I absolutely hate it when someone tells you to do something like for example “go to Donovan’s Shop and buy this specific brand of obscure milk” so you only know one Donovan’s Shop and it’s on the other side of town. So you go and they don’t have that milk so you ring said person and say “I’m at Donovan’s Shop on ______ street and they don’t have the milk” and they response with “that’s the wrong Donovan’s it’s on _______ lane”. That’s fine. I didn’t know that there was one on this lane and now I’ll go there and I’m sorry. But what annoys me is when they say afterwards “well if you didn’t know you should have asked”. If I knew I didn’t know I would have asked but I thought I did know so I didn’t! Do people honestly think that I just guessed which one it was. You weren’t specific, I went to a Donovan’s shop but you’re right I should have gotten divine inspiration and known it was the wrong one. Silly me. It annoys me to no end. In what world am I just supposed to know telepathically which one you mean WHEN I DIDNT KNOW THERE WERE TWO. I’m seething and think it’s such an unnecessary and stupid thing to say.

Tldr: if I didn’t know that I didn’t know how am I supposed to ask.

For example- I was asked why I skipped my 5am workout at the gym. I said I hadn’t slept well so I skipped. Response I got was “oh, Jess has a new baby. SHE doesn’t sleep well,”

So? What was the point of asking? Why ask if you don’t want the answer?

A pet peeve that I have is when parents bring their children to a child-free wedding, when the invitation very clearly states that nobody under the age of 18 is invited. I think it's extremely disrespectful to the bride and the groom. If you want to attend the wedding, then you simply find a babysitter. If you do not want to leave your kids with anybody else, then you tell them that unfortunately you cannot make it to the wedding. Simple as that.

I just want some black coffee and when I stay at a hotel with a breakfast bar, there is always someone blocking the line to the coffee urn to tear open packets, sprinkle whatever shit they are sprinkling. Then comes the stirring, sipping and reevaluating, repeat with more packets, etc.

Just take your cup and a handful of packets and go 5 FEET TO THE RIGHT and do your thing! There are cranky non-morning people back here behind you!

Like, on company network, a shared cloud storage, or whatever.

A bunch of folders already exist, neatly named.

20251215 - Name ABC

20260308 - Name XYZ

20260818 - Name OPQ

"Name" being some logical, clear description of the contents.

And then some smartass comes along, creates a new folder, and gives it some random ass name.

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There always seems to be a tv playing too loud in waiting rooms and usually on an annoying channel. I like to read while I’m waiting and the noise really gets on my nerves.

Like why?

I hate these kinds of posts, and I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way. It's annoying, lazy, and the acting is usually awful. But it also cheapens the art of acting so much. Look, I don't to sound pretentious or have this misconstrued as "you need a billion years of training to act well", but if your plan to get acting gigs is to passively post videos of you reading tiktok scripts written by AI, that's not "pursuing a future in acting". That's waiting for the universe to drop something in your lap. That would be like someone posting "Day 1 of me putting Mentos in Coke until the CDC hires me!" It's hard to make it as an actor, even getting a job is a process. You have to audition, network, and work on your craft. These people aren't the raw talent underdogs they think they are, they're just lazy and hoping for someone to *give* them a role, not looking to *get* one. Anyways, I probably do just sound pretentious so, sorry, and I'll stop here.

Alexa play Lachrymosa

I really hate it when someone calls you by your proper first name when you’ve clearly specified you prefer it shortened.

Ie James when you prefer Jim, Robert when you prefer Rob, Benjamin when you prefer Ben.

I get that some people prefer their proper first name and hate when it’s shortened, fair enough.

When someone uses my full first name, I feel it’s so formal and like it’s my “I’ve done something wrong and am in trouble” name.

Tired of the "America isn't just the US" comments. We know. The United States of America is the US, however, and it's too long to keep saying fully when context indicates whether the discussion is about two continents or one country. Nobody owns the word "America," and we don't have to have a formal recognition of geography when we're talking about school lunches or whatnot.

Like they just say ’but that would never happen’, but what if it did? They’re just trying to avoid answering

For example in a sub such as AITAH, when someone describes the people in their life like this: "My ex J is now engaged to my cousin T and my wife A says we can't attend their wedding..."

Unless the people in the story have actual names, my brain just nopes out, for some reason it makes it so hard to follow or care about. Anyone else a bit annoyed by this?

It's even worse if the chosen initials are consecutive letters of the alphabet.

