Tell me about things YABU about - and don't care!

[WyldChyld]

I view vegetarians as being unnecessarily fussy and daft. I have friends who are veggies, I will cook for them. Likewise, if someone has an allergy, I will respect that to the nth degree. But I still cannot shake my prejudice that veggies are attention seek-y or making a grand statement mainly cause most of my "veggie" friends stopped so they could stuff their faces with kebabs when drunk and said that they didn't eat bacon as a comment on society xD

Also, I am very, very judge-y about people who use text speak or lazy grammar. Even on things like Facebook. If you're dyslexic, fine. However, I am genuinely on the brink of removing a friend (well, friend of DH who latched on a bit) because her statuses make me want to throttle her.

All of this is wholly internalised and I would never say anything, obviously - tell me yours, no matter how petty / mean / judge-y they are.

You hate the word and?!

I don't mind cyclists on dual lanes. I can overtake them. IAU about cyclists on single lanes where I can't overtake. I am perfectly aware IAU about this, and I don't hate them and it's not their fault, but the situation does annoy me.

I am not unreasonable about people who forget what things such as IABU stand for and ask about things YABU about and not things you are unreasonable about.
I can be unreasonable about things but I'm not being unreasonable about anything at this moment. Except perhaps the thread title and using too much deleted text or amount of text or many deleted words?.

Lweji I had an amazing one the other day. Cyclist coming towards me in my lane, down a hill, in the dark, dressed all in black, no helmet. It was also raining so visibility was poor.

I get unreasonably annoyed at excel issues, like when people send me spreadsheets and havent set the print parameters. This inevitably ends in me pressing print, computer telling me it'll be 190876 pages instead of the 4 it should be, lots of wasted paper and swearing, and wasting my time setting the parameters.

Or using excel and not using formulas, or doing a 'paste values' on the whole sheet before sending it - I asked for the excel version to make life easier, not so I had to redo all your fucking formulas

Or people removing my formulas because they don't understand them, sending it back to me and me having to redo it all again.

Oh and certain colleagues who refuse to go on excel courses even though they can't do it because 'SBN will help if I can't do it' - I have my own fucking job to do, I'm not the excel help desk. Go on the fucking course and learn to do your fucking job

Stevebrucesnose

I TOTALLY Agree . I hate it. Such a waste of time !

I can't be arsed getting UR about trivial things like the vast majority here.
Life's too short to get grouchy and judgemental. Shake it off and enjoy your life. Why clutter your brain with your ideas of other people failings?

flip

you've wasted minutes of your life posting that. YABU.

Oh SNAP!

I agree about cyclists. I know it's cool to cycle...it's environmentally friendly and keeps people fit, but when I'm stuck behind one on a single lane and I can't get past, I really and truly wish they would get off the fucking road.

I judge anyone that describes their dinner as 'homemade'

Anyone that says 'I dont read books' - fuck off

All smug happy people.

people that do this

People who religiously believe in film/game ratings. Ok, some violent slasher or GTA isn't fine with young kids, but Lord of The Rings??? Really...

Steve, and people who send me fucking tables on word, or worse on pdf, for things that I need to do fucking calculations on.
you know who you are Roberto

People who dismiss others on the basis of appearance - shallow fuckers.

People who pause to chat in doorways - MOVE and chat in a free space - I dislike them even more when they give you dirty looks for saying 'excuse me' so you can get through the doorway.

People who pause to chat in the middle of stairs - as above
(in the universities I have worked in students quite often do both of these)

These threads

Me for being hypocritical and posting on this thread

Oh and syrup latte drinks - I only ever have those very occasionally when I'm out as I know they are really a hot milkshake but sometimes I want one godammit, at home I have a posh espresso machine and drink coffee black. So ner

People who put their trolley across the aisle in the supermarket so it's blocked for everyone else.

People who post their dinner on facebook.

People who walk very slowly but spread themselves as far across the pavement as they can by positioning themselves and their companions to take up the whole free space then move like snails so you can't get past them and have to assume snail pace too whilst hyperventilating!

I also don't like answering the door (very unreasonably since I'm usually quite pleased to see the person knocking on it) it feels like a HUGE interruption at the time!

But, Steve, YAU not to check print view before printing. :)

Oh yes - the 'I never read books' brigade..!
People who don't pack their shopping as it's scanned (or put it in to the trolley to be packed elsewhere) so that everyone (and especially you) has to stand watching them pack 12 bags before your items can be scanned
People who leave their trolley sideways, blocking the whole aisle, while they wander off to find an item they've forgotten - and then glare at you when you move it to get past.
Shop assistants who carry on talking to each other/tidying stock while you are standing in front of them with money in your hand waiting to pay
People who tell you that something preposterous 'Must be true - I saw in in the paper/on TV'
Gosh but this is cathartic.......

People who say baby instead of the/our/my baby.
Those who say/write should of, etc. instead of should have/ve
Those who bang on about their diets
Those who eat at their desks - there is somewhere else.
Those who get dogs and don't walk them, e.g. what they need - twice a day.
People who laugh when they talk. All the time. Sod off.

zing. I don't care!

People that don't leave busy cafes/pubs when they have finished their drinks. Don't you worry, I'll just fucking stand while I have a drink and you sit hogging chairs with an empty table in front of you.

Best was when a couple of women came into a packed pub, made a bee-line for a table that had just come free and didn't even get a drink. They just came in to warm up!

flip

correct

DropYourSword - so with you on autocorrect. How many times do you really think I use the word "ghat" in an average day, phone? An average day being one where I'm not cremating people on the banks of the Ganges, to be perfectly clear. Do you think perhaps I meant "that" instead? Mmm?

There's a woman who plays (we use the term loosely) the organ at church now and then when our superb organist is away. She plays all the right notes but not necessarily in the correct order. At the speed of a funeral march. With all the stops out.
She's unaware that she plays so badly and quite arrogant too. I reckon my cat Smoky could play better than her. It ruins the hymns and you spend the whole service cringing. I don't go to church if I know she's going to be rending the air with her ghastly racket. I know it's kind of her to offer, and I should play the thing myself if it bugs me so much. I know IABU but
I don't care!!!

People that use "ect" rather than "etc"

Drivers who stop in the middle of the road, thus blocking it, in order to chat to someone on the pavement. Park nearby. Or phone them later. Or manage without that conversation.

People who say "should of" rather than "should have"

People who allow their children to pick off branches and leaves from garden plants on the way home from school

I think that's me done. For now!

hatespiders there was an organist like that who played at my grandmother's funeral.
It was terrible...my mum and I got a fit of the giggles about it. So inappropriate.
Mum shoved a hankie at me and made "make it look like you're crying" motions at me. I did so, and my uncle kindly leaned over from the pew behind and gave my shoulder a reassuring pat of sympathy.
It took mum and me a loooong time to suppress our snorts of laughter...inconsolable, but not in the way it looked.