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Pet Hate - what makes you Cringe?

661 replies

marton4710 · 16/05/2021 20:37

For me it is the habit of drinking out of bottles. Everywhere you go people are swigging out of bottles. Had a bank appointment and even Manager was drinking out of a bottle. Agh I must be getting old. Give me a glass any time.

OP posts:
GiveUsACoffee · 19/05/2021 00:53

I don’t like it when people say hubby

Dalamalama · 19/05/2021 01:55

The word 'awesome' used by anyone who isn't American.

People who say they're 'devastated' when something has happened which they will recover from very quickly.
No you're not! You're a little upset.

NoFashion · 19/05/2021 07:40

@GerryManderson

-"Bubba" -"Mamma" -Men wearing leggings under shorts. It makes me literally ill.
Thanks for reminding me of a big one Grin

People who misuse "literally"

So a man with leggings under his shorts makes you vomit? Get a fever?

Wingingit247 · 19/05/2021 07:45

Selfies.

Ddot · 19/05/2021 07:58

People who comment on my hair, (YOU SHOULD STRAIGHTEN) its curly get over it. My hair my mess I like it.

Ddot · 19/05/2021 08:01

Hairdressers who proclaim they can cut curly hair, then proceed to knacker it

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 19/05/2021 08:02

Like OP swigging water out of bottles all the time, especially when they are doing it every 5 seconds in meetings making loud sucking noises.
I've often fantasised about shouting, PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP, it's just a fantasy but can you just imagine everyones faces Grin
I attended a meeting once where someone crunched an apple slowly for about 10 minutes during a talk, it wasn't even cut up into small pieces, it was a whole one.

RolloTomassi · 19/05/2021 08:10

The one that springs to mind is offering someone "a cuppa" 😑

seensome · 19/05/2021 08:14

On here, you need counselling, oh you need therapy to a break up, pick yourself up and get on with it, shit happens Blush

Dogs and their owners, letting them lick your face, letting them piss and shit directly outside a house, letting them bark.

Lorebas · 19/05/2021 08:29

@Paperreceipt

Posh accents.

Facebook grieving.

Teabags left out on the side or in the sink.

What's Facebook grieving?

Purplealienpuke · 19/05/2021 08:34

"Is there anything else I can get for yourself? "....
Just fucking no! FOR YOU, YOU MORON!!
You don't sound clever saying YOURSELF, you sound illiterate 🙄.
It really gives me the ick.

Picoloangel · 19/05/2021 09:23

Hubby

Barney60 · 19/05/2021 10:25

People that brush their hair near food, it enrages me SO much!
We used to be in meetings every Monday around the board table, lunch would then be brought in before going back to our departments.
She would every bloody week pull out her hair brush and brush long hair, it drove me MAD!

Seriously1996 · 19/05/2021 11:13

People having loud conversations on their mobiles whilst on a bus/train.

The Haribo advert .Adults saying ridiculous things in a baby voice

Tam20779 · 19/05/2021 11:27

@Seriously1996

People having loud conversations on their mobiles whilst on a bus/train.

The Haribo advert .Adults saying ridiculous things in a baby voice

Just so you know, the adults are not actually talking in a baby/kid voice. They are lip syncing to the kid voices which are recorded separately and then dubbed over the ad.
Seriously1996 · 19/05/2021 11:29

People clanking and scraping their cutlery on their plates whilst eating
Finishing off my sentences
yawning loudly and not putting their hand over their mouths
Saying din dins instead of dinner
People standing in the middle of shopping aisles with their trollies chatting
Having to wait whilst the person in front of me rummages through their hand bag looking for their purse to pay the cashier .You know you have to pay .Why not just have your purse ready

Seriously1996 · 19/05/2021 11:32

Yes Tam20779 i did know. However its still annoying

talesofginza · 19/05/2021 11:42

@CrankyFrankie Hahah, now knowing that it is done intentionally is going to make it even harder to bear Grin

WaterOffADucksCrack · 19/05/2021 12:52

aks instead of ask. I believe this was used as a standard form of ask. But by the 16th (if I remember rightly) century, ask was predominantly used. However aks was still used by less educated people, including black slaves. It is still used widely amongst black people today. It's something I looked up a while ago as we've always used aks as a black working class family.

freakyfridays · 19/05/2021 14:28

People who smugly believe they found a way to insult men when all they manage to do is reinforcing ridiculous stereotypes and insulting other women in the process.

Think in the line "that dick is obviously having his mid-life crisis" to describe something that is not only normal but as much female as it is male orientated.

Very cringey.

freakyfridays · 19/05/2021 14:51

Women who take their shoes off at parties and weddings.

VeganCheesePlease · 19/05/2021 14:53

People talking with their mouths full. Puts me right off my meal. I don't want to see your food sloshing around in there 🤢

Rawmum30 · 19/05/2021 15:02

To the op who cringes at her husband mopping up gravy with bread... Yanbu!!!!
I absolutely HATE it, and if I have to witness it, I have to concentrate very hard on something else so that I am thoroughly distracted.
Also, on a similar note, knowing that someone is drinking half cold tea.
My major hate is hot food served on a cold plate. If food is served to me any less than practically sizzling on the plate, then I either reject it (possibly feigning illness to spare the chefs feelings) or stick it in the mic’ to give it a burst of heat for a minute.
I know it sounds really ridiculous, but it makes me shudder at best, or want to vomit at worst.
We are strange, us humans!

terrimom · 19/05/2021 16:28

@overnightangel
lol Grin Grin Grin

Fatladyslim · 19/05/2021 16:49

People randomly stopping infront of me in the entrance of shops. It makes me see red, I have to go look at the chocolate to calm myself back down

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