What silly and irrational things annoy you?

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

It's a game called zen word. There were a number that sail very close to the bar with claims of helping memory issues, but then a couple that claim to prevent or cure Alzheimer's. This is one of the screenshots I sent to advertising standards.
They often suggest that doctors think elderly people should play the game for 30 minutes or more per day, making it sound like medical advice and I could definitely see people falling for it if they were scared they were showing symptoms or at risk.

Yes, I was fuming, which is why I reported them. Never reported any before so not sure if I hear results.

Even if they change their advertising strategy, I will never download their game.

Claudia Winkleman, although everyone else seems to love her.

Super in front of everything. Super exciting, Super friendly etc, just stop it 😡

Yes to however said accept/ refuse cookies on every website. And the massive ad for 10% off for first time customers that flashes up 1 minute it that you have search for the well hidden way to shut it down.

The grim event out local fireworks has become. Apparently no one is capable of being in a dark field anymore. Everyone had one. Bonfire was redundant. Super bright torches being flashed straight in my eye every two seconds .
Used to turn up and all the kids would run off and play with their mates. Now it's families doing shit performance parenting consisting of dancing with the kids to a song on the PA system, followed by threats and swearing when the kids get pushy or bored.

I hadn’t thought of reporting them to advertising standards but yes, that’s an excellent idea. Thank you @MargaretThursday.

People who are 'gutted' or 'devastated' by every tiny thing that goes wrong in life - bugs the hell out of me!

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'Journalling'

'Mindfulness'

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MIL that mispronounces only certain words:
-They have The CoviT
-I tried calling you on Whats IT
-I need a hammer from BBQ

She also lets her dogs lick between her toes and on bleeding scratches! 😱

The phrase often in work emails " this is just a gentle reminder" rages me!! I feel that's it's either patronising or passive aggressive not sure which.

Websites that when you click on something, say an item of clothing, and then hit the back button, it refreshes to the top of the page, rather than where you were half way down the page. Hate that

👆 This happens in MN threads for me if I click on a thread in a topic - click out of it and it goes right back up to the start of the list. Never used to do that, it held your place. Annoying.

I have (many) others but to name 2: DH's determination to dry up items of kitchen equipment then just leave them cluttering up the worktops rather than put them away. Apparently he ‘doesn’t know where they go'. After 22 years in this house.

Also, those godawful loo roll dispensers in public loos and offices where you have to pull sheets out of the tiny central hole. Inevitably some evil fucker will shear the paper off right at the source so you cannot, under any circumstances, tease it back out. This is why I never go into a loo without a paper hanky in my pocket.

It annoys me when someone tells me to do something after I've already done it or while I'm doing it or when I'm starting to go to do it.

"Hot girl walks"

"Girl dinner"

"Girl math"

A cheeky prosecco - in fact a cheeky anything !

Activated fire alarms.

Oh yes, and ditto for a "naughty" anything.

And a little anything too, even worse a lil anything!

Oddly enough, I find those keyboard noises very soothing and comforting. But I can manage without, so I will turn it down.

I find the woman from the Iceland ad so freaking annoying. It's that over friendliness and the look slightly off camera at the end that makes her look so vacuous. I know it's just a persona for the ad, but it makes me ridiculously slappy.

Emails "How did we do and rate your recent purchase?". It was a fucking tube of glue, it sticks things together.

The faff involved with a lot of online stuff. I get the need for it but the constant security codes, password resets is all so frustrating.

It’s probably already come up but valley girl type talk including vocal fry.

People who say no? Discuss. Or Fact at the end of a sentence.

People who get stroppy if you leave them ‘on read’.

Strangers with a really short fuse who suddenly shout or are aggressively rude to people (myself or others). Can ruin a person's day and so totally uncalled for. Just be nice people and if you have an issue raise it politely. The general public is not responsible or deserving of your rage!!!

People on news programmes who say 'we'll keep you across all the developments on [insert trivial / frivolous story] as they happen.'

Why do we need to be across them? Why can't they just keep us up to date...?

Lots of things about Classic FM, as I often have it on in the car, but I'm frequently muting it, because of:

• Aled Jones; I don't like his speaking voice, and that he takes all the credit for Walking in the Air, even though he wasn't the one who first sang it.
• Jonathan Woss.
• The jingle which means "here come the adverts".
• Any radio adverts, especially the ones with an earnest hysterical voice.
• News reports with tearful interviews: Classic FM seems to have a lot of these.
• The repetitiveness. Once I heard the overture to the Marriage of Figaro three times in a week.

Yes, I suppose I need to switch to Radio 3, but there are lots of things I don't like about the BBC.

Sorry, I meant Aled Jooooooones.

This.
My particular bugbear is Brits mispronouncing Italian names:
"Gi-0-vanni"
It should be 'Jo-Vanni'
Currently listening to Vanessa Feltzs' audio biography and feel rage every time she says:
"coG-noscenti"
Instead of the G being silent 😡
She uses the term so often and clearly has only read the word, never heard it spoken 😂