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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:
DaveCoachesgavemetheclap · 07/02/2019 20:22

Personalised number plates
The word 'brekkie'

boabab · 07/02/2019 20:23

People using the singular for plurals eg 'that will be a 48 pound please' - it's everywhere now, especially on tv they are all using singular when referring to currency in the plural

Ollivander84 · 07/02/2019 20:25

People eating down the phone. Yes, you with your bowl of crunchy slurpy cereal
Complete white hot irrational rage, it makes me feel disgusted BlushConfused

vampirethriller · 07/02/2019 20:26

The wind sticking my hair to my lip balm.

Benedict Cumberbatch. I'm sorry, I'm sure he's lovely, but his face makes me angry.

My brother and the way he stirs a cup of tea 20,000 times and then taps the bloody spoon on the cup.

The way spoons get under the tap and flick water up.

boabab · 07/02/2019 20:26

This is the best post ever! I'm liking the uninhibited ranting! Keep it going Smile

TakenForSlanted · 07/02/2019 20:27

Personalised number plates

Yeeeeeeeeeesssss! So much this!

Still re oiling in horror at the thought of one of my former bosses, an elderly billionaire, and his bloody Lamborghini with custom plates that said something along the lines of "sex god" (not giving the actual text, of course, but the meaning is pretty spot on).

boabab · 07/02/2019 20:30

My number 1 hatred: Michael McIntyre. My number 2 hatred: adults who laugh at his 'jokes'.. he is not funny he is silly.

SkaTastic · 07/02/2019 20:31

Grown up women or men loving Disney and having tat with Disney quotes all over it. Well aware how unreasonable I am but can't stop.

iklboo · 07/02/2019 20:32

We were on holiday in Norway and went on a trip. The coach passed a huge billboard advertising Michael McIntyre was coming on tour. The guide - totally deadpan - said 'As if the suicide rate isn't high enough here' Grin

MissClareRemembers · 07/02/2019 20:35

When my glasses are knocked askew. Hate it.
When my hair is blow over my face. Also hate that.
When someone on the radio has false teeth and you can hear that little click. Uuuuurgh.
When you ask someone if they would sugar in their tea and they say, ‘’no thanks! I’m sweet enough!’’ Fuckers.

WellVersedInEtiquette · 07/02/2019 20:38

My neighbours taste in music. Heavy on the base. Loud but not loud enough to hear any words....Angry

yolofish · 07/02/2019 20:42

When you offer someone a cup of tea or coffee and they say 'whatever you're having/whatever is easiest'. There is no issue with either, just bloody SAY which you'd prefer. And with my PIL, if you (I) would prefer a cup of tea rather than an insanely strong espresso, the FAFF that incurs... I always offer to make it myself, but no, would you like Earl Grey yolo? or herbal? No, fuck off I'd like a cup of PG Tips and if I cant have that please can I have a glass of water? I'll get it myself. oh no, you sit down, and then I get a miniscule glass of tepid tap water. (sorry for rant).

PlayerRed · 07/02/2019 20:43

Lmao Grin

PlayerRed · 07/02/2019 20:44

James Arthur looks like he stinks of ham

Lmao Grin

billydilly · 07/02/2019 20:46

Butterflies. Hideous flappy idiots.

dawn96 · 07/02/2019 20:47

Facebook for sale sights! No I don’t want to buy a bag of used knickers a few with stains on from a smokers home for £2

dawn96 · 07/02/2019 20:47

Sites*

EatDessertFirst · 07/02/2019 20:48

Danny Dyer.

Weak tea. Ick.

Fridge cold sandwiches. The chilled bread makes me shudder.

yolofish · 07/02/2019 20:52

dawn96 apparently there is a huge market for used knickers? I am considering this as a way to supplement my pension (when/if I eventually get it...)

Gammeldragz · 07/02/2019 20:56

Alfa Romeo cars with their off centre number plates. I get irrationally angry whenever I see one.

SisterFarAway · 07/02/2019 20:58

My flatmate's perfume which smells like a mixture of mothballs and the perm liquid my grandmum had applied in the 1980s.

Mummabear2212 · 07/02/2019 20:58

Dressing gowns. They fill me with rage. It's all I can do to look at my DH if he's wearing his.

dawn96 · 07/02/2019 21:04

Also my ex who was very controlling and manipulative used to wear diesel only the brave aftershave this was when I was 17! But if I ever get a whiff I feel like I instantly hate that person so I get the name thing

opalescent · 07/02/2019 21:04

People coughing (whether they can help it or not). People who sneeze unnecessarily dramatically (dh is one 🤨).

Adult women talking in baby voices.

dawn96 · 07/02/2019 21:09

This is it I can’t stop now

Crushed velvet furniture
Love island
Men who spit/phlegm on the street

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