Not the big stuff, but frankly embarrassingly trivial crap that just makes your urine boil, then makes it boil twice over from the annoyance of actually being annoyed in the first place. Frankly irrational irritations.
Right now there's two empty pizza boxes stacked on top of the paper/carboard recycling bin. Like... why? What's the logic here? You came so close, you actually made it as far as the bin, it's not full. If you just couldn't be arsed or you didn't know how bins work or something🤷♂️ then you could have put them on the worktop above the bin so that the bin is still useable. But no, they're slotted in betwixt bin and countertop so a) I have to move your shit out of the way to be able to open the bin to dispose of them and b) if I don't notice and opened the bin then it all skitters off into the void down the back of it. Why? WHY? WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
And now I'm far more 'kin livid at my own stupid petty self for even caring sufficiently to start this thread. At least the crap has made it into the kitchen rather than being abandoned on the coffee table waiting for the Dog Poo Fairy's day off. Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Hulk Smash
What've you got?
Bottles placed next to the recycling bin..
Mugs etc in sink when dishwasher is empty..
Placing "things" in front of drawers cupboards that i need to get into...
Being asked to fetch something from the garage (paint, step ladders etc) while i have my arm up the back of the bath fixing a leak..
But ultimately the mega piss boiler is procrastination its a ****ing art form in our house...i dont want to discuss the position of a plant in the garden, just tell me where you want the hole digging.
I could write pages....
Ooh and not using decorators caulk before painting...
Not masking stuff off...
Not filling holes/dinks before painting..
Using a brush instead of a roller on huge walls..
Yep decorating piss boiler
Having to explain that the 17th century house we live in is...
A. Not square
B. Not level
C. I am not a DIY magician.
And that Pinterest is make believe...
not using decorators caulk before painting…
Wait. Before?
Having to explain that the 17th century house we live in is…
A. Not square
Mate of mine famously once declared that he was off to B&Q to buy a Wrong Angle, because there wasn't a right angle in the entire house. 😁
Placing “things” in front of drawers cupboards that i need to get into…
Ah, yes. "Is there a reason you've moved this?" Yes, it was in the bloody way.
I absolutely 100% appreciate you doing the laundry so that I don't have to and sincerely thank you, but it's an abject pain in the cock when there's baskets all over the kitchen floor and I'm trying to cook dinner for six people.
Right now there’s two empty pizza boxes stacked on top of the paper/carboard recycling bin. Like… why?
TBF (and it's a slim one here) according to our local council's recycling rules, we can't put pizza boxes in the recycling bin because they are grease contaminated... they need to go in the regular landfill bin. (Which I assume was right next to the card recycling bin in your case...)
Any radio that isn’t tuned in properly.
i can keep my cool in pretty much any situation- unless there’s a radio somewhere in earshot with the signal repeatedly dropping out.
Wait. Before?
yep. i think caulk can be painting over but not to be used as a filler as it cant be sanded down?
so, silicone for bathrooms/kitchens, caulk for the other rooms. i think.
Bad driving
Putting empty butter and empty milk containers back in the fridge.
Yep, technically they do contain butter/milk but in practice the milk would evaporate before it finished the journey to my cup and the butter needs nano-level tech to extract it.
How dairy?
A fantastic high level clean of every surafce in the kitchen with nuclear strength solutions that leaves the used kitchen roll and cleaner bottle sitting on the worktop "in case I do a bit more".Writing nots on every scrap of paper possible and leaving them in random places to "remind me". Of what? Where the bloody paper is?
Drawing the landing window curtain. It faces a huge ok tree! Not closing the blind next to but at 90 degrees to the the first window that faces on to the road and millions ofdog walkers.
I hope oldmanmtb2 feels better having got all that off his chest
Guide leaders who despite all the "This Girl Can" talk are unable to out up a new tent for the first time without their husbands.
Guide leaders who despite all the "This Girl Can" talk are unable to take down and repack a new tent for the first time without their husbands, because they didn't take note how it had been folded when they got it out.
