Perfectly reasonable things which you unreasonably unreasonable about

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Names with umlauts in them, unless you live in Germany or nordic lands. I don't mind accents in names, or that funny dot above the i in Irish names, but names with umlauts in get on my tits. Especially Zoë. Everyone can pronounce it when it is spelled Zoe. It is just attention seeking.

People who think bad and destructive behaviour by their child is "cute" or "always testing the boundaries" (thanks, but not on my child's skeleton please)

PMSL at the skeleton part

Create - scrape it with a spoon then.

People who teach their children to say 'ta'. It's thank you fgs. You are making your child sound like a commoner.

My sister's is people who don't stir yogurt before eating it (taking all the yogurty scum off the sides).

Staples. I hate them.

UnreasonableTiggaxx

"Low fat anything. Why? Just eat less you fat bastards."

This thread has turned into a parody of Viz!

Oi Getorf - nothing wrong with milky tea. Repeat after me, "I am not a builder..."

Rolls of cotton wool. I HATE them. if you must use cotton wool (akin to dragging fingernails down a blackboard to me) buying pads or balls so that you don't have to pull it apart.

YaY to builder's tea - i like it strong and sweet

tigga - is that the little metal things or the stationery shop?

Eminem. His whingy voice makes my ears bleed.

Facial piercings. Yuck.

The phrase "I was sat" - no you weren't, you were sitting.

People who beep after they've said goodbye and are halfway up the road.

Another baked bean hater. Vile.

Breakfast cereal, particularly anything which goes mushy and then welds itself to everything in sight.

getting the engaged tone when i try to phone someone.....don't they know I'm waiting?????

Mumbar I had a colleague like that once, unfortunately I was a lot younger than her and never dared challenge her on it even though it was always things that were just as much her job as mine.

I think nowadays I might say something like "Oh, OK then, well, let me know if you have any trouble with it and perhaps I could give you a hand if I'm not too busy ..."

Passive aggressive, moi?!

Love these. M trying to foist dummies on my babies even though I gently pointed out that I didn't want to chase them down all night. Dummies not babies. Smug look on her face now my 5 & 8 yr old dd s are thumb suckers. The Australian caller who called back 10 mins after I got up off my arse and passed his message through to the team with broken phone lines, because I obviously sounded so unreliable. Argh

allgood thing is she is really lovely will answer a question about how to do something or show you etc. She's actually got an amazing tact of resonably asking someone to do something which is unreasonable as she could it herself and people just kind of do it iyswim. I'm much younger than her too. I was actually confident this week when she said me and other collegues had to decide how we wanted to do something followed by her idea of how to do it. I had what I thought was a fairer idea which I put forward. My collegues agreed and then thanked me after for being the one to have the confidence to do it.

couple of hundred more posts on this thread since i logged out at lunchtime!

Amused myself while ironing (least favourite domestic activity) mulling over what drives me and you lot nuts, thanks for making a tedious task go far more quickly!

Christ this thread has got loads of posts.

Oi MNHQ

I have been a mumsnetter for 4 years, I have never got a thread on discussions of the day, this thread has got 400 odd posts on it and is pretty uncontroversial. PLEASE can I have a discussion of the day?

pushing it towards 400

people who tie their scarves in that silly non-knot, looped round and then both ends tucked in the loop.

people who don't put hand over mouth and so cough into my hair in a queue. I honestly feel murderous!

People who blow their noses loudly near you. I ean, I know people do need to blow their noses, but can't they go and do it somewhere out of earshot??? Makes me feel sick...

hiccups, they drive me insane

dps farking iphone

people who dont read a whole message before replying

people who text me 3 times when im trying to reply to the first text

when you miss a call ring back in seconds and they dont answer, howd you get so far away so fast.

carmel in hollyoaks

the special cup holder pot thing on the dcs highchairs, WHY???

the lift in boots, its useless it never works and when it does its soooo small i practically have to sit on the dcs and i only have a p&t not the biggest double i could have.

washing machines, why so loud

the prick next door parking overlapping our space every day

people on facebook 'having cuddles wiv ther lil pwincess or wee man' at stupid o clock, why isnt your child in bed???

people telling me i should be in bed when im on fb late, go away

ds never ever listening and ending up hurt everytime i try and stop him doing something daft. i only wish i could say, i told you so but hes 3

dd making a disgusting great mess with everything she eats still, she is capable of not as she never does when out. gah.

smelly people, either bo or too much perfume, yuck

dirty nappies, i wish they came out ptd

fish, whats the point.

rice pudding

ill stop now i have issues obviously

People discussing soaps and assuming I have any interest and watch that rubbish

people on Mumsnet accusing others of being unreasonable "By Stealth". AAAArgh I want to vomit when I read that.

Writing "Draw" for "drawer"

lip/tongue smacking noises at any time but especially after the food has been swallowed

Whole families full of tiny children at all night supermarkets in the middle of the night

My complete inability to resist unhealthy food

strapless wedding dresses.
when someone looks at your photo, they dont see the intricate beading or pleated bustle, they see yet another white strapless dress you boring generic idiot.

oh and wedding updoes. WHY? its not particularly flattering on anyone, wearing your hair down and loose and lovely makes you look full of life, why stifle the hair?

people going on and on about christina hendricks as if theyve never seen natural breasts before. the woman is incredible, but that body shape is EVERYWHERE you idiots.

iphones.

people who always find an excuse for other people. fat person: 'oh maybe they have a glandular issue' or more recently 'oh maybe they have a food addiction'
child screaming and kicking in supermarket 'maybe they have special needs WTF do you know blah blah'

fuck off. some people eat too many pies and some kids are just nasty.

oh and people who complain about violent thread titles. how exactly did you get through childbirth? grow up!

people who interrupt you all the time and just dont know when to shut up.

people who just seem incapable of being left alone for one minute. im reading a book, that means go away!

people who clearly aren't listening to a word you're saying but really obviously just plannijng what they are going to say next.

Girls at work that think I'm strange because I don't have a problem with having a number 2 at work. WTF do they do??? Hold it in all day until they get home???