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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?

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RunningNananananananananana · 06/12/2025 22:03

People who use Facebook as Google

People who go to gigs and talk through the whole thing. 😡

SpringIsCome · 06/12/2025 22:02

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lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 21:56

apokeyweeplace · 06/12/2025 04:08

Apps. Aargh Apps.
An App for this and an App for that.
The endless complication of modern life.
Nothing is simple.
Want to renew this or change provider on that? Here's a hundred hoops to jump through.
And if you want to speak to a real person - good luck in:
A) finding a contact number (no I don't want a virtual assistant)
B) navigating the menu and sub menus to achieve speaking to a real person
C) holding nerve long enough to get to speaking to a real person
D) and then the bloody real person can't help you at the end of at all
Aargh

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?

spicycats · 06/12/2025 21:56

Flossing. Every day FOREVER.

Yoghurt pot scrapers

Yoghurt lid lickers

Crumbs in the butter

B33cka8 · 06/12/2025 21:52

Runners and cyclists who run or ride up from behind with no bell, no noise.

Happens every day, just completely oblivious of how annoying it is. One, startling the dog, but also..if you're a man running in the dark GIVE ME SOME SPACE why are you running within two feet of me from behind?! Drives me mad peoples lack of self awareness.
Actually add to that, people who have their dogs off the lead.
People who don't tell their little dogs off for barking excessively (they'd be horrified if a big dog acted that way).

Dymaxion · 06/12/2025 21:42

Noisy eaters ( includes finger lickers , tea slurpers and yoghurt scrapers ) you make me want to hurt you as much as you hurt me !

Secret Santa. I don't know why I bother, every year I make sure the recipient gets something they love, whilst I invariably end up with utter shite ! My own fault for being optimistic Grin
DH's ability to never do anything he doesn't want to do, his ability to criticise everyone else whilst simultaneously not doing an ounce of adulting, means that I spend as little time possible in his company, whilst also doing all the adulting 😡Again my fault for being far too optimistic , believing that one day he will do something, anything, vaguely useful.

Being menopausal, I spend a good deal of time hating myself, for being such a pushover, for caring too much about everyone else and generally being a bit rubbish in the parenting stakes.

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 21:37

So many, oh so many! lots have already been covered and it is great to realise I am not alone. In no particular order I hate:
Going to the doctor, I loathe it and would rather be ill
My neighbours, I hate them so much that I need a word stronger than hate
All things domestic, I have done everything on my own for decades now, and the endless repetitive monotony of it has really been grinding me down lately
Washing and blow drying my hair
Christmas, well some years I hate it, other years have been ok
Doing my nails, they grow so fast, I have to file them down every 5 days so it seems that as soon as I have done them they need doing again but that is the way I feel about cooking, food shopping and housework too.

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Lilacspring · 06/12/2025 21:34

I hate it when i can`t get a tissue out of my pocket fast enough when i have a cold and my right nostril reacts like a sprinkler

AgentPidge · 06/12/2025 21:20

I'll tell you what else I hate - "celebrity" quiz shows where the celebs turn out to be hopeless, compared with the rest of us. E.g The Wheel, or Richard Osman's House of Games. They are good at what they do - cookery, sport, etc. But they seem to have no general knowledge, and no intelligence. (Not the stand-ups - they're normally brilliant.) This week , a sleb I really like was asked to write down a rodent and she put "robin". Then there was the historian and presenter who couldn't point to Egypt on a map, who said she was based at the British Museum. And then there's celebrity Mastermind with the easy questions... Bah humbug!

Growlingbadger · 06/12/2025 20:56

Yes. You can be selective.

Ketzele · 06/12/2025 20:37

Newpensioner · 06/12/2025 19:42

i love your list but one thing stood out for me ‘small print books’. An e-reader lets you make the text whatever size you like. Doesn’t mean you’ve to buy a kindle. You can read books on whatever device you have. X

Yes, that's why I read everything on a tablet or kindle now. It's not as nice as a real book, but it means I can read at all.

Wearescrewed · 06/12/2025 20:18

Farage and Racist thickos
Boris Johnson and Cameron who also have a part to play in where we are now.
Jeremy Corbyn, huge narcissist and see above. Also has a part to play in the crap we wading through now.
Thats the politics out of the way!

noisy eating
Tea slurping
Passive aggressive managers
Performative anything, particularly parenting.
Stupid dog owners whose actions or lack of them make others uncomfortable
People who show no interest in community or politics but moan all the time, doing nothing about it.
Puppy Farms and the fact buying certain breeds repeatedly enables these, and the fact people don’t give a shit about that.
Cliquey parent groups

lots lots more!

JennyForeigner · 06/12/2025 20:17

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

No motherfucking jury would convict.

Ugh.

Festivespirit85 · 06/12/2025 20:10

Negative people - the ones who have a problem to every solution.
People who turn up to my house without ringing or texting first.
Needy/clingy folk.
People that chew loudly or slurp their food/drinks.
The word knickers.

