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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. Or like the cock bmw driver that drove right up behind me even though I was doing 90mph & then proceeded to undertake, to which I gave him the finger! People who sing the wrong words to songs. Pet hates anyone?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Having to go get milk for work as no other bugger will do it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(Weex! You don't work in my office, do you, Pink?)

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, sadly no, we could moan together!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

People in my office who do not understand the simple principle of cubby hole ettiquette - NEW INVOICES ABOVE THE COLOURED PAPER, PROCESSED INVOICES AND QUERIES BELOW THE COLOURED PAPER, COCKFARMERS!!! Grrrr.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

And slow people. I hate slow people. Especially ones who take up the entire pavement. Ugh.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate dumb people who don't like me. That's all.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Friday, 18 July 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

People who don't like me are right. I hate the dumb people that DO like me. Hah! No wonder I haven't got any friends!

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

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I have far to many Pet Hates than is healthy. Today, it's people who breath too loudly and people who's legs touch yours on the train and even when you move your legs away, they somehow manage to make contact again. Get the fuck off me fucko, why would I want your fat, sweating, nausea-inducing, slack-clad legs resting against mine own when I'm already fighting to deal with the stale odour of this reeking train carriage? Oh, and while you're at it, get a lazer fired up those nostrils pal - it sounds like you've got an edam wedged up there.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a "-ty" missing from the title of this thread.

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."

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a "-ty" missing from the title of this thread.

Speaking of petty...

Or rather, petty-dantic!

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

People speeding up at amber lights instead of slowing down.

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

Hello! magazine.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:07 (twenty-two years ago)

People not wiping the crumbs off the counter after they've cut bread. People accumulating endless dead tea bags IN MY WATER DRINKING GLASS instead of walking the ten feet to throw them in the bin.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a "-ty" missing from the title of this thread.
People who correct my threads! ;-)
People speeding up at amber lights instead of slowing down.
*cries*
People not wiping the crumbs off the counter after they've cut bread.
I was about to post this as I cleared ours off this morning after it had been left last night!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you speed up as the lights change from green to amber Pinkpanther?? For shame!

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

pets

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Err, guilty also Archel. Though in my defence, I'd just like to say this is London I live in OK? Not hitting the Amber at 60 usually means another 20 minutes stuck behind a double-decker and a barrage of piping horns from the near-apoplectic drivers behind you.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

*sobs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I only care about lights at pedestrian crossings you understand.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I really, really hate it when people leave dirty dishes festering in the sink, ESPECIALLY when they haven't even bothered to clear their plate first meaning there's rancid lumps of food floating in the water.

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.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Having to go get milk for work as no other bugger will do it!

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.

― K Chu, Friday, 18 July 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

an oldie but a goodie - people who walk up to ticket barriers then stop before spending five minutes fishing around in their handbag for their ticket and holding everybody up

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I cross two sets of traffic lights on my way to the station every day, and as a pedestrian it's kind of threatening when a car speeds up as you see the lights change, and you're not sure if they're even going to stop if the light goes red... I mean, they're still going to get where they're going faster than me, probably, so would it hurt to show a little consideration and respect for other road users?

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Worse than that, people who, in the middle of rush hour, persist in using ticket machines, despite the fact that there is a queue of people behind them, whilst having NO IDEA HOW TO OPERATE THE THINGS!

I nearly killed someone this morning for that very offence.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

In my defence, if it's a pedestrian crossing with lots of people around I don't speed up, quite the opposite in fact. It's only in high traffic volume areas without pedestrians that I employ this tactic.
But whilst we're on this subject, people who hang about by zebra crossings, but have no intention of crossing once you have stopped for them. gggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Tourists during rush hour, FULLSTOP. In fact, given the neighbourhood I live in, TOURISTS FULLSTOP!!!

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

People who sing the wrong words to songs.

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

― james (james), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also with regard to ticket queues, people who stand at the front of busy station queues saying things like "well, is there any way I can get a return to Gloucestershire from Charing Cross that will take me back via Chipping Sodbury..." while the train you want is arriving in two minutes time.

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

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

people who say "excuse me please" instead of "excuse me"

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

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

People who hide behind the "free speech" libertarian argument aspects of liberal culture without bothering to absorb any of the notions of tolerance or respect or NOT BEING A FLAMING FUCKING SEXIST CUNT from same.

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.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

People who say "excuse me please" very loudly indeed and then push past you in the rudest way possible.

