What trivial things get on your nerves?

[InSearchOfMartin]

Sentences that end with xxxx, right? xxxx, no? xxxx, yes? It not only looks wrong (maybe I should be on Pedant's Corner!) but it tells you you cannot disagree.

Oh my god yes this!! I was just saying this to DD as a Tupperware tsunami came out of the cupboard. Why is it so deeply deeply annoying??

And this. It's like you are all living in my head.

And my own contribution- those motorbikes that make that stupid roaring screeching sound on purpose as they accelerate. I am filled with rage when one of them goes past me.

I'd like to add - dh using my computer glasses. I need glasses to see the PC, and I have only one suitable pair, but dh insists on using them, and then wanders off round the house and abandons them somewhere random, so I have to search high and low before I can do anything on the computer.

I've tried hiding them, but he will search all the possible hiding places until he finds them, rather than just getting his own reading glasses. I've tried saying I don't mind him using them as long as he puts them back where I'd put them. He doesn't. I have tried asking him nicely not to use them, and explaining why I need those glasses by the computer, not in his office/in the kitchen/wherever he's left them. He has ignored that request. I have now told him he is NOT to use them ever. I will wait to see if this has got through to him.

There's one near me, went off early this morning, bloody noisy oaf.

I wish sometimes it wasn't illegal to own a rocket launcher. 😡

lol same! Usually it's him eating.

😂😂 I hate say again for some reason too

God yes I want to punch them out of the way

someone on my instagram does this . Photographs every meal when out and it's just cringe now

I know this one is going to age me and probably make me unpopular/accused of body shaming or something, but I'm going to say it anyway.

If it's the middle of the day and you are at work, or in a shop or just out and about in public, I don't want to see QUITE SO MUCH of your ample bosom that I fear that if I tripped and fell into it I'd not be found for days. Put a proper top on. It's January. It's Costa Coffee, not a nightclub. Not a beach. You aren't attempting to woo me in your boudoir. Get dressed. All that jiggling, heaving cleavage is unbecoming at 11.30 the morning when I'm just trying to go about my day unmolested by the sight of quite so much flesh.

The same goes for people who wear really thin leggings with a short top, so I can clearly see their knickers through them and it looks as if they've gone out in a pair of tights and forgotten their skirt. Uuurgh. Nasty.

I've just recently watched all of The Traitors on iPlayer; what is it with almost everyone using "...yourself" - incorrectly - at the end of nearly every nomination (or whatever they call it) at the Round Table?? And all ages!? I did wonder first of all if it had maybe just become a "thing" with poor badeducation of recent years? But it appears not to be, due to it being all ages. It is SO irritating! And probably more so because I've just watched them all back to back so it's even more obvious.

Everything

TV adverts. I hate them so much I am unable to watch any live television on any channel that has adverts. I therefore record everything on my Sky box and then when I watch it back I zap through the adverts and never watch them or listen to them.

God, was coming on to say this. Why is this now a thing? It's the new "reaching out/reached out" ffs 😡 It's not trivial though imo, it's the decline of correct language.

One trivial thing someone mentioned on one of these threads recently was when you open a packet of paracetamol leaflet side up grrrr.

SUVs in urban areas. Apparently if you have one child now you need an SUV.

Skimmed milk with a white cap. It should have a red cap.

Can I get......? instead of May I have.....? (Can I have would do!).
Gotten.
Like like like like like in every sentence.
Making memories 🤢.
Hun (I have a particular hatred of this).
Could of, would of, might of etc.
Does anybody no.....? It's KNOW!!!!!!
Shoes on bus/train/restaurant seats.
Performance parenting/grandparenting at 1 million decibels.
and many more

When there are no hooks in a loo. I hate having to put a coat on the floor. Luckily I am a bit of a bag woman so can drape a coat over them but still.... Also I guess because of money a lot of loos in stores and public have locks that have not been mended. Yes I do spend quite a time in various loos!!!

Also, there is an area in my local LIDL where you can pay by machine and if you put your receipt somewhere it is supposed to let the door go and you can get out. Nope never happens to me!

Also bus drivers rarely lower the thingy (not sure what you call it) so that I can get on, I have to haul myself on, it is like mountain climbing some times!

Well that is my 50p worth! Glad I got it off my chest!

People who say/write “of” instead of “have.” For example, “ I should of done that,” when to be grammatically correct, it should be “ I should have done that.”

See it so many times…..

I feel exactly the same about the twee personification of places and objects in ‘social media speak’! It makes me cringe horribly, as do long sappy messages to people who are a) not on social media b) young children c) dead and will never see them! What performative nonsense.

@purplecheesecat yes, someone I used to work with writes long soppy tributes to her family on birthdays/mothers' day etc. etc. I think why not just say it to their face or write it in their card? It's just showing off this supposedly perfect family and life.

Your, when it should correctly be you're. Awful. It's perfectly simple to think am I trying to say you are, or talking about belonging?

Just remembered something else that makes me cringe- social media posts where the other half is unfailingly referred to as "the love of my life". Example our neighbour on Fb- "Weekend away with the absolute love of my life". 🤢

Do you mean the bus driver not lowering the ramp?

My husband eats a banana by penguin the whole skin off and holding the slimy fruit in his hand…makes me scream!