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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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LittleLamzyDivey · 23/06/2025 17:46

I'm Canadian and wanted to write exactly what you wrote but you articulated it so much better than I could. Yes, the two words sound different in the Frozen North 😊

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 17:47

MasterBeth · 23/06/2025 16:35

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

Well not really, because these days a fair could be just rides. But if I saw a fayre advertised I'd assume it was like a fete

Andoutcomethewolves · 23/06/2025 18:03

Isittimeformynapyet · 23/06/2025 14:26

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

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Pretty sure Bristol isn't heaving with people from Scotland and 'Needs gone' is all over our FB marketplace.

It gives me the rage too. Particularly when the thing that needs gone is a 'chester draws' and it's accompanied with a shitty, dirty, falling apart chest of drawers covered in their kids' 'art'. Take your crap to the dump yourself mate 🤣

That's actually another one! People trying to get rid of their crap (and ask for money for it). So many completely unusable items with 'vintage' (ancient does not mean vintage!) 'need a good clean but plenty of life in them' (usually about battered, filthy, falling apart shoes) 'perfect upgrading project' (any piece of crappy old furniture).

Mumof681 · 23/06/2025 18:04

That bloody pepto- bismol advert! I absolutely fucking hate it! It makes me want to vomit and the bloody song gets stuck in my head!!! 😭

Shayisgreat · 23/06/2025 18:05

People in the gym changing room who completely take over the bench with their stuff and block access to the other lockers while they're putting their make up on or drying their hair. Then when I ask them to move stuff so I can access my locker they tut as if I've majorly inconvenienced them. It's so fucking unnecessary and selfish - put your stuff back into the locker until you're ready to take them away ffs.

yakkity · 23/06/2025 18:09

Simbaonedaythiswillallbeyours · 21/06/2025 21:10

Coat hangers that get tangled up

This made me laugh out loud

CarpetKnees · 23/06/2025 18:22

Drivers that don't raise a hand to thank you when you pull over to let them through

People on our local FB site for giving things away for free, saying 'For the needy, not the greedy' . No. If you want it out your house, just give it to someone who asks. Recipients aren't there to make you feel wholesome.

InMyOpenOnion · 23/06/2025 18:34

When shopping online, those bloody little boxes that pop up trying to panic you into buying by declaring "57 million people are also looking at this" or "10,000 people have added this to their basket today" or "quick, only 3 left in stock". Extra irritation points because the box usually obscures the very thing I'm trying to look at.

aintnospringchicken · 23/06/2025 18:58

InMyOpenOnion · 23/06/2025 18:34

When shopping online, those bloody little boxes that pop up trying to panic you into buying by declaring "57 million people are also looking at this" or "10,000 people have added this to their basket today" or "quick, only 3 left in stock". Extra irritation points because the box usually obscures the very thing I'm trying to look at.

Haha! I was just saying this to DH earlier on when I was trying to order something from Argos.
I don’t care how many other people have looked at said item in the previous 24hrs.

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 19:16

Shayisgreat · 23/06/2025 18:05

People in the gym changing room who completely take over the bench with their stuff and block access to the other lockers while they're putting their make up on or drying their hair. Then when I ask them to move stuff so I can access my locker they tut as if I've majorly inconvenienced them. It's so fucking unnecessary and selfish - put your stuff back into the locker until you're ready to take them away ffs.

People at my gym are the opposite, always apologising if you need to get to your locker & their little toe is 1cm infront of it 🤣. Apart from one instance in the Adults Only (clearly marked!) female changing room where I witnessed a woman breastfeeding her baby with a very large pram in front of her, pretty much blocking all of the lockers. Oblivious isn't the word...

ConnieHeart · 23/06/2025 19:17

InMyOpenOnion · 23/06/2025 18:34

When shopping online, those bloody little boxes that pop up trying to panic you into buying by declaring "57 million people are also looking at this" or "10,000 people have added this to their basket today" or "quick, only 3 left in stock". Extra irritation points because the box usually obscures the very thing I'm trying to look at.

I actually find it quite comforting if I see others are apparently looking/buying the item I want, as if I can reassure myself that I do have good taste after all 🤣

Tartankilt07 · 23/06/2025 19:46

When I try to get a necklace out of my jewellery box and find it is majorly tangled up with at least one other necklace chain into an infuriating series of complex knots 🤬Just how?

Ontobetterthings · 23/06/2025 19:58

comeandhaveteawithme · 23/06/2025 13:45

The general dumbing down of society, the way people just don't listen or read or try to figure anything out for themselves, ever.

Historical fiction that presents itself as fact, especially if it unnecessarily changes the story to fit a narrative - it's unnecessary as the truth is usually juicy enough, and these were real people who can't defend themselves, and it's disrespectful to make them out to be villains just because it makes a good read/ good TV

People on social media who always think you want a fight when you just want to talk about an interesting topic, straight on the defensive! Why join SOCIAL media and a group for like minded people if you don't want to chat about the topic??

The Harry Potter films.

Cats

Cat people who never have any decent arguments, ever. Not one.

The weird, irrational and obsessive hatred for Meghan Markle

Love Island

Slow, faffy people who are completely unaware of a queue behind them.

