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Unreasonable and petty things that put you off a person

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touchtheceiling · 08/04/2020 21:41

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 Confused

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

OP posts:
Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 12:26

Men that wear skinny jeans seems to be a major annoyance between us women! I think skinny jeans are okay on guys aged 21 and under but not on grown men, my brother wears them and he is 32 but he is gay and for some reason I think it’s more acceptable for gay guys to wear them, I’m not sure why I think this though!Hmm

Toilenstripes · 10/04/2020 12:29

Colleagues who say ‘You’re a star’....just fuck right off, a thank you will do

Hanging 5 mirrors together and calling it wall art

People who can go for hours not knowing they’ve got a booger hanging out

Men who don’t have a savings account

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 12:49

Adults that high five one another!

macaroniandpizza · 10/04/2020 12:50

People who dont say please and thank you, my 4yo has better manners than some adults ive come across

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 12:57

People, and mainly foreign folks, who work in shops and speak in their own language to their colleague whilst they are serving you. I also hate when you go into an Asian newsagents and they’re all talking in their own language when you walk in and they don’t stop, and sometimes when the shop is full of Asian men, then you just know that they are talking about you as a woman, creepy and disrespectful.

Yerroblemom1923 · 10/04/2020 12:58

Gold jewellery
Sliders
Sliders with socks Envy (not envy. It actually makes me feel I'll)
Fakery (lips, nails, hair extensions , eyebrows/lashes, boobs)
Fruit shoots
White bread
Tracksuits/active-wear worn when not being in any way active/exercising
Vague fbk posts
Fbk posts checking into a hospital
Households without bookshelves
Jars of baby food
Squash in baby bottles
Grown adults who say "hospickle" instead of hospital
Men wearing summer attire eg shorts and t shirt ......with a wooly hat!? (If it's too cold to go hat-less then it's too cold for summer attire!)
Carpets in bathrooms, those mats that go around the toilet bottom - to nicely absorb all the splashed wee.....lovely

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 12:58

I wear sliders with socks indoors only!

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 12:59

Men that wear sandals!

HarrietTheShy · 10/04/2020 13:00

When they don't give their full attention to someone. Eyes glazed over, looking over their shoulder at someone else, checking their phone, cutting them off. It's usually men doing it to women they aren't interested in fucking.

Yerroblemom1923 · 10/04/2020 13:00

I feel very now inappropriate female

Yerroblemom1923 · 10/04/2020 13:01

ILL

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 13:02

@Yerroblemom1923 oh sorry! Take it out of your mind, think of me in my lovely sliders with bare feet and nice pink nails...keep thinking of this until the ill feeling passes...and breatheGrin

Gwenhwyfar · 10/04/2020 13:03

"Leggings as tights eg under a dress"

Eh? Leggings should always be worn as tights. They should NEVER be worn as trousers with a short top.

crispysausagerolls · 10/04/2020 13:07

@Gwenhwyfar

Yes but leggings with long top.

Not horrible see through leggings with cellulite and pants/skin visible, but also not leggings with a knee length dress.

Honeybee85 · 10/04/2020 13:07

Men with obviously plucked eyebrows.

People that think that women should wear make up in order to look professional or polished.

People that say making love instead of having sex.

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 13:12

God I love leggings as well, the ones in Primark are the best and they can flatter certain figures.

Something else that bothers me is people that just buy whatever is in fashion clothes wise, even if it’s fucking awful and doesn’t flatter their figures then they still wear it coz it’s ‘in’...grrrrr.

SerenDippitty · 10/04/2020 13:20

People who speak really quietly and won’t raise their voice even if you are obviously struggling to hear them.

SerenDippitty · 10/04/2020 13:21

I like leggings with a summer dress or tunic and sandals.

LakieLady · 10/04/2020 13:22

Used to work somewhere where you were labelled as negative if you expressed the slightest reservation about any proposed change or new thing

Aaaaggghhh, this!

In a team meeting, I once expressed the view that a particular performance measure might be unsustainable in the long term, and explained that the staff time it specified exceeded the total number of staff hours when you took into account annual leave, training etc. I was bollocked soundly for being "negative", twice - once in the meeting and once privately afterwards.

A few months later, after an adverse weather event had meant that staff had been unable to get to work for quite a time, we were told that the CEO was renegotiating the contract because they considered that this particular KPI was "unsustainable in the long term". Not only had they come round to my pov, they'd used the exact same fucking words.

My jaw nearly hit my knees and I asked if the bollockings I'd got for saying the same thing 3 months earlier still counted.

There's a world of difference between pointing out that something's numerically impossible and being negative for the sake of it.

Inappropriatefemale · 10/04/2020 13:24

Women that blow smoke up their friends’ arses when one of them asks the other advice about their relationships, “yes he deffo does love you”, when it’s plainly obvious he doesn’t, I told this one woman at work the truth about what I thought of him, she was asking all of us advice and I was the only one that told her the truth and one of the other females was her pal outside work too, I was told I was a bitch, just coz I told the truth!Angry

Heatherjayne1972 · 10/04/2020 13:27

Anyone over 10 who wears a baseball cap

Long nails on a man - shudder
The man bun - just no - I could never take someone seriously with one of those

People who mispronounce words eg - tuth for tooth. Aks instead of ask
Grrr.

SoftBlocks · 10/04/2020 13:27

Saying ‘PJs’ for pyjamas.
Saying ‘supper’.

SoftBlocks · 10/04/2020 13:28

Incorrect apostrophe use.

crispysausagerolls · 10/04/2020 13:30

People who say someone “isn’t a team
Player” - usually for bullshit reasons like them not wanting to spend their Friday night drinking with colleagues

MissingLinker · 10/04/2020 13:31

*Working class snobs annoy the hell out of me, they act privileged and entitled with no reason to be and they look down on others.

Folks that are obsessed with class.*

I'm assuming this is meant to be ironic... Confused

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