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?

Young people on quiz shows who use "It's before my time!" as a reason for not knowing something. I can name the wives of Henry VIII but I wasn't actually there you tit!

Women near where I live, going for walks with takeaway coffees, wearing puffa coats and bobble hats. Taking up all the room on the pavement. They are like an army of identical yummy mummies. Drives me mad.

@AdventureCode, could you tape Them?

I don't like double barrelled surnames either. I also don't like private number plates.

All feels pretentious!

People who use the word ‘full’ instead of ‘whole’. E.g. ‘a full pizza’ instead of ‘a whole pizza’.
I have no idea why this irritates me as much as it does

I agree, I dont like when you have an email with
Sophie, and no "hi" first.

Dirty car interior

Colleagues singing at work and I'm just sat there awkwardly and them expecting me to join in!

‘Gender’ reveal parties

DH making phone calls without telling me who he's calling.
DH asking me who I'm on the phone to.
People listing as irrational dislikes that are perfectly rational.

Oh and people who suggest going for a walk when a mum is stressed with her kids. No.matter what the weather. Sticl the waterproofs on and get out for a walk. NO!! Usually that's more bloody stressful than just staying in. Walking in the rain is miserable, then you get home and have tonget children changed and clothes dried. Just an extra job and hassle.

The phrase 'get your ducks in a row', which seems to be overused on Mumsnet and yet I've never heard it in real life.

When you're commuting to work in London ....

As you go down the stairs to the platform in the tube station, there's a group of people with suitcases, standing right at the bottom so you can't get onto the platform!

Also, you stand behind the yellow line on a busy tube platform waiting for the next trajn, and some idiot walks all the way along the edge of the platform in front of you.

Can you tell I'm not a morning person?!

People who say "WE are pregnant". Nope, as excited as you may both be, you're not both pregnant.

Also,'people saying talking about going on a date night with their partner. I find this hugely irritating. Surely you're both just going out together?

That a refund has now become "a full refund" as though the poster Ann Robinson on Watchdog.
I understand sometimes you can be offered a partial refund but surely anything else is just a refund.

@Nohomemadecandles

People who laugh when nothing's funny. I know it makes me sound like a miserable twat and I'm really not but it bugs me. The Scottish antiques woman on TV does it - says hello and then they laugh. Anita?

Absolutely this. Especially when the laugh is used to cover up something that might otherwise be construed as rude or patronising - “oh look, you’re still wearing THAT coat!” then a fake laugh to make it lighthearted so if you scowl or tell them to fuck off or hit them with a brick, you’re being a killjoy.

Also people who say mental health when they mean poor mental health. People do not suffer from mental health!

iracebeth yes. Irritates me too. 'I used a full onion in my stew' (a full onion eh? Not an empty one?).

'I drank a full bottle of wine last night!'

Why not just 'I drank a bottle of wine' or,again, a whole one? Not going to be able to drink an empty one are you?

The phrase "clean as you go"

I have a few phrase ones that really bug me; children (I work in a school) who ask to 'go toilet', my DH's family say 'Can you come to table now' and 'belly pork'. I need the prepositions and determiners to be in there.

There's an advert for Rooster Money - I randomly hate the way that two of the children do their bits: the 'You can spend some... save some' kid and the girl who nods like her head might fall off.

I also hate the 'So.' people. You get these a lot on Pointless and I tend to immediately think 'Twat.'

Some lines in books (that I read a lot) make me squirm for no apparent reason. There's one in the chapter 'The Rose-Beetle Man' in My Family and Other Animals, where it says '... he spread his arms wide and swooped and dived across the road. Aeroplane - any fool could see that.' I hate the aeroplane line. In Lord of the Rings I hate how superior Merry and Pippin sound when they get back to the Shire, going on about 'orc-talk' and pompously declaring they've slept in worse places than the dingy sheriff houses or to '...show some respect, else I set this trolls-bane in you!' Bloody hate all that.

Moosli. It's muesli. You don't say frickin' barbecoo.

Tonight seeing name Kyle irritated me much more than it should have. Honestly so many things irritate the feck out of me!
I'm an over stirrer of hot drinks. Not apologising!

• seeing the name Kyle

Boys in neon green Ford fiestas with exhausts from a Boeing 747.
Why????
Makes me rage

People who ask you something and then talk over you as you respond.
Yes to the mental health thing 'I've got mental health!' They mean they have MH issues. I always want to congratulate them on being free of mental ill-health.

Rest bite.

Something really odd:
My mother telling me (or texting me) she likes something I’ve picked for the house or that she prefers this or that, completely unprompted. Currently trying to pick a name for my daughter and she sends me suggestions, I hate it!
Basically do not give me opinions as if it’s positive it will put me off it and negative will piss me off 😄 I haven’t grown up from teenagehood it seems

Pretentious design talk like, freshen up the space, curate your collection, a straight-leg pant.
And the way galleries describe art... Such a lot of wank.

STAY HOME. We re in the UK. It's stay AT home. On signs on every road I drive down.
My friend bragging how she cycles everywhere so isnt polluting the envoirement but is happy to get a lift in my car when it rains.
People who call magazines like Take A Break a "book".

Teenage son when he comes in the kitchen and opens every pot lid and looks in the inventory when I'm cooking then asks me if dinner is ready.

Same son when after I've cleaned the kitchen he brings days worth of crockery from his room and leaves it in the sink.

Son leaving Crumbs on the counter.

My son 🙄