Tell me about things that really piss you off even though you know you're being unreasonable...

[CrazyNewDogLady]

I'll start.

My mum always puts 'your' in front of every single activity, work, hobby I do and it annoys the fucking life out of me. For example, me and DH bake a cake every Saturday because we're cool like that. Every time we speak on Saturdays she asks 'Did you do your baking today?'. I find it patronising, like she's saying 'Did you do your little baking activity today? Ah, good girl'.

I know I'm BU. I know she doesn't mean to be patronising but it boils my piss. But because I'm BU, I can't say anything. So I have to just fume quietly and vent on MN

People talking on the train. Just shut up!

People using 'lol' as punctuation.

People claiming it's OK to be virtually illiterate because 'language evolves'.

People asking questions or commenting on the food I am eating. Fuck OFF.

DH's hording of junk. Just found a bag of dead batteries in his receipts drawer.

On that note Angeles - I once had to wait nearly 3 hours for a delayed - lost! - bus from the middle of nowhere. There was absolutely no other way around it except to wait. Bearing in mind I had no idea the wait was going to be nearly 3 hours, the entire time there was someone else waiting with me but she was on her phone. The entire time. Just me and her and she was talking totally insane shite the entire time on her phone. I'm sorry but I win.

Just to clear up some things : I don't always press the zebra crossing button but wait for a gap in the traffic bcs I don't want to bring all those cars to a stop when I am half way up the road on the other side. And I've heard that people who audibly talk to voices in their head are grateful for those ear/wire/bud things bcs they can chatter away and everyone thinks they're in a business meeting.

Cant YESSSSSS! Also "if you're doing the night feeds you might as well do other wake ups too, no point in us both having a broken night..."

A broken night or a broken neck mate, you choose...

People looking like they're enjoying ice cream too much- slurping a bit off the spoon with their eyes shut, then turning the spoon upside down to lick rest of the slobbery dregs off.

Recommending a recipe, then the person saying ''Oh I'm not going to add the wine though, I don't like wine'' then them wondering why it tastes like shit.

People insisting the best way to catch mice is by moving all the big bits of furniture out so they can ''corner it'' and whilst they're distracted with the futile task of heaving the settee about, the mouse happily scuttles out of the open door .

OK Daffs you win

Words

'station stop' is correct.

The train may well pass through a station without stopping.

The train may stop for another reason (eg.at a signal) but not a station.

So if you were travelling between Aston and Birmingham New St. The next station is Duddeston which the train passes through. The next stop will be for a red signal at the Grand Junction.

But the next station-stop is Birmingham New Street.

Pedantic I know.

People who say Asdas, Aldis, Lidls or Tescos. Where did the extra s come from?
People at the checkout who dither over if they need help packing or not.
People in the checkout queue who load from the SIDE of the belt meaning that some fucker is going to come along at the back and start loading as well meaning that fucking side loader is going to have piles of stuff 5 foot high of which some of it will eventually fall off the belt and break.
People who don't want help packing but take a fucking age to do it.
People who try to use healthy start vouchers to buy a trolley full of mainly frozen pizzas - fuck off!
People who take ages to get their method of payment out at the checkout.
No if it won't scan it's not free and oh yes hilarious that you don't need help packing but could do with some paying.
I really couldnt give 2 fucks that you have left your bags in the car or at home and have absolutely loads.

Yes, I'm just off to work .... On a checkout :-)

Mummies. Yummy mummy. Mummy milk (boak). Mummy friends.

My DP blowing his nose. Sounds like an elephant.

People who get in a lift and don't turn to face the same way as everyone else, meaning you're standing practically nose to nose.

People sniffing. Blow your nose!

What flossiesmummy said re FB buying/selling groups. Also the same people in the same groups who never say please or thank you. 'Wot prams have people got. Don't want to spend much as I'll only use it once a week'. Stabby.

Mummy juice (milk), that should have been.

Some of these are legitimate which has strayed a little from op's intent. Almost everything done by almost everyone else pisses me off - and I know that's unreasonable of me.

