What things irrationally wind the hell out of you?

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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

People who whistle...!!!!!!

People who have loud, mobile phone calls in the street, with sentences littered with expletives when I'm with DD, and also, when I'm not with DD.

People who mount the pavement to drop their kid off at school, so they don't obstruct the road, they just nearly run over the pedestrians instead.

Those bright cerise pink prams

Calling prams "travel systems"

Writing on girl's clothes, no matter what the message/wording/intent, it's crap

Witing on women's clothes. Why do we need to write over over bums and boobs? Like men need any excuse to stare at them.

Young children eating 1kg bars of chocolate

smelly bath stuff....theres another!
bath products that promise me i will leave the bathroom calm and tranquil...how is that possibl when some-one always needs the loo or a chat when i am in the bath..for goodness sake use the downstairs loo!!! grin

i think the saying "when I caught for DS" far worse than Falling pregnant - as if they caught it off their next door neighbour!

And, my DS has worked out how to whistle (at 4 years old he has managed 2 notes!)
very annoying!

can sombody tell me what a DS is? i am new, thankyou

people who take up 2 parking spaces because they're too fucking lazy to reverse back out and straighten up meaning i have to park at the end of the street to the bank and make my way up with a four year old, a two year old and a newborn when in actuality there are only 5 cars in the 8 spaces right outside the bank

that fecking baby milk ad with the giggling babies that basically implies that all the scientific facts regarding breastfeeding being better for your baby is a load of nonsense because look we got this baby to laugh on camera

90% of the people on grand designs.... proof that life isn't fair is that idiots like that with no taste have money to throw away buliding what dp describes as 'cement cubes in beautiful surroundings' and those of us who'd actually build beautiful homes will never have the money to do so

people who ask 'is he good?' about a baby he's a tiny baby, he's not capable of being bad ffs!

people who take the baby trollies in supermarkets who clearly have no baby. why? i mean they're hardly handier are they so why take one and leave a mother with a young baby without one

the person i know who, despite me telling her repeatedly that i use the shortened version of my name and noone i know calls me the full version, still insists on calling me the long version.

people who when you miss their call listen to the entire voicemail message and wait for the bleep only to hang up

dp's conviction that tea isn't stirred properly unless he's spent 5 mins clanging the spoon around the cup and sloshing tea all over the counter which he never wipes up

o dear.... i'd better stop now or i may never!

DS - Darling son / dear son
DD - darling/dear daughter
theres an acronym list at the top withg them all in

welcome

thankyou! i cant find the list, so any help appreciated

The new announcement system on London buses 'doors closing' Then at every fecking stop 'Kings cross' etc. Probably useful for tourists but it winds me up.

Loyalty card pushing. No I do not have a nectar card, and I don't want one. More than once they slipped one and an application form into my shopping. Not the staffs fault of course, no doubt they are forced to.

And rationally - my exH.

'How very dare you' is starting to make me twitch these days...

acronym list its in useful stuff

oh yes thankyou redonherhead! off for bathtime.. see you all later

TheDevilWearsPrimark - does this annoy you too?

Wouldn't the announcements also be useful for the visually impaired?

Yes that's a fair point. I'm sure once I'm used to it I'll just block it out.

pink tulips - with you on just about ALL of those except the tea one - my DH NEVER stirs the tea so even 3 sugars tastes like no sugars!

People who queue barge at the petrol pump - one day I will put my foot down and ram my car straight up the back of yours!!!!

People who moan at the size of my car - how else do I transport more than 2.4 children then? Hmm?!

Also - although these are quite justified IMHO- anyone without children under 5 who use M&B spaces - particularly if they drive a shiny expensive sports car - makes me see purple with rage that one

people who strut about claiming their mortgage is now less than £100 pcm - bully for you

not being able to just "get" pregnant when I want to...that is just pants

men who use the expression "we are pregnant". No SHE is pregnant and I dare say you had a hand in it.

The bl**dy "compare the Meerkat" advert makes me want to scream with annoyance.

People who stop dead at the top of escalators and then give you evil looks as you and everyone piles into the back of them.

People who sit outside my house in their cars revving their engines as loud as possible and waking up my dd (why can't they turn their engines off FFS)

Rudeness- when I pick up DD from nursery I always make an effort to smile at the other mums and say hello only to be greeted with death stares

People on packed commuter trains who sigh when you dare to open the window (lucky buggers they get to sit down while I have to stand for an hour almost fainting from lack of air)

Kimi - Have to ask. We have a Golf, what's your problem? Picked because relatively environmentally friendly (for a car) and big enough but no bigger than it needs to be for our family. Didn't realise we were doing something weird/wrong/deeply offensive...

My MIL saying "sandwidges" - there's no g there either!

People scuffing their feet while they're walking.

Groups of teenagers listening to loud rap songs on their mobile phones on trains while arguing over exactly what the sweary lyrics are.

People with pushchairs coming towards you two abreast, at speed, taking up entire pavement and seeming to expect you to walk into path of oncoming traffic in busy London roads to get out of their way.

Any other group of people coming towards you taking up the entire pavement. Am I invisible?

People with pushchairs repeatedly ramming them into the back of your ankles without apologising.

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Long false nails - how do people wipe their bums when they have 2 inches of acrylic on the ends of their fingers?

gardeningmum05 - Im in Notts too and I agree about Central News

Parents that scrape all thier babies hair into a ponytail right on the top of thier heads, when they hardly have any hair. Why do they do that?

People that say 'Wicked' to mean something good.

When the cord on the vacuum cleaner is not put back on right a la DH, he just winds it up on his arm and hooks it around the handle.

In fact any cords that are not wound up correct and phone cords that are all twisted up, ggrrrrrrrr.

Very irrational I know, but I HATE IT.

frasermum123....i agree, why make your child look like pebbles from the flintstones!!

also dislike babies with their ears pierced

The phrase 'it's a big ask'

Where did that come from? Surely we used to say 'it's a lot to ask'.

agree with fall pregnant. hate that.

Also people who put hair bands/alice bands on little bald babies...they've got NO HAIR! it doesn't look cute, they just look bald with an alice band!

My MIL asking what "colourways" I will be using for the nursery.

DH's ex referring to clothes as "pieces" (her chanel "piece" her prada "piece") - it's an ITEM of clothing, you moron. It's a piece of furniture. Grrr.

The marketing director emailing me to ask if the work travel insurance policy would pay out because he tore his $450 Lanvin trousers (actually he said "pants" but I seriously hope he meant trousers) on a stair rail.