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What things irrationally wind the hell out of you?

965 replies

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 06/03/2009 18:18

I HATE listening to the BBC news in the morning, when the news readers say "its is EXACTLY half past six" because I always end up shouting "IT IS NOT!!" because it surely can never be EXACTLY unless they string out the sixxxxxx until it is exactly that time.

I get annoyed when people talk about the coins and say that the Queen is on the FRONT of the coin, she is on the back. Because if you were looking at all the pictures of all the coins, you'd put the Queen down to see the pics, therefore she is the back of the coin. And its only "heads and tails" because its a picture of her head.

When I'm really stroppy, I get annoyed at the Kool Kids sign near my house. If they wanted to use alliteration, use Cool Children, surely?!

So... what gets your goat for no reason

OP posts:
screamingabdab · 06/03/2009 22:16

Wellies ??? YABU

screamingabdab · 06/03/2009 22:17

Off to bed now. This has been fun

moondog · 06/03/2009 22:18

The ante-natal thread on MN irritate the tits of me. (Stuff like 'knicker checkers' and bonked/bonking/bonked')
Dear God in heaven.

hazeyjane · 06/03/2009 22:19

this thread is making my stomach churn.

Kimi · 06/03/2009 22:19

Anyone who has been on JK should be shot,
vile people and not a set of teeth between the lot of them. Every thing that is bad about society today is on that show.
If only I had a gun......

ScottishMummy · 06/03/2009 22:23

oh kimi get back on yer porch.put the gun down,how come you know JK show so well if you despise it so.

do you avidly watch sucking teeth

Desiderata · 06/03/2009 22:23

You see, Moondog, I have banned the ante-natal threads. I can no longer view them for the very reasons you describe.

I can't help but think that anyone who posts on an ante-natal thread is a life-long hypochondriac.

Get a grip, dears. That's that I'd like to say.

But oops, it would appear that I already have

Rollmops · 06/03/2009 22:24

( What is J.K.???)

Vulgarity.
Women, presumably mothers (on MN), who talk like dockers.
How can they possibly expect to ever be taken seriously or for that matter, their subsequent posts to be read?????

Bumpety · 06/03/2009 22:25

Gobshites who take the wrong lane on a roundabout just to get 2 seconds ahead of you

Same fools over-taking you in heavy traffic and getting nowhere fast

Plonkers that go WELL BELOW the limit on a main road - you overtake - they take it personally and overtake you back - WTF.

People that don't hold doors open and let them shut in your face

Snotty teenagers that EXPECT you to hold doors open for them and not say thanks

People that 'tut' when your baby makes an un-asked-for noise in a restaurant

Asses that tell you how MASSIVE you are when pregnant

I'm sure there's more...

Desiderata · 06/03/2009 22:25

Rollmop, are you a red herring?

ScottishMummy · 06/03/2009 22:25

JK= Jeremy Vile Kyle

blueshoes · 06/03/2009 22:27

Jeremy Clarkson

Shitemum · 06/03/2009 22:27

The letters my bank sends telling me I am overdrawn when they also send me txt msgs on my mobile informing me of the fact so that by time the letter arrives I have sorted it already...bloody waste of time and paper.

Desiderata · 06/03/2009 22:28

Nah! That's weak. Jezzer is fucking ace!

Girly!

themoon66 · 06/03/2009 22:29

My colleague at work. Just because.

ScottishMummy · 06/03/2009 22:31

fair enough (as long as it isn't me obviously)

themoon66 · 06/03/2009 22:33

scottishmummy... am sure it's not you.

But.. do whinge a lot about stuff I can do nothing about? Do you get louder and louder as you whinge and whine? Do I occasionally snap and tell you to 'turn the volume down'? No? It's not you then.

ScottishMummy · 06/03/2009 22:35

fortunately,not me

Grendle · 06/03/2009 22:36

Pay and display machines that charge 50p per 20 mins and then don't accept £2 coins .

Rollmops · 06/03/2009 22:37

Reality TV. WHAT'S THE POINT?

PS: heard there's a rather good one going, though. About watching the paint dry. So much better than a bunch of sad wanna-bes brushing their teeth or similar.

mm22bys · 06/03/2009 22:42

those property house programs where they are so damned smug.

DH told me they're probably just "happy" and surely it's better than being miserable...

I just told him that if he met them in RL he wouldn't like them anyway....

Kimi · 06/03/2009 22:44

Scottishmummy, my mother watches it

nannyL · 06/03/2009 22:45

the tumble dryer beeping when it finishes drives me insane!

ScottishMummy · 06/03/2009 22:46

Aye kimi,yer mammy watches it.if you say so

Kimi · 06/03/2009 22:53

She does, she has no taste, she watches big brother as well!

I have better things to do then watch a bunch of skanks try and work out which workshy fuckwit is the father of their child