Things that (sometimes unreasonably) get on your nerves...hopefully lighthearted

Re that sickly smug couple on the holiday insurance ad. I could scream at the woman! I get my own back by drawing a moustache, granny glasses and blackened teeth on her when I see the advert in my Oldie magazine. Yes I am that childish. He's not too bad, but she makes me feel murderous. Hope I can say that without the PC POLICE arresting me

It was said in my family for years, and not in a twee way.
For me it meant I've sod all in, so I'll empty the fridge and raid the cupoards, and you can pick out what you want to eat.

It’s part of a Waitrose summer advertising campaign.

Ladyleftfieldlover

What the heck is a ‘picky tea’? Is it short for picnic?

Never heard of it.
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Dont notice many adverts, but there is one where a girl sits there while her father unloads shopping and she is the one ordering or demanding what she wants and he is providing it! The idea that the parent kowtows to the child, is neither funny nor sensible and I dislike it intensely.

What the heck is a ‘picky tea’? Is it short for picnic?

I get irritated by continual negativity and complaining!

Old nproud why don’t you report him to police or environmental dept.its against the law to make excessive noise between 11pm and 7am you would need to record the noise on your phone as proof

I get irritated by my son telling me what I should OR shoULD OT DO-I am recovering from a back injury.some days I feel better than others Aand like to get on with things and he gives me a row for not resting. He talks to me as if I’m one of his children(which I’ve told him not to do)Apart from that he’s good at fixing things around the house

My next-door neighbours 20-something son who has his bedroom window wide open all year round, and shouts to his mates via the Internet/ plays noisy games with them until about three in the morning.
This means that I have to close my own bedroom window overnight through this hot summer, otherwise I simply can't get to sleep. (We live mid-terrace, so our windows are not far apart.) But with it closed, I lose the draught so I immediately start to overheat.

I fantasise about waiting until he finally goes quiet - presumably sleeping at last - then putting my radio on full blast at my own bedroom to see how helikes it.

He also smokes weed, and if the wind is blowing our way, which it usually is - our whole house can start to reek of it if the back windows are not fully closed. It took me a couple of years to work out why our house sometimes smelled horrible. It pervades our back yard too, so I have got to share it while sitting out there in the shade this summer.
Grrr.

Sorry - that wasn't very light-hearted.

People who, when speaking to a child (not small baby) refer to themselves by name, "Mummy's going to the shops". "Give the toy to Nanny" (said by Nanny). Why can't people use I and me when speaking to a child? Drives me ever so slightly nuts.

I was irritated this morning when my friend and I were walking our dogs. A couple passed by with a young puppy on a long retractable dog leash several yards behind them. The poor puppy wrapped himself round our legs and our dogs legs while his owners seemed oblivious. My friend who happens to be a dog trainer politely advised the couple to be more aware, buy a short lead and preferably attend a dog training course!

Those insurance and funeral plan adverts where they speak with those overly sympathetic, simpering, whiny voices.

I do find several things irritate me. People who inconsiderately smoke at the entrance of buildings. People vaping as they are walking along the street, so that when you are walking behind them you get engulfed in their expelled vapour.
Dog owners who permit their dogs to foul on paths and fail to use poo bags. Those who express themselves using profanities during conversations, worse still when you hear young parents using foul language when talking to their children.

As a musician, I find it annoying when people - often authors - say "(s)he rose to a crescendo. The crescendo is the rising. I also find the present fashion of writing novels in the present tense irritating as it reminds me of "Here is Peter, here is Jane and here is Pat the dog" in the earliest stages of learning to read so somewhat babyish.

People say of when they mean have

I’m in England and it irritates me when people say ‘to go’ when they mean ‘take away’

Plevey08

I'm irritated by the trend to introduce numerous characters separately, giving a variety of timelines, sometimes many chapters apart and with unmemorable names and characters. I keep flipping back thinking, was that the brother or.....? Who the hell is she?

Me too!
I’m irritated by so many things so here are a few:
People who only talk about themselves and show no interest in my life;
Being called “Lovely”;
Stupid made-up names for babies;
Loud people;
Mothers (and some fathers) who talk loudly and sweetly to their small children when they walk past as though they’re trying to impress me;
Dogs and everything about them..
I could go on ….

Lycra clad blokes on bikes going past my house early on Sunday mornings having shouting conversations with each other.

Journalists and tv presenters whose stock-in-trade is words but nevertheless make dreadful grammatical errors. Today on the BBC 6o/c news one of the reporters said “Her and her husband did something or other”!

So many businesses where you have to speak to a recording. They never seem to understand what you're saying and you have to waste a frustrating amount of time until you get transferred to a live person.And that's if you're lucky!

When using tech takes five times as long as a pencil, paper, and person wiuld have done.
Particularly if it doesnt deal with the issue you wanted dealt with, anyway.

Trying to contact a company that allows only ‘chat’ contact, no email,or phone number available. It is OK for straightforward queries but anything else cannot be coped with. I wasted four hours going round in circles. Trying to get some sense.

Updating software making it twice as difficult to complete a task.
Just completed an application that wanted so much information, copies of certificates referral,letters, photos etc. It took me three days to do something that would have taken only an hour or two if there had been the option to stick it all in the post. I am partially sighted and this related to that fact. Who thought up the application was not thinking of the users at all.

Having been a lecturer and a TEFL teacher, I am used to all sorts of dialects and ways of speaking and have no problem with any of them, although at my age, I find the changes towards more american stresses in words ,not to my liking. However the one thing that really gets me cringing, is when I hear someone saying "It's nearly (or almost) unique" Unique means exactly that . Don't know why that particularly irritates but it does!

I seem to grow more intolerant by the day as l get get older.
Everything seems to bug me.

People now seem to be a lot louder these days. No filters.