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Little things people do that are irritating....

410 replies

TooTiredAndFedUp · 27/04/2024 22:48

Just for fun.

I'll begin...

Taking the toilet roll of the toilet roll holder and not putting it back on...why take it off to begin with.

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Brainded · 28/04/2024 07:48

When people try to talk through their yawns…drives me bloody demented. Just STOP talking! You sound like a twat!

HappiestSleeping · 28/04/2024 07:49

People who post in AIBU without having an AIBU 😉

BruceAndNosh · 28/04/2024 07:53

Doubtisthemaster · 28/04/2024 02:08

Stopping in a supermarket aisle with the trolley sideways blocking the entire way

You must shop in same Tesco as me!

FangsForTheMemory · 28/04/2024 07:53

anonymous98 · 28/04/2024 03:18

When kids are allowed to completely run riot around the supermarket/shopping centre. I was nearly knocked over on the escalator by a couple of little boys recently. Their dad didn't even apologise.

People who watch reality shows and then talk about them at length for ages. Sorry I know I sound like a culture snob, but I've shared so many offices with people who only talk about e.g. Love Island and ahhrgh. Please watch something else.

When people do the "we must meet up" dance when both of you know you're never meeting up. Annoying and very UK-specific.

When people turn the heating up to 1000 degrees.

People who tell interminable stories that go on forever and you have to feign interest. I love my mother but she does this.

Drunk people screaming/singing outside your window at 3am. Bonus points if it's Mr Brightside.

As a single person, everything couples do is vaguely irritating.

(I may be a miserable git.)

People who think you’re a snob because you don’t watch reality shows or soaps. I don’t watch either because you need to watch every episode and it really eats up your spare time. That’s it.

Barney16 · 28/04/2024 07:56

Not putting cans of diet coke in the fridge after taking the last one out of the fridge. Putting plates by the sink rather than fucking washing up. "Tidying." Which, frankly, means straightening the crap rather than putting it away. Saying " oh, you should have told be to do that" Why, you're 50 years old and I'm not your mum. "Oh there's a really good rugby match on". I could go on and on and on. But I'm too busy washing up 😕

SinnerBoy · 28/04/2024 07:56

JudgeJ · Today 00:51

In that situation I once drove round then reversed up to the front pump, the dawdlng driver was furious because he now has to wait for me as a large van was on the opposite pump stopping him getting by me. I took my time a bit.

Excellent work!

muddyford · 28/04/2024 07:56

DH never shuts drawers properly.
People stopping for a chat in doorways.
People driving on the main road, who stop to let someone out regardless of twenty cars behind them. That's it, pat yourself in the back for helping one person but inconveniencing forty.
Cyclists all in black.
Bloke who feeds the gulls on his wall so they crap all over the adjoining pavement.
Bloke who stops and watches his dog crap a hundred yards away then pretends he's looking for the pile. Every.Single.Morning. I'm too far away to say anything.
People who smoke/vape in our local pub's doorway.

TigerRag · 28/04/2024 07:56

When you're trying to get off the train and someone tries to get on / is blocking the exit

People on FB groups who have to reply to everything even to tell you they don't know the answer

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 28/04/2024 08:02

Having loud conversations on their phones on public transport. OR not talking but having the other person’s activities on loud speaker, I listened to someone washing up last week. No words, just washing fucking dishes.

The shittest, most crappy horrendous music on loud speaker on public transport.

people who leave their crap and rubbish on trains.

People who put their hold luggage sideways in the overhead bin on a flight so other people have to rearrange it so another 2 people can get their bags up there.

Arseholes that drop litter or throw it out of cars.

People that spit.

People who do not pick up their dog shit.

People who’s dogs are “just being friendly “ as it jumps up all over me or my child when out.

People who insist that their dogs would cure my terror of dogs.

People who don’t put the divider on the supermarket belt after their shopping.

People who put their shopping trolley diagonally across the isle so no other fucker can get past.

People who are late.

People who talk about themselves and no fuck all about who they are talking to because they haven’t bothered to ask or show interest.

People who park over 2 spaces.

People parking on a narrow pavement meaning prams/elderly/wheelchair have to go down the curb and onto the road to pass.

People who park badly so you can’t get out of your car.

People who are flabagasted that they need to pay at the till then spend the next few minutes searching their bags and pockets looking for a purse or bank card. No attempt to do so while standing in the queue…WAITING TO FUCKING PAY.

