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

dh hanging his coat on the bannister instead of on the coat rail.

family members leaving the toilet roll cardboard tube thingy rolling around the bathroom instead of putting it in the bin.

drawers not being closed properly.

would of/could of/should of/ instead of HAVE.

loose instead of lose

gutteral stops

the noise that is being made because of gas escaping from my partially closed cola bottle...

i need to learn tolerance.

When the weather forecasters go on about "bits and pieces" or "spits and spots" of rain.

Is there not a technical term. Like "showers" or something? Are we deemed too stupid to understand such jargon now?

Hee hee Wheesht, I don't feel so alone now with my intolerance.

'gutteral stops' ???

I am curious.

So this makes sense, I work in a Coffee Shop.

Asking for a Coffee. Yes, which kind, we have many, I'm not a mind reader.

Ordering a big fat cake and then saying "Ohh, I shouldn't really", or "Ha ha, you didn't see me eat this", or " I deserve it once in a while".
You clearly look as if youi eat nowt but cake and I don't care, just eat the damn cake and shut up. Making excuses to me, the waitress, will not make you thinner.

DOfferring me £1 to serve you first.
The other folk were here before you and I'm not quite that desperate yet.
It's £1, it's a shite Coffee Shop, Are you really that desperate for some soup that cfrom a bucket and a sarnie with FarmFoods bread?

Can you tell I love my Job?

I advise you do not visit the shop I work, you are likely to get a sneezer!

Sorry, meant glottal stops rofl, not gutteral!!

Don't like gutteral either much tho whatever they are...

lolol mugggle... Perhaps it's time for a change of career?

When I see big fat cake I say YUMMMM...as if I am alone in my own world of cakedom and start drifting away. That must be annoying to some, surely.

No. That's just natural rnr.

Surely?

I ave jus done a search on glo..al stops and now feel more the wiser.

Will I be irritated by them now me wonders? Oh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yes, I know, only joking Wheeshtgibberwitch!
ehem.

And while I'm here.

Chavvy names for kids.
Football shirts on anyone unl;ess actually playing football
Skinheads on young boys
VPL
Charity Shop snobbery
Martha on Home and Away
The weird smell I can't locate in my fridge.
Should of and would of. The worh is have, you moron.
Bad advice on weaning. Giving watered down cow's milk with jars of food is not good, nor is at least 10 people saying it'll be OK, they did similar and they are fine.
Kids collectable stuff. I fall for it every time and now have a new HSM postcard book thing that I've agreed to buy for.

I get REALLY annoyed when this one mum collects her child (from school) whilst talking on the phone. It really pisses me off. I think it must be pure insecurity, every single time she arrives the phone is glued to her ear, I am waiting for it to ring one day. Then she walks off and does not say a WORD to her lovely wee one. Sniff sniff...

Pointing out that my spelling/typing is crap.

That's not irrational annoyance though rnr - that's entirely understandable . Maybe she is very shy and is hiding behind the phone?

mugggle am going to start a thread tomorrow (when I am somewhat more sober) about tolerance and whether one becomes more or less tolerant with age.

I'm definitely becoming less tolerant.

good night all.

RnR
That's natural cake behaviour. I just hate when people make excuses for eating it.
Just eat the damn thing!

Def munchy eating/slurpy drinking noises - particularly when bananas or peanuts are involved seems to be 10x worse than other foods.

Lowri Turner (not sure that's irrational though)

Anyone other than me going anywhere near my handbag or wardrobe - they are my last reserves of personal space - bugger off!!!

My DH's insistence that he has food intolerances after consulting some quack in a health food shop 9 years ago! He did their exclusion diet and somehow miraculously managed discover he was 'intolerant' to cucumber, melon, bananas, mushrooms and caffeine, but that beer, wine, cheese, bread and chocolate caused him no problems whatsoever - what a surprise! Also when he informs people 'I don't do caffeine".

He does when he pisses me off and I give it to him instead of his disgusting cats piss decaff !

When people say things such as "I'm doing heels and jeans this season", or "Are we doing long coats this year?", on the Style and Beauty topic on here.
Doing what other than wearing them?

I know exactly what you mean mugggle - that's what annoys me about DH and his not 'doing' caffeine!!!

Other than myself not being able to sleep obviously, that's a fiven but I've thought of more.

TTCing. What is that? It doesn't make sense. Trying to conceiving? No.
TTC when you talk about BD, and swimmers. Are you 12?
It's sex and sperm. I'm guessing if you are BD, and talking of swimmers your sex life is shit, you are only doing it because you want a child and if I were you I wouldn't bother, he's getting it elsewhere as you can't even say sex.
Looking at the stains on your underwear often is disgusting, it just is. Check them all you like, but don't publicise it.

If you are pregnant, and managed it without being 12, or telling us about the contents of your gusset, could you accept that you are not ill?

Y'know "I know I must avoid blue cheese but my friend ate a dairylea triangle near me, will I get listeria", "I know I musn't have alcohol as I've fallen (don't get me started on the fallen) pregnant but I had a lick of a spoon that had a Baileys cheesecake", " I saw a prawn the other day, will I die", type crap.
You're not ill, you're pregnant and stop making a ruddy song and dance about it, I don't care.

Oh and back to the TTC thing.
It is possible to get pregnant just by having sex, yes really.
Being suprised at getting pregnant because you had it once outside of the temperature charts may suprise you, but I listened at school!

given
fiven is just something that annoys me irrationally.

Hello! After my little slip into seriousness last night I am back yipee.

Mr Motivator - he makes me want to sit really really still for a long time and eat cake whilst I am doing it.

I cannot stand women who do that 'ooo shall I be naughty?' thing when they are looking at a biscuit. Just fecking eat it. This is something that joins women of all classes and backgrounds together. It is just as likely to come out of the mouth of a middle aged, university educated, social worker as from the mouth of Kelly Marie, 24, who lives down my street with her 6 kids.

I know it has been mentioned before but it deserves to be repeated just incase any of you were thinking of doing it today.

People who say 'Oh I am so mad/sensitive/deep/intiuative/whatever, just ask my friends, they will tell you' This means they think everyone they know spends as much time thinking about them as they do. They dont you self centred twonk.

Health visitors/clinic clerks who give me answers to questions I havnt asked and advice that I do not want or need thank you very much. I KNOW that you shouldnt feed swiss roll and sausages to a 6 week old, dont assume that a/because I live in east london, b/talk like this and c/have mixed race kids that I am an idiot.

On that subject. People who ask me 'do they all have the same dad?' About my kids. Fecking cheek! No actually one has a different father but then he has a different mother as well - bemused look. Dont get me wrong, I couldnt care less if someone has kids by different dads but dont assume I do because mine are brown. I am NOT waynetta slob. (I just look a bit like her on the school run)

anyone who describes themselves as "mad" is inevitably the most bring person in the world.
and anyone who describes themselves as anything along the lines of "fun loving party goer/likes to have a good time" just means they drink more than they can handle and become extremely annoying.

People who say 'myself' and 'yourself' instead of 'me' and 'you'

People who say 'volumptuous' instead of voluptuous.

Shampoo and conditioners from the same range where you put one with the lid down and one with the lid up for them to be the 'correct' way up - confuses the hell out of my DH and makes me feel like Richard Briers in Ever Decreasing Circles fussing around with the phone wire.

People who walk backwards in supermarkets looking for stuff without imagining they might back in to someone.

Announcements on train stations about keeping your feet off the seats/ watching for suspect packages/ danger caused by wet weather etc when what you really want to know is where is the bloody train.

There are probably many more....