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To ask what gives you the rage that probably shouldn't

424 replies

Tearsinheavens · 09/07/2025 10:19

For me it's when I'm sleeping in, maybe at the weekend or if I've worked a late shift and I hear cars going past in the morning around 8am and they are blasting music. It gives me a desire to want to slap them. I know they are well within their rights to do so, and therefore I am being unreasonable but I am just convinced they are annoying people inside 🤣 I'm not a morning person. Obviously.

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marshmallowfinder · 11/07/2025 02:46

People who say free when they mean three. (Totally different words. Articulate!)

Objects falling off or falling over.

Being asked how I am by 3000 people every morning at work, when a cheerful, plain good morning would do.

merrymelody · 11/07/2025 03:28

Being targeted by Google and Meta with ageist, sexist advertising. Tena pads, dentures, hearing aids, plus size clothing, nursing homes, memory aids, etc. I’m 62, but not overweight, nor am I experiencing memory loss or any other age-related symptoms.

ToWhitToWhoo · 11/07/2025 11:35

People, I suppose. Especially myself.

Jaq27 · 11/07/2025 12:40

When a spatula or masher gets stuck in the kitchen drawer and I can't open it. Then I can't close it. Then I can't get the f88ckin thing out.
I'm getting angry just thinking about it ... 😂

WhereIsMyJumper · 11/07/2025 12:42

Jaq27 · 11/07/2025 12:40

When a spatula or masher gets stuck in the kitchen drawer and I can't open it. Then I can't close it. Then I can't get the f88ckin thing out.
I'm getting angry just thinking about it ... 😂

I want to change my original answer to this please

K0OLA1D · 11/07/2025 12:53

WhereIsMyJumper · 11/07/2025 12:42

I want to change my original answer to this please

Its on parr with getting a pocket stuck on a door handle.

Commonsense22 · 11/07/2025 12:54

People who can't express themselves concisely.

Jaq27 · 11/07/2025 13:00

K0OLA1D · 11/07/2025 12:53

Its on parr with getting a pocket stuck on a door handle.

I hate that too.
But it's the fact that I JUST WANT TO GET ON WITH COOKING AND THE AWKWARD KITCHEN CXNT WON'T LET ME.
It gets stuck on purpose at a pivotal moment, I'm certain.
I have been known to bash and shake the drawer mercilessly until DH comes and gets the Git out with a well-aimed chopstick.
Then I must punish the utensil. I teach it a lesson by giving it a good whack.

Disintegration1985 · 11/07/2025 13:04

Mine is when I'm dishing up lasagne and I think I've cut it neatly into portions but when I go to lift a slice out of the tray it catches on the sides and the top sheet falls off and splatters everywhere. Makes me absolutely homicidal with rage.

Sophiehoney · 11/07/2025 13:21

Disintegration1985 · 11/07/2025 13:04

Mine is when I'm dishing up lasagne and I think I've cut it neatly into portions but when I go to lift a slice out of the tray it catches on the sides and the top sheet falls off and splatters everywhere. Makes me absolutely homicidal with rage.

Never ever serve lasagne hot from the oven. Always give it about half an hour left out on the side. Or even better cool it and reheat the next day. Lasagne is so much better when left to sit for a bit and it doesn't slide around either.
Let it set, and free yourself from the rage.

SaintGermain · 11/07/2025 13:56

The hideous big Wheel in Mumbles, Swansea. The sight of it against the beautiful backdrop of the coastline makes me irrationally angry.

My son lives there so I have to see it a lot and I don’t know anyone who likes the look of it.

It is absolutely ghastly but then again coming from the other direction so is the bloody awful Greggs that has a prominent position along the front.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 11/07/2025 21:10

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 10/07/2025 19:13

Ohhh yes, @Thepeopleversuswork - the anecdote that starts “It was last Wednesday - or was it Thursday. No Thursday was when I visited Edna, so it must have been Wednesday - anyway I went to Tesco - or maybe it was Sainsbury’s - actually, it was Morrisons, because they had a special offer on beetroot……..” - and you have lost the will to live before you even get to the start of the actual story!

