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.

People who post exactly the same thing on Facebook, and then Instagram, then their DH posts exactly the same thing on Facebook and Instagram.

People who ask how much everything's costs, or tells you how much it costs

People who say 'right' after making a statement. 'It's hot today, right?'

People who say 'well basically' when you've asked them a question. 'No it's not basic to me you condescending twat! If it was basic I'd not be asking!'

Scatter pillows! Wtf do you want a bunch of useless pillows you throw on the floor every night

Lose/loose being used incorrectly.

Well lots of things irritate me so I’ll just say what’s irritated me recently.
someone on Facebook having a rant and saying rant over .
people on Facebook complaining the bin didn’t get emptied - if only that was my only worry and complain to council not Facebook.
my colleague and this is daft that it irritates me but she will get her cup together get up to go to the kitchen and get to the door and if someone is in there will scuttle back and sit there until kitchen free , this can take some time as it’s a busy office . Will also not go to the toilet until colleagues have come back . She will sit and wait which irritates me just bloody go to the toilet or get a drink if you need to go .

Years since I worked with her, but STILL irritated by a colleague who when I’d say “fancy a coffee?” would reply every single time, in exactly the same way: “Oooh, coffee. Do I want a coffee? Hmmm. Yeah, go on then, why not?!”

Every. Single Time.

Just say yes! She never once said no!

And another thing - people who type full stops after every word for emphasis, like “Every. Single. Time.”

‘Use your words’ yuck.

’Can I get a little commotion for the dress’ used as a caption when posting a picture of yourself in a nice dress.

‘Its soooo good and soooo super easy’ features heavily on the cooking videos I watch on Instagram.

Drivers who pretend they haven’t seen me and my kids waiting at the zebra crossing. Happens everyday at least twice. You are arseholes.

Dog crap everywhere. On the beach, pavements, in the park….I’m so fed up of it. Those dog owners are also arseholes & shouldn’t have dogs.

Litter bugs. See above word to describe people who leave litter.

Music snobs. No dh, you playing jazz or 'funk' (the word alone makes me cringe) at top volume every time we are in the car and banging on about how it's the basis of all music isn't going to make me like it.
In fact the opposite is true and wait it actually makes me do is rebelliously listen to the Strokes on my headphones all afternoon and deliberately put my 90's garage play list on on repeat in the car.

People that reply needlessly rudely on threads on here. As if you'd ever speak to anyone like that in real life.

This has probably been said a million times before but the bloody weetabix packaging and not only this but the way, no matter how hard I try to be tidy, my worktop and floor always ends up with bits of weetabix everywhere when taking just 2 biscuits out!!!

Oh and the sudden overuse of the word super, when before it would've been "really cute" or "very cute" - to be super is not the same as these words and people have been watching too many American Instagram stories!

Agreed!

Manufacturers using plastic packaging when tins have done just fine for decades.

I get supremely irritated by grockles driving along perfectly good Devon B roads - which have white lines down the middle and EVERYTHING - at 20mph, ignoring the tractors and HGVs queueing for miles behind them, when they could pull in at any lay-by and let people pass them.

People who use the terms "fur baby" and/or refer to themselves as the cat/dog/other creature's parent.

e.g " I love my fur baby". "Mummy/daddy loves you, yes we do" .

This just makes me realise there are a lot of unhappy people out there that think they are the epitome of good manners and civilised behaviour, which I very much doubt! Some of the reasons are very trivial and there is almost an expectation from the person posting that they don't fuck other people off themselves - they do, we all piss everyone else off at some point - it's human nature.

That said, if I have to write something it would be Tory politicians and media that constantly lies to us with either bullshit statistics, or they don't understand them and write exactly the opposite of what they are telling you. That misinformation can lead to the average person making bad decisions based on them.

And if I am being really petty, people that go to the gym and sit on a machine on their phone for half an hour instead of using the machine and then sitting down somewhere to use their phone.

The word tasty, in any context.