I absolutely 100% appreciate you doing the laundry so that I don’t have to
....but putting some clothes in the machine, starting the thing off and then forgetting about them does not constitute doing the washing. It takes about 20 seconds, maybe 25 if the fabric conditioner lid is tight.
Me finding the machine full when I need to put my bike stuff in it, and subsequently sorting out the dryer vs line items, hanging the line items up, drying the smalls, and then refolding them when done takes orders of magnitude more than your 20s contribution. So no, 'we' didn't do the washing really did we?
"Loud pipes save lives" rhetoric from motorbikerists who put race pipes on a road bike then cane it through the mountains here in Schwarzwald.... and this is from me, a motorbikerist of many years...
Facebook posts about overtaking cyclists posted by the police. Why leave the comments open? Its information from the police, about the law and 500 road tax, rlj's and insurance comments later...
Finding an unemptied washing machine or dishwasher. It’s a labour saving device not a labour negating device. The action of putting things into such devices is but half of the story. Normally the easy half.
Utensil in the wrong part of the drawer so when holding a hot pan and reaching for said utensil the heat gets transmitted more and more through the oven glove. If the item was where it should be my hand wouldn't have melted.
The word betwixt!
People often telling me I shouldn't wear headphones when cycling,without having any idea about:-
1/ my chosen route
2/ when I choose to have them switched on
3/ what volume I choose
4/ how my level of risk assessment works
5/ how long I have been doing this shit
Username changed to first name. (did I miss this change?)
Toothpaste squezed from the middle.
Anyone cooking outdoors without a bin/collecting the litter carefully (see:DofE expeds).
The recent fashion for grey decor. Everywhere. We live in a cloudy often damp country - why would any person decide 'know what this country and my house needs? More battleship grey.'
Many of SRAM's design decisions.
Putting random bits of waste metal or plastic in the recycling bin when we've lived in a place with strictly limited recycling for over 10 years and the offender has been told at least 100 times already that they only recycle plastic bottles and metal cans/tins. Anything else leads to the collection being spoiled and ending up at the incinerator plus I'm the one that ends up up to my waist in the recycling bin fishing out all the random crap. Arrrrrgh!!
15mm axles. We had lovely, strong, stiff, not heavy 20 x 110 axles. But that's too much let's make them 15 x 100. Hmmm, not quite enough let's go to 15 x 110. OK, but still not enough, let's add torque caps to increase the diameter. I suspect the next move will be be to increase the bore to 17.5mm and see how that goes. I know standards need to change and evolve but this was a massive waste of time and money.
Facebook posts about overtaking cyclists posted by the police. Why leave the comments open? Its information from the police, about the law and 500 road tax, rlj’s and insurance comments later…
I'm hoping it's so the next "war on drivers" involves legislation to make being an ignorant arsehole on social media posts a £100 fine and 3 points.
Inclined to agree with all the vomments re washing machines and dishwashers.
Can I add - having 4 different washing liquids and two different fabric softeners cluttering up the cupboard
All of the above plus;
abandoning shoes in front of the shoe rack in the narrow hall. I am not talking about one pair, but every single pair !
Leaving all the cooking ingredient stuff out when cooking. If I am frying something I take the oil out of the cupboard, put some in the pan and then put it back leaving some space on the work surface etc.
Wind Chimes...
Being required to have an opiniin about things I'm stone cold indifferent to, with particular regard to buying plants from the garden centre.
The parents that constantly heap disproportionate praise on their offspring for every little thing.
Hidey tidy. Yes the kitchen is tidier and we can now use that 15cm piece of worktop but after the next post your unopened mail will be there and now I can't find my headphones, keys, thingy because you can't remember if it went behind the sofa in the cupboard or under the cat.
E-scooters. I hate almost everything about them, from their use on footways and against the flow of traffic, to their being left everywhere with no attempt at being even remotely civilised about it. Most of all though, I hate the waste that they exemplify. Just use and discard.
I do love to cycle in town though, maybe that is why I hate them so much.
People not using indicators when driving, or using them when they're already halfway through turning
I've adopted my GREEN, AMBER and RED approach in your head to every issue, gripe and irritant (spoken, phiysical whatever) that presents itself.
