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 start interesting thread and don't tell me about it - so there are now nearly 600 posts and I want to read them but I can't because I have to go to work.

threadS

or perhaps AN interesting thread

gingerwig I will match you with: people who don't provide enough food at social gatherings so it is possible for just one badly-supervised child to eat all the twiglets

gingerwigs so with you on the cupcakes, they're like a virus round here. I know someone who has a shop in a "bohemian, off beat" area of M/CR (aka pretentious, overpriced, and up it's own arse) and gets fed up with the cupcake massive calling round each day to sell her the bloody things, or stock them in her shop, she sells jeans!!!

Teenagers who step out into the road in town moments before you are about to drive past them, forcing you to grind to a halt as they saunter across slowly, eyeballing you. One day I will be unable to bear it and my foot will stay on the accelerator. I wouldn't mind so much if they had the decency to break into a jog and maybe look apologetic for being an idiot.
Similarly lazy parents with pushchairs playing crazy chicken with traffic on busy roads when they can't be arsed to walk an extra 50 metres to a crossing. What goes through their heads?? 'Just go for it, what's the worst that can happen?'!

I hate it at social gatherings where there is clearly an insufficient quantity and paltry selection of food. You end up too scared to eat ANY, in case you take too much and some people are left with none.

I hate social gatherings.

That really is pretty unreasonable, I suppose.

oh dear.
just sent a text to DH telling him about BoF and SDTG's comments on the organ and he replied "and it was tasty too"

i hate small talk.

i find it really hard to talk to people when i know i can't get away with a "hello" or if I don't know them well enough to have a proper conversation.

People who say 'sleeps' as in '5 sleeps until we go on holiday'.... It's so pathetic and babyish, and DH does it! He says it's an 'army thing', well if that is so say it to your army friends but NEVER EVER say it to me as it makes me want to put a pillow over your face next time you are having your 'sleeps'.

So do I nickelbabe. It's a horrible no-mans-land isn't it?

I always end up talking to much and I either get a glazed look or say something that I then panic about and think might have been offensive in some way.

I'd much rather be at home with a good book 90% of the time.

Me too!

I'm s**t at small talk, I hate it, get a kind of churning feeling when I know I have to do it (which is most days, work, dcs nursery drop off pick up, conferences, being introduced to friends of friends). Either freeze or babble incoherently and fear I've been too trivial, talked about self too much, not asked enough questions about them, been too inappropriately disclosing etc.etc.

Also hate people who use "silence" in social interactions where they just stop and look at you with that half kind of smirk/sympathetic smile on their faces "inviting" further disclosure. Makes me squirm like an eel (fwiw i'm a therapist CBT and I hate it when other therapists/supervisors do it too and I know the patients aren't keen either!).

minx- that's exactly what i do!

yesterday, i thought i saw the church admin lady, but i didn't dare look over in case it wasn't her and i looked daft, or if it was her, she was walking in the same direction and i'd have to think of stuff to say.
don't get me wrong, i like her, i just can't think of things to say.
in the end i peered over (she was on the other side of the road, btw, i wasn't that bad!) and said "ooh, i couldn't decide if it was you!" we passed a couple of comments then i walked on.
it would have been harder if we'd been on the same side of the road.
and then i was panicking after thinking "should i have crossed over and walked with her?"

Men with long finger/toenails. Especially John Nettles on Midsomer Murder - its just grim. Surely the makeup artist should cut them?

People who get spittle/some other grim stuff in the corner of their mouth when they talk. They MUST know it happens, please wipe it off, it makes me heave.

The new number plate registration system. I just can't get my head around it, especially as its just changed over from 59 to 60.

I've spent all week trying to understand how they've gone from 59 to 60 too!

YY on the corner of the mouth spittle/debris, also can't it when people get blobs of food on the face/hands when they are eating, and don't appear to know it's there. Can't they feel it?

Minx - that has just nicely summed up all my queasy fears about small talk!

Just read something about nail polish for dogs. That's unreasonable, isn't it?

no, nail polish for dogs is an essential beauty treatment.

Maybe we should invent acrylic claw extensions? What about Botox for pugs?

Obviously there's a market waiting to be exploited here.

it's changed from 59 to 10, not 60, because during the 00s, it was 00, 50, 01, 51 as the five basically meant halfway through the year.
they've already used the 00 in 2000, so now they're using 10. so august was be 60 (which is probably what you've seen - you've not seen any 10s), because they've already used 50, so they've just added the 1 from the 10 to the 5 from the 50.

Sorry, yes, it went 59, 10, 60. That's what's thrown me.

I just read that 3 times nickel, may as well have been A Level Physics

Getorf, I couldn't even FACE reading it - that's how bad it looked to me. I need to be in a more focused state of mind. I'll put an hour or two by (pre-wine) this evening to get my feeble intellect around it.