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

Ooh, I like this thread!

The Loose Women - by definition, but particularly the way that, since Kay whatshername left, get very giggly about willy jokes. That silly cow from Corrie is the worst.

People who try to pre-empt you from complaining about their child by saying "I know he's no angel but....." and tehn excusing them on some flimsy pretext like there's an R in the month.

People in supermarkets who only start to slowly reach into their handbags for their purse once all the shopping has gone through and they have slowly packed it into bags and slowly put it in their trolley. I want to throw all their shopping on the floor and stamp on it .

Oh pavlov I would agree about Victoria Derbyshire but I can't quite articulate why not. I'd love to hear your reasons ...

I have had a really lovely day today and am looking forward to a fab weekend. So it pains me to report that the thing that irrationally winds the hell out of me at the moment is ...

Mumsnet.

Time for a break, I think.

yes,folk who only begin to look for cash when asked,squeal of surprise that remuneration is required

Scottishmummy, yes it's like they look around and think "what me? Pay? Now?'

uber mummies who spend hours preparing dressing up costumes for their kids and expect everyone else to do the same and poor scorn on them for not doing

People who think it's ok to go out and about in their pyjamas

the phrase "full time mum" load of bollox, don't stop being a mum just cos I go out and earn a wage to keep a roof over our head and buy shop boght dressing up costumes

the fact that your car fails an mot test if the spare tyre is bald/flat etc, but passes if the spare tyre is just not there!

kittiwise that's not irrational. it's totally rational to want to punch people like that

Every time my dh substitutes 'me' for 'my' ('I need to go to the dry cleaners to pick up me clothes) my teeth itch and I break into a sweat. It makes me feel physically ill.

Clearly I am insane.

the fact that everybody now shortens my first name (it only has four letters) or lengthens my surname (which also has four letters) to some pet name. At what point did I lose the right to my name?

Car drivers who do not indicate, especially at roundabouts. Makes me !

a moment in time, it is silly

Halloween - demanding money with menaces, I say

Leaving the CapsLock on by accident

spitting

people who cannot copy and paste in Excel.
Which has a long, long story behind it, but now, if somebody cant do it, my eyes start twitching and I get a demonic look

People using adjectives instead of adverbs to describe actions - e.g. "I drive slow" . I think we won't use adverbs at some point soon.

Bus Drivers who dont wait for you to sit down before lurching off.

The Newspaper boy who doesnt push the paper all the way through the letterbox, just leaves it half sticking out.

people who drive up your arse even though you are doing the max speed limit

My sister missing out words in sentences - she told me todays she's 'Going Birmingham tomorrow',

The way the women wave on Loose Women, like seven year olds. They should rename that programme Reactionary, Simple-Minded Women

People that have no social awareness.

A new child started nursery and her mother came bounding over right in my face saying,

'God she was a fucker this morning i had to drag her out the house and up the fucking road... little cow'

I had never met this woman yet she insists on telling me daily about (in her words) what fuckers her kids are, how her children have head lice/worms and every aspect of thier lives including toilet habits.

She runs up the road to catch up with me if she sees me, she walks close enough to be touching me, she is always trying to cadge lifts off me, i have known her (only in nursery) about 3 weeks.

I know i sound mean and i know she is probably trying to ake friends but i don't need to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, yes, people who decide they have the authority to mess with your name with diminutives of their choosing. Pronounce it as incorrectly as you like, but don't bloody shorten it unless invited to.

One thing that really gets on my goat and winds me up is when someone is visiting you and they say they are coming 'down' to see you when in fact they are coming 'up', and vice versa. My mum always says, 'are you coming up to visit us' when she lives in Cambrigeshire and we are in the Midlands.

I didn't dress DD up for WBD, unless you count being a character in a book that wore School Uniform.
Soending more cash for no bloody reason for a costume? No thanks!

They'll get enough out of me for Comic Relief.