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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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MammaTo · 09/07/2025 13:55

A snake shaped queuing system, sends me into a fit of rage

Alltheburpees · 09/07/2025 13:56

People who think there is a shoe brand called Sketchers.
They are Skechers.
So many other things. I might be back later.

deckchaironnabeach · 09/07/2025 13:56

People who preach ‘do as I say not as I do’

for example in the news currently - a woman who didn’t have smear test for 10 years, diagnosed with cancer now preaching for others to get tested.

don’t preach to others what you didn’t do yourself.

the80sweregreat · 09/07/2025 13:56

Pigeons are just the worst kind of wildlife. The wood pigeons kick up a row in the mornings and it is annoying in the summer time if the window is open.
wasps can do one as well.

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 13:56

Full fat coke please - are you asking for a can of liquid lard?
Can I get blah, blah? - No you can't, you have to be served by an assistant like everyone else, now fuck off with your stupid requests.
Gobby people performance talking on their phones /phones on loud speaker esp. on public transport.

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 13:57

the80sweregreat · 09/07/2025 13:56

Pigeons are just the worst kind of wildlife. The wood pigeons kick up a row in the mornings and it is annoying in the summer time if the window is open.
wasps can do one as well.

Agree, see my post.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 09/07/2025 13:58

Brits saying ‘math’ and ‘ass’ when they mean ARSE!

FunnysInLaJardin · 09/07/2025 13:59

people talking to me on the bus or practically sitting on my knee when sharing a seat. Go Away!

CalamityGanon · 09/07/2025 13:59

My 25 year old artist son who writes ‘l’ in lower case as in ‘I am annoying’ but will write ‘i am annoying’. He thinks it makes him look cool and arty when in actual fact it makes him look thick which he’s really not.

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 14:00

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.

There are some types that call themselves humans who do similar things, although they might not shit in a bird bath.😁

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 14:00

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 14:00

There are some types that call themselves humans who do similar things, although they might not shit in a bird bath.😁

This is true. And I want to kill them too,

Jacobs4 · 09/07/2025 14:01

Crowded places and in particular people with loud voices speaking foreign languages and shouting to each other, they always sound utterly humourless, like they are shouting imperatives. Harshes the vibe massively.

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 14:02

We ought to team up Utterly and clean up the streets.😀

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 14:03

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 14:02

We ought to team up Utterly and clean up the streets.😀

Oh yes, I curse the day guns were prohibited.

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 14:04

WhereIsMyJumper · 09/07/2025 10:21

When I go somewhere and it’s really crowded. Totally unreasonable as I am obviously contributing to the crowding

Yes! especially when it's a popular tourist attraction! there's always so many bloody people. You can't get a nice photo in front of the Eiffel tower or something, ever, because there's always a shit tonne of other people there doing their other people things. Did they not know I was coming? 😂👸

looselegs · 09/07/2025 14:05

My shower. It has a delay when you switch it off- I don't know why- and when you press the button to go off it beeps,sometimes six times, sometimes seven or eight,occasionally nine before the water actually stops. Then it'll actually switch off!
Drives me mad! Every single time. I stand there, thinking ," for God's sake just switch off will you!!"
Can't get out the shower until it does, can't switch it off whilst I'm washing the shampoo out of my hair etc because it may decide to beep only six times which wouldn't be long enough....

the80sweregreat · 09/07/2025 14:07

My son says ‘ can I get please ‘
I have told him, but it’s ingrained and it does sound rude when he isn’t and he is polite.
It winds me up though.

Katemax82 · 09/07/2025 14:08

BlueandPinkSwan · 09/07/2025 13:56

Full fat coke please - are you asking for a can of liquid lard?
Can I get blah, blah? - No you can't, you have to be served by an assistant like everyone else, now fuck off with your stupid requests.
Gobby people performance talking on their phones /phones on loud speaker esp. on public transport.

Yes!! The manager of my local beefeater was being our waiter and I asked for coke and he said "diet, zero or fat?"...how is calling classic coke "fat " going to make it sound appealing? Same with milk, its whole milk not fat milk

Janey3090 · 09/07/2025 14:08

When a family of 4 or 5+ all go on what's clearly 'a family day out' to the supermarket, and the parents just let the kids run wild, or they just end up blocking the aisle because there's so many of them. Why did you all need to go, can't some of you stay at home?!

CalliopePlantain · 09/07/2025 14:08

That I can’t dye my hair rainbowy and wear docs any more as I don’t want people to think I’m a far left activist. I’m an (aging) punk give me my style baaack 😭

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 14:08

The people across the road from me. They get an Ocado shop delivered at the exact same time every Saturday morning and for no reason at all it irritates the shit out of me.
I just sit there, sipping my morning coffee, see the van pull up, shake my head and mutter "twats".

Lollylolo · 09/07/2025 14:09

Noshadowsinthedark · 09/07/2025 11:03

People sneezing.

I know it’s not rational but it really pisses me off.

It's people sneezing really unreasonably loudly that does it for me. My DM is one- when she sneezes people dive for cover because they think a bomb has gone off/ceiling caved in/car crashed into building. She has no awareness of how loud her sneezing is despite being told of this fact for 40 years.

I have inherited my DM's sneeze but I have trained myself so I hold it in and do a little 'tish' rather than an 'AHCHOOOO!' I once held in such a big sneeze that I pulled my shoulder.

See also- genuine yawning which the yawnee then overexaggerates

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 14:09

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 14:08

The people across the road from me. They get an Ocado shop delivered at the exact same time every Saturday morning and for no reason at all it irritates the shit out of me.
I just sit there, sipping my morning coffee, see the van pull up, shake my head and mutter "twats".

I need to know the hidden depth to this. Why do you hate them?

Notmollybutdolly · 09/07/2025 14:10

When delivery people (not for me) or someone with leaflets or whatever just ring any random bell on the buzzer. 9/10 it’s flat 1 they buzz, which is obviously my flat 😭😭😭 annoying at the best of times, more so at 9pm when the kids are asleep!!!!!

comeandhaveteawithme · 09/07/2025 14:10

blobby10 · 09/07/2025 11:59

Ditherers. When walking, when shopping, when driving, when in a queue in front of me - its SO frustrating!

Nissan cars - Jukes, Quasquai's, Note's, Micra's - all should be banned from the road when I'm on it (driving my Audi absolutely perfectly of course Grin) and I have no idea why Nissan's give me such a rage when plenty of other cars are driven just as badly (Audi, BMW, Hyundai, Honda Jazz, Jaguar, Range Rover - who have i forgotten?!)

Misuse of apostrophes 😡