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Silly things that give you the rage

634 replies

Ontobetterthings · 21/06/2025 18:53

Maybe its cos I'm peri but we were out for a meal and someone was eating chicken wings and being very meticulous about using a knife and fork to eat them and very slowly. It was holding up the next course for everyone.

Do you have any examples of getting the rage over something silly 🤣

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FastMauveQuoter · 22/06/2025 15:30

Also, people who say they have a bit of a migraine, if you had one you'd know about it!

goingroundthebendatthisrate · 22/06/2025 15:32

declutteringonedayatatime · 22/06/2025 15:16

I agree and I have said the same thing to others!

Being the diarrhoea man in an advert must give him the rage 😂

Well quite. He isn't exactly the Shake & Vac woman. Nor is the product on a par.

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 22/06/2025 19:19

Modernfamily2011 · 21/06/2025 23:10

People who don’t know the difference between ‘His’ and ‘He’s’ - I see it all the time… they are 2 completely different words
People who start putting their shopping on the conveyor belt before i’ve finished putting mine on give me the rage!

That nobody else on planet Earth realises that

"Bought" = buy
and
"BRought" = bring

AND THAT THEY ARE NOT FUCKING INTERCHANGABLE 😖😖

EVERY SINGLE THREAD ON HERE -

"I brought myself a new coat"
I bought in my shopping from the car"

ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHH!

Redpeach · 22/06/2025 19:21

Threads like this

fruitflavouredmilk · 22/06/2025 19:25

Taking care of the ”mental load” at home. And making a long list of it all, which takes longer than actually doing the things on the list.

Katemax82 · 22/06/2025 19:28

MycatLarry · 21/06/2025 23:34

People who say "Huh?" Instead of "what? Or "pardon? " They sound so gormless.

Ooh @SquashedSquid you're asking for trouble with that one 🫣

My stepsons say "AYE?"

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 22/06/2025 19:33

MeyerBennett · 21/06/2025 22:11

I'd kill her. I'm in a new job so I can't tell the loud sneezers to fuck off

Edited

It’s so unnecessary, and she could definitely stop it if she wanted to.

She wouldn’t sneeze that loudly at a funeral, would she??
So, she can tone it down everywhere else, damn it.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 22/06/2025 19:36

YourFairCyanReader · 22/06/2025 14:28

I was sat/I was stood instead of Sitting/Standing.

People pushing the bin right up to the wall so that when you press the pedal, the lid bangs the wall and damages the paintwork. That floor space is for the bin, it's fine for it to stand off the wall a bit.

'Hybred' car

'I did it off my own back': no, off your own BAT. It's a cricket analogy, scoring runs yourself rather than just racking them up because your batting partner is hitting them.

'Ibrufen' tablets

Licking fingers

People parking cars at garages with the driver door front level with the pump. You are now going to have to stretch all the way back to your fuel tank. Even more criminal on a small forecourt as you block the space behind. Drive up to your fuel tank being level with the pump!

People saying 'girls' when they mean women. Especially used for women working in an office, for some reason.

My mil says ‘ibrufen’.

But, i believe they were a brand name many moons ago, and it’s just stuck.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 22/06/2025 19:37

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 22/06/2025 14:09

People who don’t understand how filter/zipper lanes work.

Posters on Mumsnet who are unnecessarily rude, and take overt offence to just about everything.

People who call an ambulance for non emergent ailments/injuries, because “if you go in by ambulance you’ll be seen quicker” - no you fucking won’t! If there’s not much wrong with you, you’ll wait just as long as anyone else in the same triage category as you, no matter how you/they came in, or be sent to the waiting room (and if you can wait, be thankful, it generally means you’re not dying!)

The fact that Mumsnet does now not capitalise your sentence when you return onto a new line of text.

People who say they are “a bit OCD” (if they, for example, bleach their toilet every day), or “that gave me PTSD” (after something happened that left them shaken up).

Hmm, maybe I’m just in a bit of a ranting mood today. 🥴

That’s it…let it all out.

Nice deep breaths…

Feel better? 😉

Flicitytricity · 22/06/2025 19:43

Sniggering, because I agree with most of these posts, and I thought I was dead easy going🤣

However, I DO say MACDonalds ( it's the accent) and my Mam definitely took Ibrufen.

I'm terrible for doing the passive aggressive 'you're welcome' when people just float through the door I'm holding open for them, making me feel like a bloody footman🤣

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 22/06/2025 19:55

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 22/06/2025 19:36

My mil says ‘ibrufen’.

