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Things you hate.

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divorcinganabsolutewanker · 05/12/2025 12:16

We've had 2 birthdays in work today and I didn't join in with the singing of happy birthday. I hate it. Have a great day and all that but I don't feel the need to go and join in.

I also hate Christmas, it's a waste of money. Love the time with family but the rest of it can fuck off.

I also hate going for a wee and stopping for diesel.

What do you hate?

OP posts:
Titasaducksarse · 07/12/2025 09:48

notacooldad · 07/12/2025 09:00

,Titasaducksarse
Deciding what to eat for dinner every night,
I was the same.
Now I use the Ai app on my phone to do the meal planning for me. I just put my request in, eg how many meals, any meat meals or veggie ones and it's done. I love it. I usually ask for 7 days meal, 3 x a day upto 1500 calories, 4 veggie meals .
Or 5 days of healthy slow cooker meals.

My hate is emptying the dishwasher but dh normally does it when he is maki h breakfast for me.

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a go!

Cel77 · 07/12/2025 09:01

Fennel
Deciding what to make for dinner for picky family
Waking up for work in the dark
When my son has a meltdown and says he wants to die/punch me ...
Never having enough money
When people don't put their indicator and expect everyone else not to crash into them

I'm sure there's more

notacooldad · 07/12/2025 09:00

,Titasaducksarse
Deciding what to eat for dinner every night,
I was the same.
Now I use the Ai app on my phone to do the meal planning for me. I just put my request in, eg how many meals, any meat meals or veggie ones and it's done. I love it. I usually ask for 7 days meal, 3 x a day upto 1500 calories, 4 veggie meals .
Or 5 days of healthy slow cooker meals.

My hate is emptying the dishwasher but dh normally does it when he is maki h breakfast for me.

ThxForTheFish · 07/12/2025 07:30

TheThingsYouDoForLurve · 05/12/2025 12:30

Aubergines
Christmas
Getting out of bed for a wee
Nigel Farage and Reform
Non working train WiFi

The fecking train WiFi! How come it works well enough for their card machines to take payment, but not for my news feed to load?!

apokeyweeplace · 07/12/2025 05:41

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 21:56

Oh yes, yes, no longer can I just go to my local swimming pool like I used to do the olden days, pay my money go in and have a swim, you have to have an app and book in advance.
The council now have a bot answering the phone who makes me feel murderous, i no longer bother ringing them , it is pointless as the bot does not understand me, I have a clear voice and no real accent,God help anyone who has an acccent or for whom English is not their first language.

My GP sent me a text to book a blood test as they no longer do them at the health centre you have to go book online and go to a special place in the city, the link to the booking service did not work. In the olden days you just trotted upstairs to the phelbotomy room with your test form, took a number and waited . It was a bit of a wait but under the new arrangement it has taken me 2 days to get though to get an appointment and I will have to pencil out an afternoon to allow for travel there and back for a 5 min procedure. How is this progress?

Yes that's it. It's everywhere. Let's add in:

Parking - download and app, no signal so walk off to find one. Worry about now being in car park, caught by ANPR but unable to pay.

Supermarket - yes I'd like your offers.
Of course you can have them: download the app; you have to use our wifi to do it because there's no signal. Login; forgotten password loop etc.

Everything is so stressful

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 07/12/2025 01:56

1 Pavement Cyclists.
Should be shot dead on site

2.Cars that park on pavements
You know so you have to walk into
a busy road to get around them.

  1. The Lost Consonant People
The say site'in for exciting. And moonity for community. Sound like a real bunch of munters.
  1. Not having Servants.
  1. Not having a heated indoor swimming pool.
  1. Apps of any kind

Ta ta for now
Xxx

21secondstopassthemic · 07/12/2025 01:10

Parents who think their loud, screaming bratty kids are more important than everyone in their vicinity and that everyone else should suffer because of them. I was on a 13 hour flight last week behind a family with 3 young kids (I can't think why anyone would consider this).

It was a night flight, they spent the entirety of it performatively parenting their spawn in loud sing-songy voices despite everyone around them trying to sleep. They were also the only people in the cabin who kept their fucking light on. My seat was repeatedly kicked with the parent only asking her daughter to stop once.

The dad kept swanning over and also performatively parenting in a booming voice, telling his little boy to be quiet but ironically, his voice was the loudest of them all. The worst was when we were landing and the mother encouraged the little girl to look at all the planes/surroundings out of the window and shriek "AEROPLANE". This was alongside a baby shrieking for most of the flight who was clearly in pain. My DH and I were absolutely seething at the end.

