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.

Nickelbabe - '\m just down the road from Sittingbourne. Must pop into your shop.

(makes note to self to avoid drinking coffee beforehand)

Ooh yes, whistling - horrible noise.

And people who describe sports results/games as if they were actually playing. "We scored 3 goals" etc. No you didn't. They scored the goals, you sat on your fat arse in the pub and watched them!

People who put coffee in chocolate cake 'to bring out the chocolate flavour'.

No, it just makes the cake taste of revolting coffeeness so I don't want to eat it.

Sensibleness in boy toddlers - sensible haircuts, sensible names like James and Thomas. Neat, ironed shirts, chinos or corduroy slacks, sensible brown Clarks shoes. It's like they are mini middle aged men.

she was just showing off

"People who put coffee in chocolate cake 'to bring out the chocolate flavour'.

No, it just makes the cake taste of revolting coffeeness so I don't want to eat it.
"

YES
or the fact that if you want to put icing on cake you use apricot jam. I DON'T LIKE THE VILE STUFF. I use raspberry and it works fine. Also my Grandad went through a phase of making cakes without vital ingredients - flour or sugar or whatever. It's CAKE.

GetOrf, I do the passport thing too.

swallowed-don't change for me., IABU

Was going to sart a thread about it, but it fits here

People who say " I had this dream last night..."

What do you say when people are telling you about your dreams? normally you can express shock, sympathy, delight etc, but this ISN'T REAL

In fact there are 2 responses:

"How strange"
or
"I wonder what that means"

People who walk slowly.

Carrot cake- fails to optimise either cake or carrots

Those personal mission statements that people have started putting at the top of their CVs- like "Highly motivated, self-starting, finance professional". I'll be the judge of that, thankyou.

Spam Facebook profile updates which make you feel churlish if you dont copy and paste about how much you miss everybody you've ever known who's now "passed on" (and why cant they just say "died"?)

AlCrowley, I was about to continue on with that

People who say we, as if they are a part of the team. We played well, we're doing well this season etc.
No, the team are doing well, you are a supporter and haven't contributed anything to the scoring of the goals.

PortBlacksand that woman annoyed me too. Surely suddenly having a French accent hasn't ruined her whole life and changed her personality completely? There are worse thinks that could happen. She was far too 'woe is me'.

People who make a big point of letting you go first/letting you out when you're driving, when you've already been sitting there for ages and there's a huge gap behind them so you could have got out by yourself anyway. Hate that.

People using 'myriad' incorrectly.

People saying 'legs akimbo' ugh.

Words like 'ginormous'.

People ringing my landline.

People leaving rubbish messages on home answer phone (i.e. one that doesn't actually say anything - e.g. 'It's me. OK?'

Same person ringing back 20 minutes leaving a really snotty message because you didn't realise previous message was urgent. Then saying that 'there's not much point having a phone if you don't answer it!' - well, yes there is - it's for me to make calls to people I want to speak and the answer phone is for me to find out if I want to speak to you.

And another phone related issue - when working in an office, why, oh why do colleagues insist on answering your phone when you have voicemail, to take the name and number of the person calling, but no message at all - so that you have to phone the person who called, find out what they wanted, hang up, go and find the information and ring them back again.

I'm feeling quite annoyed now.

Children wearing skinny jeans or 'jeggings'.

Men with hairstyles.

people who give their sons a number 2 hairsyle, sorry but they look like orphans, poor boys

People saying that threads about threads are not allowed on Mumsnet.

My ex-neighbour sweeping his drive every Saturday morning. Prissy fraek.

Wine with sweet foods, especially chocolate.

People with framed photos of their children up all over the house.

People who ask you to take your shoes off when you visit.

I've thought of another

The way my postman posts some of my mail through the door, then rings the bell for the stuff that won't fit/needs signing for. Why not just pass me the lot when I open the door and save is both a job?

@ Mugglewump. I have to resist asking them which position they played etc :)

I saw that woman on the telly too - who claimed she woke up one day with a French accent.

Just came across as an attention seeking loon to me.

Oh, I never knew about escalator etiquette. It is a good job I don't live in London!

Don't really know why I am worrying about it though - I usually take the lift, owing to 2 month old being in pram. No escalators here will take prams.

I have no major grievances about lifts so far.

People who refer to you as 'man'. As in, 'come on, man'. Arrrrrrggggggh. I am not a man! And we are not in America. Gah, makes me cross just thinking about it. One male friend in particular does this, and it is like fingers down a blackboard. Am going to have to go away and calm down.

Yes the "we" talking about football teams irritates the s**t out of me along with..

Mums getting pissed and going clubbing with their teenage daughters. Wrong.

The "3 sleeps" thing again, childish and contrived

Writing "check" in between items when listing things as in "mobile, check, sunnies, check, purse check" etc etc. Arghhhh!

calling sunglasses "sunnies"

saying "it's a no no" "popping" anything anywhere as in "just pop it in the oven" saying "in a heartbeat" so bloody twee.

I'll think of loads more...