Die.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

quite. some people say "excuse me please" in order to justify their rudeness

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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

You said it was cute!!! ;-)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

people who jump in front of you at the bar - you can tell they've done it on purpose if they refuse to meet your glare

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

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

it doesn't bother me all the time, but...my flatmate has long blonde hair. (i have short brown hair). and i find it EVERYWHERE. on my towel. on my laundry as it comes out of the washing maching. on my floor. how does she have any hair left on her head, when so much of it is on my stuff?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Supermarkets that have special offers on, but then don't put any of the products that are on special offer out, instead put similar products in their place. The result being that you purchase it thinking you are getting a bargain, but then you later discover you are not!!! Bollox to you with your 'non special offer' price on rioja!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Collette, you are HSA and I claim my £5. I don't know if blonde hair falls out more, or if it's just more noticable, or if it's bleach damage or what, but I leave hairballs everywhere and I am contrite. :-(

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I too have suffered my boy raging at me with regards to long blonde hair getting 'EVERYFUCKINGWHERE' but then I got my hair cut! yay me!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

If I got my hair cut, HSA would divorce me.

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

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh, that'll do it!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Being on hold on the GnatWest telephone banking system.
Binmen shouting away down the road at 6.30 in the fucking morning.
The guest-list racket bouncers at The End attempt to perpetrate ("Naah, that's the five-pound list, innit?" "But I just saw you pocket that and the PR would have mentioned a paying list. I'll pay at the TILL, seen?")
The 'Art Appreciation' stance (neck craned, nose in the air, channelling William F. Buckley) some people adapt at art openings.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dear Matt I always yell EXCUSE ME at people when I'm trying to get off the tube then smack into them hard with my bag. People are so dumb and slow about getting out of the way on the tube. I have some kind of Jekyll & Hyde personality thing where the tube is involved. I once smacked into a bloke on the escalator at TCR because I was walking down and his bag was obstructing me by about 3cm. So he hit me with his umbrella and we had a shouted slagging match. Then he caught up with me on the platform and it went on (at this point I realised I quite fancied him but it was too late, I was in full rant mode). I accused him of being a woman beater. oh dear.

― Emma, Friday, 18 July 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma you are a genius.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma - I am in total aggreement with you, I have been known to barge people when a simple 'excuse me' or even 'excuse me please' doesnt seem to work!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Reinforcement of my psychotic tube behaviour is not healthy, please stop!

― Emma, Friday, 18 July 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i have quite a relaxed manner on the tube and in general whenever i go anywhere in london and esp on the tube - i bet people hate me but hey im from the sticks we do things differently, we have country ways

― james (james), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I got ELBOWED IN THE RIBS the other day by a woman in the race for the last tube seat at Tooting Broadway - the madness is spreading.

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

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I never race to the seats on the tube when it's busy. You always have trouble fighting your way to the door at your stop & you always get some stunky dude's ass in your face. Not pleasant!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I also hate it when there are but a few seats left and mad people who for some unidentifiable reason CHOOSE to remain standing get in the way and let other people into the precious seat.

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

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate that kind of horrible tied back scrunched up hairstyle that female townies have. It is vile.

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.)

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Doing other people's jobs whilst they are away & then nobody doing mine when I am not here.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

People who have fish for lunch & proceed to stink the whole place out!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hopin this thread would be about despising gerbils. Cos they fucking suck.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Parents who give their toddlers a seat of their own instead of putting them on their laps. For gods sake the tube is full of sex pests have you no sense of responsibility??

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

HSA's = Scanner. I just mailed him the Robin Aspell/Dobbie the House Elf photos and he was delighted.

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I find the best way of getting people to move out of the way of escalators is to (without looking too obvious) walk up/down the escalator really loudly, i.e. hitting the whole length of your boot hitting the floor.

When they hear the "clonk, clonk, clonk, clonk" sound they immediately know to move without even having to say "excuse me" "excuse me please" or "bugger off you titwank" to the titwankers.

Worse people on the tube are those who hold open closing doors, or worse, those who hold open closing doors that had only recently been reopened because another twat was holding that door open the first time round.

― k chu, Friday, 18 July 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

If I ran the tube/subway, I would electrify the edges of the doors to stop people getting in their way/holding them open/trying to crowd onto already impossibly crowded trains.

Guess it's a good thing Ken Livingston never asked me, eh?

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

People who either don't use turn signals--SOOO fucking lazy--or put them on AS they're turning

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeahm people who don't know how to use a roundabout! Lane discipline people!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

wankers continuosly hooting their car horns late at night or early in the morning [i live near a junction], for anything from 20 seconds to a minute.

I swear sometimes, if could i would - turn into the hulk - drag them out of their cars and throttle their necks, "don't you ever do that again" and slam them back into their cars.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 18 July 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I work in a library = my list of pet hates is longer than the Bible and burns with the heat of a million stars. It starts with all of you bastards who CAN'T TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING CELL PHONE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i wrap my cellphone in a strip of bacon and use it as a bookmark ned while i go for a walk

when i return the bacon will be cooking nicely plus i have not lost my place

win-win!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 18 July 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet the cockfarmers are calling places like Khazakstan and Moldovia and places like that just to make my life hell, too!

