To ask you to share your weird, irrational, petty hatreds?

[WickedWitchInTheCupboard]

I'll start...

It's incredibly immature and irrational but there is a certain (fairly common) name I cannot stand purely because it's the name of both a girl who bullied me when I was young and DHs ex, who is difficult.

I literally hate any mention of this name and automatically dislike anyone with it (ok, not really but in my head for a few moments I do!).

Another less petty but more bizarre one is that I HATE the tops of bottle caps scraping on my nails. It makes me want to be sick. Shuddering thinking about it right now!

Anyone else got any weird/petty/irrational dislikes?

Frogs, I hate those evil beady-eyed, green, jumpy little critters!

Dermot o Leary , very very annoying I can't watch a tv show with him on .
People scraping cutlery on the plate . Makes my teeth on edge .

All those throwbacks in "The Voice" audience that pump their arms up and down.

Rising intonation, that really annoys me and it makes people sound really thick! People who say fink and fought.

Also Lorraine Kelly. She is so fake and doesn’t even listen to half of her guests. She’s been doing that pointless show for that long the set responses just roll off her tongue. Why is it still called Lorraine when she doesn’t host the show? Why does she have all of the school holidays off even though her daughter is now in her twenties?

Also people who refer to places incorrectly like I had a colleague who would call Aldi Aldi's , KFC call it going for a Kentucky . I know it's daft but I so wanted to slap her for it .

I agree about Lorraine Kelly I watched it this week while was off sick and she was so up some random z list celebrities arse it was embarrassing.

Drivers and cyclists who are inconsiderate of pedestrians, especially those who don't stop when someone is crossing at a green pedestrian light.

Anyone who doesn't believe me when I say that I am a birthday-phobic. I am NOT pretending or being coy about it; I genuinely hate to be reminded of my birthday. Fortunately, most people don't know when it is, and no, it's not now.

The use of 'love/loved' in a sales pitch: e.g. calling second-hand clothes 'pre-loved', or advertising home-made cakes or jam as 'made with love'.

Made with love means Made by a stressed mother with snotty nosed kids helping getting in her way.

Polycotton can fuck right off, as can the phrase "Easy care" that they use as another name for you polycotton bedding. How is cotton not easy care? Seriously, you wash it, you put it back on your bed, it's lovely. Polycotton makes my skin itch, it bobbles really easily and it's just so, so, so very wrong.

I don't actually think that's irrational. It should be the law that polycotton is a crime against humanity.

Anything to do with Gemma Collins talentless and obnoxious.

Zoe Wannamaker

Opening a tin upside down or storing it with the label facing the way .
Anybody having a chat in the middle of the supermarket aisle or in the self serve area with a trolley each, making you squeeze passed
A phone ringing and not being answered. I used to be a 999 operator
Lots of things get on my wick but I try not to let them annoy me too much. Life’s too short

People who say nuffink and sumfink and perfectly able to speak and read properly.

All the Tesco TV ads since and including the Prunella Scales ones.

People who beep their horn rather than get out of the car and ring the doorbell. One day I will go out and punch them for waking me up.

Using the word pacifically instead of specifically

Jonathan Ross - makes my skin crawl

Polystyrene

Anyone who mixes decent whisky with Coca-Cola

In between my town and the neighbouring town there's a small railway station where nobody ever gets on or off yet the train stops there every single time. Dd2 finds my frustration at this hilarious but when I'm dead beat and desperate to get home it's really annoying to have to stop there.

People saying mirrow instead of mirror

And even worse, the American version 'meer'.

The words 'tummy' and 'cuppa'.

Jehovah's witnesses.
Hun
Idiots who fill up Facebook and Instagram with selfies and pictures of their pot-ugly beautiful completely average brilliant children.
Self-service checkouts
Trolleys with minds of their own
Cold callers
Dogs that jump up and or roger your legs

I could go on...

Being told "how" to do everything, from breathing onwards. ALWAYS by patronising, smiley-faced dolts. Bugger off!

Cold water touching my skin uninvited. Particularly when I'm cleaning out the bath or shower with the hand-held bit of the shower, and then I put it back on to the wall bracket and cold water drips down my arm.

I can happily wash my hands and touch cold water, it's just when I don't want it to. But something about the cold water running down m arm in the shower thing...

whataclusterfuck me too. Do you also hate buttons that aren't on clothes, or are for decorative purposes? My mother's button tin used to freak me out, I could barely look at all those little bastards clustering together.

The word 'shenanigans'. Especially when used on social media in the sentence 'let the shenanigans begin!'

Bows on headbands on totally bald babies.

Polystyrene.

People about to leave the office at lunchtime asking those who have been out and returned ' what's it like outside?' And then beginning a long monologue about cardigan/coat/umbrella combinations.

Look out of the jeffing window!

People asking the whole office if anyone wants anything from the shops. In ten years no one has ever said yes.

Ditto if anyone needs anything taking to the reception desk to be posted. We don't post anything anymore. We have this thing called email.

The crackling of crisp packets or sweet wrappers drives me mad with rage.

Ditto piped music in restaurants. I always ask them to turn it right down.

Shrieking children.

Actually, any children.

people who commit kettle crime: when they stand next to a kettle boiling its head off and are waiting for it to switch off. I don't understand why people don't switch it off manually .... it would be much quicker and would save the electricity - MY electricity - I'm the one paying the bill. and something I'll never understand is why someone will fill a kettle, even if they only want 1 cup of boiling water ! aaarrgh