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What irrationally annoys you that has no effect on you whatsoever

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Squatternutbosh123 · 31/12/2018 12:03

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

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aquashiv · 02/01/2019 17:16

People that refer to themselves as being middle class. EG..I know I'm being very middle class when I say my wrap around sling is rather tight right my arse these days..

Arrowfanatic · 02/01/2019 17:29

"I didnt do nothing" Hmm so you did something then.

Saying "aks" instead of "ask" seems to crop up more on American shows.

The much mn hated phrases my little family, #MakingMemories, and all those horrid cutesy phrases. My kids make some great memories whilst playing nintendo all day, we all make memories daily!!!

Donald fucking Trump. His voice alone makes me cringe let alone all the batshit crazy that comes out of his mouth.

People who say "oh sorry didn't see your text/call/message" especially when you know said person has to have their phone surgically removed from their hand at the best of times. Just admit you screen calls already.

PumpkinPie2016 · 02/01/2019 19:19

People who feel the need to post their every move on social media, 'going to the shop now', no one cares!

People who stand talking in the middle of supermarket ailes.

People who chew him with their mouth open Angry a mum at DS school does this - mouth wide open, chewing nosily Angry It literally gives me the rage! Thankfully, DH does most pick up/drop offs or I made have said something regretable by now.

People who eat noisily.

PumpkinPie2016 · 02/01/2019 19:20

Chew gum not him

Juells · 02/01/2019 19:42

Donald fucking Trump. His voice alone makes me cringe let alone all the batshit crazy that comes out of his mouth.

I physically can't watch him, the facial tics, the 'precise' hand gestures, the fake pauses to make his crappy pronouncements seem portentious. I feel like a gawker at Bedlam, watching someone deranged.

StoneofDestiny · 02/01/2019 20:20

Oh gawd - Trumps' mouth - really does look like he is talking out of his arse!

MitziK · 02/01/2019 20:40

Oh, this could be a long one.

'Speak proper - it's H-aitch'. Fuck off, you uneducated moron with delusions of grandeur.

'Oh, it's very non-U'. Piss off, you only heard about this concept from reading some shitty newspaper filler article when you were a single parent with five kids from two different fathers, living in a council house filled with dirt, junk and animal shit.

'Looking back in retrospect'. For the love of God, don't use words you don't understand the meaning of because they sound fancy.

'It's Political Correctness/Elf 'n' Safety gone mad'. No, it's because calling people D*kies/Coleds has been offensive for a Very Long Time and most workers prefer to finish their day still alive and in one piece.

'You know me, I'm not racialist, but...' INCOMING RACIST COMMENT KLAXON!

'Blood's thicker than water'. The complete phrase actually means that your family is less important than religion.

'You only get ONE MUM'. Thank fuck for that. Could have done with a replacement model, though, as the version I got was clearly malfunctioning.

Deliberate mispronunciation of words in an attempt to sound 'cute'. It's not bisketti, you fucking moron. And whilst a three year old saying 'Calerpittar''is so cute it hurts, a fifty five year old male doing it when talking to his mother is creepy as fuck.

Deliberate misspellings of words in texts, not to fulfil the conventions of text speak, due to genuine errors or dyslexia, but because you think it makes you sound 'normal'. You just sound like an idiot.

Davinia McShouty. Just because.
Fiona Phillips on TV. She was fine doing a radio stint one year, but the moment a camera hits her, I just want to hit her repeatedly.
Carol 'I'm good with numbers so you can trust me when I persuade you to flog your home and intended inheritance to a dodgy equity release company' Vordermann.
Every comedian that appears on TV panel shows at the moment that thinks it's so funny they are they apparently an utter fucking moron. Seems most prevalent with female comedians. What the fuck is the point of encouraging representation when said representation is largely blondes pretending they can barely read or count to 100?

BOGOF offers. If I wanted two, I'd buy two. Just give me one of the fucking things at half price.

Self checkouts. No thanks, I'd rather have 10 human beings in employment at NMW than 20 checkouts, one supervisor and some happy shareholders.

People who are paid over fifty grand a year complaining the minions don't want to do as much unpaid overtime as they do. If they were getting somewhere in the region of a grand a week, I'm sure they'd probably feel more amenable to the suggestion.

Snidey comments about people receiving benefits having flat screnn tellys and mobile phones. You try buying a CRT at any point in the last fifteen years - or claiming benefits without internet access and the ability to make long calls.

People who seem to think that everybody receiving Universal Credit is a workshy scammer. It's paid to people in work too, you know.

People who think that the State Pension isn't a benefit. Of course it is. And whilst we're here, that money you paid in over those years? It's not been kept in a fucking bank vault to be given back to you, it was spent on other people when you were younger. It's a contributory benefit, but it's still as much a benefit as contributions related JSA or ESA is/was.

Autotune. If you can't sing the fucking tune reliably after a hundred goes in the studio, you shouldn't be fucking singing it in the first place.

