Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Chat

Join the discussion and chat with other Mumsnetters about everyday life, relationships and parenting.

What silly and irrational things annoy you?

233 replies

HelenInHeels · 09/11/2024 14:31

Ant McPartlin and in particular his wife lying about her age. She's always reported as being 46. She was born in 1976.

OP posts:
Manzana · 09/11/2024 22:12

the endless accepting or rejecting of cookies on every website

BrunchBarBandit · 09/11/2024 22:18

People who can’t stack stuff. Y’know, like in cupboards. When there’s little space and it’s obvious that you put the biggest thing on the bottom and NOT alongside or on top! aarrghhh

Empty cardboard boxes just hanging around like a purpose will eventually be found for them

Furniture in front of other furniture

Ceebeegee · 09/11/2024 22:21

"Helpful" drivers that aren't helpful at all. Drivers who flash me out, even when they've got right of way - just keep moving and I'll decide when it's safe for me to pull out thank you !!

Why oh why when I’ve pulled in to let someone past (where there are parked cars for example) would they then stop and flash me out? I’ve already stopped - if these people just kept driving we’d both get where we’re going quicker.

I was really thrown the other day because someone who had the right of way stopped, flashed and signalled for me to go first.
I was literally like...why?!

Then there's the people that stop to let you out. If there is a moving flow of traffic behind you then they are slowing down many people for just one. If there is no one behind them, it's quicker to go past and I can go after. Just keep moving and keep the flow.

The ones who stop and wave you over when they’re the last one in the line. Just go and we’ll both be moving sooner! Very kind but if you had just kept going at the speed you were I'd have been able to pull out faster.

OtherS · 09/11/2024 22:25

The resident who parks in our one and only visitor bay. I know other neighbours who have free spaces so if I do have a visitor they wouldn't really need the visitor bay but it still bloody annoys me - the selfish bugger who's left their manky car doesn't know that, as far as they've concerned they're stopping all the other 9 houses having any visitors. And they're ok with that.

Also, my dad's neighbour who insists on parking outside his own house when I visit. The previous owners never parked on the road so I always parked there. Now I sometimes have to park 3 or 4 cars down 😠I do appreciate that some people might think I'm being slightly unreasonable though...

pavillion1 · 09/11/2024 22:26

People who write clothing reviews without reviewing the clothes . "Looks great on my grandson "
😡😡

Youvebeenframed · 09/11/2024 22:35

“Stay Safe”
The post pandemic throwback stock answer for any of life’s minor risks that just won’t go away:

Bad weather - stay safe
Travelling abroad - stay safe
Live close to an minor/ major incident - stay safe
Driving somewhere different- stay safe

It is words with no meaning- just stop it

FrostFlowers2025 · 09/11/2024 23:10

House hold chores. There are always to many of them and they take up too much of my free time. I want a neat house, but I also want to have fun on the weekends.

Daisylookslost · 09/11/2024 23:11

DP leaving drunk milk cup and used cereal bowl on worktop or piled in sink then going to bed. No attempt made to rinse these out, so overnight if not dealt with by me, the remnants of food will crust up and dry onto the crockery 🙄

he never can open a pill packet the right way either! 😅

Pinkruler · 09/11/2024 23:16

Sainsbury's vouchers that the checkouts spew out at me.
Impossible to keep track of . Nearly always don't get round to using them. Just annoying pieces of paper that remind you that you've lost out..

Itoldyousoo · 09/11/2024 23:42

Google asking a million times to remember my location!

Zebrassiere · 09/11/2024 23:45

The lack of self-awareness some people have about a queue building up behind them.

Zebrassiere · 09/11/2024 23:48

Ceebeegee · 09/11/2024 22:21

"Helpful" drivers that aren't helpful at all. Drivers who flash me out, even when they've got right of way - just keep moving and I'll decide when it's safe for me to pull out thank you !!

Why oh why when I’ve pulled in to let someone past (where there are parked cars for example) would they then stop and flash me out? I’ve already stopped - if these people just kept driving we’d both get where we’re going quicker.

I was really thrown the other day because someone who had the right of way stopped, flashed and signalled for me to go first.
I was literally like...why?!

Then there's the people that stop to let you out. If there is a moving flow of traffic behind you then they are slowing down many people for just one. If there is no one behind them, it's quicker to go past and I can go after. Just keep moving and keep the flow.

