Which inanimate objects do you have an irrational hatred of?

[ThePinkCushion]

It's acoustic guitars for me. If I see someone with one in public you can pretty much guarantee that its owner is going to start playing the bloody thing even though no one asked.

Shower cubicles are another. Why are they so bloody hard to clean? Between the glass and the little crevices. I hate them.

I need time to think of others though I'm sure it's a long list. What objects drive you crazy?

Sorry that was meant for *ziggy lol

Oh my god YES to the Alpha Romeo wonky number plates! I love the look of the cars but could never have an off centre number plate. The horror!

I hated my Henry Hoover. It lasted approx 16 years before dying. Hooray! Now have a Miele which i prefer

Toilet roll.

Can’t explain it, completely irrational.

I also despise buying it. I acknowledge that I have to. Therefore I buy it in very large quantities so I only have to buy it four or five times a year.

On the plus side, It does mean that when the apocalypse comes, I will be sorted for toilet roll!

I did used to like a spoiler. Was humming and haaing many years ago over the £8 monthly cost of adding one to my company car and my bf sent me a note:

Car Dilemma
Is paying for a spoiler to be put on my company car:
A. Worthwhile and will look Fabulous
B. Ridiculous as it’s Not My Car

I also have a private plate and a devil decal with horns and pitchfork on my make badge now I have my own car. Have often been tempted to be powered by fairy dust but have somehow resisted

Forgive me father for I have sinned

Plastic wrapping on everything. Builders bricks come on crates wrapped in layers of plastic. Frames from Ikea are wrapped in plastic and the plastic that is the front of the frame is wrapped with thin plastic on both sides. Supermarkets wrap everything in plastic. Even fruit that is contained within it's own skin. Waitrose do provide biodegradable bags for loose produce though. Yet I'm made to feel guilty because I use plastic carrier bags. To quote a phrase I heard here, it boils my piss.
My cat is dying and I'm really sad and angry and to vent about plastic is distracting.

What's a decked edge?

@sqeakywheel sorry to hear about your cat x

Square tins e.g spam and corned beef tins.... yeah thanks for the shill little key that breaks and then trying to finish opening with a tin opener is like trying to perform surgery 😩

My husband had an ice cream scoop that he loved and I hated, largely because it couldn’t go in the dishwasher. I threw it out and to this day he still thinks it’s lost and bemoans its demise. He’s never found one as good so I do feel a bit guilty. Occasionally.

Tacky Xmas decs...anything like a Fr Xmas cheekily looking over his shoulder who drops his trousers to reveal a plump shiny plastic backside. Who in their right mind would want anything as tasteless??

Those stick figure families you get on the back of cars. Surely it's the current version of those stickers saying Tracey and Colin, people used to put in their windscreen in the 80s.

I prefer this one to be honest 😏

Yes to the PP who said fake grass. I'm going to add plastic plants. There seems to be a growing trend for both. They're really annoying, especially when we need less plastic!

Soola..I hated dummies with a passion until I had a son with reflux....it was a godsend!! The paediatrician recommended it !! He gave it up at 3 and is an extremely articulate 19 year at Leeds Uni !!

Fake blue plaques on peoples houses, even worse when they are a sticker in the window

Double gah!

Vile buggy (brief pause to feel nauseated at use of "buggy". What happened to pushchairs?) boards and now these:

Those stick figure families you get on the back of cars.

What fresh hell is this?

*"gin"roughly painted over the bit where "prosecco" (so last year) has been scratched off

This rubbish on the walls of grown adults

Deckle edges are pages where the edges have been unevenly cut.

Like this.

Printers. All printers. All the time. Fuckers. Absolute fucking fuckers.

@Saucery agree with the milk bottle lids, I once dropped one in the sink and it fit perfectly in the hole, it took best part of an hour to remove it 😡

Ah yes! The stick figure families! I’ve even seen dog and cat editions. There’s a car that goes past us every morning that has six children on it and it’s only a 5 seater

Completely pointless decorative pillows & beadspreads. Like in boutique hotels & show homes where there are neat piles of colour co-ordinated cushions, pillows etc on top of the matchy-matchy bedspreads and strips of fabric on top of the actual bed linen, all of which you have to chuck on the floor in order to find the proper pillows & duvet and get into bed.

Grrr!

If we're going for inanimate, I'm nominating one of the exes.

But then again, he was such a prick when he could be arsed to move/open his mouth, I think it is probably entirely justified.

Yes to coat hangers and door handles and microfibre.

Also yes to the off centre number plates but it’s even worse when it’s on a car where the number plate is supposed to be in the middle so there’s just this big empty space where it should be. Also stick-on numberplates (which are usually also off centre. And usually also on cars that are supposed to have a central number plate)

Actually you know what just add my neighbour’s car to the list of objects I hate

I can second the hosepipe windy up thing as ours has a special trick of going up against your leg with its wet, muddy entrails just as the final bit is getting wound in. Every fucking time.