Pet hates

Right, I really do have to do some work now.

I do not like it when one person in my office tries to unilaterally shift to some kind of round-buying system for drinks, and offers to buy me a drink several times, which I always refuse because the stuff our drinks machine produces is poisonous, and then later says "Tom you never buy the drinks."

Speaking of petty...

Or rather, petty-dantic!

People leaving cupboards and drawers open when it takes 1 second of your precious time to close them.

Hello! magazine.

I have no problem whatsoever with people not doing the washing up, but leave it on the fucking side rather than minging up the sink so that whoever does get round to washing up has to manually remove the slurry first.

we could moan together!!

People in my office who do not understand the simple principle of cubby hole ettiquette

Are we back on the sexual innuendo thread?

And it's true!! When driving in london not speeding up at amber light means your car gets rammed by the everpresent BMW nobend/Escort XR3-i boyracer retard that is tailgating you at the time.

I don't know what my pet hates it's always so quiet. Oh, it's dead.

I nearly killed someone this morning for that very offence.

bbbut i do this all the time - you said it was cute

FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF! FUCK OFF!

it's a polite term ALREADY dammit and now you're making me look like a cunt because I prefer to say the latter and nowadays people glare at me for not saying please

cunts

This seems to me the equivalent of those "devout Catholics" who refuse to condone birth control or abortion while failing to notice that pre-marital sex is also verboten within the Church.

Die.

You said it was cute!!! ;-)

add to this bar staff who don't know who to serve next

(Though this doesn't stop him from getting haircuts when I threaten him with being chucked.)

Children on the tube I hate too - can't they just build a catapult between stations or something?

This is approximately 500 times more annoying when I am hungover.

I also despise these endless series you get on late night TV about people clubbing/going on the piss.

Another thing: the fact that virtually all magazines now are fucking shit and there's nothing interesting to read anymore, apart from The Wire and perhaps Word. When I was younger I would always look forward to a new ish of Your Sinclair or Select or something - now I walk into a newsagent and it's just this endless sea of dead-eyed blondes in bikinis and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. (BTW, Karen O looks a lot better without any makeup, doesn't she? Quite cuddly, in fact.)

(for some reason I'm not bothered by colours).

when i am clearly sick (coughing up a lung, sniffling, red eyes) and some smug co-worker goes, "better drink some emer-gen'c" - like vitamin C is the END ALL CURE TO A NASTY COLD.

GO AWAY

John Major!!!

Right now I've got hate-on grande for sites with white text on a black background.

I hate people who get their relationship advice straight from the Old Testament. I hate just about every word in this guy's blog (white text on a military background...aaaaghhhhh).

I thought that this was going to be a thread about things our animals hate. Like fireworks, the vacuum cleaner, garbage trucks...

I hate those ostensible soap dispensers in public restrooms that vend a tiny glob of foam.

I also hate when the women's room, in a public building, is nowhere near the men's room at all and is impossible to find.

ferrets

grey curbside ice rime

People expecting you to have their work schedules memorized.

When people refer to the United States as 'America'.

House music is playing in a club, everyone is dancing and having a good time, and then some ASSHOLE starts up that horrible fucking falsetto "woop woop" chant (you know, on the 1 and 2 of each measure), and it spreads through the crowd, completely ruining the vibe and making you hate everyone in the room.

Socks that are too big. These a the WORST.

are

throw them away

I bought 12 pairs : (

oh boy, yikes

The whole 'excuse me' phenomenon. As far as I'm concerned, 'excuse me' is used in sitations to replace 'it's awfully crowded, can I please get through'. Or 'um you're in the way'. But there are SO many people at my supermarket that use it as this bizarre sort of siren, like 'I'm passing by here, just thought you should know. I mean, they are on the other side of these hugely wide aisles, literally meters away from me, and they murmur 'excuse me' as they're passing. Like I'm going to start spinning wildly out of control and crash into them all of a sudden? It feels like attention seeking from these people. We would do just as well if you passed by silently becuase we CAN share the aisle. It's okay. Maybe they're passively-agressively annoyed that they're not the only one in the aisle. I don't know but GAH!!! It happens to me ALL the time. I don't take up that much room, or at least I don't think I do. It irritates the HELL out of me.

are you looking at products that are on "their" side of the aisle?

