Not a pedantic question but ..is there a word to describe ..

[peridito]

when you carry out a very routine action and it fails ?

You miss the coat peg you were aiming to hang the coat on ,the salt cellar drops through your fingers ,the lid of the toothpaste tube doesn't screw on straight .

It really irritates me when this happens and I feel a descriptive verb would ease the pain .

Clumsy? Maladroit?

Totally agree, Peridito. I’m not aware of a succinct verb that would do the trick, but I agree with you that there is a need for this!

Hmm, kind of like a brain fart but physical 😂. There should be a word, not sure if there is...

Misalignment

Oh, you should ask Susie Dent in twitter!

And it's even worse when it happens twice in succession..

The Germans probably have a compound word for it.

Ha. Came here to say EXACTLY this.

Blunder?

Butter fingers?

I have a gas hob and the little metal plates on the rings are loose (they're supposed to be) and when they fall off when I clean said hob - which is majority of the time, it instills a completely unjustified anger in me 😂😂😂😂

Terry Pratchett coined the word embuggerance to describe his Alzheimer’s disease - might it be the right word for these small annoyances too?

SDTG yes I like that ,it will do for me !

Faux pas ?

embuggerance

What a brilliant word!

So perfectly descriptive!

Minor fuckup, mis alignment, mini mishap?

*embuggerance *is an excellent word!

I want a word for when things are aimed at adults rather than dc, but aren't ...ahem "adult content"

so if you are talking about TV programmes or books or films or whatever that aren't really 'family entertainment' and are aimed at adults - maybe an investigative programme such as Panorama, or a thriller, - rather than the adult content you might find in an Ann Summers shop or a porn channel.

‘For a mature audience’? No. ‘For a discerning audience’? No. I’m sure there is a word.

Both maladroit and faux pas mean dropping the salt socially, not physically, surely? My first thought was clumsy - but that focusses on the person rather than the non-compliant objects.

Cackhanded.

But that implies clumsy, whereas maybe it wasn't you being clumsy or awkward or whatever that caused the mismatch between your actions and their target.

In that case, let's call it cockhanded
I mean, if you had cocks for hands they would probably fuck up basic every day tasks

We refer to having “dickfingers” in our house!!

TottersBlankly is spot on saying but that focuses on the person rather than the non-compliant objects.

The annoyance comes from the fact that you are carrying out a small ,straightforward ( almost automatic ) action that you have performed a million times and out of the blue it goes wrong .

Of course it probably does arise from flaw in how the action is being carried out ,but it's impercitable to the person in question .

In that case, are you talking about the innate hostility of inanimate objects?

Interesting thought Tales ,but it's more the act ,the failing of an insignificant and normally successful movement .