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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?

OP posts:
OwlBeThere · 08/02/2019 23:53

People saying ‘gifted me’ instead of ‘gave me

OMG yes! stop it!

happymum12345 · 08/02/2019 23:58

Long finger nails on anyone.
Nasty, rude people.

happymum12345 · 08/02/2019 23:59

Women clothes shopping with men. They simply get in the way & clearly don’t want to be there.

moon2 · 09/02/2019 00:00

Self entitled 4x4 drivers on the school run who don’t give a rats arse about pedestrians on country lanes where there are no pavements and actually speed up.
Said drivers doing 40 on blind corners and refusing to give way when there is clearly no room for 2 way traffic therefore forcing oncoming traffic into ditches potholes and hedges.
Same again pretending they don’t have a reverse gear after inconveniencing everyone by not stopping at the passing point which is nearest to them at which point I just sit there and listen to the radio with a queue of 10 cars behind me. Then after 5 mins of enduring the sheer idiocy a polite suggestion and if met with more arrogant obstructiveness will resort to expletives...you wonder how their kids actually got into these schools when they are such thick drivers! Why don’t they interview parents anymore??

moon2 · 09/02/2019 00:04

Oh yes! People driving in the middle of the road when there are 2 lanes even when another car is approaching..demented!

sushisuperstar · 09/02/2019 00:13

Loud music in shops, gyms, anywhere
Loud people in general
Busy places
That boomerang thing on Instagram
Ed Sheeran
Ellie Golding
Steve Wright
Russel Brand
Owen Jones
Slow shuffling folk (unless they are elderly or have poor mobility of course!!)

😖

Defender90 · 09/02/2019 00:21

Self service checkouts - I want a bit of weather chat with Agnes thank you.

DH stupid loud sneezing.

Next door hanging a washing out when it's below freezing.

Chewing without closing mouth.

oldsilver · 09/02/2019 00:50

I raise your fur babies to shell babies talking tortoises here, mines an old man he is not a baby.

The word/place name Cleeve - eughhhh.

Potatoes in sinks of water to peel - how I was taught: nooooo - as you inadvertantly stick your fingers in squish rotten bits.

Please please teach you children to cough/sneeze into their shoulders, elbows or even hands, hands better than my face. Just not my face. Again. Please. They are 11, they should know, just not my face. Again. No more germs. Please?

GuiltyPleasure · 09/02/2019 00:51

"Veggies" (in the context of abbreviation for vegetables).
"Piece of fruit"
Lunchbox threads give me rage as they often contain both.

darkpearl · 09/02/2019 02:57

Bits of fecking Oreo cookies in everything. Stop trying to force them on us! They are shite. We don't go to America shovelling custard cream bits into their hersey bars or fig rolls into their Ben and Jerrys

Amibeingnaive · 09/02/2019 03:01

The song Family Affair by Mary J Blige

My own personal hell would be that song on a loop.

ipswichwitch · 09/02/2019 03:51

Bits of fecking Oreo cookies in everything. Stop trying to force them on us! They are shite. We don't go to America shovelling custard cream bits into their hersey bars or fig rolls into their Ben and Jerrys
Would probably make them taste better

sashh · 09/02/2019 03:54

Unfinishedkitchen

I agree on the supermarket thing, but also people who put their shopping at the end of the conveyer belt and then stand there, right at the end watching as their shopping goes on a little holiday and they watch it move away almost waving at it.

Meanwhile 14 people have to wait looking at the empty conveyor belt but unable to put things on because the person is still standing there and will not start to move until their first item has been scanned.

And nuns, there is a special place in hell for The Sisters of Mercy.

TheLittleDogLaughed · 09/02/2019 04:55

Public transport: sniffers (blow your nose!), people who put their bag on the seat and give you a ‘look’ if you ask to sit down and queue jumpers. All rile me so much my head feels hot.

Can’t stand cutesy words: nom-nom; my bad; uni; hubby etc etc.

The misuse of ‘myself’ usually in emails “if you need any help please contact myself ...”

People starting sentences with “so ...” it seems a recent thing. Just needless.