― kate (kate), Friday, 18 July 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I slay the Mark S.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

THE DAILY MAIL.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 July 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

The Guardian

Islington

Chewing Gum

People movers

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 July 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is very seinfeldesque.

as a keen cyclist, my biggest pet hate is being cut off by turning cars. grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Friday, 18 July 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Women who drive big 4x4's,like fifty grand's worth of Range Rover,possibly the finest off-roader there is,a beast capable of tackling extreme enviroments the world over.....AND THEN SLOW DOWN FOR SPEED HUMPS!!!

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone who lives in the upper-middle class neighborhood where I work. I have a mathematic theorem that posits that the more expensive your car is, the shittier a driver you are.

― NA the Billion Dollar Hobo (Nick A.), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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

Children in public in general. And their parents if they make no attempt to control the little ankle-biters.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

YES - posh people who take their kids to expensive gastropubs where they're bored shitless, let them run riot and then talk in loud voices about how child-unfriendly London is. ARGH

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

English people are ANGRY!

― Mandee, Friday, 18 July 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate that kind of horrible tied back scrunched up hairstyle that female townies have. It is vile.
Uh, I guess this is me.

As to Pinkpanther's original post, I HATE the whole
*How are you?
*I am fine. How are you?
script. It just isn't natural!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

having to get up in the morning after no sleep, when it's rainy, and there is a foxy and willing boy next to me.

― praying mantis (praying mantis), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

But why would you have to get up after no sleep?

― Mandee, Friday, 18 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Telephones, photographs, a score of academic-related things, stores/restaurants/whatever other consumer type places which are poorly climate-controlled (this is one of the odd things about moving from New Orleans -- you would never find, there, a restaurant where you'd walk in from 90-degree humidity to ... 90-degree humidity. Who wants to eat in that?), electric heat, most colognes.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 18 July 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i've come to realise i have a real prejudice against people who use the keypad when typing in numbers on the keyboard instead of the top row of keys. To me this instantly labels them "computer illiterate" in my head. anyone else have this or am i just very very weird?

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Driving pet-hates, which probably should be a separate thread:

People who cut right-hand turns in front of you as you approach a T intersection, then give you a shitty look for being there on what you foolishly thought was YOUR side of the road.
People (usually male U25, yes Radar they are people too) who turn up their stereos when they pull up next to you, in case your jazz threatens to drown out their heavy metal.
People who hoon down the service lane then demand (with their horn) to be let back in when it runs out.

― Karen, Saturday, 19 July 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

did you mean that the other way around, dog latin?

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, really dog latin. typing in a 10-key formation is so much faster and more pro.

as for me, i hate guys who ask you to smile or why you aren't smiling above all else.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Saturday, 19 July 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I still can't handle the how-are-you thing which is embarrassing as it's the most basic human interaction (after "fuck off"). I always go "yeah alright" or "oh fine" and then there's a horrible pause and I remember that I'm meant to ask how they are too.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 19 July 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i meant what i said, lolita. my reasoning is thus:

- the keyypad is bloody miles away. it's faster to use the top row.
- the keypad can sometimes be used for things other than typing numbers (pg dn, arrows, shortkey cuts etc). i don't want to be caught up accidentally fucking things up just cos i wanted to type the number "3"
- the top row can be used for symbols, which is ace. why have two sets of number keys when one will do?
- earlier machines (like my beloved bbc micro) never had a keypad and i never missed it. people who use the keypad therefore (in my mind) are simply displaying that they are "new" to computers.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The keypad is good for playing Civilisation though!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Saturday, 19 July 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm only talking about using the keypad to type in numbers, not for other things. if you're using the keypad as a directional pointer, fine - that makes sense.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i have an irrational dislike of people who eat in places that aren't designated for "eating." i'm starting to hate the fact that people feel they HAVE to eat at the movies just because there's a concession stand. really, will you die if you wait two hours?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

also last night on the subway someone was eating french fries and it was stinking up the whole car.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

agreed. especially the cinema thing - i never understood why people are so desperate to spend silly amounts of money on popcorn or noisy packets of sweets to eat during the film. there is no reason why one needs to eat snacks at the cinema and yet people cue in their hordes to spend £6.50 on a medium popcorn and coke "deal".

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I never use the number keypad, but I do see very experienced computer users do it, becauseif you are keying in lots of numbers it is a lot faster.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 July 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

People who swear at bus drivers.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh man. I suppose the tube/subway is almost as bad as the bus (insert sinister suspense chord here). Some irritations:

-There are two sets of doors on the bus - the entry door and, situated about 2/3 of the way back, the exit-only door. When a bus stops and I attempt to get on, there will often be someone who gets up from the back of the bus and walks ALL THE WAY TO THE FRONT and try and push past me when I'm paying my fare. THERE IS A BACK DOOR YOU COCKSNOT.

-The aisles of most buses are fairly narrow. That is why, when I am walking down the aisle of a bus moving at 25 MPH with the numerous jerks and shakes associated with shitty bus transmission, it is probably for the best if you keep your STUPID FAT KNEES OUT OF THE WAY. I don't care of those are brand new Bruno Maglis or Errrr Force Ones, move them or it's STOMPY STOMPY.

