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

People who make their voice go up at the end of a sentence like they are asking a question. It drives me barmy. Unless you are bloody Australian it just makes you sound stupid.

People that put Random Capitals on words Mid sentence.

People using the words advice and advise wrongly.

Nearly forgot headbands on babies just the most horrendous things. Jeez they don't need that crap on them to make them look like a girl.

Children's books that don't work in a Scottish accent - 'Five little Christmas elves stand in shock and awe/Zap! The ice queen waves her wand, now there are four.' Or something along those lines. It really knocks me off my stride when I'm reading to DS and it happens in so many books!

@EdWinchester did it really never occur to you that you are letting good, organic food go to waste? You can always put it outside your door or somewhere communal and people can use it!

@EdWinchester sorry, i don’t mean to be confrontational. I am just surprised that’s all

Nothininmenoggin
People who make their voice go up at the end of a sentence like they are asking a question. It drives me barmy.

I had to click off an audio recording of something I was really interested in, yesterday, because I couldn't deal with that. Also the use of the word 'positionality'

Radio and television presenters/reporters who emphasise random words for no reason - it's very common and I don't know why. As in "Looking AT tomorrow's weather, in the south-east we'll see more sunshine appearing THROUGH the day, but further west some showers ARE expected before evening."

Also, referring to someone as a "leading expert", as if just an expert would be no use at all.

The car across the road which has eyeballs stuck on the windscreen. Doesn't affect me in the slightest but it looks bloody stupid. Every time I look at it I want to let its tyres down. Doesn't help that the owner is a wanker but still...

Perfectly placed cushions as decorations on the parcel shelf of cars.

People who hold their knitting needles from below in the fancy Victorian lady style used to emphasise that they were hobbyists rather than needing to knit for money.

Holding knives like pencils.

Chewing gum.

Baseball-style caps worn with the brim at the back; the only people who need to wear it like that are bloody welders.

Underpants showing above the waist of trousers or jeans. Similarly with builders' bum and jeans that are so low they're about to fall off.

Bathroom photos on Rightmove (et al) where the toilet seat is left up

People rattling packets at the theatre or cinema completely gives me the rage.

Children's books that don't work in a Scottish accent - 'Five little Christmas elves stand in shock and awe/Zap! The ice queen waves her wand, now there are four.' Or something along those lines. It really knocks me off my stride when I'm reading to DS and it happens in so many books!

Also, children's books written in rhyming couplets that are ostensibly designed to be read in a rhythmic pattern, but which don't scan at all:

Jody awoke and rubbed her eyes
She gasped with astonishment at such a very wonderful surprise
That voice was familiar - who could be there?
That's right: it was the unmistakeable sound of her very own dear Billy Bear

Not a real example, but that kind of general scatter-gun metre-less prose.

Bathroom photos on Rightmove (et al) where the toilet seat is left up

Perfect way to instantly exclude any feng shui enthusiasts as potential buyers.

Maybe it's just their way of conveying that they are a decent, honest, local family with decent, honest, local values - like the Dentons in The League of Gentlemen:

"This is the downstairs toilet - into which WE DO NOT pass solids!"

Personalised car number plates. Especially really bad ones where you have to really use your imagination to work out what it's meant to spell.

MN is terrible for it, but social media and chat forums in general, where people address celebrities by their first name, as if they are hanging on waiting for a mention; and will of course reply.

e.g. a thread about Royal babies: "Kate, if you're reading, love Louis's new outfit, am thinking about getting similar for mine"

(Yes many famous names may well be on MN, but she's hardly likely to pop up and say "oh thanks, I got it in the Next sale! Here's Charlotte in another outfit I picked up "

People with long hair draped over their face, who spend all their time pushing it back. Idea.......haircut?

Easter eggs in the shops on Boxing Day.
Similarly christmas cards in August.

Dh needed a new pair of swimming shorts in August and trying find a shop that was selling them was really tricky. (Other than sports shops)

Various MN sayings such as:
Give your head a wobble
I bloody luffs it
Etc

God my in laws always banging on about hot cross buns being on sale at the “wrong” time oooh Christmas starts so early etc I find people moaning about that annoying in itself. So what! Don’t buy them then

People who write passive aggressive posts on social media and endless 'inspo' quotes.
People who always go out with wet hair (irrational probably, but I hate it for some reason)
People who complain alot but won't actually ever take advice

Families who dress up in matching novelty Christmas outfits. Extra annoying points for when a group photo in said outfits is produced.

Fur babies. Hubs. Hubby. Hubster. #myworld #makingmemories #squadgoals. Social media posts looking for ‘10 ladies who want to drop a size...’.