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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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Hydrangea58 · 13/09/2024 14:36

ClaudiaWankleman · 13/09/2024 14:34

I don't need to 'catch myself on' to point out the well researched and documented fact that social niceties hold us together. It's also not entitled to expect someone to recognise when you've put yourself out for someone else. Holding the door open is a small effort; saying thanks is even smaller.

It's such an unattractive trait to hold yourself so haughtily that you'd see someone who has done something nice for you and think 'well you aren't actually deserving of my recognition'.

You clearly lack the self awareness to understand how you sound to everyone on the thread, but that won't stop me pointing it out to you.

This 100%. Good manners seem lacking in many people.

CluelessInLondon · 13/09/2024 14:37

Dockless e-bikes and their users who seem to be pathologically incapable of both cycling on the road and parking them somewhere considerate that doesn't involve blocking the entire pavement.

crackofdoom · 13/09/2024 14:37

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 13/09/2024 14:32

Also people who don't acknowledge you letting them out.

When that happens I put on a southern US states drawl and mutter 'You ain't from around here, are ya?'

"TOP BOX TOSSPOT!!!" 😆

tobee · 13/09/2024 14:38

Are those lids attached things because people who disposed of the bottle responsibly didn't dispose of the lids properly? I think they need to rethink the current design and have the lids attached on a longer line maybe?

Do they have the attached lids on glass bottles?

Presumably there are some boffins somewhere trying to design something that makes plastic properly disposable, so it composts or something.

Everycloudect · 13/09/2024 14:39

CORIANDER 😝

AllTheDucks · 13/09/2024 14:40

The wrapping paper with stickers round the outside of it. An absolute bastard to get off so it takes ages. Hell when you;re trying to wrap kids presents at Christmas so have to deal with several rolls at once. Why can't they put an elastic band round it? The band would be resuable at last.

BirthdayRainbow · 13/09/2024 14:41

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 13/09/2024 14:16

Yeah that has baffled me too. Confused

I thought it was well known to reverse into car park spaces but then so many don't.

Ridiculous comment about getting on knees to say thanks for holding the door. Manners are important. It costs nothing to say thank you. If someone let the door bang into them they'd complain.

As for nearly going into the back of someone at the roundabout, you're driving too fast and not using anticipation.

worrisomeasset · 13/09/2024 14:42

The person who thought it would be a good idea to breed hairless cats. Why take the most beautiful animal on earth and turn it into a hideous freak?

Babyworriesreal · 13/09/2024 14:42

The plastic coating they put on eyebrow pencils, I presume for hygiene reasons. I've given up trying to open some.

RJ2023 · 13/09/2024 14:42

National Highways.

Drove the M3 and M25 North twice this week with miles and miles and miles of the fucking road coned off with a 50 MPH limit and not a single repair vehicle, person or any work done in either location whatsoever.

This is the UK's critical infrastructure - they should be held to account for this.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 13/09/2024 14:43

Oh and people who scan their shopping but don't pack it into bags so you have to wait for them to pack it after they've paid. It's double the work and really annoys me.

meisafairy · 13/09/2024 14:43

Any place that makes you join their free wifi by inputting your life story.

bazoom · 13/09/2024 14:43

Jeremy Corbyn

QuizzlyBears · 13/09/2024 14:44

People who let their children run riot in airports and think we’re all interested in their little darlings.

Limth · 13/09/2024 14:44

worrisomeasset · 13/09/2024 14:42

The person who thought it would be a good idea to breed hairless cats. Why take the most beautiful animal on earth and turn it into a hideous freak?

A couple in the road adjacent to me rescues a hairless cat. They called him Ballsack for obvious reasons 😅

Arctangent · 13/09/2024 14:45

LadyGrinningSoul8517 · 13/09/2024 14:33

Are you implying that voting Tory into power would have been morally better?
You know how laughable that is, right?

Or is it just that the older generation were happy to hand out the misery to the younger generations by repeatedly voting the Tories in and now the shoe is on the other foot you all don't like it?

It's ironic how many whining posts I've seen since labour won, yet we are supposed to be the crybaby/snowflake generation according to our elders.

Sucks when you don't just get handed everything and everyone makes you out to be grabby when you need a bit of help, doesn't it?

Where was the rage and pouty bottom lips when the two child benefit cap was introduced?
Everyone was so gleeful to take money away from children and force them into poverty, because families were just 'popping out kids and sponging off of everyone else' etc.
Not one hint of rage. Just an overwhelming attitude of "You all deserve this struggle, you don't work hard enough".

Now you know how it feels.

/End rant.

(Wondering how long this comment lasts before someone is butthurt enough to report it for deletion, which is common on here when you say things people don't want to hear).

Hear hear

Yalta · 13/09/2024 14:45

Doctors who say to see how you feel in a couple of weeks when you have waited to see if you feel better for a couple of weeks and only at the doctors because you didn’t get better

Or this that day you shouldn’t look at Dr Google when you know what is wrong and then they proceed to test you for one thing at a time for every other random possibility whilst you suffer in pain. Leaving your suggestion to the last.

Arctangent · 13/09/2024 14:47

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 13/09/2024 14:43

Oh and people who scan their shopping but don't pack it into bags so you have to wait for them to pack it after they've paid. It's double the work and really annoys me.

I do that because every time I try to use bags, the machine kicks off and I need the attendant.

AllTheDucks · 13/09/2024 14:47

Also, 'arty' website photos of items of clothing that use a coloured filter and also pose the model so as to hide all the details about said clothing. I give you exhibit A:

https://www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/shop/hybrid/jakke-antonia-shaggy-coat?color=098&type=REGULAR&quantity=1

The coat's colour is described as guacamole so you'd expect it to be green-ish - but the warm filter makes it look orangey. As the model is sitting down, I have no idea how long it is, whether it is oversized, how it hangs etc etc. Gah!!! What is the point? My nearest Anthropologie is the best part of 4 hours' drive away, so I guess they've lost a sale.

Tryonemoretime · 13/09/2024 14:47

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!😂

And people who write 'bare with me' instead of 'bear with me'. I'm not going to take off all my clothes just to be naked with you 🤣😂😅

Bonjovispjs · 13/09/2024 14:48

Salted caramel 🤮

BustingBaoBun · 13/09/2024 14:48

I love TKMaxx but ye gods, not their labels.
I understand why they are like they are, because of people moving labels and making stuff cheaper but honestly!

Each label has a very sticky strip across the top, and underneath about 6 circular sticky bits, then another strip across the bottom
Sometimes actually impossible to remove it all

MazeRunner · 13/09/2024 14:48

Drivers who don’t stop at the zebra crossing.
Ignorant arses.

The crappy plastic gloves in box hair dyes. If they were decent, I could reuse them but they’re so thin and such bad quality, they go straight in the bin afterwards.

The door handles. Why is it that when I’m in a rush, my coat or jumper always catches the door handle. Why oh why?

TheArtOfTreeHugging · 13/09/2024 14:49

lcakethereforeIam · 13/09/2024 12:46

Heinz tins that don't stack!

YES! Me and DH were only whingeing about this yesterday. Why would a premium brand not have tins that stack, when budget brands like Aldi et al can manage it? It really pisses me off

MathiasBroucek · 13/09/2024 14:50

Ohmycarrots · 13/09/2024 12:09

Morrisons cereals.

For some reason I manage to split the plastic inner bag right down the middle every time I open one!

Yes but Morrisons can now claim it's reduced its use of plastics #facepalm

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