-Assbags who bring bottles of pop onto the bus, drink them, finish them AND THEN DROP THE EMPTY BOTTLES ON THE FLOOR. It's like that one Simpsons episode -- "Make way for grapefruit!" (or "go banana!") Then I have to constantly play KICK THE FUCKING BOTTLE, which is like Kick the Can only it's a horrible pain in the ass.

-More the bus company's (or driver's) fault, but on hot skanky humid summer days where the only open seat is at the back and the A/C is not working properly and the exhaust fumes seem to be seeping in and making me nauseous, and I try to open the window, I find that it is LOCKED FUCKING SHUT.

-I am on a crowded bus with few open seats, sitting in a window seat. Someone (usually 220 pounds and carrying a briefcase, large library book and shopping bag) sits next to me in the aisle seat, pinning me in. Several stops later, when numerous window seats have opened up, the person sitting next to me WILL NOT MOVE TO AN OPEN WINDOW SEAT. And they smell like Pall Mall flatulence.

-Person comes onto the bus. They stick in the transfer upside-down. The machine rejects it. They then stick their transfer in backwards. The machine rejects it again. Finally, the bus driver shows them the proper way to insert the transfer into the machine. Meanwhile, there is a line forming behind them. And I can see my connecting bus two blocks in the horizon, about to pull out.

-People who step on the bus JUST TO GRAB A SCHEDULE, then get off.

-My connecting bus is just about to pull out, and I'm running like hell, I pound on the door, the bus driver opens it, and he gives me a shitty look and whines, "I'M RUNNING LATE YOU KNOW". If you were, how come I ALMOST FUCKING MISSED IT?

-Bus drivers who actually close the door before you're finished actually stepping onto the bus. This happened to me once.

Can we start a "buy Nate a '95 Integra fund"?

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

cocksnot!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

busdriving stories... argggghhhhhh.

― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 19 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

cocksnot!

"What De La Soul Is Dead Taught Me, Part 416"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 19 July 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Gross stupidity that gets in my way. For instance, on the tubes when things are busy, and the people waiting to get on make it really hard for anyone to get off. They usually leave space for one person at a time to sidle off. One day this week some large bloke moved into that position, and rather than my usual shoving, I glared at him really close up and said "You really haven't thought this through, have you?" and he still took a second to get out of the way.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 19 July 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

haha martin.

As of late the proliferation of thread titles in all caps really puts my kettle on.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 19 July 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

PUTTING SAM'S KETTLE ON: CLASSIC OR dud?

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 19 July 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate the little musical transitions they use on NPR shows, particular This American Life. First off they use music that is terribly cliché, second the music's relationship to the previous piece is always really maudlin and obvious, like the most bathetic hollywood soundtrack cues. It really takes a huge bite out of my enjoyment of NPR.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

baby-boomer radio annoys the fuck outta me.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 19 July 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Also the conspiratorial murmur some of the T.A.L. correspondents use. Ew.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 19 July 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

haha amateurist, we would have had fun talking at my abortive chicago FAP...you do know I work for an XR T style station? We don't play Shawn Mullins though. ;)

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 19 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

If you think using the keypad rather than the top row for typing numbers is foolish, you've never done alpha-numeric data entry.

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 19 July 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Blokes who stare down your top, all of the time. I am talking guys that I work with who will be discussing work with me & will constantly be looking down my top. I have nice boobs, but still their sole purpose is NOT your amusement!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 July 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

These are perhaps not pet hates but full blown hates:

-People who DO NOT STOP at Zebra crossings. They are miles away, way outside the stopping distance. You set one foot into the crossing, thinking you are safe, and they whisk by you nearly running you down. THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE ARRESTED, LINED UP AGAINST A WALL, AND FORCED TO DODGE BULLETS.

-The stupid fucking idiots at work who CONTINUE to put the invoices in the wrong place. NEW INVOICES ABOUT THE SHEET OF COLOURED PAPER, PROCESSED INVOICES BELOW THE SHEET OF COLOURED PAPER, HOW HARD IS THIS TO UNDERSTAND?!?!?!?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

chicks. dudes. kids. old people.

― dave q, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate I was walking in today and feeling such anti driver hate - they all realise they are in a big metal killing machine and take advantage of this to bully pedestrians 'oh you wanna cross this road? well I'm bigger than you and can do you more damage than you can do to me so fuck off'. BASTARDS.