Oh I've found my spiritual home here.

Heinous spelling and grammar, and worse still the justification that it doesn't matter, there are more important things in life to worry about, who cares as long as you can get your meaning across??? I FUCKING CARE!!! Why are you priding yourself on being functionally illiterate when our language is a beautiful thing??? Do you not want to at least TRY not to sound like a completely uneducated loser?

Eatery.
Nom nom nom.
Hubs.
We are pregnant.
Michievious. It's MISCHIEVOUS, not MISCHIEVIOUS.

People who don't read anything ever.
People who have no opinion on any aspect of current affairs or anything in the news ("politics is soooo boooooring", said in a whiny voice)

Clever women who wilfully make themselves look stupid for effect (Claudia Winkleman on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, I am looking at you).

Yes, clapping along to music gives me the seethes. In fact all sorts of audience participation I have hated since I was a child (I loathed going to the pantomime and would sit sullenly, refusing to shout HE'S BEHIIIIIIND YOU with all the other children).

The M&S bloody Sparks card.

Adult fussy eaters and grown men and women who somehow pride themselves on not being able to cook. It's not an esoteric hobby, people, it's a fundamental adult skill, FFS ...

Small fluffy dogs (which everyone seems to have now - what happened to all the big hairy hounds that you used to see that were a million times better)?

People in general, largely, it must be said.

ooh I am enjoying this!

• people who say "Markses" instead of Marks & Spencers.
• fidgits (please just sit still!)
• DH leaving a used teaspoon on the counter, directly above the completely empty dishwasher.
• mum calling up "for a chat" and then not saying much, or just saying "so ... "). Call me up when you have something to say.

(*Marks and Spencer - urgh, now hate myself a bit for the extra "s")

I have just remembered I have an irrational hatred of TV soap operas and talent shows. I wish I could find a way to be more tolerant of these - it would widen my dating options and prospects for a lastig relationship I feel.

Younique seller.

I'm not being unreasonable though.

She annoys me but yet I can't turn away. Her FB statuses...it's just crazy. I hardly know her, well, I've known her for years as she is related to my children but I have said about two words to her in 16 years. She messaged me saying how much she misses me, how she can't wait to catch up with me, how beautiful she thinks I am. It was quite odd, not a natural conversation at all, then she followed up with a message saying how she wants me to join her team because she wants all her best friends to join her. Since when have I been her best friend?

Did she think I fell off a fucking Christmas tree?

To make it worse, two of my fb friends are now in the cult. It does provide some laughs though so I won't unfollow them just yet.

The post about the DM who goes round singing 'chachacha' is hilarious, my DM sings 'lalalala' constantly, to her own arrangement of various tunes, usually at a much slower tempo than the original. Me and DS call it the Nanny Kravitz remix.

People who talk about 'full fat' coke; coke doesn't contain any fat you numbskulls.

My DH watching channels not in HD. For example we have BBC HD but he puts the crappy fuzzy non-HD BBC on instead.

My DH when I don't hear something he says but he just repeats the last part of it. For example he will say 'I am going to pick DS up and pop to Spar for some Jaffa Cakes' and I will say 'what did you say?' and he will reply 'Jaffa Cakes'.

People who use strikethrough wrongly (or how I consider to be wrong). There are some of them on this thread....

Oh, that reminds me (the HD tv one), people who watch 4:3 tv progs in 16:9 so everyone looks short and fat - can't they see it looks all wrong?

Dh breathing into my face or on the back of my neck at night, when I am trying to get to sleep.

Dh sleeping, on purpose, whilst I lie awake (fucking insomnia).

Dh asking questions then not bothering to listen to/remember the answer.

Dh eating all sorts of crap and not putting on weight.

Just pop your card in for me.
Sign here for me.
Hold the line for me.

No, I'm not signing for you I'm signing because I have to for my own required outcome. Don't overstate your importance, stranger.

'Methinks'

Anyone who uses the word 'pop' especially in healthcare. 'Pop up on the table for me' AAAARRRGGGHH