Pet hate thread

[preiffer]

1. Pete saying "it's on the v-flyer homepage Paul" every now and then. [:w]

[ChuckC]

1. Government intrusion into private lives
2. Imitation flavo(u)ring and other
3. Intolerance
4. "Sale" prices
5. Indifferent service
6. People who say "Have a nice day" and don't mean it
7. Anything bigger than it needs to be (a very long list!)
8. Crowds other than in the ballpark or at a concert
9. Sweet tea, apparently a Southern specialty
10. Irresponsibility

I feel better already. Thank you, doctor.

Chuck-

1. Korean lifts Ð They move so slowly and have the most illogical control logic IÕve ever seen.
2. Korean Escalators Ð They move so slowly.
3. People who stop at the tops/bottoms of escalators with a blank expression on their face looking for the direction they need to go and wondering why the are being pushed over by the hoards of people still coming up the escalator.
4. People dawdling along in a crowded shopping centre when IÕm in a hurry.
5. People pushing past you in hurry in a crowded shopping centre when I am window shopping
6. Korean buses/taxis motorbikes Ð they have zero respect for pavements and traffic rules.
7. Seoul Public Transport system Ð It shuts down too early at night leaving us at mercy of the maniac taxi drivers.
8. Company IT security policy which means I need to change my password every 90 days and canÕt use one of the previous 15 choices.
9. Memorable information.
10. Different websites having different rules for length of password and combinations of numbers/letters.
11. ÒWebsenseÓ
12. Political Correctness
13. People with no situational awareness in just about all everyday situations Ð eg. People at the Ticket Booth/Bank Teller window/ATM/any front of queue and finished what you are doing situation, who hold the rest of us up while they faff about putting stuff in their handbag/wallet/rucksack.
14. Poor lane discipline/daydreamers on the Motorway
15. What British culture is becoming.
16. Political Leaders.
17. Religious Leaders.
18. The inconvenience = Security theory
19. ÒBadge BrandingÓ Ð Since when did Porsche make suitcases, Armani make watches or Victorinox make USB flash drives?
20. People who think that Brands are still exclusive, when they have a shop on every highstreet/shopping mall in the world!
21. Decidedly unhealthy look people swilling beer and smoking whilst wearing sporty clothes or football shirts.(enough about the England football team!)
22. Manufactured music ÒstarsÓ Ð except maybe the Monkeys!
23. Finding that I agree with GJ about the Beckhams Ð Fair play to them, fame fortune and no preaching to the rest of us!
24. People who generalize (myself included in this!)
25. Dubya, for proclaiming that America reserves the right to do what the hell they like in space in the name of national security, then condemning China for testing a satellite killing missileÉ. PotÉ Kettle?
26. Albert Einstein for telling us we couldnÕt travel faster than light Ð sorry just watched all four seasons of Star Trek Enterprise since christmas!

I could go on, but I wouldnÕt want anyone to think IÕm a miserable g1t!

Ooh, good one, where to start???

Those bloody invalid scooters that run riot and almost run you over on the pavement.

Heelers - if I see one mor kid walking along and then assuming the one foot in front of the other glide, I'll scream.

Political correctness (not much correct about it).

Spiralling taxes, especially those lies made in the name of being green.

Government interference in general - I'm a grown-up and, oddly enough, do know a little about what are 'good' and 'bad' foods.

The misuse of the comma, and poor grammar generally.

Football speak - 'the boys done good', we gave 110% (impossible, you can't give more than 100%), 'at the end of the day...'

Reality tv.

Customer service call centres in India.

The state of the NHS.


Am sure there are many more, but at this time of day, all my mind can scramble up!

[Neil]

How interesting, between us all we probably hate nearly everything on the planet (expect VS that is!) and isn't it strange how something so stupid as Ketchup can really get our goats, nowt so queer as folk;)

[Decker]

1) Toronto (the water is polluted and the mayor is a dork, they dress real bad and they think they're New York - Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie) (Not really but the song really amuses me)
2) People in supermarket queues who suddenly realise the food ISN'T free when the cashier tells them how much it will be.
3) Most cyclists. I'm sorry the Highway Code applies to you too and if you don't think it should then I don't think I should be forbidden from running you over. Lights are for your good too. Both the ones on bikes AND the Red/Amber/Green ones.
4) Motorists who because they are too lazy to read Bus Lane signs correctly behave aggressively when you sail past them on the inside despite the Highway Code's explicit permission for different speeds on adjacent lanes.
5) Motorists who "accidentally" don't see the lane markings on the lane with the massive tailback and try and join at the front.
6) Motorists who can't read "Oncoming traffic has priority" signs


Interesting - most of my hates are vehicle related.

