Objects you irrationally hate

[Domoda]

What is your irrationally hated object?
Me - laptop chargers. Just so badly weighted with the heavy box bit in the middle so that they fall and slither off the table annoyingly. And just so flappy and floppy to deal with when trying to stash in my work bag. Hate the bastarding things.

The stupid lids they put on small bottles of fizzy drinks these days. Screw cap, but stay attached so that they behave more like a flip lid. I find them hard to screw back on and inevitably end up with the drink leaking!

I also own a Henry who regularly falls over when asked to do his job. Twat🤣

Headphone wires piss me right off, put them down anywhere for a minute and by the time you pick them up again they are tangled to fuck. Everyone tells me to get wireless ones but even the thought of that stresses me out lol. I would rather have to untangle the bastard wires rather than my loose wireless ones running out of charge in the middle of an important song while I am away from the house

Another vote for self service checkouts. Has anyone, ever scanned the basket without needing, at least once, a shop worker to intervene somehow? How long has this stuff been around for now? 10+ years? why is it still so rubbish? Grrrr!

Kitchen gadgets for every single job - rice cookers, breadmakers, slow cookers etc etc.
I'd never remember I had them, I'm sure, and each one demands a learning process to be able to use them, which I definitely cba with.

Cheese graters

Coat-hangers. Several reasons. They must have a good old party when they are in the washing basket because even when I put them in individually, they are so entangled when I get them out, it is like they never want to be parted. And even when I do, they are not up for the job, they eschew any responsibility for hanging any clothes on, especially wide necked dresses or blouses. In a fit of pique, I recently bought a set of velvety special coat hangers that I thought might be up for the challenge. Absolutely not. Those that did not wither and break at the top, leaving me with nothing to hang, then went on to "mate" with the bad boys in the washing basket. I think I have had children that have caused me stress 😂

I hate my Hetty hoover and she knows it. Nothing is simple or straightforward with that one and not a week goes by where we don't have some sort of fall out.

You don't enjoy that tang of knuckle shavings in your shredded carrot?

Cling film.

It doesn't even 'cling'. It's stupidly hard to 'cut' using the stupid serated box that it's in, and it always runs out on days when I'm in a hurry.

I also hate coat hangers but I’m totally intrigued as to why they go in the washing basket?!

@Simplepink LOL, it is not a washing basket (of the nice wicker variety). It is a plastic bucket with holes in that I store coat hangers in. The children - 4 have proper washing baskets, and we have that number if not more of the plastic holey ones to give back the clean clothes once washed, sometimes ironed and on hangers. However, I have to admit, in an un-nettymums moment that this rarely happens.

Ironing board- too heavy, always feels like a suspension bridge is collapsing with the noise it makes getting it into place. I end up placing a towel on the dining table to do spots of ironing Easier than taking the ironing board out.

Front door locks. Always turn the wrong way, can’t catch the snib etc

Padlocks, always ceases up and the key never feels like it will fit

Any fancy version of a normal household appliance that has an elaborate digital interface. I want an on/off button that’s it.

Iron… steamer much better

Oh yes, I have a huge dislike for my iron too

My dining room table. It's also circular and I bought it when I was having my dad regularly for meals after I moved and got rid of the console table that opened out to be a rectangular dining table.

The round one, takes up far too much room, I rarely have anyone for meals now dad is no longer around and I'd love to get rid of it but it cost a lot of money and I'd never get anywhere near what I paid for it if I sold it.

It's a lovely table but how I wish I'd never got rid of the old table now. 🙄

Printers, what has no one out printers, ?

Solution for Henry treat him like a 4 your old and help in up - you have to show kindness and patience - then you don’t lose your rag!

Yep, printers are the work of the devil. Was there ever a thing so bloody temperamental?

Yes! Mine wasn’t cheap and it was absolutely shite, gave it away.

I had the good idea to by a sensor light bulb - this was to stop the kids leaving the bathroom light on over night - they could get up have a wee and return to bed - and I wouldn’t have to get up to turn it off.

I didn’t consider the dog - on and off all night as he walked pasted the bathroom with the door open - he’d have a drink, get food, find a teddy, bark and some random thing outside - FFS

A while back there was a poster who was outraged at her tangled hangers having what she described as a 'hanger orgy' in her wardrobe. Still makes me laugh

I think this might mesh well with your stance on printers.

theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

The new TV I had to buy when the old one stopped supporting Netflix.
It has far too many options and ‘clever’ functions but not ones that I actually want, like how to get information on a programme while you are watching it without having to go to the channel list which interrupts the programme.
It is sooooo slow to turn on and connect to wifi and it takes ages to switch between things.

Commodity TV, sold cheap, made with underpowered computery gubbins and subsidised with ads. You'd have to spend five times as much as you really need, just to get a TV with innards that cost, like, £5 more but are actually up to the job.

But the actual screen is presumably totally fine. So bypass the cheap crappy chip they chucked in the TV, plug in an external standalone device like Roku, Chromecast, Firestick, etc., whatever meets your needs, and never look at that binfire of an interface running on potato hardware ever again.

Eh?
What brand of TV would that be then?