No, that's the thing. 'Excuse me' is acceptable then. These people are literally just passing by, on their way to a row of products further down, or even just moving through the aisle and not stopping at all.

maybe I need to move to a new non-weirdo supermarket.

Just because so many jerks have co-opted "excuse me" to mean "GTFO of my way" doesn't mean that it has lost its actual meaning, "I apologize for being in your way, or slightly inconveniencing you in some way".

My pet hate still remains TRYING TO PICK UP WET NOODLES OFF THE FLOOR. GOD DAMMIT

People who appear to be fully able-bodied taking the elevator for one floor, particularly in my building when they have to walk past the stairs down a long hallway to get there and again down a long hallway to get back to the exit.

guys (20ish males) who cannot stop texting or playing with their devices in elevators and while walking as evidence of their extreme popularity or preoccupation - please, be still!

I do this during large meetings where I am the most-questioned guy. Sorry, youn

I think I was actually making comments about the attractiveness of a new coworker to a friend via IM, fwiw

People, people, people! By reviving this thread we make a hollow mockery of this board and its name. Have we no shame? At long last, gentlemen, have we no shame?

Don't you hate people that use your name on the telephone when they don't even know & ask how you are when they really don't care.

i thought this was just plain politeness

guys (20ish males) who cannot stop texting or playing with their devices in elevators and while walking as evidence of their extreme popularity or preoccupation - please, be still!

does anyone actually use a cellphone to look popular anymore?

teeth-sucking. has to be the most disgusting noise around, short of eating with your mouth open.

also, and I know I'm probably on my own but ugh: sunflower seeds!
actually not the entire snack, but more specifically people who can't eat them in the privacy of their own home. a girl across from my cubicle eats them loudly and I just can't stand the sucking, spitting, and general mess involved. maybe she's my pet hate, not sunflower seeds. I shouldn't hate on sunflowers.

the spitting and general mess of public sunflower seed eating bugs me too.

does anyone actually use a cellphone to look popular anymore?

i don't, but i use my phone as a prop to deflect the attention of weirdos.

To be more precise, I meant loosely connected or a celebrant of weak ties.

the arrogance and obtuseness of programmers who think the whole world revolves the elegance of their programs when their programs can only account for a speck, a mote of the world and who treat suggestions from women as the ultimate insult

Does anyone else find it really irksome whensomeone recommends something by saying "you really should read it", or something to that effect. It's not so much the expectation that people should act as to universalize your particular and tastes and personal interests, but its the assertion that they should, that it's an imperative that is really annoying.

gentle reminders

Yep, EDB, I immediately take that personally and assume they mean that I'm a shallow and uneducated person - or, at work, unprofessional.

i don't like when restaurants have "kitchen" in the name

str8 girls holding hands in da club

When people tell a really depressed person to just go out & get more exercise.

People who say 'sexy' to refer to things that are not sexy. Let them all be stuck in purgatory.

I do not hate gentle reminders, only the phrase 'gentle reminders.'

pictures of 'snowflakes' with 8-way symmetry

When people tell a really depressed person to just go out & get more exercise.

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Friday, June 25, 2010 3:20 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark

"collaborating" on writing projects with women who won't agree to write any sections or contribute any original content but insist on commenting at the end and get upset when their changes aren't included; women seem especially guilty of this in the way my brother observed that they seem to not be able to get out of meetings without saying something even if it is only to repeat what someone else has said; I am incredibly guilty of gender stereotypes on this, verging on misogyny; I know one man like this.

I get at least one email a day at work from someone who addresses me with my last name, because our email format goes lastname.firstname@whatevvv. even after writing back and signing

Thanks,
ZACH

it goes on and on and on. sometimes even after correcting the person during a conversation.

also, TRYING TO PICK UP WET NOODLES OFF THE FLOOR. GOD DAMMIT