Parents annoy their children in a million plus howcantheyevencomeupwithmore ways. And it's not just what they do, but what they say as well.
A couple of days ago, Jamie from Aberdeen, Scotland, decided to compile a collection of these quirks. "Is there something trivial that your parents say that really...annoys you for no good reason?" he tweeted. "My mum accidentally calling Pets at Home 'Pets City' for the past twelve years is right up there." To everyone's amusement, irritated sons and daughters immediately started venting. Scroll down to check out what they had to share and feel free to join them in the comments.
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My dad used to say "Kuhsaft" (cow juice) instead of milk... Every. Single. Time.
In their book Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us, Joe Palca and Flora Lichtman said a very interesting thing. There isn't a single scientific field devoted to the topic of being annoyed. But plenty of scholars and researchers have analyzed the subject, meaning if such a topic were to exist, it would be multidisciplinary.
The authors also said that it's really difficult to come up with a universal formula for what is annoying. After all, not every inconvenience or trouble is so terribly unpleasant. At least not when experienced one at a time. Rather, they claim, it is when these things are repetitive and unpredictable that they get under our skin.
Think of it this way. A loud bang, coming from an apartment above us might take us by surprise, heck, it can even frighten us, but it won't instantly become annoying. But our neighbor's loud music played over and over and over, and over again, is very annoying.
Interestingly, we can train ourselves not to get annoyed. Have you ever noticed that childfree people get more impatient with a crying or misbehaving kid than parents do? Michael R. Cunningham, a psychologist at the University of Louisville, told The Boston Globe, "You can leave the environment, you can change the environment, or you can do something inside yourself to change your reaction." That could mean changing behaviors, for example, doing deep breathing, counting to 10, or taking a walk every time you're stressed out. It could also mean deliberately changing your thoughts about the situation - deciding, for instance, to view it as quirky instead of annoying.
So if your dad's nail picking really frustrates you, maybe just spend more time with the old man you brat?
wow, that one's wrong on two counts - if she thought it meant liking being at home, that would be 'home' ophile.
When I was a kid in the late '80's I would stay after school at my grandmother's and her mom (my great grandmother) was there. She was born in 1900 so she was like 88. I would be playing Mario brothers and one day she bust out "why are we watching the same who over and over again?! Change the channel!"
The same who? You mean, the same show? Wow, that blows my mind, that you actually _knew_ your own great-grandmother, though!
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This is hilarious! I love it. Bet she makes that py purpose. My mom says things like this.
both my parents call the internet YouTube because that's the only thing they ever access on their tablets and think that's the entire internet
Well the fax machine is over 100 years old. So at least for her they have always been around.
My dad is still stuck in VHS era. He calls any video he receives or sends on whatsapp : a tape.
I thought she wanted to purchase a pair of boots on eBay! (Just realised she meant Boots, the UK drugstore. Of course, 'nan' is the British term for grandmother.)
There's a snack sold in England called Peperami. It's a long, thin stick of salami.
Wait a minute, stop right there. You left out the most important thing. Mom or dad?
thats sign that your mom want you to buy her M&S for her. for the god sake!
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My mother often makes up acronyms for things. "I'm just going to PL" . I still don't know who/what/where that is
She did it on purpose so no one could find her
Load More Replies... My mother: Princess Diane.. mum it's Diana, DianA. Cliff Richards (no s, NO S). Makkies (an old shop) instead of Mackays. ARGH. Friend: Choclit not chocolate, pompadoms not poppadoms and don't get me started on how she pronounced trousers as trarrsis. MIL: pavioli instead of pavlova. *sobs*
Oh boy you all have the easy life because my husband has so many I couldn't even count! Anytime he sees potatoes he has to ask "What's tators, Precious?" If he sees anything with Mark Walberg he has to ask "Who let this homeless guy in this movie/commercial/whatever?" He will never not sing the silly lingos after shows like Peter Griffin. When he enters a room he says "look alive, fool!" ... There are so many countless more of these. Lord help me!
my husband still calls it a "libary", and seems unable to make a 'th' sound in some words. I'm coming up on my "birfday". And dont get me started on his "Southeri-isms"! I now refuse to respond when he asks me "Whatcha lookin?".
