Small things that annoy me.

Could of---should of---would of-----What is the matter with these plebs ?

People who are incapable of saying "Excuse me" as they push past you or reach for something in front of you at the supermarket. Drives me mad!

People who phone you after 10pm. For me, that's a cut-off point for phone calls

You’re generous ladymuck - I say 9pm for chatting! Later than that and it can wait till tomorrow.

Hearing someone say ‘I’m not being awkward/racist/funny ... ‘ followed by BUT ...’. (they are).

Going to the dentist and being asked a question after they have put ‘whatever’ into my mouth.

People who are always late. Fair enough if the bus doesn't turn up, and you text to let me know when you will be there, but if you decide to try on a dress you spot in the window of a shop you are passing, knowing I am waiting in the rain to go to lunch with you, you can expect me tone furious. Hypothetically.

People who cry off or cancel arrangements at the last minute on a whim, not thinking that others might have shuffled plans, changed meals etc because of they thought the plans were in place.

to be, not tone.

yehbut, can I ask if this conversation arose when you were having coffee/ lunch/ drinks out with friends, would you tell them to ‘ save their angst for things that really matter’? I think it’s sad that people feel the need to declare in their thread title that it’s a ‘ lighthearted post’. It’s only a wee bit of nonsense!

Poor spellings and grammar-especially from work colleagues, even though they have been corrected multiple times - and I work in education!

Sorry, but 'work colleagues' and 'meet with' grate on me. Colleagues are people you work with, and you can't meet someone unless you are with them.

Other people!

The modern habit of saying Like every few words, if the sentence was written the way it is spoken English teachers would be screaming from the rooftops.

Those middle-class middle-aged climate ‘activists’ that have suddenly become militant about a world they happily been destroying for the past half century.
Usually the same people that believe they understand social injustice because they read the Guardian. Despite going out of their way to avoid encountering anyone ‘not their sort’.
Women that assume power through their husbands’ job (there are still Margo Leadbetters aplenty) despite never having achieved much themselves.
And finally, people that choose veganism for nothing more than it’s trendy.

And why are so many vegans militant about it. I accept they have made their choice of diet but so have I and I choose to be a carnivore.

Women that assume power through their husbands’ job (there are still Margo Leadbetters aplenty) despite never having achieved much themselves

Absolutely - yes to this!

I hate it when I hear someone calling their other half ‘ babe’ grinds on me!,,,

I know someone close who does this sirchenjin.

I am so glad it’s not just me that finds these small things annoying.
I’d like to add :

turning everything I say to a negative

always disagreeing with what I have just said before I’ve finished a sentence ( not the same person ! )

Oh I have another one - addictive isn’t it?

People who talk non stop about themselves and when they take a breath and I try to tell them about something which I think will interest them, they start to look over my head or fiddle in their bag or look at their phone, making it obvious that they find it far more interesting to talk about themselves than listen to me!

Juliet27 I recently listened to an audio book written and read (and very well too) by a famous US actor) who said, 'mischevious' several times.

The next day, speaking to a very well educated friend in New York I mentioned this nice young man, asking if he'd ever seen the word written down and wondering why he felt the need to add an extra i.

There was a silence.
'That's how I say it,' she said, 'all Americans do. That's how it's said here.'

George Bernard Shaw was quite right: two nations divided by a common language.

I only know a handful of Americans so I'm not sure if her statement is true but I do know a lot say 'boo-eey' for 'buoy' but then pronounce 'buoyant' as I would 'boyant.' Odd.

People who say, 'people that...' 'men that...' 'women that...'
instead of 'people who...' etc.
I was always taught 'that' is for inanimate objects.

Not really an irritant as such because I'm not bothered how others speak but it just sounds strange

Mind you, the way I look and feel first thing in the early morning, I can excuse anyone calling me "That"

Starting answers to questions with 'So'. The number of times the word absolutely is used on TV.

People in general annoy me at times.

Ah yes Bradford that’s reminded me that Americans leave the second I out of aluminium.

Yes - they say ‘aloo-min-um’ seems strange!

TV weather forecasters who end their bulletin with, "see you soon".

Hearing the army, navy and air force lumped in together as "military".

No. That's the way the Americans collectively describe them.

In the UK, it's the armed forces.

Don't get me started on Americans, leaving the h off herbs, the word Antarctica pronounce as anardica. I could go on. Also abreviating words, one of Christmas adds this year had crimbo offers not Christmas offers.

TV newsreaders who use one another's names all the time:
'Thanks, Ann. Now it's over to you, Bob.' 'Thanks Carol. . . Here's Dave, reporting from . . .'

Just read the news!

As a vegan (not militant - I avoid mentioning it if at all possible)
when someone learns I'm vegan and immediately tells me about the kinds of meat they love eating.