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

And Ate. Pronounced Ett or Eight?

Definitely 'eight' for me.

Never has an hairdo affected me so much.

People who use 'an' instead of 'a' before a consonant sound

I've just been reminded this evening how much it annoys me that on 'Only Connect', after several rounds of carefully-crafted - and often insanely fiendish - questions where the teams have to use their skill, knowledge and reasoning to work things out, the final round is the lame 'missing vowels' one.

Ooh, yes! It does seem very unfair for the contestants - almost the equivalent of ending a tense University Challenge episode with a game of snap or pairs to decide the winner instead of the existing high-drama, where Contestant-Name-Reader-Man steps it up several gears and sounds like he's being goosed with a comedy giant buttered parsnip.

However, it’s also an anti-climax for the viewers, without whom they obviously wouldn't actually be making the programme in the first place
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Does anybody else remember an obscure gameshow from about 10 years ago called Take It Or Leave It? It was hosted by Richard Arnold, made specially for Challenge TV (or whatever it was called back then) and the main game itself was (I thought) really exciting and I absolutely loved it (how sad am I….); but the final was such a tedious let-down that seemed heavily based on luck and uncertainty, even if you were a quiz genius.
www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Take_It_or_Leave_It_(2)

Gameshow finales should always be at least as exciting as the lead-up and preferably even more so – this should be urgently enshrined in international law.

Also, in OC, why is it naturally assumed that everybody hates the music question? I'm often reasonably OK to have a stab at it, whereas anything that’s obviously going to be about sport makes my heart sink. I experienced such mixed feelings when they had the very recent sports special episode. I kept thinking: it’s Only Connect, which I love; but I really don’t understand and can’t bear any of this (still watched it to the end for completeness, though!?!).

I answered 2 - yes TWO - Only Connect questions the week before Christmas. Alone and unassisted. Lifetime achievement award required. Usually fail throughout.

British people who say 'har-ASS' rather than 'HAR-uss'.

The whole point about Frank Spencer was that he always said it wrongly for comic effect - he wasn't being set up as a dependable model for accurate language pronunciation!

Oh, and people who will criticise you for your perceived incorrect 'pronOunciation' without any sense whatsoever of irony!

Snapchat filters... Especially on babies

longwayoff

Oh, sincere congratulations!!

But were they in the 'proper main bit' or the final round?

"The category is 'Fruit' and the first clue is.... 'BN N' "

@webuiltthisbuffetonsausageroll - I have to say your username made me smile.

so I am ett
eye - ther not ee - ther
but vin yaard not vin - yud - but then given I don't own one it really is very low down on my list of worried

Here's one - I say med - sin not med - e - sin

& re Only connect - good to see someone likes the music round - my heart sinks when that comes on but then I am rubbish at music and freely admit it. Not great at sport either ( eye ther )

Telly programme announcers who crash the introduction for the starting programme with details of the next one.

Once the moody, atmospheric ident has begun, I DO NOT want to hear "Well, in half an hour, we join xxx, and then, later on this evening, we have another appointment with xxx; but now...."

No, no, no. You had your opportunity for lots of trailers for other programmes BEFORE, but as soon as you start the ident, it's all about THIS one that's actually on NOW.

My current one is my neighbour puts the bins in front of their driveway . I think it's so no one uses it to do a 3 point turn . Then when he drives home he beeps for wife to move bins so he can drive in drive . Annoys me I know is nothing to do with me and doesn't affect me .
I had another neighbour who used to put this disgusting blanket on his car at night , not the windscreen covering the engine used to really annoy me . I have issues

@webuiltthisbuffetonsausageroll - I have to say your username made me smile.

Thanks again, BasiliskStare

I can't say too much owing to my ongoing legal battle with the chap currently at Number 1 in the hit parade, but I'm not a monster - I'll make sure the charity gets at least 6% of the proceeds after my legal fees and damages for upset feelings have been settled in full

People who put a rogue apostrophe in, say, The Liberal Democrats.

Well played, Inspector! ;-)

Oh the way some people pronounce chocolate gives me the rage. I say choklut. Barely two syllables. Some poshos manage to say it with three syllables and three harsh k/t sounds. Has no impact on my life whatsoever but really annoys me.

Snapchat filters... Especially on babies

Ooh, yes - and people who put big ornate Alice bands or hair bows on tiny baby girls, so that everybody will know for sure that she's a girl - even though she's still completely bald and just looks like a giant luxury Easter egg

People who write "open letters" to whoever has annoyed them god they grate my brain!

People who cross the road 20feet away from the crossing and then carry on in the f&&king direction of the crossing on the other side!! Why? How does that make your journey shorter? Ooooff! That just pees me off! I'm much more road rage-y than I anticipated I would be when I started driving

The front bumper of the car belonging to the hairdresser at the top of my road... it's a 17 plate BMW and the bumper is cracked, dented and scratched to f##k and has been for ages! Every time I see it every day it irritates me for no reason! Plus I'm pretty sure she scratched my bumper recently pulling out from outside my house (street parking) and drove off cheeky bitch

People with long hair who pull it forward. Leaving no hair down their back. It really annoys me.

Don't like to boast but since you ask, they were both in the 'proper' bit. Not the word board, real questions, further -and last boast- the second of which remained unanswered by team . Still reeling with shock though, will never happen again. Thats more than enough of that, please excuse me, time for bed and happy new year to you all.

The phrases “no brainer” and “make my teeth itch”. ( Sorry fruityb. Unfortunate timing)

Like a pp, people who say “haitch”. My DC were taught to pronounce it that way at school but they learnt not to at home!

People with long hair who pull it forward. Leaving no hair down their back. It really annoys me.

A friend of mine had beautiful, thick, long, curly, black hair all the way down her back.

None at all on her head, mind.... boom, boom! I'll get me coat.

@longwayoff - Oh, simply amazing! Why didn't we see you in the New Year's Honours list? Must have been a clerical error.

It's especially gratifying when you get it and neither of the teams do (same with the Countdown conundrum, even when it's been offered to the whole audience and Rachel and they haven't got it. Wonder why they never ask Susie, though?)

Goodnight

Grown women using nauseating high pitched squeaky voices because they think it's still endearing to sound like a Disney channel high school student .., especially when they want people to do things for them

Fb drives me mad I stopped going on it .
1 person I know cancelled her wedding for some reason I don't care about but had paid deposits so obviously won't get deposits back . So a ranting post on fb saying how terrible that they won't return deposit and 20 odd comments agreeing how terrible it was and to complain etc etc . Wtf you pay a deposit to secure the date you don't get it back if you cancel . Gave me the rage so unfollowed her .

Empty loo roll that the previous family member failed to replace beforehand..

When husband leaves dirty crockery piled up in sink.

The Black Eyed Peas song ‘Pump it up’. Total infuriation. I can’t bear to listen to a second of it.

That annoying seal on milk bottles...

Not having my caffeine fix in the morning.

Bad grammar - often on celebrity statuses (I know it can’t always be helped but sometimes it’s SO bad I internally cringe - sorry! )

Being out and freezing cold, and needing to pee at same time!

Self indulgent posts - ‘love yourself’ etc with endless selfies and boasting...

Nicole Scherzinger and Keith Lemon.

People (mainly seems to be teenage girls) who have their hair in a side parting but very fair over. Like the parting could fall down at any moment. So unbelievably petty i know, but it makes me rage inside

Very far over. Gr