To ask what winds you up even though you know it’s irrational

[Butterflyfluff]

Lighthearted (I think!)

A few things popped into my head today which irrationally annoy me and I figured I can’t be the only one who gets irrationally angry about stuff like this

Those I can think of now are

• People who say ‘I don’t drive’ when they actually can’t drive - you wouldn’t say you ‘don’t perform brain surgery’ if you can’t so why is it different with driving

• People with double barrelled / hyphenated first names, eg, Peggy Sue - I’ve never heard one that doesn’t sound twee and they just make me think of weird American cults

• people who still have their Christmas trees up

I realise none of these things actually affect me - they just annoy me! 😂

What winds you up?

Spag BOWL 😂😂😂

People who say 'purposefully' when they mean 'purposely'.

@PointersPlease

People who insist on pronouncing "a" as in "a thing" as "ay" and not "uh". It's everywhere now, and I blame over-emphatic television journalists and presenters mostly.

I also get irritated by "a tea", "a coffee" and especially "a wine".

It is the remnants of Old English, like how German amd French have der/die/das and la/le

So it should be "uh" book but "an apple". Like "Ned" was "mine Ed" in middle English.

"Go Tesco" and "Go doctors" etc is just a modification of the Yorkshire dialect where they might have missed the "t' " as in "go t' Tesco" and it has been lost in imitation/development

Nish Kumar - agree

Wackaging like on innocent smoothies with "cute" extra comments, and a bubble bath I had recently about the "wizard" in his shed and colleague with orange socks who had concocted the brew!!! I don't care! It will have been made in a giant factory like the rest of the bubble baths.

CGP revision guides with wackaging insude them and unfunny jokes

@WeeDangerousSpike

Brought and bought wind me up too, written and spoken. But Both brought and bought rhyme with cot, tot, and plot ? erm, nope.

Are you pronouncing bought as bot? Or cot as caught? I can't figure it out?!

Caught rhyming with cot etc - the Scots language

People who just say "baby".
"Baby was tired" No!
The/My/Your/His baby was tired. Ffs.

People eating crisps in public. unles it's me

The worst is the finger lick to find crumbs.

Vocal fry.

@Biffbaff
I hate when people leave a little dreggy bit of tea in their mug. What was wrong with that bit? Why not empty the cup? It's weird.

Similarly annoying is when my son leaves bits of food on his plate because he can’t be bothered to scrape it. I pointed out (many, many times) that it still needed to be scraped before going into the dishwasher, so he was actually just leaving the job for me, so now he sometimes scrapes it into the bin - but then I’m annoyed again: if he’s going to scrape it, why not scrape it up and eat it instead of wasting it? 😡

My husband speaking to me whilst he’s walking towards the kitchen, then when I can’t hear him, repeating himself but still continuing to walk away.

Drivers who stop at roundabouts despite having a very clear view of the fact that NOTHING IS COMING

People who talk to you while you are on the 'phone and the person on the other end of the 'phone call can hear.

Expecting anything from human beings. Just watched the bbc2 programme on crime against the disabled because they are disabled and I am equal parts appalled and disgusted.

I hate when people leave a little dreggy bit of tea in their mug. What was wrong with that bit? Why not empty the cup? It's weird.

It's ingrained from growing with tea made with tea leaves in a teapot. The last bit would just be a mouthful of tea leaves

People who say "playing outside in fresh air helps your kids sleep at night".

Never made a bit of difference to my DCs.

I think I must be quite relaxed as I don't think I get irrationally wound up by any of the posts on here.

But ask me about being rationally wound up and that's a whole other thread...

@MissJeanLouise

My husband speaking to me whilst he’s walking towards the kitchen, then when I can’t hear him, repeating himself but still continuing to walk away.

This! See also: talking to me from a different room and getting arsey when I can't hear you.

And when I ask DS1 to go and get DS2 and he just bellows. I could have bellowed from here myself!

@Keeping2ChevronsApart
@TheCap
The cutlery holder for the dishwasher. It just irritates me so much trying to push the cutlery through the little holes, then it gets caught or knocked on something and the whole lot goes over.

yes! and you end up touching whatever is on the end of them!

I need to tell you both that you can remove the ridiculous lid with the tiny holes altogether, and that most dishwasher instructions say to put utensils in downwards so the dirty bit is closer to the spinning arm underneath. i hope this makes your days better.

@GileadWivesAreFashionIcons

Ugly porches. Usually a later addition onto a lovely period home. I don’t have one, nor am likely to possess one, and having been at the mercy of Royal Mail/DPD/Hermes, I completely get the practicality of a porch. I understand what might drive you to want a porch, but by god do I get wound up by seeing them slapped onto the front of otherwise lovely looking houses!

Yes. And plastic windows on period houses, especially when the format is different to what would have been there originally, eg replacing sashes with casements. Even worse when the plastic bits aren’t even, ie the opening window is a different thickness to the rest. Don’t people have eyes?!

My manager says 'cool beans' a lot makes me want to slap her ! What does it even mean??

“That made me spit my tea!”

No it didn’t

@Biffbaff I leave dregs because even with a water filter I still get scale in the bottom of my cup.
It makes you cough if you drink it.

The over use of the word "super" as a prefix to describle mundane things in a YouTube way. Super cute, super exciting, super scary when a plain old very exciting would be fine.
Drivers who stay in the middle lane of a three lane motorway when there is absolutely nothing in the inside lane so the just block up the road. Especially annoying when you have sat in traffic for 3 years while commuting for road widening works to add a third lane to reduce congestion!
Couples who sit at a restaurant table with four or six seats when there are plenty of smaller two seat tables available and you then have to wait for a large table to be vacated.

People who walk along with takeaway coffee in hand.
Women who walk along with handbag at elbow with oddly crooked arm held out at very odd angle.
Children who are over fussily expensively dressed etc. The wind up here attaches to the parent not the child.
Anything ruined (IMO) by whipped cream.
Unexpected ring on my doorbell (sometimes not always).

The use of actual in what the actual fuck. I don't think it makes sense or adds emphasis.