Stuff that makes you disproportionately cross

I have arthritis in both thumb joints. I also am lucky enough to be the recipient of millions of years of development in various things, like eyes, fingernails…

Speaking of which, I take a whole bunch of tablets with the foil tops, and I find that slicing around the edge with a fingernail makes it really easy to then push the tablets out through the opening in the top. Simples. 🤷🏼

Unfortunately, in my case the "millions of years of development" has been overtaken by several years of a disease, one of the more minor but annoying effects of which makes my nails fragile and very prone to splitting. If I've managed to get a fingernail to slicing length it's still too soft to cut through the foil on most of the 8 or so tablets I take each day. Not so simples.☹️

Sorry to hear about your arthritis though.

There aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how much I want to hit you in the face with a chair!

That's what's known as a High Four.

Token vegans on Masterchef

Seriously… what’s the point? It’s just embarrassing for all involved.

The person before you just cooked a tandoori rack of lamb. Nobodies interested in your cabbage risotto

Stepping on my yoga mat.

Seriously, I don't mind putting my face where my feet have been but not yours, FFS.

Someone posts thread "What is your favourite"

Favourite. The implication is singular. Not plural, which what are your Favourites.

Before to long some such and such comes along with a long list.

Grrrrrr  &^$@#&£ 😡 🙄

Not spotting errors until after the edit window has closed

People who tell me what I am interested in and/or what I am thinking.

Trying to get a duvet back into a newly washed cover due to partner staying at my place this weekend and finding you eventually get it kind of into place the button it up to find they are out of sequence when you get to the end one . 15 mins of my time to do a fairly simple task , easy for her to do but she can't change a punctured tube or fold a map back without adding extra creases and ruining the map

People who tell me what I am interested in and/or what I am thinking.

I'm sure you don't really mean that now do you?

Not spotting errors until after the edit window has closed

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There you go.

I washed our favourite(😁) duvet set a couple of days ago and one of the pillowcases has disappeared.  I can, just about, appreciate the odd sock but how the %^&* does an entire pillowcase disappear?  Bastarding thing.

People who say "I'll tell you what you should do..."

The polar opposite is usually the best path in my experience

Drunk people on trains.

Essex accents.

The combination together when you’ve been awake 36 hours straight.

Websites that offer 'filters' to narrow down your product search, but refresh after each selected filter.

Drunk people on trains.

Essex accents.

The combination together when you’ve been awake 36 hours straight.

Not so much 'cross' as hilarious but this reminds me,

I was on the Metro (Manchester's equivalent of the Tube) picking my way home a few weeks ago.  Half a dozen "youths" got aboard, loudly taking about sex and alcohol like they'd just invented them both.  One of the classier ladies belts out "YOU'RE NOT ****ING KISSING ME AFTER YOU'VE BEEN LICKING ME FANNY!"

Just a follow up on this from earlier:

My mum unplugs the TV before going to bed at night. Because her mum did. Because IDK, something about thunderstorms? It’s absolutely potty. We have one of the safest, ludicrously over-engineered domestic electricity supplies on the planet.

Some years back we had a few thunderstorms, and I was watching the strikes on one of the online sites, and one or two were out near Corsham, and my mate lives between Corsham and Lacock. When I next saw him, he was bemoaning the fact his big Sony Bravia tv, his Mac, and several components of his HiFi system had been fried by one of those strikes…

My dad always used to unplug the telly, mainly because of the risk of our chimney mounted aerial being struck and the current blowing out the house.

There was one storm one evening which was local, and I was watching it from my open bedroom window, and there was one strike on a house about 100 metres away, there was no bang, but the air crackled loudly and I felt all my hair stand on end!

That was sodding scary, I shut my window immediately.

Dunno how relevant it is, but I'm having my house re-wired at the moment, well, starting monday..when they were pricing the job up, they priced in a new consumer unit (fuse box)...

I questioned why, as mine is probably 5years old at most and still all shiney and new looking....

They said to get the work signed off & certified etc, they have to have surge protection built in at fuse box level now... He said I could keep the existing box and fit an additional surge protection unit between the meter and the consumer unit, but by the time he'd faffed about with doing that, it's easier to just fit a new consumer unit that's 'up to code'.

Dunno how sound that advice is, but consumer units arent exactly expensive considering it's a full re-wire of the house...so I just said, yeh whatever 😕

You can of course buy surge protected extension cords for expensive equipment such as these https://www.belkin.com/uk/products/surge-protectors-power-strips/

But at £30-£40 a piece, more if you want ethernet pass-through, it quickly makes more sense to have surge protection built in at consumer unit level...?

** stitch incoming **

CougarFull Member
I washed our favourite(😁) duvet set a couple of days ago and one of the pillowcases has disappeared.  I can, just about, appreciate the odd sock but how the %^&* does an entire pillowcase disappear?  Bastarding thing.

it’s in your duvet cover. I know you think that you checked there but it will be there.

** stitch incoming **

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I think it’s already been mentioned on here, but people who feel the need to correct your spelling/grammar even though they understood perfectly well what you meant.

Failure to spell things correctly can often lead to misunderstandings, because people didn’t understand perfectly well what someone meant.
For roughly thirty years my job involved my spelling things correctly, and proofreading to make sure others spelled things correctly, for that very reason.

Draw, is a very different thing to a drawer.
And correct spelling, for clarity of meaning and communication, is a hill I’m willing to die on.

My new car doesn’t have a handbrake
Whoah, what now?

What car is this?

I thought handbrake was tested as part of MOT?

