What tiny things make you irrationally annoyed?

[Bikergran]

Just that, really. I'll start with a few.

The way discount pop-ups scream at you on a shopping page as soon as you click on it. Excuse me, I haven't had a chance to look at the product yet, I don't KNOW if I want a 15% discount!!

Daytime TV adverts. Either they are for funeral plans, featuring perky older couples chatting gaily about "lovely send-offs" or overpriced tat that requires them to repeat the same information repeatedly for several minutes in the hope you'll be hypnotised into ordering it.

Supermarket layouts. Always moving stuff about, completely random grouping of items. For instance, my local Morrisons has just moved half its meat products on an aisle away from the butchery department.

I have dozens more, nothing major, but niggling.

Byeretail

Congratulations on the move!! Hoping to change jobs this year- I want weekends and Christmas Eve back!!

People saying "Oh, just online" when you ask where they bought something

People using recipes as a metaphor, e.g. "all we need is a sprinkle of love, a teaspoon of patience"

People saying "It's just one of them, innit", as a general catch-all for when they can't be arsed to explain something properly (or don't explain it)

Instagram accounts for dogs (I do love dogs though)

People on MN using a sort of interrogative negative, e.g. "You understand basic economics, no?"

Dry robes in a context other than open water sports

People thinking cats are mysterious and superior

Every single woman over the age of 40 telling you that they're on the edge of perimenopause (yes, we all are really, what of it)

Lidl not having self-service checkouts alongside the normal ones

Oh God that's because they're full of customers who have seemingly never been in a café before interacting with people who have seemingly never worked in hospitality before, but have already managed to run out of fucking jacket potatoes.

Multiple people walking together in a horizontal line and then looking baffled at you when you, a single person, do not move, is INFURIATING!!

Ooh this thread is cathartic.

@IwanttoWFH if people who weren't in my team (or maybe not in my wider, sort of second-tier team) cold-called me on Teams I would expect there to be a national emergency (that only I could solve) AT THE VERY LEAST.

This has no effect on me personally but irritates the hell out of me. Nearby neighbours have all their curtains drawn all day but when they turn the lights on at night (in all the rooms, including upstairs, as soon as it gets dusk) they open all the curtains. They must close them when they go to bed because they are closed in the morning. Why? I can sort of understand curtains during the day if you are worried about privacy but then everyone can see them moving around after dark. I just don't get it.

Mine sneezes eight times. I am not saying bless you! You have a set time of numbers of sneezes you do apparently, mine is 2.

It is one of the best tv comedies ever though. "To the regiment".

People who have their fog lights on because it’s dark/winter/slightly rainy.

People who can’t use the words ‘to be’ - “That door needs closed”. No, the door needs TO BE closed.

People who go anywhere near a ticket barrier without their ticket to hand.

Anyone standing on the left on an escalator.

“Super” instead of “very” (or similar) - “Can we get that meeting booked? My diary is super busy”. Ditto “reaching out”.

Websites that hassle you for a review. Keep hassling me and it’s a one-star review for you.

But the very last circle of hell is being able to hear the phone or eating noises of another person. Put some fucking headphones in and close your fucking mouth before you chew/crunch. If I can hear you it’s likely I’ve made a short list of ways to kill you.

<and breathe>

Amazon Music's My Soundtrack.

I listen to Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Clash, The Who, 80s Pop, Oasis, Motown, 70s and 60s music.

So why the fuck does My Soundtrack play Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter, Harry Styles and other acts like this? I have never played a song by them only on My Soundtrack

One from my call centre days. Customers spent around 10 mins on queue to speak to me.
"Thank you for calling (company). You are speaking to (byeretail). Can I please take your account number?"

"Oh I just find that for you". You had ten minutes to find that.

I always have these details in front of me when I do phone call centres

Loud chewers including those who smack their lips to eat. It sets off the serial killer in me. Also people who gather in a group to discuss their mundane lives right outside a shop door. And people who spend about £50 on scratch cards taking forever at the till getting the staff the check them all

When I've just bought something from the shops and DH eats some of it within half an hour of it being in the house. Yes I know I've bought it to be consumed but for fucks sake, let me have a full fucking loaf of bread in my breadbin for a few hours before you get your fat hands on it.

Bought a quiche yesterday. It's finished already. I had one sliver.

My local Lidl does! But apparently this is rare. It might be a pilot before they roll them out everywhere but they've had them a good couple of years now

Whaaaaaat @RonaldMcDonaldTrump?! Pls tell me where, I am prepared to move.

To be honest it doesn't bother me that much for my own use, as I never pop in to Lidl in a hurry other than at 9pm at night. But it's when I'm standing in the queue with a big shop and 5 people with pastries and wine just want to nip in front of me because they're in a hurry 🙄

There is a Lidl opened around 2017 1.5 miles from me has no self scans. You get students from the colleges and academy opposite buying pastries, crisps etc. They queue up.

The store has 6 or 7 checkouts and only seen 4 used at the same time. This is a great example of this store requiring self scans. Yes I know all Lidl’s self scans are card only but the students pay with card.

I wish I was there💂

The man who invented pop-ups has apologised. 🤣
https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/why-the-inventor-of-pop-up-ads-still-has-deep-regrets-171742520.html

But he does seem like a nice guy!

Our Lidl opened just after COVID and had them from the very start. I did actually Google it last night like a saddo and there was something about them rolling it out strategically, largely in urban areas with high footfall to begin with. We are suburban (ish) so not sure how ours qualified. I know some people just pop in solely for bakery items so baffles me why they haven't done this everywhere. Hope you get it soon!

When people misuse the word "reactionary".

It doesn't mean "having a big reaction to something", it means socially conservative, i.e. social policies backwards rather than supporting onward change.

I cringe when I see people misusing it because it takes any credibility out of whatever they were trying to say. It doesn't mean they're stupid, it means they assume the meanings of things rather than checking.

Fog lights when it’s not foggy.

What a very unpleasant post.

People who complain that they are in pain but they refuse to take paracetamol.

Or Ibuprofen. (Paracetamol is shit imo.)

My dm refuses to take ibuprofen too lol.