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AIBU to ask your irrational hates....

216 replies

Manth0914 · 19/04/2021 22:27

Is there anything that really shouldn't make you annoyed or that you hate but don't know why? I'll start, I hate those long coats that look like sleeping bags! I know its ridiculous to be annoyed by a coat, but... also people who talk into their phones but don't hold them to their ear. Aaaargh.

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Okbye · 20/04/2021 17:05

People who say ‘TescoS/AsdaS/LidlS’ etc. There is no S at the end.

Also people who say ‘should of/could of’ its HAVE, COULD HAVE.

Idiots who walk 3 (or more) abreast on a pavement/path and don’t move so no one else can possibly get past.

Slow walkers. Urgh.

Whatisthisfuckery · 20/04/2021 17:11

Okbye It’s Tesco and Asdas but it’s not Lidls or Aldis. Mozzers and Sainsbury’s already have an s on the end so they don’t count. I don’t know why it’s like that but it just is, ask anybody.

ddl1 · 20/04/2021 17:18

People saying "Im not being mean but......" You just know that what comes next will be mean and just doesnt need to be said. The same with "Im not racist but........." Emm, yes you are.

YES! And 'I don't want to be rude but..' - Usually means that you do want to be rude!

Sstrongtn · 20/04/2021 17:22

The THUMB emoji. I’ve written you a question/heartfelt/detailed text. Don’t send me a passive aggressive fucking thumb you arse.

@CattingTime you however leave high waisted things alone, they are the only way to keep my fat ass in check. Low waisted for mum tums are in fact the devil.

SisterAgatha · 20/04/2021 17:23

“But hey!” with nothing after it. But hey, what?

Job lot.

Need gone.

When people say “I am wanting to...” when they could just say “I want to” and it’s fewer words.

And this is very specific. High heel high boots worn with a tracksuit top.

ddl1 · 20/04/2021 17:24

Drivers and cyclists who don't stop at pedestrian crossings when the light is green. And especially cyclists who expect pedestrians to manoeuvre around them.

Pavement-blockers - especially people who stop to take photographs of each other. (I live in a somewhat touristy area- but occasionally you get it even in these times.)

Litterbugs.

Anyone who tries to find out when my birthday is!

Kab30 · 20/04/2021 17:26

Bliming crocs!!!!!! O I only wear them for gardening ....your still bliming wearing them!!!!!!!! Why!!!

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 20/04/2021 17:31

Glitter, unicorns, and the colour pink.

ddl1 · 20/04/2021 17:40

Oh, and another one: People who push the myth that there are 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' people, and 'left-brained' and 'right-brained' approaches to life. It is a complete myth (what is true is that for most people the left hemisphere is mainly responsible for speech and language and the right for certain spatial abilities) and yet another excuse to divide people into simple categories.

percheron67 · 20/04/2021 17:50

People who talk about "me and husband (hubby!!) are going to .. instead of My husband and I. Tautology: Personally, I - or even worse: Personally, I myself!! Mystifying in the extreme.

JaneJeffer · 20/04/2021 17:51

@percheron67

People who talk about "me and husband (hubby!!) are going to .. instead of My husband and I. Tautology: Personally, I - or even worse: Personally, I myself!! Mystifying in the extreme.
If I stared saying my husband and I around these parts everyone would think I had notions.
JaneJeffer · 20/04/2021 17:52

*started

1Morewineplease · 20/04/2021 18:06

Screaming, squealing, whining children who are let out into the garden after breakfast and just carry on until past my bedtime.

A PP mentioned Ugg boots. I agree, people always seem to walk with kinked ankles in them and they don't walk properly in them, the shlepp their feet.

Wearing loungewear, out and about. It's lazy.

FleetwoodRaincoat · 20/04/2021 18:06

Coat hangers. Always tangling together, falling down ... they can fuck right off.

Pieceofpurplesky · 20/04/2021 18:06

Sniffing (looking at you Ex h)

Tapping on a table

Clicking joints

whiteroseredrose · 20/04/2021 18:15

Felt tipped pens.

tsmainsqueeze · 20/04/2021 18:23

People who start a sentence with - so .
Ironing boards , i loathe them , i can never put up /take down without trouble.
Silly pedantic school rules , how does the stretch or lack of stretch in your trouser fabric have any influence on your education ?
Phillip schofield .

trappedsincesundaymorn · 20/04/2021 18:23

When asked to give my date of birth, the person asking always, without fail EVERY.FUCKING.TIME. Will come out "oooh you're a Christmas baby", like it's a complete revelation to me. Firstly after 50+ years I've worked out that the lights, trees and music has nothing to do with me and, secondly I'm an adult whose birthday happens to be on December 25th...not a "baby" at all. It really winds me up...can you tell? Grin

SleepOhHowIMissYou · 20/04/2021 18:25

People who start correspondence with the word "Hey" instead or Hi or Hello. 🤬

MangosteenSoda · 20/04/2021 18:33

Massages. Keep your gnarly fingers to yourselves, thanks very much.

Mamadothehump · 20/04/2021 18:35

@maddy68

Eating with your mouth open

Burping

Not washing hands after going to the toilet

How are any of these irrational?? Confused
Tartyflette · 20/04/2021 18:37

@wendywoopywoo222

Radio 2 and their serious jocking Fridays. It makes no sense, makes me irrationally angry when they talk about it earlier in the week. I change stations on a Friday.
And Steve Wright in general. Talks over the music and neglects to say WTF is actually playing half the time.
SilentBob · 20/04/2021 18:40

The noise of a phone ringing on loudspeaker in a car. Not the chirp chirp of someone calling, the brrrp brrrp of the person in the car making the call. I hate it with a passion.

100% irrational.

Catscrat · 20/04/2021 18:44

The uneven distribution of dried fruit in cereal packets. I love Fruit & Fibre but the sodding raisins always fall to the bottom half of the packet and by the end of the box you get a bowl that’s mostly raisins. It gives me the rage!

grumpyhetty · 20/04/2021 18:53

Nicholas Witchell