I've found nearly everything is a Amber moment. No point moaning about it because you cant do anything about it.
Green = positive and worth sharing to to everyone.
Amber = Yes it happening for you, but what can you do, usually nothing. Move on.
Red = Do something for a positive change or step in and actually do it. Like chucking Colstons statue (not me BTW) in the river rather than bitching about it in Amber.
Not switching the hairdryer off at the socket after use. I have tried all sorts of strategies to encourage this without success.
502 Bad Gateway
Having to deal with other peoples untrained dogs when it's off it's lead. I appreciate that you want it to gambol about and sniff and be free, and you don't like the way that it tugs at your arm when it's on it's lead, but please take the the time to train it so that 1. it doesn't tug, and 2. obeys your commands. I will do everything in my power to avoid your dog when it decides just at the last minute that it wants to cross the track under my front tyre, but I won't put myself in harm's way.
You decided that the dog should be off it's lead, you take responsibility for what happens to it when you do.
Poo bags hung on trees in a forest…
Who on earth thinks that’s acceptable?
Race walkers.
I don't know why. I've just always detested seeing race walking on telly or, even worse, seeing race walkers in the wild.
Just run, you morons!
Who on earth thinks that’s acceptable?
By the amount of them I've seen, lot's of people seem to think it's acceptable.
Littering in general, but what really takes it up a notch is when i see McDonalds or energy drinks on the side of the road.
You have made a terrible terrible life choice to consume this garbage, but you are that much of a moron you think its acceptable to just throw your empty packaging out of the window.
I do hope and pray that all the sugar, fat and chemicals in your chosen food source kills you quickly.
People who park in parent and child spaces when it's just them in the car. There's no reason for me to get annoyed by it as I always park well away from the store entrance because I am capable of walking a few extra metres and I don't have a small child with me. It's the sheer laziness that irks me I think.
Dog poo bags and litter make me angry, but that's perfectly reasonable so those don't belong on this thread.
Old men whistling in supermarkets. Absolutely enrages me, and I can't explain it!
People video calling in supermarkets. Do your shopping and get out of my way you bumbling idiots.
Bad driving
Inconsiderate behaviour
Selfish behaviour
Middle class women (specifically) telling stories about things that have happened to them.
Middle class parents who go in for reflected glory.
....actually my list could be quite extensive thinking about it.
Single panniers!
In future I'll pm you when either I or Mrs db pop out to the shops & you can stay safe indoors.
Not stuff but people who don't give a toss about the environment. They don't make any effort to recycle, change their very short car journeys when the shop is a few minutes walk away. Don't make any effort to care about the countryside and keep buying plastic tat and never consider where it goes when their children are fed up with it.
People who leave the engine running in a stationary vehicle.
People who try to jump queues (particularly at airports).
Loud people in public places.
Stuff that doesn't actually perform its primary function well because it's "designer"
Things that break irreparably for the want of 5% uplift in manufacturing costs.
McDonalds/Costa/Starbucks packaging strewn all over the countryside, miles from the nearest outlet. In fact any litter but McDonalds in particular.
Their customers are all tramps!
Oh, & deflated helium balloons that aren’t in a bin.
People who make judgements on life choices based on the food/drink/bike of other people.
Most attempt to get the best they can with what they have.
Being required to have an opiniin about things I’m stone cold indifferent to, with particular regard to...
...the specific shade of several, very similar, light blue paints that you are trying to decide between. Light blue on the kitchen wall is fine, any of them, honestly.
Oh, and putting crockery etc at the FRONT of the upper rack in the dishwasher, in such a way that I have to move them in order to get other things onto the space now left at the back. Grrrr
Dog poo bags and litter make me angry, but that’s perfectly reasonable so those don’t belong on this thread.
See also bad driving, parked cars idling, etc. Anger and irritation are a perfectly reasonable response.
But what about incorrect use of apostrophes, or constantly sniffing rather than blowing your nose?
