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The worst types of annoying people.

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Mysterian · 13/07/2024 16:07

The crumb leavers. You open up the pot of 'Fuck Me If It's Not Butter!!!!' and find it covered in crumbs. "They're only breadcrumbs" they say, but how old? And are they bread? Can you guarantee they're bread? I'm not eating 3 week old mystery lumps. Stop being disgusting and get some basic spread sharing etiquette. [also see jam butterers]

The upside down bottle right-way-uppers. The scientists at Heinz spend years of their life designing bottles of ketchup that stand on their lids to help you extract every last dollop. Society moves on. Some lids go on the bottom. Get over it.

Champagne spooners. You really think that champagne keeps it fizz if you put a spoon in the neck of the open bottle? A spoon blocks gas? That famously chunky state of matter? Sure, because I'm constantly having to mash air with a fork to get it into small enough pieces to breathe. [eyeroll emoji]

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Churchview · 13/07/2024 18:07

People who say yes no. Or no yes.

Did you park the car ok Dave?

Yes no it was fine.

What did you think of the new hairdresser Janice?
No yes, she's great.

Machiavellian · 13/07/2024 18:12

Yes, no, maybe, I don't care.... Can you repeat the question? You're not the boss of me now! Misses point of thread

Grazyna80 · 13/07/2024 18:17

Constant Whiners. I don’t speak to my sister as often as I used to, because she whines and complaints about everything all the bloody time. Her life is perfectly fine, actually better than that, it is lovely and comfortable, and yet majority of our conversations is her moaning about everything.

Booboobedooo · 13/07/2024 18:19

Men (it’s always men!) who make a weird point of inserting your name into an answer to a question:

Customer: Hi, do you know which day you will be round to clean the windows?

Window cleaner: Tomorrow Sarah

Customer: Hi, just want to check if you need our details for the invoice?

Electrician: Sarah, I need the name and address of the landlord

Ooh sooorryyyyyyyyyy for existing Trevor

theeyeofdoe · 13/07/2024 18:21

Bigearringsbigsmile · 13/07/2024 17:58

Parents who don't put names inside their child's school uniform. And then complain that little jenny has lost 8 cardigans this term! How on earth they expect anyone to be able to pick out one particular navy cardigan when 400 other children in the school are wearing the exact same cardigans, I have no idea.

In the same vein, brownies parents who don’t label their girl’s hoodies. At one stage I had 8 (and there’s only 30 brownies!) none labelled.

Namerchangee · 13/07/2024 18:26

Nothing worse ran. Finding out you’re married to someone who thinks it’s acceptable to leave streaks of butter in the marmite and all over the outside of the glass jar. LTB… I know .

sockarefootwear · 13/07/2024 18:26

People who assume that because you do something as a volunteer it means that your time has no value so it's fine to expect you to do even more if it saves them some of their precious time.

People who ask for your opinion on mundane matters of no real consequence (eg. which pair of shoes goes best with their outfit) then argue against whatever preference you voice.

TwoThousandAcresofBlueSkyThinking · 13/07/2024 18:27

People who say TwoFousandAcresofBlueSkyThinking, they can say th but choose not to sometimes. Choose one or the uvver for thuck's sake.

Mysterian · 13/07/2024 18:28

Parents in "tracky bottoms" who when their kids annoy them, will bundle the family into the car and drive to the nearest National Trust property to call them "little shits" beside an orangery. I paid for culture and to sneakily look at the winkies on statues, not to hear a load of cunting swearing.

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RaininSummer · 13/07/2024 18:30

Drivers who don't indicate when they can't see other cars with no thought for the hapless pedestrian who wishes to know where they are going.

Justmuddlingalong · 13/07/2024 18:31

People who take an eternity to choose from a menu.

MammaTo · 13/07/2024 18:32

Space invaders. Bring back social distancing because there’s absolutely no need to stand so fucking close behind me in a queue.

Thingsthatgo · 13/07/2024 18:34

People who walk through the turnstile at the railway station and then immediately stop to work out where they need to go.

People who walk 2 or 3 abreast slowly, in busy cities, so you can get passed when you're late for work.

People who pretend they want to buy a ring from your shop just so they can find out their finger size to buy a ring online*

*this one is a bit niche!

QueensOfTheVolksAge · 13/07/2024 18:34

@Mysterian I love you, well mainly your written words because I don't actually know you.

People who can't quite say it if they think something- you either know it/want it, or you don't? Delicately couching it in soft words like PERHAPS or IT MIGHT BE NICE IF or WELL, IF YOU'D LIKE TO THEN I GUESS WE CAN. No. No. Proclaim your true wishes to Hades, proclaim them loudly, Tell me what you want, roll it in verbal glitter for excitement purposes if there's time, but be direct. I can't be foffling about trying to decode your daintily ceremonious requests. Please just go for the demands-jugular. I can take it! I have lots of the blood of refusal and rebuttal flowing through these old veins, I can take it right in the jugular. Time is money (if money was actually time, time not spent hearing the foffle). Yes yess, the irony that it took me so many words to say "be direct" isn't lost on me.

People who can evidently use their own hand, their own hand being the important aspect to remember, to open the bin. But then in the 0.3 seconds between using their own hand to open the bin and having to use their own hand to close the bin, they suddenly become squeamish.. And their own hand couldn't possibly perform such an odious task as touching a bin lid. Again.