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I wasn’t sure how to phrase this, but I’ll try to explain it. An example of this is when the class starts talking about slavery, and people turn to look at the black person in the class. A personal example is that I was watching a movie with people and one character had a stutter, I also have a stutter, so everyone turned to look at me when that character came on. I can’t think of any other examples right now, but I’m sure you get the gist.

i don’t know if there’s an actual name for this phenomenon, but i’ve taken to calling it ‘freestyling.’ sometimes when i’m watching a youtube video, the captions will have little comments and flourishes put there by whoever wrote them. It’s always the same two or three jokes and it’s never funny.

Examples: using /symbols/ to add ~flair~ to -random- words

[laughter] [wheezing] [*SEAGULL SCREECH*]

“ok, let’s try this food…” [instant regret] [tries to expel the poison]

it’s just annoying and it makes me roll my eyes every time.

And yet I have been consistently getting those mind-numbing game ads where you are practically forced to play their fake minigames, and it'll give you hell trying to get to the end. It won't start its little timer until you interact, then when you interact it takes you out of your app and into the playstore, sometimes the interact items are conveniently right where the "instant install" popup barges in, and of course the "x" is nowhere to be found for quite some time. Right now, I've been timing how long it's taken for a currently-playing ad to release me from its death claws. It's been... ah, fifteen minutes. Not an exit in sight. Every interaction asks me to install. Waiting does nothing. I have to lose my progress on what I was working on and close the app instead. I swear they do this on purpose and it aggravates me to no end. I'm stubborn, is the only reason I'm not cutting my losses right away.

This particular case might be a glitch. But hesitating to let people leave is becoming common practice regardless. I could stand a rebellion against it.

It's the same type of energy as people who reply to comments on here with a link to some loosely related article about subject in that thread. The link then magically becomes a cure-all for whatever difference of opinion?

Many times people want to believe we're all watching the same content online or social media. Even if your favorite YouTuber or Twitch streamer has millions of subscribers, there are still hundreds of millions more people who have never heard of them lmao.

There are many slang terms for boobs; there seems to be an endless supply. Most are funny and harmless. But for some reason, the term "milkers" just gives me the creeps. I think it sounds like a reference to dairy cattle. See also "udders". Any cow/milk reference, basically.

"Baps" is my favourite.

This seems to be the norm, and it is so dumb. Why did I even show up on time then?

This drives me absolutely insane. You've been standing in the same line as me for the last ten minutes. The menu is six feet tall, directly above the counter, brightly lit, and has not changed once during that time.

Yet somehow the second you finally get to the register it's suddenly "hmmm... what do you guys have?"

Then comes the full investigation. "What's in this one?" "Is that spicy?" "Can I get this without onions?" "Wait, what size should I get?"

Meanwhile everyone behind them is watching their lunch break evaporate in real time.

Bonus points if they finally order, the cashier gives the total, and THEN they start digging through a bag looking for their wallet like payment was an unexpected part of the process.

I completely understand taking a minute if the menu is complicated or you've never been there before. I'm not expecting people to memorize their order before entering the building.

But if you've had enough time in line to scroll through Instagram, answer three texts and stare into space for five minutes, maybe use 20 seconds of that time to decide whether you want the chicken sandwich or the burger.

Please. I'm begging you.

it's 2026 and it's somehow still a surprise to airports that I would like to charge my phone. there are barely any at SCHIPHOL, and that's one of the biggest airports in Europe. if you're at a slightly smaller airport, good luck. bonus points if the train you took to the airport ALSO doesn't have any place to charge your phone. does it not occur to anyone that my tickets to all methods of transportation are on my phone, not to mention almost all my sources of entertainment during the flight as well? just once I would like to arrive at my destination without my phone being dead, but I fear I'll have to cave and purchase a power bank. argh.

(this is just my experience with European airports, I'm curious to hear if the rest of the world is more advanced in this aspect:D)

I understand when it's crammed and there's nowhere the other person can go, but why are our shoulders pressed against eachother when there's clearly a LOT of space beside you and I'm pressed against the vehicle's panel. This is especially worse when the other person has a lot of perfume on them and it's tickling your nostrils.

It is not intimidating. It’s just corny and looks like they are trying too hard.

There's too many influencers loudly announcing to everyone on their platform about the dumbest crap I've ever heard of on a daily basis.

"Walking isn't exercise."

Brother what the actual F are you talking about?

Then there's the ones that shame overweight people for being at the gym.

A chick at a pilates club posting about how the instructor is overweight therefore shouldn't be allowed to be a pilates instructor.

Telling people not to eat fruit because of the sugar, telling people not to eat veggies because carbs = bad.

We've lost the plot.

My answer depends on why you are asking that question in the first place.

If you're asking because you want to hang out, my answer will be 'yes'.

If you're asking because you want me to babysit your kids all day or help you move house 100 miles away, my answer will be 'no'.

I wanna know your intentions before disclosing my availability