Inconsequential things people say that ^really^ disproportionately and irrationally piss you off.

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My mum jokingly calls me a "tight arse" and it really, really makes me want to throw things. I'm not a tight arse. I love Iceland Food Warehouse. I love charity shops. I love Savers. I love vinted. I love a bargain. None of this makes me a tight arse.

Another one is concerning my home office which is in a converted outhouse in my garden. It make me absolutely murderous when people ask "Isn't it cold?" like I didn't employ a professional builder, didn't get it fully insulated, didn't get good heating installed.

Both of these things happened today. And my period unexpectedly arrived. I want to throw things and hurt people.

Tell me what other completely inane, inconsequential things people say that make you want to throw things and hurt people.

"Don't take it personally but..." Usually sprouted after someone has just delivered a assassination of someone else's character.

When I sat down to do a risk assessment after I told my (male) boss I was pregnant, he opened the meeting with 'well the good news is pregnancy isn't an illness, so you'll be able to work like normal!'

I just stared in silence while he fumbled for his next words!

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

When someone asks you to do something or suggested something and you've made it quite clear you're not interested, then they come back with "well have a think and let me know" 😑

Add to this people who say "my little autistic/ADHD way". People who do not have a diagnoses of autism or ADHD but think every personality quirk can be defined as "autisticy".

Oh and all the websites that are trying to push you into doing something that give you the options of 'yes' and 'maybe later'.

NO I do not want to do it later. I don't want to be reminded. Do you think I can't make my own mind up?

Gives me rage

"I gifted my friend a secondhand...."

You offloaded some tat and called it an act of largesse

Also "For her birthday I gifted her"

Puts the onus on the giver not the person who has the celebration

HATE

'One day' It's never ever going to be the one day. You just never want to do the thing in question.

As someone living with a form of OCD, I hate this too.

While I like my fil he's so annoying!
When he calls at 10am "oh did I wake you?"
No fil it's 10 fucking am, I have kids why would I still be sleeping?!

When my child does something that my fil claims my husband (his son) did such as, constantly asking for something "I know someone who used to do that" insert side eyes to my husband

Also I get the "you look tired" comment too, nope I just have dark circles under my eyes and you're not important enough for me to go and put some concealer on like I usually would do 🙄

'But aren't you worried that...' which either puts a worry into your head that didn't exist before or makes you feel guilty for having weighed up the risk and deciding to do it anyway.

Why oh why do anxious people always try to drag the rest of us down with them. There are two people in my life who do this. In the past week I've been asked 'aren't you worried he'll injure himself' when I said teenage DS is going on a school ski trip and 'aren't you worried it will break down' in relation to a new electric car. YES I would not like these things to happen but NO I am not selfish or idiotic enough to let my worry stop my DS experiencing his life. Aaaagghh

Thank you. Agreed.

Every single day at work
"Our first appointment is on such a date"
"Oh. Have you nothing sooner?"

Um.. no?

It's because we really want it then feel guilty because I'm a fat fuck who can't stop eating.

Agree. I have a child with autism and tourettes.

My mother uses you must be autistic' as a slur. So, when my father said he preferred to spend a long weekend away just him and her and not include her sisters (my aunts) she sneered; 'You are so antisocial. You must be autistic'.

After 14 years of it I finally told her to cut it fucking out and got told I was too sensitive. Thing is, m y CHILD is hearing this said in a way that makes out having autism is the most awful thing you could possibly have and somehow something to be sneered at.

But of course she did not actually mean it that way.

@Sidebeforeself at least 100% makes sense. I get the rage when people say 110% or 200% or anything else %. They might as well say a million billion willion percent or any other rubbish because they have just made the phrase and it's meaning nonsensical.

On here, in S&B:

OP: 'I want a new look/style, or to be more fashionable. Can anyone recommend...'

Unhelpful poster: 'I wear what I want: would never follow fashion'

Every time. My eyeballs do a 360.

“In any way, shape or form”. Any one of them would suffice. All three together call for the speaker to be locked up in Room 101 for all of eternity beside those who say ‘veggie’.

This- or the posters who say they are size (say 14 plus ) and they want to look good for an event (say a wedding) and some rude fucker comes on and says 'lose weight' even though that was not the point of the post and when called out for it pretends they are just 'concerned for the poster's health'.

Every Single Time.

Is there space on the other side of them for people who say "at this moment in time" instead of "now"?

Aaargh another one for "Don't worry." DH does this (well, actually he says "Oh I'm not worried about that") to shut me down, and I have a colleague at work who shakes me off/dismisses me by saying "don't worry don't worry it's fine."

But another contender is "You seem to be in a bad mood."

Why do people keep projecting emotions on us that we aren't having? I say I'm not worried at all, I'm asking a question/stating a fact; or I'm not in a bad mood at all, it must be you? Bloody piss off with your nonsense way to shut me down.

I keep a really tidy, clean house, but whenever my mum comes to stay she always says things like “do you want me to empty your Hoover, I bet you haven’t done it for ages?” or “do you want me to pop upstairs and clean the windows I bet you’ve not done them for a while?” or something along those lines. And it REALLY grates me as our home is so clean and tidy and I don’t know why she insinuates I never do these jobs! Like she’ll ask about the hoover when she’s not even seen it, so it’s not like she can SEE it’s full. It’s like she literally just makes up these jobs that I apparently haven’t done!

Oh God yes.
And in the same vein, people who describe make up as making your eyes "pop". No, a fork will do that. Make up emphasises them.

Yes MostHighlyFlavouredGravy. Yes there is plenty of room for them on squeaky seats which are sticky and uncomfortable.

My much loved late mother once rang me, randomly, and said, "I was just thinking, you probably need to clean your oven."

I had some fun ringing back at equally random points and suggesting she might water her geraniums or wipe her shoe rack.