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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Or do other people have THAT PERSON as well?

493 replies

EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 01:39

That Person who you irrationally dislike be they a celeb, someone you know, or a family member, the criteria being they are harmless and have done nothing to warrant your dislike of them except their very personality?

And you know that the fact you don't like them is really unreasonable but they make you absolutely seethe?

Or AIBU?

OP posts:
Poppystellarcat · 24/04/2016 11:42

Having just googled Chris Martin I found out he is now eating meat since splitting with Gwyneth. For some reason this makes me hate him EVEN more.

I am a loon. I know.

MrsJayy · 24/04/2016 11:44

A friend of a friend met her a fewtimes lovely woman but she posts arty facebook pictures i had to hide her she is so vain

ProseccoPoppy · 24/04/2016 11:45

Ooh Poppystellar yes, Chris Martin!! I used to be veggie and still dislike his vegetarianism. Yet don't get nearly as annoyed by Gwyneth Paltrow who even I can see is objectively more irritating.

MrsJayy · 24/04/2016 11:47

Claudia winkleman would annoy me less if she just wore her glasses she obviously needs her squinting pisses me off.

Poppystellarcat · 24/04/2016 11:53

Ha ha ** ProseccoPoppy agree wholeheartedly. I also am not nearly as annoyed by Gwyneth as I am by Chris Martin (also, I can't ever refer to him by his first name only. This is another reason why he annoys the crap out of me)

AskingForAPal · 24/04/2016 11:54

Grace FUCKING Dent. I heard her horrible fakey cockney-northern-breathy voice on the radio, and then saw her on telly and realised her face is just as annoying. Why does this woman get work?!

I am totally convinced that Jeremy Irons is a horrible horrible bastard. Based on nothing. There are some quite good films and programmes I've been unable to finish watching because he's just too damn creepy. The only thing I can watch him in is Casanova because he's playing a tyrannical arse in it and gets his comeuppance.

MrsJayy · 24/04/2016 11:56

Relative of mine seems nice he thinks he is a cut above and he takes the piss of his working class background last time i saw him was at a funeral and he was being sarcastic about the funeral tea and laughing with his new girlfriend about it

WildIrishRose1 · 24/04/2016 12:01

entire head makes me apoplectic. GrinMy one is an insecure control freak of a work colleague and I have to stifle the urge to run every time I hear her footsteps behind me. She's perfectly pleasant to talk to, but she has shafted me on a number of occasions, then taken offence when I took her to task. Angry

monkeysox · 24/04/2016 12:02

This thread has made my day Grin

Yy to dion Dublin on huth
My dh hates Peter key and paddy mcguiness.

I used to dislike cilla black. Blush

My friends d sis is a cunt. I just want to punch her. Don't know why but really don't like her.

VagueIdeas · 24/04/2016 12:03

I took an instant dislike to one of my fellow preschool mums last year. She would always turn up in gym gear (which I usually interpret as a stealth boast, as in "look how fit I am") with a face permanently like a smacked arse. Was often found whispering in a conspirational manner with other women in the corner of the playground, or having an angry conversation on her phone.

Then she popped up on FB on the "people you may know" banner, and her profile pic was a zoomed in photo of her surgically enhanced tits and flat abs. I disliked her a great deal more after that Grin

gamerchick · 24/04/2016 12:03

Heh I AM that person. Grin one woman was asked what her problem was and all she could think of is that I smile too much.

When I thought about the different woman who took a dislike to me are all alpha types and I'm not but I'm not a people pleaser either so hard to control. It irritates them.

I'm struggling to think of anyone for myself, ill have a think.

CaptainAnkles · 24/04/2016 12:07

There's a mum I see on the school run who I can't stand too, I hate her shoes. Every day, no matter the weather, stupid little quilted ribbed looking ankle boots worn with calf length skirts, and I have caught myself actually staring at them with a Hmm face before. I have to stop it, I wouldn't blame her if she shouted at me.

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 24/04/2016 12:08

Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Really can't think of anything offensive she's said or done and if that Murder on the Dancefloor song was sung by someone who sounded exactly like her I would like it, but because it's her I can't stand it.

And yy to "alternative" types. There's a mum at my dcs' school, I barely know her but she always looks so smug about her pink/purple/blue hair and her clashing-coloured clothes and she's been through a Muslim phase and is currently a Lesbian and dp and I are taking bets on which marginalised group she'll decide to join next. She's not done anything terrible that I know of but I'm feeling rageful just thinking of her squeaky voice pontificating right-onfully.

