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.

A massive fucking irritant for me right now. People parking on the road WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN 4 CAR DRIVEWAY! Particularly when they park RIGHT OPPOSITE SOMEONE'S DRIVEWAY!

Only the biggest, most arrogant selfish arseholes in life do this.

Bimbo across the road does it because it makes life easier for her to just drive straight off (when she's parked on the road,) rather than ya know, taking an extra 10 seconds to reverse onto the drive, and an extra 5 to drive OFF it.

Fuck the fact that it makes it hard for me and DH to get on our drive AND off it. Bumping up the pavement, kerbing the tyres, and having to doing a nine-point turn to avoid colliding with the silly cow's car - because it's parked RIGHT OPPOSITE OUR DRIVEWAY. The temptation to smash into the side of her car is ferocious!

Utter UTTER c*nt!

I repeat. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN 4 CAR DRIVEWAY!!! And they only have 2 bastard cars. Yet the stupid fucking fuckwit chooses, almost every day to park right opposite our drive. Making it so SO hard to get in. AND OUT.

Yes I know I should say something, but she will very likely say 'it's a free country - I can park on the road next to my home if I want.' WE parked on the road a few times too, but she still parked virtually in the same place, and virtually blocked the road. Hardly anything could get past/through, and I was worried sick our car would get hit by another vehicle, so I moved it back onto the driveway.

A massive fucking irritant for me right now. People parking on the road WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN 4 CAR DRIVEWAY! Particularly when they park RIGHT OPPOSITE SOMEONE'S DRIVEWAY!

Oo this is a good one, I wasn't sure if it was just me but I swear people are parking further onto the pavement than they used to. It used to be one wheel on the pavement, rest of the car over the road, now it seems to be 3/4 of the car over the pavement, all the way up to the one wheel on the road.There isn't enough space for pushchairs or wheelchairs to get past the cars.

And then all of those cars are parked next to empty drives. It drives me nuts.

Yes! Glad it's not just me (and DH!) I get so annoyed when people complain (on here,) about people parking on the road/partly on the pavement, and people defend them and act like it's their right to do that 'because they are not breaking any laws....' (Apparently!)

For some reason, some people act like their need/desire to make life easier for themselves (by parking on the road/partly on the pavement,) trumps the need/desire for people to have safe access to the pavement with wheelchairs and pushchairs, (and to be able to get in and out of their own driveway with easy access.)

As you say, it's doubly annoying when they have a bloody empty driveway. Stop being a twat. Put your car on your fucking driveway!

Ebony - could you park in that spot when they're not around? It might make them think about it. I'm sure a lot of people exist in a bubble and don't really think about the implications of their actions.

Well we have parked sort of opposite their driveway a few times, but she still comes home and parks almost exactly opposite us, almost completely blocking the road, so nothing bigger than a Fiat 500 can get through. She doesn't seem to care that her car may get smashed into. We do care about ours though, so unfortunately, we end up moving it back on our driveway after about an hour.

Hmm. As I see it you have 3 options:

1. Sensible. Knock on their door and try to appeal to their better nature.
2. Mind play. Knock on their door and say you think you noticed a white van scrape their car.
3. Brutal. Smash off their road-side wing mirror under the cover of darkness.

[Readers: don't worry, I don't really condone number 3.]

"Excuse the mess/ unpainted toe/ pile of pretentious tat" when putting a selfie on social media.

Come on Brenda, no one is asking you for the photo in the first place, it's not an emergency doctor video call. It doesn't excuse your mess, own it or tidy up the 1 meter of room reflected in the mirror. It's just attention seeking and it's annoying.

Not RTFT but agree with meal, also going out 'for something to eat' or to 'get food.'

My current pet hate is all this smashing of things. 'I smashed it' 'he smashed it' 'yeah babe, your (invariably spelt like this) gonna smash it.' Often involves writing messages to their 3 year old on FB containing this phrase 'so proud of Lexi Mae (also invariably a similar name) smashing her last year of nursery, to the moon & back babe' Ugh, ugh, ugh!!!!!

Do people still say 'excuse fingers' when they use them to hand you something like a piece of cake?

Agree with so many of the above!

People who don't use bear/bare correctly. As in "he's bareing up". No, he's bearing up, unless you mean he's taking his clothes off.