Melisma. This is a subtle musical ornamentation technique, to be used like cayenne pepper - sparingly. This does NOT mean warbling around, screeching out every single note, half tone and quarter tone for 90 seconds in an vague attempt to sound like Whitney/Christina to cover up the fact that you can't actually hit the one note it's supposed to be.

'Stick with what you know'. Seriously? If you actually did that, rather than use it as an excuse to reject anything you don't want to do/try/let somebody else do, you'd still be drinking formula milk out of a bottle and shitting in a nappy.

I'm going to stop now. I obviously need to eat, have a cup of tea and calm the fuck down.

StoneofDestiny · 02/01/2019 21:07

People who say life is not worth living without a dog or cat.
People who call their pet their child.

SerenDippitty · 02/01/2019 21:10

People who say you don’t know what love is until you’ve had a child.

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 02/01/2019 21:39

Agree with people calling themselves non-binary, it's nonsense. Even more so non-binary people who are transitioning - what are you transitioning to and why if you don't feel you belong to either of the categories known as female or male?

The husky, breathy voice of Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music, it makes me cringe and I have to change stations when I hear her.

People without blue badges who park in disabled parking bays.

People who stand in supermarket and shop aisles gabbing with no awareness of the grid lock they are creating for other shoppers.

HotSauceCommittee · 02/01/2019 21:40

We’ve reached page 22 without the incorrect use of reflexive pronouns! “just send it to myself....And did yourself and Jeremy witness that?”

Fucking no! You do it to yourself, I do it to you. I’ll send it to myself and I’ll send it to you. It sounds fucking stupid, because it is. It’s wrong.

Breakfast with friends. Vanessa takes a photo of her food: “oh, it’s for Instagram”

WTF, Vanessa, don’t they know what a cooked breakfast looks likes on Instagram?

MitziK · 02/01/2019 21:49

The absence of an 'Edit' function to correct my typographical errors.

Although this does affect me because I'm obviously thumping on the keyboard like a deranged chimp with chronic sleep deprivation rather than the poised, calm and collected adult I would prefer the world to imagine I am so isn't really the sort of thing the OP wanted to discuss.

TheFatberg · 02/01/2019 22:50

HotSauceCommittee you might have to explain that one, I'm not sure I get it.

TheFatberg · 02/01/2019 22:51

^ the myself / yourself / you bit. I get the Instagram bit.

BinkyBuntyFintyCunty · 02/01/2019 22:52

Sheridan Smith

BigFatBloomers · 02/01/2019 23:20

With you on Mary Ann Hobbs WichBitch. I can’t bear her voice. I have not been out all night, off my head on drugs. You do not need to whisper to me as if I’m coming down!!!
I’m pretty fed up to realise she’s going to be on every weekday. It’s going to be Woman’s Hour for me instead.

SM1234 · 02/01/2019 23:24

People who leave the tailor’s stitch in the split in their skirt or coat... surely they know it’s not supposed to be there especially a white stitch on dark fabric.... but no idea why it bothers me as much as it does 🤨

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 02/01/2019 23:47

Ditto BigFatBloomers. I used to listen to Lauren Laverne a couple of mornings every week, loved her show, but now Mary Anne is in that slot it'll be WH for me too. Oh and the way Mary Anne says "Thank you for listening my friends" at the end of each show, I am not your friend, we didn't share a pill and hug all night so fuck off!

FiddlesticksAkimbo · 03/01/2019 01:22

HotSauceCommittee you might have to explain that one, I'm not sure I get it.
This explains
blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/11/07/some-reflections-on-reflexives/
I agree, very annoying.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 03/01/2019 06:22

As previously mentioned baby talk between adults

It makes me feel ill

And grown men baby talking 🤢 wtf is wrong with you

Belindabauer · 03/01/2019 08:44

Men who say we are pregnant.
No you are not pregnant.

BiffChipandNipples · 03/01/2019 08:54

Milkshakes/freakshakes in giant pitchers, with cake and all sorts of shit balanced on top. How are you supposed to drink that?

Limer · 03/01/2019 09:10

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

Worse than this is when most of the hair is pulled forwards to hang over the shoulders, but a little scraggy bit from the very nape of the neck is left behind (not sure if this is deliberate or accidental). From comments on this thread about Only Connect, I'm reminded that Victoria Coren-Mitchell does this. When you get a back view of her standing at the Wall, while I'm furiously trying to work out the connections, I'm distracted by that little piece of long hair.

KeysHairbandNotepad · 03/01/2019 09:12

People banging on about dry January/Veganuay etc on social media.

Excessively large portions of anything.

When you go to a restaurant at Christmas time and your favourite dish now has a red and green garnish that adds nothing to the flavour of the dish.

People that want to try controlled crying because their baby doesn't sleep through by six months old. Your baby is normal , give them a feed and hug if they wake in the night ffs.

CatnissEverdene · 03/01/2019 09:24

YY to the dry January thing that's already doing my head in.

If I had to make a mountain out of not drinking for a WHOLE bloody month , I'd be ashamed not proud.

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