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Things that irritate you irrationally

256 replies

NoEffingWay · 17/02/2025 19:31

People who use their phones in the cinema

When links to websites don't work

When companies only have email addresses and then no one responds to your email

When videos on tiktok or Instagram are dragged out over 5 videos when one would suffice

How service station drinks are 3 times the price!

OP posts:
surreygirl1987 · 17/02/2025 23:26

Whistling!

AiryFairy1 · 17/02/2025 23:28

Thank you for this thread. I have pms and everything is getting my nerves this week.

My add - online forms that ‘shout’ at me in red text that I must enter an email address / uk phone number in the correct format WHILE IM STILL TYPING IT IN 🤬 give me a fricking chance before jumping out at me

SnoopySantaPaws · 17/02/2025 23:28

Ddakji · 17/02/2025 19:40

Nothing irritates me irrationally. My irritation is always completely rational.

My thoughts exactly!!

@NoEffingWay what is 'irrational' about hating people using their phones in cinemas??

XenoBitch · 17/02/2025 23:35

People that walk in front of you slowly... and you can't just walk around them as the path is narrow.
People that give their life story to pharmacists. Just get your meds and go!
Folks who talk into their phone like they are playing a kazoo. Since when did no one hold it up to their ear anymore?
People posting AI "photos" of some gran who made a life sized cat from crochet, and thinking it is real. She has 7 fingers FFS, and a third leg.

Proseccoagain · 17/02/2025 23:39

Like a PP, the word "cuppa".
I want a cup of coffee or a cup of tea, I do not want a cuppa.
I refuse to go anywhere that offers me a "cuppa".

Parrish · 17/02/2025 23:41

Americans. On holiday in my town. And they are 1/16 "Scotch". I literally do not effing care...and they're just on holiday having a nice time...but not minding their own business unfortunately.

and Ancestry research....so what? You find out your great granny lived on the Isle of Skye and was a subsistence farmer or something equally miserable..:big whoop de do...what do you do now? You'll never find out what she was really like, just a name on a screen...

Simplelifenodrama · 17/02/2025 23:41

People who say " I'm going tesco" , instead of "I'm going TO Tesco.

HRTQueen · 17/02/2025 23:43

People who use the palm of their hand to turn the steering wheel

especially when reversing

yes it’s usually men and I can’t not explain why this makes me so angry

it just does 🤬

MyCatNamedCookingFat · 17/02/2025 23:43

Websites that don't allow you to see the brand new password you just made up and then tell you to enter it again. R A G E 😱

Yourinmyspot · 17/02/2025 23:49

The noise DH makes when he bites his nails, hate it. I glare at him when he’s doing it.

Cattenberg · 17/02/2025 23:50

stargirl1701 · 17/02/2025 19:57

People who celebrate Christmas during Advent. It's equivalent to celebrating Easter in February!

I completely agree. Some of these people then complain about others keeping their decorations up until Epiphany. If you’re sick of seeing them by Boxing Day, maybe don’t put yours up in November?

JC03745 · 17/02/2025 23:50

-People on MN that say 'Recommend me ....' I have never heard this term in real life!
-People at the front of the shopping queue, and only THEN think about how they will pay, where is my loyalty card, I have a voucher here somewhere, Oh I need to transfer money between accounts while the entire queue waits!!!
-People that lean their body over the top of shopping trolleys and use them as a mobility aid
-BT. I had to go through a barrage of salesmen trying to sell 'special offers', 'sign up to this' when calling their supposed helpline when we had faults. I don't want to pay for or sign up to new products, I need WIFI so I can work!

Boredoutofmyhead · 17/02/2025 23:54

People who don't move when the queue moves.
People who take up space in a queue when they're not in the queue.
Adam Sandler.

HRTQueen · 17/02/2025 23:55

And when you find a nice recipe online and have to scroll through a few paragraphs of someone’s boring story of how they were given the recipe by a fisherman’s wife who has never met a traveler before (they are never tourists) and felt they just had to share the many generations held family secret recipe

XenoBitch · 17/02/2025 23:58

HRTQueen · 17/02/2025 23:55

And when you find a nice recipe online and have to scroll through a few paragraphs of someone’s boring story of how they were given the recipe by a fisherman’s wife who has never met a traveler before (they are never tourists) and felt they just had to share the many generations held family secret recipe

Haha! I get this too.
Find a fab recipe, and have to scroll through a massive back story about how the recipe was their gran's, and how her gran kept her garden, and about their holidays etc.
Some blogs have a 'skip to recipe' button, which does save all of that.

Cattenberg · 18/02/2025 00:04

Companies sending messages from No Reply email addresses. I find this rude and inconsiderate.

XenoBitch · 18/02/2025 00:07

Actually, this is a recent one.... all the soppy posts on social media about the angler fish that came up from the dark depths to "see the light", and then died.
All the anthropomorphising about is doing my head in. It was fish... a blind fish, a blind fish that lives and survives in the dark and under the pressures of the sea. It did not chose to come up to the surface and "see the light for the first time", and all that crap.
The posts about it have been so sickly sweet, I feel I might get diabetes by seeing them.

Headstarttohappiness · 18/02/2025 00:13

Turtleyturtles · Yesterday 22:26

Using the word 'guys' to refer to a mixed sex group of people

Thank you! I often think about how I could legitimately ask
them how many guys they have slept with and I anticipate their homophobic reaction.
Btw my sons tell me I’m overreacting. Mmmnn.

Biffsboys · 18/02/2025 00:35

The school head who talks about “your young people “ all the time ..

MissMoan · 18/02/2025 01:05

When people overuse the word 'like' (as in "He was like this, and I was like that, and it was like so funny.......")

When people end a sentence with 'or.....?' without providing another option. (i.e., "Should I do it this way, or....?"

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 02:19

Only irrational because of the extent of my irritation - people, especially Journalists, News Readers and others for whom words are the tools of their trade saying “a big ask”. What happened to “demanding”, “Challenging” etc. Why does our language have to be so dumbed down? 😫😡

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 02:26

Oh God yes and people calling anyone (especially me) Hun. I’m not a bit fan of luv etc either, but Hun makes my head explode on the inside.

CalicoPusscat · 18/02/2025 02:31

Just about everything at the moment! I'll defrazzle soon. It's having to wade through funeral plans so I'm snappy as an alligator.

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 02:31

Sorry I didn’t put mine in one post, but posting seems to have triggered them coming to the surface 😂

One that seriously pisses me off (not irrationally) is people on a phone call in a public place with the bloody thing on speaker. Just WHY? Now that everyone has a mobile phone, surely it can’t be showing-off!

HeartandSeoul · 18/02/2025 02:33

I apologise, and I accept it is completely irrational, but I become irrationally frustrated when I see the word loose typed/written when the person means lose (and vice versa).

My spelling and grammar are far from perfect, so I have no right to criticise, but it just frustrates me!