AIBU to ask your irrational hates....

[Manth0914]

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.

Ribbons on babies’ heads @Heartofglass12345. Arghhhthhh. They give me the absolute willies. Only if the head is bald though. I don’t think it bothers me as much as if they had hair.

There are so many more in this thread I can relate to and the more I think about it the more I have.

Just a single grain of sand in the bed upsets me like the Princess and the Pea.

People eating cucumber in the office. Or anywhere. And tell me it smells and tastes like water. It does NOT. It is the devil’s food.

Sneezing or getting the hiccups. Gives me a giggle if someone else does but the rage builds if I do.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing, so true. This is absolutely not safe, and I teach my GD to only cross when we can ( green man, road clear, etc)
My friend's GS was seriously injured when a motorist waved him on. He ran across and into a speeding car. He survived thank god.

Drivers tail gating me when I’m driving at the speed limit! I refuse to risk having points on my license just so that you can get to your destination a few minutes earlier.

@BListOrMaybeEvenZList

People who take over the whole place wherever they are. I was in a food shop today with a one way system and small aisles and the whole time I was in there I was constantly walked into by a self important woman walking the wrong way up the aisles. She also kept parking her trolley widthways across the aisles so no one could get through whilst she rummaged through the freezers, then would look totally put out and shocked when I said 'excuse me' and she had to actually move the damn thing.

She took over all the space at the checkout too, then stopped in the doorway, right in front of me, checking something on her phone.

Totally self absorbed!

I had this the other day but it was a couple with a double stroller. They were EVERYWHERE - blocking every aisle, standing in front of the exact shelf I wanted, not moving but smiling indulgently at their toddler, just generally getting in the way.

“ My body language is set to 'sorry not today' so stop trying to engage.”

So perfectly put.

I feel this way about idiot men sitting next to you at bus stops or when you’re waiting for someone. I’ve had this happen so many times - every time I look past them into the distance, they try to catch my eye, smile at me, whatever. No! I’m not sitting here, mutely staring at you but too shy to engage. That would be pathetic and weird. I’m not looking at you! I’m waiting for my friend/the bus for God’s sake!

Blondiney :
People walking around clutching coffees as though it’s some kind of life giving elixir. It’s a hot beverage FFS, nothing more.

But coffee IS a life-giving elixir!

AbstractExpressionist
Nigel Farage.
Fucking hate him!

Entirely agree! (Not that that's irrational!)

The phrase "you guys", especially to a group of/including women. Guys means men. I am not a man. It's also an entirely redundant and really annoying... Just say 'you'. It's both singular and plural!!

People who start making their point with “in my humble opinion”

Work colleagues quizzing me on what I’m eating. Kindly go away.

People using drones in public places.

The American adverts in YouTube for Honey and Hello Fresh (specifically the harissa pockets or some shit, I’m trying to block it out). The noise of both actual induce rage and panic, wtf?!?

Cars or vans parked in front of my dropped pavement when there are other spaces. Lets say that if they do it over night their paintwork may not be quite so shiny when they drive away!

People who call older people "boomers". I always pretend not to understand and make them explain. Then I comment is that thekind of expression you people use? Clearly we inhabit widely different social classes.

@BeingATwatItsABingThing, about your *FIL/SIL/BIL: “Would you like a glass of wine?”
“Oh, no thank you. I’m good with my Coke.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m good thanks.”
MIL chimes in: “But won’t you have some rosé?”
“No thanks.”
“But it’s rosé!”

On and on and on...*

O god, I thought it was just me who suffered these endless boring and futile interrogations and was made to feel such a terrible person! I got similar from XH's stepmother: "Have some water." "Thanks but no ice, please." "Don't you want ice?" "No thanks, I prefer it at room temperature." "You don't like ice?" "No." "Have you always been that way? Why don't you like ice?" "I just prefer it al climo thanks, I'll pour it myself." "Al climo -- what are you talking about?"
And so on and so on!
Sisters in spirit, Being.

[quote groovergirl]**@BeingATwatItsABingThing*, about your FIL/SIL/BIL: “Would you like a glass of wine?”
“Oh, no thank you. I’m good with my Coke.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m good thanks.”
MIL chimes in: “But won’t you have some rosé?”
“No thanks.”
“But it’s rosé!”

On and on and on...*

O god, I thought it was just me who suffered these endless boring and futile interrogations and was made to feel such a terrible person! I got similar from XH's stepmother: "Have some water." "Thanks but no ice, please." "Don't you want ice?" "No thanks, I prefer it at room temperature." "You don't like ice?" "No." "Have you always been that way? Why don't you like ice?" "I just prefer it al climo thanks, I'll pour it myself." "Al climo -- what are you talking about?"
And so on and so on!
Sisters in spirit, Being.[/quote]
It is exhausting isn’t it! Next time I may scream that I have never drunk wine in the whole time they’ve known me so why is she surprised?!

She does it just generally about alcohol:
“Oh Being, you must have a drink with us one night! It’ll be fun!”

