What makes you think less of someone in a totally totally irrational way?

[CountessDracula]

Having just watched the end of the Channel 4 best albums of all time, dh and I were discussing how upsetting we find it if someone we love admits to liking U2 and how it devalues them in our eyes TOTALLY irrational I know

So...

I agree with you so much .

If I can do that, with two children making a loud noise in the trolley, then anyone can. And it makes the overall process quicker .

people who have borders in their living room, top half patterned wall paper, bottom half usually stripey

people who put salt on their food without tasting it first

people who use words to describe people like 'coloured' or 'black' or 'asian' or whatever but say it by just mouthing it, not really saying it cos they have no idea if the word is pc or appropriate and they'd hate to offend anyone so mouthing it means they didn't really say it

pmsl at that last one!! Thanks for much needed cheering up.

Wealthy friends who some how end up letting you pay for everything all the time....

People who come to stay with you - empty handed!

People (usually hairdressers) who ask in November "are you all ready for Christmas then?" or make that any time pre-Christmas.

Met a woman the other day and we got on really well, she then said in casual conversation,"I like to keep nice and slim for my husband!" Went off her immediately.

Having a connection to the freemasons would put me off someone every time. Why? Just why? (Apart from the obvious mutual scratching of backs to the detriment of everyone who does not fall into their strange little category). Used to work in an office next door to a 'lodge' BTW. A more self-interested, ignorant bunch of bastards you would never wish to meet.

Had to laugh at the stripy/patterned wallpaper with a border seperating it remark. Just moved into a house with the very same and can't stand it. Worse still, the bottom wallpaper throughout the hall and up the stairs is some kind of shiny blown vinyl that I just know will take me at least three years to strip. Rapidly losing the will to live....sorry for the hijack. (But please don't judge me on my hideous wallpaper - it was only inherited and will be going soon!)

Anybody who asks..Ooh how tall are you then?..I am 6 ft its pretty easy to guess and a I would never dream of saying OOh how short are you then?!

People who dress to match their interior decor: recently househounting, the house in question was decorated beige, brown and turqoise, the seller was wearing... you guessed it. She even had turquoise contact lenses. We didn't buy the house.

Mums who iron jeans, pants and all kids' clothes - what is the point of that? I can only assume they are repressed in some way - cannot imagine how they can being enjoying life to the full.

Mums who follow their children around with wet wipes to wipe their hands, faces, hair - any part of their body that makes contact with, well, anything. Children need SOME germs, how else do they build up immunity?????

Sorry, just thought of another. People who brag that their kids are at 'Uni' (I hate that expression anyway, why oh why have we gone down the Australian route of abbreviating everything?), when actually they are doing 'Media Studies' at a community college three days a week (Just so they don't have to go and get a job yet).

oh yes matching thing really make me wince

3 piece suites (esp those of elephant scrotum in mint persuasion)
Those hideous repro dining tables and chairs with nasty upholstery and repellent sideboards to match
those bedrooms that look like kitchens, you know, built in things
ditto studies

people who give their house a name when there is clearly no need

people who pronounce Schedule - SKedule

People who go abroad on holiday and say " Oh we just love Spain/France/Italy we go there all the time" - No you don't .... you get to your local airport and arrive at your destination in Spain/France/Italy or wherever and venture no further from the resort than an extortionately expensive trip to a BBQ night of Sangria and vomit in the hills that the rep has suckered you in to ... grrr

And at the risk of pissing anyone off - giving surnames as 1st names - "Parker just loves colouring" ... "Really my little MacKenzie likes play - dough"

Association Football - wrong shaped balls - Rugby Union is THE game !!

And .... relax

People who call pushchairs "buggies". And there are a lot of them about. When I was little they were always referred to as pushchairs. Why have they had to change into buggies??? Is it some American influence or what? They are PUSHCHAIRS fgs!

I've always called them pushchairs too. Round here everyone calls them trollies which really bugs me!

"Buggy" is def not an American term. You'd get laughed out of the room if you used it. However, I'm American and use the word buggy just because I've heard it here and assumed it was synonymous with pushchair, and I don't think could ever get out of the habit now. I'd no idea it was declasse or annoying or whatever. In fact I kinda like it!

Trolleys! A trolley is what I put my shopping in...

I've always called them strollers - told recently that a stroller was a buggy where I live (in scotland), so a buggy is a pushchair in England? I don't know, read the steiner thread the other day, think I'll call mine an artefact from now on.

Exactly Bats!!!!!

People who unthinkingly buy their children all the latest gadgets just so they "don't feel left out"

the word "kids" instead of "children"

people who fuss about restaurant menus (genuine allergies aside of course)

lol, I'm italian and thought buggy was another word for pushchair (which is quite difficult to pronounce for an italian) I'd go with artefact from now on too

socks and sandals

people who say Rarz-berry for Rarssberry.

Unforgiveable.

People who are married and "never argue". Do they have ANY personality?