The ones who stop and wave you over when they’re the last one in the line. Just go and we’ll both be moving sooner! Very kind but if you had just kept going at the speed you were I'd have been able to pull out faster.

Yes! My DH is the person who does this and I'm usually in the car with him! Oh the rage and the argument that ensues Angry

I actually think it's more dangerous

cadburyegg · 10/11/2024 00:03

News webpages absolutely filled with adverts and shit so you can't actually read the article.

When you are on a slip road getting ready to pull out and the car behind you on the slip road goes out first and overtakes you so now you can't pull out.

When you looking for a parking space in a car park with not many spaces and there is 1 car behind you also looking for a space. You see 2 spaces ahead of you so you go for the one furthest away, leaving the closer space for the car behind, so they don't have to wait for you to park. They don't get the hint and drive past the space you've left for them and wait too close to you so you feel intimidated.

Drivers waiting to pull out but aren't actually looking.

Parents who leave their bikes in front of the bike parking area at school, making it impossible for children to park their bikes there.

Parents / children who knock over other people's bikes at school and don't pick them up.

Those stupid Facebook posts consisting of photos of cars that are legally parked, and moaning about how inconsiderate the drivers are because they are parked too close to them. When the actual problem is that the spaces are too small.

People staring at me when I'm parking the car!

cadburyegg · 10/11/2024 00:06

Darkdiamond · 09/11/2024 22:00

People referring to themselves in the third person to their children.

"Mummy is just having a little rest now".

I can understand doing it for a very, very small child to make a point explicitly clear to them, especially if there is a speech delay. Likewise, I can kind of see the value in doing it with an older children with communication issues.

However, it absolutely enrages me when parents do this to their neurotypical, older child (4 plus) who would totally understand that when mummy says 'I', she is talking about herself. It makes me cringe so much!!! It's just so unbelievably annoying!

Oh GOD my ex does this with our kids who are 9 and 6!

"Daddy loves you"
"Have a hug with Daddy"
"You are coming to Daddy's this weekend"

Drives me up the fucking wall

Aurora2023 · 10/11/2024 00:11

Those jumpers with holes in for thumbs.

Someone last week said to me "shall we PENCIL IN a date for lunch"

No. No. And no again.

MrsMoastyToasty · 10/11/2024 00:11
  1. People who don't know how to use a box junction. (I'm particularly looking at those who use the A4/A4174 roundabout east of Bristol).
  2. Cyclist ls who use the road when the pavement is a designated cycle path.
  3. Stews and casseroles with celery in them. Just why?
  4. The stuck down bit at the start of a toilet roll. There's always a few sheets wasted as they get torn trying to separate it from the layer beneath.
desperatedaysareover · 10/11/2024 00:13

Everything. Literally all the things. You name it, at this point

Gatecrashermum · 10/11/2024 00:21

"methinks"

desperatedaysareover · 10/11/2024 00:24

Piglet89 · 09/11/2024 21:03

Thought this was just me and my 5YO. Constantly in my way while I open heavy doors while carrying heavy bags.

I'm training him to wait but it's a long old slog.

He may never learn. Mine is now six inches taller than me and can operate heavy machinery but will still occasionally barge past me into doors like it’s the last lifeboat off the Titanic. Doesn’t do it to other women and is generally a very well-mannered young man. Just …doors.

PollyCreo · 10/11/2024 00:56

People who complain that they're skint but smoke. Errr you spend €5 a day on fags! Same applies to people who cough constantly - pack the ciggies in 🤢

wastingtimeonhere · 10/11/2024 06:33

Ahh, yes, cyclists using roads when there is a cycle path. Round here, they've spent millions on paths but Mike still insists on furiously pedalling up the middle of the road! Mate, you're 59, you're not getting picked for tour de France.

Abetterjobwouldbelovely · 10/11/2024 06:37

Grown women that call their mother, mummy

tuvamoodyson · 10/11/2024 06:41

iwishihadaname · 09/11/2024 20:15

If you mean his ex wife she was born in 1971. She lies about her age

I knew his current was 48…it was mentioned when she had her baby.

Ladyof2024 · 10/11/2024 06:42

Posters on social media who think "alot" is a word, when what they mean is "a lot".

And yet they would not write "alittle".

IdrisElbow · 10/11/2024 06:42

This reply has been deleted

This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines.

Swipe left for the next trending thread