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Things you hate.

491 replies

divorcinganabsolutewanker · 05/12/2025 12:16

We've had 2 birthdays in work today and I didn't join in with the singing of happy birthday. I hate it. Have a great day and all that but I don't feel the need to go and join in.

I also hate Christmas, it's a waste of money. Love the time with family but the rest of it can fuck off.

I also hate going for a wee and stopping for diesel.

What do you hate?

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AgentPidge · 06/12/2025 21:20

I'll tell you what else I hate - "celebrity" quiz shows where the celebs turn out to be hopeless, compared with the rest of us. E.g The Wheel, or Richard Osman's House of Games. They are good at what they do - cookery, sport, etc. But they seem to have no general knowledge, and no intelligence. (Not the stand-ups - they're normally brilliant.) This week , a sleb I really like was asked to write down a rodent and she put "robin". Then there was the historian and presenter who couldn't point to Egypt on a map, who said she was based at the British Museum. And then there's celebrity Mastermind with the easy questions... Bah humbug!

Lilacspring · 06/12/2025 21:34

I hate it when i can`t get a tissue out of my pocket fast enough when i have a cold and my right nostril reacts like a sprinkler

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 21:37

So many, oh so many! lots have already been covered and it is great to realise I am not alone. In no particular order I hate:
Going to the doctor, I loathe it and would rather be ill
My neighbours, I hate them so much that I need a word stronger than hate
All things domestic, I have done everything on my own for decades now, and the endless repetitive monotony of it has really been grinding me down lately
Washing and blow drying my hair
Christmas, well some years I hate it, other years have been ok
Doing my nails, they grow so fast, I have to file them down every 5 days so it seems that as soon as I have done them they need doing again but that is the way I feel about cooking, food shopping and housework too.

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Dymaxion · 06/12/2025 21:42

Noisy eaters ( includes finger lickers , tea slurpers and yoghurt scrapers ) you make me want to hurt you as much as you hurt me !

Secret Santa. I don't know why I bother, every year I make sure the recipient gets something they love, whilst I invariably end up with utter shite ! My own fault for being optimistic Grin
DH's ability to never do anything he doesn't want to do, his ability to criticise everyone else whilst simultaneously not doing an ounce of adulting, means that I spend as little time possible in his company, whilst also doing all the adulting 😡Again my fault for being far too optimistic , believing that one day he will do something, anything, vaguely useful.

Being menopausal, I spend a good deal of time hating myself, for being such a pushover, for caring too much about everyone else and generally being a bit rubbish in the parenting stakes.

B33cka8 · 06/12/2025 21:52

Runners and cyclists who run or ride up from behind with no bell, no noise.

Happens every day, just completely oblivious of how annoying it is. One, startling the dog, but also..if you're a man running in the dark GIVE ME SOME SPACE why are you running within two feet of me from behind?! Drives me mad peoples lack of self awareness.
Actually add to that, people who have their dogs off the lead.
People who don't tell their little dogs off for barking excessively (they'd be horrified if a big dog acted that way).

spicycats · 06/12/2025 21:56

Flossing. Every day FOREVER.

Yoghurt pot scrapers

Yoghurt lid lickers

Crumbs in the butter

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 21:56

apokeyweeplace · 06/12/2025 04:08

Apps. Aargh Apps.
An App for this and an App for that.
The endless complication of modern life.
Nothing is simple.
Want to renew this or change provider on that? Here's a hundred hoops to jump through.
And if you want to speak to a real person - good luck in:
A) finding a contact number (no I don't want a virtual assistant)
B) navigating the menu and sub menus to achieve speaking to a real person
C) holding nerve long enough to get to speaking to a real person
D) and then the bloody real person can't help you at the end of at all
Aargh

Oh yes, yes, no longer can I just go to my local swimming pool like I used to do the olden days, pay my money go in and have a swim, you have to have an app and book in advance.
The council now have a bot answering the phone who makes me feel murderous, i no longer bother ringing them , it is pointless as the bot does not understand me, I have a clear voice and no real accent,God help anyone who has an acccent or for whom English is not their first language.

My GP sent me a text to book a blood test as they no longer do them at the health centre you have to go book online and go to a special place in the city, the link to the booking service did not work. In the olden days you just trotted upstairs to the phelbotomy room with your test form, took a number and waited . It was a bit of a wait but under the new arrangement it has taken me 2 days to get though to get an appointment and I will have to pencil out an afternoon to allow for travel there and back for a 5 min procedure. How is this progress?

