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?

In Scotland we say tea too for both dinner and the drink.

Loving all the sneezing husbands. Mine is the same. Do you think it’s some testosterone-fuelled hangover from Neanderthal man? I sneeze (loudly), and therefore I am. And then the addition of excessive blowing of nose.

Large cartons of milk- the four pint ones. They’re really heavy when they’re full and it’s a pain getting them out of the fridge door.

People much taller and wider than me who stand in front of me during Zumba, so I can’t see the moves. Oh and those who leap about far more than is necessary, so I’m having to get out of the way all the time.

Stupid adverts, particularly that idiotic dad dancing equity release one.

People who right massive posts with no punctuation, particularly full stops and capital letters. It’s like a stream of consciousness and makes no sense.

People who block supermarket shelves with thei trolley and then stand there for ages, so no one else can get to the shelf.

Jeremy Clarkson
Kevin McCloud
Alexander Armstrong
Richard Osman

Loads more

Yes to sneezing loudly. DH has a cold at the minute. His sneezes kind of go

'Snerrrrrrrrrreeeth' but really loud and high pitched. Scares the poor cats.

People who announce their tastes for ' a good, trashy read' in the manner of one throwing down a gauntlet. Clearly, a book can't be both good and trashy simultaneously. The inference always seems to be that those of us who don't read shite are prententious in some way. Keep your Shoppaholic sagas to yourself mate.

Pretentious! I'm clearly not as clever as I think...

Aww Alexander Armstrong & Richard Osman are lovely (personal experience).

@JayoftheRed I am the exact same way, and nail polish makes me cringe too. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about them.

filters. I fucking hate filters. nobody looks like themselves any more. everybody looks the same.

calling kids sexy. they're not, ever. why would you say such a thing. people who call kids sexy sound like paedophiles. I will punch you in the face if you call my child sexy.

People who drop their ‘t’s’ in the middle of words, I’m looking at you Edith Bowman and Ian Wright, eg “Sco-hish” “arrissss” - it’s “ScoTTish” and “arTisTs” you’re paid to work in broadcasting, please speak correctly?! Also people invading my personal space. Loving this thread by the way.

That old footballer with the curly hair - apparently his name is Chris Kamara. (Had to Google...) I can't stand those advertising posters with him dressed up as some advertising executive's idea of a "working class everyman", wearing a hard hat or whatever and pretending to cheer on a football team. I mean, I know nothing about the guy, hence IABU, but the whole thing is just so fucking lame. He's probably a millionaire.

robotic in slight defence of Chris kamara he is a sky football reporter who for years has had a catchphrase of ‘unbelievable’ when reporting in just after goal or incident. He’s become very well known and well loved for it - something capitalised by advertisers. So although awful and cheesy there is a ‘good’ reason for it.

I detest the bohea tea advert on mn
Apple crunchers, turns me into the hulk
sniffers
people who make conversation just to find out your personal business
dawdlers in the street when I'm in a hurry (I'm tolerant of the elderly though)
those stupid bits of paper people put with their name and product listing on sites ie facebook marketplace, in particular oral keily
the adverts at the start of a you tube video
the fact that on facebook if you want to hide an ad, you have to practically complete a survey before you can, and then you still get more

The talking toilet on virgin trains. I should know by now that it's coming but every time, the bastard gets me and I jump out of my skin

People who use "text" as a verb. No, you did not "text" someone something, you sent them a text. Even worse is the plural "texses".

People who say "call out".

People who don't use reflexive pronouns correctly.

Jeremy Corbyn

Socks. I absolutely cannot stand socks!
Everything about the feel of them, the toe seams, the ruching as they fall down etc, i shudder just thinking of socks.

When people say 'stones' rather than stone. Ie I am 8 stones 12. Irrational, but it makes me instantly detest them.

Stickers on bananas.....got to remove them as soon as I get home.
And those stickers the airline puts on your luggage...... I take mine off as soon as I get home or to my hotel.....can't be doing with people who leave them on during all their local trips....I have friends who do this and I have to sit on my hands to stop myself tearing them off!
I'm usually pretty laid back....honest.

And people who call their home their crib!!!!! Why just why?

People who can't sleep for no real reason. I'm amazing at sleeping and never get chance and there they are just not sleeping. They should each be allocated a baby so that the baby's mother can sleep.

People who do to say thank you when you hold a door for them, or step out of their way to let them past.
People who don’t thank you when you give way in the car.
Chewing gum chewers
People who spit

The idiots that refer to the police as Feds (luckily none of my friends do or they’d be ex friends) but come on just stop it you uttter twats

Tara336. At criminal bar. Every now and then (usually youths) defendants say this. In crown juries react. In youth court mags try to ignore. Never helps ! Have known judges correct Defs quite sharply.

Oh god when typed defs there it auto corrected to ‘feds’.

Probably not irrational but cars/vans parking on pavements.

Net curtains

Cars turning right next to a roundabout where they could go left, around the roundabout, and back the way they want to go without holding everyone up behind them while they wait to turn right across a busy road.

Loads of silly expressions like "holibobs" "famalam"

People who say "excited for" when they mean "excited about"

Retired people doing fullblown supermarket shopping at weekends. B&Q used to (not sure if they still do) a discount scheme for the over 65s if they shopped there on a certain day. Can the supermarkets do the same please?