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?

• looks in the oven not inventory

I lived in the UK for 30 years and now have lived in Australia for nearly 15 and I have never heard anyone say “come to table” or “baby needs changed”. It’s gibberish. Is that a very specific dialect or something as I have literally never heard anyone speak like that in my life.
Tl;dr I agree, that’s very annoying.

Lots of things annoy me, but one thing I haven't seen mentioned here: I seem to know so many people who say "itch" when they mean "scratch".
"I need to itch my leg!"
Baffles me and makes me feel quite stabby

People using too many exclamation marks or using them when they’re not necessary. I almost feel the need to add one there now. I’ve learned to go through my emails afterwards and remove them all.

Also people trailing off a sentence with ellipses when it doesn’t need it... you see so much of that on here... agh!!

At the moment ....everything ...it's exhausting

My colleague who wears flip-flops to work every single day of the year. It can rain, it can snow, still wearing pound shop flip-flops. She makes £40,000 more than I do a year, she can afford shoes. It doesn’t affect me at all, but irrationally annoys me. Buy some shoes!

@OldGreyBoots

Lots of things annoy me, but one thing I haven't seen mentioned here: I seem to know so many people who say "itch" when they mean "scratch". "I need to itch my leg!" Baffles me and makes me feel quite stabby

Oh yes. Another “my son”. My son who opens a packet of crackers then opens a different one the next day. This especially shouldn’t bother me as I don’t eat them.

Nice. When there's a thread asking for example "What do you do on Boxing Day?"and people reply with "we have a nice buffet" surely they wouldn't make themselves a horrible buffet

When my husband sleeps on the patterned pillow rather than the plain coloured one 🙊

@Chunkymenrock

'In a red wine sauce. Why the 'a'? Can't we just say beef in red wine sauce?

Or simply bourguignon.

Powered by pixie dust on your car. No it fucking isn't. It's powered by petrol/diesel

Nish Kumuar, unfunny twat. I don't watch anything he's in if I can help it. When he is in something I like I have to make a choice.

"Plus size" models that are campaigning for body positivity but are in relationships with good looking muscular men. Body positivity only going one way it's it? (This one might be a bit niche)

People who drive too fast. ESP if the car makes a loud noise. Ugh.

Also people who drive too slow.

Same with people walking on the street.

People with buggies or umbrellas who hog pavements.

People who are smug on social media.

“I’m an empath”

I think that’s it for now!

People who when 10 pin bowling on the next door lane randomly pick up whatever ball they choose from the shared return unit when I have picked out a ball that suits the weight and fingerhole size I want to use and they use it just before my turn.

I get irrationally wound up by it and it ruins bowling for me.

@SpnBaby1967 YES!!

Poor grammar. People who don’t read books. Signs about love and laughter and living positively hanging in people’s houses. Prosecco. Fake tans and nails. Awful programmes on TV. Annoying adverts about viagra and incontinence pads.
Meaningless phrases like ‘give your head a wobble’.
Fake people.
Oh dear, I’m not in a good mood!

When people say "I'm obsessed with...." you're not obsessed with the TV show/ song, you just really like it. Or when they say this is triggering me. Annoys me so much!!

"Oh my god, I'm so random"

No you're not. You're also not that funny either

@BeckyWithTheGoodHair5629456

But I also take advantage of long hoses in petrol pumps so I can get in the shortest queue, and sign my name with my first initial instead of having to type my whole name. Sheer laziness! So I'm also irritating

I think you'll find that we all have traits which annoy someone, I'm with you on the queues for fuel. Why do they provide long hoses if we're not to use them? When a pupil said Can I lend a ruler Miss, my reply was usually Yes, to whom do you wish to lend it? They quickly got it right, a colleague when asked Can I have a ruler would reply Will Henry 5th do?

[quote Thefirsttime]**@Butterflyfluff* thanks for this 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*

I had never thought about this before. You’re right and now this is going to annoy me too. I’d have preferred to stay oblivious to it![/quote]
😂😂😂 -sorry!

This is utterly irrational and none of my business but - long haired women jogging, as their hair swings from side to side.

People who drum on surfaces with their fingertips.

MY DP who, instead of throwing away a piece of paper/cardboard, has to sit and tear it into millions of pieces first. Gives me the rage.

The coronavirus advert in Scotland right now that rhymes 'again' with 'maintain' it doesn't rhyme!

Macdonalds. Its called mcdonalds. And you know that. You must know that! Yet continue to write macdonalds.

People who upload a picture of their Costa/Starbucks cup. Even more annoying if its positioned over their steering wheel.

@AlternativePerspective . I used to work in a pub when we had cardboard beer mats . Somebody would always rip them into small pieces.

People who say "was you? or "them ones".

I'm in the organised mum method Facebook group.

The admin seem to turn of replies when a post gets loads. I don't even read the posts let alone reply but it annoys me. Don't constrain me!!!