What things irritate you irrationally?

[OracleInaCoracle]

for me it is people who dont say thank you when you step of the pavement into the road so that they can get past.
people who step on the back of your shoe and dont apologise.
and people who dont use caps correctly

and im sure i will be back with more!

far far too many to mention.... i am HUGELY intolerant. i am renowned for it. i am not ashamed...

Adverts that annoy:
M&S - this is not just food
Halifax
The old AOL ads with Connie - the MOST annoying voice on TV (apart from Janet Street Porter)
adios

Janet Street Porter

people knocking on my door.

Unless I am expecting them AND like them.

Leave me alone!!!

(yes this even applies to 5yo carol singers - bah humbug)

people who dont thank you when you reverse half a mile down a narrow lane to give way to them and then give you evil looks too. especially when they could have reversed 5 yards. anyone at all who drives at a snails pace on an a road where spped limit is 60/70 or they stop and decide where they are going I HATE THEM anyone at all who doesnt say thankyou for me giving way to them or try and run me off the road. anyone who doesnt say please or thankyou for anything at all god i could go on forever

People who drape cardigans over their shoulders (either put it on or take it off, ffs)
The word 'ludicrous'
The word 'belly'
Balloons
Market researchers, etc, who cold-call and assume I am Mrs Husband's Name (it's 2008 not 1958)
Market researchers, etc, who still seem able to get through even though we registered with the opt-out people
Artists' statements (pretentious, grammatically-incorrect wank)

people who talk over you or speak for you people who ignore you when your talking i can talk and im not invisible. people who ask if youre pregnant no im fat

people who talk over you or speak for you people who ignore you when your talking i can talk and im not invisible. people who ask if youre pregnant no im fat

the word ordeal - it has been so over used in the media!
also when they say "X condemned these actions" when it's something really terrible - what's X going to do, egg them on?

Sensationalist reporting in general

sneezing - I hate mine cos it's irritating.

I hate other people's when they sneeze overdramatically.

people who stop me in the street. People who stop randomly in the street/bottom of escalators/doorways etc MOVE OUT THE WAY!

Those stupid 'breaking the ice' games at training sessions and stuff. I don't care what animal they would like to be or why. It doesn't help me interact with them any better.

Basically anything that forces me to interact with others, I either don't know or would not care to socialise with. I am not a fan to put it mildly.

people who continuously clear their throat without actually ever seeming to shift whatever is lodged there

people who slouch down the street (usually yoof of some variety) looking as though their clothes are about to drop off them (grumpy old woman, me )

Hoodies!

Oh yes, thumbwitch throat clearing has me reaching for the earplugs every time.
I worked with a man who did that. I couldnt stand him.
He was eventually fired for spending most of this workday looking at porn on his computer.

his workday

rubber neckers i mortally hate them someone could be dying and they stand there gawping and gossiping and stopping the emergency services getting through BE VERY ASHAMED SICKO PEOPLE supermarkets when peiople walk backwards into you without looking. shoppere who stand right in front of where you want to go aaaaarrggh parent and child space hogger with no kids.i actually put a note on someones merc saying some rude thought to their selfishness hee hee

Smoking and the way it makes DH smell like a human ashtray.

Nose picking. Where, exactly, do they wipe it when they are done?

Smelly feet.

When PIL visit for two weeks when my DH is out of the country. They say it is quality time, but I say it is torture!

The people that tell me not to drink so much diet coke b/c it is bad for me while they finish their 2nd pack of Marlboros and drink their 8th cup of coffee.

People in the airport who are late to board.

They've checked in, they are in the feckin' airport, they can read signs like the rest of us, and therefore I assume are capable of finding the gate.

What the hell are you doing???????

"Can so-and-so please make their way to gate no.X. You are late and delaying departure" Repeated 3000 times.

Just effing well unload their bags and lets leave the irritating fools behind!

Anyone who thinks leaving bread for the pigeons makes them an animal(bird) lover.

Bergen, irritations with people in the airport would have to be a whole new thread for me! Air travel brings out the absolute worst in everyone and makes me want to kill people, or go and live on a desert island.

But my top irrational irritation (which happened this morning so I had to come and post) is people (ie: DH) switching the lights on in the morning instead of opening the curtains.

I absolutely hate artificial light when there is perfectly good natural light outside. It drives me SPARE...

Well, my airport irritations would have to be...
Super stressed-out parents with children obviously heading off on holiday. Looking strained, anxious, irritable, grumpy. Chill out- you are going on holiday FFS! If you are calm, most likely the children will be too!

The being late thing, obviously. It is usually-

1. a group of slightly tipsy friends having spent too long in the bar
2. business men

Unnecessary over-sized 'hand luggage'. aaarrrggghhh.... what on earth could you possibly need for that 45minutes flight??

Grumpy people in general.

People who stand too damn close behind me in the queue.

Queue jumpers.

And why oh why, if on a flight with designated seats, would you stand queuing to show your boarding pass at the gate to get on the plane for 20mins when you can sit on a seat and watch til it's a bit clearer. You've got a seat number, so what's the panic?

.. and finally, the fact that you just cannot blag a free business seat when travelling with children. Eeee-ven when it is your honeymoon (

Sorry, I agreed with you there on that topic and stole it!

Hhhmmpppfff--- that was supposed to be a NOT a cheesy grin.....!!

People who sneeze dramitically

People who say or write "me thinks" >>grrr

People who do that thing with their scarf where they fold it in half, put it over their neck then feed the end through the loop.

Another vote for repeated ostentatious throat-cleary noises. Should be reasonable grounds for GBH.
Also: "bubba" - awful word. "Bab" is just as bad.
The fact that two many sandwiches you can buy have pork products in them.
Having to sit in a spare seat in a group of four on a busy train, and beign surrounded by boring business people having really loud work-related conversations over your head.

People who say 'should of' and 'could of' instead of 'should have' and 'could have'.

Yes, I am a pedant.

Escalator treads

Other people's sunburn