OMG, I had a colleague who did this all the time!

OlympicProcrastinator · 12/07/2025 08:03

When people say an ingredient will ‘elevate’ a dish instead of just saying it will improve the flavour.

Also replacing colours with ‘palette’ when discussing interior design / decorating. Absolutely wankery.

60sbird · 12/07/2025 08:31

When my husband gets me one of my tablets and takes it out of order, he usually takes it from the middle of the pack, it really upsets me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Quashsquash · 12/07/2025 08:38

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 13:53

Pigeons. They can’t help being fat, greedy, parasitical, bone idle bastards whilst offering nothing tuneful and being unbelievably, awfully noisy and shitting in the bird bath but I loathe them with a passion. And I want to kill them.

Agree! With their stupidly undersized heads.

scalt · 12/07/2025 08:44

Boris Johnson, even now. He should be in prison, or dead.

deeahgwitch · 12/07/2025 09:02

You have a problem with pigeons @Utterlyconfusednow
In our area it’s magpies (who look great but sound awful) and great big bl*ody scavenging seagulls.

TheWomandalorian · 12/07/2025 09:06

People at work who write things like this in their email signature:
“I am often working outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your own working hours.”
I work for a NHS Trust and it’s never people who may be working nights or weekends who have this, it’s always non-clinical admin people who have usually sent their email to you at 6.30pm on a Tuesday, which is hardly the middle of the night!

ThatDaringEagle · 12/07/2025 10:38

Using "of" instead of "have" when writing e.g. I must of forgotten to get the groceries, etc, etc

That must have forgotten 2nd grade English grammar more like!!

broccolipizza · 12/07/2025 12:09

When you ask staff in a particular supermarket for a bag and they have to scan it before they hand it to you. I know it’s completely unreasonable of me to feel so irked. I know it’s just what they are told to do because some customers don’t pay for them, but they trust me to handle everything else in the shop before I’ve put it through the till, why hold a bag out of my reach until it’s scanned? It makes me feel huffy.

comeandhaveteawithme · 12/07/2025 17:51

RaininSummer · 09/07/2025 18:39

The people who say 'obviously' and then tell me something which wouldn't have been obvious at all.

The people who let their hedges grow over the payment so you get squished between wet hedge and parked car or have to go in the road to pass.

The people whose children are going along on wheels, scooter or bike, and they dont even remind them to watch where they are going as they weave around you or shoot round blind corners.

The moving of the 6pm news for bloody tennis

The lack of provision for bags big enough for bread in Lidl. Always have to tear a bunch of small ones to bo er the bread or pinch a plastic veg bag.

I think I need to stop here as feeling rageful.

I hung up on a young lad who was trying to sell me something the other day. He was using "obviously" after every single sentence and I just couldn't bear it any longer.

My MIL is currently not speaking to an extended family member because she asked what a dish at a buffet was and he answered "it's obviously some sort of Seafood" and she answered "well, it's not obvious to me!" and stormed off then spent the rest of the night ranting about how rude he was.

Some of the youngsters really need to learn to use the word correctly

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 12/07/2025 17:58

My upstairs neighbours washing machine. It sounds like they're washing bricks and it's on all the bloody time.

The Daily Mail website, it just seems full of absolute crap, and racists, and royal sycophants (the vomit inducing comments on any article with Kate in just seem so over the top).

ThatDaringEagle · 12/07/2025 19:38

Angry, illogical 'feminists'... aka misandrists!

Sophiehoney · 12/07/2025 19:58

Angry illogical men that hate feminism. AKA misogynists!

ThatDaringEagle · 12/07/2025 20:43

Sophiehoney · 12/07/2025 19:58

Angry illogical men that hate feminism. AKA misogynists!

Meoww :)