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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:
Hicupping · 06/12/2025 14:22

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 09:14

Some white goods can be deactivated to not beep , but how to do this function is usually found in the manual which makes it clear as mud.

My washing machine was chosen with than in mind. No beeps now just turns off.
But I used to have a dishwasher that would beep at end of cycle then keep on beeping until you opened it and of course then because you've opened it, it beeps until you close it. And a quick open and close didn't stop it. So de-beeped it, wasn't too hard but needed to take off front panel.

Don't mind beeps so long as they serve a useful purpose. My Sage coffee machine does a little gentle beep, no problems with it. The Duux was very loud which isn't good late at night in a terraced house bedroom and it's uneccessary because I've changed something from the app so I can see it's happened don't need the beep as well. Not as smart as they claim.

Muffsies · 06/12/2025 14:10

Imanautumn · 06/12/2025 09:16

Well that would be exhausting

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

Sleepybear1234 · 06/12/2025 10:57

Tangyfan · 06/12/2025 10:29

Organised fun. Especially anything work related. But also hen dos. I love my friends and spending time with them but why are we doing this random activity and why am I being told what to wear? Also All Staff Meetings/Away days etc. Anything where I have to be quiet and arrange my face to look interested for over an hour. Why don't you write the strategy and I'll do my bit of it.

Oh and two step verification!!

I second this and work team meetings and huddles held over Microsoft teams where you have to pretend to care for an hour x

Thepeopleversuswork · 06/12/2025 10:51

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

Totally

WalkingWavy · 06/12/2025 10:46

Oh this could by my favourite ever thread on MN. Delicious.
I hate nosiness. Hen dos. Foreign weddings. When you’re talking to someone and they try and finish your sentence for you. Slow drivers. People who stare at you when they think you can’t see them. Small cups of tea. Skimmed milk. Low fat anything. Sugar free anything. RBS. Paying tax. The winter. Travelling home from holiday. Dogs. Dog owners. Slow walkers. Cheap toilet roll. Artificial grass. Heavy metal music. Bath bombs. Wellies. Getting my hair cut. The wind. Papercuts. Shaving my legs. All inclusive holidays. Having things stuck in my teeth. Fussy eaters. Flies, particularly fruit flies. Passwords. Didn’t realise until I read this thread, but primary colours. Crocs.
Generally I’m a very happy go lucky person but this was a delight to jot down!

Tangyfan · 06/12/2025 10:29

Organised fun. Especially anything work related. But also hen dos. I love my friends and spending time with them but why are we doing this random activity and why am I being told what to wear? Also All Staff Meetings/Away days etc. Anything where I have to be quiet and arrange my face to look interested for over an hour. Why don't you write the strategy and I'll do my bit of it.

Oh and two step verification!!

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 10:22

I’m coming down with a cold and I hate it too!
Achy, runny noses, feeling rough when you have one.
can get in the bin.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 06/12/2025 09:59

Having a cold. Good grief am I a complete wuss when I get something like the common cold! I have one now and I am JUST SO SICK of blowing my nose and feeling pants.

Eliminate the common cold, say I.

grumpygrape · 06/12/2025 09:51

My husband's Alzheimer's which has turned him into a regressive child stranger.

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 09:39

Heatwaves
bbq’s
sand

ThatAgileLimeCat · 06/12/2025 09:29

Primary colours
Phone calls on speaker in a public place
People playing music. Videos or games with volume up in public.
People scrolling or playing games on phones in theatre, cinema etc once show has started
Hangovers
Finding out the towel is damp
Being cold
Being too hot
Men wandering around topless in summer
Bigotry
Arrogance
When confidence wins over competence
Shows using animals or insects etc for entertainment (I'm a celebrity)
Simply Red
Parsley
Cricket
Lack of public toilets at places you need to spend ages at
That men can be up and ready in 5minutes
Removing make up
Drying my hair
Emptying the food bin
Rain

pictoosh · 06/12/2025 09:23

Probably been mentioned a few times but all of the well-known Christmas pop songs that are played incessantly from November onwards.
Shakey, Band Aid, Wham, Slade, Wizzard...I hate them all.
I like Christmas and Christmas carols but through sheer repetition I have come to loathe the music in shops and everywhere else in December.

