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?

Oh my god I've just posted this 😂

I said to DH the other night that I wouldn't do that advert no matter how much they paid me! Dancing around and clutching my bum pretending to have diarrhoea?!?!? Seriously who is that desperate for a job?!

Not to be said out loud, but some small children I know automatically posing for photos because they have been brought up with every moment being captured on camera.

I saw a young girl (maybe about 3 or 4 - pre school age anyway), hand on hip, pouting her lips and throwing the V sign ✌at the garden centre the other day whilst her mum stood taking a million photos. Tragic.

People who park on the pavement so that pushchairs and wheelchairs are forced onto the road.

Agree re the rusting of the packets at the cinema however when we went at weekend we found they've stopped selling popcorn in the boxes / cartons and instead you have to buy them in the bags (the branded ones - can't remember which). Why would they change something to make it even noisier for people trying to watch a film?!

Online companies for insurance. I had a policy with Raconline the car was written of in February 2025 / they collected in April 2025 and I asked for a policy cancellation they cancelled my online accounts can t ring them as they said they I don’t have a car and a policy to cancel so I can’t log on as I don’t have an account. They keep writing to me asking me to confirm I want the policy cancelled via the portal. The latest was they want proof they have collected the car!! Err no you collected it!

Exactly. That's the sort of thing i mean 😔

People who walk multiple large dogs. It’s not safe, the leads get tangled and if one of them breaks free, it’s mayhem.

A neighbour hs five large dogs. There’s no way that it’s safe to walk them.

Wtf with the hands down the pants, thankfully I've never seen that in my gym 🤮 Dirty bastards 🤬

I have no patience with the twats who hog the machines any more. I said to a dopey idiot recently 'If you're just going to piss about on your phone can you do it somewhere else please because I want to use this' and they scuttled off. I'd used three different machines while they'd sat there for ten minutes staring at their phone without doing a single set.

In my next life I'm going to open a gym with strict rules about phone use. Also bar people who don't put their equipment away after use 😅

Podcasts where the intro/banter (if there are two narrators) lasts longer than the item itself. God Almighty just get on with it! I'm a dab hand and fast forwarding the drivel to get to the story. Note, I have deleted many podcasts now for this behaviour but still there are some that are worth the fast forward.

All the ads on YouTube. Yes I know I can pay for ad free, but I don't use it that much really to justify it.

Bags on seats on public transport. Usually those responsible will move it no problem, it's as if they are in a dream world and don't realise. If someone refuses or is an arse I'll try move it myself or in one famous instance I asked "how much did your bag pay for its ticket" Cue laughter and swift removal. It worked that time, but I'm wary of the reaction just the same sometimes.

That's enough for now, but I have many many more. But I try to ignore most of it, depending on my mood!

So called influencers eating on social media. Talking with food in their mouth, they can’t use cutlery properly, saying everything is fantastic and great portion sizes, of course it’s lovely, you’re getting paid to say that!
Parents who parade their children all over social media,saying I’ll never say no to my child, giving then whatever they ask for, feeding them junk and huge piles of presents. Then others posing you’re such a great mum!
Parents posting their child swearing or having a tantrum and thinking it’s funny!

I hate when people are slow walking off the escalator or who stand or walk across the metal clearance area as you get off an escalator

It's very icky when a man speedwalks to sit down before a woman.

I hate when people eat smelly crisps that stain their fingers on public transport.

I hate people who vape indoors like in the cinema or on the bus

I hate those who eat kebab and burgers in the cinema

People that blatantly look at you, people watching is supposed to be discreet.

I don't like when basins are blocked because women are fixing their hair and make up when we need to wash our hands.

People that raise their voice in crowded places so they are right in your ear shouting to their mate

Trollys and pushchairs blocking ways

People walking in a row of 3+ people taking most of the pavement up.

People who hover pee allover the seat because its too dirty (!)

Loud people

I leave a gap on escalators of a few steps between me and the next person in case someone is slow getting off at the top, it happened and there was a frightening jam, but then i get people who barge in that space having decided they cant walk up the escalators all the way and take away my safety buffer that i intentionally left free.

I work with someone who drafts all his written work through AI, part of my job is checking papers for meetings, publication etc. He “writes” his bit and sends it to me to check (rewrite), I’d have been quicker writing the damn thing myself.

If you can’t write a commentary or opinion piece, then just don’t do it - don’t get AI to do it and leave me to fix it.

There’s a thread on exactly this topic going right now, by a lady who was charmingly called a c*nt just outside her gym. It’s time for us to rise up, ladies!

People who say they are going to 'Christmas Panto' ... and then its Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Shrek etc. That is NOT christmas panto. That is panto AT christmas. Enrages me. Every. Single. Time.

The trend to put a black line in the corner of each eye to look like Amy Winehouse.

That thread reminds me of the scene in After Life where a kid called Ricky Gervais' character a paedophile. His reply was brutal not that I recommend calling a kid a tubby ginger cunt

Mine is walking into the supermarket and finding that overnight they have moved everything around so that my shopping list, written in order is now ruined 😂. Also people blocking aisles chatting. It’s not a social club. Can’t you tell I’ve been shopping today!

Another one is dog walkers who bag up their mutts poo and then toss it into a bush or tree. Arrrrgh.

That was a very funny scene tbf 😆

As well as the Rise of the Fluffy Mini Microphones, I hate the way people on social media (often those setting themselves up as completely unqualified nutritionists/health gurus) do that smug nodding face thing after taking a bite of whichever concoction they've dreamt up.

My dad tells the story of an encounter he witnessed between the desk sergeant at the local police station and an irate lorry driver. Dad was a Special Constable and was in the station talking to the desk sergeant when the lorry driver stormed in to complain about some woman with a pram who had told him off for parking on the pavement so she had had to push the pram into the road to go round it.

”That’s the old withch going past now” he shouted. The sergeant looked out of the window and said “Oh - you mean my wife!” Apparently the man went red then white, then slunk out.

OMG ! This is exactly what I think too 😂

I have an annoying friend who follows people like this and sends me links to their pages. She also believes biopsies are dangerous and if you have a tumour you should just eat food that shrinks them 🙄

Same friend is an anti vaxxer but about to start WLI.

Online attention seeking. Please can mankind evolve away from this need ASAP?

People eating while walking along the street. Either go home or to a cafe.