People who don't reply when you invite them to do something, instead they wait to see what they are doing and then reply days later, or forget about you, leaving you hanging. How hard is it to just say "thanks for the invite, I just need to check such-and-such with so-and-so and I'' let you know by Thursday"

Just general flakiness

General lack of manners

Love Island

The way there's no shame or secrecy anywhere any more. Vibrators just clearly on display on the shelves in a supermarket today, and then at the deli counter, a staff member opening discussing her affair with her colleague "Yeah, he would wait until his wife was snoring, then come round to mine for three hours" "Oh, how long did it take for him to leave her?" "only a few months" "oh, that's not too bad" No shame.

People who say "eggy bread"

The laugh button disappearing on mumsnet, I know some people use it to be mean or belittling but also, sometimes things are just funny!

People who are always a victim.

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I wondered where the laugh button had gone as wanted to use it for many of these replies. That is annoying!

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CruCru · 23/06/2025 20:06

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 23/06/2025 16:31

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

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Ah I see. When I’ve seen it it’s been used between strangers. I suppose it’s possible to feel let down by a stranger but I probably wouldn’t have any expectations of someone I hadn’t met.

SuburbanSprawl · 23/06/2025 20:14

Cosycover · 21/06/2025 21:16

People who say macdonalds. It's mcdonalds. It's literally right there in the name. Mc

To be fair. they bring it on themselves by not calling the signature burger a Bg Mc.

Winegumsandbullseyes · 23/06/2025 23:36

SquashedSquid · 23/06/2025 15:47

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

They may not say it with two syllables, but anyone with a rhotic accent will pronounce the final r, meaning drawer doesn’t sound the same as draw in those accents. Sounding the final r is absolutely the correct way to say the word in lots of accents, including some accents within the UK.

This might help —
forvo.com/word/drawer/

Winegumsandbullseyes · 23/06/2025 23:53

Cosycover · 21/06/2025 21:16

People who say macdonalds. It's mcdonalds. It's literally right there in the name. Mc

Mc is just an abbreviation of Mac and so they’re pronounced the same. Similarly, abbreviations such as Mr(Mister), Dr(Doctor) and St(Saint) are said the same as the unabbreviated form. I think the problem is that people don’t realise Mc is simply an abbreviation and so think it should be said differently because it’s spelt different, but it shouldn’t.

I’m in Ireland where the word comes from (mac is the Irish word for son) and Mac and Mc are both said as Mack when speaking English, though the word is said a bit differently when speaking Irish. McDonald’s sounds exactly the same as MacDonald’s would.

Winegumsandbullseyes · 24/06/2025 00:00

spelt differently, oops

Winegumsandbullseyes · 24/06/2025 00:19

The parents of the McDonald brothers who founded McDonald’s were both Irish by the way. One of the brothers (Maurice) was known as Mac.

Flamingodaughter · 24/06/2025 01:18

People who say can’t be arsed - such a horrible phrase.
Colleagues that want to sit and talk to you on your break at work. I’ve got half an hour and I want some peace, leave me alone.
People who need constant attention.
TV shows where the music is too loud but the speech is too quiet.
Colleagues and friends who want to kiss and hug you, I’m sorry, I only want to do that with my DH or DC.

FrodoBiggins · 24/06/2025 01:35

RosesAndHellebores · 21/06/2025 21:27

Silly things that annoy me?

I can think of silly people (Mr Bean, Norman Wisdom), silly behaviours (usually inappropriate behaviours - general buffoonery), silly habits (bad table manners(. Silly things - whoopee cushions would be an example but they don't particularly annoy me.

Mostly I'm annoyed by people who are unable to clearly articulate what they mean.

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It's pretty funny to post a rather pedantic response which:

  • is wrong; "silly things" is a perfectly suitable phrase for the topic
  • has punctuation errors
  • splits the infinitive (I actually don't mind this but it's the sort of thing one might think a 'language pedant' would try to avoid) 🤭

That's the sort of silly thing that (mildly) annoys me I guess!

summersun25 · 24/06/2025 01:51

Very precise but people asking me stuff when they could just google it

Coming out of Lidl today juggling bags/phone/keys I send a text to DP “no lemon curd can you pick some up at Tesco?”
get a message back “lemon curd? Have you got a photo?”
no. Because there wasn’t any…. And just fucking google Tesco lemon curd or look on the website or ask someone in the shop! use your brain

my dad does it too. He will ask if I need anything and I say something obvious like.. ready salted walkers and I get “send me a photo” Confused

FrodoBiggins · 24/06/2025 02:25

@summersun25 that is so weird why do they want a photo in the first place, don't they know what those things are?

summersun25 · 24/06/2025 07:31

FrodoBiggins · 24/06/2025 02:25

@summersun25 that is so weird why do they want a photo in the first place, don't they know what those things are?

I don’t know! It seems to happen in online conversations too like I’ll say “my fave sweets are fizzers”
if someone said that to me and I didn’t know what they were, I would stick it into google. Instead I got “what are they?”

ViperHalliwell · 24/06/2025 07:40

comeandhaveteawithme · 23/06/2025 14:27

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

What?

Sorry!

A "baddie" is someone perceived to have excellent, often cutting-edge or fashion-forward taste. If you find several stylish or cool items (especially multiple pieces of clothing in the same size and/or from the same brand) at the charity shop, you might think they came from the same person. "Baddie down!" assumes that the person who owned these items must have died, rather than that they routinely give away things they no longer want or that no longer fit or suit, or that they have moved away, or some other less dramatic explanation.