Intentionally annoying your OH

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Lighthearted - What things do you do to annoy your OH for your own amusement?

I like to incorrectly 'correct' pronunciations of words while we watch telly purely because it drives him mad. So for example on a cooking programme the chef said 'zest' to which I said to dh, 'it's pronounced j'est, it's a French word' and other such utter bollocks! Amuses me greatly

I also say shop names completely wrong on purpose or put the emphasis in the wrong place like, MatAlan, Tescos's, sporting direct etc.

Please share your little wind up ways

Oh and I've also found a tv remote in my handbag and a pair of his worn socks 🙄

Oh and at night I always ask him if the back doors locked. He replies 'is your back door locked?' In a creepy, suggestive voice 🙈 it's been his stock answer for years. I never do find out if the back door is bloody locked.

I love that Nomad. What a shame DH packs his own breakfast.

Love this thread!

DP and I wind each other up all the time. I couldn't be in a relationship where I couldn't take this piss or annoy my partner.

He moves around in bed when I'm trying to get comfy on purpose. I've trained the dog to steal his spot on the sofa as soon as he gets up - every single time!

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You could always cover his work notebook / laptop in your children's stickers! I can recommend Thomas the tank engine or Spiderman, people are more likely to think he did it himself.

When we go upstairs for bedtime all the lights are off, I sometimes hide in the spare room doorway which is right at the top of the stairs to jump out on him. Last night we'd been watching the Wicker Man and I turned out bathroom light on to make him think I was in there. Instead I was waiting and I made s freaky noise - he sloshed half his water on the carpet he jumped so much! I do it about once a week and he gets the rage while I'm rolling about laughing 😂

DP lets me pluck out his random eyebrow hairs /whiskers. But sometimes I like to just randomly grab a stray one with my fingers and yank it out without warning. He does a little pretend cry and I point out how lucky he is to have someone grooming him for free.

I also like to slap his bare belly if his tshirt rides up when he's lying on the couch watching tv. And to give his balls the odd surprise slap.

I realise people will tell me that's DV but you have to be there and he repays me with surprise bum slaps We piss ourselves laughing constantly, so that's the main thing.

if i woke up in the dead of night I'd give him a poke and go "what was that, I heard a NOISE......." and then fall straight back asleep. He did not, I do not blame myself for his ongoing insomnia.

I haven't done that for ages, but we have nocturnal teens and rackety cats so he probably wouldn't even be bothered these days.

Nomad I'm sure I can find some Spiderman stickers somewhere! 😂

I bought a litter picker in the third trimester of my pregnancy which my husband made fun of me for. Now sometimes when he's sitting at his desk working I'll pick things of his up around the living room with it and set them on the desk around him also with it.

A more recent one, he made an obnoxious comment at me day before yesterday while he was assembling an exercise bike and I was going through our daughter's clothes to store away the stuff she's outgrown. So I threw a newborn sock at him and told him every time he made an obnoxious joke he was getting a tiny sock thrown at him. He ended up surrounded by tiny socks. 😂

These are amazing!

I like to make random comments/questions about footballers whilst he's watching a game. i.e whose that one with the stupid hair cut? why is that one going the wrong way? etc. I couldn't give a crap about the answers but I do enjoy listening to DP get more irritated in every answers.
In the evenings we like a brew in bed and I'll make us both one but only take mine to carry up, he'll say 'can you bring mine up?' so I'll pick up my phone or keys and say 'sorry my hands are full now' - I only started doing this recently as he does it to me too and it winds him up that I'm copying him!

oh another thing that I think is the one that winds him up the most is when I lock the doors/close windows at night I'll wait til he's all tucked up and comfy in bed and say 'did I lock the back door?' hum on it for a minute and go 'yeah I think I did'. He will almost certainly go downstairs to check even if I've told him I'm just messing and I'll usually say 'while your down there can you get me a drink!'