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My mum calls pets at home "happy pets" and now I do and annoy my kids too.
My mother says thob instead of throb. Makes me nuts. But I've decided after this post to embrace and love her little quirk.
When I worked for Microsoft, my grandmother told everyone for a year that I was at Microwave!
Lol my friends mum calls her precocious: she's meaning it as an insult...I'm not sure what word she's thinking of but it always makes me laugh
I would assume she means just that, it was a very adult thing to say to any child acting too big for their boots etc.
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My mom calls a credit card a charge card or when she uses her credit card she says she's charging it.
My dad will call my sister and I and just say " What are you doing?" Which on my days off is usually answered with "I was sleeping." He then ask why am I doing that.
These days, just about everyone is destroying the English language. One thing I find irritating is people saying things like "Him and me went to the store." Instead of "He and I went to the store." Basic grammar, people.
Yes! I have small children and I will teach them proper grammar if it kills me. It doesn't matter how smart you actually are. Poor grammar automatically knocks off at least 10 IQ points.
Load More Replies... When I was in nursing school, my 1.5 year old son would say "ears, mommy!" when I got home every day. He would get so frustrated when I didn't understand. Finally, one evening he went and got my stethoscope from my bag. From then on, he'd say "ears, mommy" and I would let him listen to our hearts and bellies. To this day I still refer to my stethoscope as my "ears". He's 18 now, and probably finds it annoying af.
my friend says "palm" like "pom" and it annoys me so much cuz i always think she is talking about the drink
Both of my parents used to call these little meat things “Vye-ee-nuh saw-sids”. When I learned to read I realized they’re called Vienna sausages.
Half of these are talking about the children not so much their parents!
1) Mom, gets pop culture wrong and insists she has it right: “You know, everyone keeps saying that orange is the new black.” I told her it was a tv show. She didn’t believe me. 2) Mom thinks all emails come from an actual person: A police car once came to the house. Shocked, I said to mom, “Why are the police here?” Mom says, “Well, I got an email from a Prince in Nigeria and the police are here to see it and investigate.” She didn’t understand that the Prince did not have her physical address and all she had to do was delete it. She thought the guy might turn up at the house. 3)BOTH of my parents have me “print” everything. It doesn’t matter if it is 100 pages long. They need to keep it for their records and to have it in case something happens to the internet. They are going to be laughing at us one day when there is no internet because they will still have those movie reviews from 1996.
My mom also pronounces the past tense of text as text. "When you text me yesterday I didn't see it," Why!!!!!
For some reason my Dad says "robutt" instead of robot. I've tried to correct him but he just laughs and keeps doing it. Smh.
I always say ness-ill-cell-ery instead of necessarily and my children hate it so I will never stop saying it, if we are not teaching them to live life a little less seriously, then we are not doing our jobs properly lol - they also say it’s uncool to say or write lol (laugh out loud) so I will keep on with it.
My Dad called tacos "tackoes" (like tack). Exponential was "expotential" (surprising how often they came up - we liked to talk math and science). He could not bring himself to call his grandson-in-law by his name "Jean-Michele" because he would feel silly, so would just call him "JM" (affectionately). He was in fact a master at mispronouncing anything, with gusto and confidence. Used to embarassas me at restaurants, but I sure do miss all that silliness now. Love you, Dad!
My dad's a piece of work. Calls Aldi "Aldi-la," Walmart is " Waldemart, " and Bed Bath & Beyond is "Bed Bath & Beyonce." When they used to get Netflix dvd's he'd write "NG" on a post-it and slap that on the disc if it was scratched or damaged. Surely it was clear and extremely helpful to the employees in the warehouses. We find it hilarious!
My dad says Thingaby for a lot of things.. Oh I bumped into thingaby the other day when I went shopping to get the thingaby's.. who and what were you buying.. have you seen that new programme the one with thingaby in it...
