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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask you to share your weird, irrational, petty hatreds?

715 replies

WickedWitchInTheCupboard · 07/02/2019 14:28

I'll start...

It's incredibly immature and irrational but there is a certain (fairly common) name I cannot stand purely because it's the name of both a girl who bullied me when I was young and DHs ex, who is difficult.

I literally hate any mention of this name and automatically dislike anyone with it (ok, not really but in my head for a few moments I do!).

Another less petty but more bizarre one is that I HATE the tops of bottle caps scraping on my nails. It makes me want to be sick. Shuddering thinking about it right now!

Anyone else got any weird/petty/irrational dislikes?

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TrueFriendsStabYouInTheFront · 08/02/2019 21:44

Pointless gossip (looking at you MIL). Ooh I lent such and such £20 but she's not given it back yet as she said there's something wrong with her car. Now she's in a huff cause I said she couldn't use my car and then she lost her house keys cause she sooo forgetful... and she forgot to get uncle Pete a birthday card last week, how rude blah blah blah shut the fuck up I don't need to know any of this information!

Pans boiling over on my stupid shitty electric hob and leaving a nightmare to clear up.

My mums licky dogs! I love them to bits but I honestly feel like a human lollipop whenever I'm at her house.

Stardustinmyeyes · 08/02/2019 21:51

Breggizt
Eggzit
Sickth
No you fuckers it's
Brexit
Exit
Sixth
Learn to speak properly ffs. There's no G in those words listed above
Rabid intolerance about people's voting choices.

Femaleassassin · 08/02/2019 21:52

People who hate cyclists

MissMarplesKnitting · 08/02/2019 21:57

Stereotypical Americans. The crassness. That's what it is.
The ones who shout "get in the hole" at golf tournaments.
Ugh.

When a tissue get in the wash. Irrational anger.

My family who cannot, it seems, distinguish the worktop from the (empty) dishwasher and put their things in.

MissMarplesKnitting · 08/02/2019 21:58

The recycling bin.

Always overflowing. Always.

PrincessButtockUp · 08/02/2019 21:59

Catching any part of my arm or my clothing on a door handle.

Kitchen cupboard doors left very slightly open.

People who say "we've always done it this way."

The letter haitch.

My glasses being knocked on my face.

Bumping my head getting in or out of a car (I regularly bump my shoulder on DH's new car and it angers me so much!)

Goingovertosusanshouse · 08/02/2019 22:04

Rain getting on my glasses.
Hoods on coats always being too big so they just get blown off.
Disney mad adults.
Selfies.
Shops being so hot when it’s freezing outside.

TeaBea2019 · 08/02/2019 22:04

Cyclists...for s&g's....

poundoflard · 08/02/2019 22:06

lalafafa

Yes Zoe Wannamaker. and her lips or lack of

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 22:08

YY, to the people who share their dreams. NO ONE cares! And they don't mean shit! They mean FA, they're just your brain trying to make sense of things.

People who think you haven't have a 'proper' meal unless it's hot. 'He needs a hot meal' 'Have something hot on the table for him'. Food is food! It's no more special or more nutritious because it's fucking hot.

OwlBeThere · 08/02/2019 22:15

People who refer to their parent as 'mum' or 'dad' when talking about them. for example someone posting on here 'mum and i went to the cinema, and dad picked us up'. They aren't my parents, or the parents of anyone else here, horribly petty, but it really really pisses me off.

I also really really hate buttons.

OwlBeThere · 08/02/2019 22:17

Oh, and the way my mother pronounces sandwiches as 'sangwiges'. Its not just her, its a local thing, but it makes me angry and makes me want to punch her.
I also hate being tickled @crucru, it makes me so so angry!

PrivateIsles · 08/02/2019 22:42

made with love
Yes I hate this as well. Last Christmas, Tiger had these great labels saying "I nearly died making this" and "Well, I tried" etc Grin much better IMHO

username79999 · 08/02/2019 22:44

Just remembered I had the absolute rage last week when I went to Greggs ( don't judge me) A father and daughter chatting away merrily to shop assistant about what they want to order meanwhile queue growing , I had my money ready and was also ready to kill with my looks . Eventually shop assistant shouts carol to give her a hand , so I order and shoot out .annoying father customers gets In my way . I scowl excuse me .
It annoys me customers and staff so bloody oblivious of anyone else gives me the rage . I know I'm unreasonable but seriously come on how long does it take to order a sausage roll . EnvyAngry

Unfinishedkitchen · 08/02/2019 22:45

I forgot one of the worst! They way DD ends everything ending in a ‘g’ with a ‘k’ e.g ‘shoppingk’. Why?!!

