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AIBU?

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trivial things that fuck me right off

258 replies

NationalAccidentHelpline · 29/06/2012 17:33

AIBU?

  1. People who write 'mmmn' instead of mmm (too onomatopoeic)
  2. People who write yeay or yey instead of yay (fucked up)
  3. People who say they baked 'flapjack', not flapjacks (twee fuckwits)
  4. Nom nom nom (stab stab stab)
  5. Anyone who says 'make love' with a straight face (gag reflex-tickling)
  6. Meegraine instead of My-graine (frankly you deserve one if you can't say it properly, sorry if you're a mIgraine sufferer and I've just really offended you, I know it's a serious condition etc etc and I wouldn't wish it on anyone who could say it properly )

That is all

  1. And people who say the above ^ (you're not Miranda Fucking Priestley, but I know this has been discussed already so I won't go on about it)
OP posts:
microserf · 30/06/2012 22:23

People who get on the tube when the passengers are still getting off. And while we are at it, tourists, the top of the escalator or the exit to the tube is not the place to fricking well stop en masse and debate your next sightseeing stop. Get. The. Fuck. Out. Of. The. Way.

Mouthbreathers.

Women who do their makeup, paint their nails or otherwise groom themselves on public transport. Especially the woman who clipped her nails and then toenails on the upper deck of a bus I was on recently and left the little half moon shaped clippings all over the seat and floor.

Haitch, ickle, etc. Unbearable. Like nails on a blackboard.

People who take their 4x4 in central London for the school run. Tossers.

Loup23 · 30/06/2012 22:27

People who say dude and awesome, we're not in the US of A......

People who say U S of A

People who are overweight but insist they hardly eat a thing....

People who have mobile phone conversations that are proportionately louder the further away the person on the other end is

People touching your pregnant stomach - yes FIL it's creepy

And Chris Tarrant still on the list joined by soulless Tim Henmam

Tigresswoods · 30/06/2012 22:40

People who drive really slowly & indecisively. Doesn't help that we live on the local test route. That's right; we live in Learnersville

People who always say "I". Sometimes it's "me". You can say "DH & me...". You really can.

People at my local station (really not far from London) who don't understand travel cards & the fact that they probably don't need one. No problem for me but seriously, London is right there, it's not that confusing.

That's better.

Tigresswoods · 30/06/2012 22:41

Yes yes yes "I can't seem to lose weight, I hardly eat anything"

Really?

Anothertoybroken · 30/06/2012 22:43

People who say, when offered sugar for their tea, 'no thanks, I'm sweet enough! Ahahahaha!'

People who say 'not only that, but...' and then repeat the exact same point you just made but in a slightly different way!

People who say 'well, that was good! Ahahahahaha!' at the cinema when the lights come up for a bit after the ads.

'Random'. Arghhhh!

The way MIL shortens or changes words (Knicks for knickers, napkins for nappies etc). Like, random.

yellowraincoat · 30/06/2012 22:45

#Oh oh oh oh oh oh ohoh

People who say "myself" to mean "me". Episodes of the Apprentice are RIDDLED with this affront to grammar.

"Darren and myself went to the Strand". "Who headed the team?" "That was myself Lord Sugar".

IT. DOES. NOT. MAKE. YOU. SOUND. CLEVER.

pictish · 30/06/2012 22:46

Yeah - people who clamour to board the bus before the peoplem who are getting off, have got off. I want to prod them back with a long stick!

pictish · 30/06/2012 22:50

When dh's aunt rings up to remind me it's Grandma's birthday in a fortnight, or great aunt Ruby's anniversary or whatever it is.
Tell dh ok?

I have a my own family to worry about, and I have met great aunt Ruby once. She does not factor into my life. Dh's on the other hand.....

Imagine if my aunt rang him up to tell him to send cards to my relatives?

pictish · 30/06/2012 22:51

Fil's fucking cravat.

KingscoteStaff · 30/06/2012 23:11

Mothers who ignore THREE emails asking for their sons' availability for a cricket match and then ring up the night before saying they've been completely stressed out at work and can I squeeze little Johnny in somewhere. No I can't. It's called a cricket ELEVEN for a reason.

shineypenny · 30/06/2012 23:16

People who ask for an email address and then say 'is that all lowercase?' I am so tempted to say that every other letter is uppercase except after c

yellowraincoat · 30/06/2012 23:17

lol shineypenny.

