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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?

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spirallinganxiety · 24/04/2016 14:06

wellthankyou what is the new Harry Potter spin off film with Eddie Redmayne in it?

timemaychangeme · 24/04/2016 14:13

I never realised I disliked quite as many people as I do. I want to slap every celeb mentioned on the entire thread! And add:
Daniel Radcliffe
Emma Watson
Lily Cole
Kate Moss
Jude Law
Jimmy Carr
Harry Hill
George and Amal Clooney
Brad and Angelina
Bill Murray
Rihanna
Miley Cyrus
Beyonce
David Shwimmer and the other Friend's actors apart from Matt de Blanc
Peter Capaldi
Alex Kingston
Stephen Fry

beccabanana · 24/04/2016 14:18

For celebs it's Amanda Holden. Her laugh, her always claiming she has no fillers or Botox (you think we're blind?) but mainly as she comes across as someone who would outrageously would flirt with your husband under your nose for attention. Not a girls girl at all.
For real people there's a mum at school who literally has a face like a slapped arse; she couldn't look more miserable if she tried - never smiles, never says hi if you say hi to her and I growl inside everytime I see her.

courtwood · 24/04/2016 14:18

Nicole Kidman.
Catherine Zeta Jones
Ä¢ino diCampo..twit
All the Eggheads
Davina McCall
Caroline Flack
Hugh Grant
I detest all these completely irrationally,

AnnieNoMouse · 24/04/2016 14:38

I dislike the people in a particular row of houses I sometimes drive past. I know none of them, and have only briefly glimpsed some of them getting into cars outside, but I dislike them and the lives they live. I actually feel quite uncomfortable when I drive past.
Blush

Andrewofgg · 24/04/2016 14:39

Detesting La McCall is not irrational. Leaving the TV on when she us on it, that's irrational!

EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 15:19

Those who are claiming some of these aren't really irrational - they are if you don't really know the person, any explanation is just an attempt at justification.

I want to hear more about Sting's wife ickythump

Chris Hollins of BBC fame gets my goat and has done since Strictly, I hate the fact he won, I'm still not over it but I hated him even before he won and thought that the entire production showed bias in his favour.

He's probably a bloody nice bloke in real life

My situation I feel bad because she's harmless and it's not her fault but it's like this : imagine that we are colleagues who do the same job, she got her job first, she got assigned the nice, easy going, easy on the eye senior and I got the never happy Hitler who quibbles over everything - that's not quite the setup but sort of is.

It's not her fault she got there first. And if it was the other way round I might be interested in her stories but she's a charmed life sort who's always had her own way and minor problems are HUGE INJUSTICES etc, a little girl lost, Marilyn Monroe type as mentioned upthread she's VERY lucky in her life and all her problems are the definition of first world problems whereas I have actual problems But.... she really likes me it's so awkward!

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EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 15:21

spirrallinganxiety Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them

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spirallinganxiety · 24/04/2016 15:31

Thanks every

Sootica · 24/04/2016 15:41

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flippinada · 24/04/2016 15:52

Yes. A colleague at work. Everyone else seems to think the sun shines out if their backside. I can't bear them, yet they have never been anything other than pleasant to me.

Who knows, the feeling may be mutual!

Roussette · 24/04/2016 16:00

JimmyGreaves thank you thank you thank you. I thought I was going bonkers. Tess Daly and "couple", YES. She sort of says "coople" and I go on and on about it and no one else seems to notice it.

