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've thought of another one - though loads of people do it. When people are cross with their children and use their full name to tell them off - as in "Benedict Wilkinsop, come here NOW!" Ugggghhh makes me cringe for both the parent and child.

(btw made that name up, apologies if that really is anyone's DS's real name )

Cocopopshater, I've never heard it pronounced rarssberry! Why don't you pronounce the p aswell?
On the same subject, I hate it when people who say tissyou instead of tishoo. And haitch for aitch.

I once went to a woman's house for a coffee and as soon as I saw all her china figurines I knew we wouldn't have anything in common.

I did a lot of soul-searching afterwards. I wondered if I was really that superficial, but yes... I am really am that superficial. But you did ask for irrational reasons and there you go.

We didn't get on anyway.

people who think "natural"="safe, nice and fluffy"

people who are fussy about things like whole roasted garlic cloves and nasturtian flowers, and so leave them reproachfully yet emphatically on the side of their plate (no, we don't hold with putting nasturtians in food round here thank you very much)

"people who are fussy about things like whole roasted garlic cloves and nasturtian flowers"

Err, that must be 75%+ of the population. Tell me that was an ironic post...

Rarz?? Rarss??

What happened to raz-berry?

I think this has moved beyond irrational to plain old crazy in the bean.

Fillyjonk: Thinking less of people "who think "natural"="safe, nice and fluffy"" is not irrational. It drives me loopy too because it's stupid.

CD: Is built in furniture in a study really naff? What if we had it custom-made by a carpenter and then painted it a nice Farrow & Ball "Old Codger Sputum" cream colour? Please? I just can't think of a better way of cramming DH's computer stuff into our study.

I do tend to agree on the china figurines though, LadyM...

People who have lowered flickering eyelids when they speak. I have irrational hatred of that.

Fillyjonk, what do you mean about 'natural' meaning nice safe and fluffy... in what context are you speaking?

People who prefix "liberal" with "bleeding heart" and the like. Being liberal doesn't mean thinking everything is ok fgs.

Um...dunno really. Most things. I guess it annoys me that a. people hear "natural" (wtf does that mean anyway? plastic is natural. Everything in the universe is natural)

"natural" sugar substitutes get my goat. Honey, maple syrup etc are basically sugar. They're very nice and all but they're just as bad for you.

Inadequately tested herbal remedies that must be ok cos they're natural.

That sort of thing.

Oh and then there's the "as nature intended" on food. thing. Yes. Because nature intended wheat to be grown intensively in a monoculture, milled using petrochemically powered machinery, pummelled into dough by a ginomous whisk, cut into happy elf shapes and then shrink wrapped and sold to gullible mums like me to further the capitalist economy. Yes, I'm sure its all part of the master plan.

oh and for the record, roasted garlic and nasturtians are edible and tasty. as nture intended. so there. ner.

Personally I just can't stand it when people can't spell nasturtium

Ah ha OK, FillyJonk. I getcha.

rofl at CD's mention of the elephant scrotum sofas.
My musical loving bil has these as well as constantly using 'yourselves' and ''yourself' for you.

Bless him!!

anything touted as 'designer'- just implies that all other things happened accidentally

Are those designer jeans? no they just happened.

Oh, yes - "designer-led" and "designer inspired" especially in Estate Agents' blurb about new flats - sorry, I mean "luxury apartments"

Because I'm pedantic - spelling - especially the difference between to and too. That sort of thing.

People who feed their baby food straight from the jar. Or, even worse, straight from the tin.
People with blown vinyl wallpaper.
People who give their houses names unnecessarily.
People with reclining sofas and/or armchairs. Especially with electically operated versions thereof.
People who walk around supermarkets in a daze and stop without warning in the middle of an aisle.
Shop assistants who, when giving change, lay any notes out flat on the palm of your hand, with a pile of coins on top.

I fed ds straight from jar, whenever I was delayed somewhere and couldn't get home.

Babyfood in jars, don't object to this in principle - has helped me out on many occasions (see above). Still people who only feed their child pre-prepared food: that bugs me - how hard is it to mash up a boiled vegetable?

Oh phantom, I've glanced through this thread and there's a good handful of things I've done/said/bought/thought.

I comfort myself that these people know they are being irrational and that there is nothing annoying about me whatsoever.

I'm off to finish my nasturtiums now

You could just be using the jar/tin for convenience while travelling, though, with every intention of ditching the leftovers. I wouldn't give dd jars every day (too miserly) but if I do when it's too much hassle to do homemade I certainly wouldn't faff about decanting stuff into itty bowls...

Mine is cannabis leaf jewellery. Not even as if I didn't have a spliff or two in my youth, but somehow it just irritates me with its spurious 'look at me being all rebellious' subtext - come ON, you're 14 & that's the best you can do to wind your parents up?

Oh & Playboy anything. Naff at best, inappropriate on little girls.

Yeah, I'd say "teenagers in general", but would be too rational, I think...

Actually, it's more the fact of not decanting the food that bothers me, although I'm not particularly a fan of jars/tins of baby food.

Have to admit to being an offender on some of the other things mentioned further down .

Oh yes - people who use second class stamps.

why on earth would you bother to take food out of a jar and put in a plate for a baby?

Along the lines of designer things - houses that are "architect designed" - err who designed the rest of them?