Totally unimportant things that drive you insane.

This is not imho pointless but it would drive me insane. People using my sewing shears to cut paper!

People who squeeze a loaf of bread in a large supermarket, that clearly has fresh bread delivered everyday, just to check if it’s fresh then don’t buy it, makes my eyes roll !

The current trend to pronounce words ending in -ing as if they end in -in.
I hear this is a number of adverts on TV, and there is one BBC reporter/ correspondent who does it.

People who don't pronounce words properly such has Wevver instead of weather .

People who won't take no for an answer when they try to give you jars of their homemade jam or marmalade which you don't eat!

Starting every sentence with so......

Coat hangers

The way presenters on the BBC,,when doing an outside broadcast in winter, have to have on enormous scarves!

just a slight gripe, hearing the president's name pronounced;
Rooooos-e-velt,
instead of the correct,
Rose-e-velt.
as in, row, row row your boat../ a rose by any other name...

i don;t know why it bothers me, a kind of verbal tic, i have to say it correctly even to the disembodied radio voice.

Georgesgran long, long ago a poster said (can't remember who it was) that she daringly put the dividing thingy at the supermarket checkout horizontally instead of vertically just to be annoying, or daring, or something like that.
I do this all the time now, I'm daring myself to be annoying, absolutely don't know why ?

Christmas cards from people you see every day.

When I want to do my bit by recycling a bottle or jar, but it has a non recyclable top on it which I can't prise off without breaking a knife, a nail or a finger...grr!

People that criticise other people's speech!

My son suffers from man blindness. At least once every day he opens the fridge or food cupboard and says ‘where’s the butter’ or ‘we’ve run out of tomato sauce’ or whatever else he wants. I look and it’s literally right there, without even moving anything, he just can’t see it. Drives me mad.

Ramblingrose22

Absolutely agree Blossoming. Life without just cake wouldn't be a life.

I once saw a claim on another website about a cake called "Better Than Sex Cake". I eagerly looked up the cake and its ingredients only to find one of its main ingredients was something I don't like. You can imagine my disappointment!

Maybe I should start an argument on the arguments thread about what the ingredients should have been.

It should be renamed "About the same as sex".

I have a pathological hatred of sticky labels, clothes tags and hanging ribbons - and my obsession with their complete removal!

3dognight

The way presenters on the BBC,,when doing an outside broadcast in winter, have to have on enormous scarves!

Yet their overcoats are often not even fastened up!

PIR security lights that suddenly blind you when you walk past a house. Why are they allowed?

In particular, the light from a house at the back (that should have been directed a little lower) that flashed on every single time I used the back door.

To avoid migraines, I had to 'install' something in my tree to block it from my eyes. My search in the garage revealed an old mirror - ideal! I made sure it reflected back exactly.(Of course, they've moved it now.)

They took away the dividers in supermarkets here because of Covid ( everyone touches them)
Bubble packs where they are impossible to open without scissors and when you do get them open you cut yourself on the sharp edges.

People who say ‘choclit’ instead of chocolate.

Hetty we once had that problem, I wish I’d thought of your solution. Brilliant.

Ugh jaffa cakes vile monstrosities whether they're cakes or biscuits!

I forgot very long posts with no paragraphs.
I’m afraid just can’t be bothered to wade through them.

Those ribbons on new clothes, designed to keep them on the hangers. Are you supposed to keep them or cut them off and never hang the item without it falling off? If you keep them they travel out of the neck and look stupid.

Just thought of another annoying thing. When you click on a link to a website and before you can get to to your topic of choice, you have to wait whilst all the adverts click in, making the website jump all over the place. GN included!