Liz Hurley.
I cannot stand her. Years ago she was hanging around with Pamela Anderson and I think they went to the Oscars together, I have found a link, it went on far longer than this with Liz Hurley doing this fake really posh accent and acting like she was it. My hate must be bad to search and find

spanky2 · 24/04/2016 16:05

The people in the ugly house on the corner. I walked past them when they moved in and heard 'fat bloke' tell their removal van guy 'I'm glad we're not on the other side of the road as they get no sun.' I live on the other side. They put up a shed for their bins today and fat bloke had his bum hanging out. His Mrs didn't seem to notice. Dh told me I couldn't yell 'Your crack is hanging out!' From the front door. He stood back proudly to survey his work. Walked off with a pompous air and the bloody doors are wonky. They always walk around with their noses in the air, never say hello. So rude. Dh can't understand how cross they make me. Rude people.
Yes to Amanda Holden
Simon Cowell trousers
David Walliams mouth
Piers Morgan up himself
Samantha Brick ditto
Katie Hopkins ditto and called refugees cockroaches
David Cameron
Tess Daley don't like her presenting on strictly, but mainly for continuing to put up with sexting husband
Vernon Kaye sexting again
Jason Manford sexting while wife pg with twins.
Judy Finigan for the date rape not real rape thing.

bornwithaplasticspoon · 24/04/2016 16:12

Pretty much all the people that appear on Escape to the Country. Just fuck the fuck off with your half a million budget and your turned up noses and 'oh this kitchen is much too small' to a kitchen bigger than my whole house! I get such a rage on but I quite enjoy it Grin

sandfish · 24/04/2016 16:14

I had one. In my village. She always used to set my teeth on edge and managed to annoy me with everything she did. I guess I didn' t know her very well and felt like she was 'miss perfect' but also too snooty to talk to me. I moved away. Then I moved back again years later. And this time I have got to know her. And she is great. It wasn't her it was me. For some reason she brought out all my insecurities and I suppose I was a bit jealous of her on some level. Now I'm a bit more confident in myself I can see her good points without making me feel inadequate. Maybe I'm odd. I wonder if anyone else has done this.

LBOCS2 · 24/04/2016 16:19

My ex's best friend's cousin. Her face and everything she said offended me. Plus she had a very hairy face. My ex and I broke up 7 years ago and I haven't had to see her since - yet she's still the main person I hate.

EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 16:21

Oh Rousette Sad that you've been alone in this! RE Tess Daly and coopells - it's been a regular pisstake on Twitter for years!

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Roussette · 24/04/2016 16:23

OMG EverySong It's been a thing of mine for years! But not on Twitter so maybe that's why, I thought I was the only person in the whole wide world Grin

Roussette · 24/04/2016 16:23

Meant... I'm not on Twitter Smile

cruikshank · 24/04/2016 16:27

Mine is really irrational. There's a woman I see around a fair bit and I have no idea why she irritates me. She wears those glasses that change colour (you know, from sunglasses to plain glasses). Charitably, this doesn't in itself bother me but for some reason it adds to the main source of dislike which is that she carries a commuter mug-flask type thing of coffee to do the school run and then go back home again. She isn't doing me any harm by this at all but my first thought is always 'prick' and I never get past this first thought.

EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 16:28

sandfish

Me! I really disliked a girl in uni and confided so to another friend who was all in agreement so not just me.

A twist of fate meant I spent a lot of time with her later on - and initially it was awful - I could tell she knew historically I hadn't liked her by the end I'd gotten to know her and she was really nice.

Loads of stuff about her that I didn't know home life and childhood experiences which TOTALLY explained why she came across a certain way.

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SecretWitch · 24/04/2016 16:29

Gywneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson.

EverySongbirdSays · 24/04/2016 16:38

RE Emma Watson

Taking a year off work to read feminist books gave me the pip

I mean the girl can do what she wants she's a millionaire but its quite galling in its way, to the average Joe and Josephine

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sandfish · 24/04/2016 16:43

Everysongbirdsays

I'd normally say I'm a good judge of character and although some people just give off the wrong vibe, and you instinctively dislike them, most of the time that instinct turns out to be right. But I think you have to be open to the possibility of being wrong!

That said...Jeremy Clarkson.

angielou123 · 24/04/2016 16:43

Gok Won. Have to turn over straight away.