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

" ...try our rainforest friendly free range chicken..." Tea-keyboard

Can't stand over zealous fanatics of any kind, the overly greens, the über-PC - those drive me insane and I'm always so tempted to do something horribly un-PC just to wind them up , the mad Mums who drag their poor kids from infant Pilates to french lessons before the poor mites turn a year old....

women who mutter behind my back when they think i can't hear "why does she wear heels when she's tall" or "I woudn't wear heels if I was her height"

I am 5"10 not 6"6" and even if I was, I would still wear them. I don't wear shoes to make me taller I wear them because I like them.

One more on the height issue; when asked "do you like being tall?" WTF!?!!

I have no doubt I will get some angry responses to this one but I have to say: MICHAEL JACKSON AND HIS FANS.... he is cleary a paedophile. The fans that won't even consider this annoy me, the ones that believe it is possible but then state "but he is an amazing performer/singer/dancer etc" who cares.... do you not understand what a paedophie is????!!!

the way my husband never agrees with me, such as today in the car:

DD said "I throwed it on the floor"
"You threw it darling" says I
"I throwed it..." repeats the darling three year old
"No, threw..."

DH pipes up with "she throwed it"
"Throwed is not a word!" I say
"It is" argues DH
"Use it in a sentence" I challenge
"'I throwed it on the floor'" says DH

ARGH!!

And yes, I know this is doing the whole "she said, and then I said, so then he said" bit that you all hate, but give me a break!

People who refer to the back garden as "an outdoor room".

Everything on telly being a bloody "journey".

Tv programmes where people's lives are "transformed" through the power of fashion.

People who bark 'excuse me' without saying please

People who tut when you are holding a crying baby.
I have been known to look them straight in the eye and say 'sorry it's annoying you, obviously this is making my day as I love hearing my baby cry'

well said ataraxis...

Certain members of my family.

anything to do with rubbish talent-less celebrity and even if they have talent the worship gets on my DDs (Double Ds)...dog poo ...people who allow children to slap them in the face and pretend it's funny...I have more..lol

Being too tired to think of anything to add to this amazing thread
'night, all.

DH saying "just going to drop the kids off at the pool" when off for a poo.

12 year old chav girls trying to kick down the fence at the side of our house.

Celebrities who drop oh so subtle hints at their supposedly fantastic sex life. You're clearly not getting any...

Receptionists who fail to acknowledge your presence for several long minutes while you stand there shifting from foot to foot.

Mums you see at the supermarket, dressed to the nines who are so preoccupied with their own appearance they seem to forget their kids are there (poor buggers)

Our local dialect - people add an 'l' onto words ie Asdal. In fact the Bristol accent in general....

My friend who has hunted down a boyfriend with earning potential and is grooming him for marriage.
Said friend who also believes that a wife's duty is to serve her husband - FFS!! Also that she doesn't want to get engaged before he qualifies as an actuary because her engagement ring won't be as expensive.

Said friend's mother who believes that a woman has failed if she has to work after marriage. (Come to think of it, why is she my friend??!)

MIL who keeps insisting DD is teething - she's not, she just likes chewing her hands!

DH's pained expressions when ever something hurts. And that fact that he can't suffer in silence - he moans quietly to himself and/or rubs sore area until I'm ready to batter him.

Celebrities in photos who smugly cradle their bumps.

ooh - therapeutic! DH has just declared me v. sad for sniggering away to myself all evening.

When mothers prop their childs bottle up on a blanket because they can't be arsed to take the poor child out of the pram and feed them properly!

My DS1 talking constantly about nothing at all - I love him but the boy is NEVER quiet.

My MIL feeding my DS2 every time my back is turned despite my express instructions that he is not ready for food yet!

GMTV trying to make out that there are massive crowds queuing at the O2 for Michael Jackson concerts, by cleverly panning the camera at a certain angle that makes 40 people look like there might be thousands.

people who seem proud of their ignorance."cmon what you wanna read a book for, i call a spade a spade me." i mean wtf do i care what they do with their life?and they don't just annoy me in RL, they annoy me when on the tv even though i can just change the channell,so why don't i?

danjarmouse....most members of my family!

Rebee - I get the same. Am 6 foot and wear high heels and (god forbid) platforms. Get comments ranging from 'you don't need to wear such high heels' to 'it must be horrible to be so tall' to the classic 'you look like a transvestite'.

Still, I haven't decided to wear frumpy flat hush puppies to please the hoards, and am still wearing my heels!

good for you tall ladies! i am 5' 3" and dont wear heels to make me taller, i wear them because they make me feel better!

rebee agree with the michael jackson thing
if your friends husband had small children in bed with him that weren't his would you be his friend?

rollmop - i go to baby pilates it's an exercise class for me i just use my son as a weight and he loves it otherwise i wouldn't go.
damn i prefer being annoyed to annoying someone else!
we don't do french lessons though !
skulks off to google local french lessons

Authors who write books about the north (she was a poor northern lass etc.) who put endless pages of dialogue in "genuine" northern accents that take so long to read that you end up reading them out loud . None of these authors have been further north than Oxford.

"Oook 'eck love"
"wozzerit yersell"
"where's the bairns?"
"Trupplin up the alley wi me maaa"

referring to Scotland as a homogeneous mass.usually folk holidaying in Scotland
.....errrr where in scotland

"Authors who write books about the north (she was a poor northern lass etc.) who put endless pages of dialogue in "genuine" northern accents that take so long to read that you end up reading them out loud . None of these authors have been further north than Oxford. "

ah but what about novelists like irvine welsh, who's books would be completely ruined if the dialogue wasnae written in the local patter?ken wha ah mean doll face?

aye bit he is a radge,who wis ken't by aw the other radges he wrote aboot.likey

Mayor - we are not talking Irvine Welsh here .

aye, hardly a medal ay honour to be kent by a load a load ay pissed up jakeys doon tha port though.