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Hatred of inanimate objects..😂

56 replies

user1483390742 · 03/01/2018 17:51

At the moment, these are the things that are really peeing me off:

Remote controls- we have 3 and a simple task like turning the tv on can be a huge mission- standby/waking up/source/HDMI. Aaarrrgghh..i just want on/off!

Lurpak spreadable- they have lied! It does not spread, it rolls across the bread! Aaarrrggghh!

And don't even get me started on the wind..😂

Anyone else hate 'things'?

OP posts:
MissionItsPossible · 03/01/2018 17:54

I agree with Lurpak.

My door handles as they sometimes catch on my sleeve, once when I was holding a drink 😡

toomuchtooold · 03/01/2018 17:57

The cupboard door in our kitchen that has a spring thing on it and swings back and hits you on the head if you don't close it completely. It's doubly annoying because they put the spring assisted opening thing on it because it opens the wrong way - you have to lean right across the kitchen half island thing to open it.

PenguinRoar · 03/01/2018 17:59

Any type of cable. Untidy bloody things that instantly make everything look messy. Cable tidied are even worse as you then have to manhandle cables in and out of them.
And if iPhone cables, they are always stupidly short.

Wail

MaidOfStars · 03/01/2018 17:59

My husband bought a universal remote control. I just press one ‘activity’ button and the TV, amp, Sky box and PlayStation all know what they’re doing in response.

WhooooAmI24601 · 03/01/2018 18:00

I hate the dog's crate. It's so big and ridiculous and every time I walk past it I catch my clothes on it. Apparently she has to have it to feel safe. When I was a kid dog's just felt safe by pooping white dog poo and we all got on with it.

Callaird · 03/01/2018 18:18

I looked after my niece for the day when my brother and his girlfriend went to work, my brother said just push the button on the remote and everything will come on - he had 9 remotes and none of them turned everything on! We soend the day listening to the radio until about 4:45 when I popped into the kitchen to make her tea and she found the remote and turned everything on!! She’s 13 months. And we had a blast!!

One of the kick boards in the kitchen has a piece of wood sticking out at 90° to mimic a partition, I catch my toes on it at least once a day. I spend my life muttering ‘I hate that bloody thing’.

The Stilton cheese that is stinking up our storage cupboard, cupboard is used often (and other people leave the bloody door open, whole other rant!) and no one will throw away. I have a very good sense of smell and it smells awful just walking passed the cupboard, no one else can smell it until they go into the cupboard but of course they don’t have to go in there often! I hate stinky cheese anyway (there’s a reason people call smelly feet cheesy feet, it is not a nice smell!!) I just want someone to put it in a Tupperware container (and in the fridge where cheese should be kept not a warm cupboard!) or in the outside bin!! I hate that Stilton!

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 03/01/2018 18:21

The Christmas tree

Going to take it down tonight think I need to hack it to pieces before dumping it it didn’t look as big on the market stall Angry

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 03/01/2018 18:22

and going have to wrap all those Christmas decorations Hmm

SimonBridges · 03/01/2018 18:22

Op.

You need a system remote. Ideally one like mine that connects to the google home. Now I just have to say ‘hey google, watch tv’ and it all switches itself on.

Also, just have regular butter and keep it in a butter dish on the side. No need for the fridge.

etap · 03/01/2018 18:24

"Inanimate objects?"

...My teenage sons? Grin Grin

Thegiantofillinois · 03/01/2018 18:25

Lego. But it's not inanimate and manages to find its way everywhere.

liz70 · 03/01/2018 18:29

"Just have regular butter and keep it in a butter dish on the side. No need for the fridge."

Unless like us, your kitchen is so cold that convential butter left on the worktop in autumn and winter is rock hard. We just leave the tub of spreadable out, but even then, some days I have to soften that in the microwave before it will spread.

ghostyslovesheets · 03/01/2018 18:31

yes door handles wait to pounce don't they - usually when you are carrying stuff or wearing a tearable top!

I dislike my bath panel because it refuses to stay put

Alconleigh · 03/01/2018 18:33

Coat hangers. Getting tangled up in each other. Or things slipping off them onto the wardrobe floor. Can reduce me to a Basil Fawlty style rage.

spangles1963 · 03/01/2018 18:37

Don't even get me started on the wind' OP? Grin Is wind an inanimate object?!
My late DDad used to say that umbrellas were 'the invention of the devil' and I must say I'm inclined to agree with him. I'm either fighting with it in a gale force wind,or I can't open the damn thing,or it won't close. And the times I've had my fingers bitten by one in my struggles to put it up/down.

spangles1963 · 03/01/2018 18:39

Must agree with PP about coat hangers. Bloody hate the stupid things. Always ganging up on me,getting tangled up,clothes sliding off them or suddenly breaking when I hang something a bit too heavy on them.

Slippery · 03/01/2018 18:40

Coathangers.

Eatingwormswithwine · 03/01/2018 18:40

I hate my Hoover, evil cupboard lurking enemy!

Skyllo30 · 03/01/2018 18:43

Yes to door handles.

All my hangers are now felt - life changing.

We have a new rug and haven’t got a non-slip back yet so I keep slipping on it. Angry

sall74 · 03/01/2018 19:14

The electronic pda that I have to use for work to scan barcodes and capture signatures... painfully slow and dimwitted, constantly crashing or switching to some irrelevant app that I've not requested and don't need.
I always say if I won the lottery I'd buy myself a whole box full of them just so I can take my revenge by destroying them using a range of varied methods... fire, steam roller, sledge hammer, shotgun etc etc

iwant2know · 03/01/2018 19:16

My kitchen lights. The main one has 5 spotlights that constantly go. They are a fucker to change and another one has just went.

I'm off to b&q tomorrow to get a replacement and th n throwing the bastard in the bin well taking it to the recycling centre

grasspigeons · 03/01/2018 19:17

Resistenialsim - those inanimate objects are against us

Monr0e · 03/01/2018 19:18

Another vote for coathangers. They hate me.

abbsisspartacus · 03/01/2018 19:21

My handbrake refused point blank to let me and my handbag out the car twice today Angry

Bridechilla · 03/01/2018 19:27

Teaspoons give me the rage.