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Things that give you the absolute RAGE!!

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strawthatbrokethecamelsback · 22/07/2023 11:33

DH has just put the dishwasher on a long cycle in the middle of the day 😡 I have all of his family coming shortly for a meal to celebrate his birthday.

surely everyone knows that during the day it’s a short cycle and overnight it’s a long cycle.

now I have to wait 3 bastard hours for it to finish with the pots building up.

of course slightly lighthearted but what does give you the rage?

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Oldnproud · 22/07/2023 17:56

Catlover1705 · 22/07/2023 17:49

Websites that ask for your date of birth on a calendar. You have to manually scroll back to your year of birth which takes ages if you're born in 1965.

Absolutely.
I was helping a relative to fill out forms online prior to a dental appointment. DoB was needed, and I couldn't find any way of inputting it other than to tap back, month by month, to 1946. I thought "stuff that" when I got back to about 2021!

User0224 · 22/07/2023 17:57

littlebopeepp234 · 22/07/2023 17:52

Do you mean written or speaking? I have an accent which makes me pronounce he’s as his but I know that in my mind I’m saying he’s.

However I’m also sick of seeing this increasing trend of people writing “his” instead of “he’s”.

Oh just writing! Drives me mad 😂

Imsureitsprobablymebut · 22/07/2023 17:57

My current rage is that I’ve just returned from the recovery ward to a ward with 3 older ladies, 2 of whom are asleep and I’m in & out of sleep.
The 4th lady is conducting speakerphone conversations with every family member and friend they can think of.
Selfish B***.

Ultraviolet85 · 22/07/2023 17:58

Whenever we’ve had work done in our house nearly every workman that has come in has said “ohhh it’s a difficult one, we would normally do X but here we will have to do y and z” it enrages me because nothing is every a bog standard, straight forward job. If I knew what I know now, I don’t think we’d have bought our house!

Microwaveexpert · 22/07/2023 17:58

Yes to the people behind you in queue thing.
Just this afternoon a woman was right behind me putting things on the conveyer belt, so close she actually banged into my arm 3 times. Then proceeded to look shocked when I asked her to stop bumping into me please.
Like, did you not feel it too?!

littlebopeepp234 · 22/07/2023 18:01

LadyGrinningSoul85 · 22/07/2023 17:56

"Some of us have to support our own children"

And it's attitudes like that that gets the Tories relentlessly voted in time after time, because they get us all fighting amongst each other whilst they get away with all the shady shit they do.

I am sick of being made to feel like whats left on the bottom of someone's shoes because I can't go to work at the moment (my partner works full time, so don't worry we aren't stealing your 'hard working' taxpayer money) so I stay at home with my kids.

My reasons for not working are valid, and my own, and none of anyone's business, but some working mums on here seem to think all I do is laze about all day stealing their money via benefits, because that's what the Daily Fail has told you to think.
It's fucking depressing.

And to add to my list.

People with 'gender disappointment'.
Fuck off. It's not a real "disorder". You just wanted a dolly you could dress in ribbons and frills and you're upset that you're having a boy because they're not as interesting to dress up.

People that think kids should never make a sound, go anywhere or take up space anywhere in public ever at all.
Get a life. They have just as much right as you do to live their life, stop being so miserable. Maybe you should stay in and shut up instead.

E Scooters. I could happily punch whoever invented those things directly in the crotch.
If one hits my child, it could kill them.
Get off the fucking pavements.

Old people who give me the evil eye if I happen to have parked my pram in the pram/wheelchair space (where I live one side is pram and the other is wheelchair) so they can't park their wheel along trolley bag things there.
I was here first. Deal with it.

Wheel along trolley bags.

Queue jumpers.

Tall people sitting in front of me every single time I try to watch something. It's like they seek me out. I'm 5ft 2.

Dogs. Dog owners. People using the term 'fur babies' or referring to themselves as dog mum or dog dad or saying their dog is their child's 'sibling'. Fuck. Right. Off.

Your post made me laugh out loud.

Im 5ft3 and always seem to get someone who’s much taller sit in front of me. When I try to move my head to look around their shoulder they move their head in the same direction. Really pisses me off when I go to watch school plays etc as my children are also the shortest children in their classes so trying to see them in anything is impossible unless I turn up 45 mins early just to get a seat at the front!

asdfgasdfg · 22/07/2023 18:01

re photoing bad parking, go one step further check they have tax/MOT and report them if not, they will get booted and fined!!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/07/2023 18:02

People in the supermarket who park themselves and their trollies in front of a section so no-one else can get to it and ignore anyone who tries (yes, bloke in Waitrose, this means you)
To counter this I give you : people who cannot wait a fecking nanosecond while you make the briefest stop to choose something and stretch their claggy armpit across your face to select their product . I am not reading the ingredients or going through every item, I am merely selection from what is there .

I am the worlds mildest person but one woman got on my tits very last nerve , I was picking something (not a busy area either) she's "Can you move so I can get in " really snotty .
I was "Will it kill you to wait 30 seconds" ? (hoping the answer was "yes" )

littlebopeepp234 · 22/07/2023 18:06

People who think they are so entitled to park across driveways on school runs. I don’t have a driveway but it enrages me every time I see parents at pick up and drop off selfishly parking across driveways because obviously the law doesn’t apply to them 🙄

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/07/2023 18:09

Dogs. Dog owners. People using the term 'fur babies' or referring to themselves as dog mum or dog dad or saying their dog is their child's 'sibling'. Fuck. Right. Off

It doesn't apply to cats though . I have adult DS and DD . We also have bro/sis cats .
I refer to them as "your good sister/good brother/my favourite children" depending on who has pissed me off today . .

