Things you can't stand for no reason whatsoever?

[UnChristmassy]

I have a real aversion to silicone. For some reason the thought of it makes me feel like I'm going to throw up, I can honestly get to heaving point 🤢 I've no idea why, it's not the feel of it. I just can't stand the thought of it.

It's the same with bottle tops, like the screw bottle top on a bottle of coke. The tip is always so scratchy and it gives me shivers.

Anyone else have random things they cannot stand but can't really explain?

DH thinks I'm a freak 😂

Cotton wool. Just touching it is bad but even the thought of pulling it apart makes me shudder.

@schnubbins oh lordy, vocal fry. Is it better or worse than uptalk (everything ending in a question? even a definitive statement?), I can't decide. The other day I suffered through listening to an interview with a woman who managed to combine vocal fry with uptalk. She was clearly an expert in her field, but she sounded like an utter idiot.

Often I wish MN had a 'like' button option. I would have happily endorsed so many of these (though a little amazed by the velvet haters - had no idea you were so numerous and you now have me rethinking half my furniture).

Wooden cutlery, ice lolly sticks, etc. Can't stand the feel of them on my lips or tongue.

Am also claustrophobic. I can't even read or watch something about someone trapped in a small space, or in a tight tunnel, like potholing or similar. It makes me feel sick & panicky. I feel horrible, just typing this.

Wooden straws, the horror

Lace on clothing !!! Make me shudder I have never owned anything with lace on as it would make me lightheaded

Milk. I can use it to cook and in coffee but the idea of drinking a glass of milk knocks me sick. I cannot watch adults drink milk, it makes me gag

@MrsDeadlock I came on here to say the exact same thing! Veg is fine, as is vegetables obviously but veggies makes me want to stab whoever said it.

Those metal squeezey tubes of tomato puree. Why not plastic? One poorly planned squeeze of the metal one and it's a sharp raggedy mess and you're left with no hope of getting anywhere near all the contents out.

I can't stand the sound of tea being poured from a teapot to a cup.

Also hate it when people suck boiled sweets and make a racket.

Where do I begin....?
Can not stand the words 'lush' and 'grim' unless referring to green-green grass or Reaper. Anyone using these in any other context is instantly dismissed as a dimwit.
Pizza and chips?! Lasagne and chips?! WTF!
Fashion victims following every squeak of every trend regardless of how unflattering it looks on them.
Parents who buy their offspring every passing idiotic gizmo thus perpetuating the ghastly commercialisation of children and adding to the landfills everywhere.
People without any inkling of moral compass, the ones who commit acts they know are wrong. Karma will bite them on their sad flabby arses.
Stupid, crass, vulgar reality television. Why would one wish to watch a bunch of desperados making complete fools out of themselves on national television? I want my entertainment to be of a high standard and not a freak-show.

I realise my stuff above has mostly good reasoning behind it but it felt good to moan.

Although not an actual hatred, I also dislike carrots cut into rounds.
Nigella Lawson struck a chord with home cooks across the nation last night when she branded carrots cut into rounds 'infinitely depressing'.. But as a change from cutting them into batons you could make star shapes from ordinary sliced carrots.
Fiskars do a heavty duty star shaped punch that is 2.5 cm diameter. It costs £14.95 so you would have to be mad about star shaped carrots. Children would love them though and then they might eat them.
Naah. Forget it.......

Hmm thinking about the carrots, you could cut triangle-shaped grooves down the carrot to give it a star-shaped cross-section, then slice it up. Or use a small metal star biscuit cutter.

I want star carrots for christmas dinner now.

I had a boyfriend who would get apoplectic about people using "lush" to describe food, or other uses e.g to mean an alcoholic. He said it was ONLY ok if used with the word "meadow" :o

When people say a couple of blah blah blah e.g I'll be there in a couple minutes.. wait a couple of weeks.. I'll probably go there in a couple days... she added a couple eggs...

I think it's because I prefer people to be more specific. I even hate it when people round up the clock. If I ask for the time I want specific minutes e.g someone saying to me its 1.15pm instead of telling me the exact time which could be 1:13pm or 1:16pm aaarrggghhh!!

Pausing the TV in a place where the characters faces are blurry or they've got their eyes closed. It basically needs to look like a picture you would find on IMDB before I'm happy with it.

Facial tattoos and piercings such as the huge holes in the ear lobes that you can see through, tongue piercings and the like. Looking at these things makes me want to vomit. Heaving now just thinking about the gigantic holes in ear lobes 🤮

People who say “straight the way” instead of straight away. It’s like the whole pacific instead of specific thing.

The feel of paper after just washing and drying hands. Uggghhh

When I read or hear someone say 'I could care less' when it's supposed to be 'I couldn't care less'!!! I think it's an americanism.

@Luckyelephant1

When I read or hear someone say 'I could care less' when it's supposed to be 'I couldn't care less'!!! I think it's an americanism.

I hate that!

Any kind of karaoke or public dancing/singing by non professionals. And that kind of cheesy entertainment that you get at certain holiday resorts, with ‘audience participation’. Makes me want to run away.

Magicians, especially card tricks.its just lying with extra steps. I also can't stand practical jokes, it's mean and awful.

The word vile. So overused and hyperbolic.

People enthusiastically chomping apples. The word chomping.