Ahh some more

1) People who smack children - It's NEVER warrented
2) George Dubya - Why put a moron in charge?
3) Mrs Thatcher - Sorry but I carry a grudge
4) Kiwi Fruit - Beautiful to look at but taste awful
5) AMEX - Least user friendly CC in the world
6) Liverpool FC - Just can't forgive them for last year
7) On-line casino pop-up adverts
8) The M1 London to Luton stretch
9) People who work in marketing - Completely mad, all of them
10) The phrase 'at the end of the day'

Edited to add these two:
11) The Governments obsession with bringing in ID cards - I already have plenty of ID and don't need to pay £80 + for anymore

12) People who stand up for hunting - It's a bloodsport and nothing less, go find something more constructive to do

Jon B

Okay my turn:

1.People who stand RIGHT behind you at cash point machines & at tills(that really peeves me off, cant i get a bit of privacy?)

2.A particular BMW driver who drives too fast in a 30 zone who keeps cutting me up every morning (one day i shall have my revenge)

3.Jack McConnell (after confessing that indeed at Holyrood they do have a smoking room because ministers shouldnt stand outside to have a ciggie, even though smoking is banned in public places in Scotland.What are we,Peasants?)

4.Celtic

5.SFA (Particularly David Taylor)

6.People who park in parent & child / disabled spaces and walk out of the car with no child / no disabled badge on car.

7.Bitchy girls

8.Neighbours who park in front of my driveway so i cant drive into my own drive!

9.Refuse Collectors - When i leave my wheelie bin at end of my drive i come home to find they stupidly leave it in the middle of my drive so i have to get out of the car to move it!Thick or what?

10.Glasgow City Council - Yes to immigrants getting a house right away with full mod cons but sod you lot who have been on a council list for years.And thats only the beginning......

Originally posted by PVGSLF

I could go on, but I wouldnÕt want anyone to think IÕm a miserable g1t!

As if....!!!![:w]

OK - here's my contribution:

1. Sky TV "customer" service and dodgy technology
2. Drivers who don't know when or how to merge
3. White van man
4. Boy racers in Vauxhall Nova's, Ford Ka's or similar
5. Combats on the over 40's (apart from a very few who can get away with this)
6. The self-important
7. Lap Dogs
8. Owners of lap dogs
9. Smokers
10. Intolerance (except for the items on my list:D)

Regards

Pat

Well most of mine are sports related, does that mean I'm more or less shallow than most?

1) The Haka
2) Haka apologists that arrogantly demand it take precedence over the host nations anthem no matter where the All Blacks might actually be playing. 25 years ago their own team wanted to stop doing the jig as they found it embarrassing. However today we are all supposed to stand in silent awe of the spectacle with our hands on our hearts thanking the good lord for the gift of sight.
2) Kiwi sports fans...yep all of them. The word 'SPORTSMANSHIP' doesn't exist in a New Zealand dictionary.
3) Peter Stringer (Ireland Rugby International and Mouthy Git of the year 01-07)
4) The WRU for so many things.
5) People that look backwards over both shoulders before telling a joke, chances are it is either Sexist, Racist or Homophobic and decent people don't want to hear it anyway.
6) Caribbean drivers that need to learn to corner without bringing themselves directly in line with the oncoming lane.
7) Caribbean politicians, thieves to a man.
8) People that say 'Fank you' or 'somethinK'
9) Gherkins (Pickles to our American cousins).
10) Spyware companies, a pox on you I say.

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes

Originally posted by VS075
8. Man Utd FC

Well 9 out of 10 isn't really bad at all...

GJ

Forgot to mention the list was in no particular order. But if I had to do a top ten list of footy teams (soccer to our US members) I hate with 1 being the worst then Man Utd will be 1.

*Prepares to be assaulted by MarkJ*

Originally posted by DragonLady

Originally posted by honey lamb
I note BMW drivers are coming into a great deal of opprobrium. Would someone care to educate me as to why?

Quite often they're ignorant arrogant oafs who believe that they have superiority over other road users and hence drive in an aggressive and irresponsible fashion. A generalisation I know HL,(sorry Mark) but more often than not it's the BM driver who slews across three carriageways to come off at a motorway exit (nearly causing a major pile up in their wake)or forces themselves into a gap that that isn't there,or drives down the hard shoulder because they're too important to queue legitimately in a traffic jam .Generally loathed by other drivers (with the de-badged 3 series increasingly being driven by baseball cap wearing morons who have sub-woofers booming music at several hundred decibels )and the major reason Mr DL sold his 5 series and bought something else.There -rant over.

I salute you [y] Couldn't have put it better myself.

I'm a learner driver at the moment (stay away from Wigan for the next two months at least people) and I was in Horwich just before Xmas at a rroundabout. I was signalling to move left on the roundabout to take the next exit and started to move over. Suddenly this ignorant oaf in a BMW 3-series cut me up and clipped the kerb and bombed down the road I was going to take. Fortunately I didn't suffer from any damage but it seems that BMW drivers don't even give one about learners. C'mon we were ALL learners at one point!

