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What is the one thing that other people do that really annoys you?

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Carefreebie · 17/07/2024 23:25

What is the one thing that other people do that really annoys you?

Mine would be people who constantly sniff when they have a cold and don't blow their nose. I just want to give them a tissue and scream at them to blow their nose. Especially if I'm next to them on a train.

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cookiebee · 18/07/2024 12:28

BigDahliaFan · 18/07/2024 07:47

Walking in the countryside playing music not through headphones. I nearly started a thread on that.

Its funny for me to read someone else mentioning this, I’ve encountered this on a couple of occasions recently, same thing, walking on a countryside and coastal woodland walk, full walking gear, so not the stereotypical person you imagine playing music without headphones, like scallys on a bus, but hiker types.

I found it funny that these people are so self important and suffering from main character syndrome, that they have to have their own theme tune/entry/exit music playing. I’m sure if I’d followed them the recording would have gone on to narrate their thoughts/feelings and what they were planning on doing 😂.

Why not just use headphones or enjoy the sounds of nature. Il probably be shouted at because they clearly have some sort of avoidant nature syndrome I’ve never heard of and loud music helps them cope being outside.

Lovetotravel123 · 18/07/2024 12:37

Writing ‘your’ instead of ‘you’re’ or ‘could have’ instead of ‘could have’.

Bignanna · 18/07/2024 12:40

Not washing hands properly after using toilet
People who walk at at you
People who eat with their mouth open
people who stink of cigarette smoke
people who allow their dogs to pee up my wall

HungryLittleCrocodile · 18/07/2024 12:49

Another one from me. People who start a thread on here with a story of woe, and put 'HANDHOLD!' in the thread title. They really annoy me! Hmm

It's really grinding my gears. I am sick of seeing it now. So twee and naff. 😖

And it's not even really bad things most of the time.

'DH is having to change his hours at work; handhold please.'

'Having to downsize to a 3 bed house from a 4 because the mortgage rates have risen. Handhold!'

'Vacation time been cancelled at work for next June 2025. Handhold pls.'

ARRRGH! Angry

Summertimer · 18/07/2024 12:56

serialcatbuyer · 17/07/2024 23:36

When people write like I went to park instead of the park. It reads like they're little babies, little tellytubbies or something

The BBC have stopped saying ‘the UK’ and ‘the USA’ and nobody seems to know there are times when ‘the’ is pronounced ‘thee’

notprincehamlet · 18/07/2024 12:58

People who park on pavements.
People who whinge about cyclists.
People who can only drive in straight lines - who taught them to drive? Julius Caesar?
People who vape dramatically in public like they're in a 1980s Bonnie Tyler video.
People who indicate right while turning left on roundabouts.
People.

Summertimer · 18/07/2024 12:59

henlake7 · 18/07/2024 09:21

Men (and its always men!) who hack up a giant gob of mucus and spit on the street.😬 What is it about men that they produce so much extra sputum they have to regularly spray the streets with it? or are they just nasty feckers!!?

Also people who walk very slowly (for no apparent reason) in busy high streets.

Although Im sure I annoy people when Im walking my dogs as I mooch along at a snails pace, dog leads stretched over the entire pavement and staring at my phone! I feel like I need to wear a sign that says dogs are all ancient and either blind, deaf or have dementia....they dont respond like 'normal' anymore and Im only on my phone coz it helps me walk slow enough for them!
(Im sure Im annoying people in this but....what are you going to do!?😄).

It’s definitely not just men. I had 100 cough and there was a phase of it where the cough was scarily productive and - as it is a spasmodic cough - it was very difficult to not get into this sort of scenario

marshmallowfinder · 18/07/2024 13:39

martinimagic · 18/07/2024 11:02

People who stick out their tongues on photos. So many people nowadays can't have their photo taken without their tongue hanging out their mouth like a Labrador, or the tip of it poking out like a spiteful child.

Or doing a kiss mouth. Fucking tedious. No one can just smile nicely any more!

Missydustyroom · 18/07/2024 13:55

Erm after so long coughing you know you have a phlegmy cough you carry a tissue so you dont have to spit on the ground.

As you would if you were in a work building all day or your own house

But anyway i found bronchostop pastelles work well for phlegm

TigerRag · 18/07/2024 15:20

When you ask a question and there's always someone who has to inform you "I have no idea what you're talking about". I wasn't asking you! When someone hasn't read the question properly and gives useless information

Adults who go to the cinema (it was about 90 minutes long) and constantly eat and rustle packets

haypole · 18/07/2024 15:42

Having a lunch out and mil announcing that she isn't hungry and not ordering a dish but just pinching a little bit from others plates.

Slugsandsnailsresidehere · 18/07/2024 16:13

Sometimes just the fact that they're breathing! But then I'm menopausal and angry 🤬

CandleWick4 · 18/07/2024 16:21

Pointing out when someone is blushing. As someone who blushes at the drop of a hat having someone point and say ‘oh you’ve gone bright red’ is honestly fecking awful

CheshireCat1 · 18/07/2024 16:28

Parked cars on pavements.

ssd · 18/07/2024 16:47

The Internet isn't big enough for me to list what annoys me about people..

ssd · 18/07/2024 16:49

On here especially "I could of"

Rips my feckin knitting

xxSideshowAuntSallyxx · 18/07/2024 16:57

moan about everything but do nothing about it. If you're that unhappy do something about it instead of being a mood hoover sucking everyone else's happiness and positivity away.

TankFlyBoss · 18/07/2024 17:03

Wet sniffing and hacking snot in throat
Absolutely disgustingly revolting,

GiveItAGoMalcom · 18/07/2024 17:04

HungryLittleCrocodile · 18/07/2024 12:49

Another one from me. People who start a thread on here with a story of woe, and put 'HANDHOLD!' in the thread title. They really annoy me! Hmm

It's really grinding my gears. I am sick of seeing it now. So twee and naff. 😖

And it's not even really bad things most of the time.

'DH is having to change his hours at work; handhold please.'

'Having to downsize to a 3 bed house from a 4 because the mortgage rates have risen. Handhold!'

'Vacation time been cancelled at work for next June 2025. Handhold pls.'

ARRRGH! Angry

Can I just add to this, the posters who reply with "Oh my love" or "Oh sweetheart", just come across as so sickly and patronising even though they obviously don't mean to.

TankFlyBoss · 18/07/2024 17:05

Cyclist wankers

pawprintseverywhere · 18/07/2024 17:06

Everything

the80sweregreat · 18/07/2024 17:22

ssd · 18/07/2024 16:47

The Internet isn't big enough for me to list what annoys me about people..

😂

TheThingIsYeah · 18/07/2024 17:22

martinimagic · 18/07/2024 11:02

People who stick out their tongues on photos. So many people nowadays can't have their photo taken without their tongue hanging out their mouth like a Labrador, or the tip of it poking out like a spiteful child.

Ah! Someone else has noticed this.

Seems to be almost mandatory amongst the under 30s.

Either that or pouty face - with extra bonus points for baseball cap pulled so far down over the face that the subject has to crane their neck upwards to view the camera lens. Just why???

I'm getting old.

StoatofDisarray · 18/07/2024 17:22

Stereotype me!

HansHolbein · 18/07/2024 17:23

Oh I have one!

Last week I went to the garden centre just when it opened. Carpark obviously empty. I parked then a few minutes later someone came and parked next to me. Why the fuck would you do that?