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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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

715 replies

WickedWitchInTheCupboard · 07/02/2019 14:28

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?

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Vivianebrezilletbrooks · 08/02/2019 18:44

Birthday cards, balloons and cakes with ages on like 40+ etc. It's just tacky and naff. I just really hate it. The husband next door had a relative turn up with a 50 balloon for his birthday and I thought "That was thoughtful, now anyone looking out at the wrong time will know how old he is!!!"
The cards are the worse.
"40 means you're twice as fabulous as you were when you were 20!" No, twice as old!
The cards are just so trite and cliched!
"Life Begins at 40!" Utter bt!
Just a polite way of saying "Yes you're old but..!"
No offence to any 40 something on here btw but these platitudes are just so corny!!!!!
Veganuary. Because saying you ate too much over Christmas and are on a diet is too shameful. Ffs.
Feral parenting. I used to know someone who practiced this or near enough. She used to brag about it as if it was funny. Hmm

Grinchly · 08/02/2019 18:44

Oh yes there is more, so much more:

Christmas
Harry vastly - over-rated Potter
Grammatical errors
Project speak
Management speak
Being told to 'enjoy' a meal. Ugh.

OrigamiZoo · 08/02/2019 18:46

Men who wear jeans that don't fit their bums, I suppose its a 'thing' with some ages but if you are in your 30s just pull them up. I watch in fascination the material swaying around what ought to be their bum, which might be quite nice if the material actually hugged it.

Any webpage which says 'click' to read the story. I'll get sucked in and waste so much time.

Charley50 · 08/02/2019 18:54

ikboo - haha! I've just started reading the thread and I hate that sleeve door thing too.
I hate having to get up to go for a wee in the night.

nrpmum · 08/02/2019 18:54

Lickle

As in 'my lickle man' ... fuck off he's your son.

buckingfrolicks · 08/02/2019 18:57

Pillocks who drive seated so low they can barely see over the steering wheel.

I want to bash them.

halfwitpicker · 08/02/2019 18:57

Men in skinny jeans.

Unless you're Mick Jagger just don't.

lilywillywoo · 08/02/2019 19:03

Paper / plastic cups in cafes. I would like a proper cup please, not one of your shitty throwaway ones which burn my fingers and make my tea taste horrid. Also being given a tea bag and pot (or worse, a glass cup, bleergh) and having to make your own bloody tea with lukewarm water.
Also misplaced apostrophes.
If you was to- Bradley Walsh did this all the time, think he's stopped now. Someone must have had a word.
Also Alex Salmond, and Nicola Sturgeon.
Youse - extremely annoying
Loose instead of lose.
People who don't indicate.

iklboo · 08/02/2019 19:05

I genuinely can't look someone in the eye in a mirror and talk to them - like at the hairdresser or in a car. It completely freaks me out.

roseymacdoo · 08/02/2019 19:08

@heronsinflight

People who solicit your advice about something, then completely ignore it and do what they were going to do anyway.

Askholes

Ireallywantmylifeback · 08/02/2019 19:17

@ShouldHaveListenedInBiology

Yes, indeed he is from NE

kennycat · 08/02/2019 19:18

Unmade beds
Whistling
Randomly coloured painted nails.

I could go on but I don’t want to open my hatred flood gates!

Kombuchaa · 08/02/2019 19:19

I hate barney- could never understand how anyone could love that huge purple creep.

hotwing · 08/02/2019 19:20

Askholes

GrinGrinGrin

funkylittleboatrace · 08/02/2019 19:20

People who don't have wine glasses but they drink wine.
Morris dancers
Marc Almond
The word hun
Velvet sofas track suits curtains etc
The name Sean

Thisnamechanger · 08/02/2019 19:22

People wearing surgical facemasks on the tube. They look insane.

WickedWitchInTheCupboard · 08/02/2019 19:24

The fact I haven't been able to get The Greatest Showman soundtrack out of my head for about a month now thanks to the kids.

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iklboo · 08/02/2019 19:26

Keith Allen.

CruCru · 08/02/2019 19:30

Actually yes, CheddarIsNotTheOnlyCheese, I agree. Pretty much all the girls I’ve known with very long hair have mentioned it all the time.

Having said that, I used to go out with someone who was tall (6 ft 4 so yes tall but not freakish) who mentioned how tall he was all the time. He’d get sulky if no one looked all that interested in how tall he was.

