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.

Kabbalah, you want to machine gun cyclists and strangle your dd, I think you may have anger issues

I thought I was easily irritated until I read this.

Could of ,would of ,should of.
Wrong Your / you're
Hubby
Sleeps until
People fannying around at tills.
Many other things 😬

People saying or writing 'work' when they mean 'employer' or 'workplace'.

When you’re being served at a customer service/ticket/information desk of some kind and someone comes up and tries to ask the person behind the desk something. Wait.Your.Fucking.Turn.

Misusing their, there, and they're. Writing 'are' when they mean 'our'. Blaming illiterate errors on autocorrect when all of the phones I have ever used suggest what you have actually typed as one of the options you can select.

The worst misuses are: his for he’s, been for being and seen for seeing. “Seen as his done this before.” Aaaargh.

When people say word ending ING with an “ink” sound eg.

something/anything as “someTHINK, and anyTHINK”

You don’t wear a “rink” on your finger or “sink” a song, so why are these words any different? I really don’t get it.

also anyone that uses the phrase “I’m not being funny but”

as well as “I’m not being rude” before saying something rude like announcing it beforehand somehow neutralises the BS coming out of their mouth

A recent infuriation was paying a £ for the trolley at Barnstaple M&S, then parking it somewhere while I went upstairs to the loo, and when I came back some ducking aunt had nicked it, including my (empty) shopping bags hanging on the handle. I found an assistant and he put one of those fake £ tokens in another trolley and gave it to me, but I didn’t get my £ back.

Trolley thieves, GAH!

People who write who's when they mean whose annoy me.

"Portion" ewwww

Haha - people who say, "3am, in the morning", yeah that's what am means?!!!

"It's HE'S birthday"

Come again?

Argh. When you let someone out when it's dark and they blind you with their lights by way of thanks. Just. Don't.

Breg-zit - it's Brex-it

People who assume nobody else but they has any common sense has always been a big one for me. Such as walking past a queue of people stood outside a door to try the handle to see if it's locked. Do you really think nobody else would have thought of that?

Also people talking to me when I'm doing chores, but not joining in. Don't follow me around while I'm cooking or cleaning to offload to me, I'm already doing one chore, don't make me do the "listening ear" chore at the same time unless you're going to help me with the original chore. Or maybe that's just my DP!

Surely you don't mean Mike Oldfield?

Four a.m. in the morning
Carried away by a moonlight shadow
I watched your vision forming
Carried away by a moonlight shadow

People who incorrectly use “I” instead of “me”. It’s becoming more and more common in speech, texts, even books. It’s wrong and it is the hill I’m going to die on.

I correct people who do this on TV, every time.

Drivers who shoot out from a turning in front of you in their desperation to get ahead of passing traffic and then drive like s n a i l s.
Caravans.
"Found in a draw"
People who can't or won't keep their children under control in public places.
"methinks"
Any kind of cutesy infantilised speech - hollibobs, nom nom, smol, hubby etc.
"I would of"

Me too!

I don't do loud sneezes for attention. Having people count them is something I have had to get used to. Just be glad its not you.

His for he’s. I was sat. No, unless someone placed you there you you were sitting. Cunts pulling out in front of me whilst driving when the road is clear behind me for as far as the eye can see. Absolute hatred of “this one” to describe a friend on SM. When the fuck did that start? Kids repeating themselves over and over in loud voice “dad, dad, dad” (or suchlike) just fucking answer them! I don’t wanna hear it. People who chuck litter out of a car window along our road. Thanks for that; you ain’t gotta look at it. The recycling blokes from the local council emptying the boxes into their big bins whilst not even looking what they’re doing and dropping most of it then wheeling the bin off leaving it all. People shouting “shuuurup” to their own dogs when they’re barking in the garden (why have the dog just to scream at it so we can all hear how rough you are. Take it up the park). Loud music as soon as the first ray of sun appears from behind a cloud, opening back door and singing to a song at top of voice. Shut the fuck up you selfish moron. The person behind you at the checkout in a supermarket standing next to you as you’re paying. Wait your fucking turn I haven’t finished yet. Lots more I’m sure

'Little man' being used to describe boys or worse.. my husband being called it by his mum 🤮🤮

I hate this too. Also hate mummies of boys talking about their iccle boy's "gorgeous long curls!" and refusing to cut them off, even when he's 5, and they're halfway down his back. Never hear any mums talking like this about GIRLS with the same sort of hair.