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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 12:54

Jeffjefftyjeff · 22/07/2023 12:16

People who don’t indicate when pedestrians are about. Just because I’m not a car, doesn’t mean I don’t need to know if you’re about to turn in to my path and run me over!!!!

Yes, that one really angers me, too.

Thepeopleversuswork · 22/07/2023 12:54

LinMortisanass · 22/07/2023 12:46

Daughter of a friend, had an amazing wedding day, posted about it on Facebook then wrote 'we're going away now to process the day..' why do people speak in such a wanky way these days? 'Process the day' my arse, you're going on honeymoon and you don't need to 'process' anything.

You see I am far more enraged by people who try to police the way other people feel and speak than I am be people who dare to use a bit of creativity or veer in any way outside normality in their language. “Process” isn’t especially wanky…. It’s a fairly normal part of the vernacular.

TBH if I’d just had a huge, exhausting and expensive wedding I might want some time to “process” it too!

Topseyt123 · 22/07/2023 12:55

Maddy70 · 22/07/2023 11:40

My family's holiday being restricted due to the 90 day limit and their constant moaning about it. They bloody voted for it!

So they voted leave. Tell them that they should be delighted about it because it means we are no longer in the EU.

That would hugely irritate me too.

Faceplantagain · 22/07/2023 12:57

Rain at the weekend. Why can't it just rain Monday - Friday???

PopsicleHustler · 22/07/2023 12:59

People who can't be bothered to acknowledge you and say thank you when you move aside to let them through or open doors for them.

Asdas ridiculous substitutes. We are Muslim and the meat products we buy are halal. But if not available they give us pork as a substitute. I just stand there, thinking seriously! And also just the random subs that make no sense. You order raisin pancakes for example.and they give you a box of raisins! Or order toilet roll and they give you baby wipes! Why not just give me another brand of toilet roll.

The cost if living. I feel like every time I go into the shop the prices have gone up again, like weekly!

People who smoke whilst pushing a pram.

Parents nattering at the school gate and every other word is F.

Pinkywoo · 22/07/2023 12:59

TequilaNights · 22/07/2023 12:28

This is usually a junction box issue outside the house, we get it every few years.

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Ah thanks, how do you get it fixed?

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 22/07/2023 13:05

Sigmama · 22/07/2023 12:13

What's the 90 day limit

Non-EU citizens can't spend more than 90 days out of any rolling 180 day period in the EU without getting a visa.

Usernamen · 22/07/2023 13:13

Thepeopleversuswork · 22/07/2023 11:41

When people who have the luxury of not having to work to support themselves come on MN and accuse working mums of “farming out” their children by using childcare to enable them to work to support their families.

If someone ever said it to my face I would struggle to restrain myself from being very abusive. But of course no one has the balls to actually say it, it’s all from the comfort of a keyboard.

Fair enough, but what’s FAR more common is people looking down on SAHMs as lazy, useless, non-contributing-to-society lepers who are essentially glorified prostitutes in their marriage.

(I don’t have children so have no skin in the game, so to speak, this is just what I observe.)

Coffeetree · 22/07/2023 13:13

TheFifthTellytubby · 22/07/2023 12:40

People who chatter in the theatre or other events. We were at Wimbledon recently and the couple sitting next to us hardly shut up the whole time. If we'd been nearer the front they would probably have distracted the players as well as annoying the other spectators!

Oh my god I shush the crap out of people who do this at the theatre. It's a live play! Shut the fuck up!

EasyLifer · 22/07/2023 13:13

This seems very minor but is giving me the rage. Our local Tesco is having a refurb which is long overdue but every week now everything is in a different place.
We have shopped in this store for over 20 years and apart from some discombobulations at Christmas time it would be a quick and pain free process. Now we and all the regular customers are milling around randomly doing u turns in the aisles and getting in each others way!

ChocolateCinderToffee · 22/07/2023 13:14

People who think it's ok for their dogs to crap on grass in parks because 'I always pick it up'. Yep, except the bits you leave behind.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 22/07/2023 13:14

People playing loud music on campsites or from car windows.