Floatlikeafeather · 22/07/2023 18:10

DustyLee123 · 22/07/2023 15:43

People in the supermarket who finish paying, then push their trolley to the exit, and stop to put their purse/wallet away and find their phone/keys while a queue forms behind them. Just go out side and do it !

These people but also the people who do all that while still standing at the checkout, so that the till operator can't even start on the next person's shopping.

Wafflesandcrepes · 22/07/2023 18:11

Tories

Lndnmummy · 22/07/2023 18:14

strawthatbrokethecamelsback · 22/07/2023 11:33

DH has just put the dishwasher on a long cycle in the middle of the day 😡 I have all of his family coming shortly for a meal to celebrate his birthday.

surely everyone knows that during the day it’s a short cycle and overnight it’s a long cycle.

now I have to wait 3 bastard hours for it to finish with the pots building up.

of course slightly lighthearted but what does give you the rage?

LtB

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/07/2023 18:15

Lateness especially people who are always late for an appointment that is time specific .

If you are meeting a friend and are late that is inconsiderate to the friend .Of course delays can occur but you built that in.

If you are late for a medical appointment (especially repeated lateness) you are basically saying "My time is more important than yours (the clinician) and the other patients waiting after me"

3AndStopping · 22/07/2023 18:16

When lidl opens another till and people queuing behind you scurry over without offering to people already in the front of queues who have been waiting longer. It’s so anti British I get such a rage, don’t say anything of course just burn a hole into the back of their heads with my ragey eyeballs in true British form.

One person did it to me then their biscuits fell off the conveyer whilst they were packing & I didn’t know whether to crush them with my feet or put them back on. I put them back on of course because… British.

littlebopeepp234 · 22/07/2023 18:18

Floatlikeafeather · 22/07/2023 18:10

These people but also the people who do all that while still standing at the checkout, so that the till operator can't even start on the next person's shopping.

Equally I find it annoying when till operators proceed to throw my things down the other end of the checkout before the last person has left, then everyone else has to wait while I pack up my shopping which then puts pressure on me and it’s uncomfortable seeing everyone’s eyes on me while they wait. I usually leave the till operator waiting until I’ve packed before I pay so they can’t move onto their next victim before I’ve even packed up which some till operators seem to do nowadays, resulting in another person’s shopping being hurled towards me while I’m still bagging my own.

littlebopeepp234 · 22/07/2023 18:20

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/07/2023 18:15

Lateness especially people who are always late for an appointment that is time specific .

If you are meeting a friend and are late that is inconsiderate to the friend .Of course delays can occur but you built that in.

If you are late for a medical appointment (especially repeated lateness) you are basically saying "My time is more important than yours (the clinician) and the other patients waiting after me"

Yep some people seem to think they’re so entitled that other people should wait for them! Especially those who don’t bother getting ready or setting off until you have told them you have already arrived and waiting for them!

Can’t stand people who are constantly late for everything! Once or twice yes but when they know they have to be somewhere and just saunter about while I wait for them is just rude and disrespectful!

Floatlikeafeather · 22/07/2023 18:21

mangochops · 22/07/2023 16:16

  1. When driving and you give way to someone and it causes you an inconvenience and they dont do the thank you wave. It makes me wish I could rewind time and not let them through
  2. Printers. Moody, whiny needy little bitches always whinging about toner or paper or cyan ink or errors or not working just because its a Tuesday
  3. People who dont read your emails properly, asking for information thats IN THE FIRST FCKING EMAIL, causing me to use the arsey phrase "as per my previous email" and "regards" instead of "kind regards"
  4. People who say "skellington" instead of skeleton

Yes! Also people who say "athalete" and "nuciler". Even some news readers do this.

Scottishdreams1991 · 22/07/2023 18:21

Edinburgh Festival

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 22/07/2023 18:21

Microwaveexpert · 22/07/2023 17:58

Yes to the people behind you in queue thing.
Just this afternoon a woman was right behind me putting things on the conveyer belt, so close she actually banged into my arm 3 times. Then proceeded to look shocked when I asked her to stop bumping into me please.
Like, did you not feel it too?!

Or the ones who start loading on the belt when they can see there is more in my trolley that I'm unloading when there's space .
One blessing of Covid 2metres spacing was they couldn't do this .

And the ones who go to the till , unload then decide to go and get more items or send someone else to get them .
Here's a novel idea ....why not get your shopping THEN go to the till . ?
And its never just a pint of milk, it's half a shop .

DahliaMacNamara · 22/07/2023 18:22

Doing my best to make the roast potatoes and parsnips lower fat, and therefore less tasty, for the benefit of DH and his alleged diet, only to discover on my return from starting the washing up that he's tucking in to two bags of salt and vinegar McCoys.

Oldnproud · 22/07/2023 18:23

I grew up in Yorkshire, and often pronounced "my" as "mi" ("Will you pass my book" = "Will you pass mi book.").

It really angers me when this pronunciation of "my" is transcribed as "me". It isn't the same thing at all!

Mutinyonthecrunchie · 22/07/2023 18:23

A lot of society makes me feel murderous for the sheer fact they breathe.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 22/07/2023 18:23

Or the ones who start loading on the belt when they can see there is more in my trolley that I'm unloading when there's space . One blessing of Covid 2metres spacing was they couldn't do this .

Yes! id happily bring back the 2 metre rule to get people out of my personal space!!!

Finefinefine · 22/07/2023 18:23

Lwrenagain · 22/07/2023 14:50

I only stopped because I needed a wee 😂

I'm pregnant and have had so much Time on my hands recently with being poorly, I suspect that's 7 months of unspoken rage!
Once this baby is out I'll have a brew and some toast and be less livid at the world 😂

People who blame every little mood swing on being pregnant.

Your first post was amusing.