My dad does this think that isnt really irritating, just funny. Whenever I have friends over for dinner, he will pray like this: "OH, DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK THOU FOR THIS FOOD THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UPON US" then my friend looks around weirdly, we all laugh, and he prays like normal for us. Lol
My daughter got a set of Apple Airpods and I accidentally called them air-buds and she got all mad...haven't stopped calling them that since...
Maybe my dad was doing that... though we just assumed he was soft in the head.
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My good friend/ adoptive father has some gems that quietly make me crazy. Ideal instead of idea. Mote control instead of remote control. UPS or alternately EPS instead of GPS. And warsh instead of wash. That's just the few I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, wait. One more. Overhauls instead of overalls. I've tried to explain, but it's apparently incomprehensible. I love him to bits anyway, but I'm expecting to develop a facial tic at any moment.
My mother says before almost every statement: "The thing about it is..."
My grandmother would end every sentence with "ya know" .
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my Mum says, 'hankyou' instead of 'thank you'. i have zero idea why.
Maybe she is familiar with this word in a different language. The same root is used in multiple languages (Pinguine, Pingveno, Pingvini, Pingvinalakúak) where the first vocal is an i.
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I used to irritate my autistic son every once in a while when I pick him up from someplace. As soon as he opens the door, I say "Howdy Clem!!" in my best southern accent. First few times I did it..he kept correcting me "Mom..my name is Danny..not Clem!" Now he just says "Hey.."
It's because a syllable needs both a consonant and a vowel. Join has two consonants (j and n) but only one vowel (the oi sound) so it is missing another vowel after the n to create a second syllable. Joining has two syllables.
Load More Replies... My mother often makes up acronyms for things. "I'm just going to PL" . I still don't know who/what/where that is
She did it on purpose so no one could find her
Load More Replies... My mother: Princess Diane.. mum it's Diana, DianA. Cliff Richards (no s, NO S). Makkies (an old shop) instead of Mackays. ARGH. Friend: Choclit not chocolate, pompadoms not poppadoms and don't get me started on how she pronounced trousers as trarrsis. MIL: pavioli instead of pavlova. *sobs*
Oh boy you all have the easy life because my husband has so many I couldn't even count! Anytime he sees potatoes he has to ask "What's tators, Precious?" If he sees anything with Mark Walberg he has to ask "Who let this homeless guy in this movie/commercial/whatever?" He will never not sing the silly lingos after shows like Peter Griffin. When he enters a room he says "look alive, fool!" ... There are so many countless more of these. Lord help me!
my husband still calls it a "libary", and seems unable to make a 'th' sound in some words. I'm coming up on my "birfday". And dont get me started on his "Southeri-isms"! I now refuse to respond when he asks me "Whatcha lookin?".
Load More Replies... My mum calls pets at home "happy pets" and now I do and annoy my kids too.
My mother says thob instead of throb. Makes me nuts. But I've decided after this post to embrace and love her little quirk.
When I worked for Microsoft, my grandmother told everyone for a year that I was at Microwave!
Lol my friends mum calls her precocious: she's meaning it as an insult...I'm not sure what word she's thinking of but it always makes me laugh
I would assume she means just that, it was a very adult thing to say to any child acting too big for their boots etc.
Load More Replies... My mom calls a credit card a charge card or when she uses her credit card she says she's charging it.
My dad will call my sister and I and just say " What are you doing?" Which on my days off is usually answered with "I was sleeping." He then ask why am I doing that.
These days, just about everyone is destroying the English language. One thing I find irritating is people saying things like "Him and me went to the store." Instead of "He and I went to the store." Basic grammar, people.
Yes! I have small children and I will teach them proper grammar if it kills me. It doesn't matter how smart you actually are. Poor grammar automatically knocks off at least 10 IQ points.
Load More Replies... When I was in nursing school, my 1.5 year old son would say "ears, mommy!" when I got home every day. He would get so frustrated when I didn't understand. Finally, one evening he went and got my stethoscope from my bag. From then on, he'd say "ears, mommy" and I would let him listen to our hearts and bellies. To this day I still refer to my stethoscope as my "ears". He's 18 now, and probably finds it annoying af.
my friend says "palm" like "pom" and it annoys me so much cuz i always think she is talking about the drink
Both of my parents used to call these little meat things “Vye-ee-nuh saw-sids”. When I learned to read I realized they’re called Vienna sausages.
