Lighthearted things that give you the rage

[Lelophants]

When youre trying to pull out baby wipes when needing to clean something (often a baby’s bum!) very quickly and either none will come out or an absolutely massive wad of them!

The postie giving us the mail of someone who lives over a mile away (ie cant just drop it next door).

When technology doesnt just work.

You don't even see them outdoors in the wild anymore, since cars have had those stubby plastic integrated radio aerials.

Sitting down in a cosy pub for drinks with DH and someone at a nearby table opens a packet of crisps - or worse, pork bloody scratchings. I cannot stand the noise.

Walking to a table in a pub or cafe and having to step over dogs and their tails. No effort made by owners to make passageway safe for people to walk through. If it was my child I'd tell them to move.

DH NEVER wiping down the kitchen worktop after clearing up from dinner and leaving the manky plate dregs lurking in the bottom of the sink and drain catcher.

Thank you!

I wanted so much to give her the life she deserved. First job was to get a wag in the tail, fed her top notch food 3x a day to get her weight on (the sight of her ribs sticking out made me cry) then to get her settled in to her new home.
By about 6 weeks her coat was shining, and the ribs had gone!
she is the most loving sweet soul, she loves contact as much as possible, usually a paw resting on you.
Her trembling with fear gradually stopped and you wouldn’t know she was the same dog.
I love her so much.

🙌

When you are trying to open a bin liner and it won't open.

Yes! Exactly this. I also have the same issue with poo bags.

This is me 😁Drove the dog trainer mad because he only speaks to them in sentences of one syllable 🙄

And whilst opening you rip it into the bargain and it’s always a bloody poo bag for me

This thread has made me realise my husband and I call each other ‘mummy and daddy’ in front of our dogs. 🤭

A really stupid one i know, but this whole american thing where people put candles on a birthday cake really pisses me off. It never used to until covid, but then it just made me realise we were all fucking aliens for doing it.

I just think its idiotic, unhygienic, ruins the look of the cake.
I know people say "its for the wish!" but nope.

1. Its cutting the cake when you make the wish
2. Literally no kid likes doing it. None of my kids do, none of my kids friends at their parties enjoyed it if their cake had candles on it

Whatever happened to just singing happy birthday and eating cake?

People who hijack an amusing thread to bang on about their dogs. There are numerous other threads catering for your obsession.

People who hijack every thread to bang on about how much they hate dogs. There are numerous other threads catering for your phobia.

Beautiful 🐾

If this is aimed at me, I answered a post.
The fact that the discussion carried on is how a forum works.

What do you mean?

My husband never wrapping food up after opening it - cereal, bread, cheese, biscuits etc etc ….he basically refuses to acknowledge that things go stale. It defies all logic and makes me want to murder him.

Would you care to explain?

JoannaTheYodelingCowgirl · Today 16:15
A really stupid one i know, but this whole american thing where people put candles on a birthday cake

This originated in Greece. What on earth do Americans have to do with it?

Also people who don't replace the transparent seal on packs of kitchen or baby wipes, so loads of them dry out and go to waste.

We actually know somebody who will open a new pack of wipes by snipping the end off with a pair of scissors - like you would open a packet of crumpets - and thus guarantees that every single wipe goes dry, hard and useless.

That person needs medical assistance

I assumed it was an americanism because my parents never did it when they grew up, my DH (australian) didnt do it at all as a kid, quite a few of my DC's classmates never did it at their parties

But now im even more baffled as to how it became so popular here

I'm totally with you on the first one. I don't want kids' dirty shoes or boots in a trolley that I might use. It's disgusting. Either they sit in the normal trolley seat or walk!! And as for allowing kids to do the scanning, paying the fucking bill with the debit card don't get me started...

Many “Americanisms” exist because they were traditional or widely practiced in the countries early Americans originated from, were transported over, and caught on more widely (see also: Halloween, Santa Claus, archaic linguistics.) Birthday cake candles are historically very Germanic, and huge numbers of Germanic people emigrated to the US.

My mum has old photos of herself blowing out birthday candles in the early 1950s in the UK, and recalls friends having likewise, so it doesn’t appear to be some esoteric thing only her family did.

My office desk that seems to move when I walk past it just enough to bang my thigh on the corner. 50% of the time I have a regular bruise there.