Things that annoy you that shouldn't

1. Much of the above.

2. White ankle socks with lace frills.

3. The weird use of 'myself' and 'ourselves' instead of 'me' (or I) and 'us'. It makes me shout at the TV.

Mr L is giving me strange looks as I silently try to pronounce the variants of 'hours' in an attempt to understand the difference.

Fringes in people's eyes - like Claudia Winkleman's.
Alexander Armstrong (in Pointless) miming eating or drinking - it makes me want to scream "Stop it, you look really stupid!!"
People who way Haitch instead of Aitch grrrrrrr!!
I'll be back when I remember some more....

Mollygo

bridie54

Oh I agree with so many of these but the pronunciation one made me think of ,sadly, Scottish TV snd radio presenters who say Edinbruh. I want to shout it’s Edinburgh.

Hi bridie54
Can you clarify exactly how to say Edinburgh? Do you say it like Edin-berg?
We learnt to say the ending like the end of Lough-borough, and I could never understand why.

Most of us locals would pronounce it something like Ed-in-bruh.

Witzend

Oh, and I will add, re GN, people who post on threads merely to say that they’re not remotely interested in whatever it is, or are bored by it, or loathe it - there’s usually at least one like this on Christmas threads.

Not to mention people who post on Pedants’ Corner threads, telling us all to get a life, nobody cares about these things any more.
Yes they/we do!

Likewise people who ask 'have you nothing else to worry about?' when some one starts a thread about something fairly innocuous.

Yes I've lots of things to worry about but at the moment I want to talk about the price of fish, if that's OK with you.

My dh’s explosive sneezes, like a bomb going off.
It really shouldn’t irritate me after so long, given that he’s never going to change now, but alas it still does.

People saying ‘sickth’ instead of ‘sixth’.

People saying CONtribute instead of conTRIBute.

But that’s quite enough Victoria-Meldrewing for today - I’m now going to give myself a nice pedicure, so that at least the sight of my feet in sandals won’t put anyone off their lunch.

Most if not all of the above! So, sorry, but I’m Victor Meldrew, so there must be several of us. I also hate -

Posters left out on lampposts, notice boards etc of events that happened days/weeks/months/years ago.

The word “yep” in texts. It’s dismissive.

Radio 2 presenters who talk inanely instead of playing some actual music! Drives me mad. Some of them are so bloody full of themselves! I don’t mind a bit of chat, but not so there’s more silly slobber than music, which increasingly seems to be the case. I could name names.

Rude people with a displaced sense of entitlement.

People who don’t clear up their dog poo.

I could go on. I’ll stop now. I can feel my blood pressure rising.

Welcome to the clan honeyrose.

I'll expand on that one if I may honeyrose?
People who DO bag up their dog poo and then see fit to hang it on a branch where it has the potential to smack you in the face

People who think they know everything when they are actually quite thick.

Comedians such as Jimmy Carr and Michael McIntyre who think if they constantly have a sort of quizzical look on their face it makes them funny.

All of the above plus people who can`t pronounce Birmingham,
They pronounce it as burninam,as a brummie born and bred it drives me mad.

nanna8

People who think they know everything when they are actually quite thick.

It's actually a real thing:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I’m going to make a few enemies with mine, I suspect - but I cringe every time I hear or read Nan or Nana for grandmother.

As another Brummie, I agree timetogo. We even have a local reporter on the Midlands News who says Birmingum.

Many of the above niggle with me but I don't have the energy to get annoyed about them .

With that in mind, I do agree with the dropping of clothes pegs, loose/lose, apostrophes, sniffing, pronunciation of contribute, wrong usage of "myself", "yourself" etc.

I would add that there is a very narrow road up a steep hill in a town near us with a brick wall on one side. If you cycle that route there are 3 alternatives through parks or alternative streets, but cyclists insist on cycling up it. That really does make me cross as a driver. I feel like grinding them into the brick wall. Last time I was there, I saw that they were painting a cycle lane down one side, making the already narrow road even narrower for motor vehicles. When I lived there I went everywhere by bike and always used one of the alternate routes. What's so difficult about that?

AND my dishwasher projects the time still to run onto the floor, alternating with a pictogram of the stage of the cycle it is presently at. Every time I look to check, it has just changed to the pictogram and I have to wait until the time shows up again.

SecUtary instead of secretary
FebUary instead of February
Free instead of three

and while we are on it why is oil pronounced Oyul, you say 'oi' but it is impossible to put an 'L' on the end without pausing ?‍♀️

I just know you are all trying to say it now ???

Blondiescot
Most of us locals would pronounce it something like Ed-in-bruh.

Thanks Blondiescot.
I’ve lived near Quernmore pronounced kwormer and
Gateacre pronounced Ga-tack-er.
I can’t pronounce where I am now the proper Welsh way, even though I repeat it carefully every time I’m corrected.

Just as Grandma70s doesn't like Nan or Nana, I can't bear Granny. It sounds so OLD.

GrannyLaine

I'll expand on that one if I may honeyrose?
People who DO bag up their dog poo and then see fit to hang it on a branch where it has the potential to smack you in the face

Yes...and it will no longer compost, because it’s in a BAG?

I don't have any desire to compost anyone else's dog poo.
The dirty b*******s started hanging up bags on the little tree outside my flat.

Programmes about people choosing their wedding dress, fighting with their neighbours, trying to discipline their children, trying to lose weight, trying to find a partner..... is no activity too private or too mundane to be shared with thousands of strangers?

"Celeb" mums to be -showing the world their bare tummies every time they leave the house!!
Being called Hun, by shop assistants etc (Im 71)
Yes, people saying someone has passed-instead of died!
Loud telephone conversations in public-Im not interested!
And indeed, most of the previously mentioned ones here!

I can't stand people that sniff as well - being stuck on a long bus journey, first thing in the morning and having a young chap not just sniffing but snorting really made me feel nauseous ! Disgusting habit!
Men (especially those over 40) with pony tails, especially when it's grey and stringy! The number of times that I wish I had a pair of scissors to hand!
Also men of the same age and era that have the same length hair as when they were in their 20s and the central bit over their head has disappeared, just a fringe left ! Yuck !

I'm a sniffer.

Interesting Petera - there’s a fair bit of it about,too.