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

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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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BartonHollow · 10/02/2019 00:50

@highheelsandbobblehats

We must be separated at birth as I can't bear Gervais and rarely if ever have found him funny.

My chief complaint about him is that he tries to portray himself as an ally to disabled people whilst flinging around the worst of the epithets but "that's ok, because it's ironic and he doesn't mean it"

Yeah because no necked numbskulls will understand it's irony not endorsement Hmm

And the fact that he thinks that being an atheist makes him

a) indisputably correct
b) better than and intellectually superior to anyone who has a religion.

Absolute knobber, who got lucky rather than earned his celebrity.

WoollyMummoth · 10/02/2019 01:07

Yeah, not a big fan of Ricky Gervais. The rest of my family think he’s hilarious. He’s not. He’s a knob.

Deleriumdreamer · 10/02/2019 01:16

Having to dry one wet hand
Crossed forks and knives (it makes me want to stab you with the fork...)
People who scrape the chairs along the ground
People who drag their feet
Ice.. I can’t stand the scraping of it in the freezer and can barely touch it

Deleriumdreamer · 10/02/2019 01:17

Oh and Keith lemon or whatever the twats name is 🤢

MinniesMum1606 · 10/02/2019 01:47

God I can’t stand Keith Lemon either, and people who think he’s funny obviously don’t have a sense of humour. He’s a misogynistic bully and was always horrible to Fearne Cotton about her nostrils, women’s looks should never be made fun of and it’s even worse that it was on tv, if he had have picked on me that much then I would have cried in all honesty, I wonder if ofcom ever got complaints about that? It was basically like he thought Holly was beautiful and not Fearne and boy he made it obvious, not a nice feeling at all.

MrsBosh · 10/02/2019 06:45

People saying/writing 'leggins'.

Deathraystare · 10/02/2019 07:27

Bloody door handles. I am forever going through my bedroom door and getting caught on it. (Cannot change the blasted thing as I am in social housing.

Very loose pavement squares that are filled with water as you walk on it.

People hawking up in the street. Was rife in China (could even hear it in the kitchens, lovely!) but just as bad here (England).

Mothers walking across road looking at phone, not checking kids are behind them.

The "smile, love" brigade (luckily does not happen anymore!!!

Sexist "banter".

I could go on and on but that will suffice.

sueelleker · 10/02/2019 08:27

People who stop in a shopping aisle, with their trolley diagonally across it, so no-one can get by.
And really weird-5 pence pieces! I don't know why, I just hate the miserable little things, and get rid of them as soon as possible.

Stormy76 · 10/02/2019 08:56

People who sneeze without covering their mouths, the same with coughing.
People who scream when they vomit......sounds horrendous and unnecessary (DS)
People who clap super loud .....sets my teeth on edge
People who use public loos and don’t wash their hands...so gross
People who go for a big smelly poo and don’t open the window or close the door so the whole house stinks of shit (DH & DS’s)
People who have whispered conversations in front of you at work, if you can’t say it out loud it’s probably gossip so keep it out of the office!
People who arselick
People who don’t wash and stink especially in the summer ...gag.
Catching my sleeve on door handles, catching bag handle in the car.
Unisex toilets ....hate them because men are generally gross.
People who use cotton hankies....just use a tissue for gods sake stop shoving the soaking wet snot rag up your sleeve!
People who who tailgate
People who drive everywhere at 30 miles an hour
Cars with those Zenon lights that blind you as you drive past
The list is endless

lotusbell · 10/02/2019 10:07

Shortening Princess to Prinny as a nickname for your daughter.
Tom Jones
Michael Douglas
Sniffing and men that hoik it up in the street.
Noisy eating and chewing
Queue jumpers for the bus but those who fanny about getting on it when it's obvious the driver is telling you he's ready
People who complain to the bus driver about being late, as if he can help it
People who wait til the assistant has scanned all their items before deciding to pack it into bags.
People who stop in the doorway of a shop as they leave as if no one is going to trying to leave behind them.
People who stand in the middle of a supermarket aisle to look at the shelves thus blocking everyone
People who abandon their trolley and go off to shop rather than take it round with them
People who cannot get their there and they're right.
IT folk who talk in jargon to you when trying to fix your issue then get huffy when you don't know what they mean
People who come into your workplace to do a job and but into your conversations - I'm looking at you, photocopier guy.
I'm sure I have plenty more!

