Things you hate...

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Those toilet roll dispensers that only give you one piece at a time. End up using more because I scrunch them into a ball. Who ever uses just one piece?

Gift wrapping services. For one present maybe. But all of them? Waste of effort/money, know it goes to charity but you can donate anyway. Get some gift bags!

AIBU?

What do you hate?

@ismu I concur! I mean a PACKED bus where half the seats are taken up by handbags. So packed its standing with someones sweaty arm pit in your face. The driver is continuous saying 'move back! Move back!....To let more wotsit eating heathens on and you literally miss your stop as can't exit the bus. Ah the joys of travelling on public transport with the un-washed masses😂

this struck a nerve with me - I’m joining this with my hate, greasy unwashed hair as I find the two weirdly often connected -

where we live is a fairly isolated small market town - there are no removal companies here as no one moves away -

we have a medium sized Waitrose and Sainsbury, a variety of shops, services, many many estate agents, cafes, mostly staffed by the “Ive been doing this job for 20 years” brigade who view the customer as a nuisance.
One banking establishment employs a female member of staff who has been there for 41 years. You would think in all that time she would have been advised to wash her lank greasy hair before turning into work, same as the young receptionist at the dental surgery opposite, unkempt, unhygienic, unsightly, as at the check out at Sainsbury, it is really unpleasant, but as they have been there for years, in customer based roles, know they can’t be sacked, show their contempt for the customer and themselves of course

We have a delivery every other week of bulky or heavy shopping, avoid supermarkets here as per your astute comment ^its endemic in this town

People who dance in public spaces for TikTok videos

People who dance in their own home for TikTok’s but point at the captions that point out incredibly obvious things like its ground breaking news

Emails that have an unsubscribe link but when you click on it there is no option to unsubscribe, only to choose email or text

Fake familiarity or passive aggressiveness in cold calling sales emails to my work account “hey Maple! You don’t seem to have replied to my previous reach outs! I know life is busy though so just bringing this to the top of your inbox!” Fuck off.

Advent calendar windows that you can’t open without a Swiss army penknife

Overly vague instructions on flat pack stuff, with no words just meaningless arrows

The dehumanising way some people talk about problems with motherhood, as though women are just vessels or breeding stock. E.g. telling a woman with life-changing birth injuries that she should just be grateful to have a healthy baby, or going on about how breast is best when what they really mean is best for the baby, regardless of how much distress and loss of sleep it's causing the mother. Women matter just as much.

Why do people get their dog's ears cropped, anyway?

Knitted toys. The thought of toddlers gumming the yarn makes me feel ill.

People who refuse to take responsibility for themselves and blame everything on external factors, and then expect the state to solve all their problems for them, then complain about the service they receive.

For example, neglecting to discipline their child, child then is disruptive in school and gets punished, child then does not want to go to school, parent blames school

There's so many examples

Unhealthy lifestyle results in health issues, expecting the nhs to sort the symptoms of these out like ulcers / joint issues- complaints about waiting times when not addressing lifestyle

People who don't recycle

Loud ineffective parenting

Noisy children in adult areas running about where there is hot food and glasses (like a restaurant) and their parents not giving a shit or dealing in any way.

The airport pubs are awful for this

Children with loud devices on any public transport without ear phones - planes are awful for this

Leeds Railway Station - one of the most inhospitable soulless coldest places
known to woman

passengers on packed Kings Cross to Leeds trains
disgusting toilets at Leeds railway station
passengers in the ‘quiet’ carriage taking phone calls or having team meetings ?!?
passengers sneezing on packed trains/tube/bus
passengers on public transport
high cost of public transport
public transport

I can't work out if you're being sarcastic or not here @Potatoewithawonkyeye
I use public transport a lot and there's literally always some arsehole that will sit next to you in an empty bus. Also I need to take a big carry on with me because unfortunately there are other arseholes who steal luggage from the hold at bus stops.
Bagssing a seat on a packed bus is obviously not on!

Had an email today offering ‘Gifting chic’!

From John Lewis, who really bloody well ought to know better!!

And on seasonal gripes, the pernicious American habit of leaving milk for FC/Santa - that needs to sod right off back across the pond where it belongs.
In the U.K. 🎅🏻 expects a warming tot of something - who on earth wants cold milk on a midwinter night??

Even our milkman’s company is at it - offering a ‘keepsake’ bottle saying ‘Milk for Santa’! 😫. I fervently hope they’ll be left with masses of the wretched things unsold!

Absolutely! Milk and cookies? Nope. Sherry or whiskey and a mince pie please.

@ismu I'm sorry if my response came across as that...No sarcasm from me at all! The bus service around here is DIRE! ...I've literally lost 2 jobs from being constantly late no matter how early I'm stood at the bus stop in pissing down rain. I even downloaded the app to track the buses. Well fuck knows what it was tracking as I've watched 3 'ghost buses' go by that I couldn't bloody see! I can see why the bus that finally turns up is ram-packed! I suppose I miss the days of an empty bus where a weirdo sits next to me😂

Winter
Being cold
Misplaced apostrophes
Mouth noises

Food couriers who think they can park anywhere they want. Causing so many problems.

Food couriers on bikes in city centre have no principles of using cycles.

People who own two or more pit bulls, especially if they are long term unemployed.

Americans who claim they are Irish or Italian or any other of the many nationalities they think they are, here’s the thing, you are AMERICAN! I’m English, my Irish ancestors also left Ireland in the 1860s, but I’m not Irish, I’m English, end of. If you’re parents are from elsewhere, then fine, but if not, you’re not a quarter anything else, your American.

I also don’t care that you have some mangled Italian sounding surname, black hair and eat some bastardised version of spaghetti and have a weird ‘mamma Mia’ New York accent and are a proud Italian family, your still American!!!!!

I also don’t want to hear the inevitable comeback of ‘but America is a melting pot of different nationalities and we look to our heritage for our roots and identity, it brings together families and communities with our different heritages’ UMMMMM, YOU ARE STILL AMERICAN!

People (mostly men) who spread their legs right out on a four person train seat so you can’t sit opposite them comfortably.

people who don’t move down into the middle of the carriage of a packed train.

People who push onto a packed tube.

People who don’t offer a visibly disabled or elderly or pregnant person a seat (I realise a number of people may have a hidden disability and obviously this doesn’t apply to them.)

People at work who demand to book off every half term and Christmas without consulting anyone else.

People who work in environments where home working is acceptable coming into the office with flu like symptoms and coughing all over everyone / going on about how ill they are.

People who sit in groups having loud conversations on the quiet carriages of trains.

People who swear loudly in public places in front of children.

People who spit.

People (obviously without mobility issues) who drive everywhere even if it’s a ten min walk into town.

People who eat smelly food in the cinema and theatre.

Dogs everywhere.

Dog shit everywhere

Families crowded round the luggage carousel at the airport

Jess Glynn's voice

Not having enough money to really live life

Women that bring their partners with them to everything

Yes to this

Americans and Canadian that act more Scottish than actual
Scots. Usually base their perception of reality on that Outlander crap

It really is as simple as “sorry I don’t have time” and walking away immediately before they can respond. It’s not rude. I do it every day at the station.

Bright lights.

Of instead of have.

Cars across my driveway.