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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

that certain people give me rage for no good reason?

159 replies

GoogleBun · 29/09/2011 13:07

I don't know exactly why but whenever I see Martine McCutcheon on those Activia ads I want to scream at the TV. Can't quite put my finger on why.

Does anyone else dislike certain people for no good reason or AIBU?

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GeordieinExile · 29/09/2011 17:08

Why oh why has no-one said Jo Brand yet? She only has two jokes, one about being a woman and one about being fat and neither of them are funny. Vomit.

Waltraut · 29/09/2011 17:12

Anyone who's been on Who DO You Think You Are? and shown no humility, or enjoyed the tragedy a bit too much.

Esther Rantzen: shallow, thrilled to have family who died in the Jewish ghettos, sad not to be able to namecheck Auschwitz forevermore.

Fiona Bruce: not interested in her true origins, rural northern Scotland not glam enough clearly.

(Sure there's lots more)

Oh Annabel Karmel. I mean really. Feed your kid proper food...how does that make millions? HOW? And what is UP with the helmet hair?!

ForYourDreamsAreChina · 29/09/2011 17:24

Oh,yes, the who-do-you-think-you-are mob indeed.

What gets me is the fake surprise. "Oh!" says Emilia-of-the-lovely-cardigans, "I had no idea great aunt thingy was also an ac-tor" Pants on Fire. All the surprise must be faked because Richardandjudy (see above) said in his loathsome column that they tell them about their history and then decide if they are going to film the whole "here's the birth certificate of the person you now have to pretend never to have heard of" thing.

They've all been fairly yawny, with the exception of Boris which was bloody marvellous.

Waltraut · 29/09/2011 17:26

I quite liked Emilia, she seemed very gentle. I did wonder why she hadn't seen her great aunts for so long though.

Alan Carr was nice. (Can't watch him normally.)

Richard: jeez-oh, what an Alan-Partridge-a-like. SO BORING.

Waltraut · 29/09/2011 17:27

I read that Cecil Parkinson had told them how boring his family tree was, and they checked and came back with 'yes indeed you are right' so he will never be on!

Waltraut · 29/09/2011 17:27

MICHAEL not Cecil (roar)

ForYourDreamsAreChina · 29/09/2011 17:28

Oh yes, the bit when they visit the rellie who has the box of photos and you can tell none of them have had diddley to do with each other because the ones with the photos aren't famous dahling.

Actually, I like(d) Emilia (it's her cardigans) until a friend of mine who was at uni with her said she was very "look at me, I'm famous!" and when they have posh reunions she sits on the floor because she's bohemian.

limitedperiodonly · 29/09/2011 17:37

Martine McCutcheon hugged me once. She's tall. I was powerless to resist.
I'd leap at the chance to slag any celebrity off but I found her disappointingly nice.

Myleene Klass is all right too.

It ruins it when you meet people and you have to revise your prejudices.

Mind you, Denise Van Cunten, Ulrika Jonsson and Vanessa Felch lived down to my expections Grin.

Oh and Twat De Angelo.

RalphGnu · 29/09/2011 17:45

Yes yes, the Barefoot Contessa, "How bad can thaaaaaat be?"

limitedperiodonly · 29/09/2011 17:48

I liked Carol Vorderman because she loves her mum and employs her family - including ex-BIL in the Vorderman family business. Plus she admired my handbag.

Went off her a bit when she flogged consolidation loans to people who couldn't add up as well as her.

The jury's out on whether I disliked or pitied her for her bonkers

Probably still in favour. She did like my handbag.

OldBagWantsNewBag · 29/09/2011 17:51

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MustControlFistOfDeath · 29/09/2011 17:57

Oh God, bloody Bono and his bloody sunglasses welded to his bloody head.

Also Liz Jones and Trudy Styler

limitedperiodonly · 29/09/2011 18:09

No Fearne Cotton is an idiot.

While waiting at the baggage carousel at Gatwick in sunglasses, presumably to stay under the radar, she drew attention to herself by constantly raising them to identify the bags going round.

I seriously worry for these people in the event that the government decrees a basic common sense test in order to get bread and water under austerity measures.

Well, actually, I don't. That would be the one thing that would make me vote for Dave. Though since he, his droopy drawers wife and the rest of them would fail it, it's never going to happen.

unpa1dcar3r · 29/09/2011 18:15

Two words;
Go Compare

Aaaaaargh (big rage face on me now)

But Lily how could you not just adore Michael McIntyre? He is soooo funny. Just reading his autobiography and it's hilarious.

unpa1dcar3r · 29/09/2011 18:18

I totally loathed david Dickinson.; smarmy, orangey big head.
Until I read about a little lad severely disabled who was obsessed with him so his mum took him to walk around the warehouse thingy where he'd been doing his antique show (after it was finished as too traumatic for lad otherwise) and David came out of side entrance, chatted for ages to the lad and a few weeks later sent him his new book, signed.
He went up in my estimation then!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 29/09/2011 18:51

Russell Brand. When mumisamilitant has finished with the clippers, I'm going to give Russell a nice short-back-and-sides, then I'll dress him in some normal looking clothes, and send him off to get a proper job. And I'll fit him with some sort of a device that will give him a mild electric shock every time he tries to be funny or wacky.

Sevenfold · 29/09/2011 18:55

kate from neighbours, maybe it is her shiney face,

candytuft63 · 29/09/2011 19:05

Keira Knightly - its the jutting jawbone. Jutting out .Jutting out all the time. She does it on purpose, I swear she does. Just to annoy me.

bringmesunshine2009 · 29/09/2011 19:24

All you who hate Alex Jones or Christine Bleakney (or whatever her name is) how can you hate only one of them? They are THE SAME PERSON IN DIFFERENT WIGS.

WilsonFrickett · 29/09/2011 19:25

YY Keira Knightly, or Keira Coathanger as we call her...

TakeThisOneHereForAStart · 29/09/2011 19:32

ForYourDreamsAreChina - "Hmmm. Doesn't she have some sort of filter thing whereby every time she's heckled on t'web she comes on all bouffant a-blazing? Come on then Annabel, put your liver casserole down and come and show us if yer 'ard enough."

Does she? In the same way those authors rant at critics on Amazon etc? I love those, so lets hope her filter is working.

BobblyGussets · 29/09/2011 19:40

Yes Unpa1car3dr, Go Compare: every time it is on, I have to sing to myself "go fuck yourself" to the tune.

I wouldn't get tired of punching cunty Craig Doyle (what the fuck is the point of him?) in the face, and smug little Mylene Klass needs her smug little face slapping.

DrinkYourWeakLemonDrinkNow · 29/09/2011 20:01

Those Milliband boys. They look like something from Village of the Damned.

Also Christine Bleakley - too pleased with herself by far.

FlamingFannyDrawers · 29/09/2011 20:12

Most of the ones previously mentioned. Also...

The woman from the Finish dishwashing tablet ad. 'Finish...The Diaaaaamoooond Standard' arghhhhhh.

Noel Edmonds, don't tuck your shirt into your jeans and pull your trousers so high!

Dara O Briain the comedian...apparantly.

Waltraut · 29/09/2011 20:21

There is a woman I know tangentially who gives me The Rage.
She thinks the universe can help us if only we know how to ask it.
She never answers a question straight and fixes you with a stare if you dare to ask for clarification.
She likes interpretive dance.
She treats people like they haven't got around to being interesting yet but could be if only they tried.
I haven't even seen her for three years but she makes me astonishingly angry!