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

RolaCola - agree with number 3 - its SO annoying!

i also say "sandwidges" not sure how not to..

i have a friend who bleaches a wild and straggly inch long moustache and i'm sooo sick of the sight of it, sometimes it's pointing in all directions. it's massive and it's just something that can't be mentioned or stared at. why does she go to the trouble of bleaching and not waxing? it drives me crazy!

My dad says sangwigde. Whenever he does I go don't do that and he goes why not and I'm like cos and he goes what and I'm like cos it's not sangwidges and he's like what is it then and I'm da-aaaad it's sandwich and he's like oh right and I goes don't say sangwidge again you're driving me up the wall abd he's like get a life and I'm like wot don't tell me to get a life cos I've got one ta very much.

We don't really say that. He does say sangwidge though.

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Oh, and txt spk whn u r nt txtng

I once had to read an application form for a job I was advertising which was written in txt spk. Needless to say she ddnt gt th jb.

People who say mulk instead of milk.

Jordan/Katie Price/Jordan/Katie Price/Jordan

Who IS she?

Greeters in shops - sorry to anyone who does the job but I dont want to be accosted by someone paid to smile

Celebrity - its such a non-concept... if you are really celebrated then everyone should already know your who you are, thus the word becomes redundant for anyone whos truly famous

Anyone who giggles and says 'naughty/Im being bad etc' when they take a biscuit or cake - FFS, you are an adult, its a biscuit, eat it or not as you choose but stop vapouring on about it!

I have just realised I spend my days in a seething half-rage

Being stopped every few metres in the town centre by people wanting to sell me the big issue/get me to buy a badge for animal adoption/take a leaflet for a shop i do not use/give money to a dog rescue charity/buy a big issue (there are about 5 Big Issuers down one street). And then i am expected to donate £? to comic relief not only in every shop i enter, but also shower my DDs with money to hand over when they 'do' comic relief at school.

not amused by charities at the moment, sorry.
Actually sod it, no i am not sorry.

This thread.

I'm glad it says "irrational"

I second/third/fourth (haven't been counting) 'fall pregnant' and 'catch pregnant'. If people insist on being so twee I fully intend to refer to it as 'getting knocked up', or even perhaps 'reaching the natural conclusion of lots of ovulation-based precision-timed shagging'.

Or "I've started a baby"

That really is too much...

Ds2 saying "Sho what?" When he means "Do you know what?"
Ds1 saying Man-CHEST-er instead of MAN-chester.
Ds3 asking me to read the Mr Men books to him when there are LOADS of more interesting and entertaining books on the shelf.
I do love them really!

People complaining about other people who have difficulty parking/reversing. Oh Good For You, it must be nice to have good spatial awareness. Sadly I don't! I would like to have good spatial awareness but it's a bit like being good looking, you either have it or you don't!

Follow-on milk adverts.

"I'm not a racist but....."
Yes you are a racist! Non-racist people don't start a sentence with that phrase.

uni
sangwidges
garment- it's a jumper fgs!
draw when it's drawer, as in 'a five draw chest'
the bin liner not being tucked inside the bin
supper
toilet roll hanging so that the loose end is on the inside

And saying 'space' instead of room, a la the pretentious twats on Grand Designs.

customer service phone lines, and folk that answer the calls. 9/10 times they shouldn't even bother answering the frigging call, in the call centre. They couldn'y give a flying f*. oh and Morphy Richards.

In aisle order? That is dedicated! He should be ashamed of himself for not managing to get everything on the list under those circumstances.

Exciting extras were always expected when my dad used to do the shopping, but carrots? Where's the fun in that?

Oh and DP farting, sneezing and endlessley blowing his nose very loudly.
And him going for a poo just before bedtime so that I don't want to go in there and brush my teeth.

can you tell its bedtime?

I loathe the word "contemporary".
Watch any property programme and there it is - every room is contemporary. It is the word that is used to describe everything - yet it actually describes nothing.

People withe VERY small cars, who insist on parkin right at the fromt of a parking bay. So you thik you've found a space, then just as you go to pull in, there it is.

The word property is the root of all evil. It's the reason this country's in the mess its in. People stopped seeing houses and saw property instead. Or should that be prop£rty?

Alot.. NO it's A LOT. Two words!

I know - beer and kettle chips I could understand, but carrots and tins of ravioli?

Oops, wrong thread.

Irrationally annoyed vs DH row, v similar.

When people misuse "literally", all hell can break lose in my imagination.

I once saw a football commentator say, "he was literally beside himself!" I tried to Google that to find who the perpetrator was, only to discover that about a million people were using the phrase on their blogs in all seriousness.

They belong in Heroes with skills like that.