What things irrationally wind the hell out of you?

[ElfOnTheTopShelf]

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

So do you then say 'otel ,'ello, 'ear ? Sorry but when I was taught we were taught H. H for hotel imo.

Pretentiousness and people who have in fads such as turning to budhism but still having christian festivals, yet meditating etc.

Our teacher in the equivalent of yr5 many years ago used to say "there is no aitch in aitch", so I have always believed him.

It is only now I'm a parent I'm beginning to question what teachers say

hee hee think this thread might go on for a while yet.

I am LOVING this - so cathartic!

People who overtake me in a 30 MPH zone when I am doing 30

Anybody who goes over 70MPH on the dual carridgeway

the fact that since I gave up teaching I can no longer spell, type accurately or talk properly.......why is that?!

friends who only want to talk to you when they need something

people who don't wash their hands after using the loo, putting the rubbish out or stroking an animal.....YUK YUK YUK

DrTrillian - aitch is what I was taught too. Funnily enough I remember having a very strange conversation with someone who insisted it was "Haitch, 'cos it's Haitch for 'otel"

When the BBC Newsreaders finish with "And now over to where you are" it just sounds so clumsy and wrong. No idea why it annoys me so much.

People who use side tracking and personal put downs mid thread rather than argue the point properly - eg. those that go on about poor spelling or post without grammar. Really annoys me.

Yoghurt pot lids that don?t come off in one clean piece and then have foil bits stuck round the edge (Muller Rice, I am talking about you...)

Supermarkets

Sticky price labels that leave nasty black smudges that refuse to come off despite half a bottle of washing up liquid.

I can understand why you think H is Haitch, because B is Bee and D is Dee, but F is Eff and X is Ecks. And Y is Why, even though it can also sounds like Yuh or like Eee.

ooo ooo another one thanks to dillydaydreamer

People who drop their T's....

Wa-er (water)
Boa- (boat)
Bu--er (butter)

FGS learn to talk!!!

And those hidious hidious adverts that are trying to sell butter or ambrosia custard who have some moron standing by a cow talking like they just fell out of the cows arse - West Country folk do not all talk like that and even if they did it would be far far better to use a REAL West Country dialect speaking person than some crap actor faking a West Country accent by simply sticking "oooer" and "aaa" on the end of a sentence......makes us look really thick and we just are not!

People who use the word BLARDY (sorry everyone on here thats been using it......)

Packaging that has a 'clever' or 'easy' way of opening (especially if labelled 'new easy-open pack') but no actual instructions, so you end up just scissorng the top off anyway.

brian macfadden and delta goodrun.....

David Fing Beckham - what a twat

Smoking. I see people smoking they instantly fall in my estimation, don't care who they are I will judge oh yes, I will judge (goes 50 X for middle class yummy mummy types at parties who think they are being a little bit rebellious and cool....HA! Don't make me laugh, it's tragic)

Oh GOD fake west country accents - nomoreandover do you remember the Country Life butter adverts ("you never put a better bit of butter on your KNOIFE", all in the strongest cod-devonian accent you have heard in your life!).

I am from Devon and I don't speak anything like that!

Leading on to Justin Lee Collins. Honestly what is the point of the man.

Re packaging rants - I hate those film lids on ready meals (yes, I know, Mumsnet crime no, 5673) - you can never peel the film lids off in one piece, resulting in fronds of hot plastic and LAVA hot sauce spilling all over your fingers)

Wooden bicycles - you KNOW they want a Barbie/Batman one

Hiccups.

They make me fucking furious.

People who say 'the trouble is I am just TOO sensitive' usually as a reason for being really selfish and not wanting to do something or to disguise their awful bigotry i.e. The trouble is I am just TOO sensitive to work with handicapped (sic) children, it would upset me too much' = 'I dont want to be around kids that arnt pretty and dribble'.

That fecking horrible smiley you get on some forums that is a 'crying face' boo fecking hoo. It is almost exclusively used by posters who have never experienced anything more traumatic than a broken nail.

People (OK women) who excuse their feckless behaviour with the line "Oh I'm an Aries, we're a bit airy fairy" No, you just can't be arsed to remember an appointment, turn up on time or stick to anything you've started.

The man from Ryanair, twunt!
Nick Ferrari. another twunt! Who is he?
A woman I saw the other day with a Louis Vuitton nappy bag! Why do I care, it's her money but
2 pints of lager and a packet of crisps on BBC3, it's crap!
My DP leaving the pots "to soak"

The way everyone in the new Adidas advert (the David Beckham at a party one) is super trendoid and bouncing. It makes me unexpectedly angry.

My local supermarket stocking 80,000 lines of air freshener and yoghurt, but only one flavour of cottage cheese and no miso soup.

Tabloid headlines such as 'Police girl foils kidnap plot' or 'Army girl in Afghan horror' or any such where inserting the male equivalent into the headline would sound plain ridiculous, even to the twunty copy writers who produce this drivel.

'Muller Rice, I am talking about you...'

Now that really is a sign of being ticked off, when you start bracketing asides to an inanimate object.

I like to think (I nearly typed 'loiked' there - all the talk about cod-Devonian accents) that this was a slightly threatenening whisper to the Mullerice......

I am amazed no-one has mentioned Sarah-Jane Twat from Cbeebies yet