People who do that also go "is that all one word?"

No, it has a fucking space in it.

shineypenny · 30/06/2012 23:28

I recently had someone who challenged the fact that my (work) email ended .com She insisted it must be .com.co.uk
Whatever you like love, I'll delete your email anyway Grin

pictish · 30/06/2012 23:31

Miserable gruff bus drivers, who treat you with contempt for daring to use the public bus service. Fuck you too mate.

This annoyed me the day before last. I went into the local kebab shop, to get dh and I a late dinner. The man behind the counter asked for my order, and in the middle of giving it to him, the phone rang and he just about-faced and answered it, leaving my words in mid air....before proceeding to take someone else's order and putting it on the griddle, before coming back to finish taking mine. I thought that was pretty shite.

yellowraincoat · 30/06/2012 23:32

oh the grumpy men in my corner shop. I'm in there every day, sometimes spend loads, you could at least get off the phone when you are talking to me, you rude bastards.

shrimponastick · 30/06/2012 23:40

those annoying bleeders trying to coerce me into signing up to a different electricity company in the supermarket. Nob off! I am doing the shopping!

Bad use of apostrophes. How do signwriters/printers not know how to use them correctly. We can spend many a happy hour pointing out the errors on menus or should that be menu's??? Grin

Shoud 'of'. That is so commonly used nowadays - very annoying.

Bad table manners ! I sometimes can't watch Come Dine with me due to the inability of contestants to handle cutlery.

There is much, much more!!!

twitchrabbitbouncebounce · 30/06/2012 23:41

tourists on the acquaduct that take 110 photos, most with me in it, while I am walking across it to get to the bus.
I have stopped & waited the appropriate time for you to take a few photos of the view & now If I hang around until you have 111 photos of the exact same thing I will miss my bus. It only comes once an hour. Please just let me pass and do not cats bum me because you got my face in your lens.

Also people that expect the acquaduct to be one way. it isn't I can walk in one direction while you walk the other. You won't fall down the big drop because of the even bigger rail. You probably won't fall in the canal, and I am happy to walk next to the water anyway, but I won't be happy if I DO fall in because you will not fucking move over to the fucking side so I can pass. Two people can fit on this fucking path.

Gah. First world problems, hate hate hate. but I do have a lot of 'small village problems'

I hate people that when I say I bought (want to type purchased as I am always paranoid about brought/bought and MN has now made it worse) some furniture from a recycling warehouse today ask me if it is clean. Hmm no. I am going to take dirty, shitty, horrible things and put them in my house because obviously I am skanky because I am skint.

people that stop in Tesco for a chat with their trolleys swung into the middle of the aisle and then cats bum face me when I try to get past with my trolley. go to the cafe and chat if you want to, do not stand in the fridge asile. it is cold, I need to go buy bread - just move your bloody trolley.

People that replace swear words with sugar, frick, whatever.. if you dislike swearing then fine, but don't fricking replace every other fricking work with a fricking shit poor excuse for actual swearing. it makes you sounds sodding ridiculous!

People on the bus who Hmm at my disabled bus pass just because I am not in a wheelchair. it is none of your business and I don't need to explain my life to you so fuck of to the island of narrowminded fucktards.

(it has been a bad day)

shrimponastick · 30/06/2012 23:42

checkout staff who talk to one another whilst serving you.

As ex-checkout staff I was taught that it was a big no-no. I hate it, but have yet to confront one about it. The older I get the more likely it is to happen.

pictish · 30/06/2012 23:48

I know, I toyed with confronting kebab man at the time, but chickened it. My mum definitely would've had her say though.

oooohhhhyes · 01/07/2012 00:41

Making the effort to be reasonably polite in saying no thanks to cold callers because it's not easy doing such a shitty job, only for them to rudely hang up on me!

poppy283 · 01/07/2012 09:41

I can't bear one-year anniversary.

StarlightWithAsteroid · 01/07/2012 09:44

People who stay on the phone whilst simultaneously using a service provided by a person I.e bank clerk, post office person, cashier etc.

Hang up first. They are people. You're being very rude.

SoleSource · 01/07/2012 09:52

You seem dull.

Lueji · 01/07/2012 09:54

Twitch, is fricking an actual swear word? Wink

And just tell the trolley ladies to move, looking even more annoyed than them.

Lueji · 01/07/2012 10:01

yellow
you also mean "Darren and I"

Leaving now...
:o