What irrationally annoys you that has no effect on you whatsoever

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I'm sitting reading a book in the front room watching the neighbour close just 1 of his double gates after driving off his drive. When he comes in layer he'll then have to stop the car, get out, open gate etc. He can be out anything from 5 minutes to all day but does this every time.

Other neighbour leaves his bins at the front of the house rather than putting them down the side of the house. Same neighbour has 4 people who drive living in the house, yet mum always comes and goes in taxis, sometimes with her grandkids, shopping etc. when they are home.

My mum drives her car right up to her back gate then has to walk around the car to go through gate. She then moans that she gets wet doing this when it's raining, but then won't leave a gap at the front of the car!

None of these things affect me so whyyyyyyyyy do they annoy me so much.

I should get a life

Theunsungsong
But that doesn't make any sense. First, as soon as any relatives were contacted they would have said 'how about the baby'

Which relatives? When would they be contacted? How would they be located within minutes of a crash?

I can't see what's wrong with those signs if they give parents peace of mind. Police examined the car after the shooting in the French Alps and didn't locate the living child for five or six hours after the car was found. Little bodies are not easy to find in a car if they're not where you're expecting them.

I always assumed those baby on board signs were a warning to other drivers in car parks ie park too close and your liable to get a nice dent in the side of your car.

Read the snopes link

I thought those signs were supposed to encourage people not to drive so close.

When my Dad, who’s been married to my Polish mother for nearly 40 years still pronounces her home city as “Crack-Cow” despite all the raised eyebrows and “fucking really?” expressions around the dinner table as he says it

The pp said the baby wasn't found for a couple of days, so plenty of time to contact relatives, however a crash serious enough to either kill, or so seriously injure all occupants that they are unable to communicate that there is a baby in the car, would dislodge a cheap sticker that was held on by a sucker.

People who share on social media those quote pictures that say 'share if you love your daughter/son' - I absolutely cannot stand those posts!

The way Sadiq Khan talks, he can't pronounce anything with more than one syllable and I recently watched him being interviewed and he kept pronouncing 'disproportionate' as 'spotion'. He also said 'relate' instead of 'relegated' etc. (there were loads of examples). I had to turn it off because I was irrationally annoyed, yet interested in the programme. I don't even live in London.

The clique of women who all live on my road- they will actually stand and have a convocation right in front of my house, while all having a good look in...I need to get blinds!

When chefs come on TV I am there waiting for the inevitable announcement of the ingredient "tUmeric". It is tURmeric. Are these people incapable reading? Some well known names are guilty of this but I am sure there are many more.

One more: woz yer. Really vulgar and nasty...……..

Well well, 30+ years of fake news, apologies to all of you. Agree about the turmeric though, bring back the R.

People who can't spell brand names, when the company logo is the exact word spelled for them ("Vodaphone" being an example).

Tennis. The whole concept of it.

Anna Friel. Can't stand her face, her voice, her very being.

John Cusack (ditto).

Women who put eyelashes on their cars.

The words: emetophobe, people-pleaser, PJs.

I could go on for days...

People who put their Christmas trees and decorations up in November and then whip them down on Boxing Day.

It makes zero difference to my life but it bugs me.

@BasiliskStare

The whole point of this thread is things that irrationally annoy you when they have no bearing on your life whatsoever.

You and countless others saying ‘onvelope’ is a perfectly valid and universally accepted way of saying it. I don’t own the English (or indeed any) language and my preferences for pronunciation are no more or less valid than anybody else’s

Oh yes. Mind you, I'm in no position to criticise because I was about 30 years old before I realised that when I heard people on the radio or TV talk about Luff-boro, it was actually the place on the map called Loughborough. Because to me Lough is pronounced Loch

According to Dave Gorman (and others), it’s actually pronounced ‘Low-brow’

Really bugs me when people say they are waiting to get paid when they are waiting for their benefit to be credited to their account. You get paid when you have worked in my opinion

I can see your point, but what would you prefer them to say?

Does this only relate to unemployment benefits (and if so, does it make a difference if they've been temporarily laid off after 20 years’ unbroken employment or if they've never worked in their whole adult lives?) or is it the same for sickness benefit or pensions too?

People that believe obviously made up stories online by random strangers.

People who believe urban legends.

Feel free to scoff if you must, but somebody I once met personally knew a man who hadn't taken care to avoid the cracks in the pavement and he was actually sucked powerfully down through one of those cracks.

They found him 286 years later in the sewer - in a very bad way but still just about breathing, thankfully.

Sadiq Khan and how many great seats he's had at shows since taking on his role

People who come up to the crossing when I am already there and then press the button again!

Like I was just standing there for the scenery?

People who don't check the etymology of a word then patronise others about how words should be pronounced because of flawed belief it originates from a different language, eg, homage is middle english, not modern french.

As @longwayoff has already responded, the word ‘homage’ did originate in French before becoming a common word in English, very frequently pronounced in an Anglicised way, which is absolutely fine too.

This is what I DID say earlier:
“As a French word, I would pronounce it omarje (with a soft 'j').”

This is what I DID NOT say earlier:
“Anybody who doesn't pronounce it omarje (with a soft 'j') is an utter moron and should be killed slowly and painfully as a no-less-than-condign punishment”

Y'know and sort of.

Counted more than 60 y'knows in a 10 minute radio interview on Woman's Hour. I had to look up the actress when I got to work to put a face to the voice that had so exasperated me.

And sort of... One woman interviewed explained how her son had 'sort of hit [him].' How do you sort of hit someone?

I'm irrationally annoyed but just about everything, its amazing I get through the day without spontaneously combusting, so I've sniggered my way through this thread.

Special congratulations to the tea towel/oven gloves one though. Still sniggering

When chefs come on TV I am there waiting for the inevitable announcement of the ingredient "tUmeric". It is tURmeric. Are these people incapable reading? Some well known names are guilty of this but I am sure there are many more.

Oh, yes, indeed.

I'm about to make a lot of enemies here, but also the way almost everybody says 'Febuary'. You don't have a problem saying the second 'r' in the word, so what's the issue with the first one?

Every single time people tell me () that they're going to buy some tumeric on the first Wensday in Febuary, it makes me want to do bad things

People who call themselves "non-binary" when it's as clear as day what sex they are.