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What perfectly acceptable things that make you unreasonably angry?

854 replies

BrotherBeer · 19/07/2016 09:02

Every morning DH asks me to check over his face for random missed shaving bits and blemishes. Then when I tell him he's fine, he says 'Are you sure?'. Angry Just look in the fucking mirror you dick.

I speak to my mum everyday on the phone. She always asks me what we're having for tea. I tell her then she tells me whether she likes that particular meal or not (usually not). I'm not inviting her round so why do I care if she likes my tea or not? Angry

I'm an unreasonable person.

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SheDoneAlreadyDoneHadHerses · 21/07/2016 17:54

Thanks to my lovely DP, I now get the rage over the incorrect usage of "less", ie 10 items or less. No no. FEWER. If it's an actual number, it's fewer. If not = less.
Also, the correct use of Dave and me, and Dave and I.

Dave and me if it can be interchanged with US.
Dave and I if it can be interchanged with WE.

I bloody notice this everywhere now. Oh, and Oxford commas.

RoboticSealpup · 21/07/2016 17:58

OK, last one from me probably.

That commercial where the couple are lounging on the sofa, and the woman says: "Let's check our credit score", and the man says, voice absolutely dripping with disgust for some reason "What, you wanna check it?!" As if he would rather eat it or screw it or something.

Then the dog walks by and the guy says "I love you" to the dog, and the woman, thinking he is talking to her responds "Oh, love you", in a tone that suggests the complete opposite, to which the man visibly cringes. Because he obviously doesn't love her either.

It's both sad and annoying.

BeMorePanda · 21/07/2016 18:33

Brighton.

I can't go anywhere near it without rage bubbling inside me.

musicislife · 21/07/2016 18:39

BrotherBeer yes the way people start their answer with 'so' , it's like they have pre-prepared , I'm used to 'well' or 'um' , but the way 'so' has taken off just irritates me.

Archedbrowse · 21/07/2016 19:03

People Audi drivers who drive around with their fog lights on at all times.

dementedma · 21/07/2016 19:11

Hiccups. Mine, or anyone else's. If you hiccup near me then I will kill you.
People starting sentences with "so".
Cyclists. ( Will get flamed for that one)

Sallystyle · 21/07/2016 19:19

When patients think I control the weather

Needing a pee when I'm comfortable

Needing to fill up my vape

Having to go up two lots of stairs to get to my bedroom

When my mum pronounces film as filUm

The Biscuit

The abbreviation 'DC'

I want to throttle my son when he says 'Don't it not' 'Mum, this tastes horrible, don't it not?'

The word supper

When posters tells someone they are acting like a spoilt madam

notamummy10 · 21/07/2016 19:22

Pokemon Go, not the app- that's fab. It's the people who moan about the game, I see more people whinging about the game than I do see people playing it.

LoreleiGilmoreIsMyBFF · 21/07/2016 19:56

Most adverts, but in particular the LoveHoney one where couples sit on sofas discussing what a great service this sex toy company offers, as though they're talking about bloody conservatories. And that disembodied male voice in the Secret Escapes ad, who says 'Who are you talking to, darling?'. He really irks me. All National Lottery ads since the dawn of the damn thing have annoyed me, but now they've tripled the irritation factor by having James-fucking-cunt, I mean Blunt in one.

Also the fact I really struggled with spelling conserva what-nots (those glass extension thingies)

Vixyboo · 21/07/2016 19:58

I am angry because I have gone to lie down whilst dp puts ds to bed and have found our bed has no bedding on it...

What a twat I am washing the bedding earlier and not putting new covers on.

I am an idiot.

I am lying on a naked bed (the bed is naked not me!)

Vixyboo · 21/07/2016 20:03

I also get really angry at their and there being used incorrectly! Or were and where. Surely other people paid attention in English lessons?

ABloodyDifficultWoman · 21/07/2016 20:22

Miranda Hart. About as funny as a six week stomach cramp.

