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to ask if you get disproportionately angry about anything, or do i have an anger problem... (lighthearted, I hope!)

163 replies

huyryipp · 13/04/2023 19:35

I honestly can’t bear it when plastic food packaging doesn’t open with ease. I have been known to bin the item in rage… not proud of this! anyone else have minor things that make them mad?!

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JudgeJ · 15/04/2023 23:15

Florissante · 13/04/2023 19:38

No, I can't thing of anything that makes me disproportionately angry. I get angry at stupidity but that's a proportional response.

Can you keep a pair of scissors at hand, OP?

Not angry bit I do get a bit fed up of people who are smug about their perception of their own lack of imperfections.

stayathomer · 15/04/2023 23:15

Lostmyself3
The plastic wrapping of cucumber! The cucumber doesn’t need it and I can never get it off easily!

Yes!! The stupid plastic!! I’ll add when you buy something because you need it now eg a hairbrush and then can’t get the packaging off.

Also: fitted sheets.

JudgeJ · 15/04/2023 23:16

red78hot · 13/04/2023 19:44

Yes, easy peel packs, biggest lie ever 😅
Cling film also either tearing near the end so you don't know and get a tight bit at the end, or just the cutter part glcant go the lifetime of the roll and ends up flapping about.

Perforated cling film from Lakeland is my essential luxury buy!

Partyandbullshit · 15/04/2023 23:20

TheGuv1982 · 15/04/2023 11:12

When I bite the inside of my mouth. Instant rage.

This is my DH. I just don’t understand it. Don’t you/doesn’t he know how big your tongue is, where your teeth are etc? How does this even happen?

That said, I have an equally inexplicable source of rage because it’s entirely predictable and happens multiple times per week. The puddle of fucking water on upturned mugs on the top drawer of the dishwasher. Every. Single. Time. I want mugs to be made with gaps around the rim or the underside ridge. SO FUCKING ANNOYING.

PocketBattleship · 15/04/2023 23:21

Perforated cling film, @JudgeJ ? 🤔 How far between perforations, in beard-seconds?

Mariposista · 15/04/2023 23:21

Mouth noises. Tutting, loud eating, food noises, kissing, blowing raspberries (especially against skin). I since discovered that misophonia is a thing - I definitely have it hahaha. Gives me more than just an ice, it's full on rage haha

VincentVaguer · 15/04/2023 23:23

huyryipp · 13/04/2023 19:35

I honestly can’t bear it when plastic food packaging doesn’t open with ease. I have been known to bin the item in rage… not proud of this! anyone else have minor things that make them mad?!

Scissors? A knife?

SummerLover01 · 15/04/2023 23:25

My DH's clicking jaw when he eats.

Sends me into a quiet murderous rage, I feel a fire burning inside me and an urge to put my fingers in my ears

ToWhitToWhoo · 15/04/2023 23:27

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/04/2023 21:41

Passwords. Now they need 70 billion types of characters I can basically never remember them. My phone remembers them but if I need to log on a different device I need to reset it every single time.

Yes, this. They're actually less secure now than they were when it was something you could actually remember. They're not really fit for purpose - if they were a front door key, they would come bolted on to a 4-foot-cubed concrete monolith and be trumpeted as amazing for the fact that you couldn't lose them, without any regard paid to how practical they were for people to actually use.

What enrages me more than anything with online passwords, though - in fact, inputting any kind of code or number - is when you are told off for getting it wrong all the time whilst you are inputting it, because it's not long enough. Yes, I know that I will need to enter 16 different digits for my credit card number, but short of having a keyboard the size of Liechtenstein with a separate button for every single 16-digit permutation, the only way I can do it is by pressing 16 separate buttons.

100% agree!

JudgeJ · 15/04/2023 23:29

SummerLover01 · 15/04/2023 23:25

My DH's clicking jaw when he eats.

Sends me into a quiet murderous rage, I feel a fire burning inside me and an urge to put my fingers in my ears

I wonder if this isn't a peculiarity of the male jaw, my father and husband both did the same and it drove me mad too.

ToWhitToWhoo · 15/04/2023 23:37

People trying to find out when my birthday is, or expecting me to want a birthday fuss! I hate birthdays!

Waiting forever on the phone to speak to banks and businesses ('Your call is very important to us...')

ImSoShiney · 15/04/2023 23:39

Tiktok voices. YouTube voices. Makes me want to destroy the internet.

Commonsensitivity · 16/04/2023 07:58

When there's two of them walking side by side and they don't move over so you have no choice but to dive into the canal.