Shame really because I like the 3-series coupe and the 6-series, but unfortunately its the drivers that put me off [:$]

Originally posted by VS075
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Forgot to mention the list was in no particular order. But if I had to do a top ten list of footy teams (soccer to our US members) I hate with 1 being the worst then Man Utd will be 1.

*Prepares to be assaulted by MarkJ*

Not at all!!!:D

Football is a bit like music or food - you like what you like and it doesnt matter what anybody else says!! And what a poorer place the world woud;l be if we all liked the same things!

So no slap required!![:w]

We have a BMW, although not a 3-series. [:I]

My friend's mum was looking at buying the 6 series, but then they realised it couldn't fit their skis in so they had to get a Range Rover[ii]

VS.

Well I have a BMW too and - with thanks to Dragonlady for the comments- I hope I dont do any of the things she mentioned - however - if I have one bugbear when driving - and I do around 50,000 per annum - its this:

People who drive in the middle lane on the Motorway when the INSIDE LANE IS CLEAR!! ( thats the one on the left for the brain deads who ignore it!!)

Come on - you know who you are - even when the sign above the carriageway says "drive on the left" these IDIOTS continue to drive in the centre lane - Why? where in the Highway Code does it state this? Who has told them to do it? If captial punishment was returned then it should be for these drivers!! A third of our Motorways is not used by these people - maybe if they used the inside lane then the motorways would not be so jammed up!!!

There is no fast lane, no 70MPH lane, no MY lane, no lane for me and not for lorries - there are three lanes - USE THEM ALL PLEASE!!

Move over spankers!!

Rant over - phew!!

Originally posted by MarkJ
Well I have a BMW too and - with thanks to Dragonlady for the comments- I hope I dont do any of the things she mentioned

Sorry MrJ and like i said a generalisation (but I stand by by comment about de-badged 3 series muppets with anti-social noise levels).My mother occasionally commits then most of the heinous crimes you describe (sits in the middle lane for longer than she should) and is often totally oblivious to this fact.I now take command of her vehicle (at her request) whenever we are out together because she and I can't cope with the bullies who harrass her for "only" adhering to legal speed limits and who give her a hard time for driving a "nice " car. Sad eh?

Hmmmmm ...

1. men who pee really loudly
2. people who whistle in public
3. tassled loafers
4. all people under age 18 (do as was done to me, send them away until they grow up)
5. Waitrose parking rules - why should rich london women in chelsea tractors (oh, hate those too) get all the wide spaces then bash dents in the doors of my nice Jaguar with their careless kids when they have nothing to do all day but gab on about how wealthy they are!
6. people who gueue behind you and get really close
7. chewing gum
8. lack of cool air vents on aircraft
9. journalists, the Daily Mail and John Humphreys
10. Jade Goody and every non-celeb with no talent convincing those less bright than me that they're interesting (though I do admire them for getting away with it)

Moi, grumpy, non!

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes

The only thing I cannot understand, frankly, in all of football is how anyone could support the cause of that stench on the Mersey...

Other than that, everything in footy makes sense to me.[}:)]

GJ

Thats a bit harsh GJ!!

Harsh but fair!![y]

( but maybe they can do us a favour today?)

1. The tossers who are governing us.
2. Champagne socialists.
3. Bar staff who pretend not to see you, yes you in the BA T1 F lounge.
4. Global warming bollox.
5. GMTV especially Fiona Phillips.
6. Robert Mugabe.
7. Self important people (particularly in airline lounges).
8. Steve Wright and his sycophantic side kicks.
9. Corked wine
10.GNF/Sleeper service, if I pay £2k for a ticket I want full service.

Originally posted by slinky09
4. all people under age 18 (do as was done to me, send them away until they grow up)

Get out! [:(!] [:p]

Newspapers
People who dawdle in the supermarket
Drivers who indicate right at the roundabout, but go straight ahead
GJ (Joking, its a love hate thing)
lion tamers

Originally posted by slinky09
Hmmmmm ...

1. men who pee really loudly
Moi, grumpy, non!

I would defiantly suggest for them to seek medical advice for this one maybe they are suffering from Urinary tract Infections[:o)]

Mind you there may be another explanation. They are amongst the minority of males who can actually hit the water and not spray the seat, floor and walls[:o)][^]

Originally posted by GrinningJackanapes

Originally posted by slinky09

1. men who pee really loudly

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GJ

Sounds like you know who I mean GJ [:p]

I should have added burping too, riles me rigid it does!

[mitchja]

1. People who walk round supermarkets with a bluetooth headset stuck in their ear
2. VW Golf drivers
3. Amex customer service
4. Barry off the Cillit Bang TV adverts

Regards