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What tiny things make you irrationally annoyed?

357 replies

Bikergran · 07/01/2026 06:28

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.

OP posts:
ForProudPinkPombear · 15/01/2026 10:16

SweetHydrangea · 12/01/2026 23:22

Staff fulfilling click and collect grocery orders during opening times so customers who are physically in the shop can’t actually get to anything they need. I know it’s not the staffs fault but those orders really should be done out of hours so customers can actually shop.

The group of gossiping parents at the school pick up and drop off who think it’s acceptable to stand and gossip on the drop curb of the only safe crossing outside the school. (they stand on the yellow bumpy pavers blocking the whole drop curb and pavement so no one can get past). Always say sorry when dozens of people ask them to move every single morning but are too thick or ignorant to not stand there in the first place.

I get that the supermarket thing is annoying, but if the customers the orders are for were actually there the shop would be busier. More importantly though, are you advocating for even more pressure on staff to work outside 'normal' hours? It's so damaging to disrupt natural circadian rhythms, people are being paid FA to stay out of the way & give themselves lifelong health conditions from sleep disruption & unnatural physical workloads, I don't think suggesting adding to this is well thought through

ForProudPinkPombear · 15/01/2026 10:26

BIWI · 09/01/2026 17:57

Oh dear! Being gender critical does not make one transphobic. HTH.

How about finding a collective term that excludes transphobes if the distinction is so important to you? I'm not binary about my thoughts on the weighty issues involved in the debate but I believe fully in the right to self-expression & freedom to be accepted. Either you do or you don't.

NimbleHiker · 15/01/2026 12:24

People who block the isle on a train and they look gormless when i say excuse me. People who are incapable of wearing headphones. I don't want to listen to your rubbish music or crap adverts. People who want to get on a train before people have got off.

dailyconniptions · 15/01/2026 19:02

nam3c4ang3 · 14/01/2026 18:25

People who ‘dig’ at the butter. I mean WHY can’t you just do it in a nice, clean, sweeping way?! My kids are the worse for this.

The worsT!

WalkDontWalk · 16/01/2026 10:57

‘DC’, ‘DH’, ‘DSTBXSMIL’

All those MN shorthands piss me off out of all proportion to their importance.

TrickyD · 16/01/2026 17:20

Posts which start ‘So’ .
Excessive and pointless use of ‘for context’.

DiamandaTheGreat · 03/02/2026 09:00

Sorry to resurrect but just thought of another one and I KNOW it will chime with someone here!

When people say "based in" when they mean "located in"...as in: "Our cosy little campsite is based just outside Trowbridge"...what, and it moves around depending on it's mood??! NOPE.

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