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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!

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Dearg · 18/02/2025 10:38

Builders bum syndrome. Just had a lot of tradesmen working in the house and I saw a lot of bum cracks. Really? Keep it covered.

The word doggy or doggies , especially when a friend asks ‘ how are the doggies?’

They are dogs. No y, no Ie, just dogs ffs.

Boredoutofmyhead · 18/02/2025 11:32

People on Mumsnet who say ddog,dhusband.
Aagh

SnoopySantaPaws · 18/02/2025 12:20

MyUmberSeal · 18/02/2025 09:13

That’s the point of the post, things that irrationally annoy us, when they shouldn’t really.

You are right, but that's the kind of judgement that some of us that some people are forced to deal with daily and and it does hit a nerve

itsnotalwaysthateasy · 18/02/2025 12:39

GDPR pop ups on every website
Outside lane hoggers on the motorway.
People who say 'Peeps'.

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 12:44

SkyGrant · 18/02/2025 07:40

The mispronunciation of the Scottish word Loch it is not lock they are in canals or on doors.
People mostly can say arch correctly as in an archway to a building so why not Loch!

Rant over

Really? I didn’t know. So it’s pronounced larch?

Immo8 · 18/02/2025 13:08

Mess in general.
But increasingly I see people on social media posting pics or videos, where you can clearly see piles of clothes all over the floor behind them, bed not made, cupboard doors open, drawers open, all whilst trying to post an 'aesthetically pleasing' picture. It doesn't matter how nice your outfit looks in the mirror pic if I can see shite in the background 😂 I don't understand these people but I'm probably a bit odd....

Immo8 · 18/02/2025 13:11

Also cars in a drive-through that leave about a 2 car gap rather than moving to close the gap, and the same goes for traffic, those cars that leave about 100m and then slowly and painfully creep along at snail pace before stopping. Just move up to the car & stop!

MegTheForgetfulCat · 18/02/2025 13:28

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 12:44

Really? I didn’t know. So it’s pronounced larch?

It's not. Either the poster has a very unusual accent or is a bit dim. It's not like lock but it's not a ch sound either. It's a back of the throat sound which I don't know how to explain on a qwerty keyboard!

Aworldofmyown · 18/02/2025 13:35

Everything to do with vapes and vaping.

FlowerPotForever · 18/02/2025 14:05

Any form of advertising that I don’t want to watch/see e.g forced ads on YouTube videos

Reality TV - think georgie shore, MAFS etc, would rather pull my eyeballs out than watch

Self checkouts - I always feel rushed and never seem to get one that is fully functioning

there are probably loads more but I’m in quite a good mood today so can’t think of any 😂

SnoopySantaPaws · 18/02/2025 15:52

FlowerPotForever · 18/02/2025 14:05

Any form of advertising that I don’t want to watch/see e.g forced ads on YouTube videos

Reality TV - think georgie shore, MAFS etc, would rather pull my eyeballs out than watch

Self checkouts - I always feel rushed and never seem to get one that is fully functioning

there are probably loads more but I’m in quite a good mood today so can’t think of any 😂

There is absolutely nothing irrational about hating self checkouts!!

They are the work of Satan himself

merryhouse · 18/02/2025 16:41

MegTheForgetfulCat · 18/02/2025 13:28

It's not. Either the poster has a very unusual accent or is a bit dim. It's not like lock but it's not a ch sound either. It's a back of the throat sound which I don't know how to explain on a qwerty keyboard!

If you start to say "huge" and notice what your throat is doing right at the start; that's very nearly the ch sound in loch (surrounding vowel is a different shape but it's close).

MrSolitaire · 18/02/2025 17:47

MyUmberSeal · 18/02/2025 09:11

My sister in law is profoundly deaf and does this. Makes me want to really hurt her, actually murder her. The noise she makes every time she slams the spoon into the bowl when scraping the bowl to get the last bit of ice cream, or last bit of milk after eating cereal… infuriates me. She can’t hear it so has no idea how fucking annoying it is. I can’t stand to have her near me when she eats. I’m definitely headed for hell, but I don’t care, she needs to stop doing it.