"These ones" - the word "these" is perfectly adequate, no need to add "ones" on the end!

My colleague who words a request "may you please" - I don't suppose it's technically incorrect but it makes my teeth itch. Why not say "please may you" like most other normal people we work with. Worst is one of our European colleagues who speaks English as a 2nd language has picked it up but is even more irritating when she emails a request "may you have an update for xxx". Argh!

Reaching out.

In the loop.

Circling back.

People smoking and pushing prams.

Reality TV.

The Essex/London/"road man" accent.

People's pronouns.

However, I do call people "beautiful humans".

May you please??!! Surely that's incorrect?

Fine to say "may I please" but if you're asking someone else it's "would you please"!

People who don't cover their mouths when yawning. Do they realise how ridiculous they look?

Ditto eating. Nuff said.

People who can't use "whom" correctly, but insist on using it incorrectly because they think it makes them sound "educated", e.g. asking "Whom is Sarah" etc. FFS just use "who" every time if you don't know when and when not to use "whom". 🙄 Very petty, this one, I know.

I was going to say people who talk during the songs at gigs, but that actually enrages me.

My DH dumping his shit on my side of the bed. I once grabbed his tablet from there and flung it over to his side, which is against the wall. It fell down the side of the bed to the floor, so I had to reach down to retrieve it. 😳

The word "cheeky" used for anything other than a child giving lip.

My DH, who, every. single. time. I ask him a question, starts to interrupt me halfway through to tell me that he didn't hear what I was saying. Well, if you didn't interrupt me, you might actually be able to fucking hear what I'm saying. 🙄

I'm sure there are more, but that'll do to be getting on with.

To the person who doesn't like people walking up fast behind them - walk faster then. It's just as annoying constantly coming up behind people who walk slowly.

To the person who doesn't like grockles in Devon doing 20mph, can we ban those headed for Cornwall from the A303 so they stop causing traffic jams for those of us only wanting to get to Devon and STOP driving slowly to take selfies at Stonehenge!

I hate people who park on pavements. And who leave their engines running for ages while waiting for their kids outside schools.

I'm originally from the North and it's not a "chippy tea". You go to a chippy to get fish and chips. I've no idea where "chippy tea" comes from, but not my bit of the north.

My DH would have capital punishment for those who don't indicate at roundabouts, I think that a little extreme, but I would crush cars parked on pavements (not with the occupants inside well, not the first time !)

I work in a restaurant and it’s the obsessive bowl scrapers and tea cup stirrers & tink tink tink tinkers with the spoon that make me grind my teeth to powder!! Usually men, too!! I long to snatch the bowl away and say ‘it’s clean’ for Gods sake!!

Ooh, another….

Young children with fringes soooo long that the poor kid wanders around with his/her head tipped back so they can see!! Don’t mind or care about long hair on boys, it’s just the damn fringe!! Little boy by me, aged about 4 or 5, does this (and the amount of hair he’s got is obviously annoying him in this heat) just trim his bloody fringe!!

Cars and vans who play music really loudly with the windows down while waiting in a queue of cars. Outside my house.

So prevalent on TV at the moment, presenters say: “something happened at 3 am this morning, or 10 pm last night”. Do they really not know meaning of am and pm? Please somebody enlighten them!

One of my PET peeves is people talking about their (obviously perfectly average) few-months-old baby like it's an absolute child prodigy... "Oh he was rolling over at just 4 months, you can tell he's just SO keen to get moving, sure he'll walk early" or "she's such a difficult baby, I think it's because she's incredibly intelligent, she needs to be able to talk and then she'll calm down"

People who think the whole street want to listen to their shitty noise music

@lieselotte

I'm originally from the North and it's not a "chippy tea".

They say it in Wigan that I know of. DH is from there. Swinley.

People who say or write 'hone in on', and write 'per say'. Who say 'ecsetera'.

People who use 'refute' when they mean 'deny', and who misuse 'beg the question'. Who don't understand what King Canute was doing. Who confuse 'stationery' and 'stationary'. Who use 'convince' when they mean 'persuade'.

Another one annoyed me today someone put KR instead of kind regards . I’ve seen this a few things shortening of words on email just annoys me .