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What things irrationally wind the hell out of you?

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ElfOnTheTopShelf · 06/03/2009 18:18

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

OP posts:
StealthPolarBear · 24/03/2009 17:21

I hate that too?

MorrisZapp · 24/03/2009 17:22

Oh my god? I like, totally know how annoying that is?

happywomble · 25/03/2009 07:07

Lazytown - can't stand it it is sooo louud

happywomble · 25/03/2009 07:16

People who drive whilst on their mobile phones.

zookeeper · 25/03/2009 07:19

Ridiculously loud sneezes. Why????????

Mummyfor3 · 25/03/2009 22:18

DH lifting his leg, like a dog cocking his leg IYKWIM, to FART!! Yuck!
AND he thinks it is hilariously funny

Tigerbear · 12/04/2009 02:37

The sound of other people eating;
DH not brushing his teeth twice a day;
Waiters and waitresses automatically handing the chip and pin machine to DH when we are out for dinner - assuming that because he is the man, he is the one who will be paying.

witchofeastwick · 13/04/2009 22:11
  1. Men who walk with pretend 'gangsta' limps
  2. Smokers outside hospital doors
  3. Cheryl Cole standing by Ashley

and fifty million other things ( I'm turning into a right miserable cow as I get older)

earthpixie · 13/04/2009 22:21

Saucepans with metal handles that get hot so you CAN'T BLOODY USE THEM.

People who refer to homes and houses as 'properties'.

Gordon Ramsey. Appalling role model and general knobber.

Inconsiderate drivers. You kill people.

SparkyFartDust · 13/04/2009 22:30

well, I don't think this is irrational but it does wind me up more than it should....

competative parents

we took dd's to Easter Egg decorating/ rolling / hunt 'fun day' yesterday... and I tell you DD1 was about the only child to decorate the egg herself. Most of the others were done by harrassed, head girl type of mothers who were gluing, wrapping and decorating like crazed things.

When the judges came along to look at all the 'children's' eggs, they were practically shoving their beautifully crafted fakeries under their noses.

I even saw one parent packing their egg with stones so that it would have unfair advantage in rolling stage of competition.

It was loathsome.

DD's looked shite, but you could tell a 4 year old had lovingly worked on it and not some upper middle class twit who clearly needs to get a life.

can you tell I'm annoyed?

Meglet · 13/04/2009 22:47

Able bodied people who let the checkout staff pack their shopping in the supermarket, they stand there like lord and lady muck and in the process hold up the queue as it takes so much longer. Aaarggghhh! Pack it yourself you lazy **! Its not Harrods FGS.

isittooearlyforgin · 13/04/2009 22:52

my mother in laws inability to use a mobile phone - hence the following:-
MIL into phone:hello,hello?
MIL to husbandh, what button do i have to press?
FIL:Not the red one, not the red one...I said NOT the red one
MIL: but ...
silence
phone rings again, whole thing repeats twice more

vezzie · 14/04/2009 10:22

Right, I am 39 weeks pregnant and feel like a v. effective petri dish solely for the efficient and rampant cultivation of irrational irritation.

For instance:

People leaving their houses and immediately lighting up. No, no, you silly man, you are the smoker, you want to inhale that crap, so you can do it in your house, not save it for the space you share with the rest of us. And I am too slow to overtake you and have to trail along in your nasty poisonous wake.

People pulling out from side streets in front of me when I am driving and not making eye contact. I will let anyone in who just gives me a nice look, but I am crazed enough at the moment to drive into the next person who does this without acknowledging me.

GPs who advise you to "try" something really obvious like E45 and don't seem to believe you when you say you have, for 3 weeks. "well give it a go and come back if there is no improvement." Is it that something that didn't work in 3 weeks might magically do the trick in 6? Or do you not believe me? Or are you not listening? Which is it? Why do you want me to come back when your surgery is filled with leaflets about not wasting appointments? Why can't we just use this appointment for what it is for, ie, you give me a prescription and get rid of the problem?

Stupid patronising not-listening GPs in general, who bang on and on "reasssuring" you about something normal which is not the thing you were consulting them about.

The post office putting cards through your door about oversized deliveries when you were out, which have a phone number on which doesn't connect to anything.

Rich, complacent people making out the recession is a good thing because society was too materialistic before - as if people were working hard through greed or choice. Society is not going to become magically more equal and less pressured because people are being made redundant and taking salary cuts - the opposite will happen, you fools.

People with big mortgages and huge senses of entitlement making out that home owners deserve more support in a recession than everyone else. No, the stupidly inflated cost / price of housing is a large part of the mess we are in and we aren't going to get out of it by preserving the god-given right of some people to make huge profits from property speculation.

people spitting in the street. Why?

Horrible strong aftershave that makes me sneeze and wheeze.

The hairdresser in Streatham which is called "Crown & Glory" because the person doesn't know that "crown'n' glory" stands for "crowning" not "crown and".

vezzie · 16/04/2009 00:58

Sorry, I am tragically talking to myself now but there is one more that is so important I have to add it.

Southerners misspelling words with "oo" to represent the Northern "u" sound in for instance "stuff" or "but". No one in Yorkshire, Lancashire or Merseyside uses the same vowel sound in "stuff" as they do in "loose" and it is a. wrong to write the word as if they do and b. south-centrically patronising to imply that you have to somehow change the spelling to show they don't say "staff" for "stuff" like southerners.

IneedAbetterNickname · 16/04/2009 01:23

OK, have only read the 1st page (I am so lazy) but,

I don't mind 'Baby/child on board' signs (although we stopped using ours as we couldn't be bothered to put it in and take it out depending on when children were/weren't in car. HOWEVER I really hate 'babe on board' 'footballer' etc etc, they are not a fucking status symbol! Plus people who have multiple signs in their car. SIL has 5!!!! Yes 5! A 'baby on board' in rear window, passenger side, and 'mucky pup on board' in top centre of rear window (blocking her view from rear-view mirror). A 'child on board' rear window driver side, plus one in each back window. Until she gave birth again 5 weeks ago she also had a 'mum to be on board'

I also hate people who use text spelling that is as long as the real word and the point is what exactly?

I am sure there are many more but it is late and I am tired!

Oh yeah, my MIL and SIL in general, damn them!

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