Unreasonable and petty things that put you off a person

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NC, penis beaker, wailing michaelangelo etc

Just wondered if anyone else can relate to this - I seem to be easily put off people due to very petty things in the scheme of things.

For example, last month I had to pick up a male colleague on the way to a work meeting. I had to go in his house to help carry some things, which meant going through his garden. He had washing on the line, including his pants. I don't know why but this made me lose respect for him and feel a bit embarrassed for seeing a colleague's pants (not sure if I was embarrassed for me or him). He didn't seem to notice though. He's in his late 50s and I really didn't want to see his pants under any circumstances!

Another was a guy I was seeing years ago. On one occasion he tried for a kiss and I wasn't expecting it, and seeing his lips pierced ready for a kiss when I was completely off guard just disgusted me. It put me off and I didn't see him again

Once something like this has happened my view of them is tainted. Is this a known thing or am I just an unreasonable cow?

Shaped facial hair
Pinkie rings
Expensive dental work which makes your teeth look like the dentures my gran wore

People that say 'you always think you're right'. Of course I do, why would I say it if I thought I was wrong?

Slow pavement walkers when they know somebody is behind them

People that like the name Ottilie. I think it is truly vile and hideous but I hear it so much on this website

Lovely toxic positivity reminds me of a seminar we had at Uni for "resilience" where they told everyone to constantly lower your expectations and everything will be fine. After a while your brainstarts to melt and you start to hear others bleating. I think this is where toxic positivity either leads to or comes from. It may be cyclical.

Oh and the old 'raising awareness by talking about myself'.

People who have bios on Instagram and other social media platforms. For example:

👱🏻‍♂️👩‍🦳🧒🏼👶🏼🐶 wife and mummy to my princesses
Or:
When life gives you lemons...

It makes my toes curl and I genuinely feel embarrassed for them.

Aggressively loud sneezing.

I used to have a friend who, if you invited her out as part of a group, would try to get you to change your plans slightly to suit her more. I could understand once or twice but it was as if she had to make her mark on the occasion by making everyone else do what she wanted.

Someone else will ONLY drink Prosecco. If I go out with her, she will always say Oooooh, lets get a bottle of Prosecco! And if you don't want that, would make a bit of a fuss. I assume that someone else has told her it's annoying though as she didn't do that last time.

Sharing dangerous fake news bollocks through email or Facebook. It seriously takes mere seconds to check that stuff out so there isn't much of an excuse for sending it to everyone you know.

Actually, any chain letter rubbish. I don't have time for that bullshit and I'm not even particularly busy.

Takibg ages to tell you something, boring.

The pronunciation of garage, rhyming with carriage is British. Garage with a longer sounding ah on the second syllable is American.

And please be aware that in Australia it is "GARR-arj", just to further complicate your linguistic life.

I love this thread! All the giggles I need on a Good Friday in lockdown.

And yes, what is it with Prosecco? The chardonnay of the 2020s!

My lot:

Uptalking, ending every sentence as if it were a question. Formerly known as the interrogative screech. "So we'd run out of bread? So I had to dash down to the shop? But it was closed 'cos it was Good Friday?" Uptalkers who do this well will have everyone rallying around to offer sympathy and approval. (Note to self: learn to uptalk. Er, no.)

Smokers who chuck their empty ciggie packets on the street. Derfred, moron, put it in the bin. (They'd cite me on this thread as the annoying person who runs after them and courteously gives them back their cig packet.)

4WDs in the inner city. Take it bush, bogans.

Anyone who tries to make the Kardashians a topic of conversation.

Vegans

Yes!
Parents calling themselves Mummy and daddy for children over 2
Eating with your mouth open
Spitting
Agree wth pp about men in short rolled
Up sleeves beards and tattoos
The current Catch phrases, " We got this"
Sounds so very stupid to me like "them
Ones" shudder.

"People that say 'you always think you're right'. Of course I do, why would I say it if I thought I was wrong? "

I always say this to my husband too ha. Of course I think I'm right, why wouldn't I?

Calling a baby ‘chunky monkey’.

Anyone who says ‘my staff or my team’, it’s egotistical and usually thrown around by someone very junior trying to sound important.

Dubai, designer handbags and posing with drugged animals abroad.

People that follow up an unambiguous statement of fact or otherwise clearly stated point with “IYSWIM”. How could that possibly help?

People who ask for information on Facebook and then put Go.

Best place for Sunday lunch. Go.

Long fingernails on men.
Men who think women shouldn't swear.

People ( my dh) that chew their fingernails.
Anyone who thinks that if you have a different point of view it's personal, just learn to debate.
Parents who say their child is 25 months, no he/she is 2.
Men with beer bellies.
People who lick their finger and dab crumbs up off a plate.

I’m in the Midwest of the USA where we have the following:

1. Middle aged men in those sleeveless tee-shirts where the armhole is cut down to the stomach
2. Same men in flip flops with long, yellow, dirty toe-nails
3. Grand-children called Grandbabies
4. Pets called Furbabies
5. Step-mothers called Bonus Moms
6. Living rooms with big sticker signs saying “Gather” or “Bless This Family”
7. Plants in tyres
8. Plants in faux washing tubs
9. The large number of people who think Europe is a country

10. Cheerleaders 11. Pageants 12. Framed family trees with a crest 13. Huge fizzy drinks 14. Christian women who allow their husbands to make all financial decisions and “allow” them to make a purchase 15. People who believe in Creationism 16. Women who post on FB that their daughter has “become a woman today” i.e. started her period. WTF!!! 17. The awful coy sex talk: we “were intimate”. And “lady parts” 18. Babies in head-bands with big bows 19. Not socialising with anyone except family members 20. Wind chimes

@letterfromamerica I used to be in a few baby groups on fb and had to leave for some of the reasons you posted.

The massive hair bows and the inability to say "vagina" when you've pushed a baby out of it wound me up so badly.

And the fact that feminism seems to be about 20 years behind.

@TenToTheDozen I mean anyone that believes we can change sex..?

And on a related note, people that use the word gender... It's sex.

People who make a fuss about what they do and do not eat in order to show off. I don’t mean people with genuine food allergies/intolerances, I mean the going through an entire restaurant menu and saying there’s nothing they like.

Oh, also people who whinge about ’incorrect’ grammar that isn’t actually incorrect. There are a couple on this thread. You’re exposing your own snobbery and ignorance.

On forms these days when you’re asked about your sex then I am stumped, ciswoman cisman nonbinary etc, what does it mean?! It’s annoying that it’s there and I would see the point if the majority had gender identity issues but the majority do not! Why must we bow down to the minority? I end up ticking ‘other-normal woman’, and please don’t dare anyone say I’m transphobic, or whatever the word for that is!

Sorry ticked other and then wrote normal woman