LoreleiGilmoreIsMyBFF · 21/07/2016 20:48

Oh, Vixyboo I'm always doing that! Completely sucks. One of the advantages of being single is that if I can't be arsed to make the bed at ten at night, I can sleep under a bare-arsed duvet on naked pillows and no one but me can grumble!

LoreleiGilmoreIsMyBFF · 21/07/2016 20:51

I love this thread. I used to think I was an unreasonably angry person who constantly felt unreasonably angry about many perfectly reasonable things. Now I know I am not alone, and feel reassured and restored, though also unreasonably angry about the fact that the housework refuses to do itself while I keep coming back to this thread.

gillys · 21/07/2016 21:30

Davina Mccall. Why does she always shout ?

Mcchickenbb41 · 21/07/2016 23:02

Dh falling asleep whilst watching TV at night then swearing blind he is awake. I don't care if your sleeping it means I can turn this shit over
People who say me thinks, my bad and starts a sentence with sooo
People who think it's sooooo fuckin hilarious to make you jump by sneaking up behind you
If the iPhone weather app sometimes lies

LikeDylanInTheMovies · 21/07/2016 23:21

People falling asleep when I'm driving on a long journey. You've no bloody right to be tired, I'm the one doing the work here.

BeMorePanda · 21/07/2016 23:25

Gillys Davina is Dora grown up. Smile

LovePGtipsMonkey · 22/07/2016 00:05

politicians starting sentences with 'Look..' arghh - I think it started with Blair.

Pinkissimo yes to people annoyingly ending questions with 'no?' on MN.

People using the word 'snotty' when they mean 'snooty'! snotty means having a running nose and not wiping it, e.g. snotty children! see it on MN all the time. Arrogant people are rarely snotty, ha. Not that it's perfectly acceptable in terms of linguistics , but those who use it think it's right.

Sniffing (not using tissues) or chewing nails on public transport when close to others, yuk - especially when their hands are obviously dirty!

Most of all being trapped with someone chattering NON-STOP, e.g. on a train - no consideration to others reading/resting, and f*g tiresome and boring. Two young women on train next to us this week - seriously not one minute of silence for 1h30min, just why and how? I don';t think it's in the 'perfectly reasonable' category, but had to mention it anyway.

Agree re cold wind

Younger people who say 'yah' in every other sentence, just so 'outdated posh'.

LockedOutOfMN · 22/07/2016 00:14

People making carbonara with cream, milk or evaporated milk.

I don't even like carbonara.

LockedOutOfMN · 22/07/2016 00:16

People misusing "myself". Everyone at my work (a school(!) seems to love to do this. I haven't let on about my hatred.

LockedOutOfMN · 22/07/2016 00:18

SheDoneAlreadyDoneHadHerses Exam. boards are now marking Oxford commas as incorrect, you'll be glad to know. Grin

Are you the chief examiner? If so, please make yourself known and I will gladly bribe you... Grin Grin

newtscamander · 22/07/2016 00:38

The job title "vlogger". Piss off and get a proper career.

Twee, middle class Southerners.

Fake designer goods. What's the point? You just look daft.

The way news readers and reporters talk. That weird emphasis on various syllables. Do they all get taught by the same person or something?! There was a man doing the bbc news tonight who was a breath of fresh air - he just spoke normally.

People typing loose when they mean lose. Makes me stabby.

SurfBored73 · 22/07/2016 01:21

The supermarket selling out of the thing I want to buy. How dare they?

People in the office eating microwaved food at their desk. It stinks you thoughtless fucker.

People on mn who correct their mistakes in a subsequent post with (corrected word). Yes, yes, we knew what you meant.

e1y1 · 22/07/2016 02:23

Supermarkets on a Saturday or Sunday daytime.

I am the most placid person until I have to go in a supermarket at these times. To the point I have nearly made a dear little old lady wear a trolley she wasn't a dear she was a bitch who bashed into my trolley and looked at me like dogshit

Also people who brake incessantly for no apparent reason, I drive an auto which don't have as much engine braking as manuals and don't brake that much.

Spitting, makes me feel sick and rage in a flash.

Also 1000x yes to that fucking Toploader song HATE it (nearly as much as that bastard Happy song from Pharell Williams)