― Emma, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

black and white photography

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I was watching this program last night about people who shoot burgalars and end up getting sued. I was shouting at the television, I got so cross, screaming "YOU WERE IN HIS FUCKING HOUSE!!! TO *ROB* HIM!!! AND HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED DO KNOW YOU HADN'T COME TO KILL HIM?!?!?" and this morning I had this wonderful fantasy about having a shotgun and shooting out the windows of cars and taxis that plough through zebra crossings without bothering to stop for me, and hey, you know, if a couple of buckshot happen to land in their flesh, WELL THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TRYING TO RUN ME DOWN. Fuckers.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

tottenham hotspur

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

everton

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

People who make facetious fucking football remarks on threads not about football.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:14 (twenty-two years ago)

kate is otm!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the kids in my neighborhood who are off school now and drive around on their mopeds. two kids on each bike, chasing each other around corners and revving their engines outside my window. they just don't look where they're going...in the last three days i've seen them nearly run over an old couple, a man in a wheelchair and me. who is neither an old couple or in a wheelchair.

i'm tempted to carry around a baseball bat and just see if i can knock one of them off, but don't know if i can find a baseball bat around here. would a cricket bat work?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

If they are going fast, any sort of striking object will work to take them off. I think I'll ask my mum to bring me a baseball bat for Xmas. And if any taxis try to run me down at zebra crossings, well, it's not my fault I slipped and smashed their windows. They shouldn't have been trying to run me down. Fuxors.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

the piccadilly line

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

the price of flights to nashville

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

horses (though i'm beginning to soften a little on this one)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hi! I am a driver who wishes to turn right at an intersection! Look how diligent I am at watching the flow of traffic I attempt to merge into, breathlessly awaiting an open space as I stare endlessly to the left! I am so diligent that when that open space arrives, I immediately turn right without bothering to STOP STARING TO THE LEFT AND ACTUALLY LOOK IN THE DIRECTION I AM TURNING, WATCHING FOR ANY PEOPLE IN THE CROSSWALK."

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

For people who like football, teams you hate are about the most obvious pet hate there is! cf. Manchester City.

Specific to today pet hate - when you manage to push something up accidentally under your fingernail and it pulls the nail away from the flesh underneath and it hurts like burglary and every time you use the finger you make it worse.

Nate's hate above confuses me utterly, thanks to our side-of-the-road differences.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

THE GODDAMN MUTHAFUCKING HEAT. AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate people with allergies.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, got another one - singers who mispronounce words or sounds when they sing, viz Cher, Beth Gibbons, and the woman who's just done a fuckin' awful cover of "I drove all night".

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Luvvies: Those phonies that say, "Great to see you! Loved your....":

new book: when it's busy collecting dust under the dog;
new suit: when it's so obvious it isn't Gucci;
new flat: when they can't stand that it's not in the trendy part of town.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Everytime Kate types the letters HSA. Emoticons/Smilies. Any dodgy negligence case. People wearing Nike or just any clothing that has a massive brand name across the chest. Job ads for marketing companies. People who work in customer service who hate it and take it out on the customer. Lose Weight! advertising on the back of toilet doors. Women who complain about the skinnyness of models/actresses. Women who are obsessed with their weight. People who talk about other people's weight. Reggie from Big Brother.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Reggie's alright.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but apart from being straight forward she just doesn't have any substance and she doesn't have a sense of humour; that's another one for the list, people without a sense of humour. Also people who get frustrated really easily.. getting worked up over nothing is just being a dickhead.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

aston villa

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks to those posts, Nellie.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Visible lipliner

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

robbie williams. jockey slut. magazines that won't hire me. decca aitkenhead. flies. wasps. rats. rude people. people who always go by the book. my bank. being called "sir" by people in customer service situations when they're being really obtuse and unhelpful...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Management.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and not forgetting the one abt trying to be friends with women you're in love with... and boring jobs that you're far to clever to be doing...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i could do this all day!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:51 (twenty-two years ago)

People who still think Ian Brown is some sort of absurdly charismatic Messiah figure. STILL!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

the charlatans

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

*sobs*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

wassup?

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the charlatans. I always have since i was 15 & I guess i prolly always will.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Not being able to find the 'rage' thread.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(*whispering* just pretend you hate something gareth really likes)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, I really hate gay p0rn? (Is that ok dave?)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(obv, i really dont care either way!)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Meetings. Especially meetings requested by management so they can sit around and talk about stupid shit that has nothing to do with your job.

I swear to god, is there some sort of management training course called "Having Useless Meetings As A Substitute For Actually Doing Work"? Cause they all believe that because all they do all day is take meetings, that meetings constitute work.

This probably needs its own thread.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

not bein valued enough to even be asked to aforementioned nonsensical meetings...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the complaints under my "attitude problems" was that I did not attend staff meetings. That is because they are a MASSIVE FUCKOFF WASTE OF TIME!!!

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate - u soooo have to get outta that place!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wasting time is good at work - we're here now...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said on the other thread, I am waiting to be sacked so I can claim JSA. But that doesn't make it any less depressing being here, knowing it is a waste of time and knowing that you are about to get the sack.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

go talk to them abt the note they may sack you quicker

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have the note any more. I dumped it on my boss's desk as I swept by with my printouts, saying quite loudly and annoyedly "I think this is YOURS." So he knows I've read it.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on, i've missed something! What note?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The note saying what a crap worker I am, what a crap attitude I have and how they want to sack me. That note.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My god! tell me u took a copy of it??!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd still speak to him if i were you - if you want to get out, then it's worth doing

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The cunt who phoned about 12 times without leaving a message. I do not answer the phone if I don't know who it is, everyone knows that. Reason being I've heard every variation there is on the theme of 'fuck you pay me' and I'm indisposed to hearing any more.