I hope this is cathartic, there a few things on this thread that people really shouldn't be getting riled up by! Think of your blood pressure! 😁
Anyway, mine's a recycling one too. Unflattened boxes in the cardboard recycling. Yes it's bloody full 2 days after it was last collected because the boxes from all the Amazon and Hut Group shite you buy is stacked up in the bin like the leaning tower of Pisa!
I don't think it's disproportionate to get annoyed by persistently inconsiderate behaviour.
My OHs Project Management skills.
This qualifies as they are so small relative to the ammount of anger they induce in me.
Last year she decided she didn't like the understairs cupboard (to be fair it was quite nasty with T&G cladding).
But rather than actually have any sort of plan she just half demolished it leaving bits of wood hanging from the staircase/joists that were too securely attached for her, and random nails sticking out the walls.
It then became my fault that I'm neither a carpenter, plasterer or electrician (because the thermostat, HW cylinder and boiler controlls needed moving too as a result), which then meant ripping up the floorboards upstairs. And thus this job has absorbed almost every free weekend I would have had this year in-between working two jobs as I do it, then have to re-do because I haven't a clue and nothing in the bloody house is square/straight so the stud wall I had to build to hide all the wiring and utilities that were in the cupboard is more shims than studs.
And next doors Dashound.
No it's not ****ING cute that it thinks it's a big dog and barks at everything. It barks at me going out my front door, it barks at me when I'm in the garage, it barks at me in the garden, it barks at me in the conservatory, it barks at me if I'm cooking with the window open.
It's currently involved in a standoff between me having an aneurysm and it suffering an unfortunate accident.
People taking to me from another room.
Being asked to do something that I was just about to do.
Paper straws.
it thinks it’s a big dog and barks at everything
It's a dachshund, they do that. It can be trained out of them, but it takes ages, and needs constant repetition training, so folks give up.
Not switching the hairdryer off at the socket after use.
Why would that annoy you? There is absolutely no reason to switch them off at the socket after use – they aren't even a phantom user of electricity.
Pavement parking.
There are two ways to do it.
1. Park almost fully on the pavement, almost always blocking the pavement for anyone who might have a pram, wheelchair, mobility issues etc. It's an utter dick move.
2. Park a bit on the pavement. Well done you are now blocking both the traffic lane and some of the pavement. You've helped no one, so just park on the road. Half a car in a traffic lane blocks the lane just as well as a full car in the lane. The utter stupidity of this practice makes my brain hurt thinking about it.
Old men whistling in supermarkets. Absolutely enrages me, and I can’t explain it!
Niche! Very, very niche!
Old men whistling in supermarkets. Absolutely enrages me, and I can’t explain it!
Is 48 old?? It may have been me. I apologise. Especially if it was the most common tune to appear in my daily mental playlist - Popcorn...again, i apologise 😉
People who ring me. 🖕
There is absolutely no reason to switch them off at the socket after use – they aren’t even a phantom user of electricity.
Its a fire risk. Admittedly a small one, but the switch won't be a well engineered thing so there is a risk of it not being properly switched off or failing. A hairdryer sat on the side running could potentially start a fire. Same goes for hot air guns in workshops. Usually they have a better quality switch but its still a H&S issue
Its a fire risk. Admittedly a small one, but the switch won’t be a well engineered thing so there is a risk of it not being properly switched off or failing.
There's cautious and there's cautious. In all my like I have never known a hairdrier to spontaneously switch itself on start a fire. I accept they could start a fire *if left on and unattended* but not by switching themselves back on.
Pretty much everything I can relate to - especially "hidey tidy" that's my wife. BMP
but this
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Not switching the hairdryer off at the socket after use. I have tried all sorts of strategies to encourage this without success.
What?
Someone taking a hex key from the hex key set, using it and NOT PUTTING IT BACK.
You could boil cold water with the fury that induces in me.
People stopping in doorways in busy places. People that can't walk in a straight line. People who walk slowly. Groups of people having a chat in the middle of the high street pavement so no one can get past. Parking in bus lanes then moaning about traffic and/or that buses are never on time. Double yellow lines apparently meaning park on the pavement. The people who added a load of stuff to my recycling bins last night but put it all in the wrong ones so I had to sort it all again. I could go on and on. So many people failing rule one.
the regular flashpoints in our house are usually variations on the following
- tidying things away to a different place each time with no consistency or rhyme or reason and then forgetting where they were. if only we just put things in the same place each time!