No it won’t!!

We can share in our mutual MIL frustrations @groovergirl

PJs. Cant stand to hear or read “PJs”. Pyjamas. It’s not difficult.

People using words or phrases without knowing the true meaning or realizing how offensive it might be but they still use it because they think it makes them look clever. Gaslighting is the main one. As well as narcissist. I saw “carry on like a pork chop” here recently and I did think that most people on the thread don’t know the origin/full version of it. A few days later someone even changed their username to this and I found it offensive.

Taco Bell. Just go to hell.

Carpet in bathrooms and kitchens.

Kia Souls.

Companies in the UK using American words when their customers are all based on the UK. Come to think of it, anyone outside of North America using words like “movies”, “hang out”, “vacation” (or, even worse, “vacay”). Just don’t, it sounds ridiculous.

@CounsellorTroi

The use of the word "frumpy" to describe any clothing that's practical and comfortable.

This. Absolutely. Drives me mad. You want serviceable, durable, practical clothing? You're a frumpy granny.

PJs. Cant stand to hear or read “PJs”. Pyjamas. It’s not difficult.

You’d hate my house @BritWifeinUSA because we say PJs phonetically rather than they letter names.

The glugging sound peoples throats make when they swallow. Actually can't bear it.

People commenting on my food, even positively. Not if we're eating together in a restaurant or something, but in an office environment or similar, when someone wanders over to say "oooh, what's that? Smells delicious!"

Because I don't want them to know I'm insane, I'll answer, "just some leftovers from last night's dinner", or whatever. But internally I'm screaming "YES IT DOES AND IT'S MINE AND I'M NOT SHARING SO BACK OFF!!!"

I agree with most - if not all - of these,
however, the majority are quite rational!

Mine is, the spelling of halloumi. (Or haloumi.)
Love the cheese, but hate its spelling.

Gives me mini-rage every time I see it.

The letter S mispronounced. There's a hair product advert that I have to mute as all three women make a mess of the S - instead of s-t-rong they say Sch-trong.

Also the phrase "enough is enough" - it's so meaningless and yet the speaker always seems to believe they are being firm, clear and somehow godlike.

People watching me in the kitchen - I don't mind when children do it, but adults who come and watch or (worse) talk to me when I'm cooking, washing up, etc. Especially visitors who come into the kitchen to 'keep me company'. I have some co-ordination difficulties, and doing these apparently simple things takes all my concentration, and I can't chat while doing them; and I have serious performance anxiety about being criticized when doing them. Doing these things in front of other people is like taking a stressful exam for me; and you wouldn't stand over or talk to someone taking an exam.

@Bipitybopityboop

When the switch part of a plug socket is switched on but there is nothing plugged in.

I cannot help myself and have to switch it off.

In my own home mind. Not other peoples.

Sounds like my late MIL who thought the electricity would leak out when it was switched on with no plug in!

@Whatisthisfuckery

I hate it when people have conversations on speakerphone in public. I was walking along the street the other day and there was a woman on the other side having a conversation on speakerphone. I felt like going over and very conspicuously listening in. Then if she’d asked me what I was doing I’d have said I was listening, and surely she didn’t mind as she was broadcasting her conversation to the whole sodding world anyway.

My granddaughter, 10, was told off on a train because this idiot wanted to have a conversation on speakerphone, he was a bit taken aback when she said Then move elsewhere, very politely.

@HouseofWindsor

High pitched female American accent voices.

Also Canadian ones, looking at you Ms Ryan!

Mine is genuinely irrational, most on here are quite rational, but I detest cheap pencils! I use a lot of pencils doing crosswords etc and can't use an even slightly blunt pencil, only the more expensive ones will sharpen properly and keep their points longer.
Similarly, I can't stand an improperly folded newspaper, my late OH was very cavalier with newspapers and I had to carefully refold it, edge to edge, before I started reading it. I'm the same when folding a letter, (remember those), I have to get it perfectly edge to edge folded.

@ddl1

People watching me in the kitchen - I don't mind when children do it, but adults who come and watch or (worse) talk to me when I'm cooking, washing up, etc. Especially visitors who come into the kitchen to 'keep me company'. I have some co-ordination difficulties, and doing these apparently simple things takes all my concentration, and I can't chat while doing them; and I have serious performance anxiety about being criticized when doing them. Doing these things in front of other people is like taking a stressful exam for me; and you wouldn't stand over or talk to someone taking an exam.

I agree, this is why I would never have an open plan kitchen/dining area!

We were at Disney, Florida in August a few years ago. It was probably about 35 degrees most days and some people at the park had puffer coats on and woolly hats! Bonkers! I felt faint and overheated just looking at them!

Depends where they're from, we met a woman from California when we were in New Mexico, she told us she never removed her jumper below 90 degrees! She thought we were mad in t-shirts, it was only mid 80s.
In New Zealand a couple of Australians admired our courage going into the sea, until they found we were British. I did say 'We're not soft!