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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:
MinniesMum1606 · 09/02/2019 21:27

Anyone below the age of 30 who gets Botox frequently, what they gonna look like when they’re 40?

PurpleAndTurquoise · 09/02/2019 21:29

Toast sweat.

CheddarIsNotTheOnlyCheese · 09/02/2019 21:31

Thanks Bourbon Grin

Guineapiglet345 · 09/02/2019 21:32

People in Aldi who try and pack at the till then take aggggges to find their purse in their bag then pay in cash and have to count out the change. It’s cheap because they keep costs down by having low staff numbers so don’t take up their time at the till!

CharlyAngelic · 09/02/2019 21:32

Oh yes @Purple !

blankiesandunicorns · 09/02/2019 21:51

People making slushing noises when they eat
People humming when they eat
People talking about their food when they are eating it

Just fucking eat and shut up!

NellWilson · 09/02/2019 21:56

Being called guys by waiters.
Waiters who kneel down at the side of the table.
Jane Garvey.
Bored of - it's bored with ffs.
Drivers who have no idea how to behave at a mini roundabout.
Liz Jones.
American chocolate.

Tigger001 · 09/02/2019 22:09

yes @NellWilson people at mini roundabout who don't have a clue boil my blood !!!! (Someone probably hates that saying 😮😮)
Cadburys chocolate
Disingenuous people
Facebook enthusiasts
Instagram enthusiasts
Rude people online, actually respect you more if you have the balls to do it in real life rather than hiding behind a screen, it's pathetic )

spacehopperchopper · 09/02/2019 22:27

The words : function, luncheon and superb
Absolutely... sniffing
Slurping, gulping, chewing loudly
People who don’t have any idea of personal space
Lack of common sense

greenpop21 · 09/02/2019 22:49

I’m a vet nurse, I will happily clip your dogs nails, but I’m not cutting your dogs claws. Oh I thought they were claws .Whoops!

greenpop21 · 09/02/2019 22:53

People who don't indicate when driving.
People who answer every question starting with "So....."
Overuse of the word-amazing.
Tradesmen in my house charging me a fortune and drinking MY tea, coffee and biscuits!

greenpop21 · 09/02/2019 22:57

Tradesmen
Tradesmen
Oh and tradesmen.

Can you tell I'm having work done?

Bonnetdedeuce · 09/02/2019 23:05

Jimmy Carr and his stupid irritating laugh, knob.
Bra straps that won’t stay up, grrr.
Over affectionate pissed people.
Tops with bloody splits or holes in the shoulders, why?
People drumming their fingers or tapping.

MinniesMum1606 · 09/02/2019 23:17

Tourists that get on the bus in the morning through the week, when your going to work, and hold up the driver with their crappy English and lots of questions about where the bus goes and then, to top all of that off, they then take an age to find their busfares! Can’t you go fucking sight seeing after the morning rush Tourists?!Angry
People that are too scared to sit at the top of the bus (fucking idiots man, shitbagsGrin) and if there’s no seats downstairs, they stand in the downstairs aisle and the driver doesn’t shout ‘if you can’t sit down then get off’...again bus drivers; when the bus is really really busy then WHY THE FUCK DO THEY KEEP LETTING PEOPLE ON?! JESUS CHRISTAngry

EarlyModernParent · 09/02/2019 23:22

The word 'buddy'. There is no context in which use of this word is acceptable.

MinniesMum1606 · 09/02/2019 23:24

People that are a foreign nationality and have came to live in Scotland, and after so many years, they consider themselves Scottish just because they’ve lived here for years, they will actually say ‘Scottish’ when asked their nationality, I think your passport may disagree with you folks!
Being told I’m racist because I voted to leave the EU.
People that have to be trendy and don’t like being labelled a certain gender, for fucksake get a grip, and it’s usually liberal ‘I-don’t-know-much-about-life-yet-think-I-do’ under 25 year olds that think they know fucking everything, I worry for our country when these fuckers are going to be deciding things.
Political Correctness gone mad is my biggest annoyance, gender neutral clothing?! For fucksake Get. A. Grip

highheelsandbobblehats · 09/02/2019 23:39

How could I have forgotten?

Adele. Fucking psychopath.

SpanielEars070 · 09/02/2019 23:40

Public toilets that don't have open windows or some sort of efficient extractor fan. I always end up going in straight after the person who has a dead badger up their arse they need to shit out.

Seriously, go to your fucking Doctor. That smell isn't right or normal.

BartonHollow · 09/02/2019 23:43

Adele. Fucking Psychopath

😂

They are the lyrics of a psychopath it's true

She is stuck in a rut of singing heartbreak ballads

She threw away almost a whole album she wrote with Damon Albarn from Blur, who apparently was trying to get her to do something different and she pussied out

That's the album I want to hear.

highheelsandbobblehats · 09/02/2019 23:51

BartonHollow

Thank you!! My husband doesn't see it and just laughs at me when I rant about it. Then Rolling In The Deep comes on in the car and my fingers tap against the steering wheel of their own damn accord. It's such a catchy beat. And then I hate myself a little bit.

I'm not surprised she didn't go through with it. Made her millions on these desperate songs. Why mess with the fan base?

I equally want to punch her in the face when I hear her talk. Goes right through me.

highheelsandbobblehats · 09/02/2019 23:52

Speaking of punching people in the face, Ricky Gervais.
Can't bear him. I have to leave the room when my husband watches The Office.

3in4years · 10/02/2019 00:00

Central heating. I hate the dryness and the constant hum. No-one ever agrees with me.
People leaving tea bags around the kitchen. When do they plan on throwing them away?

EarlyModernParent · 10/02/2019 00:01

3in4years, I am coming around to your way of thinking. I hate being cold but I also hate feeling as desiccated as a ready salted crisp and fuzzy headed.

3in4years · 10/02/2019 00:03

Oh wow! One of my people!

Ilovemypantry · 10/02/2019 00:22

People (nearly everyone these days) that start a sentence with “so”. Really winds me up.
Also people that write or say “would of” instead of “would have”. That really winds me up too.