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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:
SleepingStandingUp · 16/09/2020 13:07

[quote Reclinehard]@helplessprocrastinator I used to find baby on board signs weird but DP's colleague told him it's so paramedics would know to look for a baby if we were in a car crash. [/quote]
Do people take them out when they travel without their child tho?

Malin52 · 16/09/2020 13:07

@Reclinehard not correct. Emergency services have confirmed that they have nothing to do with them, they pay no attention to them and that they are merely 'vanity' signs that serve no material purpose. Indeed if used when there isn't an infant in the car then you are wasting their precious efforts looking for a nonexistent kid. How many people seriously remove them when the kid isn't in the car?
They are quite useful for indicating who is likely to be driving like a twat though.

Itsabeautifuldayheyhey · 16/09/2020 13:08

People standing near you, clearly wanting you to move out of their way, who don't say 'Excuse me, please'.

People with trout pouts, fillers, face lifts etc who actually think it makes them look younger when they looked perfectly okay before (why would you do that to yourself?).

JudgeRindersMinder · 16/09/2020 13:08

Anyone else nodding and agreeing with almost every post? 😂

Although I can only half nod at your post @bibblebobbleblackbobble as I do like a cropped trouser or legging 😂

gggrrrargh · 16/09/2020 13:09

Other people’s recycling. My neighbour used my black bin as she had missed the last collection and mine is only ever half full. I could see in the clear bag she put in some plastic bottles and an envelope, it made me really unhappy!

greybeans · 16/09/2020 13:09

My friend who doesn't drive it affects me massively

Georgyporky · 16/09/2020 13:09

Vegan cheese/sausages/ whatever.

It's not effing cheese. Call it by its ingredients.

Notverybright · 16/09/2020 13:10

@Thecobwebsarewinning

My family putting things in the wrong recycling bins.

People who hold their knife like a pencil

A friend who treats any new topic of conversation as a chance to give me the benefit of her superior knowledge of the subject in question even when she knows nothing about it.

You must be friends with my sister.
awsomer · 16/09/2020 13:11

@Reclinehard @Plussizejumpsuit that’s a myth.

The inventor of them himself said: ‘The idea is that people will drive more safely around a vehicle they know has a baby in the backseat’

nettytree · 16/09/2020 13:12

People wearing flip flops when not on a beach. I don't want to look at your manky feet in asda. And please don't drive in them.

Poppyismyfavourite · 16/09/2020 13:12

people who just stay in the middle lane on motorways (like my dad... grr)

daysofpearlyspencer · 16/09/2020 13:12

Badly behaved kids being described as vibrant and independent by their doting shit parents.
Little girls in bikinis.
Nose piercings that look like bogies glinting in the light
Black piercings beneath the bottom lip that looks like a giant blackhead.
Fully grown adults on skateboards

buttcrackmcheese · 16/09/2020 13:13

@sapnupuas I close mine during the day if I'm watching something that has dark lighting 😀

TheTrollFairy · 16/09/2020 13:14

@bonsaiii
I’ll take it as it is bloody annoying. I’ll pull up my big girl pants and say it but I would like to say first, I have nothing against council house tenants, we all have our own lives and stories and 9/10 I wouldn’t really know who along my road/in general who’s council house tenants, private renters, own their own home, lives in a house purchased for them etc....

One of my annoyances is people who live in council houses and have multiple children even though the existing house isn’t big enough for them with existing children, then go on to have more kids and then complain that the council can’t or won’t rehouse them in a larger place.
I do get that people are entitled to have as many kids as they want, and over crowding can happen in any property weather it’s owned, from the council or private renting, but for me, if you decide to have another child then surely your current situation should also have a factor in deciding. If I live in a 2 bedroom flat which is owned by me then it’s likely that deciding to have another 1 or 2 kids will mean my current house is no longer fit for purpose but I either need to a) not have more kids, b) see if I can afford to move or c) have another kid and put up with the over crowding of my home

NachoNachoMan · 16/09/2020 13:14

The woman opposite who takes 4 or 5 days (at least!) to take her bin in.

People who don't fasten up their coats. Or people who do their own and not their kids. And even worse, when I see a childminder on the school run who never fastens any of her mindees coats.

People who share posts by fake companies on social media, eg Tesco giving away £100 shopping voucher if you like this post

hellswelshy · 16/09/2020 13:14

Yes to overfilled lips, nowt to do with me but it makes me ragey. My neighbours, just because.

OrigamiOwl · 16/09/2020 13:14

[quote Malin52]@Reclinehard not correct. Emergency services have confirmed that they have nothing to do with them, they pay no attention to them and that they are merely 'vanity' signs that serve no material purpose. Indeed if used when there isn't an infant in the car then you are wasting their precious efforts looking for a nonexistent kid. How many people seriously remove them when the kid isn't in the car?
They are quite useful for indicating who is likely to be driving like a twat though. [/quote]
Absolutely this! I'm in the emergency services. The baby/child on board signs are rendered completely pointless as no one ever removes them from their car. So they just get ignored and the car checked anyway.

jojobar · 16/09/2020 13:14

Gender reveal parties and cake smashes

Chin mask wearers

People walking 3 or more abreast, especially where they fill the entire width of the path/ pavement by doing so

People listening to music on their phone without headphones (see also people watching youtube etc on phones or tables without headphones).

Anyone using their fork like a shovel, or knife and fork in wrong hand.

Pronouncing words incorrectly (expresso, pacifically, etc etc)

Selling shit on FB Marketplace and stating 'needs gone'

Glorified begging on SM

Anyone who describes themselves as #soblessed, spoiled

Use of the word hubby or hubster. Ditto wifey Envy --- that's vom rather than envy

Incapable adults who need a man/woman/parent to basically run every aspect of their lives for them because of their learned or feigned helplessness.

I could go on and on - so much annoys me!

MrsNotNice · 16/09/2020 13:15

sapnupuas

Because from 11-3 the sun is at its peak and they don’t want the inside of the house to get warmer than it already is?!

Girlzroolz · 16/09/2020 13:15

‘Vegetarian‘ and ‘vegan’ friends who I’ve had to carefully (and expensively) adapt my cooking/hosting for, and then I overhear they happily make an exception for chicken nuggets from ‘xx place’ or fine dining generally, or kids meals, blah blah. Angry

And Vocal fry, as per a previous poster. There’s several expert youtubers on a topic I’m into, but I have to abort 3-5 mins in every time. I can’t take in information with more than 60% Vocal fry involved. Just no.

Notreallyawaitress · 16/09/2020 13:16

Herbalife twats on Facebook
Surfers hogging the car park at the beach with all their ‘stuff’ strewn everywhere
Cap guns
Spelling mistakes on menus

SantaClaritaDiet · 16/09/2020 13:17

people "out of their comfort zone" do give me the rage.

babies and young children left to blink blindly in the sun whilst mummy is wearing large sunglasses
same with coats and socks

whistling

I could of xxx instead of have

Okayokayok · 16/09/2020 13:18

People standing in shops or in the school having catch up conversations blocking the entire entrace/exit and everyone has to walk AROUND them.

sapnupuas · 16/09/2020 13:18

@MrsNotNice

sapnupuas

Because from 11-3 the sun is at its peak and they don’t want the inside of the house to get warmer than it already is?!

Sun is behind their house. This room is at the front.

I'd considered this, too.

Itsabeautifuldayheyhey · 16/09/2020 13:19

Someone I know who only posts petitions or anti-Govt Memes/rants on Facebook.

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