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 🤣

"majorly"

Podcasts that have "bonus material" directly after the main content has finished. Just include it if it's worth listening to, or leave it out if not. It's not a live broadcast with a strict time limit!

People who have to share photos online of everything they do. I’m lucky enough to have a good group of friends in my mid 40s but I’m starting to dread meeting up because I know it will be on social media next day. My heart sinks when I see I’ve been tagged on Facebook and I know it’s going to be the most unflattering photos that have been shared.
Sure, I can ‘untag’ myself or even just come off Facebook altogether, but that photo I find humiliating is still available for all our mutual friends to see. I can make it not appear on my profile, but it’s still on theirs. The ‘untag’ function offers very little privacy when the photo still appears on the feeds of everyone else. Just because my mate from work isn’t going to see it, it doesn’t mean the hundred or so mutual school and sixth form friends aren’t. I’d love to go out without photo evidence online and everyone commenting.

I agree re the photos. It’s one thing to have everyone pose and then that’s it but I’ve seen photos of myself that no one should see.

I wonder if the reason young women are so into make up and skincare is that everything they do is documented through photos. It’s like having a paparazzi.

Yep

Never met a Scot then?

That new Lynx ad is dreadful. People sniffing arses and bollocks. Why the fuck would anyone do that? And yes to pouring red liquid on sanpro. WHAT the F?

I also detest the pissy pads adverts. Always on at mealtimes, and always portraying any woman over 40, as pissing herself when she sneezes, laughs, or farts!

Men have similar items for a weak bladder but these are never advertised. Funny that. Nooooo,, let's just make out only WOMEN piss their pants randomly in public. Fuxake! (I am late 50s BTW, and never EVER get pee leaks. I know, unbelievable right!)

In regards to the adverts, when the pads ones forst came out, there were posts on here defending them.

It was all, oh if it makes men uncomfortable, tough, this is what it's like to be a woman etc.
So the current ones are unfortunately what happens once that door is opened.

I remember when they first did the sitting on the loo with pants showing, and i thought, it won't be long before we see bum wiping.

Same as men claiming man-opose to counter menopause.

(Disclosure: I don't associate with academics, professionals, teachers and linguists, so 🤷‍♀️).

Oh, I dunno... the ones with the blue liquid used to offend my sense of logic... 😄

Never read the thread, then?

People that walk their dogs with an extendable lead and they stand on one side of the pavement and let the dog wander over to the other side, while the lead stretches right across the whole pavement so no one can get by. Usually while they are looking at their phone, completely oblivious.
This may sound specific but I see it most days.

I really dislike the noise of hand driers and it pisses me off when people use them in public bathrooms. Can we just provide paper towels please? It's so much less of an assault on my senses.

Eta - going along with the theme of assaults on senses - I really dislike people smoking or vaping in queues. I am unable to both stay in the queue and not be in the cloud of vape/smoke and I really resent the crap options available to me in that scenario.

I really dislike the noise of hand driers and it pisses me off when people use them in public bathrooms. Can we just provide paper towels please? It's so much less of an assault on my senses.

sensory overload, I totally get you.

I find loud noises and clicking sounds distressing. Someone in a meeting was clicking their biro and I nearly screamed!

How can they claim hand driers are better for the environment making that noise and using all that power. I always carry a ecloth for hands.

People hovering around me at work when they can clearly see I’m busy/eating but want to ask a question, either ask it or bugger off!

People who stop right in the middle of a doorway to have a conversation or check their phones - just move out of the way so people can get in and out of the shop!

Surely that is a sign of being good at parking?
I hate it when people leave three quarters of a car space in front and behind them. They’re taking up two precious parking spots

This thread has got me started now - people that get right up your backside in a queue. It used to drive me really mad when my son still used a buggy and I would go round to the side or front of the buggy to do something for him and when I went to step back to the handle, the person behind had moved forward so I couldn’t get to it. I just used to stand on their feet or ask them to step back.

Probably the same people 🙄 women who used to blame everything on 'baby brain'...

People who say “my child plays piano”. No! They play THE piano

People who modify their car so the exhaust bangs and crackles and explodes. They sound like fireworks going off. How the hell are they allowed to get away with it? 😡God, they make me f-ing insane with rage. I can even hear them at night when I'm watching TV, and they often wake me up in the early hours.

More generally, heat, crowds, noise, cars...actually, just people! Also, driving through a village and seeing a poster in a field or meadow with "sold for re-development" written on it. A work colleague sprained her wrist after punching the steering wheel when she saw fields near her being built on. Totally sympathize.

I understand it’s not actually the car making the noise but a sound system, to get round the laws.

No, she's not talking about parallel street parking, where bunching up is good. She's talking about supermarket car parks, where you spot a space, except when you get there, it's a tiny Fiat hiding at the back of the space.

Men's pads are advertised on TV, but targeted at men, so you as a woman are much less likely to see them

@MasterBeth

Why on earth would I - as a woman - be less likely to see adverts 'aimed at men?'

Because TV advertisers place adverts aimed at men in programmes that men are more likely to watch and adverts aimed at women in programmes that women are more likely to watch, and ads aimed at older men (like for male incontinence pads) in programmes that older men are most likely to watch.

And that's before we get to streaming/subscription TV where they can combine the above with account holder information to know who is in your household.

You can watch one here if you really must:

https://www.tena.co.uk/men/products/campaigns