Pet peeves that others may find odd.

[ThishittyLimeCat]

I have so many that I think I should be on an island on my own.

1. People on Tipping Point who don't say please.
2. Describing someone eating as she polished off/ he demolished/devoured...
3. Hun overload, you ok Hun, thanks Hun...
4. Ordering food and drink. Can I get? Probably not from there 😫.
5. People who have to compete with your illness. I had glandular fever I was so ill. Well I had glandular fever twice and I nearly died.
6. Two words I want to kill people when I hear them, one starts with t and means dehydration. But they don't just say it once, they keep saying it without getting a drink.

The second means dinner but used by posh people and elderly, starts with a s.

The phrases 'Reaching out' and 'Opening up'.

Oh God, yes. See also 'Start a conversation.'

Although being very pedantic, technically you should ask 'Might I have.....' to which your server should reply 'Yes you may......'

I hate when words are shortened and food words like "brekkie" "choc" and "toms" are particularly bad.

Referring to spending money as "spends" is also a horrible one for me, and I've developed a weird revulsion to the word "slim" which I think was directly caused by its constant use on MN!

I'm only quoting previous MNers who have told us that "Please may I have" is the correct way of asking for things.

The words "may" or might would never be in my shopping vocabulary anyway 😅

I hate how lots of people go on about clutter “ I took me two hours to de clutter the bedroom “ etc. Stop buying stuff and leaving it around then!

Snacks . I hate the word .

” Guys” . I seethe inwardly when referred to as guys .

Oh and another one.. Being told “ Thats okay” when I say I don’t want a bag/ desert etc. Gee thanks!

No problem

I make a point of saying this, because it annoyed my father, who had few ideas of his own.

I find “I’m blessed with” or “we’ve been blessed with” particularly troubling. It seems to be applied to anything and everything.

I have an involuntary literal side to me, and I find it difficult not to investigate this state of being “blessed”. Is it, for example, that they think that some deity has shined his face upon them? Have they been favoured by a particular god and if so which one? Are they in a state of grace? Are they special in some, to me, indiscernible way?

Or are they just lucky?

78s

Every police person interviewed on TV: “we would ask anyone with information…”

Just bloody say “If you have information…

Overuse of the word “iconic” by all Radio 2 hosts.

Myself.

My 14 yo DS (who has significant ASN) clapped at the end of the film the other night as he loved it so much. He claps at the start and end of Gladiators & Masked Singer, & after any rides at a theme park. Hes completely verbal & attends mainstream school but shows his excitement by clapping. I join in heartily & don't give two hoots what anyone else thinks to be honest.

I've recently noticed my children (18 and 21) asking things such as: "Please may you pass me the salt", or in a restaurant when ordering: "Would I be able to/would it be possible to have..."

I don't know why it annoys me so much as they're trying to be polite, but it does.

Also, people who reply "perfect" (this seems to be said in a sort of upbeat, peppy sort of voice), or "no problem" when you order or ask for something.

Number 2 reminded me of how much I can’t stand the phrase “I devoured” whatever book. Makes me feel a bit sick for some reason. Another reading related one, “I’m a voracious reader” 🤢 I’m not anti reading or anti books! But those words to describe reading sound almost sexual and just make me cringe. Also the phrase “you’re being obtuse” - seen regularly on MN yet I’ve never encountered it in real life. Sounds very showy offy, a bit like “I’m winning this argument cos I’m clearly more intelligent than you with my big fancy word” 😡

Not the nine o'clock news..the Hi Fi shop sketch.🤣

Fashion articles that talk about "A red lip" or a "Wide legged trouser".

Do you have red lipstick on only one lip and one leg of trousers that is wide?

I’ve got one of these moaners…☹️

He has cocodamol and Naproxen for back pain from an old injury… but will sit on the sofa bloody moaning and ask me in the quivery voice of doom to have some of mine ( just bog standard paracetamol and ibuprofen )
He can’t be arsed to go upstairs to go and get his own, which are way more suited for him😡 I’ve started bringing his downstairs, it gets on my nerves so much.

Dont get me started on the competitive illness… Aarrgghhh!

You can’t sneeze in this house without his prediction that he’ll catch something I’ve obviously got.
I’d just used pepper, I wasn’t ill!

I smiled at this!!👏
Carry on clapping, it’s a sign of joy surely. 👏
We could all do with a bit of that!! 👏

People walking too close to me. I can hear them breathing. Can’t stand it. People parking right next to me. Fuck off somewhere else. Blokes sitting in a van watching me park. People who have loads of different visitors to their home and shout “love you! Love you more!” When they leave. Performative bullshit. Wankers who knock on the front door flogging something who start by saying “don’t worry it’s nothing to be worried about”. I’m not worried, what do you want? People like the bloke yesterday in Tesco who stunk to high heaven. Can you not smell yourself? Filthy fucker.

Thank you, we will!

The film was 'The Magic Faraway Tree' if anyone is interested. It's absolutely wonderful. They were my favourite books as a child, & I've been really nostalgic for my own childhood & that of my 3 boys since I saw it. I had to persuade him to go , but he & my 9 yr old niece loved it.

In Aldi or Lidl, someone packing their shopping straight into their bags rather than putting it into the trolley then packing. That's why it's 'cheap and basic' so we get a move on.

Baaabe,, my dil's mother says it a lot.. anyone saying it.. puts my teeth on edge.

Yup. Its either unique, or it isn’t.

Everyone at my local Lidl packs their stuff straight into their bags.

@Puffalicious glad the film was good. My daughter (35) and I want to see it for nostalgia but we're worried people would think we were odd for going without kids.

Grab. As in, I'll just grab a sandwich'

My DH also 'jumps' in the bath and shower on a regular basis.