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Aspecialplaceinhell · 13/09/2024 10:30

Whose clever idea was it to put stickers on greetings cards?! Not the easy pull off ones but the ones that leave some of the sticker behind. I know very first world problems.

Anybody want to put anything into the black hole of hell?

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Moonlightdust · 13/09/2024 13:15

Paper straws. Defo can join pit of hell for most annoying and useless invention.

MinnieCauldwell · 13/09/2024 13:15

MamaBobo · 13/09/2024 12:54

The huge wodge of jaggy labels inside M&S clothes. If you leave them they are really uncomfortable and often show through the garment. If you try and cut the blasted things out you either leave a number of very scratchy ends that make the thing unwearable or you try and get in closer and cut the seam. Drives me up the wall….just why ffs!!

Yes! My OH gets mine off with a surgical scalpel to get all scratchy bits without causing holes.

Stopbeingawalkoverandwalk · 13/09/2024 13:15

I'm sorry to say it, but charity shop staff who put stickers on the front dust cover of vintage books, the sort that don't peel off at all without tearing the delicate paper or leaving sticky residue.

muggletops · 13/09/2024 13:16

Kids who do wheelies on their bikes down the middle of the road and glare at you when you pass

Purplebunnie · 13/09/2024 13:16

The bastard who designed my house

The only way to clean the bathroom window and shelf is to stand precariously on the loo. The window is a good metre away, looks like an old cottage with those deep window stills but its way deeper than that. Same in the bedroom next door

Do they ever take into consideration cleaning all those tiny corners by doors where you've put too many doors together? Nope 'cos you're a dick man

shellyleppard · 13/09/2024 13:16

@MrsSkylerWhite shake the sachet before you open, the cat food sinks to the bottom and the gravy doesn't cover your hands. Tried and tested lol

AnxietySloth · 13/09/2024 13:17

People who talk about UPFs.

People who play music out loud in public.

People who have loud 'HILARIOUS' conversations on the train. Find it's often groups of women on a hen or whatever. Shut the fuck up, Susan, I don't care what you said or she said.

People who have 'madcap' personalities or 'I just say it like it is' personalities or 'I'm such a character' personalities. Go away.

Those bottle caps. Ditto paper straws. Honestly I'm starting to hate the environment. Maybe we should just kill the turtles and live how we want (joke).

People who tailgate when you're doing the speed limit (or ever really but it's even more infuriating when they're actually saying 'get the fuck out of my way I'm trying to break the law here'.

DappledThings · 13/09/2024 13:17

Yes to paper straws. Completely useless at piercing the foil on a juice box.

I don't mind the new bottle tops though.

abracadabra1980 · 13/09/2024 13:18

Tuna tins that have no opener attached

ifIwerenotanandroid · 13/09/2024 13:18

MrsSkylerWhite · 13/09/2024 12:41

Cat food pouches “in gravy”. Bloody impossible to get the food out without getting it all over your hands. Which continue to smell after washing.

Ditto cat soup, which my DCat recently started on & absolutely adores. I have to be soooo careful opening it & putting it in the bowl. One false move or any undue haste & there's as much soup over me & the kitchen floor as there is for the cat.

MinnieCauldwell · 13/09/2024 13:19

Flossflower · 13/09/2024 13:07

Does it work on onion/garlic as well? I always use disposable gloves.

Washing hands in cold water after handling garlic and onions; hot water sort of cooks the smell onto your hands.

MrsSkylerWhite · 13/09/2024 13:19

shellyleppard · Today 13:16

* shake the sachet before you open, the cat food sinks to the bottom and the gravy doesn't cover your hands. Tried and tested lol*

Thanks 😁 I try to get jelly but the type the 4 bloody fusspots like is hard to find. Spend a lot of my time smelling like a crazy cat lady. Which I suppose I am.

spiderlight · 13/09/2024 13:19

People who stroll down the road looking at their phones with their dogs half a mile in front of them on an extending lead, so they could easily run into the road.

DappledThings · 13/09/2024 13:19

MinnieCauldwell · 13/09/2024 13:19

Washing hands in cold water after handling garlic and onions; hot water sort of cooks the smell onto your hands.

Edited

Using washing-up liquid instead of soap helps too

Arctangent · 13/09/2024 13:20

I'd like Evri in there as well.

I don't think I need to say why!

AnxietySloth · 13/09/2024 13:20

Oh and on the 'I hate the turtles' theme -

How completely shit wrapping paper has got nowadays. Muted colours, brown paper, so thin you can practically see through it and it rips every time, rolled up and sealed with stickers (not plastic of course) that then rip the paper when you try to take them off. So much so that some manufacturers are now saying 'don't worry there's extra paper to compensate for the bit our stickers are gonna fuck up' but it doesn't compensate for my annoyance or the fact I don't have a nice straight wrapping paper edge like I used to, or paper in nice bold colours and glittery bits!!!!

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 13/09/2024 13:24

I know those food cans with the pull open tops are a good thing. I do know it. I just wish they were a teeny bit easier for those of us with no fingernails. I stand there clawing feebly at the dog food while the dog hops around on my feet looking hopeful and then, when I've sustained injuries under every non-existent nail, I have to go and get a spoon and try again with the handle.

GalileoHumpkins · 13/09/2024 13:24

Greetings card designers, jokes about willy's and tits just aren't that funny and hardly scream 'happy birthday'.

BustingBaoBun · 13/09/2024 13:24

Toilet seats.
We have a toilet where we have bought three seats that should fit but don't, or they slip.
Toilet seats are the bane of my life

And vacuum packed steak, where you can't pull the film off so have to cut round the meat ...not easy as it's sharp thick plastic

redwinechocolateandsnacks · 13/09/2024 13:25

Those sticky tabs on wrapping paper.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 13/09/2024 13:25

People who drive at 40mph on a higher speed limit road, so you think they're slow, careful drivers; but when you get to a 30mph bit they still drive at 40mph & you realise they're morons who go EVERYWHERE at 40mph because that's just what they want to do.

BrutusMcDogface · 13/09/2024 13:25

RuggedHairyTortoise · 13/09/2024 11:33

People who don't indicate at roundabouts so you don't know if you have to give way or not.

(you know, when everyone is trying to give way to the right, but you don't know if the person is turning left, going straight ahead or turning right and we all sit there like plums waiting for something to happen).

Edited

This is my pet hate. Stupid, selfish fuckers!

CheshireCat1 · 13/09/2024 13:26

Motorists that park on pavements causing me to have to push the pram into the road to get past dozens of times in one street.

Lovemycat2023 · 13/09/2024 13:27

Simply Cook little pots of sauce etc. the film doesn’t ever peel off!

OccasionalHope · 13/09/2024 13:27

Pavement cyclists.

People who jump into swimming pools.

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