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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To want to know the pettiest things that annoys you.

488 replies

IseeNarcPeople · 16/08/2023 21:30

Just for fun to take our minds off the huge, horrible stuff in our lives.
Me :
Tiny, tiny cloves of garlic
"Pull tab here"

OP posts:
GellerYeller · 16/08/2023 23:53

@Flossflower I totally agree with @SlightlygrumpyBettyswaitress On ‘arkse’ and I’m also guessing from the north hence the user name(Betty’s is in York, Harrogate etc). VERY naice cakes.

PurpleSproutingSomething · 16/08/2023 23:55

Alot
Abit
Afew

Nope. There's a space between a and the next word.

10HailMarys · 16/08/2023 23:57

People who say ‘staycation’ to describe a holiday in the UK. Unless you stayed at your own home, it’s not a fucking staycation, it’s just a normal holiday

Performatively large water bottles on desks

Special offer labels on books that leave a sticky residue when peeled off

Menus that consist of ‘small plates’ and also claim to be ‘ideal for sharing’. If they’re small they’re not ideal for fucking sharing, are they, if you share a small plate you get literally one bite of the thing you actually ordered

People who shout requests at gigs

The “You’ll never stop this flame” music that they play in every ad break during Premier League football on Sky

The use of gavels to illustrate news stories about British court cases, because BRITISH JUDGES DO NOT USE FUCKING GAVELS

Tweets that begin “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but…”

Outfield players who wear gloves to play football

Push taps

Posters for stand-up shows that depict the comic shrugging ruefully or scratching their head

Children who run at flocks of pigeons

Bucket hats

Red velvet cake. It’s a shit cake dyed red for no reason and you can literally taste the food colouring

The words ‘no nasties’ on organic food products or skincare

’Love locks’ attached to bridges

GellerYeller · 17/08/2023 00:01

News programmes playing their theme tune on a loop while someone reads the headlines AT LENGTH over the top. GMTV, I’m looking at you. It’s rage inducing, repetitive tuneless tosh and I can’t hear what the presenters are saying. Just stop it, FGS.

SkiingIsHeaven · 17/08/2023 00:02

Chumpfriend · 16/08/2023 22:30

My bastard car. Thinks it can drive better than me and beeps fucking constantly. Even BRAKES (has it in red on the display) when it thinks I am too close to the hedge. See also; the screaming alerts it gives me when I approach a parked car slightly too fast.

Tesla by any chance?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/08/2023 00:06

Utereusbegone · 16/08/2023 23:02

Oh and to add insult to injury, you see that on a packet or advert and you just know it is going to be considerably more shit than it used to be

And probably a) smaller than it was before and b) more expensive.

swimlyn · 17/08/2023 00:08

People who post on a public forum who are 100% convinced that what they contribute is the ‘be all and end all’ to the discussion.

No more contributions needed, they have told the world what they needed to know.

I contribute, and it’s fine, feel free, do ignore me.

I’m not at all bothered if you subsequently blow your car engine up, or die from excess heat in a hot tub/sex pond, etc, etc.

ADHDGURL · 17/08/2023 00:09

Middle lane drivers
Gives me the rage every day
Learn to drive you fuckwits

AnneAnon · 17/08/2023 00:10

Dog shit on the pavements. Even the little patch that’s left behind in the unlikely event that the owner has bothered their arse to pick up the substantive shite.

Why is it ok for dogs to shit on pavements at all?! Why don’t we have higher standards?! It’s fucking disgusting.

MidnightMeltdown · 17/08/2023 00:11

Websites that require you to have overly complex passwords. Especially ones that require more than 7 characters and a 'special' character

Websites that will email you a passcode before allowing you to log in (even when you have correctly remembered your password)

People on eBay who message you asking for a discount. If I wanted offers then I would add the fucking 'best offer' option. Piss off and stop wasting my time.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/08/2023 00:11

Insomnia. Why? why? I'm tired, I want to sleep, I almost had a nap mid afternoon but I didn't so I could sleep tonight. Except I can't.

paladina · 17/08/2023 00:14

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/08/2023 00:11

Insomnia. Why? why? I'm tired, I want to sleep, I almost had a nap mid afternoon but I didn't so I could sleep tonight. Except I can't.

Solidarity! I have to get up in 4 hours and 47 minutes. Grrrrr

SkiingIsHeaven · 17/08/2023 00:22

For me it's clothes sizes. They should be standard so a 12 is a 12 in all shops. Sometimes a 12 is a 10 in another shop etc. I've ever had an XL which was probably a 10. It should be standard. It drives me crazy.

MadCattery · 17/08/2023 00:23

Red velvet cake pisses me off. It was originally made with cocoa and buttermilk, which caused a chemical reaction that made it reddish. Agree with 10HailMarys that they take a shit cake and add red food dye. Bleah.

People who mean LOSE and write LOOSE. You can’t LOOSE weight people. I despair over this.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 17/08/2023 00:23

paladina · 17/08/2023 00:14

Solidarity! I have to get up in 4 hours and 47 minutes. Grrrrr

I feel for you. Luckily I'm not working (semi-retired) but I'm fed up of this. Normally I'm a head hits the pillow and out like a light type, but increasingly the last few months I've been having this. I think I need to go to bed earlier (or at least at the same time every night) - because I'm not getting up for work my bedtimes are all over the place.

Gh12345 · 17/08/2023 00:24

For some reason my husband can’t close the cutlery drawer fully. He closes it like 80% and this drives me nuts. Also hubby asking where anything is without looking first.

momtoboys · 17/08/2023 00:25

People who chew gum.

DyslexicPoster · 17/08/2023 00:28

Dh and ds not pegging the washing out correctly. I fold and streach my washing as it comes out of the machine so it doesn't need ironing. Ds folds it in half on the line. Dh is a lot better but I then bring it in on hangers to keep it crease free. Dhfolds it badly and the abandons it to crease back up. Gives me the rage. But not enough rage to iron anything....

CallieQ · 17/08/2023 00:34

Drivers who don't wave when I stop to let them through

CallieQ · 17/08/2023 00:35

AnneAnon · 17/08/2023 00:10

Dog shit on the pavements. Even the little patch that’s left behind in the unlikely event that the owner has bothered their arse to pick up the substantive shite.

Why is it ok for dogs to shit on pavements at all?! Why don’t we have higher standards?! It’s fucking disgusting.

🙄

QueenFlamingo · 17/08/2023 00:37

When DP opens something like milk for example when there's already one open. Just use that one up first fgs

Isittimeformynapyet · 17/08/2023 00:37

Hawkins009 · 16/08/2023 23:04

On that one I disagree, it could be a new eg kettle and improved design based on the previous model that it was based off.

People saying based "off" when it should be based "on".

Hawkins009 · 17/08/2023 00:46

Isittimeformynapyet · 17/08/2023 00:37

People saying based "off" when it should be based "on".

Fair points, my error

MidnightMeltdown · 17/08/2023 00:47

People who pronounce the letter H as 'haych'

Someone fairly senior at work did this recently and instantly lost all credibility. If they were Irish then they might have been forgiven, but they weren't.

Even more annoying are people who say 'says' as if it rhymes with lays

MidnightMeltdown · 17/08/2023 01:01

That is purely regional. Are you from the north?

@Flossflower LOL! Arkse isn't regional. Which region of the country says arkse?? 😂