioned work.

Canasten is brilliant for Athletes foot, will take care of it within days 👍

Soberfutures · 29/12/2023 23:41

Mariposistaa · 29/12/2023 15:13

This was the first Christmas without my lovely gran. I have been the family emotional punchbag since Easter as I never react really. I used to be a competitive swimmer and I just had a panic attack at training, didn't get past the warm up.
Just moved back to my home town after 10 years overseas and the one person I would talk to today is going to New Zealand for 4 weeks. Sitting in my house in tears on my own. I hate 2023, it can take a running jump off a cliff.

Thinking of you. Firsts are always hard. Do you have help for the panic attacks and anxiety. And please seek help if you are truly feeling so low.

shellyleppard · 29/12/2023 23:42

Helen Herriot.....what did the niece eat???? Fresh air and windy pie???? What a fussy little one 😳😳

shellyleppard · 29/12/2023 23:44

Yes....this. my dad offered to help with the cooking but i only have a small kitchen so would have been tripping over each other. And the endless comments of "when I'm at home, i do it this way" ffs

MadCatLady27 · 29/12/2023 23:53

Minor compared to others but that on the beach advert can fuck off. It's on nearly every fucking ad break

I hate the song and have to slam for the mute button as soon as it starts. Also can't afford an abroad holiday this year so holiday adverts make me irrationally angry

I'm not sure what is worse the on the beach or Jess Glynne screeching that god awful song on the jet 2 ones!

SwordToFlamethrower · 30/12/2023 00:04

MIL turning the toilet roll the wrong way around, me turning it back again and her fucking putting it the sodding twatting wrong way round again and repeat until she fucks off home.

Lifeinlists · 30/12/2023 00:06

@HerculesMulligannn that did make me laugh in a sympathetic sort of way. So typical when you can see light at the end of the tunnel and then there's a landslide.

We had fish and chips tonight. From the freezer. 2 out of 10 on the effort scale and no one complained. I'm so over cooking.

bumhug · 30/12/2023 00:09

Ended up with an eye infection on Christmas Day which then spread to the other eye so have looked like Sloth from the agonies all Christmas.

foulksmills · 30/12/2023 00:28

Sloth from the agonies

Awesome Freudian slip there 😀

thecatsthecats · 30/12/2023 11:44

Oh, my husband's aunt buying him the annual hoodie. He has the previous sixteen.

We don't live in a rapper-esque mansion with entire wardrobes devoted to shoes. We live in a normal 3 bed house with a new baby.

Who, for sixteen years running, thinks "I know, another hoodie"?!

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 30/12/2023 12:51

thecatsthecats · 30/12/2023 11:44

Oh, my husband's aunt buying him the annual hoodie. He has the previous sixteen.

We don't live in a rapper-esque mansion with entire wardrobes devoted to shoes. We live in a normal 3 bed house with a new baby.

Who, for sixteen years running, thinks "I know, another hoodie"?!

My DH loves hoodies and wears them almost daily. I probably do buy him one a year but that’s to replace old ones that have holes, bobbles, worn out, stretched, etc. They get relegated to the DIY pile and the DIY one goes in the fabric recycling.

Obviously, if your DH doesn’t really wear them, it’s not a great present.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 30/12/2023 12:59

J316 · 29/12/2023 23:36

Canasten is brilliant for Athletes foot, will take care of it within days 👍

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Thank you.

Had some in the cupboard and am currently swathed in it to the knee. Let's see if this sorts the bugger out.

HellonHeels · 30/12/2023 13:05

HelenHerriott · 29/12/2023 16:20

BIL & SIL came with niece who “will eat anything”. SIL insisted that a 4 year old old would have everything we had, fine, no problem at all except the child didn’t eat what was put down in front of her…. Every day for 4 long days I watched every portion the child had of meals I’d carefully prepared being binned by SIL, I lost my shit on day 5 over pork in apple sauce at dinner time but it was the 4 cooked and discarded eggs in the morning that tipped the scales as one was “too runny”, one was “too orange” one was “too hard” and the last one “had a speckle on it” all cooked and binned by SIL. I doubt they’ll ever speak to us again! I have no remorse.

For entertainment purposes I would like to hear the full story of egg-gate, if you can face the retelling?

HellonHeels · 30/12/2023 13:07

SwordToFlamethrower · 30/12/2023 00:04

MIL turning the toilet roll the wrong way around, me turning it back again and her fucking putting it the sodding twatting wrong way round again and repeat until she fucks off home.

Hide the bog roll in a cupboard, that'll learn her to mess with it!

sueelleker · 30/12/2023 13:13

MadCatLady27 · 29/12/2023 23:53

Minor compared to others but that on the beach advert can fuck off. It's on nearly every fucking ad break

I hate the song and have to slam for the mute button as soon as it starts. Also can't afford an abroad holiday this year so holiday adverts make me irrationally angry

I'm not sure what is worse the on the beach or Jess Glynne screeching that god awful song on the jet 2 ones!

If I saw the on the beach family coming towards me, I'd run in the opposite direction! Especially the fat boy cramming his mouth.

MissyT987 · 30/12/2023 18:43

She left a strange message on her Facebook . Saying she wants to be left alone. Which to me is a strange thing to do, as people won’t leave you alone then

MissyT987 · 30/12/2023 18:49

Everything with her was ok til a debt collector turned up at her door 2.5 weeks ago.

Taytocrisps · 30/12/2023 18:58

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 29/12/2023 17:49

An in-law of a relative, who was invited last minute as they were going to be along due to the people they were meant to be travelling to visit going down with noro, subtly criticising everything.

”Oh my family don’t pass round the sides, it’s all plated in the kitchen”
”oh my family don’t have a (vauge) seating plan at all, we just sit wherever”
”oh in my family we always have soup before the meal”

All said with a real tone of “and obviously that’s the right way and this is wrong”.

And their way is fine for 4 or 6 people, but he was person number 27 on Christmas Day. We need a semblance of planning of who is at which of the 3 tables and plating everything up would mean the first served were finished before the servers sat down!

Oh, that would have tipped me over the edge. I have second hand rage!

Taytocrisps · 30/12/2023 19:01

My contribution is my sister switching a power switch off at the wall without asking me/telling me. I spent 10 minutes wondering why the electric hob wasn't heating up and how I would break it to everyone that my hob had inexplicably stopped working.

jollygreenpea · 30/12/2023 19:29

I've felt sorry for myself, my knee is knackered. Not moving around as much it's stiffened up so much it takes a good 5 minutes of standing before I can walk.

Can't wait to get back to yoga and Pilates as it's never this bad when I do these exercises.

FredAndChips · 30/12/2023 19:42

I've not had nearly enough GOOD roast potatoes. FIL insisted on doing them xmas day, and to avoid him sulking in the corner for the rest of the day, i let him. They were not remotely crispy. Thank heavens for my dad's epic boxing day feast.