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What annoys you?

199 replies

YesIknowIcare · 23/02/2024 18:59

What annoys you in everyday life.

Selfish drivers parking their car halfway up the sidewalk - forcing prams/wheelchairs out to road.
Tomatoes.
Smokers.

OP posts:
planAplanB · 12/08/2024 22:41

Eating noises.
Sneezing noises
Children on screens in social situations.
Babies on screens in their buggies.
Old women standing too close behind me when queuing.
Men.
Drivers who don't indicate.
Cyclists.
People who stand too long with their fridge open.
Cars parked a metre away from the end of the row of parking so if they'd have moved back, another car could have got in
Dog shit everywhere.
Having to step over trails of dog piss.
People who try to quietly squeeze round instead of just saying excuse me.
Women with long hair now flick it around all the time.
Teenagers with stupid black massive fake eyelashes.
People who stop in a doorway or exit a building a stop in the way.
People pushing suitcase in the way.
Loud phone calls.
Husband leaving cupboard doors open.
When I offer to make someone a tea or similar, and the person says "only if you don't mind". If I minded then I wouldn't have offered.
People with their own pool or hot tub

planAplanB · 12/08/2024 22:45

People eating crisps at the theatre.
People taking a million photos at the theatre.
People checking or using their phone in the theatre.
People having a few bites and then saying they're full and would I like the rest.
Making a spelling error in a message.
Predictive text

planAplanB · 12/08/2024 22:52

When my husband announces he's going to bed and leaves me to shut and lock all the windows and back door.

SocksAndTheCity · 12/08/2024 22:53

Chopping peppers and still finding the seeds days later no matter how carefully I do it or how thoroughly I clean up.

Yolo12345 · 12/08/2024 22:57

Brexit- affects me everyday sadly

TigerRag · 13/08/2024 07:19

That high pitched screaming kids do

Catlover1705 · 13/08/2024 07:26

People taking up two car parking spaces.
Sob stories on TV to get sympathy.
The government.
Constant rain.

Holidayhell22 · 13/08/2024 07:26

Small people like the woman at work who actually believes she is cute and incredibly young looking and nobody can believe she has teenage children. Well yes I can. You do look your age it’s just that you are fat and so your wrinkles don’t show. You are not young looking and cute. You are no Simone Biles. She is amazing. You are not.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/08/2024 08:48

TigerRag · 13/08/2024 07:19

That high pitched screaming kids do

Yes ! Some of the sites I work in are right next to schools. They run about screaming, not laughing or shouting but a blood curdling scream like they’re being skinned. It’s a wonder they have vocal cords unshredded. Do the playground supervisors become immune to it ?

SillySeal · 13/08/2024 08:50

Bad drivers
People with no manners
Entitled people
My in laws and their complete lack of respect for privacy and boundaries- yes that's pretty much daily. As of this week I've gone LC for my sanity.

Quacking4it · 13/08/2024 08:52

🤔everything and everyone really!!

Bluevelvetsofa · 13/08/2024 08:55

Most things, but recently, liars who have cost me time, money and stress.

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 13/08/2024 08:59

The uncanny ability of every fly that gets into the house and then tries to get out to miss the wide open patio doorway and hit every other pane of glass 🙄

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/08/2024 09:16

NaiceMaker · 12/08/2024 12:36

People who pronounce th sounds as f and v sounds.

Yes it's petty and no, i'd never point it out to anyone as that would make me an enormous twat but I know someone who does it and seems to try to insert as many th words into her speech as possible.

e.g Did you hear the funder last night? It wasn't forecast and I wouldn't be bovvered normally but I jumped and yelped and DP who'd just been sat there twiddling his fumbs said what would you ravver? a bit of funder on a hot day to break the humidity or free days of rain like we'd been forecast? and I fought what i'd ravver is not being so scared I jumped and pulled a muscle in my figh but I didn't fink that would go down well so I fought better of it.

Accents again, I love them

Favourite has to be a proper Liverpool accent. (There’s a thread about Scouse accents and a lot of posters love it)

My DS has a very pronounced Essex accent , I sometimes ask him “ oh how are we spelling wa’er then? Or bu’er” but not to correct him. His accent is part of him. Just like to do a gentle wind up because I can
He calls me Muvver .
My DD doesn’t have such a pronounced accent but it’s there

Philandbill · 13/08/2024 09:19

When people write ect when they mean etc. The full word is etcetera, why do they mix up the first three letters?

autumnbake · 13/08/2024 10:03
  • People with no manners
  • Retired male cyclists in full sports gear at rush hour on bendy country roads.
  • People who don't stand up for themselves and get walked all over in every aspect of life, and then proceed to moan about it. (my parents)
  • When i'm standing still in a shop browsing (not a supermarket), and someone hovers really closely behind/next me expecting me to stand aside and let them past, instead of just saying 'excuse me'. I purposely stand there longer, and look at them weirdly. Is it so hard to say excuse me?
  • Nosey people
Makingchocolatecake · 13/08/2024 23:29

People not cleaning up after themselves in McDonalds, Ikea cafe etc or cinema

People parking as close to the entrance of the shop as possible, or using parent space with no child

People being annoyed that you leave their messages on 'read' for ages and people who apologise for taking a while to reply

MayonnaiseOnMyChips · 14/08/2024 00:58

Charlotte Crosby on Masterchef

OneTooFree · 14/08/2024 01:04

Everything and everyone.
I think that covers mine.

Ponoka7 · 14/08/2024 02:05

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 24/02/2024 23:23

Perfectly fit and able-bodied people standing still on escalators.

Escalators are for standing still on.

My inability to sleep between 12-2.30am. I've got to be up at 7.

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 14/08/2024 08:34

Escalators are for standing still on.

Tell that to all those people using the Tube. In any case you get to the other end quicker if you don't.

Teenagequeenwithaloadedgun · 14/08/2024 09:31

People who wave their arms in the air or stick their tongue out when they're having their photo taken because they think it makes it look like they're having more fun.

TigerRag · 14/08/2024 13:18

When you get on a train and people are stood by the doors in the way. Meanwhile there's plenty of empty seats

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 14/08/2024 23:26

People on those scooters, electric or pedal when they are adults . On the road they’re a danger. On the pavement they’re a menace.

Lincslady53 · 14/08/2024 23:45

As I have got older, now 70, I want as many years as possible healthy enough to go on holidays. Part of that. I have tried not to let things I can do nothing about bother me. We live in a house on s modern estate where the front gardens are small and open plan. Our patch of grass, and our neighbours get used by the local cat population as their personal toilets. One cheeky sod just stared straight at me whilst emptying it's bowels. I used to get really wound up. But have tried to roll with it. They have to go somewhere, si I bought a bag of poo bags, and just pick it up and put it in the bin at the end if the road. Do you know, it works. I am a lot calmer, less stressed, so am trying this in all aspects. Makes for a much more relaxed lifestyle. The kids next door play football constantly, when a ball comes over just lob it back. If they break one of the fence panels, they only cost £30, so why worry. Mind you, it is hard to keep calm when drivers in large vans park in the middle of the shop car park so no one can see round them. That is my next issue to accept.