But, i believe they were a brand name many moons ago, and it’s just stuck.

No. Isobutylphenylpropionic acid (Ibuprofen for short) is an NSAID of which Brufen, Nurofen etc are trade names.

Ibrufen is a bastardisation.

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 22/06/2025 19:57

People who say apse when they mean abscess. It's a Westcountry thing.

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 20:03

Jambolass · 21/06/2025 21:14

People eating with their mouth open
People talking with a mouth full of food
Spitting
People saying draw instead of drawer
People who litter

I'm stopping at 5 otherwise I could be here all night 😂

Ok I’m confused. What’s the difference between how your say “draw” and “drawer”…?!?!?!

Jambolass · 22/06/2025 20:06

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 20:03

Ok I’m confused. What’s the difference between how your say “draw” and “drawer”…?!?!?!

The "er" at then end... 😂

PersephoneSmith · 22/06/2025 20:13

Zov · 22/06/2025 12:22

I really really hate this too. 😆 And yes, I have never heard ANYone say it in real life either!

My boss said this to me not long ago. I’m like really? Peri? You’re 55, are you sure you don’t mean ‘post-menopausal’?

Realismindeed · 22/06/2025 20:17

Alwaysoneoddsock · 21/06/2025 20:58

Smaller cars that are parked right into a space. So you think there’s a space and there isn’t.

i know I’m petty 🤣

Edited

I think it's called cat fished by a fiat 🤣🤣🤣

scoobysnaxx · 22/06/2025 20:20

I’ve said it before 100 times and I’ll say it 100 times more.

Opening up the wrong end of a box of tablets and getting the annoying leaflet in the way.

Makes me absolute RAGE!

pontivex · 22/06/2025 20:58

People who eat in restaurants with their massive outdoor coats on. Extra points if it’s made of a scratchy material that makes a noise with every move

pontivex · 22/06/2025 21:02

Jerrypicker · 22/06/2025 13:19

When women wear those long sleeved, baggy tops they pull over their hands and you can only see their long, manicured fingernails. And they are holding on to those sleeves with their fingers so it’s not like the sleeves just randomly hang over the hands, they actually hide their hands on purpose. Is it like a security blanket thing or something? I don’t actually notice this on normal, natural, short nails, but the stupid, manicured, long witch-like nails peeping out just irritates me for some reason.

It’s called a ‘vulnerable sleeve’.

LuxuryWoman2020 · 22/06/2025 21:24

scoobysnaxx · 22/06/2025 20:20

I’ve said it before 100 times and I’ll say it 100 times more.

Opening up the wrong end of a box of tablets and getting the annoying leaflet in the way.

Makes me absolute RAGE!

The end which is plain whie and doesn't have the logo /box colour branding is the end with the instructions. Open the box end which continues the branding.

It drove me bonkers too!

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 21:49

Jambolass · 22/06/2025 20:06

The "er" at then end... 😂

You are joking right…?! You don’t pronounce the “er” when you say it! It is one syllable, not two. Are you saying this ironically to wind people up as pronouncing “drawer” with two syllables would most definitely give me the rage!

ZeldaFighter · 22/06/2025 21:56

When you're in a group, chatting, and then one person just starts looking at their phone. RUDE!!! I wouldn't get my book out even though you are the most boring people ever!!!

Bluevelvetsofa · 22/06/2025 21:59

In my world ‘drawer’ has two syllables, ‘draw’ has one.

Affect and effect. You are affected by something. Something has an effect on you.
Step foot. No, it’s set foot.

The Andrex and deodorant adverts. I have no desire to see crotches and arses in close up.

SquashedSquid · 22/06/2025 22:01

Jambolass · 22/06/2025 20:06

The "er" at then end... 😂

Which isn't pronounced, when said correctly.

UnctuousUnicorns · 22/06/2025 22:05

GoodOldTrayBake · 22/06/2025 21:49

You are joking right…?! You don’t pronounce the “er” when you say it! It is one syllable, not two. Are you saying this ironically to wind people up as pronouncing “drawer” with two syllables would most definitely give me the rage!

In some accents the "er" is pronounced. Similarly, DH and I have an ongoing game of "How many monosyllabic band names (discounting any with 'The' in front) can you think of?" Today DH suggested Wire. I pointed out that in some regions that would be two syllables, or at least one and a half. Pedantic, moi?

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