Cabbagedcrust · 24/04/2016 12:08

John fuckface Bishop! Cannot stand the professional scouser, the mans from Runcorn FFS! Trust me no one in Liverpool speaks like him! Loving this thread! Cheryl No Talent, dull dull toilet attendant beater. Those laddettes from the 90s Sarah Cox, Zoe Ball who are suddenly super mummies with their columns in Sunday mags telling us about their organic, hectic, middle class parenting. Just fuck off. Fearne Cotton, thick talentless. Lastly, David Beckham and his whiney voice cannot stand him!!

Livingtothefull · 24/04/2016 12:12

I can't stand Keira Knightley……don't think she is that great as an actress, not saying she is bad but others are far better. I am sure she is perfectly nice really, I can't put my finger on it but she always seems to come across as somehow hard and unlikeable on screen. I can't bear that jaw thing that she does either.

Why does she keep being cast in big classic roles? She ruined the Pride and Prejudice film, there was something really unlikeable/petulant about her Elizabeth. It meant that other characters e.g. Mrs Bennett came across as more sympathetic than she was, which is all wrong.

Others I don't like: Gwyneth Paltrow, Andie Macdowell and (not as bad as the others because she can act well, but still irritating) Anne Hathaway.

Elle80 · 24/04/2016 12:14

There is a woman and her husband that get on my commuter train. I just irrationally hate both of them, but her in particular. I think it's because she pushed in front of me once, but I've taken my inner hatred to a whole new level.

NationMcKinley · 24/04/2016 12:14

Loads. Loadsandloads.

Twattish twats who act all hippy and Earth mothery but in actual fact are spiteful evil fuckers (yes very ex friend, I mean you).

Self obsessed people - no, the world does NOT revolved around you.

Tight people - not those who are genuinely watching the pennies, those who go out of their way into not paying for joint things like shared taxis etc.

Brian Cox.

RudeElf · 24/04/2016 12:21

Oh can we say a tv show?

I cant stand 24hrs in A&E. I dont know why but i have to change channel as soon as the opening scene starts. I hate that show. Cant pinpoint why though. Same with one born actually but i used to enjoy it.

WellThankYouAJPTaylor · 24/04/2016 12:23

I can't watch any film that he's in. Just the sight of his face makes my skin crawl, let alone the sound of his voice. No idea if he is a nice person/good actor or whatever, just can't bear him

I feel this way about Eddie Redmayne. I'd quite like to have watched Les Miserables and the new Harry Potter spin-off film, but I can't because he is in them and he makes me want to vomit Angry

bigbuttons · 24/04/2016 12:25

Heather small. she was a singer in some 90's band, can't remember the name. She had ridiculous hair and a singing voice that really gives me the rage.

Chris Evans-noisy twat.

A school mother. into buddhism, paganism, every other sort of ism. She floats around somehow. So far up her own arse it's mind boggling. She posts pictures of herself on FB so that others can tell her how beautiful she is. She has given me the rage for a good ten years now.

Theimpossiblegirl · 24/04/2016 12:29

I have loads. My family think it's hilarious but I just can't help it. I must be a really mean person.

Claire Sweeney
Amanda Holden
Alicia whatsit
Shirley from Stenders
Janice from Corrie
Teen/Twennysomething Youtubers (all of them!)
Some alpha mums from school
Tom Cruise
Nicholas Cage
Cheryl Fernandez Tweedy Cole

There are probably more...

Theimpossiblegirl · 24/04/2016 12:30

Oh and the whole Kardashian lot!

JessTitchener · 24/04/2016 12:31

Lauren Laverne. To be fair, she was an absolute cunt to my friend in a nightclub in the nineties (when LL was a 'popstar')

She pops up on radio 4 and have to switch off.

School mum who has managed to completely blank me for three years, despite our children often having a chat on the way home.

She wears this enormous parka coat all the time, DH and I have decided that summer officially starts when she takes it off.

JessTitchener · 24/04/2016 12:33

DH has taken against one of the school dads. All I have to do is mention "the fella with the beard" and he goes off like a rocket.

ArgyMargy · 24/04/2016 12:43

Well I was going to slag most of you off for hating people you've never met.

And then I remember Chris Moyles.