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Things that annoy you that are none of your business

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bonsaiii · 16/09/2020 12:18

Little girls dressed head to toe in insipid pink

OP posts:
oohyoudevilyou · 16/09/2020 14:50

Heavily built domineering assertive women who talk in cutesy girly voices and wear flouncy ditsy print dresses.
Newborn babies in frilly headbands.
Philip Schofield

Goslowlysideways · 16/09/2020 14:50

People who change their minds about shopping and just shove it anywhere. Especially cold things not put back in fridges.

Kirstie Allsopp

My neighbours white paintwork apart from on their porch which is cream. Why???

People who cut down trees without my express approval... I would NEVER give approval.

Kirstie Allsopp.

Dillo10 · 16/09/2020 14:50

The fact that DH eats his lunch standing up. It's usually a sandwich and he eats it while making a coffee that he will then sit down and enjoy. Doesn't affect me one bit, but for some reason I want to scream at him to bloody sit down and eat.

Athenajm80 · 16/09/2020 14:50

People who get on the bus then start looking for their ticket/purse/wallet. Did you think it was going to be free? The same at checkouts.
People who buy a bus ticket then throw it away immediately in the bin. I long for a ticket inspector to get on, preferably an old school take no prisoners type one.
People wearing their masks under their chin
Men in tracksuit bottoms when they are not going for a run/to the gym.
Men who, as soon as the weather is remotely warm, decide that they should walk round with no top on. YOU'RE IN A CITY CENTRE NOT ON A FUCKING BEACH YOU OVERWEIGHT UGLY SKANKY FUCKWIT!!!
People cycling on pavements at speed.
People cycling down the city centre shopping street which is no cycling.
Cyclists (usually young men) not holding the handlebars, pulling wheelies on main roads, talking on the phone. I even saw one dickhead holding shopping bags in one hand and a cigarette in the other hand on one of the busiest roads. Twat.
I am very judgmental, it's getting worse as I get older. I am equally judgmental of myself though and often get annoyed at how I look when I walk or try to run (often using my shadow as my guide for perception)

lakesidefall · 16/09/2020 14:51

Cake smashes, messy, icky and wasteful.

Mamils, on public roads.

Small unsupervised dc on the streets, yes you should take them to park, no shoving a kids beware sign onto the street isn't good parenting it is just lazy parenting.

Not picking up dog mess, it's just antisocial.

SurreyHillsGirl · 16/09/2020 14:54

Double barrelled surnames that are obviously ‘nouveau’ - toe curlingly pretentious

People who use the pronoun 'myself' incorrectly

People who are ignorant about politics

People who don't wear masks (unless they have a VALID reason and not because it makes you feel uncomfortable Hmm )

Space invaders

People who walk slowly and take up the whole pavement

People who drive at 40mph on a 60mph limit road in perfect conditions, i.e. a straight road in daylight. How did you pass your test?

Badly behaved children

Badly behaved teenagers

Middle lane hoggers

People having loud convos on trains. Shut up.

People that don't offer their seat to the elderly

People who talk down to 'service' staff. Dicks

People who have 'staff' and insist that the 'staff' address them by some ridiculous moniker such as 'sir' or 'madam'. The Victorian ages were over one hundred and fifty years ago Hmm

bananafish · 16/09/2020 14:58

Toddlers still using dummies

People who use "loose" when they mean "lose" (see also your/you're and they're/their/there)

Choosing to reek of wear Clinique's Aromatics Elixir

Children being given raisin boxes on the basis that they are 'healthier'

#squad

anyone over the age of 21 who seriously uses the adjective 'sick' for 'good'

Goslowlysideways · 16/09/2020 14:58

Photo shoots where people put their children in clothes that make them look like they’re heading to the workhouse.

DappledThings · 16/09/2020 14:58

People using Baby Bjorns

Silly/cutesy/ludicrously spelt names

Sweet tables at weddings (bonus points if called a sweetie table)

People who use the names of other people they don't actually know but have read it on their badge

Ordering by reading the entire description of a dish not just the summary (I.e. asking for the "pan-fried sea bass with samphire just, braised cabbage and new potatoes". Just ask for the sea bass, the serving staff will know what you mean)

giantangryrooster · 16/09/2020 14:59

Conspiracy theorists. They should be banned by law Envy.

