Things that irritate you

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I know these threads get done a lot but I’m feeling irritable so here are mine (they’re not all rational, I admit)

People saying ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’ instead of me and you in an attempt to sound professional.

People starting posts with, for example, ‘dentist here’ or ‘solicitor here’ before giving their opinion. It just sounds really smug.

’good’ anything, eg ‘good butter’, ‘good bread’, ‘good chocolate’. Again so smug.

’crusty bread’ eg “serve with crusty bread and good butter” ARRGGH

The word ‘meal’ eg “I had just finished my meal”. I don’t know why. It just irritates me.

Groups of people standing chatting in the middle of the pavement or supermarket aisle not aware or giving a shit that they’re blocking it.

People talking through long yawns. Just yawn then talk ffs

Ridiculously loud exaggerated sneezes. In my experience almost always men.

GETTING SIXTEEN FUCKING EMAILS WHEN YOU BUY ONE THING ONLINE.

We're confirming your order.
We expect to deliver your item on Monday.
Sorry, we now expect to delivery your item on Tuesday.
'How was your order?' (before you've bloody received whatever it was).
Please fill in our 'how was your order' survey - just a reminder.
'We are delivering your item tomorrow'.
Oopsy, sorry, we stuffed up and you won't get it until next week.
How was your delivery our courier? (before you get it).
We are delivering your item today.
We are delivering your item between 14.00 and 16.00 today.
Sorry your item won't arrive until 17.00
Our courier is five minutes away.
We have left your item in your secure place.
How did we do?
Here's your guarantee information.
Here's how to return the item if you've lost the will to go on.

'Apple cider'. ARGH. It's 'cider'. Cider is always made from apples. If it's a drink made from pears, its PERRY.

Extraneous prepositions (I'm looking at YOU, Ainsley Harriot). It's 'fry', not 'fry off'. It's 'cook', not 'cook down'. It's not 'switch up' it's 'swap'.

People who don't know the difference between 'bought' and 'brought'.

I buy, I bought, I have bought = I purchased it.
I bring, I brought, I have brought = I have taken it with me.

God yes!! Crusty bread!!!!! Crusty fucking bread!!! When I read it, I am picturing a family sitting around munching on stale, hard bread. It's just bread!!!

Oh and I also get irritated when people try to fancy up their meals by writing them like a Michelin star restaurant, someone asks what's for dinner and then comes the pretentious description of their meal.

People who say generally when they mean genuinely. Thanks to the cast of Towie and various big brother contestants.

Is it that fucking difficult?

Attention seeking adults. I work with someone who constantly seeks attention from the people around her. I find it extremely irritating and actually quite cringe.

I agree with so many here. Saying excuse me when what they are really saying is get out of my way I want to be exactly where you are. I find people think I should move for them if they say excuse me. And anything that monetizes family or brands family like family is some new concept. I was raised to spend most weekends all holidays and lots of phone calls with family. I don’t need a sign or advice telling me the joys of family life

People in a group at a social event dominating the conversation going on about their wonderful life/holidays/birthday/second home/pets/friends etc etc and never showing any interest in the rest of the group

Meal just remind me of mealworms.

Or 'dog meal' 'cow meal' for certain types of fodder

The word snack annoys me very very much, I don’t know why.

"I know you didn't ask, but....."

"Ect ect" no - it's etcetera or etc.

"No waaaaay" - noone goes around saying 'way' so why would you say 'no way'? "There's no way this is real"

"Ergo..." when trying to sound smug in an argument. My DP usually does this and it grinds my gears.

I feel the same about people saying plate (usually Americans)

”I shared my plate”

”I hadn’t finished my plate”

”I grabbed my plate”

It’s irrational how much it annoys me.

Oh yes smug is the word for that man with the irritating voice .

Amen.

You forgot ‘hypocrite’.

Or did he bike to the jungle to watch the gorillas?

‘Offer’ used in a food context. Mildly irritating when used to describe feeding children, but I saw someone on the internet suggest ‘offering’ a poorly dog scrambled egg the other day, and my eyes rolled so hard I saw my brain.

Just feed your fucking dog.

Here it is, the big one…

PEOPLE LEAVING THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS UP ALL FRICKIN YEAR!! It must save about 5 minutes to not take them down. Icicles hanging from their front gutter in a heatwave in June 🤦🏻‍♀️ boils my blood every time I see it

Overly needy marketing emails.

’Luna, we miss you…’

I bought a hair towel from you once in 2017 when I had long hair. Move on.

Can’t believe everyone is dissing loud sneezes. I am a loud sneezer and can’t help it. It hurts if I try to do it quietly. Some people just sneeze like that!

I did some particularly violent sneezes yesterday which were horrible- sudden hayfever/allergies ones can be particularly bad. This is different from shout sneezes though where the sneezer shouts "Atchoooo!"

When DH blows his nose it sounds like the elephant house at the zoo. Not quite sure how he does it.

Tailgaters
Lazy people I work with that like to offload work on to me
DH needs a hearing aid but too vain to get one.

People who deflect onto to other people to hide their own inadequacies. Or always have a crisis as a reason for not having completed a task.

People who make a whole conversation about themselves.

Entitled people.

People who have no integrity.

People who have had ‘the worst day or week ever’ but don’t want to talk about it - but then proceed to when no one pushes them too.

The ‘all about me’ people.

People.

Oh yes, lazy people at work too.

"So......" at the start of every sentence. Why do people do this?

Also, describing something as a "thingy". Eg, "I've just bought a new kitchen scrubbing type thingy" or even "thingymajigwotsit" - just say what it is. Why type out superfluous words!?

“Playing out” instead of “playing outside”
I have no idea why.

Oh I have at least a million irrational dislikes, e.g. people with allergies, including asthma and eczema (I have a nickel allergy myself, self-inflicted from wearing a cheap pair of earrings for WEEKS after my ears started itching).

Would/could/should OF instead of HAVE is one thing I cannot help correcting when people say it in front of me.

I love this thread, I feel so seen!!!

YES @ColdHandsHotHead the “fry off” thing is unforgivable, made worse when tv chefs say “you”…like “you fry off your onions”. Vile.

also, people on social media who address places as though they were people, as in “Dublin, you’ve been amazing…” “Sydney, let’s be havin ya!” Etc etc