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.

TrudyVotion I had to go and check my wedding photos after the 'Armgina' posts....very relieved to see I didn't have one. :)

Re. 'Mom'. That used to annoy me too until someone pointed out that it's common in the Midlands too and some other areas, I think.

Have we done this?

I absolutely DETEST, DESPISE and feel quite queezy about greetings cards that have "Nephew" or "grandson" or "sister" etc. in the greeting on the front.

It is the height of naffness. Bleugh. Don't care if IABU.

People who are 'very busy'. No time to return calls/read/listen music/watch tv/have sex/see family....you wonder what the fuck they do.

Carpets - they are filthy things and should be banned

People who always call you lucky. You go to the dentist and they say 'oh you are lucky'

People who don't believe in luck and 'they work hard and take risks'

Washing up bowls- why??

Slow broadband.

Slow people, slow traffic, anything slow.

Trends. From purple colour to cupcakes.

People calling their children 'mate'

People talking/rustling crisp bags etc in the cinema - I want TOTAL silence

People who send their kids to family 6every6 weekend and then moan about how tiring parenting is

There was a washing up bowl thread this week too... still not sure of the point either. Have never owned one!

Oh i havn't seen that thread anonymous. I 'll search for it and read it.

Laquitar Washing up Bowls Madness!

oh thank you

People who call sun loungers "chair beds".

people who have finished at the checkout then spend ages standing there with all their stuff on the counter while they adjust their shopping in their bags....very slowly put away their card in their purse...check their receipt...fold it up and put it away..zip up slowly...slowly put purse in their bag in some special compartment which needs zipping up.
Just bugger off and do it while you are standing away from the sodding checkout

People named after places (or those who name their children after places). Particularly applies to those called Paris or India, the latter of which is disturbingly popular in recent years.

People who will interrupt you in the middle of the sentence to tell you some 'cute' story about their OH (said story will have nothing to do with what you were saying). No, it's not fucking cute, it's nauseating and it makes me want to smash your face in with the nearest heavy object, and then use the same one on your OH.

Tea being made the wrong way (mainly to do with the point at which milk is added). By extension, people who assume everyone likes sugar in their tea. Actually, no, some of us prefer it to taste nice. We don't want a single granule of sugar, let alone the five spoonfuls you insist we need without asking.

Someone telling you about the office bike who screws three colleagues within six months of starting there. Then when they start dating her, they expect you to forget how they enjoyed the drama but would never go near here for fear of catching something.

I probably have many more, will be back if I can think of them and calm down enough to type!

Oops, go near here her.

Urg, cards with 'nephew' etc, have to agree anonymousburd. DH used to get these and I had to occupy myself elsewhere in the shop to pretend it wasn't happening. Thank gawd he's given up on that now. 'Greetings cards' sets my teeth on edge - just 'cards' is fine. I think that comes under the heading of totally unreasonable of me.

openerofjars Am really impressed your neighbours can pull their shower curtain across while sitting on your loo - brings a whole new dimension to the notion of thin walls.

Nicklebabe - love the organ cake. DH is an organist (shall we form a support group ?) but we just had musical notes put round our wedding cake which was a bit boring compared to yours!

I've thought of another.

Bloody pointless inset days at school where they get in utterly useless speakers at some huge sum of money to present badly, be patronising and generally not give us any useful ideas at all. It is deeply deeply pissoffing. It says something when the deputy head and three other people on your table are all texting under the table and sharing their pictures through sheer bloody boredom. It's even more pissoffing if it is a day when you have all your frees. Treble the pissofidness factor if you count in the trouble the parents have had to had to cope with said inset day - all very well if they are of use (which to be fair most are) but not if they are a pointless waste of time.

I think I'd better go and lie down now!

People who say "farking" instead of "fucking" is another one of mine. They're not really doing me any harm, but I want to kill them all the same!