Slebs · 06/12/2025 23:42

Forms, of any form.

FlakyMum · 06/12/2025 23:32

santasbaubles · 05/12/2025 12:30

Motherfucking crumbs in the motherfucking Lurpak.

Sometimes when I open that tub it contains more bread than butter Envy

At least its not Marmite......nNYAAARRGH!

MyRubyFox · 06/12/2025 23:26

In the summer, elderly men who think its acceptable, or even that they look good going out with their top half exposed. Uggghhh, please dont expose me to the sight of your tobacco coloured, leathery old body! Keep it under wraps (for your other half).

Imanautumn · 06/12/2025 23:22

Muffsies · 06/12/2025 14:10

That doesn't stop some people trying, I gave it a damn good go back in the day.

🤣🤣🤣

fswell · 06/12/2025 23:10

Putting clean sheets on the bed. I’m quite short which makes it even harder.

Katemax82 · 06/12/2025 22:52

JWhipple · 06/12/2025 22:23

Men at the swimming pool who assume "fast lane" is a synonym for "all men to swim here regardless of ability"

That made me laugh so much!

Katemax82 · 06/12/2025 22:40

Mum23plusC · 06/12/2025 18:51

The way my husband stores fucking shower gel upside down...and I dont mean to get the last dregs out (I'm all for that), I mean he does it when the fucking things full!! His trend of doing it has now started in the fridge - sauces and such. Here's the thing though - the fucking ketchup that has the lid at the bottom, he turns the other way round. I mean WTAF?!!!

Omg my husband does the same with lid bottomed bottles!!!! I've had a go at him so many times about it I'm sure he does it out of spite now, surely he can't be that bloody thick

FlippyFlappyFloppy · 06/12/2025 22:32

Dog and the dog bores that own them. I'd let genuine working dogs exist, but the rest should not be in the planet.

Snugglemonkey · 06/12/2025 22:27

JudgeBread · 05/12/2025 12:17

People who congregate in shop doorways or the middle of shop aisles to have a chat.

Fuck off out the way you weapons, go to a cafe or something to have a catch up, not the middle of the fecking veg aisle.

You are so right!

JWhipple · 06/12/2025 22:23

Men at the swimming pool who assume "fast lane" is a synonym for "all men to swim here regardless of ability"

SharonBe · 06/12/2025 22:19

HalfWayAroundTheLoop · 05/12/2025 12:21

Fucking everyone 😃

Then maybe don't! I'm sure a simple, "Hello" would suffice in many cases. Sorry, I couldn't resist but I do feel your pain.

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 22:18

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I think you have read my mind!

Fountofwisdom · 06/12/2025 22:17

Dogs.
Cats.
All humans who think dogs & cats are equal to humans.

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 22:14

Emptying a dishwasher or hanging up the wet washing on the line or on the airer is a chore.
Especially when you have done it for decades.

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 22:14

The bins, the fucking bloody bins, I live alone so always have to do the bins and I HATE it. Luckily I don't produce much rubbish and it takes me a few weeks to fill my half-size green and recycling bin but I still get in a rage when I do have to put them out. And hardly any fucker on my street puts their bin away so we have about 60 bins blocking the narrow pavement, it looks hideous and worse than the way they look is how they get in the way of buggies and disabled people. Council could fine people but they do nothing. And while I am on the topic of things blocking the pavement I hate those lime bikes and escooters, nothing wrong with them but it is the people who dump them everywhere and ride them on the pavement that I hate.

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 22:13

I have been known to try and get the foil part off a bottle of milk with my teeth ( out of desperation) or scissors , although that doesn’t make a clean take off.
If you pull it back , you end up with a dribble of milk on the counter.

cherrycherryblossom · 06/12/2025 22:09

coronafiona · 05/12/2025 12:18

Emptying the dishwasher. Cleaning the pets out. Food shopping. Having to be in charge of dinner every day. Washing my hair.
apart from that life is great! Grin

Why is emptying the dishwasher so much worse than loading it up!

SurvivalInstinctsOfABakedPotato · 06/12/2025 22:04

Opening the new milk. It's that little foil bit under the screw lid

I will actually drink black tea rather than be the one to have to open and pull it off despite it taking about 6 seconds in total!

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