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 with wheely bags especially :

(i) the people who trundle loudly down my street at night at least a couple of hours before public transport has even started - just why?

(ii) people who use them as battering rams on the tube;

(iii) people who push rather than pull them so that you trip over them in a crowd;

(iv) people who get to the bottom of the escalators and simply must stop and fiddle with their wheely bags, needless of the fact that the escalator is continuing to deliver people who now have nowhere to get off.

Can you tell I'm a Londoner?

Brams Sat 19-Mar-16 10:59:03
Aforementioned brother asks for "cereals" for breakfast. Grr!
And refers to my granddaughter as "snivelling" when she has a cold. And despite my explaining the difference between sniffling and snivelling, continues to do so. Why??

Your brother is actually right about snivelling...... according to the dictionary

People who pronounce 'mischievous' as 'Mis-CHEEV-EE-ous'.

And Mascarpone as MARS-capone.

People in cafes / self-service restaurants/ meetings / training who faff around because they have to have a cup of tea. They fartarse around with teabag, hot water, milk, sugar, spoons etc, make a mess & cause a huge queue, flap their wet milky hands around and give the rage to those of us who are desperate to grab a quick black coffee

Putting shit telly on then promptly falling asleep with the f'ing remote in one hand. I don't want my reading time polluted by shit telly and I KNOW we will have to repeat the shit tv tomorrow because he missed it. (Sat looking at the end of escape from Alcatraz on my lonesome). I know I'm BU. He's tired.

People who let their children have those trunki things (or whatever they're called) but don't supervise them, especially at crowded airports. The parents crack on ahead, oblivious to the mayhem and bashed limbs that their precious ones are causing behind them. If you must let your dc use these things it would be lovely if you didn't please supervise them. Airports are stressful enough without having to worry about your little darlings bashing into us and other people, some of whom are elderly, have delicate skin, etc. Buying them a pretend suitcase on wheels does not absolve you of your responsibility to ensure that they are not a nuisance to others.

The woman who pathetically says "Ava sit down" whilst little Ava runs amok in the dance class! Just grab the little shit and make her sit down like the rest of them! Grrr, feel better now, as you were!

My DH talks about parallelising our time in a supermarket and steams off down various aisles with no particular thought to meal planning just frantically throwing thing in the trolley. I now do all our shopping with Ocado.

IthinkIamsinking that last reply was for you. I still haven't quite figured out how to work this mumsnet despite 3 years of faithful usage.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes

fibrecruncher - our DHs could go together in a sneeze off. I think nuclear war has started when my DH starts atchooing. I live in fear of him having a bad cold.I fear that my DH would outdo them all, there appears to be a family trait he has inherited for the worlds weirdest sneezing fits. He never sneezes just once, it is a whole raft of increasingly snotty sneezes, all loud and theatrical and often ending in a little whine that sounds like a dog. Ds's piss themselves laughing and if he's upstairs sneezing we are all usually downstairs whining after each one.

I just heard DH's father sneeze and now consider myself lucky.

Thought of another, people that stand infront of the entrance barriers looking for their oyster card. Aarrrggghhh, get out of the way you disorganised fool, half of London is trying to get through that barrier this very minute.

Yep fibrecruncher and the ones who think they have to wait for the gates to close again after the previous person before they tap their card....aargh!! As someone who travels though Oxford Circus every day I have very regular travel rage, especially with tourists who I think should be banned from travelling at busy times

DD1, now 19, cannot walk in a straight line, meaning that every single sodding time we walk down a street/through a shopping centre etc she consistently veers directly into my path. doesnt matter which side of me she is, she still does it. I'm surprised she's lived so long...

the people in front of me in the airport check in queue who take 15 mins to hand over 4 cases and present their passports. why do you seem to engage lady/lad behind desk in depth conversation? what about? argh.

Me and mine to get to desk and get sorted in 3 mins... so what is your feckingissue?

Being able to hear my housemates tv through the walls in my bedroom. It irritates the fuck out of me hearing the murmuring from whatever shite she's watching when I'm trying to go to sleep It puzzles me she is able to get up at 4.30am and still has it blaring past midnight at times

Those idiotic ear hole circle things that make massive holes in your earlobe. GROW UP!!! it looks disgusting

People licking their fingers when turning the pages in a book.

People licking the salt and grease of their fingers when they've finished a bag of crisps.

People holding a sandwich in close proximity to their mouth and nibbling on it rather than lifting it to their mouth and taking a proper bite.

People referring to their parents as 'mum' or 'dad' rather than 'my mum' or 'my dad' - 'I'm going to visit mum this weekend.' , 'It's dad's 65th birthday this year' - as if they were my parents too or a universal parent to all human kind.

"handy hints being described as 'hacks'"

^^ 100%

I could fill a whole thread with my irritations though.

'Imposter syndrome' is also a big irritation. Is that a little thing though? Maybe not.

Pacifically instead of specifically

L'il instead of little.

Unless you are the rap singers Kim, Wayne, Bowwow.

The way my mum blows on her tea between every mouthful and the earnest expression on her face as she drinks it - like she's doing something really important!

People in my zumba class who do not place themselves within a horizontal line. Dancers are supposed to arrange themselves in roughly horizontal lines, not position themselves randomly between 2, and worse still occasionally drifting into a line and then out again. Geez, sort yourself out!

People in my zumba class who get their left and right side mixed up with no rhythm and are big and position themselves right in the middle of the front of the class blocking and confusing the hell out of me.

Likedylan yes and I also cannot stand ickle instead of little

'My ickle boy' urghhhh

"Alcomahol"

Pictures of Minions with completely unrelated text under it.

Lip smacking.
Watching other people brush their teeth.
The words 'telly', 'nibble' and 'supper'.
Referring to the evening meal as 'tea'.
Loud sneezing or coughing.
People who blow on mugs of hot drinks/bowls of soup and hold them with both fucking hands.
People who don't know the difference between two/to/too or there/their/they're.
Fat people - especially those that spend their whole day at work eating.
Feet: either the mention or displaying of.
People who cannot stand silence and insist on filling it with small talk.
The Welsh accent.
People who have finished their food in a restaurant/cafe and proceed to read or sit and talk, especially when the place is heaving.
Whispering, or at the opposite end of the scale, people who cannot talk and roar constantly.
Phoning someone who is too deaf to hear you, but is too proud to use a hearing aid/textphone and insists you shout down the phone.
The eating of: crisps, baked beans, cheese or eggs.
Having smelly foods for lunch in an office.
The application of the word 'legend' to sportsmen and woman.
Driving well below the posted speed limit, not reading lanes and not cancelling indicators.
Snoring; it may be involuntary, but don't get between me and my sleep - I expect you to leave the room or get surgery.
People who revel in their own victimhood and use it as a weapon.
Allowing children to run amock in shops/restaurants/cinemas, or pretending not to hear them scream or cry and ruin my enjoyment thereof.
Richard Osman (or is it Dick) using valuable oxygen and oozing smugness, his ugliness should be banned by law and he should be pelted with rotten eggs in a different town everyday.
Adele - ditto.
Whispy, breathing singing during adverts.
Answering a question with " so..."
Calling beverages like Coke 'pop'.
Any co-ordinated, public display of rhythmic movement (arm-swaying, clapping, flag-waving, alternate arm-pumping).
People who invade my personal space.
Smokers who don't realise just how much it makes them, their clothes and their home stink.
M&S adverts, stores and clothing - each more shitty than the last.
Shoes-off or no shoes houses, how manky. A good, stiff mat, kept clean and changed regularly is the answer!
Not pronouncing all of the 'r's in February or library.
Lazy use (or complete lack) of glottal stops.