I spent almost a month in hospital last year in July, was quite ill, and had a bed right beside the window. On the other side of the room was an old woman whose bed was adjacent to the corridor. She was nowhere near my bed or the window. I liked the window open during the day because I really needed fresh air for my physical and mental well-being...and also because hospital wards these days are so bloody warm.

This old hag repeatedly got out of the chair beside her bed and came around my bed, between me and the window, and kept trying to close it. I had a running feud with her over it until one day, at the peak of my illness when I was seriously unwell and depressed with it, she came over while I was just trying to doze off and attempted to close it. I totally lost it, grabbed a water bottle beside me and told her if she didn't f*** off I'd brain her with it. She yelled for the nurse who came running and I told the nurse to keep her away from me and my window - it was the middle of summer, only fresh air coming in and she couldn't bear the sight of a window open!

Some old people are like this for some stupid reason, my late mother-in-law for example. She would not have a window open in the house or car. But fresh air is important to me and I was so ill that it was the one thing that kept my spirits going.

Extendable dog leads, or barking tripwires as I prefer to call them are one of my biggest pet hates. I've seen people chatting away on one pavement while their dogs are running about on the other side of the road. I dread to think what would happen if a cyclist or someone on a motorbike came around the corner. In one case I saw a car stop just in time and the driver was then subjected to a torrent of abuse from the dog owner about "being more careful."
We've also got an idiot with three, very excitable, aggressive, yappy little dogs on three extendable leads. She'll wander along with the dogs running in to the road, blocking the pavements, running through gardens, jumping on people and snapping at them and she'll completely ignore what they are doing.

Overuse of the words wow and awesome for fairly trivial things.

They give warning notices around here (Luton Borough Council), i.e. if we catch you again, you'll get a fine.

Pisses me off as well, especially if you get cars parked on the pavement, making the gap even narrower. And while I'm at it, people that park on street corners. The last I looked, the highway code says don't do it, but people still do, even on double yellows.

Don't worry. It's firework season soon and you'll get dog owners moaning on here about the noise made. At least fireworks aren't going off all year long, unlike your dogs barking, sometimes all bloody day.

This, this, THIS!!! Drives me insane and is really a common occurance. Such pig ignorance that annoys me so much that I actually stop dead in front of them now so one of the precious darlings has to move aside. I know I've mentioned it before on DS (probably in this thread!) but it annoys me so much I thought it worth repeating!

It's even more annoying when you are walking down a corridor. I used to work in a college and it was an almost daily occurrence - I think some of them really expected me to either walk all the way back or knock a hole in the wall to let them past.
It was even worse if I had to work up a ladder, even with someone trying to move people out of the way some would still walk right into it. I even had one person try to move a ladder out of the way while I was standing on it because she didn't see why she should have to walk around it!

Every time there is a celebrity divorce the media make a point of the brevity of the proceedings and the fact the couple weren't in attendance as if this was newsworthy or unusual rather than the same as the vast majority of cases.

Blokes who keep their headgear on when inside, especially in 'Behind Closd Doors' and hospital programmes. I was brought up to regard the wearing of hats by men inside as the height of bad manners.

I suppose it's a generational thing.

The design of the "slippery road" sign - did they not notice that the car appears to turn inside out?

Also: the lack of a lock on the toilets at Travelodge. (Admittedly, there's only three people that I'd share a room with - all of whom have already seen me naked - but I'm sure there are others who aren't that fortunate.)

There's a woman on my Facebook (work colleague) who's doing this Sober October. Sent numerous messages to us about sponsoring her etc ok i think it's a stupid concept but cool, do your thing. Anyway she has been bought a "golden ticket" every weekend so far and makes a big thing about drinking and then has the audacity to ask for more sponsors for this incredible feat she's enduring. Which is basically just not drinking mon-fri which I'm sure a good many of us do anyway.

I have no issue with people doing things to raise money for charity, but in this particular case she's not actually doing anything but still asking for money for it.

When people write stuff and they do this.................

Grammar / English language teaches us that you only have to use three of them, so why do so many people get it wrong eh?

People calling our clinic and leaving a message asking me to call them "urgently" as they can't make their appointment tomorrow.

So I'll call them back, shuffle through 7 clinic diaries, give them 2 or 3 alternative dates, none of which are suitable.

They'll then say..."Oh don't worry, I'll come along tomorrow anyway", like they're doing me a huge favour.

So why waste my time in the first place?

Well, thank you Rich. I never knew that, and I have probably got it wrong for the past sixty years. You are never too old to learn, it seems!

That Adidas Pogba advert.

And there should be a space between the last letter and the first dot ...

Unless I'm missing something here, surely the point of going sober for a month is just that? No cheat days? I also think, again, unless I'm missing something, (I rarely drink anyway) if you're asking people to sponsor you to stop drinking for a month, you've got issues.

Being woken up by someone in the next room (I was in a hotel all weekend) at some stupid hour. They were snoring. I'm not sure what was bothering me more - that or waking up constantly due to my sore throat.

I knew someone who taught English and insisted that "..." was only for use in reported speech and not in any other kind of writing. She used to tell people off for including it in social media posts. I got pretty frustrated with that to be quite honest, let 'em do it, it's not harming you.

The phrase "many moons ago" is getting on my nerves at the moment, it sounds so pretentious

I would guarantee it!😁

hehe noted

The perfect storm of misery - physical, emotional and spiritual.

Kim Kardashian still has big tits though - so everything is alright.

That's fair enough - I always like a window open to get in fresh air too. Especially on the bus were it gets stuffy and smelly. What also irritates me about it is that I pay full price (ridiculously expensive) prices for a bus day ticket , pensioners get free bus travel - so technically I've paid for the right to open the bus window.

"I'm not being racist but..." <insert racist comment here> Person quite clearly spends far too much time reading the Daily Mail instead of using their brain a bit too.

My husband's work uniform. The polo shirts are OK - decent quality, wash well and don't need ironing. The trousers, however, are atrocious. Poor quality fabric, crap design, badly made and ill-fitting. They look dreadful - not just on him, but on everyone. I thought the point of a uniform (at least in part) was to look smart. That's an impossible feat with such awful trousers.

The work colleague who sits at the desk next to mine. He's a nice enough chap, but he will insist on trying to make conversation (usually about stuff that doesn't interest me), when I'm really busy and just want to get on with my work. I don't want to be anti-social or rude, but sometimes it's really difficult

I get really furious when I open a drawer and lots of things fall out!!