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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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brodchengretchen · 19/07/2016 12:01

I hate it when people eat their food by irritatingly picking it into tiny pea-sized pieces and then pushing them through their irritating lips, one at a time.

bibbitybobbityyhat · 19/07/2016 12:03

People who post enormous long lists in answer to this type of thread on Mumsnet. It's NOT all about you and the shorter posts are genuinely far more interesting.

People who moan about the heat after it has been warm for a couple of days after the coldest, wettest most miserable June ever.

SueGeneris · 19/07/2016 12:07

Yes! 'Give it up for ... ' or 'next up ...'. What does it mean?

Also as mentioned 'can I get ...' and 'my bad'.

Also Last Night of the Proms makes me feel unspeakably angry. All that pomp and flag waving. I hate it.

Bits of hair sticking to my face if it's windy. Hair getting in my face in general.

Clothes that do not fit just right. I hate falling down trousers or too short sleeves or things that crumple. Things that are too baggy or pants that crawl up your arse. On me, that is.

Being too hot. Unbearable.

Girlie this or that. Shopping for clothes accompanied.

My children making irritating noises when I am too hot or there is too much other noise.

The bath mat sliding off the edge of the bath.

Generally things that aren't in their place or are too noisy or too pompous or Americanisms not being spoken by Americans.

I'm apparently not very tolerant!

SueGeneris · 19/07/2016 12:08

Ha - x posts a long list with bibbity!

moonlight1705 · 19/07/2016 12:08

People who snore when I am trying to watch television but when you jolt them, they say that they were listening and just were resting their eyes......I can't hear the bloomin tele ffs.

People who leave one dirty sock under the bed whilst the other one goes somewhere vaguely near the wash basket and then wonder why all their socks are odd.

People who cannot work out that a floor lamp with a foot button does not need to be turned off at the wall Angry

KatsutheClockworkOctopus · 19/07/2016 12:08

Everyone feeling duty bound to help after Sunday lunch at ILs, meaning a queue of 10 people fighting over who dries up a teaspoon.

Having to take the lid off new milk makes me really cross for no reason I can fathom.

crayfish · 19/07/2016 12:08

Things like golf/snooker on the radio. I mean they are bad enough on the tv, but on the RADIO?!!!

BorpBorpBorp · 19/07/2016 12:10

People who use the word "naughty" when describing food.
People who need herd approval to eat "naughty" food - "ooh, it's a bit naughty, but do you think I should just have one of these biscuits?" - yeah, if you want one, they're for everyone, just have one ffs nobody's going to arrest you.

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 19/07/2016 12:15

zlebs who go on cookery programmes and then having had something very exciting and fabulous like a great big slab of meat, a beautiful sauce, and some sort of delicious looking veg cooked for them, proceed to slice the tiniest corner from a minuscule amount of garnish and proclaim it to be utterly amazing

fuck right off you twat, that cutlery is not even dirty enough to wash!

crayfish · 19/07/2016 12:15

Yy to 'naughty'! Or cheeky, as in 'cheeky nandos' or 'cheeky g&t', argh!

Theydontknowweknowtheyknow · 19/07/2016 12:18

Oh I love how people change the meanings of words or make mistakes which then morph into the correct accepted version.

The only thing that really annoys me is heat. Like today. Everyone bangs on about it but it's uncomfortable. Winter is much cosier.

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poppym12 · 19/07/2016 12:28

Using the words 'being good' when refusing the food or drink on offer. What's good about just not shoving something in your mouth? Who cares?

The words yum, yummy, nom nom etc make me want to strangle the person using them. Typing them has made my fingers itch.

squoosh · 19/07/2016 12:30

I agree Boiledfart. I wish those flourescent vegetable interlopers would feck off.

SnugglySnerd · 19/07/2016 12:30

Where to start??

Catatonia
Tights
Mushrooms
Misplaced apostrophes
People using "yourself" and "myself" incorrectly.
Litter and people who don't recycle
Barbecues are always disappointing too.
I'd better stop now, my blood pressure is rising as I type!!

TheHuntingOfTheSarky · 19/07/2016 12:30

People who aren't light-hearted on light-hearted threads

monkeysox · 19/07/2016 12:31

Fucking whistling.

I seen that. I done this. Fuck right off. You thick twats.

Jazz music.

DowntonDiva · 19/07/2016 12:37

DP putting empty ketchup, peanut butter, marg, egg cartons etc back in the fridge

People who use more than one card at the cash machine

Jazz music, makes me anxious

The word "Fab" and even worse "fabby"

HazelBite · 19/07/2016 12:43

Youngsters who, like, have to use the word, like, to tell you like, how something has like happened to them like, the other day , like, and it was really like wow, like!!!!!!!!!

Maki79 · 19/07/2016 12:43

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Rattymare · 19/07/2016 12:47

Ring pulls on tins...
If I do manage to open the tin without cutting myself I more often than not end up flicking the contents of baked beans or dog food all over the kitchen.
Give me a good old fashioned tin opener any day.

scampimom · 19/07/2016 12:47
  1. Historical dramas that use current idioms. "I guess that makes us even, Mr Darcy" or some such ill-researched claptrap.

  2. Ferne Cotton. What, apart from a face like a startled trombone, and a voice like broken glass down a blackboard, does the talentless bint have to offer the world?

  3. The fact that, if I were to meet Ferne Cotton, I would probably fall over myself to be nice and kiss her ass because I am a coward.

thebakerwithboobs · 19/07/2016 12:47

Pennies. Adults who say 'I haven't got the pennies' or 'I'll give you the pennies.' It's money ffs. I get ridiculously rageful.