Which inanimate objects do you have an irrational hatred of?

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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?

The Audi.

Roundabouts with traffic lights on them half-way round. Either one or the other please, just not both

The BMW.

Cereal bowls that wont stack properly and take up loads of space so you get a leaning tower of Pisa effect in your cupboard.

The new-style Mini. There's nothing mini about it. Should be done by the trades descriptions lot.

Google.

Theatre programmes that cost nearly as much as the ticket and contain hundreds of adverts but bugger all about the actual show.

The rogue apostrophe.

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Statement cars.

Yes, well done you. You've got a big car.

Now, USE YOUR FRIGGING INDICATOR PROPERLY and get out of my way.

Sellotape and Cellophane.

Just do what i need you to do, just once. Please. I beg you.

I may be the problem here

”Henry Hoover. Stop. Fucking. Falling. Over.”

@BertandQueenieforever - you are not alone in the Henry hatred - a previous thread like this one was full of people wanting to kill their Henry Hoovers. Even when they fall downstairs, apparently they won’t die!

Here, and here are just a couple of examples.

Oh yes printers are all dickheads. Binding machines as well. And SigmaPlot.

Agree about the bastarding stick figure stickers on cars. Smug just isn't a big enough word for it. My friend and I were working out ones that had a coke dealer mum, burglar dad and two dcs growing a cannabis farm. And the cat ripping someone's throat out. I may have anger issues?

Also hate Henry but is bloody good Hoover. Why can't they make upright ones that don't kill your back?

Christmas lights on houses that get left up all year. I want to tear them down. What business does a Christmas light have being up in July?

Tv controllers. We’ve got 3 (maybe 4 dunno) There’s some complicated equation of buttons to press in ritualistic order to access things I can’t be bothered to understand. Dh gets exasperated because apparently I ‘should know this by now’.
I. Don’t. Care. I don’t even like most stuff on tv anyway.

And while we’re at it, HD channels look the same as ordinary ones to me. I think only men either notice or care about the infinitesimal difference 🙄

Oh god yes 1000% to children’s car seats. My dc are 18 and 21 and I still twitch in fury are the car seat years. If anything needs a complete redesign it’s that.

Stupid straps either yards too long that won’t tighten or too damn tight and won’t loosen. And 3 dc meant three seats to wrestle with back breakingly every time. My dc learned an awful lot of inappropriate words back then.

I hate toilet brushes 🤮 and also cotton wool- cant touch the stuff as it makes me cringe!

Cold shoulder tops - just why?

Sellotape- can never find the bastard end.

The dog bins in the park. Irrational in that the park would be much nastier without them, but they're not emptied often enough and walking past them on a hot day makes me swoon with revulsion.

Fake fingernails, those horrible acrylic ones especially when worn at full length without any filing or shaping. And nail polish.

The stupid plastic pull bit on milk bottles under the lid. The fucking thing always gets forgotten about and left on the kitchen worktop, and seeing it gives me the rage.

Garden gnomes, especially plastic ones.
The plastic casing on new toothbrushes.

The big bubbly minis that don’t look like a mini anymore

Petrol pumps - the snakey thing seems to have a mind of its own. I had a nightmare once where the pump came to life, pumped petrol over me and set it on fire. These two things may be connected

Batteries packed in childproof packs that I cannot open without a pair of scissors.

And leggings, especially the see thru white ones worn as trousers.

Clothes hangers. FML they exist to make my life difficult. Why do they love each other so much that no matter how you put them away, they always get tangled so it takes ages to get one out?!

Five pence pieces! I know, totally irrational-I just hate the stupid little things.

Five pence pieces

Oh! That reminds me.

I loathe all self-service tills in WH Smiths: "Have you got a bag?" "Do you want some crap that we're trying to offload?" "I know you've got a bag, but do you want one of ours anyway?". If you try to pay during this catechism (my error, I realise) they will accept your money (lulling you into a false sense of security) before spitting it all out later and asking again if you want a bottle of water.

BUT.... The one in the town I live in specialises in giving your change in the maximum number of coins possible.
This is the honest truth: my fiance got 20p change back in two pence coins. That's just one example of many.

It's made me hate all small coins.

The machines will not rise from "the ashes of the nuclear fire".
The bastards will just wait until we're trying to count out £2.29 exactly so as not to end up with a purse so full of change that a therapist would think it too much....

Anyway. Time for my tablets.
Apparently.

I hate printers too. This daily mash article summarises the issues quite well. The ones at work are dire; every second sheet you need to clear a bloody paper jam.

That’s not an irrational hatred through. I think hating poorly designed objects that make your life harder is completely rational.

And there are so many of them out there.

I once had a courtesy car (a Ford last, of the new design not the basic and ugly but good original design) where the gear stick had a hard plastic ridge on the top. It actually cut your hand. That’s an unbelievably bad design.

I was reading thinking i don't really hate anything untill the 5p was mentioned, bloody fiddley little buggers hides in the corner of your purse you try and lift it out to pay and your fingers turn into sausages trying to pick them out meh i hate them

@alltoomuchrightnow what on earth is an ear stretcher??