Sparklyhousedust · 08/02/2019 22:46

People saying ‘g’ instead of ‘x’ as in lugshury/luxury
Wet socks
The word bum- can hardly even write it down
Toilet humour, so fucking annoying
Fat corduroy
Yawning
People standing in the middle of doorways- just go to the side you annoying bastard
Alexei Sayle
Thin ham, awful and flappy
People saying ‘gifted me’ instead of ‘gave me’
So many.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 08/02/2019 22:47

Belly buttons - they make me ill.

(Mine has gone all funny just typing about them - I may be sick . . . )

BigBoringWedding · 08/02/2019 22:56

Not being asked if I want a brownie or quiche warmed up and having it warmed anyway. Fucking hate it.
DW leaving milk bottle tops and used teaspoons on the counter.
People walking slowly or stopping for no reason.
Mobile phone conversations on buses with 0% actual content.
Instagram stories.
Public transport.
The public.

BigBoringWedding · 08/02/2019 23:00

Oh oh oh! Using vouchers in supermarkets.
Standing in a queue behind ladies (sorry but it is always ladies) who watch everything going through the till and being bagged and being told total cost before fumbling about in oversized bag for purse. You’ve had at least x fucking minutes to get your purse out while you watch Johnny Spotface scan your shopping!

TaimaandRanyasBestFriend · 08/02/2019 23:05

People who say they died, but they're still here. Newsflash: dead people do not come back. You were maybe close to death, but you were not dead because that is final.

Or 'blue lighted' to hospital. Drama llama.

ToffeePennie · 08/02/2019 23:22

There are certain names that I loathe. I feel ill every time I hear a child being called by one of these names. They are either the names of people who bullied me as a child, or they’re really chavvy names (to me) and I really dislike them.
People who smoke, because they just smell disgusting all the time - the smell makes me want to barf every time. But worst of all is Mother’s with prams who are puffing away. Totally irrational but drives me crackers.
People who don’t like the word “moist” it’s a perfectly useful adjective, why all the hatred?
The expectation that workmen deserve a cuppa/coffee and biscuits. No - they’re here to fix what they didn’t get right first time around! If they had got it correct, they wouldn’t be here, now would they?
People who over state their illnesses for dramatic effect.
Over dramatic sneezing. Dh always says “gonna sneeze” then does so with enough force behind it to make a rocket take off.
All of it is stupidly petty, but all so, so annoying!

RoboticSealpup · 08/02/2019 23:30

Podcasts. So fucking boring.

VampirateQueen · 08/02/2019 23:37

When people get names wrong, wether they are people's names or place names, it gets me angry. Where I live all Sat Navs pronounce pretty much every village name wrong, drives me made.
When people go in a shop and but things back in the wrong place, I work in a shop and there have been many times when customers have put things on the wrong shelf right in front of me, I did tell someone once to put it back. I know I am paid to work there, but I have lots of other jobs to do without putting your unwanted crap back in the right place 100 yards from where you dumped it. Angry

Also wet clothes, they make me feel queasy.

VampirateQueen · 08/02/2019 23:38

Oh and people who park their cars over the white line right next to your door, even though they can clearly see you have child seats in your car, I have a bad back as it is without having to contort to be able to put my kids in the car and clip them in. Angry

moon2 · 08/02/2019 23:43

Chewed fingernails, long fingernails, fake nails and men with long baby fingernails.
People publicly picking their noses, spitting on the streets and picking their ears with their baby fingernails eeuh!
Sneezing and not covering their mouth and watching a spray like Niagra falls cover everything I’ve just cleaned!! Sneezing through the nose and a whole load of sludge emerging.
Men picking their feet in the living room or sitting in their pants/boxers or worse still their hands down there. Vile!
People not flushing or cleaning up after in public toilets...every flush has a trick. It’s a skill taught when young. Loo paper all over the floor. People only washing their hands with water and no soap in public toilets. The smell of rotting fish in these places...
Stink of nappybins not being emptied and spilling over in baby feeding rooms and other kinds of bins. Dirty nappies in shopping trolleys
People not picking up their dog poo. Looks like there is a theme here Confused
My teenage DD constantly putting her hands in my face. Teenagers with no spatial awareness to move out of the way.

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