Things other people do that irrationally annoy you

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What do other people do that makes you really mad even though it really doesn't matter. My mum has made me so cross this morning over something that is meaningless. Logically I know it doesn't matter but I'm fuming. 🤣

The crime? She said that my youngest brother has been with his fiancé longer than I've been with my husband. I started dating my husband before he started school and got married just as he started secondary school so it isn't like she's slightly out. See, doesn't matter and yet grrrr.

Also middle brother announced his engagement at oldest brothers engagement party. Oldest brother and his wife are the most chilled people you have ever met (unlike me clearly) so didn't seem to mind but I was furious as it's such bad form.

Also the cat is a dick. She has several water bowls and fountains but won't use them. Put a mug of water down someone and her head is straight in there. We've taken to leaving water mugs in various places (which inevitable end up getting spilled) and drinking out of lidded travels cups.

Here ( south of Glasgow) it is a very common thing in certain areas, I really thought the pandemic would have cured them but it seems not. I have never seen this anywhere else.

I don't know that this is irrational, but: people who are inconsiderate of pedestrians, especially pedestrians who may not be totally able-bodied. Cyclists and runners and nowadays scooter-riders who charge down pavements at the risk of knocking people down. Drivers and cyclists who ignore green lights at pedestrian crossings.

More irrationally:

Anyone who speaks of wanting a 'white Christmas' (in the UK; not talking about people who travel to cold countries at that time). I don't need a lot of slippery snow!

People who make a 'thing' of age-milestones, and seek to make a fuss of other people's 'significant' 'milestone' birthdays.

Anyone who wishes me a happy birthday, or tries to find out when it is.

People who react to other people's - especially mine- mild but noticeable symptoms, e.g. a hoarse voice, by bestowing exaggerated sympathy as a sort of treat, and sometimes actually saying, 'Well, at least it must get you lots of sympathy!' Less common since the pandemic.

Facebook posters who post those memes 'I think only 5 of my friends will share this. I think I know who they are.'

Facebook posters who play games where people are instructed to share posts on their wall, and where following the instructions is treated as a proof of friendship.

People who use the phrase Hoover, when they mean a vacuum cleaner , it's very non U.

Facebook ‘copy & paste’ chain letters - sod off, I’m not sending it to anyone

My husband chewing the toggle on his hoodie - gross!

Anyone chewing gum

Vapes aka adult dummies - I am amazed at the people who can’t do even basic things like a school run or a bit of shopping without repeated drags on them

People who expect others to bend the rules for them because they have ‘very important jobs’ - what does everyone else have then?

@Brieeeeeeeee yes the noisy yawning! My DH sounds like fucking Chewbacca and it gives me the rage every damn time!

People who sit in a restaurant or cafe and start doing there hair, taking it out if a pony tail to put it back in, or sit picking at their hair - yuck, go to the loo and do it or do it at home

Agree with you, also when a pet dies “my fur baby (insert pet’s name) went over the rainbow 🌈 bridge” No it died, there isn’t a bridge to cross where they’ll meet other pets to run free & play with.🙄
I’ve had various & many rescued/rehomed dogs & cats over the years, they died & yes I loved them I was sad but life goes on & afterwards I took in another rescue dog or cat to give them a good life.

Those that feel the need to comment “cuz/sis/bestie” to let everyone else know their close relationship to the OP ….

Marketplace … ”needs gone”

commenting “shared” …. Just share it 🤷🏼‍♀️ You don’t have to announce you’ve shared it

“nom nom” ….. 🤬🤢

Meeting a friend for a catch up and they spend all their time showing you pics of their kids/grandkids …. I find nothing more boring than other peoples’ kids

I have a friend who takes calls from her husband every time we’re together … nothing urgent ever said just banal chit chat 🥱

that was cathartic….. thank you 😊 😂

People who turn conversations back to them all the time. Even if it's not that relevant

We have a dog (our first) and it really is scary how much I love him BUT he is not my 'fur baby'. I absolutely hate the term and several friends use it on their FB pages and I do the silent sigh/eye roll x

Sniff
Slurp tea
Chew loudly
Yawn and make a wet noise in their mouth at the end
Bite fingernails
Pick fingernails
Snore

Yep! Drives me mad.
Aitch does not have an h at the front!

People who enter a limerick in the village show that doesn’t rhyme, doesn’t scan, doesn’t even have five fucking lines and WINS!

”Can I have” really irritates me.

I prefer ‘May I have please?’ 🙂

My parents used to have a dog who sounded like a strangled cat when he yawned!

red4321 · 21/10/2022 11:58
People that park up by a petrol pump and do their shopping in the mini mart, while a queue of motorists wait for them to move their car.

I raise you people that don't use pay at pump and go into the kiosk only to pay. Yes, I know some people pay in cash and not everyone can work out the machine, but, for the other 90%, stick your card in the slot and reduces the queue for the rest of us.
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Maybe the people who buy only a smaller amount of fuel will pay in the kiosk because they don’t have enough funds on their card at that time because the Pay at Pump machines will ‘HOLD’ the sum of £99 or £100 immediately and only release the balance after the transaction/purchase of fuel is completed.

My goodness, the phrase "non-U" has to be one of mine. Haven't seen it used since the 90's I don't think, and the assumptions behind it are just unpleasant.

I’m more or less inured to ‘hoover’ but using trade names unnecessarily
irritates me. ‘Kelloggs’ instead of cornflakes used to grate, but I don’t think I know anyone still alive who does that.
Irritation with particular words is usually snobby, whether we say non-U or not, but this is about irrational dislikes after all.

It's faffs not phaff

And bumf not bumph, although it doesn’t come up often enough to seriously annoy me @KarenRoss63

When people respond to a WhatsApp message with an emoji instead of an actual response. It always feels like a shrug off.

I have never heard of 'non-U'. Ever.

Use of 'a myriad of'

DH sneezing. It's like a bloody explosion. I'm sure he forces it out to make it extra noisy. I could slap him.
All that fur baby shite.
People who say. 'well basically ' and then proceed to tell you a Long and boring tale that is anything BUT basic

Yes, but it’s better than waiting for a reply that never comes.