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Ridiculously petty things that you can’t even say out loud

591 replies

TheSlowRush · 14/07/2023 17:45

I’ll start.

This has been bugging me all day but I can’t say it out loud to anyone as it’s really not that bigger deal.

Parking is a huge issue where I live, not many people have ORP.

My elderly neighbour got rid of her car a few years ago, we are quite close and she has a driveway, so it was agreed that I could now park over her driveway meaning I am pretty much guaranteed a space right outside my house, rather than having to park halfway down the street.

My lodger has now begun using this space, she works from home a lot too so it’s there for days now sometimes. WAAAaa 🙈🙈.

I can say anything as I will sound like a selfish loon.

OP posts:
Clementineorsatsuma · 15/07/2023 12:15

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 15/07/2023 09:18

@Clementineorsatsuma , I don’t see why they ‘can’t help it’. My dh sneezes like a bloody bomb going off. All they have to do is not voice it, in other words not YELL!! at the same time.

Sneezing is completely involuntary and the 'style' is not a choice, surely? Is your DH doing it on purpose then?!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 15/07/2023 12:16

LuluBlakey1 · 15/07/2023 01:03

People who use the word 'butt'. I am so irritated by it, I want to punch them. My best friend says it all the time. It's a horrible Americanism for the word 'bottom' or 'backside, 'bum' or even 'arse', all of which are perfectly reasonable English language words and not affected the way 'butt' is. She said today her cat has a 'fat butt' because she is so lazy. I was so irritated I just ignored her and spoke to the cat instead.

'Oh, cool, a Venus Flytrap for the spare room. I think they need rainwater rather than tapwater - the water arse is full'.

'Where's the mitre box? I don't want a backside joint'

'Watch out for Neddie when you're putting food down, as he's likely to arse everybody out of the way'.

'Can you just bum out of this conversation?'

'I tried to get away, but he wouldn't let go of me, so I headbacksided him and ran'.

'Ugh, I'm sick of cigarette bums being left outside'

'He's fed up of always being the bottom of the joke'.

'Here is my journey's end, here is my arse, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.'

'Don't pick it up by the barrel, that's dangerous, you should always pick firearms up by the bum'

Butt's an English word. Could also have French/Norman origins due to Butte meaning Mound. Using it for somebody's buttocks (clue's in the etymology, by the way) is something that probably went over with the Mayflower.

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:21

Clementineorsatsuma · 15/07/2023 12:15

Sneezing is completely involuntary and the 'style' is not a choice, surely? Is your DH doing it on purpose then?!

I have a polite sneeze and a yelling sneeze I use to startle my children. Sneezing is involuntary, the delivery is not.

YouAreBeingUnbearable · 15/07/2023 12:21

CC4712 · 14/07/2023 18:19

I get irrationally annoyed by people using a shopping trolley as some sort of walker and lean their boobs and body all over it. They are also inching it down the centre of the aisle- so you cannot pass either side! 😡

I definitely do this. Sorry 🙈 I won’t do it again. Or, I will at least think about you if I do.

YouAreBeingUnbearable · 15/07/2023 12:22

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:21

I have a polite sneeze and a yelling sneeze I use to startle my children. Sneezing is involuntary, the delivery is not.

This is fantastic and I’ll be using it in future. Sneezing is involuntary, the delivery is not.

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:23

@NeverDropYourMooncup

I am now doing chortling. CHORTLING IS NOW OCCURING.

Frenchmanners · 15/07/2023 12:24

thenewaveragebear1983 · 14/07/2023 18:11

some guy over the road from me and a few doors down has taken to parking his car outside my house. All the time. Even though his own drive is empty. It’s a black Subaru with a whale tail and it’s ugly AF. I get disproportionately enraged about it. It’s not even opposite his own house so I have to look at the hideous thing and he Doesn’t. It’s making me angry just typing this out 😡

Same here. Infuriating.

Moneynewpence · 15/07/2023 12:24

evtheria · 14/07/2023 18:02

• Please do not sit on the bed in clothes that have TOUCHED THE OUTSIDE WORLD omg
• I am a faster reader than you so I should read the paper first.
And a whole bunch of other teeny but arsey things that would make people roll their eyes/edge away from me...

😬🤐 my lips are sealed, obviously

Why are some people so incredibly prissy and precious?

Moneynewpence · 15/07/2023 12:30

NewHere83 · 15/07/2023 10:11

Evri delivery person rings doorbell, I interrupt my phone call to answer the door, she's not ready to give me the parcel and says "hang on, I just need to take a picture first"

Why. Didn't. You. F-ing. Do. That. While. I. Was. Coming. To. The. Door.

Too petty to actually say.

They are actually required to take it with the door open. Petty and also uncaring if someone loses their job, iow.
Brava.

