Silly things that give you the rage

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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 🤣

I sneeze at least 15 times a day, you’d hate me.

People who either stand in the middle of or walk really slowly in the middle of travellators at the airport! They block everyone else from walking past them….it drives me insane.

Different areas must have different pronunciations, @Winegumsandbullseyes - I say McVities, not MacVities. All part of life’s rich pattern, I guess.

Indeed.

And getting the rage because of a differnt regional pronunciation makes you (not you, but "one") a bit of a cunt, IMHO.

I love regional pronunciations. I think this one, Mac vs Mc, is based on a misunderstanding though. If you don’t know the origin of mac you might think they’re two different words. But Mc is just an abbreviation of Mac (not much of one it must be said). So like Mr is said the same as Mister, St as Saint, Rd as Road, they’re actually said the same, or at least they were originally. They’re often written interchangeably on old records too.

Obviously the pronunciation of Mc seems to have changed some places and that’s fine, it’s what happens.

But there is no need for pps to be ‘getting the rage’ when people say mack for things like McDonald’s or McVities. It’s the original pronunciation and is still very widely used. That’s my point.

To quote my own reply, I also hate people who mill about near a queue but mot in it, so you stand behind them and ultimately look at tit when it transpires they aren't queueing (this happened to me at hospital the other day...I was fuming)

People who resort to name calling at any opportunity. Crass!

People who are not ready to get off the train when it pulls into the station. People are waiting to get on and will if you don’t make it clear you are still getting off.

Apologies if I’ve come across as a bit of a tosser on the “Mc/Mac” - it’s come from a lifetime of having a Scottish surname where that extra “a” changes the entire intonation of it (regardless of whether you’re Scottish or from anywhere else in the UK) - maybe that should have been my petty rage 😂

That’s very understandable @literalbinbag.

It’s easier when you live somewhere like me (in Ireland) where Mc and Mac are pronounced the same. Of course the spelling can go a bit wonky then sometimes😁

In the Irish language Mac is pronounced Mock so that’s another alternative of course (some people use the Irish language form of their name and the Irish version is often used at school too). The abbreviation Mc isn’t used in Irish and the words are written separately (so for example McSweeney becomes Mac Suibhne).

I’m not sure how Mac is pronounced in Scottish Gaelic.

When I get out of bed in the dark and try to put my slippers on only to find that one of them is facing the wrong way and I'm trying to slide my foot into the heel.

Gives me the most uncontrollable rage!

People who wear sweatshirts with things like “Yale”, “Harvard” or “Stanford” on the front. Particularly when they are about 13 and therefore no chance they actually attend these universities.

Annoying couples doing the food shop together and discussing each item in great detail.

We do the big shop online now, @MyLimeGuide - but when we did it in person, I was close to swinging for dh. He used to have to compare every price and pack size - cheddar was the absolute worst for this. I could do half the weekly shop in the time it took him to select a lump of cheddar. I just hope he didn’t annoy the other customers as much as he annoyed me!

Since I’ve just seen it elsewhere on MN, ‘pack’ lunch.
It’s packED!! 🤬

Websites that don't save your basket.

Websites that make you keep scrolling until you realise it's duplicating stuff.

Websites that take you back to the top of the page when instead of where you left off.

Looking in every cupboard for a bowl or a pan or a cheese grater because the person who puts the dishes away doesn't understand the allure of putting things back in the same place or that sometimes you have to move something to put an item away.

😂😆 why do people do it!!!

When professionals (dentist, doctor, optician, orthodontist) ring me about anything to do with my children, despite my husband being the person who last took them to their appointment and agreed XYZ at that appointment. It means I probably won’t know all the details and takes so much longer. It’s 2025, it is okay to not always ring the woman by default.

When you arrange an appointment for your child fill in numerous forms online walk into the appointment only to be confronted with the "look" and the question "...and where is dad?" Not fucking here ffs "WORKING?" i used to reply i assume so but ds beat me too it the last time with "ive no idea not seen him for ages why?" It wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't there for anxiety triggered by his dad fucking about and fucking off which was stated in the forms she claimed to be reading just before we walked in the door page one father absent address unknown

1. Dacia Dusters 😤
2. There was someone I stopped being friends with for various annoying reasons but this was one of them. You’d be in a round with her at the pub and she’d be practically licking the top of her drink so by the time the other three of us had finished our pints, she’d drank around 10% of hers. Yet, still she’d accept another drink from whoever was buying next 😤 It just meant we were CONSTANTLY waiting for her and it got so tedious. After several evenings of that, I just couldn’t stand it anymore.

Leaves hitch hiking on my wellies and the one microwave at work that beeps loudly and constantly until you open the door - makes me so ragey haha :)

oh and my ex husband who I have to live with until the house sells and brings the other woman into the house when I'm not there grrrrrrrrrrrr

Shops in the UK that sell those jumpers "ooh that's a nice colour jumper "YALE" ffs never mind"

People selling (used ) shoes in eBay where they picture them on a kitchen surface. Perhaps they disinfect the surface afterwards, who knows, but I just don't want to see shoes which have possibly walked in shit, placed on a food surface.