- other people watching you tube videos / tik tok / whatever random crap has been whatsapped to them whilst we're trying to watch a film / TV (see also taking / making phone calls in same situation)
- inability to sit down an watch a film al the way though without continuous pausing it - fair enough pause it while you nip to the toilet, but do you really need to tidy the kitchen or do a quick hoover of the landing whilst your up or could it wait until after the film?
due to point one, i leave things on the kitchen side to remind me to take back to the workshop after being used before they disappear in to the random tidying black hole - this apparently annoys the other members of the house
People that don't say thank you or even attempt a token acknowledgement when you hold a door open for them. They usually fall in one of two camps; 1 – younger women with painted faces and artificially inflated lips; 2 – anyone over 60.
There’s cautious and there’s cautious. In all my like I have never known a hairdrier to spontaneously switch itself on start a fire.
It has happened. Believed to be the cause of a recent fire in a barbers in Southwark. 15,000 fires a year started by domestic appliances. Admittedly mostly ovens, and most hairdryer fires are caused by putting a hot hairdryer away in a drawer. Leaving one plugged in is a small risk but an easy one to avoid.
Chinese Lanterns - littering, but with fire.
Mass balloon releases - it's just littering, but for some reason it's acceptable if it's for a good cause.
Littering in general really.
People driving about with their fog lights on in summer - I can see you've got your sidelights on too, so I know they're not running lights you f***wit.
People who get a dog but can't be arsed to train it. Flip side being I actually went out of my way on a ride to help a lady with a rescue dog that would always bark at bikes, obviously normally it's a case of bark and it goes away, dog thinks it's done good, rinse & repeat. So I stopped, chatted and gave the dog a treat, dog now associates bikes with friendly people and doesn't bark. She's happy, dog's happy, bikers are happy. Yay.
It’s a dachshund, they do that. It can be trained out of them, but it takes ages, and needs constant repetition training, so folks give up.
This one it particular egregious. I came home from 3 months working in a dog shelter with ~100 dogs and thought "this is annoying".
Coupled with the stereotypical Mediterranean matriarch of the family living with them apparently only having one volume level, a typical exchange goes something like this:
YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP
Ohh FFS will someone shut that dog up (I, along with every other neighbor have sworn over the fence at them about the little shit)
UNINTELIGABLEPORTUGESE/SPANISH/ITALIANSHOUTINGFROMTHEHOUSE
UNINTELIGABLEPORTUGESE/SPANISH/ITALIANSHOUTINGBACKFROMSOMEOTHERROOM
YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP
I've not seen them walk the effing thing in 2 years either.
I cut them some slack to let it settle in over lockdown but I'm not going through another summer of not being able to sit in the garden.
The lack of latch-on capability on british petrol pumps. Nowhere else in the world forbids this. Backpressure sensors have been on pumps since forever and work really well. I don't see people in other countries spontaneously combusting at the pump while the tank self-fills or evidence of mass spilling events as the tank overflows continuously over the forecourt. Up there with our stupid fused "safety" plugs <kettle on fire in background while 30A main fuse and 13A plug fuse do sweet FA>.
Poor QC on anything, but particularly expensive stuff:
Gibson guitars usually look like they've been made by a blind alcoholoic.
They've not, they've been made by untrained staff on minimum wage in a poorly lit factory WITH NO QC.
Greggs running out of Steak Bakes within an hour of opening.
Husky/Malmute owners who walk around in packs, wearing Hi-Vis jackets and not making eye contact with anyone.
It has happened. Believed to be the cause of a recent fire in a barbers in Southwark. 15,000 fires a year started by domestic appliances. Admittedly mostly ovens, and most hairdryer fires are caused by putting a hot hairdryer away in a drawer. Leaving one plugged in is a small risk but an easy one to avoid.
I put an alexa smart plug on Mrs OTS' hair straighteners because she was forever worried that she'd forgotten to switch them off.
