WE KNOW WE'RE UNREASONABLE BUT...

[TequilaMockingbirdy]

what things really really annoy you, but for no reason? Like you know it's unreasonable but you still get annoyed.

DP switching the router off at the wall pisses me off no end.

[Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme]

When you say everything dangling I assume you mean his bits and not, um...

[JessePinkmansHoody]

Treacle, maybe Friend A's mum hated Friend B's dad.. Maybe they had "previous" y'know and she drove off thinking "that'll wake the old fucker up..."

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

cake

Plus the towel thing that someone else said.
Basically stuff not put away.

Oh, and all the Boots adverts and M&S adverts

And Davina Mcall (sp?) and how everyone on radio/ tv loves her

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

stuart and witchway

Loads of good ones on this thread.

[WitchWay]

Yes, tackle dangling - urgh! Usually socks kept on as well

[Cakeismymaster]

witch is there a pre and post poi weigh in too so he can tell you the proportions of it?
That actually happens at my house (grim)

[squizita]

Barefoot Contessa.

[WitchWay]

Cake no, thank goodness! Often a description though


I'm just not that interested in pooing as a leisure activity. I feel the need, go, finished - all over in five minutes maximum including any use of the bidet. No need to strip off, sit for hours, take a magazine/laptop/iPod

[FolknNorah]

People walking in front of me.

Do I win?

[Arabica]

I am profoundly (and irrationally) irritated by people who drape a cardigan or jumper around their shoulders instead of putting it on properly. Either on or off, people.

[helenthemadex]

crumbs in butter, butter in jam, loo roll the wrong way round end against the wall is just wrong snotty sniff makes me gag to hear it just vile go away from me and do it, bare feet touching me dp that means you keep your feet away from me in bed

all of the above make me

[squizita]

Having spent hours in my early 20s helping translate lesser known Greek texts (ancient), the oft-said claim that breasts have only been "sexual" in the last 100 years and were purely for feeding before.

Nope. I spent hours discussing tone (for the English) with a Greek prof, to make their tit obsessed ancient verse sound somehow classy.

Not to mention it can get slightly slut-shamey. Biologically they do act as an eroginous zone in many women.

I have no idea why this statement irks me so much, it just does.

[PiratePanda]

I hear you squizita . No homosexuality before the 19C, huh, Foucault? Then who are all these men who are "known" for preferring other men in medieval Persian literature then?

[StuartMumsnet]

TalisaMaegyr there are a few of us, although don't worry, we're heavily outnumbered.

[EasilyDistracted77]

The way DH leaves his knife and fork arranged on his plate when he has finished eating leaves me feeling irrational hatred! He tucks the knife in between the prongs of the fork, rather than just leaving knife and fork lying next to each other. Grrr!

[FolknNorah]

Also PiratePanda if it didn't exist until recently why is it in the bible ? (hmm]

[TalisaMaegyr]

Good, good StuartMumsnet. Nice to see a bit of inequality

[poorbuthappy]

DH making a sandwich. He makes 1, doesn't put anything away incase he wants more.
Eats his dinner looking at the mess on the worktop.

Fair enough if its a proper dinner, clean up afterwards, but with a sandwich surely you tidy up before you sit down?

[squizita]

Folk Breasts as sexual are also in the Bible (Song of Solomon). Shock!

If this is mentioned though, people start ranting about anti-breastfeeding.

I'm not anti breastfeeding. Modern society has marketed breasts well actually whole female bodies as 'just' for sex. I am merely aware that prior to modern society, they weren't 'just' for feeding and were considered erogenous/fertile! They were also considered chaste and for feeding when a woman nursed.
Like MOUTHS... kissing = sexy, eating = nutrition: they can be both and a woman should not be considered either less sexy or less motherly on account of them. No one has any problem with men having 'dual use' body parts.

TBH I do find that people making facts up to support really good causes makes me fume. The facts are ENOUGH! Exaggerating or guilt tripping adds nothing.

[hjeffers]

Bus drivers who complain when I get on with a £5 note. FFS they should be able to provide change! The other one is the woman in my post office who pulls a mardy face when I turn up with more than 2 parcels. - IT'S YOUR JOB!!!!

[Jessica612]

DH's inability to find the dishwasher.
He puts his dishes near the dishwasher. No dish ever got washed that way, to my knowledge.

[TheRealAmandaClarke]

jessica that doesn't count. Because YANBU

Oh, people who say "Have you eaten?" rather than asking if you want something to eat.
It sounds so ..... Measly. As though only if you've not eaten (since when?) are you to be offered any nourishment. "yes, I had a Creme egg on the way here does that mean I'm not allowed to have any lunch?"

[Universal]

EasilyDistracted just reading your post makes me feel funny. So very wrong.

[peanutbutterandbanana]

People who eat with their mouths open and so make a 'slapping' noise - yuk!

MY DCs who say 'I'm good' when anyone (including me) asks them how they are. I will decide if they are good or not, the answer they are looking for is 'I'm well, thank you' or 'I'm fine'. Bloody American TV sitcom imports have a lot to answer for.

People on FB who send me 'recommendations' of who to befriend. I don't need any help finding 'friends' thank you.

People who put a spoonful of something in their mouth and then pull the spoon out with half of the something still on the spoon (yes, DH, I am talking about you when you eat yoghurt or icecream) It is a disgusting habit. Even worse when they do it a second or third time. JUST TAKE A SMALLER SPOONFUL TO START WITH YOU PLEB!

People who rarely wipe round (or clean) their kitchen sinks.

DH going to bed before me. This really grates. I love having five minutes in the bed all to myself and DH really spoils it when he takes that pleasure away.

[peanutbutterandbanana]

Recipes from the USA - all very, very wrong on many fronts and totally annoying.