JenniferJareau · 10/02/2019 11:01

People who use 'u' instead of 'you' and '4' instead of 'for.

You are not Prince, he is the only person who can do this and not look thick.

DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 10/02/2019 11:35

People who say "I work two jobs" instead of "I have two jobs."

boabab · 10/02/2019 13:12

Michael McIntyre

greenpop21 · 10/02/2019 13:17

Jeremy Vine

greenpop21 · 10/02/2019 13:18

Spitting, why joggers and footballers cab't keep hold of their own bodily fluids, I'll never know. I used to run regularly and NEVER felt the need. I have this amazing mechanism that allows me to swallow my own saliva you see.

TheCatsWhiskers · 10/02/2019 13:29

People who say veg and pud instead of vegetables and pudding.

Makes my stomach turn!

BenjiB · 10/02/2019 13:46

People who say veggies instead of vegetables, lil instead of little and people who pronounce the letter H as haitch instead of aitch.

JaneJeffer · 10/02/2019 16:12

Drag queens.

RoboticSealpup · 10/02/2019 16:19

Tea instead of dinner sounds so wrong to me. "Eat your tea!" How? Tea is a drink! And anyway, there's never any tea involved, so it's not even like people are drinking tea with their fish fingers or whatever.

NB: I know this is unreasonable, and that it's really normal parlance in some parts of the UK.

iklboo · 10/02/2019 16:22

Tea instead of dinner sounds so wrong to me. "Eat your tea!" How? Tea is a drink! And anyway, there's never any tea involved, so it's not even like people are drinking tea with their fish fingers or whatever.

Why do you think we don't drink tea with tea? I always do Smile

emilybrontescorsett · 10/02/2019 16:46

Think it's already been said but men hanging around women s clothing rails getting in the way.
It's already tight, get out of my way instead of blocking up the space, you don't need to be beside your oh at all times really you dont.
Oh and even worse woman, man and huge pushchair plus toddler all gathered around the clothes I want to look at. Ffs your baby isn't buying it so why the need to be in the way.

CallMeSirShotsFired · 10/02/2019 17:10

People who press the pedestrian crossing button when you are already standing there AND it is already lit.

Do they think they are the only ones who know how it works and I was just going to stand there for all eternity otherwise?

AstralTraveller · 10/02/2019 18:22

Tony Robinson. In general but am listening to him at the moment and his narration is as if he is talking to seven year old children! It's not just TR though. I notice a lot of presenters are talking to us as if we are all as thick as two short planks or small children. Also every word has the maximum power put to it to try and reinforce every single word and sentence. It's exhausting! Why can't Neil Oliver do the program with the drones? It;s a clever format and with him it would be worth watching (above being the only angle I have not looked at the lovely Neil Oliver from). Sick of telly generally but lately I've been trying to analyse why.

Ragnarthe · 10/02/2019 18:39

@iklboo aye, up north we allus ave tea wi' our tea. Then we take whippet for t'walk.
Seriously though yes I agree, tea with tea Brew Smile

Closetbeanmuncher · 10/02/2019 18:45

People who repeatedly use the word 'like' in a sentence
People who touch or flick their hair every 3 seconds
Those ridiculous filled lips that look like a baboons arsehole
Nail extensions (wolverine claws)
Nasty false eyelashes

Also any of the following words/phrases ...

On point
On fleek
Trending
Bae
Goals
Living my best life
Squad
Obsessed
Banter