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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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messybutfun · 13/09/2024 13:42

Stringy bits sown into clothes to put them on hangers. Always pop out when you get dressed in a hurry and can’t find a scissor. Of all the things I never use, these must be the most.

JohnofWessex · 13/09/2024 13:42

Anyone interested in membership of The Involuntary Euthanasia Society?

The aim is to relieve pain and suffering by removing those that cause it wether they want to be removed or not

MistyMoonlight · 13/09/2024 13:42

Those glass jars of coffee with the push down glass tops with the rubbery seal inside (Douwe Egberts?) They suction so well you need brute force to pull it apart, and when they do give, the contents of the jar goes flying!

Lifeomars · 13/09/2024 13:42

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/09/2024 13:37

Printers. Always offline when you need them and no way to get them back online until they feel like it.

I bought a wireless printer and have never been able to get it to work. I have done everything I can, watched endless YouTube videos, tried to make it work with each of my devices (Chromebook, tablet and phone) and it has almost reduced me to tears. My Chromebook cannot "find" it, will not accept it when I enter its details manually, likewise with my phone and tablet. I have given up and now just give it an evil look every time I go into the spare room where it lives.

BrendaSmall · 13/09/2024 13:43

The new mince beef packaging, really horrible and the mince inside is more like mashed mince and not like it used to be!

HauntedBungalow · 13/09/2024 13:45

God those bottle tops are bloody awful.

Plus the entire reason that people didn't put lids in recycling is because for years we were told not to, and even now recycling rules are overly complex and massively varied across the country/throughout other countries.

I guess making the product itself unusable via shit packaging is a way of solving that.

Another eco packaging initiative that pisses me off is lidless salads/creams/yoghurts etc. The expensive branded ones still have lids but us own brand plebs have to make do with food that goes off quicker. And you can't buy your own lids and reuse, even if you wanted to spend hours of your life washing and otherwise fucking around with them, because they're all bloody different sizes.

Tryonemoretime · 13/09/2024 13:45

Darkdarkdeeds · 13/09/2024 13:28

The person who invented the sodding tooth fairy. Ours is teetering on the brink of a performance management plan thanks to her constant lateness, inconsistency of rewards and habit of leaving the money and forgetting to take the tooth when she does eventually show up.

🤣😅😂🤣😅

ScottBakula · 13/09/2024 13:46

AHFBridport · 13/09/2024 13:14

And coathangers! Just coathangers. I swear they have a conspiracy against me.

I am with you on this how the hell do they go from a nice orderly line in my wardrobe to a completely tangled mess the second I turn my back on them . I swear they are having a mad sex party !

Ineffable23 · 13/09/2024 13:46

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!!

@MamaBobo These really irritate me. I have concluded for these you have to cut them in a curve. It stops the terrible itchiness from the corners and reduces the risk of slicing the seam open.

Saddlesore · 13/09/2024 13:47

Ineedaholidayagain · 13/09/2024 12:39

People who either can't reverse, don't know how single track roads work or can't look behind them. I live on a single track road so it's a daily issue for me but I'm a really good reverser now.

This. Just this week I drove up a narrow drive to visit a National Trust property. A car came the other way from the property and with various hand movements signalled to me that I should reverse. There was no way I was going to reverse out on to a main road so I sat there. The driver eventually did reverse back towards the car park and it was obvious that reversing was not high on their skillset.

kitsuneghost · 13/09/2024 13:49

Fruit nets
So many nails stripped to the skin opening them

GoldenLegend · 13/09/2024 13:49

Hangers for every garment you ever buy. WTF does a pair a slippers need a hanger. Invariably hard plastic that can't be recycled.

Notsure94 · 13/09/2024 13:51

I'd like tinned tuna to be packaged in such a way that I can open drain and decant without my fingers somehow getting covered in fishy oil regardless of how careful I am!

Everycloudect · 13/09/2024 13:52

An old one although I'm still adding it.
People who write could of, should of, would of instead of have. Please just STOP IT!😂

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 13:55

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?

Yep very annoying. Same with books, or well... anything really! It leaves a residue of glue! Nail polish remover helps remove it.

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 13:55

GoldenLegend · 13/09/2024 13:49

Hangers for every garment you ever buy. WTF does a pair a slippers need a hanger. Invariably hard plastic that can't be recycled.

😆 And bras!

quirkychick · 13/09/2024 13:55

Parking/blocking the pavement, especially scaffolders who seem to have to take up the pavement and road and make as much noise as possible.

Dog owners who leave poo all over the pavement.

My dd2 uses a wheelchair and the above makes school runs unneccessarily difficult.

Putting spinach in little plastic bags where it turns to mush in your shopping, if you forget to put it on top. Why not put it in a tub, so it doesn't crush?

SantasRubiksCube · 13/09/2024 13:58

Can I add 'non-stick' oven trays that no matter what you do with them, how you clean them, how delicately you treat them, only stay 'non-stick' for about 5-6 uses then end up looking like they've been tossed in an incinerator and burn any food you try to cook on them, setting off the bloody smoke alarm 😬

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 13:58

@HauntedBungalow YES to those twatty fucking welded-on lids on plastic bottles. Just fuck off whoever invented them cunty things!

Also, people who park opposite your driveway, WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN DRIVEWAY!

!

acough07 · 13/09/2024 13:58

When you have opened or held a door for someone and they don't say thank you!!

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:00

acough07 · 13/09/2024 13:58

When you have opened or held a door for someone and they don't say thank you!!

Now this I don't agree with. I don't think anyone needs to thank someone for something that they didn't ask them to do. Nice if they do acknowledge it, or thank you, but they shouldn't need to IMO.

Lemonadeand · 13/09/2024 14:00

The group of workmen today who, when I pulled into a country lane where there was building work going on a house, just stayed in the middle of the road chatting. Then very slowly, eventually, lolloped to the side of the road once they had finished their conversation.

kitsuneghost · 13/09/2024 14:00

Drivers in a car park that see someone walking towards their car so block the lane waiting for them just to be a bit closer to the door.

Also people at work blocking doorways to talk to someone in a particular office.
Just bloody come in and let people in and out.

Lolatusernamesuggestions · 13/09/2024 14:00

GoldenLegend · 13/09/2024 13:49

Hangers for every garment you ever buy. WTF does a pair a slippers need a hanger. Invariably hard plastic that can't be recycled.

I've started acting really weird as a result and hanging ties and necklaces from them. To prove a point. DH thinks I've lost the plot.

Mine are:
Ham packets
Bacon packets
Sausage packets
None meat themed hates:
People who reverse into car parking spaces, I've been known to shout oh you're so going to hell mate
People who don't stop for those waiting to cross zebra crossings

Laughing at the tooth fairy comment. Ours got sacked ages ago.

Dontjudgeme101 · 13/09/2024 14:01

@Lifeomars l have a cheap wireless canon printer and it’s brilliant. I must admit l didn’t set it up my dh did. I am not techno savvy.

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