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Silly things than annoy you

205 replies

Nottodaythanku · 07/08/2023 17:20

just a light hearted one..little things that annoy you.

I will go first…

going out for a meal with a friend tonight and still having to cook for kids before you go

your turn.😛

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ItsMyUkelele · 08/08/2023 07:07

The fact that my ex has blocked me as a contact even though I blocked him first.

Go figure 😂

CattingAbout · 08/08/2023 07:17

jcyclops · 07/08/2023 23:26

People who step off a bus/train and immediately stand still.

Ditto escalators

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 08/08/2023 07:17

When you open a new toilet roll and it comes off in bits, but is still somehow attached and then it rips in a funny way!

DilemmaDelilah · 08/08/2023 07:20

My DH 'tidying me up'. I mean specifically tidying my collar, picking threads off my clothes twitching my dress so that it sits right etc., but he will also tidy up the hint I am still using, put books in piles, start washing up (taking my favourite knife which I am still using) when I am cooking etc. I had a bit of a melt down a while ago when he tucked in a stray shirt label one too many times... and told him in no uncertain terms just why I didn't like it and what he should be doing instead and now all I need to do is fix him with a steely glare and ask him what he is doing - and what he SHOULD be doing - because he know very well that he should be letting me know about the 'problem ' and asking me if I mind him fixing it before touching me.

As for the other things... He is not now allowed to interfere with my cooking unless I ask him specifically to do something. I haven't been able to do anything about him 'tidying' my stuff yet... which is annoying because he mixes things up, puts them in the wrong places and just shoves things into drawers so that they are out of sight, and then forgets he has ever touched them.

Tothepoint99 · 08/08/2023 07:22

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 08/08/2023 07:17

When you open a new toilet roll and it comes off in bits, but is still somehow attached and then it rips in a funny way!

And then when you start it, the layers separate so the rough inside is the now outside, and you have to rewind it.

tonystarksrighthand · 08/08/2023 07:28

SM4713 · 07/08/2023 23:24

We done this!
We was at the park!
I done that! 😡

Yes!!! Makes me literally vomit.

Busubaba · 08/08/2023 07:30

Abbreviating the word you to just u. I can just about tolerate it in a text but there is no reason to do so on Facebook messenger.

It's just lazy.It's just two extra letters!

StrictlyAFemaleFemale · 08/08/2023 07:33

People referring to Elsa as a princess. She is for the first 7 minutes or so and then becomes Queen and should be treated as such.

ssd · 08/08/2023 07:40

BlueBellsArePretty · 07/08/2023 23:55

Said this before on a similar thread. When you're paying with contactless, it bleeps making you think it's gone through, you put your card away and go to finish packing and the cashier says 'its not gone through you'll have to put your card in the machine.' So you have to stop packing and get your card back out 😡 I mean why does it bleep as if everything is all right then?

Its a different sort of bleep.
Its a pain. I work in a shop.

TurtleCavalryIsSeriousShit · 08/08/2023 07:41

Tothepoint99 · 08/08/2023 07:22

And then when you start it, the layers separate so the rough inside is the now outside, and you have to rewind it.

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OMG yes!

QueenOfDuisburg · 08/08/2023 07:42

At our local swimming lessons - people who leave their kids' towels and clothes in cubicles before they're out of the pool/shower so that people who shower at home and want to get changed straight away (us!) have nowhere to go 😡

DogDaysAreOverr · 08/08/2023 07:57

All packaging- it's just so fiddly, annoying, hard to get to things. No satisfying rips, whole pulls, tears... just frustrating time wasting!
Also, predictive text...

birdling · 08/08/2023 08:03

People using 'less' when it should be 'fewer'.
Drives me mad 😡

ObiKenobi · 08/08/2023 08:04

To be fair …

pictoosh · 08/08/2023 08:05

SunshineAndFizz · 07/08/2023 23:49

Filters. Social media pics with filters.

Oh me too. So childish and vain. We know what you look like, stop kidding yourself.

Busubaba · 08/08/2023 08:07

DogDaysAreOverr · 08/08/2023 07:57

All packaging- it's just so fiddly, annoying, hard to get to things. No satisfying rips, whole pulls, tears... just frustrating time wasting!
Also, predictive text...

Cable ties that secure scissors to the packaging that you need a pair of scissors to cut open but you don't have any and that's why you bought some new ones but you can't get them out of the packaging..... arrrrrgh!

GoodnightJude1 · 08/08/2023 08:07

On the rare occasion DH decides to get the washing off the line….

He leaves the pegs on the line and doesn’t put them in the peg bag 😡 it irritates me in a completely irrational way!!

Berlinlover · 08/08/2023 08:13

People spelling lose as loose, it’s everywhere on the weight loss thread.

BakedTattie · 08/08/2023 08:20

Pretty much everything seems to annoy me.

But if my mother in law says ‘pacifically’ one more time I think I will scream.

AllAboardTootToot · 08/08/2023 08:21

People who combine two words as of it were one word, I.e ALOT.

Oh and bin men you leave your bin 6 houses away, did you find it there you lazy git?

WellINever1 · 08/08/2023 08:21

Coat hangers - everything about them.

When people use personification for a country/place they have visited : 'London - you were incredible.' URGH.

Apostrophes for plurals.

Etihad · 08/08/2023 08:22

This. It makes me cringe every time I see it.

Silly things than annoy you
Coastalcreeksider · 08/08/2023 08:24

Plastic toothpaste tubes. When you get near the end, you have to keep pushing up the blasted tube to get the toothpaste to the top. Then you have to repeat every time you clean your teeth because the paste doesn't stay there.

Wish it was still the metal tubes, you could roll it up and the toothpaste would stay at the top and you could get more out before binning the empty tube.

TakeNoNoticeoftheNoise · 08/08/2023 08:26

Jason Kaye reading the news on Radio 2 - that clackie noise he makes - urgh!
Slow drivers - stuck behind driver doing 19mph in a 60 last night.
Shoppers having conversations in supermarket blocking the whole aisle.
My boss calling me at 1 minute to 5pm every.single.night!

Littleelffriend · 08/08/2023 08:32

People saying to my youngest “are you pretending to be shy?” No, she fucking is shy because she doesn’t know you and you’re in her face talking in a stupid voice