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I hate gnomes, what's your pet hate?

266 replies

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 10:19

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?

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cassiatwenty · 23/06/2023 14:25

Ohyoudodoyou · 23/06/2023 14:24

Then how about a shirtless man (see previous posts) on a hot day, sitting in a relaxed manner on a leather chesterfield. With some garden gnomes at his feet. Whilst wearing crocs.
Could happen?

Soulmate Day ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💫🙏

HorribleHisTories15 · 23/06/2023 14:26

@EllaRaines , you are like a woman on a rampage! I love it! Grin

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 14:27

@Ohyoudodoyou not a chance of getting a service from me even if he looked like Barry Gibb Circa 1977.

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Ohyoudodoyou · 23/06/2023 14:28

@cassiatwenty
What, me or the shirtless, gnome loving chap?

cassiatwenty · 23/06/2023 14:29

Ohyoudodoyou · 23/06/2023 14:28

@cassiatwenty
What, me or the shirtless, gnome loving chap?

Both 🥰

Ohyoudodoyou · 23/06/2023 14:30

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 14:27

@Ohyoudodoyou not a chance of getting a service from me even if he looked like Barry Gibb Circa 1977.

Ah now that's a very niche fetish.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 23/06/2023 14:31

Bastard wind chimes

C1N1C · 23/06/2023 14:32

milkydrink · 23/06/2023 10:40

Plastic lawns

You're uninvited to our bbq!

C1N1C · 23/06/2023 14:34

Saw a dude reading a book at the gym.

You're not fooling anyone!

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:39

Jogging with a dog or dogs in tow.

Huskies and sled dogs are bred to pull and move at a continuous running or trotting gate.

Your average dog isn't. I see idiots wearing their padded trainers with their poor dogs pounding a hard surface behind them and it's just awful. Especially in hot weather.

I recently had to stop a man who was clearly very fit and athletic and he had his French Bulldog gasping behind trying to keep up with him.

He had no idea what a brachycephalic breed was and that his dog was that type!

He had not realised about the hot surface of the pavement or roads.

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:40

Self service tills, obviously.

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:42

Skirts and Billy Bolt ons on cars.

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 14:42

Marks in Bicester have self service tills. I am not paying those prices to serve myself.

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EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:43

Cinnamon jelly beans.

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:44

@FancyFran exactly. I don't work there so why should I have to scan my shopping.

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:45

Letterboxes at ground level.

EllaRaines · 23/06/2023 14:45

People that dominate threads..... oh wait!

bamboonights · 23/06/2023 14:47

gettingoldisshit · 23/06/2023 10:52

I hate constant selfies on social media, its so narcissistic! Nothing wrong with the odd nice picture on a special occasion but there are people who constantly post selfies of themselves day in day out!

This. Hope one day it becomes the height of naffness. Especially for over 30's.

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 14:47

@EllaRaines
You're fine.
In the words of Mrs Doyle, you know you want to.

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FancyFran · 23/06/2023 14:52

Recent house purchaser me and all the for sale houses had purple master bedrooms. Usually with crushed velvet and faux silk duvets. Crystal mirrors.

Why? Did Elizabeth Taylor sleep there or are they holding séances?

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ODFODeary · 23/06/2023 15:03

Pea shoots
Those little fuckers get plonked on everything now , egg on toast add pea shoots, full fry up add pea shoots
they bring absolutely nothing to the party and are pointless

bladebladebla1 · 23/06/2023 15:08

People not thanking me when I let them through (driving) I pisses me off so much

areyouhavinglaugh · 23/06/2023 15:10

CurlewKate · 23/06/2023 11:05

Fairies. Much worse than gnomes. Fairies are self absorbed, vain, gaslighting bastards.

So true 🤣🤣🤣

FancyFran · 23/06/2023 15:12

@bladebladebla1 pet hate of mine too.

However 'skuse me'. I think they mean excuse me please.

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Ihateboris · 23/06/2023 15:14

Another thing that really pisses me off - people having LOUD conversations on their phone when in a public place. I'm currently treating myself to a pedicure, and the woman next to me has been jabbering non-stop to someone about Love Island. Ffsake.