What silly and irrational things annoy you?

[HelenInHeels]

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

This!

I've just pulled in, why on earth are you flashing me out now FFS?! Keep bloody moving pal!

People who make tea and put the milk in with the tea bag.

You then have to search around FOR said tea bag!

I used to think this but now i realize they’d just water it down and mess it up. They’d probably cast Gan as a woman who was constantly getting into fights over misogyny and Avon would be non binary and wearing a dress etc etc etc

When shopping online and that irritating banner appears right across the product you're trying to view, trying to rush you into buying it by telling you that "75 people are looking at this right now" or some such guff.

The words hubby, hollibobs, fambo… urgh.

Yes! And when you have to scroll past ‘other people who are looking at this bought…’ & lots of other irrelevant stuff just to reach the product description.

Yes! I always get the leaflet side and it drives me mad!

Or when you've just bought a one-off purchase like a toilet seat and then get toilet seat ads for the next month!

Or more disturbingly, you're talking about it with your DP in the living room, and THEN start to get ads!

Oh my goodness, yes! Along with people pronouncing turmeric 'CHEWmeric'.

The way my husband folds clothes. It’s SO ANNOYING. I would fold a top on half shoulder to shoulder, then in half again top to bottom. That leaves you with one fold at the bottom so you can neatly pile on the drawer and it’s easy to grab one top without making a mess of the rest. He does it the other way round so you end up with two layers of folded fabric at the bottom, so when you think you’re grabbing one item it pulls the rest out with it.

He also hangs clothes on the airer in an odd way and doesn’t give them a good shake out so they dry way more creased than they need to.

Ive really wanted to get this off my chest for a while but I’ll just be a nag if I bring it up to him

People chewing gum in public.

People at work that are too lazy to clean up after themselves in the staffroom and expect everyone else to clean their mugs/ plates/ spoons/ knives/forks. No....you can't just chuck it in the sink or leave things on the side. You are an adult...you have used it so clean it and put it away yourself !! 😡

People that are unable to say the Scottish word Loch it is not a lock, they are in canals or on doors.

The radio adverts that give the terms and conditions where people speak at 100mph.You are never going to remember any of it. Surprised they get approved.

Radio adverts for Octopus energy where they praise the company, gross.

People who don't know the meaning of silly and irrational.

Enlighten us o superior one.

The phrase ‘food of the gods’ and the word ‘yum’

People shortening potatoes and tomatoes to ‘tom’ and ‘pots’, just why, it’s so bloody irritating.

People over embellishing everything, to make it seem that they are more worthy of flogging their cook book into an over saturated market eg; “food was so important to us growing up, it was an expression of love and so vital to our family” ummm, yeah, same, we all had to eat to survive, and we all shit it out, but you have a pointless and impractical cookbook to flog so on you go!

American voices on U.K. TV ads, for products aimed at the U.K.

People who write ect not etc.

Using the word literally wrong; it literally (ironic) drives me to tears.

Hot choc and box of chocs. The abbreviation really irritates me. I mentally stab people with a fork when they say this!

And the phone app adverts that say either
"Omg this game is so relaxing"
Or "Omg this game is so hard."
Double marks for those that say both, or those that show someone playing the game implausibly badly while saying the latter.

Plus those that have someone claiming to be some sort of doctor advising all elderly people need to play it for their health.
And any that say outright they cure Alzheimer's get reported to the advertising standards by me (and many other people by the response I got). Yes Wordscape you are on a hit list.

I also think those that say "no annoying adverts" kind of shoot themselves in the foot.

I have a close relative who always pronounces the name of the cheapie supermarket Lydl instead of Lidl & insists that she's right and I''m wrong.

Although I'm normally very laid back I do think the death penalty should be reintroduced for that.

Thank God - I thought this was just me! I know there’s nothing I can do about it but it drives me potty. Especially on an early morning train when I all I want is a quiet ride to work. They are always such aggressive typists aren’t they? Mind you, the amount of very personal data I’ve sometimes seen on the screen…..

@MargaretThursday
Where on earth have you seen ads for products claiming to cure Alzheimer’s? Having seen far too much of that appalling disease, I’d be absolutely livid!

I can’t stand people who get to the ticket barrier and then stand there blocking it whilst looking for their ticket. During rush hour. I’m not sure that’s exactly an irrational thing to be annoyed about though!