Purplealienpuke · 09/02/2019 05:28

Hiccups. Other people's especially give me THE RAGE!!!! Mine annoy me too but nowhere near the level of anyone else's!!
People who chew loudly, be it chewing gum or dinner, just fucking stop it you heathen 🤮. Queue jumpers for obvious reasons. Tourists who come out of shops and just stop dead in the doorway.... just move out the way you twat, some folk have places to be!!! I tend to growl at them..... lol

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 09/02/2019 05:44

Yankee Candles

I loath them

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 09/02/2019 06:06

People who love Friends. I’m sorry but it makes me think less of them which is irrational I know

God yes it was always rubbish. And as for those who quote Friends or even worse have Friends moments it’s totally rational to judge them

RoboticSealpup · 09/02/2019 07:24

People who teach their children to squat over the seat of public toilets, "because they're unhygienic to sit on," thereby splashing piss all over them and rendering them unhygienic to sit on, which they weren't before.

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 09/02/2019 07:39

Cuppa
Hubby/ hubs
Nana
Anyways
Cheeky, as in 'a cheeky drink'

StoatofDisarray · 09/02/2019 07:41

Cyclists and joggers on pavements, who move too fast and jostle people out of the way, YES to toilet seat hoverers @RoboticSealpup!, people who are freaked out by body hair (no, I don't shave my pits, get over it), people who are "scared" by any violence in films, bloody sex scenes on TV and in films (I don't need to see the actors fake-fucking to accept the characters are into each other), woke bros and their female counterparts, people who actively hate London, people who think I'm thick because I have a working class accent (I work on a very middle-class environment), my DP who washes up with a small amount of lukewarm water and a teaspoon of Bio-D "because of the environment", meaning everything is covered in a thin film of grease and it has to be done again with tons of boiling hot water and a proper squirt. And it takes him half an hour to wash up after dinner, when it only takes me the length of Pulp's "Common People" to do the same amount. It gives me the rage!

Thank you for letting me vent!. I would never say anything about these things in real life, of course. (Actually I might have grumbled about pavement hogging by cyclists and joggers once).

StoatofDisarray · 09/02/2019 07:49

Clarification: my DP when he washes up... etc; I don't have a petty irrational hatred of my DP, who is a lovely bloke!

Bojack · 09/02/2019 07:51

The hood on my new coat. It's my own fault as I didn't think to put it up when buying it. It's so huge it covers my eyes so end up with the choice of seeing or getting wet.

My children being unable to play a video game without shouting. I blame the youtubers for this one as you never found us shouting about every move sonic made back in the day.

Slime.

The woman at work who is so obsessed with Disney she gets angry if you dare mention some ot their films are shit.

PennyandVince · 09/02/2019 08:11

High winds especially at night - never ever got over this from childhood irrational fear that the roof may blow off and suddenly 'We're not in Kansas anymore Toto'.

Wet sleeves

Being questioned when I am eating - I want to enjoy my food

Being interrupted - it's so rude

Sneezers who don't even make the effort to cover their face

Audi drivers

Low waisted anything

Skinny jeans

Wet grass - you're the reason I have a snapped Achilles tendon

Reality TV - it's shit and lazy

Modern UK architecture - it's shit and lazy

My messy bedroom - it's my fault I know but I hate that it will take Marie Kondo x 10 to sort it. I may have to set fire to it instead and say 'Thank you' as I flick the Swan Vesta into oblivion..

username79999 · 09/02/2019 08:37

People who take their whole family to the supermarket like it's some sort of day out .
My dd who leaves the milk/butter out of the fridge every f..ing time .
Also auto correct I know what I want to write stop correcting me Envy

AstralTraveller · 09/02/2019 09:03

People that remain deliberately infantile in order to not have to take responsibility for their lives. Always getting other people to do stuff for them as they pretend to be incapable. Go to bed with a 'headache' in order to avoid doing something they would prefer not to do when they really need to actually be an adult and behave like an adult. These people seem to magically have adult capabilities when it comes to booking holidays or spending money though. The rest of the time they just take a back seat in life and let others do all the shit work of their lives for them no matter what the cost to that person.

Adults obsessed with Disney is part of this theme. Nothing would get me to Disneyworld. No-one has such a difficult job that they need to return to the nursery when they get a holiday surely?