There’s all sorts of variations on the theme of electronic brake these days, and I hate all of them! Especially when you’re driving a very wide range of cars built across about five or six years. Some wouldn’t release when trying to pull away on a slope, some would let the car start to roll back… 😖🤯

Mine is a semi-automatic, with a real handbrake, but pulling to a stop on a slope, and taking your foot off the brake, the car will happily sit there until you accelerate.

What instead of which

Which Tyler led the Pedants Revolt… 😏

People who replace zero with "oh" when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣

The misuse of it’s to denote possession, especially by people paid to write for a living –

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hutchinson-claims-its-new-blackbird-tyres/

Eh? “Its” rather than “it’s” is correct in this context. Unless I’m missing something?

They've removed the rogue apostrophe since my post on here. That's the power of STW.

Result 🙂 I’ll add “its” and “it’s” and general apostrophe misuse to the list too.

The woman in the meeting that i'm in right now that keeps referring to a "thought bubble."

It's a thought. Why the bubble?

Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.

there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.

Just sign up for the free trial and then immediately cancel it

People who replace zero with “oh” when giving telephone numbers. In fact I do it at times so I annoy myself 🤣

This got many of us screamed at by a stereotypical Platoon Sergeant when in training whilst our regimental numbers were still new and not stamped on our brains.

"Oh!? It's ZERO! Oh is the noise you make when you're having sex. And we're not having sex right now are we?"

There were far more expletives, but the swear filter would make a mess of that quote.

Good times.

there should be a law, making it mandatory for such contracts to be annulled at their end date, unless explicitly agreed by the consumer.

You have explicitly agreed for it to continue after the free period. It's not the company's fault if you didn't read the terms and conditions.

Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn't be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross

Online companies that offer “three months free”, but then auto-renew the contract without notifying you in advance.

My 15-yr old has just been caught by this. £60 annual subscription for the Berlingo language app. Bastards.

Now in debt to the bank FFS !

I've worked with him to cancel & get a refund  but aaaagh.

If you cancel your free three months of Amazon prime, immediately after, you’ll lose three months of free.

yes, the minutiae of the contract may stipulate a rolling contract, but we humans are intrinsically too busy/ lazy to mark these things in our diaries.

The contract should terminate automatically, after x months.

doesnt matter a fig if it’s worded into a contract, there’s no corresponding legal precedent for this in the not-online world.

Or is there?

My family 'loading' the dishwasher ! Why ????? I could load it better by throwing it from the other side of the room.

The trend on social media short videos claiming to be POV, but aren't.

@binman

Being stopped on the village high street by a former colleague asking me to vote for her at the general election.  She is a Reform candidate. We had a robust discussion with a particular focus on their Deputy Leaders interview this week where he said people should be allowed to drown in the channel to “face the consequences of their own actions”. I may have sworn.

I "bought" Dune on Prime because it cost 50p more than renting it, amounting to £4. Watched it in two sittings this weekend as a refresher in preparation for Dune 2.. However to bloody well rent Dune 2 (with a mere 48 hours to watch it once I start) bloody sixteen quid farrrrk. Or I could wait 2.5 weeks and watch it in the cinema for half the price. Pish.

*twitch*

Edit: People whinging about T&Cs they willingly signed up to but couldn’t be bothered to read properly makes me disproportionately cross

I'm pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don't read them.

"twitch" indeed.

They've recently - like, a couple of years ago - redone the main road near me, including nice patterned stonework on the pavement.  They've painstakingly continued the pattern across access panels, except someone's had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns.  It disproportionately pisses me the **** off every time I walk past it.

I’m pretty sure that most T&C that we come across (but especially on-line) are written like that to make sure we don’t read them.

Almost certainly.

I don't see the point, unless it's intentionally meant to catch you out.  Absolutely no-one in the history of ever has read a 16-page EULA for a ****ing printer driver.

See also, corporate email signatures.  "This message is intended for the recipient..." - well who the **** else would it be intended for?  Half a screenful of boilerplate corpspeak gibberish which is the same as every other goddamn corporate email signature (and holds precisely zero legal currency anyway), with the email body text reading "Yes.  Kind Regards."

On hold.

I've worked in a call centre.  I know what being picked off the queue and slammed straight back into it because you can't be arsed to talk to me and it looks good on your "calls answered" stats sounds like, you shower of bastards.

Local shops that buy five star trustpilot reviews from shysters, to make it look like they're any good at anything, when they are in fact, crap.

On second thoughts, maybe I'm not disproportionately angry, just correctly angry.

someone’s had one up and replaced it back-to-front so the pattern no longer aligns.

Yep, saw one of those in Wolverhampton only last week, and it irritated me more than you'd think reasonable. That slap-dash approach gets my goat. Will get a pic next time I go past it; I can't keep it to myself.

I genuinely wonder whether it's malicious or just lackadaisical.

The mindfulness training we had today. A bizarre fascination with feeling my buttocks on the seat and breathing. Live in the moment and think about your next breath.
Still your mind like Karen's snow globe....erm... Brownian motion and kinetic energy those molecules ain't still you Muppet.

The utter ****s who attach phones and sat navs in the middle of the windscreen. Bottom right where it isn’t obstructing your view of the road you absolute dicks!

Slow moving people.

I realised this last week whilst getting to my car at work. Guy a few cars down was already getting into his whilst I was 10m away from mine. I managed to walk that short distance, get in my car, bag in footwell, hi-vis off and in door card, start engine, put Spotify on, seatbelt on and finally set off by the time the slowest man on earth was sitting down. It had no impact on me other than annoyed me to the point of audibly uttering "how can somebody be that ******* slow"

Quite unreasonable of me.