Half of these are talking about the children not so much their parents!
1) Mom, gets pop culture wrong and insists she has it right: “You know, everyone keeps saying that orange is the new black.” I told her it was a tv show. She didn’t believe me. 2) Mom thinks all emails come from an actual person: A police car once came to the house. Shocked, I said to mom, “Why are the police here?” Mom says, “Well, I got an email from a Prince in Nigeria and the police are here to see it and investigate.” She didn’t understand that the Prince did not have her physical address and all she had to do was delete it. She thought the guy might turn up at the house. 3)BOTH of my parents have me “print” everything. It doesn’t matter if it is 100 pages long. They need to keep it for their records and to have it in case something happens to the internet. They are going to be laughing at us one day when there is no internet because they will still have those movie reviews from 1996.
My mom also pronounces the past tense of text as text. "When you text me yesterday I didn't see it," Why!!!!!
For some reason my Dad says "robutt" instead of robot. I've tried to correct him but he just laughs and keeps doing it. Smh.
I always say ness-ill-cell-ery instead of necessarily and my children hate it so I will never stop saying it, if we are not teaching them to live life a little less seriously, then we are not doing our jobs properly lol - they also say it’s uncool to say or write lol (laugh out loud) so I will keep on with it.
My Dad called tacos "tackoes" (like tack). Exponential was "expotential" (surprising how often they came up - we liked to talk math and science). He could not bring himself to call his grandson-in-law by his name "Jean-Michele" because he would feel silly, so would just call him "JM" (affectionately). He was in fact a master at mispronouncing anything, with gusto and confidence. Used to embarassas me at restaurants, but I sure do miss all that silliness now. Love you, Dad!
My dad's a piece of work. Calls Aldi "Aldi-la," Walmart is " Waldemart, " and Bed Bath & Beyond is "Bed Bath & Beyonce." When they used to get Netflix dvd's he'd write "NG" on a post-it and slap that on the disc if it was scratched or damaged. Surely it was clear and extremely helpful to the employees in the warehouses. We find it hilarious!
My dad says Thingaby for a lot of things.. Oh I bumped into thingaby the other day when I went shopping to get the thingaby's.. who and what were you buying.. have you seen that new programme the one with thingaby in it...
My dad does this think that isnt really irritating, just funny. Whenever I have friends over for dinner, he will pray like this: "OH, DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK THOU FOR THIS FOOD THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT UPON US" then my friend looks around weirdly, we all laugh, and he prays like normal for us. Lol
My daughter got a set of Apple Airpods and I accidentally called them air-buds and she got all mad...haven't stopped calling them that since...
Maybe my dad was doing that... though we just assumed he was soft in the head.
Load More Replies... My good friend/ adoptive father has some gems that quietly make me crazy. Ideal instead of idea. Mote control instead of remote control. UPS or alternately EPS instead of GPS. And warsh instead of wash. That's just the few I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, wait. One more. Overhauls instead of overalls. I've tried to explain, but it's apparently incomprehensible. I love him to bits anyway, but I'm expecting to develop a facial tic at any moment.
My mother says before almost every statement: "The thing about it is..."
My grandmother would end every sentence with "ya know" .
Load More Replies... my Mum says, 'hankyou' instead of 'thank you'. i have zero idea why.
Maybe she is familiar with this word in a different language. The same root is used in multiple languages (Pinguine, Pingveno, Pingvini, Pingvinalakúak) where the first vocal is an i.
Load More Replies... I used to irritate my autistic son every once in a while when I pick him up from someplace. As soon as he opens the door, I say "Howdy Clem!!" in my best southern accent. First few times I did it..he kept correcting me "Mom..my name is Danny..not Clem!" Now he just says "Hey.."
It's because a syllable needs both a consonant and a vowel. Join has two consonants (j and n) but only one vowel (the oi sound) so it is missing another vowel after the n to create a second syllable. Joining has two syllables.
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