SpringIsCome · 06/12/2025 22:02

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RunningNananananananananana · 06/12/2025 22:03

People who use Facebook as Google

People who go to gigs and talk through the whole thing. 😡

SurvivalInstinctsOfABakedPotato · 06/12/2025 22:04

Opening the new milk. It's that little foil bit under the screw lid

I will actually drink black tea rather than be the one to have to open and pull it off despite it taking about 6 seconds in total!

cherrycherryblossom · 06/12/2025 22:09

coronafiona · 05/12/2025 12:18

Emptying the dishwasher. Cleaning the pets out. Food shopping. Having to be in charge of dinner every day. Washing my hair.
apart from that life is great! Grin

Why is emptying the dishwasher so much worse than loading it up!

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 22:13

I have been known to try and get the foil part off a bottle of milk with my teeth ( out of desperation) or scissors , although that doesn’t make a clean take off.
If you pull it back , you end up with a dribble of milk on the counter.

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 22:14

The bins, the fucking bloody bins, I live alone so always have to do the bins and I HATE it. Luckily I don't produce much rubbish and it takes me a few weeks to fill my half-size green and recycling bin but I still get in a rage when I do have to put them out. And hardly any fucker on my street puts their bin away so we have about 60 bins blocking the narrow pavement, it looks hideous and worse than the way they look is how they get in the way of buggies and disabled people. Council could fine people but they do nothing. And while I am on the topic of things blocking the pavement I hate those lime bikes and escooters, nothing wrong with them but it is the people who dump them everywhere and ride them on the pavement that I hate.

the80sweregreat · 06/12/2025 22:14

Emptying a dishwasher or hanging up the wet washing on the line or on the airer is a chore.
Especially when you have done it for decades.

Fountofwisdom · 06/12/2025 22:17

Dogs.
Cats.
All humans who think dogs & cats are equal to humans.

lifeonmars100 · 06/12/2025 22:18

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I think you have read my mind!

SharonBe · 06/12/2025 22:19

HalfWayAroundTheLoop · 05/12/2025 12:21

Fucking everyone 😃

Then maybe don't! I'm sure a simple, "Hello" would suffice in many cases. Sorry, I couldn't resist but I do feel your pain.

JWhipple · 06/12/2025 22:23

Men at the swimming pool who assume "fast lane" is a synonym for "all men to swim here regardless of ability"

Snugglemonkey · 06/12/2025 22:27

JudgeBread · 05/12/2025 12:17

People who congregate in shop doorways or the middle of shop aisles to have a chat.

Fuck off out the way you weapons, go to a cafe or something to have a catch up, not the middle of the fecking veg aisle.

You are so right!

FlippyFlappyFloppy · 06/12/2025 22:32

Dog and the dog bores that own them. I'd let genuine working dogs exist, but the rest should not be in the planet.

Katemax82 · 06/12/2025 22:40

Mum23plusC · 06/12/2025 18:51

The way my husband stores fucking shower gel upside down...and I dont mean to get the last dregs out (I'm all for that), I mean he does it when the fucking things full!! His trend of doing it has now started in the fridge - sauces and such. Here's the thing though - the fucking ketchup that has the lid at the bottom, he turns the other way round. I mean WTAF?!!!

Omg my husband does the same with lid bottomed bottles!!!! I've had a go at him so many times about it I'm sure he does it out of spite now, surely he can't be that bloody thick

Katemax82 · 06/12/2025 22:52

JWhipple · 06/12/2025 22:23

Men at the swimming pool who assume "fast lane" is a synonym for "all men to swim here regardless of ability"

That made me laugh so much!

fswell · 06/12/2025 23:10

Putting clean sheets on the bed. I’m quite short which makes it even harder.

Imanautumn · 06/12/2025 23:22

Muffsies · 06/12/2025 14:10

That doesn't stop some people trying, I gave it a damn good go back in the day.

🤣🤣🤣

MyRubyFox · 06/12/2025 23:26

In the summer, elderly men who think its acceptable, or even that they look good going out with their top half exposed. Uggghhh, please dont expose me to the sight of your tobacco coloured, leathery old body! Keep it under wraps (for your other half).