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

"Mayor - we are not talking Irvine Welsh here . "

i know, just any excuse to mention his name (and for that matter any chance to discuss the glorious psycho that is begbie). and your complaints about phoenetic dialogue in books. agree when it's done badly it ruins the tempo of a book and just looks forced, a biut like danny dyer shows where he pretends to be a bit nawty himself.cause he's a wrong 'un you see and he'd chin someone if they got out of line with her in doors. when it's just so fake it's pathetic.

where as irvine welsh books and for any dubliners out there paul howards "ross o'carroll-kelly" series where they get it so spot on that it just makes the book infinitely more enjoyable and humouros.

i love irvine welsh, although i do resent the fact that his success has made him less productive. not saying i wish some awful downturn in his circumstances to encourage his return to form.. or am i?

dp moaning about how he cleans more than me..i hate mopping and vaccuuming, i appreciate him for doing it but i'm not going to rush to stop him or get in there first. why can't he just take the praise and be cheerful about it??

dribblychops - oh I hear you on the brizzol dialect.......makes us sound so thick don't you think?

Thankfully I speak RP

Parents telling me "I'm not important" and yet are happy to leave their kids with me all day..........

queer eye for the straight guy....

because only gay men have taste apparently.....

I know many gay men who have NO taste whatsoever!

"not saying i wish some awful downturn in his circumstances to encourage his return to form.. or am i?
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i do. bedroom secrets of the masterchefs was the most self-indulgent wankery ever seen on a piece of paper.
he's got a prequel to trainspotting coming out called "skagboys". i'd imagine it'll be more akin to the movie and porno than the trainspotting book, but i still can't wait.if he makes a mess of it i think we can assume that his brilliant works are a thing of the past and were in reality the blip in form as oppossed to the opposite.

mayorquimby - delighted to find someone else who agrees! i reread porno again last holiday and some of it is so cringeworthy, painfully self concious descriptions of fancy foods and expensive clothes. i could just picture mr welsh all smug and over stuffed, in his newly acquired knowledge of the finer life. tut tut

The word "Latte" - it's milky coffee fgs!

People THAT DON'T READ THE THREAD ARRRRGGGHHH

Ahem. Seriously, twenty messages is not too many to read and realise that everybody has already said the same as you and that there is NO NEED to say it again.

Also, people that randomly use caps to indicate frustration.

exasperated over use of capitalsPS it isn't a competition to say something original first

People (BIL in the past) who have absolutely no association with or knowledge of children trying to dish out parenting advice.

british gas doing work outside my house, spent all day scratching their arses, chatting to anyone walking past, sitting in their van, peeing against their van, then when i have just put my 2 yr old and 1 yr old to bed get out their bloody drill. w***s!!!

GetOrfMoiLand: OMG, someone said you look like a transvestite.... horribly rude!

i hope this hasn't been mentioned, I did read through the thread but didn't spot it:

random people touching my baby.... aaaargh!!!! I hate it so much.

I was at the self service checkout in the supermarket, I turned my back for a second to pay and when I look back some staff worker was tickling my baby's cheeks and chin.

A few days later in waterstones so old man with tobacco stained fingers shook my baby's hand..... he's teething, he sucks on his fingers.

It's very difficult for me not retaliate with a physical attack.

lmao@rebee i was exactly the same...don't worry it's all helping his/her immune system just have the wipes to hand!

it is quite funny to see what little things people get so wound up about....
I suppose we all have them...I haven't got a regular one unless you count dh and the annoyance he causes me, lol.....but it is little things....
when I was still nursing my main jibe was when people would put food infront of people that clearly couldn't feed themselfs and than assume the person didn't want the food

ScottishMummy I watch with amazement while those ladies give themselves a full make-over on the way to Liverpool St...it's amazing!...get on scary... get off sexy (or at least non-scary)...lol.

This isn't really irrational, but anyway...

The twonk across the road who for the last couple of weeks has had music blaring with all of his windows open at 6.30 on a Sunday morning. I have no idea whether it's a continuation of Saturday night or he just likes getting up early, but I'd like to stick his stupid big bollocks bass system up his left nostril.

The way DH insists on lifting his leg when he farts.

applying your make up on public transport is so icky.wouldnt change tampon on train so dont apply your slap

have a scrap of dignity

scottish...women applying make up on the way to work whilst stuck in traffic....slowing it further dowwn....those annoy the hell out of me actually

eek!applying full slap on the ring road.wrong

Starbucks stupid sizes: it's small, medium or large, whatever else you have decided to call it

DH plucking, yes plucking his nasal hairs - and leaving them in the sink, yuck!

ASDA having been full of whinging toddlers tonight - why are all these 2 year olds not in bed at 10pm?

Gosh, I never know what I am ordering in Starbucks!

scottish -you are so right re make up (as in those who don't bother to dry their hair).

This thread dying, noooooooooo!!