I hate

The fucking dishwasher beeping 8 goddam times when the door is opened, because 3 or 5 beeps aren’t enough.

Pricks who drive through a zebra crossing when you're about to cross but wave to acknowledge they've seen you as if that makes it better rather than worse.

People who come into the office when they're audibly/visibly ill are the absolute worst of all the officecunts.

now enjoying an microwaved underbrewed coffee. Hopefully it will assist me with making the next ones.

Bootstrapping. Reminds me...

Last century, when I lived on instant coffee and ciggies, during a stretch of brokeness bad enough that I'd be going hungry, I woke up one morning absolutely bonked; no glycogen - I could barely drag myself out of bed.

Staggered to the kitchen to make a coffee, and horror of horrors, no milk! Black coffee literally unthinkable. I couldn't imagine how I would survive, barely able to lift a finger. What saved me was a gulp of flat Coke left in an old bottle in the fridge - that gulp of flat Coke was the most miraculously enervating elixir I've ever swallowed.

I then had just enough energy to carry my bike downstairs and ride the 100m to the milk bar around the corner and come back to put the kettle on. It felt like a brush with death!

EBay sellers not putting enough postage on an item.

Yeah I've had a few people ask for more once I'd won an item and then just pretend something went wrong when I say I won't pay extra for postage

Kids

And the opposite, those on eBay who absolutely rinse on postage (I know it’s a known but still rankles)

Kids today, or ever?

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Just most of the ones that are near to me at any point in time, since forever.

As a father of a five month old, I keep wondering how the hell our species ever made it.

He's gonna be roughly this useless and annoying for years! Good thing his smile is so cute, but even so.

This one's stuck at the sorting office and - apparently - I have a card with a code so I can pay online. Two things:

1. Of course our useless postie hasn't posted the card; and
   
2. There's only one person paying online, and it isn't me.
   

I keep wondering how the hell our species ever made it.

This was probably my most used phrase this year with Child 1.

Utterly vulnerable, no self-preservation or even sense of self, annoying af except to most of their social circle and a few atuned strangers. It’s no wonder infant and child mortality were so shockingly high throughout most of human existence.

On the flip side, existentially, it’s really driven home that even the cuntiest of cunts, at some point in their lives, had one or more people who cared about them, at the very least enough to keep them alive. Literally not one of us survives without another’s care.

He's gonna be roughly this useless and annoying for years!

He's gonna get way more fucking annoying.

Tall drink receptacles

Stupid tall pint glasses
Chilli bottles
Air up bottles

Why increase the likelihood of spills?

Thanks for the pep talk

Why increase the likelihood of spills?

Ponciness

"Contractors"

The name works on multiple levels.

I know, I was one. Unless you were dead, you'd be in the office.

I hate the bit they have in Instagram now which pulls posts from Threads, and then if you click on it it drags you off to the app store, or worse, on desktop, actually takes you to Threads.
Why can't I fucking remove it? If you click the thing to "show less often" it's back again before you know it.
I don't want to be on threads. I had a look, it was shit, I deleted my account. Make it go away.

This.

My 3 year old has gone absolutely mental recently. Screaming her head off and having meltdowns over the littlest things. Refusing to do pretty much any thing we ask her to do.

Like on Tuesday on the way to pick up my eldest from school, we were late as she insisted on taking one of her shoes on and off 5 times in the space of walking 50m, having a screaming fit for 5 mins each time she did so and not letting me help.

Yeah we had a real change at 3-4yo. It’s like they just choose something arbitrary to lose their shit about. The worst I think I’ve had was when I was wearing the wrong shoes. Also yesterday she melted down so much we almost missed school, because I was going to the dentist after drop off. Man I could go on and on

My 3 year old is being a proper twat atm, pushing every boundary, refusing help for anything, making everything a fight. Best of many examples yesterday was when she made a massive mess all over the floor whilst I was cooking, my wife swept it all up and just as my wife finished she threw a ball directly on the dust pan to throw all the shit back all over the floor, then laughed hysterically. (tbf that was funny though)

My 4 year was nowhere near extreme and she's been really good recently, well she still has massive screaming meltdowns when emotionally frustrated but that's a whole other story.

Ah, kids.

The worst I think I’ve had was when I was wearing the wrong shoes.

Little did I expect that I would have a three year old dictating what I wore...

My 3 year old is being a proper twat atm, pushing every boundary, refusing help for anything, making everything a fight. Best of many examples yesterday was when she made a massive mess all over the floor whilst I was cooking, my wife swept it all up and just as my wife finished she threw a ball directly on the dust pan to throw all the shit back all over the floor, then laughed hysterically. (tbf that was funny though)

You have just moved house right? Could be related