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AIBU: There is a special place in hell....

257 replies

VivienneWestwoodsKnickers · 01/11/2016 18:36

For people who....

Chew with their mouths open
Bite spoons or forks
Don't turn off the keypress noises on their mobiles. "beep beep beep beep beep" when texting

Unreasonable? I call those basic manners.

What about you? Who would you send to the firey depths of hell?

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M00nUnit · 01/11/2016 19:53

I second most of these. Also can't stand people who smell of garlic. It's revolting, especially when you're stuck standing next to them on the tube.
Also "que" instead of "cue" or "queue" (something I've only ever come across on mumsnet, oddly) "definately" instead of "definitely", "your" when it should be "you're", "should of" instead of "should have"... I could go on.

SlottedSpoon · 01/11/2016 19:55

People who are too lazy to empty the bin so keep overfilling the bin bag until can't get it out of the bin without it splitting and getting rotten food and rancid bin juice all down your legs.

People who put opened packets of ham / biscuits etc back in the fridge or cupboard without wrapping or sealing them.

People who don't butter the bread for sandwiches or who don't butter both sides or take it all the way to the edge.

People who insist on washing everything up by hand but do a really crap job of it so everything is still smeary and stained. Either use the dishwasher or do it properly and check it afterwards.

People who play tinny music from their phones in the street and on public transport.

Loud mouth breathers, noisy eaters and wet/messy sneezers. People who keep sniffing and snorting instead of blowing their nose.

Grown women who get too raucous and loud and cackly and start being all outrageous when drunk. You are not a teenager, it's embarrassing. Stop it.

Men who wear body builder vests at the dinner table. I don't care how ripped you are, I don't want to see your nipples or your armpit hair while I am eating thanks.

flippinada · 01/11/2016 19:56

People who, like, talk like this, like, y'know.

People who put their bag on the window seat and sit in the aisle seat on busy public transport.

People who spit in public.

People who hold what should be private conversations at ear splitting volume on public transport. Extra points if they pepper the conversation liberally with 'like', 'y,know' and 'so'

Itchyclit · 01/11/2016 19:59

Neighbours who use powertools after 9pm

People who attempt to push their religious reasons on others.

Chuggers

Tory voters

Those who listen to music so loud through headphones that I can hear it when I'm at the other end of the tube carriage

People who say "I'm not racist but..." then spout a load of racist shit

People who quote Daily Mail articles as fact

Pushy parents

Dinner party bores

Anyone with an oversized sense of self-entitlement

ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 01/11/2016 20:01

Grin at 'Chelsea tractor'!

Madbengalmum · 01/11/2016 20:02

People who insist on entertaining their kids on iPads without earphones in public places, on planes etc. We dont all want to f ing listen, thanks!

HuckleberryGin · 01/11/2016 20:03

I also talk to people on phone on a headset as part of my job. Really bloody annoying when they start chatting to someone else, shouting, ask you to wait while they chat, or have it on loud speaker so I can hear myself echo back.

genehuntswife · 01/11/2016 20:06

People who lean over their shopping trolleys like slovenly hunchbacks all around the supermarket.....stand up, your spine won't bloody snap. As a mark of protest I then have to walk round like I've got a pole up my arse.

SlottedSpoon · 01/11/2016 20:08

Crossfit bores

SlottedSpoon · 01/11/2016 20:09

People who use their religion as a reason to do or not do certain things, while completely ignoring all the other things they are supposed to do or not do as part of the same religion.

OnceMoreIntoTheBleach · 01/11/2016 20:10

Cyclists who ride in groups early in the morning and shout to each other as they ride past my house.

Sunday mornings, summer, windows open, 7:30am. I don't care about your last ride or your Friday night on the pub! Be quiet through sleepy villages please!!

TypicallyEnglishMustard · 01/11/2016 20:11

People who've clearly not taught their kids that they need to wait, be patient, not interrupt, and that everything they spout is obviously NOT the most profound/funny thing ever, and must be listened to RIGHT THIS MINUTE.

Honestly, I've spent eight weeks trying to train sixty year sevens (top sets, so bright enough kids, really) to SHUT. THE. JEFF. UP. the moment I say so, because there are thirty of them at any given moment, and I've only one brain to listen to them with.

sophielouise · 01/11/2016 20:11

Great thread.

Men who walk around with their tops off in the street as soon as the summer arrives. We really don't want to see.

People who think it's ok to put chocolate in the fridge. It's just not.

People who read and reply to text messages while you are in the middle of a face to face conversation with them. So rude!

MiMiMaguire · 01/11/2016 20:13

Shop assistants who put your change on the counter while youre holding your hand out....

Oh sorry I'm taking ages to pick it up.. coin by coin . In slow motion !

BillThePony · 01/11/2016 20:13

People who do not indicate at roundabouts

SlottedSpoon · 01/11/2016 20:14

People who chat all the way through a film or TV programme when it's clear you are trying to watch it.

1004Rise · 01/11/2016 20:15

Ha Ha "People that quote the Daily Mail as fact" so true!!

HelloSunshines · 01/11/2016 20:15

Meg54 - extortionate and exorbitant can be used interchangeably though? Confused From the Oxford English dictionary:
Extortionate ADJECTIVE 1(of a price) much too high; exorbitant.
Exorbitant ADJECTIVE (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high.

My bugbears are people using affect when they mean effect, and vice versa Smile

Talluahlu · 01/11/2016 20:16

Second the iPad with no earphones in public. A family let their kid watch Peppa really loudly all through my daughter's dance class recital a few months back. The teacher said 'oh, what's that?' and the parent just said 'oh, it's the iPad.' The dance teacher didn't ask her to switch it off, I'm assuming she was too shocked by the ridiculousness of it.
There are now 2 or 3 families who do this while we are waiting for the same class, it's like iPad wars. I don't have the brass neck to say anything but I'm screaming inside.

Madbengalmum · 01/11/2016 20:19

Tall, i had the same peppa incident on a plane. Should be made to wear earphones in public places. Aaaarrrgggghhh.

FlyingElbows · 01/11/2016 20:19

Anyone who dithers in a payment situation (and basically any situation!).
People who can't function at roundabouts and just sit looking at you.
Anyone who makes that god awful clucking noise at the back of their throat.

1004Rise · 01/11/2016 20:19

it's when you mean its... they're, their and there... less when it should be fewer... text messages that don't use whole words or punctuation....affect when you mean effect.... and so on and so on!! Wink

FlyingElbows · 01/11/2016 20:20

Clicking, not clucking. Bloody phone.

HelloSunshines · 01/11/2016 20:21

People who allow their dawdling children to take over the pavement and not make them step in to let people pass by.

Today there was two mums chatting in the middle of the open school gate (single file use only). Literally just stood there yapping. Everyone stepping around them. People saying "excuse me... excuse me" and they did that thing where they don't stop talking, acknowledge the speaker or that they are in the way, let alone move, but they slightly shift weight from one foot to the other. In a tiny "that's all you're getting, mate. I'm not moving nowhere" kind of way Angry

Horsepower9 · 01/11/2016 20:23

Children who kick the back of your seat in the cinema despite you asking them and parent politely not to
People who park in diasabled bay without a badge
People who don't take their shopping trolley back so it's sitting against your door and you have to move it
Dh who walks into the room and turns over the TV whilst your watching a programme
Omg I've gone mad............

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