Prejudices against innocent everyday items

[PolkaDotMankini]

I realised when picking a substitution yesterday that I consider lemon-scented cleaning products "common". I have no idea why I think this, but I've always avoided them. I now have over 100 lemon-scented dishwasher tablets that I'll be hiding from visitors.

Anyone else have weird prejudices against innocent everyday items?

Bio washing powder like Ariel definitely does leave a pungent smell on clothes which it noticeable.

Bedding plants. I associate them with smug retirees who live in bungalows which are done in 1980s decor and they keep west highland white terriers which yap constantly and have discoloured fur because their owners are too busy faffing with the bedding plants to take them to the dog groomers.

THIS x10.
Last weekend at B&Q, exactly that, and they are always in couples and they actually discuss these in detail
Proud to say I'd never have a 'bedding plant'

But curtains.........I actually hold a prejudice against the curtains with those great big silver holes that you put directly through the pole. Common

Venetian blinds. Nightmare trying to clean them, the faffy fuckers!

Yes!

I've been nodding along to most of these. I'd add

Pleather

Those line drawings of family members you sometimes see on car bumpers

Radio shows that take call ins

Any novel with a variation on this subtitle: Book (number) In The (something) Series.

Spider plants.

Fir trees in gardens

Cold shoulder dresses and tops.

LOL.

Back in the days of outside toilets you had to hang it that way or risk wiping your bum with spiders. I wonder if that's where the 'common' thing comes from.

I guess when you use it all the time and you are always wearing something that smells that way, you don't notice it? I find it really obvious though.

But then I feel that way about most artificial household smells as well. When we go to holiday rentals I have to spend the first 20 minutes finding all the reed diffusers, plug ins or whatever and then hide them in a cupboard that won't be opened because the smell is so overpowering and makes me feel unwell. I also wonder what background smells they're trying to cover up.

Black or dark blue mugs. They make tea look really weird.
Ideally all mugs should be white or cream inside, regardless of the outside design but I will accept other pale colours if I have to. But mugs that are dark colours inside are an abomination.

“It stunk out the house, and the opened box…”

Stank, not “stunk”.

Comic Sans is not highly regarded!

@Cam22 , it makes the message seem amateurish but at least it's readable.

No dishwasher?

Reminds me of April Fool one year when I drew a large spider on the loo roll, then carefully rolled it back up, so that the first pee-er of the morning would get a dreadful surprise... sorry DD!

Is my annoyance at off-topic pedantry outside of Pedants' Corner rational or irrational?

@Cam22 I think it depends on context. There are plenty of situations in which Comic Sans would be inappropriate but it's fairly legible and quite a friendly sort of typeface to use for, e.g. simple instructions for young readers (which is what it was largely designed for).

I have a soft spot for it as it was one of my dad's favourite fonts. Not long after my mum died he and I visited Holborn's probate office and while waiting to speak to someone we noticed that a lot of their signs used Comic Sans, which made us smile in an otherwise non-smiley situation. Probably not wildly appropriate to use CS in such a formal setting - but perhaps a friendly font is quite helpful for an audience dealing with death admin.

There's some discussion about its utility for dyslexic readers but I've not investigated it so don't know how sound that is, and there may be better fonts. But I don't think Comic Sans is universally held in low regard, it's just not really intended for Serious Business Documents etc so annoys people when it's put to that use.

See the Misuse and the Legibility sections here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans

Jo

Stank, not “stunk”.

An sink, sank, sunk; spin spin, span... Let's not get started on career / careen, for this is not the place for it!

Cafetieres and the Greggs clothing range that Primark did....just why?????

I remember one thread where a poster was insisting she couldn’t use soap or shower gel - of any kind, even E45 or special dermatology ones - in the bath because it set off her very very sensitive skin. She said she could only shampoo her hair but not clean her body under any circumstances. I did wonder how she managed to lie in a bath full of shampoo foam and that was fine, but whatever…

One behind my back. One behind my head. One under each arm to support while typing, one underneath the iPad to hold it steady.

I also have one under my foot today , because I sprained my ankle in the garden and it needs elevating.

Scusi, Dottore/Dottoressa!

Busted by the grammar police! I think I'll get a bout of 'the mental health' now.

Anything that says “sea breeze” or “fresh garden anything” 😂😂

I can’t do lavender at all. As a kid my mum’s car always had a lavender air freshener and I always got dreadful travel sickness. I still do. But the smell brings back memories of sickness so I can’t be near it.

This was excellently parodied by the Jennifer Aniston vehicle Along Came Polly

I didn't think so but actually now have a very long list.

Lots already mentioned - coloured loo roll, tinsel (especially the long fluttery strips), carnations, pine-scented things. I take that very personally because real pine is one of my favourite smells, and I have never ever found anything that really does smell like it. And pine-scented cleaners definitely don't.

Other stuff - that 'school hall' floor smell. I'm sure it's just a kind of disinfectant used for mopping wood floors but it makes me nauseous.

Scented sanitary products which are totally unnecessary and only serve to act as napalm for unsuspecting vulvas.

Rag rolled walls.

Peach coloured decor.

Mirror frames with fretwork, writing, mosaics etc.

Scented bin liners.

Plastic hooks/coat hooks.

Steel wool. Makes my fingers itch just looking at it.

Apparently I am vastly intolerant!