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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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lovemycbf · 21/06/2025 23:44

MiloMinderbinder925 · 21/06/2025 18:55

My mum when she doesn't wear her hearing aids.

God my mum is the same
it’s so frustrating

lovemycbf · 21/06/2025 23:46

People sniffing repeatedly….just blow your nose 🤬

chillibuns · 21/06/2025 23:48

SquashedSquid · 21/06/2025 23:24

People who think drawer and draw are pronounced differently.

But they are pronounced differently.
“I’m going to draw a picture”
socks go in the drawer.

DiscoBeat · 21/06/2025 23:53

When traffic is slow on a roundabout but people think it's ok to pull out from the left, leaving you stranded in the middle. Or lorries entering the Keep Clear areas so you can't get round them to get to the totally empty bit of road you want to get to in the other direction. Roundsbout rules just get ignored!

HarkerandBarker · 21/06/2025 23:57

Someonelookedatmypostinghistorysoichanged · 21/06/2025 20:33

People eating noisiest things on earth in a quiet office
crunching
smacking their lips together and licking their fingers 🤪😮

Drives me insane. Also licking fingers is so gross. May I add, eating with mouth open and talking with food in their mouth 🤑

Floatlikeafeather2 · 21/06/2025 23:57

SquashedSquid · 21/06/2025 23:24

People who think drawer and draw are pronounced differently.

But they are.

wand3rer · 21/06/2025 23:57

Graffiti's

goingroundthebendatthisrate · 21/06/2025 23:58

Anyone who says "chill" as in "they are chilled", "cringe" instead of "cringeworthy", and "judgey" (it's "judgmental"). Also the trend to put question marks in a sentence where no effing question is being asked.

hididdlyho · 21/06/2025 23:58

Lack of manners and basic hygiene. On the train home from work earlier and of course the short spell of nice weather brought out the bike wankers on the train. I normally sit on the fold out seats away from people because on the other 364 days a year it doesn't inconvenience anyone. Today, I had a young lad stinking like pig shit and energy drinks tell me to move, before I had the chance to ask if he would like the space (4 seats for his ridiculously large bike) with no hint of a please or thankyou.

Lilyhatesjaz · 22/06/2025 00:03

When DH puts mayonnaise and Branston pickle on the same cracker

HarkerandBarker · 22/06/2025 00:05

People who can't spell Biased. They spell it Based!😬

LuckyManifestations · 22/06/2025 00:05

People who tell you the same things multiple times.
I have a friend who I've had to downgrade our friendship because of how frustrating I find it.

JDM625 · 22/06/2025 00:05

chillibuns · 21/06/2025 23:48

But they are pronounced differently.
“I’m going to draw a picture”
socks go in the drawer.

How are you pronouncing each of them then?

Draw a picture and to put socks in a drawer. Both draw and drawer are pronounced the same in my head and when spoken. 🤔

HÆLTHEPAIN · 22/06/2025 00:06

When people write brought instead of bought. Or pack lunch instead of packed lunch. Also, when people add an ‘e’ to Clarks the shoe retailer. And don’t get me started on ‘Fabreeze’ and ‘Sudocream’.

I don’t judge people for these things - I’m in no way perfect myself. However, seeing them written down makes me irrationally irked!!😁

DavidBrentsGuitar · 22/06/2025 00:10

My Asperger's DH :
-the endless monotone dry monologues

  • the wandering off
  • the zero need for intimacy and connection
-zero need to socialise -zero understanding that I have any needs whatsoever including socialising
  • the fucking verbal ticks (I have a highly sensitive startle reaction) so him shouting "mummy!" Loudly out of the blue really fucks me off
  • the walking 900 feet ahead
  • the stress over really stupid minor inconsequential things
  • the robotic sex where all the moves are there but no emotional connection and no desire for it
  • wandering off to do 'man jobs' without telling me in the middle of a weekend

I could go on and on and on. I never open up, never moan. But today has been a particularly hard and bad day and I feel isolated, lonely and depressed and constantly invalidated so please be mindful of that if anyone wants to attack me. Please not today 🙈.

I know this was meant to be light-hearted but , yep that's whats given me the rage today.

JDM625 · 22/06/2025 00:13

@DavidBrentsGuitar That sounds very difficult. Did you have absolutely no clue of any of these issues before you married??? Surely they can't all be new features?

DavidBrentsGuitar · 22/06/2025 00:14

HÆLTHEPAIN · 22/06/2025 00:06

When people write brought instead of bought. Or pack lunch instead of packed lunch. Also, when people add an ‘e’ to Clarks the shoe retailer. And don’t get me started on ‘Fabreeze’ and ‘Sudocream’.