In other words, any one who is selfish, self absorbed, the only person in this world that matters…to themselves.

Ban them, ban them all.

theywenttoseainasievetheydid · 28/04/2024 08:02

Scraping knife on fork presumably to get the tiniest scrap of whatever they are eating.I have a friend who does this for every forkfull.
licking yoghurt pot lids especially in a workplace environment
doing that slurping noise to indicate something they, or someone else, are eating something delicious

Coastalcreeksider · 28/04/2024 08:03

Whole families who do the shopping. Mum picking items up, dad and two kids, usually miserable looking teenagers slouching behind her. Why do you all need to take up room in the aisle? 😡

muddyford · 28/04/2024 08:03

Bogeyes · 28/04/2024 07:12

And they tell you about something they "BROUGHT" from a shop instead of BOUGHT

And 'loose' instead of 'lose'. And we keep getting told about how wonderfully educated people are these days.

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 28/04/2024 08:05

Also “know” fuck all. I was tying fever enthusiastically and misspelled!

onedayiwillbecontent · 28/04/2024 08:06

People who are lost in their own world with no awareness of others around them, for example, blocking supermarket aisles when you want to walk past, walking across car parks when there is a car (me) behind them and they don’t notice! Standing still in a shop doorway when you want to enter/leave, people sitting in their car blocking my driveway and when I start to reverse, they don’t take the hint that they need to move even when I beep them 🤦‍♀️

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 28/04/2024 08:06

Typing!! Enthusiastically… no idea what’s going on!

greengreyblue · 28/04/2024 08:06

Drivers not using indicators.
Drivers undertaking in motorways.
Teaching assistants that are too loud in lessons.
Performance parenting in public places.
Yes to pp who mentioned whole family food shops. Surely one parent can stay home with the kids? Heard one mum yesterday repeatedly ask each child what they wanted her to buy!!! Rule no 1!

Ourshoddyhouse · 28/04/2024 08:10

People it using Facebook groups like Google;
"What's the phone number for the doctor?"

You clearly have access to the internet, just use Google. Although Google wouldn't reply with "U ok Hun?".

SinnerBoy · 28/04/2024 08:13

greengreyblue · Today 08:06

Drivers not using indicators.

And as bad, or worse, indicating incorrectly. And idiots who go round roundabouts in the left lane, when they want the fifth exit.

TotteringonGently · 28/04/2024 08:13

People who say 'yourself' and 'myself' when they mean me or you.
It doesn't make your sound more professional or clever, it makes you sound thick, stop it.

'So the initial phone with yourself would be with my manager...' AAARGH!

NoNameNoOne · 28/04/2024 08:14

hourstokill · 27/04/2024 22:55

hubby puts his dirty crockery on the kitchen worktop... above the dishwasher.. wouldn't take 2 secons to place it IN the dishwasher.

never closes a drawer fully and leaves kitchen cupboard doors open

Is he leading a double life with both of us? 🤣

greengreyblue · 28/04/2024 08:18

@toomanyy the bad grammar was a joke! 😂😂

StuntNun · 28/04/2024 08:19

People that knock twice on my desk at work as they walk past it. It always makes me jump but I don't think they even realise they're doing it.

toomanyy · 28/04/2024 08:20

greengreyblue · 28/04/2024 08:18

@toomanyy the bad grammar was a joke! 😂😂

I thought that but I think she genuinely had bad grammar too.

WildBear · 28/04/2024 08:21

WOMANDOWNN · 28/04/2024 06:51

My dad does this horrible sniffing thing constantly.

My Dad doesn't cover his mouth when he does a small sort of deliberate cough to clear his throat. Apparently as it's not a proper cough, you don't need to? 🤷‍♂️

He also picks his teeth with his fingers after dinner while at the table 🤢

He's also a complete twat 😂

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 28/04/2024 08:21

TotteringonGently · 28/04/2024 08:13

People who say 'yourself' and 'myself' when they mean me or you.
It doesn't make your sound more professional or clever, it makes you sound thick, stop it.

'So the initial phone with yourself would be with my manager...' AAARGH!

Oh my goodness, yes! I absolutely detest this horrible habit, I used to work with a terrible culprit, but thankfully herself has now moved on.

Not to mention the neologism "needs gone" on marketplace-type listings. That really makes me internally shudder.