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?

•People who speak far too fucking loudly on their phones on buses and trains, yes we know you have a social life, but the whole bus/train doesn’t need to hear what you’re up to tonight!
•Shop workers who when finished with their customer, stand and chat, to the customer, about nothing to do with the shopping that the customer has just bought and there’s a very large queue of people waiting to be served, or equally when customers keep the shop workers chatting when there’s a long queue!
•People who tut and moan about the bus being late yet never have their fares ready.
•Various shop workers and bank workers stacking shelves/working on a computer with one other person serving customers and there’s a very long line yet they keep stacking their shelves/doing work on the computer, surely getting the long queues down are first priority?
•Shops that are meant to be open til 8pm yet you pop along at 7.56pm, for electricity, and the fuckers have shut the shop early, yet you knock on the door as you can clearly see them still standing at till, but they wave you away, or worse ignore you
•Shops that haven’t put out magazines that are due out that day, by 11am when they opened at 6am!
•Shopworkers who are on the phone (mainly Asian newsagents) when they’re serving you, and when you have questions! Ffs
•Companies whose standard phone answer greeting goes on forever, eg, ‘good morning, Mumsnet limited, minniesmum1606 speaking, how can I help you’, for fucksake I’m always dying to cut in after the company name has been said!
•Contact centre staff asking how am I and them commenting on the weather after they’ve given you the above long greeting and before you’ve given any other info besides name! Aargh kill me now

The following words:

Twat
Bollocks
Bloke - to describe men
Jolly - instead of good

Constantly turning everything, even lighthearted debates, into an ‘ism’ at the end:
•FeminISM
•SexISM
•RacISM
•AgISM
Political Correctness gone mad, gender neutral everything, offending someone because you dared to say that they are a man/woman, or people that say ‘I don’t like a label’ or other such drivel about genders, ffs get real

People that are close to each other so tell everyone that they’re sisters/cousins/aunts and nieces, etc, when they’re not even remotely related, ffs just say best mates!

FreshBoom when I was homeless, I called the hostel I stayed in The Hostel with the Evil Nuns.

Transition lenses in glasses - Just no.

@minniesmum have you ever worked in a shop?

People who put up road side signs advertising events who do not remove them after the event. Why is it not treated as 'littering' ?

No @TrendyNorthLondonTeen and I had a feeling someone was going to say something against my shop workers rant! Please don’t though, it’s a fun thread and I don’t want it derailed because someone is sticking up for the thing/person I’m ranting about after all it’s just a bit of fun!

My apologies if this isn’t what you we’re going to do!

Companies who insist on "taking you through security" when you only have a general query that does not relate to your specific account at all.

AMEX get it right. You call the (geographic) number, a friendly, intelligent person picks up and asks how they can help. They only do the security bit where necessary and otherwise just answer your question or do whatever they need to - all in one easy call.

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Companies who insist on "taking you through security" when you only have a general query that does not relate to your specific account at all

Even more so when they phone me!

My dh hates my loud sneezes and always jumps. ( wimp) I cannot sneeze quietly.
I heard someone do a really quiet sneeze when out shopping once ' call that a sneeze' I thought smugly! It sounded so feeble compared to mine.
I hate seeing images of bacteria growing! Makes me feel ill.

My ex used to drive me crazy with his coughing, he never failed to cough during the most important part of a tv program or film I was watching, god knows how many final punchlines I missed all because of him

People (elderly) who put their shopping through the checkout veeeerrrrrryyy sllooowwwly in a supermarket full of mums edgy about making it to pick up time then act surprised when it’s time to pay and instead of whacking out the card start fiddling with notes to pay. Accept I am impatient but really?

MrsTSwift That is so unkind. You do realise that people slow down as they get older and really cannot help but do things at a slower pace.

The word 'artisan' it drives me nuts, what is the world coming to? Artisan bakers, artisan window cleaners, artisan gardeners, how about this they are just a bunch of artisan arseholes who need to get over themselves?!

Artisan my arse...I'll get my coat...

I used to live near a dry cleaners where they advertised that the clothes were “all hand finished”. Presumably this is true for all dry cleaners?

I also hate make up / moisturiser adverts where they talk bollocks. This happens less now I think.

Well I suppose they did hand finish them by folding them when they came out of the machine 😀

Centipedes. They can fuck off. Got far too many legs, what do they even need that many legs for anyway? Snakes don’t have any and they manage just fine. Multi-legged fuckers.
Millipedes. See above.

The word “artisanal”. All I can see here is “anal” which probably says more about me than the person who wrote that. However, if I’m buying nice bread or cake or whatever, I do not want to be thinking about anal.

The childrens' song "wind the bobbin up". I mean it starts fine, talking about a bobbin and we all do the all the actions that go with it. But then we all suddenly have to point to the ceiling and then the floor?! What's that all about??! Zero narrative structure and I can't help but think it's winding me up 😬

There was once a thread about how Won't the Bobbin up is inappropriate. Enjoy

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3145368-To-believe-wind-the-bobbin-up-is-inappropriate-and-to-ask-my-child-s-Nursery-not-to-sing-it

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Vain men and conceited women... FFS!!

For me it's the following:

People who chew/eat loud

People who sniffle, especially while eating too!!!

Dry hands and feet

When people drag their fork against the plate and it makes that horrible noise like when somebody scratches the chalkboard!!!!

Saliva... can't stand it

I have misophonia; basically I want to punch fuck out of people that make noises when they eat, a few years ago a colleague of mine sat next to me in the staff room and slurped on her pasta like one of those big dogs that slobbers over everything, I literally had to get up and walk out and I went to the toilets & I swear to god, I started punching the doors in the loos’s, I was that wound up by her eating, I ended up being in an awful mood for the rest of the day