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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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Iamtheonwandlonely · 23/07/2023 07:40

The starting to do something just as we are going out.
My dp does this as well,does my absolute nut in.

I'll be standing there,ready to go.
Trying to get out before the kids get up.
And he then decides to make the most noise possible.
Just go ffs

MysteryBelle · 23/07/2023 07:48

Why don’t you stop it and put it in the short cycle? You don’t have to wait 3 hours. Use your noggin, Op 😂

SouthCountryGirl · 23/07/2023 08:31

When you tag a friend on Facebook, their friends can see and comment on it. Fine. Someone has clearly gone through my profile and liked a post from 2018. Why?

Heronwatcher · 23/07/2023 08:42

People who get on a train/ tube and sit in the seat expressly reserved for disabled/ elderly/ pregnant people, then immediately sit glued to their phone/ with EarPods in/ fall asleep as a 90 yr old, someone on crutches and a woman 9 months pregnant get on and ignore them. Then when I ask them to move and give up their seat look mortally offended/ annoyed and say “oh I didn’t notice”. You’re not fooling anyone, and if you sit in that seat you NEED to notice, that’s the whole ducking point you dickhead.

Also people who get on a totally silent train or tube and then play their tinny sweary music on speaker. Just why? Are they deliberately trying to make everyone’s journey worse or are they just too stupid to realise how annoying it is/ what would happen if everyone did that 😳😳

RecklessBlackberries · 23/07/2023 08:57

As a learner driver, people at both extremes of the spectrum: arseholes who give no consideration that I'm a learner and "helpful" people who break the rules of the road and cause me confusion. And I mean people who do truly weird things, not just letting me out at junctions or whatever.

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 23/07/2023 09:00

We were stood watching a little performance that is put on specifically for children. We were quite far back, so my child was stood on a bench so she could see (no one behind her, so she's wasn't blocking anyone's view)
An actual grown man came and stood directly in front of her, reaching his hobby camera overhead to get some photos, making it impossible for her to see.
Now, we are petty bastards, so that was met with my OH picking her up, putting her on his shoulders and moving in front of him - to which he had the cheek to moan about to his friends! Because, you know, an adult man needs to see what is going on more than a child, the actual demographic this is meant for.

MrsClatterbuck · 23/07/2023 09:01

SquashPenguin · 22/07/2023 14:00

People who have no sense of personal space and insist on standing RIGHT behind you in a queue, so you can almost feel the breathing. Gives me the creeps. Fuck off!

Paying for an item at a till once and the next person was practically stood beside me that I felt the need to cover the card machine so they couldn't see my pin. Very rude and really wish I had asked them to stand back

laceydoily · 23/07/2023 09:08

People who initiate texts and then when you reply they completely disappear. Just why? if you dont want to interact with me- thats totally cool, but why start a bloody conversation in the first place then if you have no interest in my reply???

tidalway · 23/07/2023 09:12

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DustyLee123 · 23/07/2023 09:23

I have asked people to stand back at the card machine before now. If I can feel your breath on me, you’re too close.

And if someone is too close in a queue behind me, I find a good hard toss of the handbag over my shoulder sorts them out 🤣

Lwrenagain · 23/07/2023 09:26

When posters ignore the best advice they'll ever get, usually not giving waste of space Father's surname to their own children.

Calling everyone who's a selfish twat a narcissist.

FACEBOOK RACISTS.
Facebook comments sections filled with the most stupid comments.

People who minimise others problems because others have had it worse.

Men who feel emasculated by a funny woman. Get tae fuck.

People telling childless women "they'll regret it", oh fuck off, the world is overran with unwanted kids. Leave women with happy lives the feck alone.

Parents who pass on weight issues to their kids. Not cool, not cool at all.

Parking in disabled spaces without a badge. Or parent/pregnant women spaces.

Children (especially neurotypical ones) needing teeth removed due to negligence. (Not for medical reasons etc, literally just negligence, I'm only annoyed by that as a reason, genuine reasons, I send support.)

People who try to force sober/teetotal/just don't want to folk to drink.
Leave us alone. I'm not asking you to come chase the dragon with me and then calling you boring. (I don't really do heroin, it was just an awful example)

People who sulk when their friends make positive and healthy choices. Especially when it involves them losing weight. That's a bad show.

The fact there isn't a channel dedicated to Sharon horgan shows.

The way some people look phenomenally stylish in clothes that make me look like Mr tumble.

Most the men I dated online in my 20s. Such epic dullness.

Gender (yes I know it's sex) reveals where the parents look bereft at getting a boy, like they've been told, "sorry, it's not actually a healthy baby, but instead a highly aggressive velocoraptor".

The fact I never got the chance to even try and sleep with Jim Morrison, haunts me.