MyAmusedPearlSquid · 06/12/2025 09:19

People
People standing in the way I'm shops
People walking around having loud conversations on the phone

Imanautumn · 06/12/2025 09:16

HalfWayAroundTheLoop · 05/12/2025 12:21

Fucking everyone 😃

Well that would be exhausting

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 09:14

Some white goods can be deactivated to not beep , but how to do this function is usually found in the manual which makes it clear as mud.

Muffsies · 06/12/2025 09:04

Hicupping · 05/12/2025 23:25

Need to add things that beep. My Dad has a new expensive Duux smart heater now because the thing honks 1 or 2 times with every instructions, honk honk. Also the leds light up my bedroom like it's Blackpool. He likes it and his hearing is poor so it suits him.
Took apart my Kitchenaid kettle, loudest honker I have known, so loud there's websites dedicated sharing how to stop it honking. Also de-honked a dishwasher. Down with uneccessary honking.

Edited

Is it just honking you dislike, how are you with pinging? Or jonty tunes (my w/machine does this when it finishes a cycle).

I am definately with you on lights, hate all the array of standby lights on everything. Can't have them in the bedroom.

ScarlettSunset · 06/12/2025 08:55

People who are late for no reasons except being too disorganised to be there on time.

Being expected to go into the office just to sit on teams calls all day which I could have done from home.

Deciding what's for dinner. I like cooking, hate deciding though.

Not being able to find anywhere to park near my house because others have parked badly (I don't mind nearly as much if it's just because there are lots of cars already parked, just when there would be enough space if others had parked more considerately)

And in the same vein, people who park forwards in car parks when they have tinted rear windows, making it really difficult for the driver of the car next to them to see past to know if anything is coming when they need to leave

x2boys · 06/12/2025 08:55

KimberleyClark · 06/12/2025 07:18

Like a cross between a Roomba and a slinky.

Now that would be something,!

QuizzlyBears · 06/12/2025 08:44

People who wear jogging bottoms in public when they are not actively doing an activity which requires them or have not recently finished said activity. Particularly men who see fit to wear cuffed ones with trainers.

OmNomShiva · 06/12/2025 08:35

Dogs.

There’s the ocean, get in it. From a plane.

Sartre · 06/12/2025 08:34

Also hate bright LED headlights

People who hear or see you approaching when running on a path and make no attempt to move so you can get past

People with untrained dogs off leads who run up to you when you’re running and could easily cause you to fall and then the owners just laugh it off like it’s nothing

Cyclists cycling side by side- this should be illegal

Loud car engines- can’t wait until everyone has a quiet EV

My Dyson cordless vacuum, it’s a heap of shit

The fact no one in my house washes cutlery up so there’s always a pile of cutlery in the sink

Asda’s prices. I fucking hate Asda’s prices, like irrationally so. WHY THE FUCK IS IT £5.43…

Sartre · 06/12/2025 08:28

Tourists. We all have to be tourists at points in our lives but there’s a way to be a respectful tourist and a dickhead tourist. Dickhead tourists are the ones who just have zero self awareness at all. It’s like they forget people actually live in that city full time and have jobs to get to or kids to drop at school.

I understand the architecture is beautiful and you want to stop to take selfies for instagram but like please don’t forget the existence of other humans around you who have seen the buildings 1000 times and want to get past. And ffs please don’t just stop dead out of nowhere in the middle of a pavement.

HollyChristmas · 06/12/2025 07:59

Hate peeling potatoes
Hate drying myself after a shower
Hate getting dressed up for a big occasion out
Hate putting away the shopping
Hate driving at night

KimberleyClark · 06/12/2025 07:18

JudgeBread · 05/12/2025 12:29

Ugh this, they need to invent a stair-capable Roomba already!

Like a cross between a Roomba and a slinky.

Catwalking · 06/12/2025 07:12

Cleaning.
having to repeat something I’ve said.
mispronounciation of Nuclear (how is it ever newkiller?)
The apparent entertainment some folk get from hearing farts.
Officiousness.
Ironing.
Winds. (6 mature beech trees were blown down just beyond our garden in a storm @ night, even tho awake I didn’t hear it happen)
Animal cruelty, there’s never an excuse, would the human/perpetrator like having that thing done to themselves.

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