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

RosJ did you once write an AIBU about suitcases on wheels?

no I didnt, must have been someone else. I imagine its a minority complaint...

"Going up the stairs on the right and not the left and then being arsey with you because you are holding the banister, trying to go down ON THE CORRECT SIDE."

But on the escalators you are supposed to stand on the right. That's very confusing, you're saying there are different rules for stairs and escalators!

When I'm queuing in a shop, DS runs off, I have to run after him and nobody offers to let me back in the queue. It may happen twice or three times. It's obvious I need to get DS out of the shop ASAP. Have a heart people FGS!

Got a new one.

Otherwise intelligent women who lambast men for being shallow, but then fancy Boris Johnson.

It's the HAIR ok ladies. Underneath is an ugly, fat, adulterous, middle-aged man.

I'm irrationally wound up by the idea of anyone fancying Boris Johnson. Ewwwwwww....

People who are driving on the motorway/dual carraigeway and are coming up to an on bound slipway and DON'T pull out to the empty lane next to them but instead carry on in the inside lane leaving the cars who are trying to join the carraigeway to heavily break/stop. All because someone is too selfish to switch lanes! Then get arsy when someone enters the carraigeway in front of them

People do though Sarah. I agree, eeewwww

I read an article about him recently in which he claimed that he gets so much female attention he "hasn't had to wank for years."

Double eeewww

Oh, motorways:
people driving sloooowly on the on-ramp, and then slowing down when they are about to join the motorway: speed up, you need to join the flow of traffic!!!

Also this morning: chewing gum on pavements, the eternal favourite dog poo on pavements, people's fast food wrappers/containers shoved into our hedge rather than into the bin right next to it.

And another...

People being described as "Broadcasters" when they have been on the telly once or twice.

I would call someone like Alastair Cook, or Jeremy Paxman, a broadcaster.

Not someone like Tommy Walsh, described on the cover of a book I saw today as "Tommy Walsh, Broadcaster, from BBC's Ground Force."

(am determined to help this grumpy ole thread get to 1000)

Oooh, so many things, so little time.....

all the above, esp. haitch instead of aitch - drives me mad.

People who put rubbish in the bin without a binbag;
Rude people;
Noisy neighbours;
Rogue apostrophes;
People on Jeremy Kyle or similar who actually have a valid point but aren't articulate enough to get it across;
The dickheads who don't turn off their engines at the level crossing outside my flat and leave their shite music blaring out for me to endure;
The Biffa lorry driver who thinks it's acceptable to empty an industrial size bin outside my flat at 4am. Aaargh!

I could go on..... God I'm grumpy.

Political correctness.
Erosion of freedom of speech.
Fly tipping.
Silly 'made-up' names.
Benefit fraudsters.
Hyphenated surnames.

Anyone saying anything about ginger. Am still puking at 17 weeks, and someone always says 'have you tried ginger?'

'no, I'm a complete fecking moron and never heard of this "ginger" of which you speak--pray tell, does it help with morning sickness?'

(it is a thread for irrational things)

People who turn down the corner of the page when they want to mark the place in their book. Drives me batty, mistreating books this way. I've had to bite my lip this week on the tube, watching people do this.

"people who don't indicate on roundabouts and then look so shocked when you pull out in front of them!!"

i hate people who don't indicate on roundabouts also but how would it ever lead to you pulling out in front of them? seeing as they're meant to indicate when turning off (or going the full way round) it normally leads to me missing an opening to get onto the round about, as i expect them to keep going straight, or nearly hitting the back of them when on a roundabout as they slow down to turn off when i expect them to keep going straight.

Mayorquimby - if you are on a 4-exit roundabout and you see someone come from the exit directly opposite you, if they don't indicate at all as they come across the ruondabout wouldn't you assume that they were going straight ahead (and therefore going into the road that you were coming out of)?

They should have started off by indicating right (as they were aiming for exit 3 from their perspective and exit 1 from where you are).

That's how.

ah yeah if you can see them across the way i would assume they were going straight. tbh i normally can't and even if i could so many people fail to indicate that i have started to assume all other motorists on round abouts are morons. it really is so frustrating as indicating is not that difficult, nor is learning the correct way to tackle a roundabout. however through discussion with mates i have learned that most people don't know the correct way to take a roundabout and all assume that their way is the right way

I was taught in my driving lessons that when you are going straight on a roundabout, you don't need to indicate because are not going left or right you are going straight on?

I was waiting to pull onto a roundabout a while back and the car coming round wasn't indicating and i thought he was going to go into the road i was pulling out of . I went to pull out and the idiot carried on round, he should have been indicating left so i would know he would be carrying on but he didn't. Imo, if i had hit him, yes in the eyes of the law i was wrong and it would have been my fault but i think it would have been his fault for not stating where he was going.

I must confess, I'm a page-corner-turner-downer

But I hate hate hate when DH leaves books open face down, ruining the spine and making the pages fall out!

People who throw rubbish out of car windows.

People who sit at junctions in their cars when you are driving towards them, who pull out just before you get level with them, when there is nothing behind you, and they could have waited a couple of seconds more.

The word 'hubby'. I know it's just a word, but it just grates!

I'm a page-turner-downer. And a leaver-open-facedown. But only if the books are mine (in case anyone from my book circle is reading).

They're my books, not museum pieces.

I'm a page-turner-downer, 'tis a habit I caught from my DH, but it is partly because bookmarks continually sliding out from the back of a book and having to be replaced disturbs my reading.

I hate people reading books and curling one side around the other so the book is virtually folded in half back on itself, why is this necessary? It is not a magazine and I would have thought it would take a lot of effort just to hold it in place. Then when you try and close the book it will stay all curled up and nasty. Much worse than turning a tiny corner down imo.

I have got an hyphenated surname! For my defence, I did not choose it!)

People who say a thing and mean another and you are supposed to guess because "you know them enough to know what they mean!"

Teenage DSs Who think it's OK to put EMPTY milk bottles & orange juice cartons back into the fridge, and empty cereal boxes back in cupboard.

Eriends & family whose phone number comes up as 'private' and then moan when we don't answer.....Why don't people phoning us want us to know who they are!

Old ladies with tartan shopping trollies...Might need one soon myself but certainly not a tartan one.

Changing pub names...What's wrong with 'Rose & Crown', 'Bull's Head' etc.?

Parent who give DC crap names and names where gender of child isn't obvious.....from the name that is.

We live in the country.....So

Tractor drivers who take widest (& smelliest) load out onto public road at the busiest time of day.

Young girls who ride horses 2-a-breast on narrow country lanes knowing full well traffic is queueing behind them. Nice weather as brought them all out again.

Unnecessary road signs. We don't need to be told that X village 'welcomes careful drivers' or 'thanked for driving carefully' as we leave X. We don't need to know where in France/Germany it's Twined with either.

Infact Twining (sp?) of anywhere. Who does it benefit. Schools can arrange pupil exchange visits etc. without coucilors & DH/DW having free trips abroad.