AppleCinnamonBagel · 23/07/2023 09:26

okiedokie1 · 22/07/2023 21:24

Right now? My DH. I'm menopausal so it probably a me problem but he seems so doddery. Everything takes a ridiculous amount of time. Even answering the phone it rings. He takes a full 3 seconds to look up. Then he looks towards the phone. Then after what seems like forever he tarts to get up by which time the person has rung off. Shutting curtains....the incessant 'just before we leave the house pee'. The starting to do something just as we are going out. When he calls me and I answer 'hello', he doesn't say anything. I have to repeat 'hello? Hello?' About 3 times and the he says 'oh, hello'. I can't stand it.
He's lovely.
But I can't stand him sometimes.

Oh god yes.

Plus "who's ringing?" Or "who's at the door?"

just answer it and you'll find out!!

castlesandsand · 23/07/2023 09:29

Drivers who are utterly incapable of keeping their side of the white line in the middle of the road. Stuck behind a camper van doing 40 on a 60 road. Yes the scenery is very pretty but these are also local roads & we have to get places. So hog the road, do not use passing places, crawl at 10mph up the steep switch back hill, but when we get to a clear overtaking section just plonk your van in the middle of the road, straddle that white line and hog the road for even longer.

UnRavellingFast · 23/07/2023 09:45

Amispringy · 22/07/2023 12:30

The current weather and the ducking constant rain

And twee words in posts like hubby and yummy

The rain is preferable to the nightmare they’re having in parts of Europe. I’m actually enjoying it, but acknowledge I’m weird!

totally agree about twee words. I have to ask- was ducking an autocorrect? 😂

littlebopeepp234 · 23/07/2023 09:56

Another driving one. When someone in front of me is driving past a line of parked cars. Parked cars not quite bumper to bumper but not really that much space to pull in behind them again so makes makes more sense to just drive up the road in a straight line (if safe to do so) until all parked cars have been passed…. Except those who think it’s a great idea to weave in and out of parked cars, confusing me as I think they are pulling in behind a parked car, only for them to pop out in front of me again to overtake the next parked car almost causing me to crash into them!!

KimberleyClark · 23/07/2023 10:00

MrsClatterbuck · 23/07/2023 09:01

Paying for an item at a till once and the next person was practically stood beside me that I felt the need to cover the card machine so they couldn't see my pin. Very rude and really wish I had asked them to stand back

Fair enough but I’m also annoyed by people who stand so far back from the person in front of them that you can’t tell if they are in the queue or not.

UnRavellingFast · 23/07/2023 10:03

midlifecrash · 22/07/2023 14:24

Does anyone produce any pass agg stickers? Eg “This is so inconsiderate”. I feel I could use a buch of these (cars on pavement etc)

You can buy fake bright yellow parking tickets from eBay! At least it would give the parking wankers a shock.

Moversnotshakers · 23/07/2023 10:04

My DH ability to come home for food the second I have just cleaned the kitchen.. hes a taxi driver and works odd hours. He does cook for himself and offers me some too but he then slips back in the cab leaving the mess as he "has a job waiting".. it drives me nuts.. !!

UnRavellingFast · 23/07/2023 10:09

The drunk woman who thought she’d lost her diamond earring at the restaurant I used to work in, called the police in, I got singled out for questioning because she ‘was sure’ I ‘knew’ something, she was sobbing, I was bemused, then we get a call from the husband later that she’d found it at home. Very obviously no apology.

PurpleButterflyWings · 23/07/2023 10:11

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 . .

I do actually know someone who calls her cat (7 years old) her daughter. She has 2 (human) sons in their teens. Make of THAT what you will. 😬

PurpleButterflyWings · 23/07/2023 10:12

Reigateforever · 22/07/2023 22:24

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

@Reigateforever

Oh cheers for that! Didn't know you could do that. I will look into this tomorrow! Grin

crossstitchingnana · 23/07/2023 10:15

Trying to get clothes on or off when I am sweaty. Honestly, if there was another human in the room I would throttle them with my bare hands.

PurpleButterflyWings · 23/07/2023 10:21

crossstitchingnana · 23/07/2023 10:15

Trying to get clothes on or off when I am sweaty. Honestly, if there was another human in the room I would throttle them with my bare hands.

OR when you've been swimming! Trying to get dried off in the changing room, and then get your clothes back on is farcical. It's like your clothes have pritt stick plastered all over the inside. 😬

It's not like that after I've been in the shower at home though. What's that about? Confused

UnRavellingFast · 23/07/2023 10:28

DustyLee123 · 22/07/2023 21:34

I despise this.
And what’s worse is that my DD’s don’t agree that it’s misogyny, and they don’t see that it’s an insult to them in the future.

They will see the light once they’re older. The prejudice will affect them too. Just say to them, ‘your forty year old self is cringing’. They won’t understand but they’ll remember later 😎

malificent7 · 23/07/2023 10:28

Too many...
Influencers
Social media in general
People wanging on about climate change but who are not prepared to make changes as "it won't make any difference."
Rich elderly people who rub it in about not having to work anymore whilst telling my generation that they had it tough too ( I'm looking at you dad.)
Slow service in restaurants.

But most of all. ..people who tailgate then overtake me when I'm going at maximum speed limit...they are going well over the limit and might kill someone....dicks.

Agggggrrrr!

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