I am being completely U and I don't care

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My next door neighbours are a lovely retired couple. They have an adult daughter who often comes to visit.

It totally gets on my wick that she parks her car in the road across the bottom of their drive, rather than pulling into their drive like a normal person would.

ARGH!!

No, it's none of my business. Yes, I have more important things to worry about. No, it doesn't affect my life at all.

It just makes me INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

apparently this originated in the world of science/academia or something How very interesting. I'm fascinated by this kind of cultural study. Seems there's quite a few theories on this so-ism....

I feel bad taking over OPs thread which was more of a rant about parking, with pedantic grammar and speech habits! Sorry OP!

Me too. It's hard not to though when you're one of those folk who get so irked by these things. I'm going to sit and have a little think about the parking/neighbor annoyances I need to exorcise....

I am hugely, genuinely upset about the "literally" thing. Much as I know that language is a complex, multi faceted and above all evolving entity, and needs to change to keep up with changes in usage, SOME THINGS ARE JUST WRONG.

People who use the word "located." It's a waste of space. You don't need to say it.
"The house is located a mile from the shopping centre."

JUST SAY IS!!!! The house IS a mile from the shopping centre.

I use "so" as an opener a lot. I don't know why, I try not to but have done it for ever.

People who say 'space' instead of room/garden etc. looking at you George whatisface. It a fucking room you twat.

Oh lord. I'm doing the cup thing today. In my defence, the office is a chilly 18 degrees and I have stinking cold, but can't take the time off as I have a vaaaairy important meeting.

But I do have the rage in that the new IT system has cocked up a month's worth of sales cost centre allocations, so I now have to sort it all out.

Grrrrr

Fuck off neighbour
I am not your back up childcare your "darling" little child is a horror and I do not want to take care of her so you and dh can sit around scratching your arses.

I received a snippy text message when I told her I couldn't take the little darling for the afternoon as I had my own dd's parent teacher meeting.

I had upset her little darling so much that little darling cried herself to sleep.

ODFOD

I hate people, just people in general! Fuck off fuckwits!

Keeping the parking theme going, the git who parked in my space this morning.

Obviously it's not actually my space, it's the carpark for the whole office and there were hundreds of other spaces free, but this is the best one, it's right opposite the door and everything.

I blame DH for taking his car to be serviced so I had to drop DS off which meant I got in 5 minutes later than normal. He's refusing to accept responsibility and claiming that I'm being irrational

Ishooo's
anyhoo
Baby talk in general.

Talk properly, I am not 5 years old and neither are you.

Why am I so irritated by a woman who rides her bicycle around the estate where I live beaming and smiling at the world in general, why do I want to knock her off her bike?

My ridiculously annoying husband insists on putting things tantalizingly CLOSE TO the place where they belong - just not actually IN the place.

For example, dirty clothes piled on top of the laundry basket, but never in it. Keys and wallet put down next to the small basket by the door I bought especially for keys and wallets. Shoes removed and placed next to the shoe cabinet.

One day I will actually kill him and bury him under the patio, and I will be fine with it. Because it will have been his own annoying fault.

Why am I so irritated by a woman who rides her bicycle around the estate where I live beaming and smiling at the world in general, why do I want to knock her off her bike?

She sounds unbearable. A woman like this used to come to the restaurant where I worked every single day. BEAMING! CONSTANTLY! EVERY DAY! She told me one day that she'd met a man at a "positive thinking seminar" (FUCK. OFF) who was "just like a walking hug! Oh you'd have LOVED him Tinmug!" I am still unable to explain why she said this to me because I am a very angry, bitter, negative person and I don't hide it well.

Why am I so irritated by a woman who rides her bicycle around the estate where I live beaming and smiling at the world in general, why do I want to knock her off her bike? - Do you hate her face?

As for Tinmug's 'friend' - bless her, I bet she thought she needed to convert you, and that is why she said it to you.

((Virtual Hug for you Hun))

My next door neighbours rowing alot in another language i cannot understand. i do have to open my windows now its winter to hear every foreign word, how inconsiderate

Only - my husband does that too. Maybe we should both bury them just NEXT TO the patio?

My ridiculously annoying husband insists on putting things tantalizingly CLOSE TO the place where they belong - My DP does this too. And he's supposedly 'minimalist' and 'hates clutter' - but leaves more mess lying around than I do that's a lie

He leaves his slippers at the bottom of the stairs - but always leaves them sticking out into the hallway, so I have to wind my way around them every time I walk past. Yes, I know I could easily move them, but WHY IS HE NOT CAPABLE of doing it?

I have the rage at drivers who, at the end of our road, don't move across to the appropriate side of the lane at the junction.

It's a lane at the junction wide enough to allow those turning right, if they kept to the right, to leave enough room to their left for the people turning left to squeeze in alongside them rather than waiting behind them.

But some FUCKERS just stop in the middle so if you are going to turn the other way can't get past them. Why? WHY? JUST FUCKING MOVE ACROSS SLIGHTLY YOU FUCKING MUPPET!!!!

Pontouf- I can answer that one! If someone else is ringing at the same time that you try, the line will be engaged.

I've been enjoying a long-term ongoing rage at our new neighbors a few doors down who upon moving in proceeded to rip out the many beautiful mature orchard trees and magnolias from the perimeter of their front garden which had not only created a beautiful entrance to the street but obscured the view of their very average-looking house. It now resembles a barren waste-ground.

Provocative bastards have had now the barefaced audacity to pop a note through the letterbox of every house on the street apologising in advance for any inconvenience which may be caused during the building works to their property. Now I have to extend tolerance and gratefulness at their 'consideration' well fuck you, tree killers. I'm still planning to studiously ignore you when I pass your ugly house

I live on a street that has houses on one side and a park with a lake on the other side. Double yellow lines on both sides of the road so no street parking (we all have driveways).

WHY do people think its ok to park opposite my driveway on the double yellow lines so I can't get my car off the fucking drive. The entrance to the park is down the road from me but the wankers park there then walk to the entrance. If you MUST park on the double yellow lines, MOVE YOUR GOD DAMN CAR UP THE FUCKING ROAD!!!!

Once one car does it, a whole bunch of people start doing it, all along the road so no one can get theirs cars off the drive.

It annoys me even when I don't have to leave the house.

Stupid fuckwits.

Vivi your rage is perfectly reasonable - it's really shit of them to destroy those lovely trees and ruin the whole look of the street, no matter whether it was their land or not. Do people have no taste?

They'll probably make their ugly house even uglier with the new work, since they've already displayed their ignorance of aesthetic value.

Are you on Christmas Card terms with them? If so, make sure you save them the ugliest, shittiest one in the box.

Cosy I've had a good butchers on the planning portal at the blueprints for their extension and was not surprised to see they've gone for trad pastiche.

I like the Christmas card idea. Perhaps I will print out the before and after photos of the street scene that I created at the height of my fury. I could then super-impose "Deck the halls with boughs of holly - oh no it's all been RIPPED OUT" over the top.

trad pastiche. - Lovely, does it have faux half-timber, complete with golden gravel in between their paving slabs?

I get very judgy about these things. I know of a lovely National Trust owned house near me, where the new tenants have ripped out a mature old tree (which I suspect is illegal as there are wildlife implications), cleared loads more trees from the front of it, complaining that they are scared of being out in the country, and don't like the trees shadowing their house, and then covered it with ambulance blue christmas lights. If their landlord can't sort them out, what the hell hope do we have for private home owners?

(I have a problem with those blue lights in general - I always see them off in the distance and think there is a road accident)

Love your Christmas card idea - not passive aggressive at all.

Apologies again to OP for veering off topic!