Thatsshallot1967 · 22/07/2023 13:16

Motorists who pull up to the edge of a yellow hatch box junction rather than IN to it, which you are permitted to do if waiting to turn right. This means that only THEY get through that sequence of lights. If they read the highway code they'd know that they can pull into it and also allow maybe another couple of cars to get through the lights. It causes huge delays.

Toilets that were female but are now mixed sex and next door is the men's only loo which stays as men only. Thanks for that.

John McEnroe commentating on the tennis including during the playing of a point. Button it!

FlyingUnicornWings · 22/07/2023 13:17

Printers.

AgnesX · 22/07/2023 13:20

The incessant whining about the school holiday "getaway" and having queues at airports or posts. We'll, 56% of you wanted to bloody leave.

JaneyGee · 22/07/2023 13:21

Noisy cars. You know, the ones with modified exhausts that bang and explode like fireworks, and engines that sound like airplanes coming in to land.

Seeing green fields replaced with horrible new estates crammed with tiny, overpriced brick boxes.

Snugglemonkey · 22/07/2023 13:22

lemonsaretheonlyfruit · 22/07/2023 12:27

People who put bins and planks across them to reserve their parking space outside their house on my road. It's a public road and hard to find a space quite often (though moving them and parking in that space is quite satisfying - I only do that when there is no other spaces)

I would just do it for the craic. Even if I had no desire to park.

deepspace9 · 22/07/2023 13:22

LinMortisanass · 22/07/2023 12:46

Daughter of a friend, had an amazing wedding day, posted about it on Facebook then wrote 'we're going away now to process the day..' why do people speak in such a wanky way these days? 'Process the day' my arse, you're going on honeymoon and you don't need to 'process' anything.

God that is so annoying!!

Wendysfriend · 22/07/2023 13:23

3 hours for a dishwasher 😲😲😲😲😲 I am actually going to look at mine and see if there's a 3 hour cycle. Jaysus he'd have the dishes for a large restaurant washed in a sink for that amount of time.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 22/07/2023 13:24

How timely.

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).

People who think that the rest of us should just clear off out of shops because they want to shop in their lunch hour.

People who let their dogs release streams of piss all over the pavement (neighbours).

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 22/07/2023 13:32

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain i concur and raise you people who let their dogs piss all your alloy wheels

RubberRuck · 22/07/2023 13:33

When there's a load of cars parked on my side of the road and I see another car coming towards me ... so I manoeuvre into a tiny, tight space between two cars, as I should because the other car has right of way ... the other driver sees me do this then STOPS AND FLASHSES ME THROUGH .... aaarrrrrgggghhhh .... gives me the huge rage ... I pretend not to see them, rummage in my hand bag or something ... I mean I know they think they're being kind but FFS ... it took me loads of effort to get in that space, just bloody drive past me.

Muu · 22/07/2023 13:34

Peeling the shell off boiled eggs and the white comes off in layers 😡

caringcarer · 22/07/2023 13:36

The moment I get in the car the phone rings and I never answer when driving but then instead of just leaving a message to ask me to call back some idiot rings every 5 minutes and it's not an emergency.

MillWood85 · 22/07/2023 13:41

Our opposite NDN's old tyme bulldog/xl bully cross. It looks like an accident in a testing laboratory and has the deepest angry bark of any dog I've ever heard. Like something out of a horror film. And the fuckers leave it out constantly. It hears a leaf drop or a bird fart and off it goes..... WOOOOOOOOOOF WOOOOOOF WOOOOOF.

And the NDN's the other side of us have got a PFB. Every day is an exercise in performance parenting, at full volume. And they've obviously taken their bin out of the kitchen so have put their 3 wheelie bins outside the back door which happens to be closest to our bedroom window. 6am this morning they were putting rubbish out. And dropping the bin lids.

I am menopausal and murderous. None of them realise how close to cracking I am Grin