What really grinds your gears?

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Jock Itch Oct 2018 1:16pm, 23 Oct 2018 12,689 posts	0 Jock Itch people saying 'Proud Dad' 'Proud Mum' etc when little johnny passes his 10m swimming badge etc. Just go in the next room and tell the bastard. boils my wee.
Jock Itch Oct 2018 1:28pm, 23 Oct 2018 12,690 posts	0 Jock Itch Nick Knowles.
Jock Itch Oct 2018 1:31pm, 23 Oct 2018 12,691 posts	0 Jock Itch “There is nothing wrong with my bastard bagging area you slag”, followed by swearing and then slamming it down so it redoes the weight thingy. Then realising a member of staff is right behind you
postieboy Oct 2018 8:37pm, 23 Oct 2018 5,477 posts	0 postieboy Halloween. Nobody gave a damn about it when I was a child, why the big hullabaloo now?
Lemon10 Oct 2018 8:47pm, 23 Oct 2018 3,599 posts	0 Lemon10 Ideas fairies. Too many where I work. They can all FRO.
Eynsham Red Oct 2018 8:48pm, 23 Oct 2018 3,365 posts	0 Eynsham Red [Halloween was apple bobbing, and a very few people had pumpkin lanterns when I was a kid. Pumpkins were pretty rare then. Wiley people have found that they can make a lot of money out of selling tat, and the gullible duly oblige].
WA Oct 2018 11:00pm, 23 Oct 2018 5,739 posts	0 WA [My gran carefully carved a turnip for Halloween when I was little. It wasn't until I tried it myself decades later thatch realised how bloody hard it is to core and carve a turnip]
LazyDaisy Oct 2018 7:20am, 24 Oct 2018 24,288 posts	0 LazyDaisy [Top tip if you've small children and cba carving a pumpkin or turnip - red, yellow and orange peppers are much easier and with a tealight inside look suitably Halloween-y. That was as far as I was prepared to go when my kids were small.]
swittle Oct 2018 10:06am, 24 Oct 2018 50,892 posts	0 swittle [^ They'd make a tasty snack at the end of the evening. ]
Carpathius Oct 2018 11:21am, 24 Oct 2018 15,588 posts	0 Carpathius [I helped a friend run an all-day pumpkin carving session for children the other day. By the time we'd hollowed out about eighty pumpkins I actually had bruises on the back of my hand. If you do use a pumpkin, hollow it out using an ice cream scoop.]