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ants

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

what is JSA?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

People who leave the men's toilet door (RIGHT NEXT TO MY DESK) open so I have to smell the freaking toilet all day long.

WERE YOU PEOPLE BORN IN A FREAKING BARN!??!!?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

JSA = Jowly Sound Artist

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Job Seekers Allowance, you cockfarmers. :-(

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Fortunate souls who do not know what JSA is. Let them be happy in their ignorance.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, i realised just after i pressed submit!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

haha archel, i have claimed it before, i just forgot the acronym

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Incidentally, I think I was conceived in a barn. But I still shut doors.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

posh names for dud food, like cauliflower mornay which i just ate from my works canteen = cauliflower in v pissy cheese sauce. plain old-skool cauliflower cheese made with, like, CHEESE in it is classic, why dick around with it? No pies either...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Litle yappy uncontrollable dogs that attack your ankles and shit in your garden, ex wives and bitchy co-workers.

Kate, you do realise you don't get JSA if you get sacked, don't you?

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

WELL, THEN WHAT THE FUCK IS JSA FOR, THEN?!?!?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this true? Anyone? Because if it is true, I'm walking out this afternoon.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

they will ask why you left your last job. i think it has to be that the job ended. not that you were sacked or left because you didnt like

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't walk out Kate, send your CV to millions of agencies telling them your available immediately...do it now!

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Guys who tuck their shirts or T-shirts into their jeans thinking it marks them as well dressed smart-cas - no, you just look like a prick, fucko.

― Alex K (Alex K), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

In the US, you can't get unemployment if you were fired or if you quit I think. It needs to be a situation where you were layed off due to financial problems with the company or something. My last job, I left at the end of my one-year term (it was a temporary position/ only 1 year terms to avoid giving me any benefits) to move away with my newly-graduated bf. But since I didn't try to stay on another year, it was considered quitting so I couldn't collect unemployment. Plus, I had to go through this really embarassing phone interview with my ex-boss and the agency. Grrr!

There is a lot of rage on this thread. For the record, I use all the number keys on my keyboard - I like to mix it up a little! Sometimes I'll use one pad, and other times I'll head for the top numbers. So, ha!

― Sarah Mclusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The use of 'u' meaning 'you'. This is highly hypocritical of me - I use yr/yer all the time - but it bugs the hell out of me nonetheless.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, all sms/text words= annoying. Kate, you're welcome.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the word 'yer'

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha Sarah is CRAZEE with her mixing it up styles. It seems to me that the number keypad is a more natural, quicker way to enter figures if you use the phone a lot. If you don't use the phone much the top row is probably just as easy.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the extra random energy introduced into communication by mentalist rage at txt spellingz

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i luv em 2, str8 up

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's gotta be the number keypad as i can use that without looking at it. The prob with the phone is that the numbers are the wrong way round. i too like sarah do like to alternate tho!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't find the other SMS words annoying, just 'u'. I am a mentalist.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha I have only JUST noticed that the numbers are the other way round. No wonder I dial so many wrong munbers!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I have only just noticed that I can't type.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ppl (never less than 10 at a time) who start fights using the old 'blocking the sidewalk' ploy

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck happened to 'er'?

shockah
evah

stop. this. usage. now.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The cunt who phoned about 12 times without leaving a message. I do not answer the phone if I don't know who it is, everyone knows that.

I screen my calls too. I hate the phone. People who call me regularly KNOW that if they call me I'm not gonna pick up. But there's this person who always leaves the same goddamn message on my machine: "Pick up the phone." No!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha one of my pet hates is people screening their calls! (But I always leave polite messages, mind.)

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Screening calls is so self-important (unless you have a nuisance caller)

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I just don't like talking on the phone! I'd rather communicate through e-mail, AIM, snail mail, or (best of all possible worlds) face to face.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like the sound of ringing phones either -- they shake me out of whatever headspace I'm in, and being a bit of a spaz I need to concentrate ten times harder than everyone else if I wanna get anything done.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

do you have a phone jbr? if so, why?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I do call people back...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but you must admit it's awkward when you call someone and get their answering machine...when you know there's a 90% chance they're home, standing there listening to whatever you have to say. It's hard to simply say, "Hi, this is _____, call me back" in that circumstance.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

It's especially hard when you've forgotten your own name.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This is not irrational. This is not irrational at all. In fact, this is one of my only hatreds at all.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

'unless you have a nuisance caller'

'nuisance caller' = redundancy

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Do the words "I can't come to the phone right now" mean anything to you?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

There's just something so, I dunno, NEEDY about phone ppl. The ones who leave messages saying "pickup pickup pickup pickup pickup pickup...(sigh)...c'mon, pickup...I know you're there" etc for ten minutes. Like how the fuck do they know? It's 'magical thinking' at its worst, "I want to speak to this person so THEREFORE THEY WILL BE THERE." I just like disabusing people of their stupid solipsism. Then there's the next level of phone idiots, like somebody who calls you from a different location every time because "you don't usually answer when I call, so I thought if another number came up you'd answer then"!!!

