Silly things that give you the rage

[Ontobetterthings]

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 🤣

Of course, I am forgetting to mention the difference between:

drawer - the thing you keep socks in - ”dror” - one syllable,

drawer - a person who draws - “draw-er” - two syllables (however, I admit this may be an inherently Scottish accent thing).

I've just pulled my Oxford English dictionary off the shelf and it does have "myriad" listed as both a noun and an adjective. Further investigation shows it has been in use as an adjective since the 17th century.

So I concede!

People who use unnecessary capital letters eg "at School", "my Mum/Dad/Sister", "in Summer". Unfortunately my brother was in charge of my dad's headstone & notice of his death in the newspaper. So many unnecessary capital letters!

Even worse on a Mac! As much as I love my Macs in most ways, because Mac users are assumed to not be very tech savvy some Mac error messages don't bother specifying the error but simply say 'An error has occurred'. The number of times I've wished the OK button said 'It's really not OK' (or something considerably ruder)!

Come to think of it, I haven't seen the message in a while, so maybe the developers have caught on to the fact that we're not all tech numpties. (Tbf, I am 😄but it must annoy non-numpties even more!)

Oh and according to the internet (or AI, or whatever), draw and drawer are not, in fact, homophones…

Places and names should always be capitalised.

Days of the week, months of the year and events should be too, so you could argue that season also fall into this category.

Another example of Scottish rather than wrong, so definitely fits the thread brief of silly.

People who shout "baddie down!" when finding a cache of desirable items at the charity/thrift shop.

What?

When people say “she’s ADHD” or “he’s ASD.” No, she has ADHD or he has ASD.

When people use “vagina” to refer to what’s actually the vulva, and then do things like talking about “shaving my vagina.”

People that sit in the lane 2 of a motorway doing 65mph when lane 1 is clear.
People that drive at 40 mph in a national speed limit area.
People that pull out on you, then drive slow.

People need to learn to drive

When people say brought, instead of bought.

Bad or no manners.

I know a lot of people can't help it but pronouncing "th" as "f" gives me the rage, especially professional people who are providing a service. We went to a few workshops over the past weekend & I heard several of the staff saying things like "I fink", "fank you", "nuffing" etc. It seems to be getting really common these days, much to my annoyance

Names yes, but not when it's preceeded by my/your etc. Then it's not a name it's a noun eg my mum. Seasons don't generally need capitalisation except for things like "Summer Fayre" as it's the name of the fayre

Katy Perry... enough said!

Oh gosh yes, that irritates me. My dear old dad had a habit of going "mmmmmm?", going high at the end like a question. I went through a phase of pretending i didnt hear it until he said pardon! My dd's boyfriend goes "huh"? too and it seems to be after just about everything I say to him!

How about Maccie-D's?? 😊

How funny i mentioned Maccy D’s on another post only to be told by other users that they’d never heard of this…

Bloody everything at the moment 😡

I hate it when people write “SMH” at the end of posts (not so much here as other places).

Partly because I am firmly middle aged and for ages thought that a load of young people were saying “Smerrrr” / “Smurrr” at people they disagreed with for some unknown reason.

Now that I know what it means, I hate it even more. Shaking your head at someone while they are speaking (it doesn’t matter if you disagree) is unacceptable in polite society.

My absolute pet hate is the trend for people to ask themselves questions whilst they are talking ie "would I have preferred to be alone? Yes I would". Rather than " I would have preferred to be alone". It drives me up the bloody wall. Why do people do it?

Walk right, pass left.

You would think it's quantum physics the way people block the way on the stairs and escalators for the trains.

In my fever dreams, someone with a large metal suitcase is charging the stairs sending those standing on the left flying around like bowling pins after a strike.

Work related but the amount of companies, tech ones being the worst offenders, who use “solutions” instead of describing their products/services.
“We deliver work-based solutions blah blah blah…” It’s wanky and/or lazy. What is that solution you speak off? Software? Advice? Food? For the love of all that is holy, please just use simple English!

Some of us can’t walk round a supermarket without leaning on the trolley. I’m so sorry my disability is so offensive to you….

Oh and the other thing that gives me the rage is people who issue statements instead of asking a question. For example: “the kitchen needs tidying”. So what? Are you wanting me to tidy it? Then just bloody ask!
I correct my kids about this all the time. Child: “I’m thirsty”. Me: “I did not hear a question”. Child: “Please can I have a drink?” Me: “Of course darling child.” Would be even better if they got their own drink but we’re at that in between stage where sometimes they can’t quite do it themselves.
This makes me so irrationally angry that I am so so close to using the same technique with colleagues…