Hum songs that I know get stuck in his head. Songs like I've got a brand new combined harvester or the red car and the blue car had a race. He'll end up singing it to himself all night

I love this ! If I borrow DH car I move all the air vents so they aren't straight - it drives him insane. And I change the TV volume to an odd number - which he also can't stand.
Little things but so satisfying !

Since he pointed out that I'm 'noisy' I purposely bang the pots around when I'm cooking and shut doors noisily. I'll wait for him to go to the loo, grab a beer, get the remote etc then I'll encourage the dog to steal his seat on the sofa. If we watch a film neither of us has seen I'll ask gormless or stupid questions like "who's he?" a minute into the film or if it was really good, say "that was shit" at the end. He knows I'm winding him up but he can't help but get narky, teehee. I also steal all of the duvet and starfish while he's brushing his teeth and pretend to be asleep so he has to shake me out of the duvet like some kind of slug. I'm also a fan of saying goodnight then asking ridiculous questions. Poor sod.

I ask DH random questions when he's waking up which massively confuse him.

Put an annoying tune - usually nursery rhymes - in his head before he heads off on his motorbike so it's going round and round.

Pull faces at him that the kids can see but he can't.

I once asked him in all 'seriousness' if his face was like that because the wind had changed when he was a boy.

I like to give my DH lots a last minute tasks to do while I get into the car and then roll my eyes and accuse him of 'faffing' because it drives him mad.

I also like to just sit and stare gormlessly out of the window when we've arrived at our destination, it takes all my strength not to crease up when he asks "What are you doing?" and then I spring into life and say "Oh, are we there?"

Referring to scoring a goal as “winning a point”. He hates it, and I don’t see what’s wrong with it! Also, it really winds him up when I ask him if we’re friends. “We’re not friends we’re in love”, yeah but am I your best friend?

He does it back to me. He pretends he doesn’t know something for a long time until I have to explain it like I’m talking to a child. His current one is he doesn’t know who Marvin Gaye is.

DP is an Arsenal fan. I don't like football, have no interest in it and know next to nothing about it. But every so often, I will learn random obscure facts about Tottenham which only a die-hard Tottenham fan would know and drop them into conversation. Drives him

I love this thread!

I don't have an OH, but I do things to the kids. If they're in the bathroom I wait right outside and make them jump when they come out.

If they sniff I ask them in a babyish voice why they are crying. It really annoys them.

I also sneeze really loudly on purpose and claim I can't help it.

Stand in front of the TV and when they say move start dancing.

Stare at them and then push my glasses up slowly with my middle finger.

I do the football teams one as mentioned by a PP. It says CAR - NEW (Cardiff - Newcastle) at the top of the screen and I say "Carlisle against Newport County? I'm surprised that's on telly; is it a cup game?"

The sillier the names I can make up, the better. It does wind him up a bit.

When I call the players silly versions of their names he just joins in and uses the silly names too.

@Mitzimaybe teehee I do this too!

I stand in front of the TV and waggle my bum when he's playing the computer. I roll onto his side of the bed just as he's trying to get in and when he tries to get into my side of the bed I roll back. Repeat until I'm giggling so much I can't move and/or he's just climbed on top of me.

Me and DH are as bad as each other and do loads of these already mentioned like the ‘you pea’d on the floor’ every time one gets dropped.

We also hide and jump out at each other, the other night I panicked trying to get under the bed to hide when I heard he was coming up the stairs! Being 5 months pregnant I forgot it wouldn’t be the usual dive and roll! So I just ducked down and he stood in the doorway saying ‘very good, I can see you’ but I just stayed down, for far too long!

When he watches a movie I like to just stare at him while sitting next to him until he notices, I can tell that he is trying to ignore me but that makes it even better.

When he asks me to do something I pretend that I seriously don’t understand what he is saying.

He leaves all cupboard doors open and starts a new milk when the old one isn’t finished.

There are loads more! I love fun and laughter and nothing we do upsets the other.