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing wrong with screening your calls, though I have found that bagging regular phone for cell phone helped immensely thanks to included-with-package caller ID feature.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There's plenty of times I don't answer my phone because I'm busy or just don't feel like it, but this is not the same thing as waiting until someone begins leaving a message, and then picking up. Neither is a bad thing to do, but they are different.

My phone rings very quietly, so often I simply can't hear it.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate it when the phone rings at work. I have to pick up my bosses line too, so they are connected and they both ring at the same time. Leave me alone! I want to play on ILX!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

But think how good it makes somebody feel when you pick it up in the middle of their message! "Oh it's YOU! Somebody I actually WANT to talk to, not like every other dipshit I know"

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I really hate it when friends and relatives call me at work and expect me to address whatever situation it is they're burdening me with. Particular when they bring something that, for whatever reason, I can't really discuss at work (as I don't have my own office).

I am really abrupt on the phone when this happens, I've probably burned a bridge or two.

(x-post)

Dave Q: You're right about that. It's like, "Yay! I passed!"

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There's plenty of times I don't answer my phone because I'm busy or just don't feel like it, but this is not the same thing as waiting until someone begins leaving a message, and then picking up.

Maybe they just couldn't get to the phone in time? People have a habit of calling at really inconvenient times. And they expect you to pick up by the third ring? Yeah right.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The only thing worse than ppl not leaving messages are individuals who say "Oh, I see you're not answering your phone today, well I'll just come around then". If it was said in a threatening manner then I would understand, but when said in breezy clueless manner, intolerable

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

amateurist, I totally understand. My family calls me all the time at work with huge problems and they just delve right into them. And when I say I really have to work they're like, "Humph! I see... well, then..."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I am always missing phone calls because I am in the middle of doing something else! Washing dishes, drying off from shower, sleeping, etc. So if I picked up mid-stream it might not be because I was screening! In fact, if I was screening, I probably wouldn't pick up at all and just wait ten minutes and call back, pretending I was at grocery store.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, deliberately phoning ppl up at work and when they beg off, adopt either self-righteous or hurt tone and say "Didn't know the job meant so much to you! Hope you get promoted to management soon, Mr Corporate Rat Race Champion" or something, especially if it's a job they really hate (even better, for 'moral' reasons) and they're deep in debt

― dave q, Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR and I are phone twins. I can't stand telephones.

The best thing about my cell phone was the Caller ID, which meant I could give my phone number out (granted, I only gave it to six people, if you count my mother) and still be able to screen without needing to use an answering machine. A few years ago I'd managed to finally get everyone to accept "just because I'm home doesn't mean I'm answering" by pointing out that no matter what time you call me, you are calling me at work. Just because you're home from the office doesn't mean I'm either free or bored.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

(And even if I am, and even if I want to talk to you, that doesn't mean I should.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a friend who does this all the time and I hate it. She knows I can't use the phone at work, so why does she keep calling and act surprised when I say I can't talk? Argh.

― Larcole (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I really can't stand people who leave thinly veiled bitchy messages - ones you know are meant to make you feel dimwitted and that said person is far suprior to you, when in fact all they do is trigger the 'what a self-righteous cunt' button in your brain.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I can;t stand when people do things that *lead* to those messages.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That's true, but very often - at least in my experience - it's not a reaction to something that's happened so much as it is what that person belives to be a pre-emptive strike. Or I just know a lot of crazy people.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, it's difficult to type sideways.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

you might know a lot of crazy people. ditch them and have drinks with me instead.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The abbreviation "yr." And the University of Phoenix.

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 24 July 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a new one. Students who come in to use the PCs and EVERY TIME use MY PERSONAL DESK to rest their bag on while they fish around for their ID card, SHOVING all the displays and my papers and stuff out the way. HOW RUDE!!! Ok this is just one student actually, and ok she has an injured arm, but THERE ARE OTHER PLACES TO LAY DOWN YOUR BURDEN, LADY! I have little enough work space as it is, without it being encroached on by STUDENTS!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 24 July 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

getting my sweater cuffs wet while washing my hands!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

That really is awful! I just did that a bit ago.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

people who make notes on library books... in the books themselves. i am going to stab you fuckers to death with your pens!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

when you have your hand out to accept change at a store or whatever and the clerk puts your change on the counter. that just gets under my skin.
people should have rtheir hands cut off for doing that¡

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

people who stop dead and turn around when walking in front of you on a busy sidewalk. the next person to do this is going to get a face full of me.