So the bin remains open and their own hand remains presumably only (acceptably?) 50% sullied by the almost insurmountable task of binning something using naught but the crude tool of their own hand. The bin flapping agape to bring forth the flies, at the mercy of raids from passing arsehole pets, to waft its stench asunder. Shut the fucking lid with your own hand!

People who stop their day, put down their shopping bags, tell Norma to wait a bluddy minute while they visually scour the dashboards of every car in blue badge parking. These heroes of the public right of way, these kings of social order. I can only assume how devastating the crumble of society would be if That Bloke failed to carry out his righteous blue badge checks in every car park he cuts through. The Tories were }{ that close to getting all the That Blokes issued with govt approved binoculars to aid their roilingly indignant scouring.

People who see the world as an extension of their own space. Sure, put your feet up on the self-service to tie your laces, I'll balance my apple somewhere else, maybe on this handy corporeal ball of rage that just erupted out of my soul, I could always just use it like a handy little shelf! And no problem that you're not the one who paid for my fencing, why not let your dog saturate it with piss, why not lean on it, hell, your kids can pick satisfying chunks of wood off it if it helps them pass the time better. That might make it a more interesting surface to ram their bikes into whilst also somehow simultaneously bouncing footballs off it! What fun. The world is truly your oyster.

And I often think, the world would be a better place if simply more women flicked their hair at my face on public transport, or opened something in the shop to see if they like it and leave it trashed and torn asunder, and lets not forget the boys who make sure we all thoroughly enjoy the varied and excellent UK drill and drum and bass on their phones.

Never a journey made worse by hearing someone's TikToks, I personally love the soothing ASMR background of people falling off stuff and swearing, or being pranked into terrified oblivion! The cherry on the top of course being the tiny speakers of a phone transmitting this pure relaxation to us all over the sound of the smell of the bus (yes, the smell is such that it has developed it's own sound. It sounds like piss and skunk mostly, bit of BO and damp clothes thrown in for seasoning).

HungryLittleCrocodile · 13/07/2024 18:40

People who are (for example) on the computer, and they keep saying 'oh no, tut tut, dear dear, OH NO! sigh blah blah blah' for attention, and to try and make you ask 'what? WHAT are you looking at? What's wrong?!' etc...

Soooooooo annoying! Just f*cking say what's wrong, what you're looking at, what has annoyed you etc. The attention-seeking sighing and oh goodness me-ing really jars me!

Booboobedooo · 13/07/2024 18:45

IG influencers who click-click-click their nails on vegan hair products like an ASMR skeletor

HungryLittleCrocodile · 13/07/2024 18:47

ALSO, I hate people who walk on your heels when you're out and about, and then moan and tut and grizzle when you suddenly stop, and they go flying into the back of you! Don't walk so close behind me you stupid fuck, then you won't go slamming into the back of me! Hmm

Some stupid cow did this the other week. She was walking just 2-3 feet behind DH despite there being tons of room all around, and he suddenly stopped. She went slamming into the back of him, and shouted at him 'FUCKING HELL, you need fucking BRAKE LIGHTS you do!' Angry

DH said 'And YOU need to stop walking so close to people. I bet you do the same on the bloody road as well. Drive up people arses, then try and blame them if you slam into the back of them when they suddenly stop.' She called him a stupid old cunt and stormed off. Nice. Hmm

She wants to be careful. DH is quite laid back. Next time she might cross someone who punches her lights out.

Mysterian · 13/07/2024 18:50

People in front of me who order the most ridiculously complex coffee. "I'd like a medium-firm, fine ground, lightly roasted Doodah bean mocha-floppiata, with agave sugar, badger cream, and a froth of oat milk produced by a farmer who's daughter's friend had a hamster called Gerald." I think the UN need to come up with a list of 5 variations of coffee, with choices of milk and sundries in packets on a nearby damp table.

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TigerRag · 13/07/2024 18:52

People who like the sound of their own voice

Greentapemeasure · 13/07/2024 18:55

The parents who block up the nursery door recalling every oz of milk and minute of sleep their child has had since they picked them up the day before, do they actually think the staff are noting down whether little tarquin had half a bottle of milk at 7:30pm? I’ve got to get to bloody work!

Old people who stop me to tell me my daughter has red hair and their mother’s neighbour’s son’s best friend’s dog had red hair back in the ‘60s, special mention to the woman who went into her purse to retrieve a photo as proof, it was in black and white 🙄

TeamPolin · 13/07/2024 18:57

People who make sloppy bovine noises when they chew. I feel the red mist descending just thinking about it....

LaBelleSauvage123 · 13/07/2024 18:58

People who talk loudly in public places and you can tell they’re doing it because they secretly think they’re brilliant and hilarious and everyone should hear.

People who leave unwashed up items on the draining board ( yes DH I’m looking at you).

People who can’t control their dogs.

People that chew loudly or bite their nails noisily in public.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 13/07/2024 19:01

People who try and tell you how to do things you know how to do such as Backseat Cooking. Who's cooking this meal me or you? pipe down then!

Watching a film or program on TV and someone thinks that's the ideal time to start playing TikToks because they aren't watching it.

People who push past you in the street and then go slow in front of you.

Over enthusiastic fuckers who try and do your job as well as their own and then do it wrong, messing everything up.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 13/07/2024 19:04

People who talk loudly in public places and you can tell they’re doing it because they secretly think they’re brilliant and hilarious and everyone should hear

My friends husband did this in an otherwise silent room - it was excruciating

Devilsmommy · 13/07/2024 19:06

@QueensOfTheVolksAge I think you're the new God, amazing 🤣😆🤣😆

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