Pet Hate - what makes you Cringe?

[marton4710]

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.

DH, DD, ExDH, DS, Mil, DDog and all the bloody rest....

Baby daddy. It makes my insides curl up.

Argh, so many.

I’m a spelling and grammar pedant so incorrectly used English in a native speaker is one.

When people have their kids ‘perform’ in front of family or friends at get-togethers. No one wants to hear your PFB murder the latest pop song or show us what they learned at ballet. We are all cringing on your behalf.

People using toothpicks in company.

People (usually middle aged men) ‘holding court’ and talking loudly in a public place about work, money, their possessions etc. Bragging in general, really.

People who use speakerphone when on a call, especially in public.

@Amdone123

I cringe when my colleague pops a boiled sweet into her mouth seconds before giving me the lowdown on what needs doing. I then have to listen to it being thrown around her gob, colliding with her teeth. The other day I could stand it no longer and said, ' Are you eating a sweet?' 'Yes. Do you want one?' I wish I could be more direct.

This is hilarious!

Mine is rather trivial, but it is people who buy a coat/jacket/skirt/dress with a vent in the back, who don't understand that you have to remove the tacking stitch which holds the two parts of the vent together after you buy it. So, instead of striding around with a fluttering jacket vent, there is just a hole that awkwardly gapes this way and that with every step. Walking behind someone who has made this error makes my eye twitch. I would find it less annoying if they left the price tags hanging off.

@Hughbert

Unnecessary vehemence. I have a colleague who does this constantly. "Oh god, I do not KNOW how you can wear anything other than flip flops in summer, I can't BEAR it." "Oh god, I don't know how ANYONE can lie in bed all morning, what a WASTE of a day." And on and on. The energy to be that bothered exhausts me. I think a year of Zoom calls has exacerbated it hugely as I used to be able to zone it out while working and it was not quite as apparent. Clearly she cringes at my trainer wearing and laziness.

Yeah that is annoying. They are basically announcing that you are wrong and they are right.

I live in a rural village and have had a couple of people saying 'oooh I couldn't live in the sticks, how boring, how dull, how mundane. What do you do when you need a pint of milk at 11.30 at night?' Funnily enough I never do.

I just think 'well don't live in the fucking sticks then!'

Some people just HAVE to give you their (obviously correct) opinion!

Masks worn over the mouth but under the nose.

@Hughbert

Unnecessary vehemence. I have a colleague who does this constantly. "Oh god, I do not KNOW how you can wear anything other than flip flops in summer, I can't BEAR it." "Oh god, I don't know how ANYONE can lie in bed all morning, what a WASTE of a day." And on and on. The energy to be that bothered exhausts me. I think a year of Zoom calls has exacerbated it hugely as I used to be able to zone it out while working and it was not quite as apparent. Clearly she cringes at my trainer wearing and laziness.

Oh god this! I once met a girl on a night out (she was a friend of a friend at our table so making chit chat) and upon asking me what I did for a living (office job) she expressed how horrific I must find it, I must hate it, and that working in an office would be her worst nightmare! She was a nanny!!! I gritted my teeth but felt like saying...my worst nightmare is looking after other people’s kids all day! Some people are just plain odd.

[quote CheerfulBunny]@littlepattilou Yes to the extravagant man sneezing. I can hear my neighbour sneeze through the wall. He sounds like he's been stabbed. Twat.
'Stay safe'. So f#cking sick of it. You might as well say 'ooo please don't die!'. Makes me think of medieval peasants for some reason, like a superstitious 'God bless you' sort of thing.
I'm aware it's well meant but I'm really, really, really sick of it now. Quite looking forward to my old dangerous life.[/quote]
Ooooh, we used to live next door to a man who sneezed VERY loudly. And he would do between 8 and 12 at a time. I am NOT kidding!

DH does stupidly loud sneezes, but he only ever does the one weirdly! Funny how he never does it stupidly loud when we're in public.

Also sick of 'stay safe' and 'social distancing' and 'shielding' and all that wanky crap. And as I said earlier, I am sick of the 'I can't stay at home I'm a key worker' wankers on facebook.

@AsTheRiverBends Ooooh, yeah, 'we're pregnant' pisses me off too. Say 'we are having a baby,' but not 'we're pregnant.' It's so twee and irritating!

I thought of another one 'what say you?'

And 'wanna come with?'

Ooooh, and people writing 'amirite?' (Instead of am I right?) ARGH! It's like people writing 'prolley' instead of 'probably.'

@Babygotblueyes

Masks worn over the mouth but under the nose.

OOOOH SO ANNOYING!

People singing on the telly, ie bargain hunt contestants etc. Just get on with it, I don't want to hear you screeching over lunch.

Toyah and her tits on YouTube every Sunday. Can't decide of she's serious or genuinely needs some help.

People That call their children princess or diva in my mind diva is just another word for brat!

The ‘just you wait’/ ‘wait until...’ brigade drive me up the fucking wall.

People who shorten words all the time. My colleague who is lovely does this all the time and it makes me cringe. Something like "I went to Sainsbos and saw this gorge dress. It was just adorbs"

The Peloton ad.Even the actress looks embarrassed. "Yes. With You Peloton"

Oh and babied people boil my piss. I have a colleague like this who is 25. She wont catch a bus past 6pm in winter because her dad would worry. And she won't catch a train, even if her bus is really late and even though the train station is a 10 min walk from her house because she has never been on a train before and would be scared

I haven't been anywhere to hear this since before the first lockdown, but even remembering it makes me want to punch someone. "Can I get a cappuccino?" No, you moron, you can't. It's the barista's job to get it for you. Also beginning the answer to a question with "So". "Where do you work?" "So, I work in Tesco/The City/Parliament". Also people calling their partner Babe.

Oh and to the poster who said they cringe at people who put an r in words like bath. Well I am cringing at you because that is how approximately two thirds to a half of the country speak. Because. You know. Dialect and accents

What’s app groups for your child’s year and the utter shite that is put on it. “We got this mummas” (like nails down a board) When everyone has to comment, after someone has reminded us all that it’s PE on a Monday now not Tuesday.

@SallyOMalley

When people say "can I get ..." in cafes or shops. No, you can't get it, you may have it. "Could I have ...".

Yes! It makes no sense.

Tattoos, builders’ bum, TV talent shows, people trying to walk in too high heels, hog roasts.

Anything to do with gin or prosecco and worse still, when people say "I'm having a cheeky drink" etc. Ugh

Also...
Give your head a wobble
Famalam
Sassy
Making memories

-"Bubba"
-"Mamma"
-Men wearing leggings under shorts. It makes me literally ill.

On here, the endless, relentless 'so sorry you are going through this, OP' and all the bloody 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐. It has started to feel so cloying and inauthentic.

'Reach(ed) out', i.e. 'I reached out to Durex to demand a refund after every single condom in the box exploded during sex without fail.'
'Opened up' - 'Boris Johnson opened up today about awful hair, awful choices and life as a stupid twat.'
'Stunning' - more often than not, the person being referred to as such is merely wearing more make up than usual.
'I see you', or even worse, 'I see you, Mama'.
'You got this' - again, stick a 'Mama' on the end and it's twice as bad.

All are vomitworthy.

@81Byerley yea I agree totally about the 'so' thing. I've started hearing it a lot recently, seems like many people can't start a sentence without it ! Odd!

One lady I know takes a picture of her child's hair after she has had her fringe cut and writes 'fresh trims' next to it. I don't know why but it pisses me off no end!