I’m not sure that this counts as an irrational hatred - I think it’s quite a reasonable thing to hate.

Bonnetdedeuce · 08/02/2019 19:32

Footballers spitting or clearing their nostrils.🤢
People who enter shops and then stop dead right in front of you, move the fuck out of the way. 😡
Cold wet dog noses.
Dishcloth left in cold greasy dishwater so I have to put on soggy rubber gloves, which some git has soaked, then it takes me ten bloody minutes to peel them off. grrr
Chimley instead of chimney. Grow up.
Shop assistants calling me love or darlin’, I know they’re only being nice but it really gets on my tits.
Ooh and when your cleaning the windows and cold water runs down your arm from your wrist to your elbow, hate it!!

FairyMoppings · 08/02/2019 19:33

People who don't use their indicators when driving - it's literally the flick of a switch you idle b*stards, and keeps traffic flowing. Use them!!!

Cold baths/showers - genuinely puts me in a foul mood if I have to wash in cold water

Luke warm 'hot' drinks - have to nuke them in the microwave 2 or 3 times before I finish one as I just cannot stand a hot drink that is no longer volcanic hot. Get genuinely annoyed when my preferred temperature has started to drop

Same as above but with cold drinks - luke warm/tepid/room temperature?... nope, fuck off

Same as above with hot food. Piping hot or I'm annoyed

People who make baby voices or animal noises. I can't bear it, I really have to fight the urge to give em a pasting

Laziness - we all have our 'off days' I get that. I like the odd lazy day. But those that are habitually lazy, who make a career out of it and put more effort into avoiding what they need to do, rather than just doing it, piss me off

Corrugated plastic. The type of stuff you find on '3D' images. I cannot stand it. Hate hate hate it, can't touch it. And if anyone rubs it and makes that fucking awful squeaky scratchy sound they're seriously at risk of dying.

People who spit or litter - filthy bastards. Recently saw a couple in a McD's car park eating their meal in their car. When finished both just lobbed the empty packaging out of the car windows. Then smoked a fag each and flicked the butts out of the window. Then the man cleared his throat and gobbed out of the window before driving off and leaving it all for the poor staff to have to clean up. PIGS DH had to hold me back.

Bad manners - cannot bear people who will not exercise good manners and common decency. Refusing to move one-behind-the-other on a narrow pathway and shoulder-barging oncoming pedestrians is a frequent one that makes me angry. Or when you're in say, a clothes shop, and you're browsing the rails flicking through the garments, but El Bitchio has eyed you and starts wondering if you've found something she might like. She won't wait til you've finished in case you get that mysterious item she thinks she's entitled to and will just start leaning into you and pushing you aside to get at it first. Fuck off love and wait your turn!

People who brag about how much money they have, and insist on telling you how much they've spent on every little materialistic item they own, as they cannot let you go on living unless you know how they spent hundreds on this-that-&-the-other. Distasteful and annoyance inducing.

People who hint instead of just saying what the fuck they want/need, then get upset when you don't pick up on their stupid cryptic clues. I've become familiar with those that do this now, and I have started to spot the 'hint's' but I deliberately ignore them. If you can't be a grown up and just be direct I'm not acknowledging it.

....You know what, I could go on all night. I have a lot of issues, and I'm quite obviously not a 'people person'. This was cathartic though OP, so thanks! Grin

Pinkbells · 08/02/2019 19:37

Wet cutlery makes me very angry]
Hahahahaha! I almost peed myself!!!! Grin

Pinkbells · 08/02/2019 19:39

People who talk really loudly in shops or other public places, as though they have to inform everyone within a large radius of their (usually very boring and/or aggressive) lifestyle.

dragonflyinn10 · 08/02/2019 19:40

Fleur East's sister was on Lorraine doing the clothes segment and instead of saying poundS she was saying twenty pound thirty pound it's POUNDS for fs petty I know I know !!!!😡

villanova · 08/02/2019 20:14

The 'running lights' on my Picanto that look like I've left my fog lights on.
My children's noisy eating - how many times do I need to tell them to close their mouths when eating?
My son's strange snorting/ heavy breathing when playing games on his phone.
People who drive at the same speed - my commute encompasses zones with speeds from 30mph to 60mph, yet some people insist at driving the whole lot at 40mph (or even worse, only speeding up on the only fast stretch where I have the possibility of overtaking them).
The sheer amount of traffic on my commute: why are so many people driving about at 7am?