I hate gnomes, what's your pet hate?

[FancyFran]

Just a thread for fun. I have been reading the funeral ones in classics and it reminded me of my late mother. We bought a beautiful cottage in a posh village and I returned home from a holiday to find gnomes in my flower beds.
I got my own back by burying her in a sparkly Bet Lynch top (I had asked her what she wanted to wear at her demise she said 'suprise me, but I'll be dead'.My mother enjoyed black humour as her best friend was a Vicar and she had been a police officer. I still hate gnomes and spotted them in our new village this week. AIBU?

Oh yes. Hideous. So depressing. DS was house-hunting and saw a nice place with vertical blinds. He and I both said, 'Ew, they'd have to go,' and DH asked 'Why?' He was baffled by our revulsion.

I would have to say strings of lights or any lights on the outside of houses outside of the Christmas season. My neighbours appear to have gone mad and the fronts of their houses and gardens are decked out with gaudy and flashing lights. One even has a disco ball. I don't see the point they can't see them from inside, we live on a cul de sac so nobody else sees them they just annoy me. My house looks like a Jehova's Witness' house in December as I refuse to join in with the nonsense.

@NeverendingCircus
I think it's because they look so out of place in a house when they're obviously office blinds. Also, where I live it seems to be the norm for these kinds of blinds and I'm sure people copy each other when they have no imagination!

Lots I hate too.

Plastic grass, just why?

Dirty chips, burgers, whatever.

Vertical and horizontal blinds. We have to keep ours as the village is beyond nosey. Makes me think of dentists.

Thongs I can see. Get yourself some decent knickers and a mirror.

'French' grey paint. It still looks like the inside of a prison to me.

People that park next to me in an empty car park. There's other spots people.

Arseholes who preach #bekind to all and sundry whilst being narcissist, pushy horrific fuckwits in real life. Feck off.

Urban SUVs and 4x4s. Which would be fewer in number if you had to take your driving test in one to drive one.

I wholeheartedly agree about adults who like Winnie the Pooh. I've met quite a few (seemed to be very popular when DD was small) who love everything about WtP and quote the book/post quotes on social media. Every single one of them likes to come across as twee and #bekind when actually they are self centred and can be quite nasty if they don't get their own way. [Obviously I'm sure there are lovely WtP fans out there and I have just met a few wrong'uns]

Food served on anything other than a plate. Jay Raynor once wrote a wonderfully acerbic review of a place that served bread rolls in a baker boy hat.

The trend for grey living spaces and match matchy stuff.

Scatter cushions on beds. Just why???

Barstools
Hen nights
The way vegan options are offered instead of vegetarian these days (bring back my cheese)

Those inspirational quotes/wall art...eg.."Live, Love, Laugh ", "Relax", "Believe in Yourself "...etc etc 😄

Seeds in oranges. I hate eating them then crunching on seeds. Find it so off putting but love oranges themselves.

Adults wearing clothing with butterflies on them, or any kind of butterfly themed decoration in homes (unless it's a child's bedroom).

Not really a thing anymore but remember years ago when playboy branded clothes, stationery and decorations were targeted at children? Horrific. Why would anyone buy their primary school aged child a playboy themed pencil case?!

Flip flops. That slapping sound really gets my goat 🤣

Gnomes are naff, but even worse is those plastic but somehow still ubsurdly expensive garden decoration animals. They look like giant versions of animal figurines kids play with but they're always a bit off, like eyes slightly too big or smiling in a way that's not phically possible. I just can't understand who is buying these monstrosities?! It makes me irrationally angry when I see them in gardens, because they're always sterile wildlife-free zones and they've gone and stuck in a life size plastic rabbit. What hideous irony.

Feature walls, yuck.
People who think they can do DIY and can't - leaving the next owner to clear up the horrific mess (my last 2 houses).

I hate the name Bum bum cream. It's great stuff and I like the product, but why call it such a stupid name 😒

Ear piercings on babies. I know in some instances it might be cultural but I personally dislike it.

People at work who litter their sentences with emojis. Not necessary. You are grown adults FFS. Use your words.

Sack dresses which seem to be the fave summer look of the middle, woke class women where I live - but ESPECIALLY when paired with Jesus sandals. Makes me want to do something criminal. Both items are hideous anyway, and when put together they cause a breach of the peace.

Selfish bastards who park across two spaces so that nobody else can get in. You know who you are.

And, people who park in children's spaces in the supermarket car park who.....................yes, you got it, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN. No words.

Queue Pushers!!! You are the worst of the lot. Usually to be found in RHS Wisley, any National Trust property/Garden and Waitrose. Make of that what you will.

"People at work who litter their sentences with emojis. Not necessary. You are grown adults FFS. Use your words."

FFS? 🤔🤣

The names of prams (or are they baby movement systems these days?) IckleFickleCosyPush and SnuzzBuzzCuddleWuzz can fuck off.

People who put fake Angel wings on those AI sketch faces of people that have passed.

Balloon releases - cow and turtle killing chavs

gonks. Is that what they’re called? the things that they’ve started bringing out at Christmas with no eyes. I have to avoid that aisle in b&m’s.

People who have the sound switched on on their phones. Especially keypad tones.

Anything Disney.

Anything Lloyd-Webber (post Tim Rice collaborations - Jesus Christ Superstar was quite good)

Pigeons.

Asymetric hair cuts. I know it makes no sense. I'm not saying that people shouldn't do whatever the hell they like with their hair and I'd never, ever criticise someone's hair, but good god do I hate them.

Actually, thinking about it, asymetric anything really. Tops with one shoulder strap, skirts with a deliberately uneven hem.

I hadn't put it together but I obviously just have a real issue with asymetry!

Jelly. The way it quivers and judders and the sucking noise it makes when someone plunges a spoon into it... ugh!