― purple patch (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

people who walk down the sidewalk six abreast and make no room for oncoming pedestrians. they make me do what matt dc hates:

People who say "excuse me please" very loudly indeed and then push past you in the rudest way possible

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bandwagon jumping sports fans who couldn't care less until a team starts winning. True fandom is about suffering. (ie Toronto Maple Leafs 1967-present)

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

people who mention the leaf's cup-less streak.

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah Di OTM, I cannae stand slow people who walk somewhere v busy like Swanston street, four abreast, looking up at the buildings, barely moving, whatever, and I'm just TRYING TO GET PAST THEM.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"people who mention the leaf's cup-less streak."

Sorry, but you must hate everyone in Canada then.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Cyclists riding 2 abreast on a busy road. Fuxors!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

people who make notes on library books... in the books themselves. i am going to stab you fuckers to death with your pens!!!

Let us not forget those who leave their sticky notes in the books themselves. DIE AND ROT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

People whose surnames are adjectives (for some reason I'm not bothered by colours).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

bald cunts

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

http://images-partners.google.com/images?q=tbn:sFAnWusqsP_P3M:www.kivana.com/images/Scott.jpg

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Cats.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Clare Balding

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Hang on, what's wrong with having an adjectival surname?!?!?

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

only cats have them

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

And people called Vague.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

haha oh yeah omg mark otm!!

(kiddin_

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:29 (twenty years ago)

c could be adjectival too...

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

cunty

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

i'll say it again, english people are angry!

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

johnny english (english town)
patrick people (people person)
nigel are (are ssse)
paul angry (angry man)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Jeff Twattish

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

i'm trying to think of people on tv with adjectives as surnames

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

johnny rotten

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

actually stage/nicknames shouldn't count

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Chow Yun Fat

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Muriel Grey.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

("chow" is the surname i'm afraid! which is a noun/verb)

(colour doesn't count!)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Colour = Adjective!

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

i know, but from mark's post

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

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Okay. Billy Childish.

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

dude :)

actually stage/nicknames shouldn't count
-- ken c (pykachu10...), March 13th, 2006 4:40 PM. (ken c) (later) (link)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

i really can't think of any

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

i just thought of a HUGE pet peeve of mine.

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

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

life.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

xxpost

John Major!!!

― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Monday, 13 March 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

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

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Friday, 2 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

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).

― aruba (unregistered), Friday, 2 January 2009 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

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

― kate78, Friday, 2 January 2009 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

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.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:11 (seventeen years ago)

ferrets

― contenderizer, Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

grey curbside ice rime

― My new tackling, kidney punching, helmet slapping celebration (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 February 2009 21:51 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

People expecting you to have their work schedules memorized.

― if you don't stan for something, you will fall for anything (roxymuzak), Sunday, 1 March 2009 12:49 (seventeen years ago)

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

― salsa shark, Sunday, 1 March 2009 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

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.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Socks that are too big. These a the WORST.

― caek, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

are

― caek, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

throw them away

― existential eggs (Abbott), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

I bought 12 pairs : (

― caek, Monday, 12 October 2009 19:20 (sixteen years ago)

oh boy, yikes

― existential eggs (Abbott), Monday, 12 October 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:33 (sixteen years ago)

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

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Monday, 12 October 2009 20:37 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

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

― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 12 October 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

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".

― Dan I., Monday, 12 October 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

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

― I got RIPPED in 4 weeks (Z S), Monday, 12 October 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― joygoat, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 03:47 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

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!

― youn, Thursday, 4 February 2010 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

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

― mh, Friday, 5 February 2010 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

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

― mh, Friday, 5 February 2010 01:27 (sixteen years ago)

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?

― Aimless, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:26 (sixteen years ago)

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?

― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Friday, 5 February 2010 05:42 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 5 February 2010 06:26 (sixteen years ago)

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

― sarahel, Friday, 5 February 2010 06:30 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― from peanut to president (get bent), Friday, 5 February 2010 07:30 (sixteen years ago)

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

― youn, Friday, 5 February 2010 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

― youn, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

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.

― We jus' havin' fun, so don't act like you don't want my money, hon (EDB), Sunday, 28 February 2010 22:38 (sixteen years ago)

gentle reminders

― youn, Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:42 (sixteen years ago)

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

― ljubljana, Sunday, 14 March 2010 02:50 (sixteen years ago)

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

― harbl, Sunday, 14 March 2010 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

str8 girls holding hands in da club

― max arrrrrgh, Sunday, 14 March 2010 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

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

― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Friday, 25 June 2010 15:20 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

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

― youn, Thursday, 11 November 2010 03:02 (fifteen years ago)

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

― youn, Thursday, 11 November 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

pictures of 'snowflakes' with 8-way symmetry

― koogs, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 09:30 (fifteen years ago)

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

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 16:13 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

"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.

― youn, Sunday, 6 February 2011 01:43 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Z S, Sunday, 6 February 2011 01:54 (fifteen years ago)

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