What irritates you about other people?

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I get really irritated when someone won’t accept “I don’t know” as my answer. Something along the lines of:

”Sarah is having a baby! Do you know when it’s due?”
”No, I didn’t know she was pregnant”
”Her oldest is four and she didn’t want a big age gap so it’s probably soon” <Looks at me expectantly>
”I didn’t know she was pregnant so no idea I’m afraid”
”But when do you think it would be?” <Looks at me expectantly>
”Still no idea. Between now and six months?!?”

Or

”I need to hire a nanny. How do you recruit a nanny?”
”I don’t have a nanny so couldn’t say. Have you talked to Sarah, she will probably know?”
”I should probably talk to a nanny agency, which one should I call?”
”I’ve never hired a nanny through an agency so no idea I’m afraid”
”But you must have some idea!”

It has to be okay to sometimes just say “I dunno”.

WandaWonder · Today 01:35

People who have to turn everything into an episode of EastEnders

Ah. You've met my sister in law.

People who say "Am I the only one who [insert platitude such as "loves chocolate" "likes sunny weather" "hates mondays". No obviously not.

People who put their bag on the seat next to them on a busy bus or train. It's totally ok to do that when there are a lot of free pairs of seats but as soon as only single seats remain free, it's just rude.

And then people who look at some modern artworks and say "my 5yo nephew could do this".

People with very small minds or close horizons, who can only relate to anything in terms of their own experience. It happens a lot on here - someone posts an OP about a big or medium-sized issue and, within the hour, the thread's dominated by a handful of people banging on about how it doesn't affect them or isn't like that for them. Or they'd never go to London because they've heard it's busy 😕

My pet hate for this on here is when someone uses a regional expression and, when someone asks what it means, they mention that “It’s a Yorkshire / West Midlands / South West expression”. You just know it will only take a couple of posts before someone chips in with, “Well, I’m from Yorkshire / the West Midlands / the South West and I have NEVER heard that expression”.

Erm… could it be because those areas are fucking huge?! Yorkshire covers four counties and is home to some of the country’s biggest cities - it’s not just the villages from Heartbeat and Last of the Summer Wine and a few fields! The West Midlands is the most populous region of the UK outside of London - accents can vary significantly from one city/town to the next. It’s so bloody arrogant to assume you’ll have heard of every expression or cultural phenomenon in these places.

My real life example is a friend I had years ago who was a care worker, therefore used to working unsociable hours. Every week without fail she’d ask me if I was working that weekend. When I’d say no, I never work weekends she’d be stunned, saying “Not at all? Not ALL weekend?!” I get this wasn’t her experience, but surely she’d at least heard of 9 - 5?

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Everything on this thread, but will add people who think businesses can do what they want, because they are businesses. I have no idea where such deference comes from and it comes up again and again on here.

Why are mouth breathers so irritating? I can't breathe through my nose!

Well, I can, but I have to really think about it, like now. My nose tubes are a bit squiffy I think

People approaching me (as a freelancer)in a business capacity describing themselves as ‘young start-up company based in (insert trendy London place)’ or ‘dynamic new brand with a focus on ethical something or blah blah’.
This little intro is always the biggest indicator that they’d gonna waste the fuck out my time, expect freebies, have no decision making capacity in the ‘company‘ , and procrastinate until the last second so that I have to bust my ass on the day before the project is due . At that point they’ll have forgotten their whole ethos, they won’t care if the components are from shipped by private jet from a sweatshop in China, they just want it out of their hair , and fast.

Payment, alas, has no such urgency.

Or they'd never go to London because they've heard it's busy

Yes, this irritates me. I understand that not everyone likes London and I promise not to force anyone to live in Kilburn / Kensington / any other part of London. But it's amazing that so many people think it is all right to tell people who live in London what a terrible place it is. They'd be furious if someone slagged off where they live.

People who, on hearing that someone has a problem, recommend that they call or text me about it. I am extremely unlikely to be able to help with their very niche problem.

People overweight middle-class women who insist on riding their fat ponies down the high street, while it shits everywhere and holds up school run traffic. Selfish, ignorant, twats.

You want to try coming from Croydon

People (DP) who think me reading a book is a sign I want to have a conversation. Fuck offffff DP.

People who email me a question at work. I reply to the question, they follow it up with a quibble. I respond to the quibble. They reply with a further quibble. Eventually I stop responding as I have already answered the question. They get annoyed and tell colleagues "Crypto never got back to me".

People who stand too close behind me in a queue. I step forward to make a gap. THEY step forward so they can resume breathing on the back of my head. URRGH.

People who phone me just to waffle at me, do I look like a captive audience? People who don't understand the phrase "I must go now as I am about to go into a meeting" and think I have time to listen to a few more sentences...

People in open plan offices who think everyone wants to hear their bullshit conversation.
A colleague annoys me so much I get the ick over him now. He butts in to every conversation, if someone asks a person a question he answers, he talks down to you. He waffles on to make himself sound intelligent. If you talk about something or someone he's never heard of he says something derogatory like I have better things to be interested in. He thinks he's the only person who's ever had a kid/ paid for childcare.
Sorry needed to get that off my chest 🤣🤣

People who don't drive long distances or on motorways and ask for lifts. People who don't indicate.

You are more polite than I am. I have had people try that with me and I just say 'I'm reading, please leave me in peace'. I am a very direct person, though.

Dry begging , for gods sake just ask for what you want and stop hinting at it.

How very dare you.

I know right! It's like I do things like walk slowly on purpose

My partner does this too! I don’t get enough facts

Me - I ran into Sue. Her sons moving to Brisbane
DP - Oh which suburb?
Me- I don’t know
DP - is he hoping to be working in the CBD?
Me - I don’t know
DP - Is he going to buy somewhere up there or just rent for a bit?
Me - I DONT KNOW!!!!

Also, people who tell me things in excruciating detail “We went for lunch at that new cafe. The man that runs it is really nice. I think it’s his wife who was behind the counter. Looks younger than him though. She had this really nice top on. Anyone Simon ordered the fish and it came with this salad. I think they make their own dressing. Laura had steak but it was a bit underdone….”,

im an introvert, socially inept and have the attention span of a gnat clearly

You are my type of person!

People who tell you a story and take the long way round to get to the point
Just ' get to the point '

People who think antibiotics will cure their cold.

People who think phobias are curable or a mindset.

People who loudly manage their team in an office.

Managers who can't and won't do the job they're asking other people to do so got promoted to dodge it.

People who are tight with money when it comes to their own kids, not sometimes but all the time.

People who use words like 'status', 'material', 'designer', 'overrated' bla bla bla to describe something nice and pricey someone has bought like reverse snobbery when stating they don't want / need such items.

People judging others on their profession, I.e my stunning GP friend who is so fun and breezy people wonder how she's both unbelievably intelligent and successful and also gorgeous and fun and always seek something in her that isn't right.

People who don't get ahold of their poor dogs when walking them and let them get close to the road and passing traffic.

People who expect you to house sit and look after their lives when they're on holiday anything more than five days.

I work with one of these…. And he sounds like a really wet parent. He makes himself sound ever so involved in one breath, in the next breath he will scoff and say “o my wife does that” fml

Thought of another one and I know it's unreasonable but I cannot stand people who indulge in childish shit like Marvel, Disney etc. Always a certain type of adult

Omg my main one is people who cancel on beauticians!!!!! I've never been one or worked in any beauty setting but I'd NEVER cancel an appointment unless I really had to, its someone's livelihood and its soo fucking rude when people don't turn up or bother to even cancel of just think 'nah fuck it can't be bothered to go anymore'.