I don’t judge people for these things - I’m in no way perfect myself. However, seeing them written down makes me irrationally irked!!😁

Oooh yes!!! I'm a pedant too. "Sudocream" makes me feel a tad irrational. Or pluralling- "Asdas" as in "I'm just going to Asdas" no. You're not. You're going to "Asda"

My friend calls her children "ferile" when she means "feral" ... I have to sit on my hands 😁

goingroundthebendatthisrate · 22/06/2025 00:16

LuckyManifestations · 22/06/2025 00:05

People who tell you the same things multiple times.
I have a friend who I've had to downgrade our friendship because of how frustrating I find it.

That's an interesting one. Have you got to the bottom of why they are telling it to you repeatedly? I live with someone who very often asks me questions they know the answer to, and it sends me potty. If they have forgotten or weren't paying attention then fait enough, just tell me so and I will know where to start the conversation. But knowing it's all been talked about and conclusions reached, I get really anxious at it all being raked up with no explanation beforehand as to why. The last thing I need to hear is "are we still doing/going/etc..." (you can fill the rest of it), knowing full well if we weren't then we'd have all been notified.

I do consider myself lucky though, in the sense that this person's sister is even WORSE for doing it...I think it stems from their upbringing. I think also it is some kind of confirmation process they go through, but instead of simply saying that they put the onus on the other party and then project their own anxieties accordingly.

Furthermore, said sister of this person is one of those for whom there is never enough choice, and when presented with a plan of action will automatically prise the lid off it (so to speak), shake out the contents and sift through it, like a desperate parent going through the contents of a vacuum cleaner, seeking that one bit of Lego that's gone missing, before putting it all back together as it was.

Also, she wants to be invited to everything she can, but will back out at the last minute. She never, ever, wants to go, she just likes being invited and letting us do a shit-load of running around to accommodate her needs. Either that, or it's "yes I'd love to come, thank you. But not at that time. Or that day. And I don't want to go there". To this day she wonders why I keep her at arm's length.

DavidBrentsGuitar · 22/06/2025 00:17

JDM625 · 22/06/2025 00:13

@DavidBrentsGuitar That sounds very difficult. Did you have absolutely no clue of any of these issues before you married??? Surely they can't all be new features?

To be honest, there were clues, but I saw them as quirks/oddities. I was young when we got together and I was the "scapegoat" of the family. I think it somewhat affected my ability to trust my inner instincts.

He's not all bad. It's just a culmination of the traits above that make life for me very "down" sometimes.

BoredZelda · 22/06/2025 00:19

People that lie their breasts/chest and body over shopping trolleys and use them as mobility aids.

Disabled people annoy you?

AuntMarch · 22/06/2025 00:20

HatsOffToThePigeons · 21/06/2025 21:01

People blaming everything on "peri" on MN. Like, it's ok to have a big emotion that's not because of perimenopause! I know IABU but I feel like everyone blames peri for everything this year.

I thought I was just noticing it more because I'm hearing a lot about it from my 3 favourite colleagues 😩🤣

HelenaWaiting · 22/06/2025 00:20

People who say "hence why". Hence means "that is why". So you're basically saying "that is why why". Drives me into a murderous rage. Also people who say "less" when they mean "fewer" and people who say "amount" when they mean "number".

JDM625 · 22/06/2025 00:20

BoredZelda · 22/06/2025 00:19

People that lie their breasts/chest and body over shopping trolleys and use them as mobility aids.

Disabled people annoy you?

Read the title of the thread again!

ihatethewordhubby · 22/06/2025 00:21

Loud finger licking/sucking when eating
FaceTime
calls in cafes or restaurants
Eating with mouth open
Pen clicking
sniffing
I should stop shouldn't I ?

goingroundthebendatthisrate · 22/06/2025 00:22

DavidBrentsGuitar · 22/06/2025 00:14

Oooh yes!!! I'm a pedant too. "Sudocream" makes me feel a tad irrational. Or pluralling- "Asdas" as in "I'm just going to Asdas" no. You're not. You're going to "Asda"

My friend calls her children "ferile" when she means "feral" ... I have to sit on my hands 😁

I used to work in an electrical store where one of my colleagues used to say "Sharps" instead of "Sharp", as in the well-known brand of electronic goods, of which we had a shop full.

She also used to do this hideous gesture where she'd shove her glasses back up her face with a tap of the middle finger, typically (though not exclusively) when she'd either dropped a bollock & been found out, or else had said / done something she thought was exceptionally clever.

So it would be something like "Oh have you chosen a television now have you? Are you going for the Panasonic or the Sharps?" and cue the middle-finger spectacle nudge. I hated her so much. Twenty-four years have passed and I still do that gesture in private when thinking about her, and I don't even wear glasses.