I agree with this. When a couple or family of ungainly or unaware people occupy the entire path with a total lack of giving a shit.

Jeanetmarre · 16/04/2023 08:06

Ithurtsthebackofmyeyes · 15/04/2023 21:24

I get rage at a few things but I think they’re all sound and justified.

However, I get instantaneous, white-hot rage if I ever bump my head. What’s that about?

Very much this!

FatherDickByrne · 16/04/2023 08:20

Drivers who overtake cyclists or buses into the path of oncoming traffic. So they cross the white line and force people coming the other way to brake. It’s so dangerous and it drives me nuts. You need to wait till it’s safe to overtake!!! 🚗🤬

IHateLegDay · 16/04/2023 08:32

I have rage about 90% of the time. Literally any inconvenience can make me feel it.
I have to do lots of deep breathing throughout the day! 😂

Catspyjamas17 · 16/04/2023 08:36

Lostmyself3 · 15/04/2023 19:45

The plastic wrapping of cucumber! The cucumber doesn’t need it and I can never get it off easily!

Slice through the plastic at the amount of cucumber you want, then slice the piece lengthways. Plastic falls off, then chop accordingly.

VincentVaguer · 16/04/2023 08:56

Catspyjamas17 · 16/04/2023 08:36

Slice through the plastic at the amount of cucumber you want, then slice the piece lengthways. Plastic falls off, then chop accordingly.

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This. Or go to a greengrocer and buy one with no plastic.

VincentVaguer · 16/04/2023 09:00

ToWhitToWhoo · 15/04/2023 23:27

100% agree!

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Omg now this I agree with.

In fact two factor authentication gives me the absolute rage

And poor elderly people trying to cope with being online and all the bossy password bollocks. I know data scientists/software engineers think they are amazingly clever and are fighting fraud but if they were that clever they'd come up with a far more user friendly way of doing it.

LightGreenDot · 16/04/2023 09:05

When someone emails me at work asking me to set up a meeting about something they want to discuss. I always ignore them and funnily enough they normally manage to send a meeting invite if it's important.

When someone asks for information I've already given them in the same email chain.

KimberleyClark · 16/04/2023 09:07

Inconsiderately noisy people in adjacent hotel rooms when I am trying to sleep.

ArmchairAnarchist2 · 16/04/2023 09:11

@red78hot HRTFT so someone may have answered your cling film angst...keep it in the fridge.

PuppyMonkey · 16/04/2023 09:24

For me, it’s the infuriatingly small size of the writing/directions on packets of food, hair products, beauty stuff, cleaning products etc. I can’t read the instructions even with my glasses on these days. Why can’t they make the writing just a bit bigger.Sad

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/04/2023 09:32

Waiting forever on the phone to speak to banks and businesses ('Your call is very important to us...')

Oh, yes, how stupid do they think we are? It's got to be clear as day that any phone call - every phone call, in fact - that you don't consider important enough to answer within a few seconds isn't actually very important at all to you.

And as for the perpetual "Our agents are currently experiencing a high volume of calls" - considering that you say the same thing, no matter when anybody tries to call, you could at least own it, be honest and say "We are too mean to employ enough agents - mainly because your call isn't important to us".

If the only time your staff aren't swamped by the volume of calls is the same amount of time that DFS don't have a sale on, we all know exactly how little you think of us, without whom you wouldn't have a business at all.

Also, the cookie screen that comes up when you first go to a website - when they smugly say "Because YOUR privacy is important to us". Yes, because they want to take it from you! Your privacy is as important to them as your handbag is important to a mugger! And 'legitimate interest' is a massive con as well. If I want to remove ALL (assumed) permissions from you, what makes you think that 'all' somehow doesn't mean 'all', if you can somehow loosely classify them separately? Even if you genuinely believe that I have previously consented to the 'LI' cookies, here I am now clearly withdrawing any and all consent.

MN used to be a nightmare when it took 10 minutes to reject all the cookies, every time it randomly decided to ignore your previous settings and make you go through it all again. At least they've now changed it to just one or two clicks - which is surely what the whole spirit of the law actually dictates: I would argue that you are not complying with the law to give people a simple, no-pressure opt out, with such intensive methods. Any more than those nasty salespeople who prey on old folk with hugely overpriced beds and chairs, by spending hours in their homes and refusing to leave without a sale, are 'not coercing' them to buy against their will, just because the sales shark isn't actually physically wrenching money out of their purse.

KimberleyClark · 16/04/2023 09:35

Saw a meme ….”Your call is important to us. Please hold the line until it is no longer important to you”.