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

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tanith Sun 09-Aug-26 15:10:23

A neighbour in the early morning talks in her garden on the phone on loudspeaker grrrrr!

YorkLady Sun 09-Aug-26 14:25:08

This was only last week!

YorkLady Sun 09-Aug-26 14:24:14

Not having a great choice of birthday cards at a local card shop as half of the store was taken up by Christmas cards 😡

AGAA4 Sun 09-Aug-26 14:16:07

I get irritated by people's visitors who toot their horns loudly as they are leaving even after midnight.

TerriBull Sun 09-Aug-26 14:06:58

Well of course the preceding thread would be one, people who don't pause for breath and make the conversation all about them. Worse still one dimensional conversations that are doggedly about the same subject change the bloody record I'm often thinking!

Yes people who talk loudly into their phone, are they deaf? Or do they simply don't care that everyone else has to listen to their business.

Lathyrus3 Sun 09-Aug-26 13:55:03

Sloppy writing in novels where the author can’t be bothered to research his settings, characters, time lines etc. Once spotted I can’t read on.

The Passengers by John Marrs was so full plot holes and errors I had steam coming out of my ears. I was astounded that the rest of the book group could just ignore them and enjoy a as a rattling yarn.

I saw nothing but contempt for his readers.

Fallingstar Sun 09-Aug-26 13:38:51

I really get unreasonably irritated by people who talk loudly on their phones or even have the phone on speaker whilst on public transport or in a cafe etc.

Nannee49 Sun 09-Aug-26 13:31:16

I was watching the gardening programme on BBC2 this morning and suddenly got immensely irritated by the presenter, in the blazing sunshine, going on with himself along the lines of "...I'm already thinking about Autumn/Winter".

I know gardens take a lot of advance planning but it seems on every gardening programme no one seems to take the time out to just enjoy the moment, always looking ahead to the next job, the next bout of hard labour.

What gets your goat?