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:32

@Moneynewpence are you wholeheartedly convinced that this is definitely the thread for you? Honestly and truly?

Moneynewpence · 15/07/2023 12:38

Walking on a public FOOTPATH, which also happens to allow cyclists: get a bloody bell and use it, pillock!

Moneynewpence · 15/07/2023 12:39

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:32

@Moneynewpence are you wholeheartedly convinced that this is definitely the thread for you? Honestly and truly?

"Patronising people on MN should stfu"

Pissedoffpigeon · 15/07/2023 12:39

I don’t think my own spag is that great and I definitely wouldn’t say anything, but I keep hearing and seeing people use resognate in place of resonate and that makes me irrationally annoyed.

Housenoob · 15/07/2023 12:40

Haven't read the whole thread so this may have been mentioned. The sound of flip flops. Slap shuffle slap shuffle UGGGHHHHH SHUT UP!!!!! Made twice as bad because I hate the sight of feet.

ImNotReallySpartacus · 15/07/2023 12:41

Iworkformeanies · 15/07/2023 09:00

Me - Ok, we'll end things there for today, unless anyone has any questions or anything they'd like to share?

In my head - Ian, don't you fucking dare. I'm going out tonight and wanted to finish early. Oh good he's putting his stuff away. Oh no, he's thinking. Oh no. Don't you fucking dare Ian. Ian, no!!!

Ian - Can I just say....

I just get up and leave at that point. There is no law that says I have to stay for Ian's monologue.

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:45

Moneynewpence · 15/07/2023 12:39

"Patronising people on MN should stfu"

Not patronising, deeply sarcastic 😊

I'm going to stay on it all day now.

ADHDmother · 15/07/2023 12:47

I absolutely hate the term ‘thanks for reaching out’ 🤢.

MrsMarkRonson · 15/07/2023 12:48

blueshoes · 15/07/2023 11:41

I hate cyclists and cycle lanes with all my heart, whether as a pedestrian or as a motorist. I will vote for any politician who will ban them forever.

Yes! Where I am (not UK) they've taken out parking on one side of the street so a heap of people have nowhere to park to make bike lanes, and in the city centre (big city) they've taken out heaps of parks too for bloody cycle lanes! a lot of people (myself included) are pretty p!ssed about it. A lot of the small businesses have lost parking and business too.

Beenhereforever1978 · 15/07/2023 12:48

@ADHDmother

Here is a gift for you.

Ridiculously petty things that you can’t even say out loud
GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 15/07/2023 12:51

@Clementineorsatsuma , funny how he only does it at home! I’ve known him muffle one when we’ve been e.g. in a theatre.

As for ‘choice’, yes, anyone does have a choice as to whether they YELL!! their head off at the same time.
There is no need to ‘voice’ a sneeze!

JudgeJ · 15/07/2023 12:52

Clymene · 14/07/2023 19:30

Going to the supermarket doesn't need to be a family outing.

Especially if you're in Waitrose in Swaffham on a summer's Friday afternoon on your way to your North Norfolk holiday home and you insist on all of you exiting your badly parked Sherman tank-like vehicle and parading round the store, standing at the fish, meat counters with your empty Celebrations etc tubs to conspicuously use to save the planet by not having any superfluous wrappings. Dahling, you're actually quite a source of amusement for we yokels, high-six to you and yours.

Iolani · 15/07/2023 12:54

JudgeJ · 15/07/2023 12:52

Especially if you're in Waitrose in Swaffham on a summer's Friday afternoon on your way to your North Norfolk holiday home and you insist on all of you exiting your badly parked Sherman tank-like vehicle and parading round the store, standing at the fish, meat counters with your empty Celebrations etc tubs to conspicuously use to save the planet by not having any superfluous wrappings. Dahling, you're actually quite a source of amusement for we yokels, high-six to you and yours.

What’s with the empty celebrations tubs.
What do they do with them?

CC4712 · 15/07/2023 12:55

Wear a BRA, or at the very least a tank top or cami under the top. I don't want to see your nipples or areola through your top, nor do I want to see your breasts bouncing off your stomach whilst you walk.

Bewarethesealions · 15/07/2023 12:55

You're perfectly able bodied mothers. One of you two needs to take one of your SUV sized buggies OFF the fucking bus and bloody walk, and let the disabled gent in a wheelchair ON.

JudgeJ · 15/07/2023 12:55

notanotherclairebear · 14/07/2023 20:16

I'm older than you so no, I won't move out of the way of your enormous group as you take up the whole footpath. In fact, I may even drift into the centre of the footpath, because watching you all part as I walk towards you gives me a sense of petty pleasure I can't really explain

And as you drift into the centre of the path always remember to turn round and look intently at something, thus removing their chnce to expect you to move for their inflated presence.