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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

What's guaranteed to make you angry?

197 replies

WomenHour · 13/09/2020 21:58

Losing on a video game.

OP posts:
Angelina82 · 14/09/2020 08:32

Animal and child abusers.
Bullies.
Snobs.
Filthy litter bugs.
Injustice.
Stubbing my toe.

Yesterdayforgotten · 14/09/2020 08:43

Motorists not indicating and speeding with no regards for pedestrians attempting to cross and bad drivers in general

KatherineJaneway · 14/09/2020 08:54

CV threads posted outside the CV topic, and "Trending Now" is once again starting to get cluttered with them.

And Brexit threads in AIBU.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 14/09/2020 08:54

A specific whiny tone of voice that my dc make when they're anything but happy. It goes right through me!

My dc bickering about anything and everything.

Shoes on the floor next to the shoe box, especially if I only picked them up and put them away a few minutes before. It's like that box is spring loaded and the shoes just boing out on their own accord. Same thing happens with the toy box.

TheDragQueen · 14/09/2020 08:56

Cruelty to children or animals
Littering
Spitting

TwoZeroTwoZero · 14/09/2020 09:00

Dh making a clicking noise when he breathes at night. He breathes in through his mouth and out through his nose and makes a click sound on the crossover. It's loud and rhythmic and does my head in.

rosydreams · 14/09/2020 09:01

If i see someone on the street openly hurting their child or animal i would find it very hard to refrain from losing my shit

But i think the worst was the other day on drive through i was working,Someone with kids seats in the back was drinking jack behind the wheel.I felt so pissed but as i was working i had to smile and wave

honeylulu · 14/09/2020 09:01

People with hiccups (including me).

The rest of my family dumping their shoes just inside the front door rather than placing them ON THE SHOE RACK OPPOSITE.

Sexism/misogyny including that caused by women pandering to men.

Cruelty to animals. Includes people getting pets with very little thought and rehoming a few months later because they don't really have the space/ time/ it's a pain when they go on holiday.

Small children in forward facing car seats much earlier than recommended. (Seen as an exciting milestone to do it as soon as possible ... thereby increasing said child's risk if serious injury and death - lovely. )

People who don't pull their weight at work then get tearful and offended when you point it out.

My kids moving my own personal chargers. I am happy for them to use them but LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY ARE. Same goes for use of other personal items. Husband borrows my hairbrush to do daughter's ponytail but doesn't put it back. Sometimes I've missed my train to work because I'm looking all over for it so I don't leave the house looking like Worzel Gummidge.

People who think their time is more important than yours.

When I've spent ages cleaning the kitchen or bathroom and one of the children desecrates it before I've had the pleasure of cooking in a clean orderly kitchen or having a lovely bath in a clean bathroom.

My husband's inability to budget and save money. We have semi- separate finances because of this but it means I end up paying for significant one off expenses like household renovations because I have savings and he doesn't.

My teenage son sticking a dripping coffee spoon in the sugar jar so when I come to make a cake I find the sugar all full of hard brown lumps.

Remote controls not left in correct/ logical place. My youngest has a habit of losing them down the side of the sofa, then collecting remotes from the other rooms until there are FOUR remotes left between the sofa cushions in the kids tv room.

redgin · 14/09/2020 09:02

Lots of unnecessary swearing
Bad manners
Use of 'ways of talking' like accents to conform to stereotype (iynwim)

diplodocusinermine · 14/09/2020 09:12

The number of ‘bots’ on here at the moment trying to incite riots, civil unrest, whip up feelings etc., it’s getting really boring, they’re so bloody obvious.

Litter.
Lack of critical thinking skills.

DH clearing his throat loudly every 5 minutes.
Bandwagons on social media (see also lack of critical thinking skills and bots as referenced above).

ClinkyMonkey · 14/09/2020 09:13

@EsterOdesavitch, I really need to know what bitch-plopping means so that I can use it as soon as possibleGrin

I've been reading these and found some more stuff to be angry about! But the poster who gets angry about cyclists in pairs is just ridiculous - cyclists do this for safety. Two cyclists are closer to the width of a standard vehicle which means that selfish, idiotic drivers are forced to wait for an appropriate opportunity to overtake, rather than take stupid risks by skimming past a lone cyclist. How come drivers are able to sit behind a tractor or other slow moving vehicle until it's safe to overtake, yet are seething with anger at a cyclist and nearly force them into a ditch in their determination to get ahead? Now THAT pisses me off. I'm not a cyclist by the way. I just give a shit about other road users.

Gladgreengrass · 14/09/2020 09:19

Cowardly thieves who steal from the elderly
Children who shrug in answer to a perfectly reasonable question
People who never close a door,, shut a cupboard or a drawer.

MyOwnSummer · 14/09/2020 09:28

People that won't speed up on slip roads and join the motorway at 40mph. Arrrrgh!!!

elliejjtiny · 14/09/2020 09:35

People who say that aspergers syndrome isn't "proper autism".
When I'm waiting for a specific phonecall, the phone rings and it's a cold caller.
People who do that patronising tinkly little laugh.

golddustwomen · 14/09/2020 09:43

Dog shit. It's fucking everywhere. Litter. Which is also fucking everywhere.

FallonsTeaRoom · 14/09/2020 09:52

Being told how to peel apples/potatoes when I've been peeling them for 42 years.

Being told the best way of doing whatever I'm doing (without asking me exactly what I'm doing, just assuming) when I'm doing it the way I've done it forever.

Mansplaining in general.

44PumpLane · 14/09/2020 10:06

Bellway

Bought a Bellway house coming up 2 years ago and about to send them a letter before action because they are so fucking useless and their remedial works are almost worse than their initial shit show of a build

Champagneforeveryone · 14/09/2020 10:09

Noisy motorbikes, the kind where a sleeveless man is reclined and grasping a set of cow horn type handlebars.

I can feel physical rage burning inside me when one passes.

cologne4711 · 14/09/2020 10:12

Garden bonfires

Parking on pavements

Cutting me up on the roads

Having to stockpile for yet another threatened no deal Brexit, it's so tedious

Seeing people who told me off for suggesting a socially distanced run in March (before lockdown but after we were asked to avoid working in offices etc) putting photos on FB of themselves clearly not 2m away from people not in their households. Hypocrites.

LunchBoxPolice · 14/09/2020 10:19

“What happened to be kind?”

Bl3ss3dm0m · 14/09/2020 10:21

Shallow - people standing and staring at me when I am trying to reverse into a small lift in my electrically powered wheelchair (it is not a mobility scooter), and even worse when they either make encouraging chat and give me a well done afterwards if I do it well, or if I balls it up (which I probably wouldn't do if they weren't staring at me), joking that I need "L" plates!
Same when trying to get through narrow doors into a small room, often with a nurse or doctors desk in the way making it almost impossible to do, and the bloody professional medic also staring and giving me a well done...
Serious - Sorry, but I will be triggered into getting upset if I go into that at the moment, so I am keeping it relatively lighthearted!

sst1234 · 14/09/2020 10:22

Not taking shoes off on entering the house.

Hangingover · 14/09/2020 10:25

Men who stare openly at you when you're trying to get into your bathing suit at the beach.

Noisy chewers. Get the fuck out of my ears.

redgin · 14/09/2020 10:25

Neighbours who insist on barbecueing/burning their food in their tiny gardens, driving us and our clean washing inside on a lovely summers day

Makes me cross just thinking about it.

sst1234 · 14/09/2020 10:26

Excusing bad behaviour as mental health issues