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.

Endless posts on our Village Next Door site starting with " to our neighbour who lit a bonfire today" or " to the person who lets their dog wee on our gate post" fecking speak to them fgs. Or alternatively " to the person in Cornwall who pulled out in front of me in June" it's a local Social Media site, not a portal to the world 😖

MIL
SIL
People walking too slow when I'm behind them.

Warburton ones are

“I haven’t tried them on yet but they look fine” or “these trousers were too long for me I’m returning them I’m average size 4’8”.

also appliances of any kind, toiletries and even foodstuffs - utterly meaningless

BOTH - if the writer was saying this to you in person they would have their head tilted to one side (ever so slightly)

Me too !
in a clinical setting it has set my teeth on edge - as in
“Can you POP up on here for me” of course the ‘for me’ doesn’t help,
as though it will be a special favour - POP of colour, POP to the shops,
and !
GRAB - a coffee, whatever, it sounds so aggressive, in a hurry, pseudo important

New wanky "office speak" why are people " landing on the floor plate " rather than arriving at the office? Or requiring the "Task & Finish group members to work at pace" rather than "can the project be completed as quickly as possible/ on time"?

Brooklyn Beckham

Oh my goodness what fresh hell is this? Landing on the floor plate makes it sound like they work on a space station.

People selling their shit on vinted and banging on that it's stunning or even worse ideal gift. Here you go mum heres a strangers used shit happy Christmas.

Look at a webpage recieve 5 emails asking if they can 'tempt' you. Yes you can. Tempt me not to shop with you again.

Someone else calling my dog, when I am right there and can do it myself

You reminded me. The word ‘stunning’. Even worse when you live somewhere that renders the word as ‘stunnin’.

Ditto "Thrilling" - "We/I am thrilled" - particularly in a work context related to an announcement or on Linkedin.

Hard no from me.

Also "Let's Double Click on that" - let's not
Also misuse of apostrophes - NDA's for example....

yep in work messages this is a friendly reminder or this is just a heads up grrrr stop micro managing me!!

or can we ask you all to work smartly grrr in other words hurry up
or let's check our resources
be mindful
productivity
by virtue of xyz some ridiculous thing
All office speak that gives me the rage thank God I've not long to go before I retire!

The awful music on the BBC news channel that they insist on playing on the hour every hour is really annoying. It goes on for ages, no idea why they have to play it each hour.

The phrase smashed it. I feel like screaming when I see or hear it.

"Bless you."

Sneezing is a chore in itself, but that silly phrase makes it worse. My DH used to say "bless you again" if I sneezed more than once, but I very firmly vetoed this.

Not pronouncing the vowels in words eg Amazn rather than Amaz(o)n.
Spag Bol for spaghetti bolognese.

Saying a 'a ton of people' when you don't mean 15 people

So many things! But I'm autistic so in the main that's par for the course and I just have to suck it up....

BUT - I really really hate when people don't do what they say they will do. Ranging from being on time for something to much much more important things. If you have no intention of doing something don't say you will do it in the first place. If you don't think you can be somewhere on time then let me know you might be late. If you promise me that you won't take out yet another credit card there is no way you can pay off and then you do (yes XH it is you I am thinking of) then you have to accept the consequences.

I cannot (and I mean I CANNOT) deliberately not do what I say I will do. And I don't understand people who can.

People who use 'decimated' instead of destroyed, devastated, or annihilated. Decimated means 10% is destroyed.

I don't care if everyone does it, it's just wrong.

Every DJ on every commercial pop station.

And the only one I like on Classic FM is Alexander Armstrong.

People who are not American using American terms

Followed by people that think American terms are now acceptable usage in the UK

Pissed. Drunk
Pissed off. Annoyed

My MIL using the word "desperate".

Her hairdresser is desperate to meet the baby. No, she just politely lied said she'd like to see them.

FIL is desperate to help us do DIY. No, he just likes pointing out everything wrong with our house.

DH's godbrother is desperate for a catch up. No, he just said that it had been a while. He lives near to us and has our number, a 35yo can arrange his own get togethers if he wants to!