Things that give you the absolute RAGE!!

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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?

People who sell small animals (guinea-pig or rabbit type) on GumTree type sites because *the kids lost interest or not got the time or got a new puppy or kids outgrown them^

But want £20/£30/£40 to ensure a good home .
When the seller paid similatr but the poor creature ended up with them (ie a shit home)

I know it might sound harsh but I just don't think there's any excuse. Totally understand what you are saying about new payees, but in our case all of our customers have paid deposits so we are never a new payee (I talking about final payments, not deposits, I don't see deposits as "owed" really and they can take their time in those)

We also have a contract with a customer, it says "due on completion" and so they should be sticking to those terms. They agree a date with us, they know when we are coming, they should be prepared to meet their obligations. I am a reasonable person, I don't expect it done before we pull out of the drive but yes, I want it paid that day or early the next morning at the very latest so we can move onto the next job with no issues.

To whoever thinks that being terrified of dogs is silly - there probably is a reason why.
I love dogs but I am frightened of unknown dogs .

I was attacked by a dog when I was young - that fear is still there somewhere in my head and I go to that dark place automatically with uncontrolled dogs.
Plus a couple of years ago a dog jumped at me with such force that it started up my sciatica pain - this is not a mild pain and can take days to get over.
Please don’t judge people for being frightened.

Sometimes I feel overwhelming rage that we have known for decades about climate change yet Governments around the world have allowed us to get to this point - deathly heat waves, wild fires, wild, unpredictable weather, increased mortality and morbidity linked to climate change, crop failures, mass migration. With much much worse to come. They have allowed oil companies to knowingly (and they have known for years, have suppressed research and greenwashed us into thinking they are doing the right thing) keep selling a product that they know is dangerous and make billions of pounds in profit in the process. And we keep adding to the problem with our choices when we know we shouldn’t. And yes, me too. And yes I’m mad at myself too. We are bloody idiots!

Card reader thought they did away with them

I can transfer to a new payee within 2 minutes even if it cant verify them which pisses me off as I know the company or even person exists

I think I’ve quoted the wrong person sorry @gingerguineapig

The news on the radio in the morning. Don't know why, it just gives me the rage.

Tried listening to Okney Radio then got the rage because they want to protect the sea by having no protected areas. But ooh look, they want to dig a bloody great tunnel they can't afford between the islands.

People who end every sentence with an x

People who seem surprised when traffic lights change to green and take ages to move off

People who can't just say sorry when asked to stop doing something inconsiderate and would rather get in your face about it and cause a scene

Old men's feet in sandals with devil's horns toenails

Home karaoke machines

Job application forms that take hours and you never hear back (shout out to the NHS in particular)

The nauseating Civil Service recruitment process

Brexiters who have found granny’s Irish heritage enabling them to have a European passport.

Bad manners.

And I don't mean the basic, please, thank you, excuse me, be generally considerate etc.

I mean manners that take a little bit of effort but should always been observed. If seems to be getting less and less important and I have been told I am old fashioned and expecting to much but I expect the following (and I stick to these rules rigidly myself)

1. It's is rude rude rude to ignore an invite. If someone has been nice enough to say "I want you there" you should have the goddamn common courtesy to acknowledge it promptly. Especially now that we can see that you have read a message so we know you've recieved it. I don't care if you don't want to come, or you don't know yet if you can come, a simple "thank you for inviting me, bu I cant/dont want to come" or an equally simple "'thank you, but I have will have to let you know because of xyz" is ESSENTIAL and should be done as soon after reading the message as possible.

DH family are terrible for this they will ignore and ignore until I get upset and DH steps in on my behalf. Don't even get me started if it's a wedding invite. Do you know how much it costs per head?! That invite is an HONOUR.

1. ALWAYS say thank you for gifts. Send thank you cards in the post to elderly or far away relatives if necessary. Get the persons phone number or find them in Facebook if you must but find them and say thank you. A thank you via someone else does not count as being good enough. You must thank the person yourself.

1. Don't be lazy and leave people's spouses out of invites. DH and I have been together for almost 18 years. We have two kids. I have met all of his cousins. I am not going if they send me invites addressed to "DH and guest" bloody "guest"?!!

1. Dress appropriately for occasions, don't turn up at a wedding in your work gear. If someone is paying for your meal, make some effort.

