Anyone care to share their latest pet peeve? I’ll go first.

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The tiny fluffy rectangular mics that almost everyone is is holding in one hand in their online reels and video content. We could hear them perfectly well before; whatever they relied on then.

Why would you choose to tie up one hand? In my mean spiritedness I suspect it makes them feel like roving reporters or foreign correspondents for TV. I’m irrationally irked by the sight of them.

I know there are bigger problems in the world, hence describing it as irrational and petty.

Any fellow grumpy bastards out there willing to share their own current bête noire?

I hate that retailers start advertising and displaying stock for the next big holiday when we’ve just had one or even before one is over! Valentine’s Day stuff straight after new year, in fact Easter stuff and Mother’s Day right after New year, and no sooner is summer over its Halloween! And so on for ever and ever. Despite it reflecting the greed of retail and rampant consumerism, I actually feel like I’m pushed and hurried through the year when I’d rather just be living in the present. Time passes fast enough as it is.
Except for creme eggs. I’m happy to see them on sale at any time of year.

The French tuck.
People who hold their phone horizontally like a piece of toast.

Todlers in pushchairs with phones and dummies in.

Agree With most of the above but also really sick of seeing pouty selfies in front of a mirror holding their phone in front of them with ridiculous long nails and a trout pout. It’s time that trend died out!

I went to the theatre last week. The people behind me were constantly rustling packets. Can some people really not go 2 hours without eating? They were adults

When you cant find the answer to a query on a website/from their bot....so you search for 20 min to find a phone number to call....then you get an automated message telling you its soooo much quicker and easier to do online, or create your own portal etc....except im not listening to lift music for 40 minutes for fun....I literally cant find the answer online , thats why im calling

Also cant be dealing with the number of cruise ads on tv immediately after christmas

@Emmz1510 I see we posted the exact same thing 1 min apart! I also agree on creme eggs!

At the cinema recently the man behind me was eating fried chicken from Tupperware. You could hear the bones ratting around in the box.

Tent Box wankers. Added to my criteria of cars I won't give extra road courtesy to.
Its January, you can take it down for the moment and save yourself some fuel.

Those before and after photos.

Man with moobs, pot belly and grey pants on left side. Man with fake tanned six pack and posing pouch on right. "Jeff transformed himself in only two weeks. Now you can do the same with this one simple exercise."

People who have their phone on speaker when on a call, or who are watching videos/social media and we all have to listen 😡

Also, when I order a drink in a coffee shop or pub and the hold it over the top with their fingers so I then have to drink where their hand have been. I mean, granted, there are bigger problems in the world but annoys the hell out of me!

These clothing 'hauls' when people have a parcel thrown to them by someone off camera so that they can catch it in a whimsical 'look what I got' way. They they try their clothes on for us to ooh and ahh at, but the worst thing, the thing that gives me the rage is that fucking ridiculous pelican leg stance they do every time. That, with the I'm so cute look over their shoulder. Make it bloody stop!

People making posts just to put it in their Threads I'm On ... as I'm doing right now 😳 Sorry! It's all your faults for being so satisfyingly irate about very annoying things.

Oh and the twinkly fingers under the chin too. Fuck off.

I always look at long nails and think I bet they are filthy. Especially as most are painted colours which mean you can’t see any dirt underneath.

I have to agree with @dizzydizzydizzyabout playing shit music/vudeos/having conversations on their mobiles without headphones.

Headphones have existed since the 1980s in various forms, they’re not a new invention ffs.

I was on the train last week and some fucker was doing this - he looked scary otherwise I’d have told him to turn it off. I have done before when it’s a woman with a child playing a really annoying game.

Also, can you go to the cinema without people rustling their sweet packet so fucking loudly. If you can’t not eat for 2 hours at least do it quietly.

It's cold out there. (No ice or rain) Why do people insist on driving along at 5mph?

I rarely watch live TV so everything is recorded.

When I m fast forwarding through the ad and I think the break is over, only to find out it is an advert for the show I'm watching.

Websites that instantly have a pop up wanting your email in exchange for a discount code.
I might want a discount but let me see what you’re selling first. Even worse if they make you click “Thanks but discounts aren’t my thing” or require your mobile number as well.
Also those pop ups that block what ever you’re looking at with “76 people are looking at this” well I can’t be one of them because of your stupid pop up.

People posting long winded AI responses on chat groups etc. I don’t understand why they do it, the posts are annoying to read and surely if people want an AI response they would ask AI in the first place. Worse if they say start with
“I asked ChatGPT” like an annoying sibling who says “Well I asked Mu-um and she said…”
I bet they are the people who used to try and hold their arm up higher in school when they had the answer.

Dog parents who take dog friendly as meaning please you absolutely must bring your dog to this event and ensure everyone there knows you have a dog.
I don’t mean the dog owners who have a dog who has a bit of sniff then lies down. The dog parents who have a million accessories and then spend the whole time fussing about the dog and disrupting everyone trying to enjoy the event.

Having to create an account to pay my bill in a restaurant.

The automated check in at airports and there not being anyone around when the computer tells you that your flight doesn’t exist.

People who stop at the top or bottom of escalators. I’ve been known to shout “Move!” or push them out of the way before it gets dangerous with everyone piling into them.

Also my office IT Helpdesk. Before you can speak to someone, there is a long message about how most questions can be answered or dealt with online, and to use the online form or FAQ. I can’t get online you bunch of arse wipes, that’s why I am calling.

These have both been my personal peeve for some time:

• Vest thingys with thin straps inside blouses making them impossible to get on without getting tangled up. FFS
• Triangle insert thingys in bikini tops/vest tops/ sports bras. They always get folded over and sometimes you can’t even put your fingers in to remove/flatten/reposition them. FFS

@Twizzlemarch I agree with all of your post but particularly the 1st paragraph the pop ups drive me mad
Accept all of our cookies or scroll for 5 mins to find the decline all button.
Give us your email address so we can spam you for months and sell it on.
70 people are looking at this , not the dress / shoes / pans but the actual pop up . Well yeah it's covering half the flaming so we are bound to look at it.

Completely different, I am at work and a leaf is caught in a spider web on the outside of a window near where I am sat .it's catching in the wind and keeps catching my eye it's very distracting .

When paying at a counter and the server holds the card machine the wrong way so you can't see the amount you are paying yet you are expected to pay anyhow.

YES George Clark’s renovation series are the worst for this! They always show the “after” in the “coming up” part - taking away 90% of the thrill of renovation programmes (the thrill being the big reveal of the “after”).

My other one is people walking and smoking or vaping, so annoying being trapped in a cloud of blueberry and mango forcing you to jog past them to get free of their exhaust fumes. People should stand still and smoke!!