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What is your biggest pet hate?

126 replies

ArgfromTowie · 09/02/2018 20:40

Not literally about pets

I would say social media trolls

OP posts:
vampirethriller · 10/02/2018 16:04

Hipsters.

Rudgie47 · 10/02/2018 16:13

People who make that deep snorting noise when they are clearing mucus from the back of their nose/throat. A woman was doing that on the bus the other day and I was nearly sick.

kissbeforelippy · 10/02/2018 16:30

People chewing with their mouth open.

Queue jumpers.

People that spell queue as que.

People using of instead of have.

People.......

Thingsthatgo · 10/02/2018 16:35

Referring to people in the police force as ‘job’.

Weezol · 10/02/2018 16:50

Weird braying laughs - think Jimmy Carr.

Gemini69 · 10/02/2018 17:00

I dislike... poorly titled Threads on Mumsnet.. not enough detail ... sorry but that's my pet hate Grin ..

p.s. this one is Titled perfectly mind Flowers

KurriKurri · 10/02/2018 17:01

People who refer to every kind of rudeness and unpleasantness as 'shaming' - fat shaming, thin shaming, ginger shaming, height shaming, etc etc.
People are just being rude to you - it is their problem that they are rude, shame is an emotion you have option about - you can feel it or not, no one can shame you about your appearance unless you let them. If someone says something nasty to me I don't think 'I've been shamed (and rush to post about it on MN !) I just think 'fuck off you knobber'.

Ditto what a PP said about roundabouts. Where I live people approach roundabouts as if they have never encountered one in their lives, creeping along cautiously using either several contradictory signals or no signals. Going round the outside lane very slowly wondering to themselves if they will ever get off this labyrinth. Last week someone stopped in the middle of a roundabout near me and looked all round him in a mystified manner as if the three options of where to exit had made his brain turn to blancmange.

Local authorities where I live (clue - the sticking out arse of the UK) have had to replace some roundabouts with junctions because people were losing their minds on them, going round and round indefinitely, the roadway equivalent of Hotel California - Grin

Andrewofgg · 10/02/2018 17:04

People who say she's like instead of she said - how did that start and why did that start?

AnaViaSalamanca Your cat has obviously been spoiling you and is now reasserting control. Quite right too.

Lunaballoon · 10/02/2018 17:10

Mobile phone zombie shufflers

user1485342611 · 10/02/2018 17:17

Fame whores who make an exhibition themselves on cheap tacky reality programmes and then think they're in the same league, celeb wise, as Judi Dench or Colin Firth.

Parents who let their kids create a racket in restaurants and other public places.

Young people who don't stand up for elderly people on public transport.

ALemonyPea · 10/02/2018 17:24

Shops that purposefully change the spelling of their names to look all edgy/trendy/different. Just makes me not use them TBH.

CheeseAndOnionIceCream · 10/02/2018 17:29

At the moment,the 2 kids in the coffee shop who have been whizzing about on heelies for the last hour. Their mother is too busy staring at her phone to watch what they are doing. When one of them gets a hot drink spilt all over them because they've crashed into someone's legs,she'll be demanding COM-PEN-SAY-SHUN.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 11/02/2018 15:23

I must try that Stealth! 😂

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 11/02/2018 15:33

NotTheMrMenAgain some people may have to spit in the street if they have an illness that produces lots of phlegm.

maddiemookins16mum · 11/02/2018 15:55

My mum had COPD, she never felt the need to spit in the street.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 11/02/2018 16:00

DS1 has cystic fibrosis, before hospital gave him his spit pot, he used to have to spit in the gutter. He used to swallow it when he was little, and throw up.

yerbutnobut · 11/02/2018 17:26

Queuing for a bus for ages and by the time it arrives the queue is long, and then several people just walk up, dont acknowledge queue and get on bus, grrrrrr

ShowMePotatoSalad · 11/02/2018 17:30

People who refer to any kind of guidance or advice given by a public body as "the nanny state gone mad". In fact, the phrase in general is enough to make my eyes roll.

Readermumof3 · 11/02/2018 17:32

@maddiemookins16mum I'm off to read the thread and see why you made that comment. I lost my dad to COPD and he never spat in the street either 🤔 I really should read the threads forwards rather than backwards.

woodhill · 11/02/2018 17:34

Some people spit in the street because they are uncouth not because of illness and it disgusts me.

So sorry about your dad.

yawning801 · 11/02/2018 17:37

Loud eating, and manspreading.

maddiemookins16mum · 11/02/2018 17:51

I only made the comment because someone mentioned conditions with phlegm having to spit in the street. I kinda disagree, my mum (even at 79) managed with tissues etc, not nice but she never hacked up and spat in the street!

bettycat81 · 11/02/2018 17:56

People who just stop.

I may be walking down a busy street or through a station and the person walking in front just stops (not due to any obstruction in their patg). Doesn't look behind them or move over to one side. They just stop.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 11/02/2018 18:53

I agree that some people spit in the street because they're uncouth, some do it because they need to. How can you tell who's who? DS1 used to cough far too much for tissues to last very long if we went out. At school he spat into the bins. He's much better with the cough now as he's more efficient with the physio as an adult. It's more like the occasional throat-clearing during the day.

woodhill · 11/02/2018 19:27

Yes I understand about your ds but it's disgusting if you are not ill

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