1. When someone asks you how you are, don't just tell them how you are and then not ask them back and don't just talk about your life and nor ask them about theirs. It's rude and you will have absolutely no friends if you keep doing this.

I didn't know this gave me the rage...until you posted it!

My contribution:kids' dad.

Adulys who scrap their knife/fork on the plate and those who eat noisily and those who slurp drinks - I will voodoo doll you

but that's nothing because people who whisper need to get arrested and put in prison.

I've found my soulmate!

i will still sit my arse on the beach and freeze to death in a couple of weeks beacause I did as a kid so that what i know do with my DD. Can't bloody wait

This is really really niche but it's a particular jokey question thing that I hear people bring up on the Internet quite often, usually on those threads that ask for people's "unanswered questions"

"What was the person doing to the cow when they realised that's where the milk comes from? Tee hee hee"

OoOoOoOomg die die die. I hate that question. I hate how thick and ignorant it is. I hate how funny they think they are being.

Mammals INCLUDING HUMANS feed their babies milk. Of course we know where the fucking milk comes from, because we also produce milk. It's not just something you discover you can drink like a plant of something it's literally there for their babies to drink. People have always known. A frigging gorilla would know. You idiot.

Sorry. Oddly specific but just makes me want to hulk smash every time 😂😂😂

😆 I would enjoy seeing this karma in action.

I walk into them

People smoking in doorways so that you have to walk through their smoke to get in or out of the building.
Why do they bother going outside? They might as well have just stayed inside because everyone is inhaling the smoke from their manky lungs anyway.

Oh my goodness, yes. I used to live on an estate of Victorian terraced houses near a town centre and there were cars parked on both sides of the road, obscuring the view, especially at junctions.

There was an uproar amongst certain residents when the Council introduced a residents’ parking scheme and only allocated a maximum of two permits per household. At a public meeting, one angry man said that he, his wife and his adult children all had cars and how could was he supposed to choose who got the permits?

I remember thinking that he and his family could have as many cars as they liked, but they couldn’t park them all outside their house, as there wasn’t room. So they could either park their excess vehicles in a car park or walk into town. But they thought it was their god-given right to park in front of other people’s houses every day.

A certain political party in Northern Ireland who is blocking our government assembly to sit in a cost of living crisis. Also being offered a 1% pay rise after a pay cut in real terms over 13 years. That government gives me the rage too!

Pippin from lord of the rings. What a knob.

This is happening on my street right now.

I don’t have a car. Neighbour doesn’t have a car but when my friends visit and stay over neighbours get pissy I’m ‘taking their spaces’.

one house has space for 2 cars out front. But both husband and wife have cars. Adult son has a car as does the GF that practically lives there. Then the next house reasonably has one. The bloke further up has two works vans and a car and insists the vans be parked on the field opposite his house ripping up the wildflower meadow. (I’m the reason he has fines because I informed the council. It’s woodland trust land local FB was a hoot that day)

there’s the neighbour with the trailer tent on her drive who complains her car is scuffed from parking on the corner.

our houses can’t have drives (on a hill) and the road has some sharp turns and is quite narrow. But everyone is entitled and demanding about their spots. It won’t be long before we get permit parking and I can’t wait tbf because of the drama . 2 car limit for on street parking feels reasonable to me.

This is something that is currently irritating me. So many 20-somethings are still living at home, and they pretty much all have cars. When we moved into our house (then a newbuild) we increased the size of the drive and created a parking space right at the front door so we could actually accommodate 6 or more cars (think we managed 9 once!)

Unfortunately most of our neighbours, other than next door, did not have our foresight. So, there are cars littered outside so many houses in the street, from residents to visitors, and sometimes it's a struggle to reverse out of our own drive. It's a fairly narrow street with no footpaths. Sometimes I wish I had access to a juggernaut...!!

Talking of people parking badly and double parking on narrow streets, I often wonder how ambulances and fire engines manage 🤔 So I’d love to be given the job of driving a fire engine through these streets, smashing into badly parked cars, just to prove the point.
And then I’d like to be given a hedge trimming tractor so I can drive along and trim back peoples hedges and trees that obstruct the pavements.

Unless you're in the four tops, you didn't "reach out" to someone. You contacted them