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 🤣

People who write Fayre instead of Fair.

Just, no. No one I've ever met says, "Draw-er".

*pretty chillED

Then you need to meet more people.

I pronounce them exactly the same, but plenty of people don't.

Oh, I've met plenty of people. I suppose I generally associate with other academics, professionals, teachers and linguists, so perhaps people saying them incorrectly haven't entered my circle.

Presumably you haven't met any Scottish academics, professionals, teachers or linguists...

Quite the opposite. I'm married to a Scot ☺️ He says them the same. He's had to stop saying, "I stay in.." instead of, "I live in...", though. Oh, and, "Just now" instead of now.

You knew he had Asperger’s when you married him! As a parent of a child with it, this was really hurtful to read. This is what my DC is up against 💔

People who say ‘undertake’ instead of ‘do’
Those who say ‘utilise’ instead of ‘use’
People who say ‘seek’ instead of ‘want’

I could go on but I won’t because it’s already getting boring. These ridiculous pieces of corporate language really get on my tits. It’s so unnecessary.

Why has he had to stop saying that?

Chill is perfectly acceptable in this context, unless you were looking to be an example of “silly things that give you the rage”

Now that really would be painful 😕!! Not that I've ever heard anyone say it

If I saw Fair I'd assume there were rides, Fayre means, to me anyway, cakes, drinks & tat for sale

Agreed, seasons are not capped.

And it is really hurtful to be on the receiving end of the behaviour. And no I didn't know before I married him. Furthermore you don't get to invalidate my experience just because your son has autism also.

Saying ‘erbs’ instead of ‘herbs’

People using the American word ‘season’ around TV programmes.
Here we used to have the use of two words:

1. series. More than episode, and each one was self-contained.
2. serial. More than one episode, storyline runs throughout. I hear ‘season’ all of the time now and it makes little sense. Also anyone who starts an answer with ‘for sure’ gives me the rage!

SMH doesn't mean you disagree, it means you're disappointed/let down, used sarcastically or ironically

The cupboard my hoover lives in... full of fucking bags for life and they fall on me when I try to take the hoover out.
My DP eating Haribo in the car. Gross.
Sniffing. GET A TISSUE.

Fayre means pretentious Olde English vibes for what is just a fair.

when my in laws call the ‘prostate’ the ‘prostrate’ 😬 and three men in the family have issues so it’s always number 1 topic of conversation 🫣

Earlier today I wanted to e-slap - hard! - the person who wrote ‘Judy’ Dench, instead of ‘Judi’.

I feel similar rage when anyone writes ‘Kier’ Starmer.

‘Fayre’ really rouses my ire! It’s down in my big fat dictionary as a ‘pseudo-archaic spelling of ‘fair’.

But people use it to mean ‘fare’ as in food, too. There are often ‘Brewers’ Fayre’ restaurants attached to Premier Inns.

I've noticed this too. Drivers who slow right down when they see you're waiting to cross with no intention of stopping to actually let you cross,but bizarrely,if you DID to decide to cross because you could see that you had enough time due to them slowing down, suddenly speed up as if they want to run you down!

Maybe they have Hyacinth Bucket as a passenger:

"Richard, mind the pedestrian"!
"Where"?
"On the pavement".

To the poster several pages ago who gets frustrated with which way in a USB goes. In general the side with the squiggly "seam" faces down/away from you. This only applies to full-sized USBs not mini or micro, where it's anyone's guess.