You definitely wouldn’t like my job then! 😁
I have to force myself not to snatch the bowl off “the scrapers and spoon tappers” It’s even worse if the restaurant is quiet as the horrible noise carries (and finds me..)

DilemmaDelilah · 18/02/2025 18:14

People who tell you what you mean/are thinking (and who are always wrong!)
People who won't let you finish what you're saying
People who put things in the wrong place
People who put rubbish in a drawer instead of throwing it away/recycling
People who are late/early
People who leave crumbs in the butter
People who don't even try to understand that you don't think/like/dislike the same things as them

A lot of things!

ZiggyZowie · 18/02/2025 20:20

MegTheForgetfulCat · 18/02/2025 13:28

It's not. Either the poster has a very unusual accent or is a bit dim. It's not like lock but it's not a ch sound either. It's a back of the throat sound which I don't know how to explain on a qwerty keyboard!

It is said as if you're about to launch a big
pile of spit

Lo chh

StrikeAlways · 18/02/2025 22:50

MegTheForgetfulCat · 18/02/2025 13:28

It's not. Either the poster has a very unusual accent or is a bit dim. It's not like lock but it's not a ch sound either. It's a back of the throat sound which I don't know how to explain on a qwerty keyboard!

Thank you

MiniPumpkin · 18/02/2025 23:10

When carrying bags (usually shopping) so both hands are full and then.. a bra strap falls down.
extra rage if also sweating with a big coat on.
then cue the end of the world if sock starts to slip off inside my shoe 🤣
I have experienced all at once…need I say anymore

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/02/2025 02:14

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...

Well they aren't "scotch" as that's a drink.

For me it's people calling Scots "scotch"

GrandTheftWalrus · 19/02/2025 02:21

I'm also scottish and can't pronounce 'loch' properly.

iamnotalemon · 19/02/2025 03:13

PaintCatsPaint · 17/02/2025 21:31

Oh, and the clicking sound of my husband cutting his nails.

Or people cutting their nails in the office.

I was on the tube once and someone did it on there - disgusting.

abracadabra1980 · 19/02/2025 04:04

Customer services, universally
VAT on vets bills
An untidy house
Allowing myself to eat cheese or wine or anything with histamine in. I know I have a sensitivity and it makes me itch like blithery.

Upsidedownimturningit · 19/02/2025 05:17

Aworldofmyown · 18/02/2025 13:35

Everything to do with vapes and vaping.

Totally agree. The worst is having to breath in that horrible sickly nauseating smoke because they walk in front of you or are sitting next to you. Was once on a ferry to a Greek island, downwind from someone vaping. I was enveloped in their sickly cloud of horror with no escape. ( Nowhere else to sit).

MegTheForgetfulCat · 19/02/2025 05:47

ZiggyZowie · 18/02/2025 20:20

It is said as if you're about to launch a big
pile of spit

Lo chh

Wouldn't it be fun if more words with chs were pronounced as in loch? One could serve one's arch enemy a cheddar cheese sandwich with chutney, with a chalice of champagne and chocolate witha side order of spittle Grin

StarlightLady · 19/02/2025 06:17

Lots of things here, phones in cinema, people walking on your heels, poor customer service are not irrational at all. You have every right to be irritated by them.

marshmallowfinder · 19/02/2025 06:22

Upsidedownimturningit · 19/02/2025 05:17

Totally agree. The worst is having to breath in that horrible sickly nauseating smoke because they walk in front of you or are sitting next to you. Was once on a ferry to a Greek island, downwind from someone vaping. I was enveloped in their sickly cloud of horror with no escape. ( Nowhere else to sit).

Breath (rhymes with death) being written instead of breathe (rhymes with seethe.) Aargh. Sorry!