Perfectly reasonable things which you unreasonably unreasonable about

[GetOrfMoiLand]

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.

car reg:
jan 2000 - 00 aug 2000 - 50
jan 2001 - 01 aug 2001 - 51
etc until
jan 2009 - 09 aug 2009 - 59

jan 2010 - 10 aug 2010 - 60
jan 2011 - 11 aug 2011 - 61
jan 2012 - 12 aug 2012 - 62

is that clearer?

So why did it go to 10?

Am I the only one who has the sneaking suspicion that they hadn't actually thought as far as 2010 when they brought in the new registration system?

OH!

I have just got it.

Thanks everyone.

I've thought of something else.

I hate stairs in Tube stations, a lot. I hate hate hate having to walk up a flight of stairs, all the way across, and then down the other side. I'm so fecking fed up with these stairs, particularly on Tuesday evenings when my poor little thighs have been knackered by EVIL yoga teacher, and then I have to bloody walk for miles up and down tube stations in order to get home.

that's pretty unreasonable I reckon.

Toys which break really easily thus inducing tantrums, or eat batteries, thus inducing tantrums. Grrr.

Minx so totally with you on the small talk thing (and mightily relieved that it's not just me!)

Also the "silence" thing - I hate it when people have obviously had a bit of listening skills training (as I have so I know the signs!) and start doing the whole open posture thing which just makes me think "oh no they are not really interested at all but just think I am in need of a bit of listening to - am I that sad and boring?!"

Middle aged married women who will willingly admit to doing whatever they can to avoid sex with their husbands but go on girls nights out and spend the entire evening competing for the most daring, extravagant etc sexual experience to boast about.

Not just toast crumbs in butter etc, but jammy smears, too. Yuck

People who pronounce drawer as drawrer, same for drawing.

People on expat forums who are ott orgasmic about their latest delivery of heinz baked beans from asda via a courrier to the Limousin. Where the fuck do you think they came from? Ever heard of cassoulet?

People who spray everywhere on purpose when opening a bottle of champagne. OK, will let them off if it's Moet - horrid, overpriced crap.

People calling from their mobile on a train who tell the person 'I'm on the train'

Americanisms such as I'm cool/good etc

Men who sit on trains with their legs wide apart so that they take up 2 seats. Please note that if you are reading this, I do not want to see your bits.

Small children with pierced ears
Facial piercing

Butter on the outside edge of a sandwich - MIL used to do it. Made me want to heave.

Eating anything with mouth open

DH giving dd chewing gum when she was about 5, so now all you can hear is her chomping all the time.

i'm now very annoyed at MN for breaking inexplicably just now - it could have broken this morningwhen i had work to do! but no! it broke when i had given myself permission to be here.
"i'll MN for a little bit now", i said,
as the little egg timer went down and down and down and nothing happened for nearly an hour!
:(

I noticed that one of those Lloyds Bank (?) ads on TV now ends with an invitation to 'come and visit us in branch'. Which is as bad, if not worse, than 'see our special offers instore'. I'm sorry but it's not right!

Pedant alert: I should, of course, have said 'as bad as, if not worse than, etc etc'
Permission to be unreasonably unreasonable about my own grammatical errors!

Tracy Beaker (and DCs love of it) - need i say more.....??

Tights annoy me. Need I say more.
Crutches in the wrong place.
Expensive.
Ladder.
Silly things. Whyowhy do I wear them?

People who bang on and on about never having had a day off sick or " only once when I broke my leg in 6 places and then i went in anyway and they had to send me home". What do you want a fecking medal? A presenteeism award?

Piss off with your minging germs and sanctimonious attitude.

People who stay really late at work all the time - not just when something big is happening. Don't you have better things to be doing?

Probably not trillianastra that's the thing with work martyrs, it's myjobismylife.com

Oh and yes to strapless wedding dresses, because strapless really suits me, and now I don't want to have a strapless wedding dress because it will look too generic because everyone has one even when it doesn't suit them. Bastards.

And I know this is an extra ridiculous thing to be annoyed about because I am not even planning a wedding.

Strapless wedding dresses are definitely something to be unreasonable about.

Just been to a soft play party. I went and sat at a different table from everyone else and put on my reading glasses, and got out a book. Now they all probably think I'm weird and won't invite pooor ds to anything. I can't decide if that would be reasonable or unreasonable of them. Still much better than trying to keep a conversation going though.

Ds and dd2 used to have this amazing way of falling asleep in the middle of any social gathering that they didn't like. I'll have to wait another 30 yrs before I can get away with that.

:) tb Cassoulet is the food of the gods too, that's official. When I was a child in France we used to do everything we could to avoid "Ongles" (les anglais), even speaking French amongst ourselves to avoid them knowing that we were in fact One Of Them. Despite all of us having blonde and/or red hair, we got away with it.

minx- my husband has genuinely only had a handful of days off sick in the 19 years he's been working (I estimate less than 10 days in that time). He's just very rarely that ill.

Strapless wedding dresses are soooooo over, I can't understand why people are all still choosing basically same dress after more than ten years of an obsession with them.

The worst thin about them is that they make big girls look bigger, and in all close-up photos of the bride she looks naked.

Enough with the strapless wedding dress now, please.

i thin kthe point wit hthe wedding dresses, is that you have to suit what you're wearing.
if you have another huge boob under your armpit when you've fastened your dress, you should not wear strapless!
if you suit strapless then you should!

I didn't wear a strapless dress because a) i've got nothing to hold it up, b) i don't like the restricted feeling you have to have in order for it to be tight enough not to fall down, c) because i'd be tugging at it all day to make sure it didn't fall down, and d) because i've got quite wide, boney shoulders, and vast expanses of uncovered skin just looks weird on me.

Fellatio - i'm done now, promise....

I agree with you completely but some people don't seem to be able to see beyond what id the THING of the moment to wear, irrespective of whether it suits them. This is never more foolish than with the wedding dress.

I'm not saying I don't like them at all - on the contrary - they can look really lovely. I'm just so bored with their predicability now.