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Things that make you irrationally mad

168 replies

DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:26

I'll go first... Why is herbal essences shampoo is so flipping hard to get out of the bottle!

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Bluevelvetsofa · 13/05/2022 20:27

Why is it impossible to get the top of those little bottles of kefir.

DysmalRadius · 13/05/2022 20:29

When I catch my sleeve on a door handle I want to burn all the doors in the world in retribution.

ShirleyJackson · 13/05/2022 20:31

The fact that it requires a pair of scissors to get a new pair of scissors out of the packet.

It’s like some kind of global pisstake.

TheGirlWhoLived · 13/05/2022 20:32

how easy it is to lock the cupboard opening baby lock magnet inside the cupboard

and further to this, how hard it is to open

StScholastica · 13/05/2022 20:33

People who say "Picture or it didnt happen".

Bittercup · 13/05/2022 20:38

That toothpaste tubes always seem to feature a lot of red. Whose bathroom does that match exactly? Clue: not mine.

dottieautie · 13/05/2022 20:43

Hiccups and relentless sneezing

TheFrenchLieutenantsMonkey · 13/05/2022 20:43

Why do Ice pops always have such sharp edges so you cut your mouth?! 😡

XenoBitch · 13/05/2022 20:44

People who pour out their life story to the Tesco pharmacist, knowing there is a massive queue behind them.

BreadmanAndCake · 13/05/2022 20:44

DysmalRadius · 13/05/2022 20:29

When I catch my sleeve on a door handle I want to burn all the doors in the world in retribution.

This in spades.

BreadmanAndCake · 13/05/2022 20:45

That was meant to say 'this in spades'

So on that note, I will add the latest shitty MN glitch where everyone's posts seem to merge into the post they are trying to quote, or randomly cut half of the words from.

ShirleyPhallus · 13/05/2022 20:46

DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:26

I'll go first... Why is herbal essences shampoo is so flipping hard to get out of the bottle!

Also palmers cocoa butter! It’s so thick it’s impossible to squeeze out the tube!

Im also adding instructions to put together any toy where even adding a single part has 18,817 steps written in another language

Fitterbyfifty · 13/05/2022 20:47

Dog walkers who have their dogs on really long leads and let them wander randomly in to the cycle lane while they atand on the pavement gawking as I have to make an emergency stop.

Mangogogogo · 13/05/2022 20:47

I say the most ungodly things when this happens

ButtockUp · 13/05/2022 20:48

That milk cartons/jugs are impossible to open if you have the merest hint of arthritis.

Mangogogogo · 13/05/2022 20:48

Well that quote failed. It was for the door handle thing

AmandaHoldensLips · 13/05/2022 20:48

Being half way through a pee you've been holding in for hours and the effing doorbell goes with the delivery you've been waiting in for since 7am.

BreadmanAndCake · 13/05/2022 20:48

Also, as a dog walker, dog owners who don't pick up their own dogs shit. An oldie but a goodie.

DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:50

AmandaHoldensLips · 13/05/2022 20:48

Being half way through a pee you've been holding in for hours and the effing doorbell goes with the delivery you've been waiting in for since 7am.

Or dipping your toe in the bath you've been looking forward to all day and hearing a knock at the door and then 'mummmmmm, I need a poo'.

'I will not sell my child, I will not sell my child, I will not sell my child'... And calm.

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DontGetIt1 · 13/05/2022 20:51

But seriously what is it about my bath that gets kids bowels moving?

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TheVolturi · 13/05/2022 20:51

Fucking bags of sugar, do they purposely fill them so that they'll explode a load of the sticky stuff when you open it?

Furrbabymama87 · 13/05/2022 20:52

People who go on about artificial sweetener in drinks being worse than sugar, when a can of Diet Coke has no calories and a full sugar can has about 200.

A580Hojas · 13/05/2022 20:59

I don't think any of these are irrationally annoying. They just are.

Although I would sooner drink a can of regular coke over diet coke given I have maybe 2 or 3 per year. Artificial sweeteners are absolutely rank and make me and many other people feel properly ill. I can take the sugar hit occasionally.

BettyCake · 13/05/2022 21:02

People who drive right up my backside...I'm not even a slow driver. It makes me so mad. Back the fuck off!

MRex · 13/05/2022 21:06

The Disney+ app taking ages and ages to load. Sitting there all blue and useless.