SanFrancisco49er · 16/09/2020 15:00

People who post endlessly on SM with seemingly no self awareness:

  • 'Going out out!' 10 friends tagged. 10 selfies of poster all dolled up, no pics of friends.
  • 'Just a few from our honeymoon!' 300 pics uploaded.
  • People who constantly use the memory function on FB, as if everyone seeing it once, 7 years ago, wasn't enough. Usually including a comment such as 'OMG Rach, we have to do this again soon!!!'
  • #Makingmemories

(I weirdly have a strange satisfaction in being irritated by these people!!)

BaitandSwitch · 16/09/2020 15:00

Lottery winners who go for the publicity option. Just why? Setting themselves up for begging letters, endless requests for dosh from friends and family, being envied ... it just won't end well. And if they win a serious amount of money, the chance that someone may consider kidnapping them.

ASmallMovie · 16/09/2020 15:01

So-called left-leaning liberal and socialist types, who vocally support all the right and noble causes, but send their kids to private school.

SquatBetty · 16/09/2020 15:01

Parents that thrust food/snacks at their children the second they come out of the classroom after the end of school - they aren't going to fucking starve to death on the way home where presumably there is also food

TheQueef · 16/09/2020 15:03

@Plussizejumpsuit

Carl sounds quite entertaining!
You wouldn't say that if you lived next to him. He got a massive pond liner delivered yesterday. No pond and no place to put one. And he's taken three roof tiles off.

I'd like to add dog walkers that are on the phone. Or anyone bellowing into their phone actually. Stop fucking shouting you might be slightly in a field but that shouldn't affect your VOLUME.
Also number 6 who never take their milk in before it gets warm. Stop that.

Arthersleep · 16/09/2020 15:03

My neighbour's new massive shed. It takes over half of their garden and leaves them with hardly anywhere nice to sit. What on earth do they possibly need such a large shed for?! It bugs me.

TyroSaysMeow · 16/09/2020 15:03

People elongating the wrong vowel for emphasis gives me the raggy raaaaaage.

Lurchermom · 16/09/2020 15:04

People who drive at 40mph in a 60, then carry on at 40mph in the 30!! Except that does technically impact on me because one day I'm going to go to jail for murder.

People who write the content of their email in the subject box. I hate this.

People who don't pay attention to others in conversation. When somebody is just talking and talking and somebody (not always me!) Is trying to start saying something and they just get talked over. That really winds me up.

Smoking weed. I just hate it, and I hate that the smell is so obvious (and disgusting) yet people seem to think they're being subtle. You really aren't.

People who leave the milk/the lid/a big glug of milk on the side after making a cup of tea. I had a boss who did this, great in every other way but if he made a drink it looked like a hurricane had swept through - coffee grains everywhere, milk across the sides, splashes of hot water from the kettle and a occasionally a sad little tea bag 'draining' on the side of the sink. ARGHH.

TheTrollFairy · 16/09/2020 15:04

Just to add some more I thought of.

People who park inconsiderable, there is parking for a few cars outside the front of my house but people park in the middle of 2 spaces even though they have seen many times the amount of cars that can fit in the space.

Not knowing which nee naw is for which emergency vehicle (does anyone know this?)

People calling their dc prince or princess as a pet name.

Baby showers/gender reveals/cake smash

People giving advise on subjects they have no experience of eg how to parent a child with a disability, cure an illness by taking x supplement

Goslowlysideways · 16/09/2020 15:04

I know someone who puts meister on the end of things.
Mumeister
Rachelmeister

Why does she do that?

TurquoiseDress · 16/09/2020 15:04

Yes OP I am with you on the girls dressed head to toe in pink!

And the baby headbands that someone wrote about....why does a baby need a headband?! (unless they have a full head of hair/fringe already)

MarmiteWine · 16/09/2020 15:04

@sapnupuas

It's obvious. They've let the budgie out of It's cage and don't want it to fly into the window!

100% only replying so I can praise you on your username and show off my upside down reading skills.

RelaisBlu · 16/09/2020 15:04

Bedraggled, badly kept, over-long hair that hangs down in a tatty, straggly point at the back - I have a terrible urge to whip out a pair of scissors and tidy it up

Friendsoftheearth · 16/09/2020 15:05

Smoking!

Callardandbowser · 16/09/2020 15:05

Children being rough and parents not picking Them up on it.

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