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 19:55

Life and how odd it is gets me down. So much uncertainty around jobs, job being lost and the younger generation having it so much harder than my own. Despite what they may say online .,
I find it depressing tbh.

restingbitchface30 · 06/12/2025 19:54

Food shopping and deciding what everyone eats for the rest of my life. I have had enough. I just want to live off pot noodles and toast

Pairofsocks · 06/12/2025 19:51

Buffet work lunches where you have to take something in. We have 1 coming up. I hate that there's no list so people always bring too much of something .Plus homemade stuff when you don't know how clean people are when they're cooking. Everyone standing there looking at you whilst you are putting things on your plate.
Jumper days at work. False jollyity at work. Let's all wear a fucking Christmas jumper and then have a Christmas lunch buffet together and pretend we're having a fantastic time. The 2 together are my major hates and I can't even get out of it. If I'd have known I'd have taken annual leave but can't now as the deadline has gone.

MoonWoman69 · 06/12/2025 19:51

Big Bang Theory, just the sound of them talking sends me into an irrational rage.
Love Island, MAFS, Made In Chelsea, you get the picture, all inane, pointless drivel.
Supermarket cashiers who engage in someones recital of their whole life story after they've paid, you've got a job to do, get on with it. You wouldn't be doing that if it was piecework!
Night driving. I can't see a thing and bright LEDs and rain don't help. Even on roads I have driven on hundreds of times.
The passenger door on my car. It decides on the day if it's going to unlock with the central locking or not.
Cruel people, to both animals or other people.
Narcissists.
GP receptionists, most of them have over inflated senses of importance.
Influencers.
Hot flushes well past finishing the menopause.
People who don't take no for an answer. I said no, accept it ffs!
Screaming kids, kids running round in cafes/pubs/restaurants.
Entitlement.
Bragging.
Mercenary people.
People speeding round our crescent when it's a 20 zone.
There are 100s more, but I'll stop there! :0)

M2B19 · 06/12/2025 19:47

Grating cheese
brushing my teeth at night
emptying the litter tray
edited to say: lateness - the height of rudeness in my opinion
talking with your mouth full
stickers that don’t peel off things without leaving behind residue to sticker bits

Fluffle55 · 06/12/2025 19:45

Seasonal decorations (excluding Christmas), that mean covering your lounge in tatt from The Range/Home bargains/B&M for Easter or Autumn and in particular, plastic wreaths on the door. I know I should just be happy for them, whatever brings you joy etc, but it’s consumerism at its worst. And it looks shit!
Lateness, rudeness, people who text and drive, gender reveals, enormous TVs, Audi and BMW drivers, chopping onions, showering, liars, emptying the food waste, Farage and his cronies. Gobshites having loud conversations in public. Fucking charity muggers.

Newpensioner · 06/12/2025 19:42

Ketzele · 05/12/2025 12:39

New Years Eve. Spiders and slugs. Dogs without snouts. Bar stools. Smear tests. Populism. Standing in pubs. Illogical thinkers. Mobs. Shellfish. Terracotta paint. Putin-Trump-Farage. Left wing antisemites. Right wing Islamophobes. Bifold doors. The smell of bacon. Small print books. Primary colours. The lack of vocational career paths. Perfumed pantyliner. Posters who say Eww that's grim on MN threads about personal hygiene or housework. Framed prints of Kate Moss/Marilyn Monroe/Audrey Hepburn. Air freshener.

I could go on forever. I have so much hate it's exhausting.

i love your list but one thing stood out for me ‘small print books’. An e-reader lets you make the text whatever size you like. Doesn’t mean you’ve to buy a kindle. You can read books on whatever device you have. X

AgeingGreycefully · 06/12/2025 19:32

People who have a go at members of staff when the fault actually lies with the company as the issue is waaay above their pay grade! Give your head a little wobble, just think about it for a moment, take a deep breath and email the CEO, ok?👍🏻
Oh, and parsnips….🤢

Hicupping · 06/12/2025 19:29

MoonWoman69 · 06/12/2025 19:24

@Hicupping Yes! I used to go to Bolton Abbey/Strid Cafe as a kid and then as an adult. They suddenly started charging £5 to park at the Strid Cafe! I stopped going for that reason, God knows how much it is now. I miss out, because I absolutely love it round there, but I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for parking somewhere they shouldn't need to charge you to park!

£5! everyone wants their pound of flesh. Hope you've found another cafe just as nice but without £5 to park. Reservoirs are now pay to park, apparently a trial but funny enough trial period has passed and not a peep.

canyouseemyhousefromhere · 06/12/2025 19:27

People who tutt at me because they are not looking where they’re going because they are glued to their phone…

MoonWoman69 · 06/12/2025 19:24

@Hicupping Yes! I used to go to Bolton Abbey/Strid Cafe as a kid and then as an adult. They suddenly started charging £5 to park at the Strid Cafe! I stopped going for that reason, God knows how much it is now. I miss out, because I absolutely love it round there, but I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for parking somewhere they shouldn't need to charge you to park!

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