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.

Pretty much all non-premium TVs have inadequate hardware specs to run the software, especially after a few updates. They put the cheapest, slowest tech they can possibly get away with in there.

You can bypass all that by using an external source to feed a picture to the TV. Either the streaming sticks I mentioned above, or a standalone Freeview Play box if you need live TV as well as streaming services.

Edit: and some of the premium ones, too. They get away with it because it's often not obvious until you're trying to actually use the damn thing.

My husband has these stupid little plastic boxes that he keeps all the medicines in. They have insanely stiff lids that are impossible to remove without losing at least one fingernail- and I don’t have long nails. He thinks they are “sturdy and well made”. I think they are torture devices. It’s bad enough grappling with them at the best of times, let alone when you’ve got a banging headache and just want to get the pills.

I now have my own supply in my bedside drawer.

My induction hob. If it gets the tiniest splash of water on it, it starts beeping and flashing like R2D2 throwing a hissy, and stops working. It’s a knob. In fact, it’s a Hob Knob.

Bleach bottles . 'Just pinch with finger and thumb then turn' . well, that never works for me , they're the work of the devil .
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Keep it in the fridge. It makes it far easier to use.

Garlic crusher that stinks to high heaven as I can never get all the bits out.
Hetty the hoover who seems to have put on a few more kilos every time I need to take her upstairs. She breaks my back.
Cables, chargers, chargers for power banks, little black boxes with just one button that does everything, these things are going to take over my house Day Of The Triffids style.
That stupid lemon squeezer that looks like a silver spider with long legs went to a charity shop years ago. I know it’s a design classic but it is totally impractical.

Don't even get me going. I thought I had secured the stupid cap on a bottle of water the other day, I hadn't and it leaked throughout my bag, grrrr!

Those lids come away easily with a quick twizzle. I've done it since the first time I came across one. What's the point of a resealable drinking vessel that's deliberately difficult to reseal?

Those Range Rover type cars that have the rear number plate on the left rather than the centre. No idea why, but the lack of symmetry sets my teeth on edge 😂

Printers!!! All of them. They never work and in this day and age they should.

My hate is reserved for modern packaging.

Tiny items packaged in layers of impossible-to-open tape and other boxes. The very hard plastic packaging you get which requires scissors to cut through them. Those plastic tie things that also need scissors, used on the most ridiculous items unnecessarily.

It feels like a challenge to open the most basic item these days. I’ve had occasion when I’ve just given up.

I'll only use upright vacuums as I absolutely hate those ''Henry'' type where there's the body, electric cables AND the tubes/nozzles and you have to keep dragging all 3 of them around and they get tangled with everything.

As a former professional cleaner I always had to use those things and they drove me piggin' nuts!

Henry hoover. I get the absolute RAGE every time I have to use the damn thing.

the air con settings in my car. 5 air pressure settings. On cold air, number one isn’t enough to cool us down, but number 2 is like a hurricane. It needs a turn adjustment, not buttons.

non slip coat hangers. Can’t get any clothes off the things in a hurry.

Before I got a cordless Dyson.. Henry. What an arsehole.

I had a James, Henry's smaller brother - also grinned maniacally when he rolled over, got stuck on corners and almost broke my neck on stairs with an unfeasibly long hose and a mile of cable that snagged everywhere

Unlike Henry, James had no cable winder built into his head to make packing him up easier

I gave James away to BHF

I then swapped ALL my Nectar points for a Shark upright stick thing

It's too upright? I'm less than 5 feet tall and fully formed, Sharky nearly comes up to my armpits

Bonus features are that Sharky comes with attachments and can be broken down to a smaller unit that can do stairs without me having to wrestle the machine, cable and hose, like some malevolent electronic octopus, hellbent on killing me before taking over the world

I'm starting to wonder if I just don't like vacuum cleaners

Do you mean those little square types with the days of the week on? I used to have a pack and I see what you mean! Definitely torture devices!

I went to out local ironmongers and bought a pack of 4 small circular lidded containers for £2.00, they're actually for beads, seeds etc, but the lids come on/off easily and they're stackable so I keep all my pills/tablets in those and donated the torture device to the local charity shop!

My alarm clock(s) - annoying little buggers telling me to get up in the morning when I just want to sleep!

Tin openers
I used to have the perfect one-metal,older than the dinosaurs and held together with rust and god knows what else
Worked a dream
Then,we moved house and somehow it didn't make it to the new house
So we bought another one,and another,and another...
You name a style,we've bought it
They either give up after piecing the tin/or halfway round/or not at all
Dp likes the ones that cut around the edge rather than the top but I keep cutting my fingers on the sharp tin when washing it out (I make him wash them now)
I just want a metal,old style tin opener that opens the sodding tin!

A blunt knife
Bags with zips that get stuck
Clothes without pockets
Gas hobs

I agree! And medicine bottles where to push down and turn the lid, I have to get my hubby to do them but even he struggles!

Throw it out and get a weighted pan.
I did.

Motorbikes and the grotesquely loud noises they make. Why don't they have silencers fitted when being made?! They sound like gigantic angry wasps in a tin and I actually get headaches from them!

We get these morons whizzing up and down REALLY NOISILY past our shop, repeatedly, reviving the engines and making as much noise as they possibly can.

I wish they'd crash ...

Paper clips
Velcro
Wire coat hangers

Nothing to add that I can think of, basically because you've nailed it! YES! Hate the things!

Can you imagine how much the shop worker hates them? 😂