Oh, and the 'word' "gawjus". My cousin is guilty of typing "look at my gawjus princess daughter" on Facebook. I want to kill her.

The word Xmas

People who don't acknowledge me when I have given way to them in the car - not unreasonable I know to find it annoying - but perhaps my overwhelming desire to back up and ram their car may be slight OTT

Abbreviations - OTT - lol - smiley faces in text messages

Being called LOVE makes me want to maim

Little bits of hair on teenage boys faces makes me feel physically sick

Coughing fits in public enclosed places - take your chocking outside please, it's disturbs me and it's rude

Groups of women on ladies nights out that think it's fun to take turns standing on their chairs and singing in pubs - I will it's quite within my rights to push you off if you ever do it again

People that have high high powered cars that drive at 27 miles an hour in a 30 zone - how the hell do you not stall?

The unknown thief at work that keeps using my butter...I'm going to smear it all over your seat if I ever find out who the culprit is

3 hour long Boys football presentations, where I have feign an interest in 300 other boys accomplishments on the pitch - I don't care and I don't know these children and I have no real interest in why Johhny Smith really deserves his player of the year award..he's 5 and he'd probably prefer an ex-box game anyway

....oh and I have so many more..I love this thread

Sorry, haven't been able to read through all 717 posts so this may have come up already...

I HATE Ugg boots! What is the point? People slop around in them with their feet all over to one side - they make me feel sick if I walk behind someone wearing them. And why do people wear them in the summer?? Their feet must be minging - yuk!

And I hate to see little girls in plastic dressing up shoes when they're out. Do their parents not care about their feet?

People who talk to you one day then ignore you the next - just make up your mind

Moira Stuart on Chris Evans' morning radio 2 show and the forced girly laughter and the way she says "goigeous" meaning gorgeous at every opportunity.
BOAK

No Moira today, but the EQUALLY grating Selina Scott. Tries too hard!! All that sultry smooth talking.. Ugh. BORING.

My FIL - love him to bits but I get irrationally cross that he REFUSES to use a potato peeler when peeling potatoes. There he was, using a short knife to peel the spuds, it was taking forever, and he was in serious danger of cutting himself. I said "we do have a peeler you know" he said, oh no, it's much easier this way . So I joined in the peeling, with the peeler, to speed things up. I am not super peeler, by any stretch, but he did about 3 spuds in the time I did 10.

I know IAB completely U, but this REALLY WOUND ME UP. We weren't even in a hurry for the spuds in question, so I could have left him to it, even if it was going to take him half an hour. So what? Not my problem. Utterly utterly irrational on my part.

Grrr.

He also refuses to use oven gloves . Won't even have them in the house. Don't get me started.

I like her, but I do get mildy irritated whenever she is 'cahtting' as opposed to reading the news she does this faux Caribbean/American accent thing. Come off it, Moira, we all know you speak with RP, and you've never been near da ghetto. That's why you got the job of newsreader back in the dinosaur age in the first place, before regional accents/ethnic minorities were de rigueur.

mildly and chatting - sorry.

Children leaving half full cups of drink everywhere

I cannot imagine Moria Sruart speaking in anything other than RP.

To hear her sound like Rustie Lee would be an abomination.

cjbk1 Fri 17-Sep-10 19:29:12
'funny dot in irish names' ? its called a fada thank you and dont say you didnt know that because thats what the internet is for to find out stuff so you dont offend your neighbouring country's native language on internet forums

Really? And that has offended you? I suggest you take a wonder over to the breasfeeding topic. (passive/agressive)

women in sequinned tops with bad highlights who surge onto the dance floor at a "do" when Shania Twain "Man I feel like a woman" comes on.

The fact that no one knows more than the first line to "come on Eileen" but persists in drunkenly trying to sing it regardless

the song "build me up buttercup" makes me want to punch the dj and everyone who dances to it.

the word "do" for wedding receptions works "dos" leaving "dos" etc.