Also memos, emails from senior managers at work that are spelt badly or obviously grammatically incorrect, ffs proofread before you press send. Also please do not reply to all unless every single one of the 800 people need to know your reply about overtime etc. My inbox has enough shit that I need to read in it without unnecessary garbage.

People with engines on to keep aircon working and having windows open at the same time. DECIDE BETWEEN THESE TWO!!!

Irritable people who you can't say a word to or even have the nerve to be anywhere near without them getting annoyed and huffing all over the place!

Also people who are rude and don't say thanks or acknowledge you when you've waited for them to go first through the school gate or pulled in for them to pass in their cars.

I normally don't like these threads ... as an easily irritated person myself, I get even more irrationally irritated by others' irritations that I don't share (and the language ones that end up really being sneery of others) BUT your post makes the exception 😂

YY to Weetabix crumbs - infuriating. I now open them tentatively & slowly over my brown bin to capture as many as I can.

Entitled. There are other words. It is not 'entitled' to say you find the sea cold. And people using 'gaslight' when they don't know what it means. Someone being an argumentative, contrary arse is not gaslighting you.

Hurrydash · Yesterday 23:07
David Attenborough.
Look up the word 'smug' in a dictionary and there'll be a picture of him right there
A smug, lecturing arrogant rich git.
No idea of what everyday people's priories are - like paying bills!!!

Noooo, Hurry - you have shocked me to the core with this. My heart-rate has gone up with indignation.

To me, DA is the voice of God. When he goes, and it can't be long, I will feel as though the world has lost a wise and good man who's tried to warn us about the catastrophic consequences of our behaviour. He has always struck me as humble and self-effacing - not smug and certainly not arrogant - and certainly not a flaming 'celebrity' in any sense. To me he represents the older, less flashy values of a really great generation. To me, someone like, say, Jonathan Ross is arrogant - earning millions and behaving like an entitled oik who thinks he can get away with anything. And his contribution to the good of mankind????

I'll go and have a lie down now!

Haha spot the southerner.

Dogs loose in cars - what can their owners be thinking!? Makes me furious.

Jamie Oliver on IG this morning: " you want to go in with .....", and others ( TikTok)

Why can't you just say " now add ..... "?

Dogs barking and owners just ignoring them. I'm looking at you neighbour 😡

The ‘myself’ ‘yourself’ thing really annoys me too.

’I could have wrote that’. ‘We could have went’. No, you could have written and you could have gone.

’She went out the door’. ‘Out of the door’.

People on local FB pages who seem incapable of posting without ranting.

Anyone who stands with their trolley in front of the upright fridges in supermarkets, so you cant reach or even see the produce you want and then deliberates over what to choose for five minutes.

Thanks, OP, for a lovely lighthearted moaning thread - it's so therapeutic.

I agree with most of the points here, especially where trendy terms and jargon are concerned.

I don't know why, but I wince whenever people talk about 'a roast' or 'a brew'. I don't understand why - so if anyone can analyse this phobia, I'd be interested. On soaps etc everyone talks about having 'a brew', which I assume means tea when in all the places I've ever worked 90% of people have coffee, not tea. Or maybe it doesn't just mean tea?? So, so trivial...but so strangely annoying!

On that topic, I don't like it when people refer to 'a coffee'. It's either 'a cup of coffee' or 'some coffee', surely. Tried to de-construct this feeling too, and I think it's because 'a coffee' sounds pretentious - as if you are considering the finer points of a vast array of coffee varieties - Kenyan, Colombian, Italian roast etc etc.

The indefinite article winds me up on menus to: something or other with 'a ......sauce'. Why not just with .....sauce? Again, it conjures up an image of a Michelin-starred chef selecting from a range of sauces at his fingertips when in reality it came out of a jar.

Also, 'inside of' when people just mean 'inside'. I think it's another American import. Too much Netflix?

And trendy academic jargon like 'this novel speaks to the colonial experience'. I hate this. Surely they mean 'speaks of the colonial experience'? You can't watch any history documentaries on telly these days without this stupid expression. If I've missed something here- and it's not impossible - can someone explain it to me?