Pet hates?

[Guest]

inconsiderate bastards who block aisles in supermarkets to have a chat or who stand in the way of shelves without thinking.

people who walk slowly in groups across the entire width of the pavement forcing everyone else to pass them by walking on a road with rush hour traffic.

[LonelyPilgrim]

The Swiss do indeed have an army, as just about every citizen has to serve on active duty at some point in their lives. Pretty much the entire population that is fit for service is in the reserve, as well, if I remember correctly.

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Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion. --Giacomo Casanova

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

Over-preciseness (Just kidding, LonelyPilgrim!)

The group of three girls on the library stairwell today who remained spread over the entire stair width despite 3 people, going in opposite directions, trying to get past. Move, Bitch! I even gave the dirty look and they remained oblivious.

Strangers who talk to you at the check-out.

Grumpy shop assistants.

Grumpy serving staff - one bloody smile and I'll tip you well, for F's sake!

People who smoke outside my bedroom window.

People who walk into class late when there is absolutely no decent reason as to why they are so.

Pavement hoggers/slow walkers.

People who walk for longer than 5 mintues on the treadmill without having done even a slight jog.

Blokes who make OTT grunting noises at the gym.

The self-service check-outs at Tesco.

The groundfloor library photocopiers - in how when it's still processing one page, you can't scan another page... even though this is, bizarrely, available on the (presumably) older machines upstairs.

[Jono]

Mediaeval/ high-fantasy films or series’ where most of those cast are American-accented. This goes double if the dialogue involves convoluted phrases like “Hail and well met,” and “Thou art mine only hope!”

Verily, in mine eyes, the actors of the said films are but one step down from porn actors in talent.

[SchizophrenicCabbage]

Ooh, good one.

The presentation of England in (usually) American shows/films as the typical 'merry old England'-Benny Hill type thing where the only accents that exist are RP and Cockney.

People who read over my shoulder.

And, a slightly tenuous one, when you're walking down the street, often with your hands full and suddenly think, 'Shit. Are my flies undone/is my skirt tucked into my knickers/tights?'

[Frank]

Totally or very credulous people.

People who eat loudly with little reasons. (Crisps, okay, I understand it's difficult. A cookie? You have to be kidding me. Why do you need to slurp and chomp when eating a cookie...?!?)

I suspect that I'm guilty of both of the above at various times. I don't think folks should take it from me, and I'd like to not take it from them.

Other stuff, I don't mind as much.

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"There is only ever one truth. Things are always black or white, there's no such thing as a shade of grey. If you think that something is a shade of grey it simply means that you don't fully understand the situation. The truth is narrow and the path of the pursuit of truth is similarly narrow."
Also, some years later:
"here we are arguing about a few uppity troublemakers with a bee in their bonnet and a conspiracy theory."

[do I have a target on me?]

Quoting Schizophreniccabbage from 18:55, 4th May 2008
The group of three girls on the library stairwell today who remained spread over the entire stair width despite 3 people, going in opposite directions, trying to get past. Move, Bitch! I even gave the dirty look and they remained oblivious.

I’m glad someone else has noticed this I thought for a moment that I was just being too sensitive. Why do people not move out of your way around here? The narrow streets of St Andrews need people to be a little more courteous than usual, for instance if you are in a group of three or four and one person is walking towards you, it is common courtesy to move – even slightly- out of their way, not drive them into the gutter! At the weekend I was in Glasgow – not the most salubrious of places- and a six foot nasty looking ned hit me with his shoulder as he passed. Having been in St Andrews a few years I was quite used to this, but this guy actually stopped and apologised! My pet hate is rude obnoxious spoilt little princes and princess who, despite having every opportunity, don’t have the decency to show the slightest bit of consideration to others.

[Nymphomanic]

waking up forty minutes before my alarm is due to go off

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I read most of the night and go south in winter - wasteland

[Starla]

Quoting rob 'f*ck off' wine boy from 18:29, 3rd May 2008
people who don't finish their

But you didn't even mention Candle Jack, so why sh

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"We all live in our Fantasy and only endure our Reality..." - R.A.Wilson

[Senethro]

I don't mind sharing a bed but unfortunately I'm an asshole sleeper. I sleep flat on my back, limbs out to the side, snoring. And in the morning, if you leave too fast, I won't even notice and will have no memory of us arranging to meet later that day.

[beeny]

* People who sniff

* People who eat apples in public/the library/computer labs (just not a social fruit...too crunchy)

* Switzerland and its inhabitants (for many reasons; I'm also glad I'm not the only one )

* Slow walkers

* Madras school children

* People who treat me like an idiot because I waitress/do bar work (owing to my not having a trust fund and thus being otherwise incapable of living here)

* Liars who maliciously use and hurt others

* People who eat everything with ketchup (why bother eating anything other than chips if you're just going to drown it in that vile shite anyway??)

* People who try to order lattes/hot chocolates/any hot beverage in my bar after 9pm. Don't wanna drink? Stay at home near your kettle then. I'm not your gran. Alternatively, Beanscene is open til 11 I believe...

There are actually many, many things I hate but this is the very few I can think of on such a lovely day. Damn sunshine taking away my cynicism and hatred.





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'But what do I know? I'm a bear; I suck the heads off fish.'

[Hennessy]

Sad cases who print out their entire course on the library's printers because academic performance is the only way they will ever feel loved.

[Senethro]

lol u mad

[KerryFlett (forgot to sign in)]

Pet hates:
*People who don't care about others (which makes me angry in many different ways).
*Those times when you state your point of view, with evidence, and people tell you you are categorically wrong without having the courtesy to realise that it's just another way of looking at things...
*Bad/sloppy/insulting journalism, and magazines that use completely normal pictures to try and illustrate their latest lie about a celebrity.
*People who won't move for others/just barge past without apologising/don't say thank you when you hold a door for them...a wee bit of politeness is nice, folks! .
*Short loan.
*Bad spelling/grammar on Facebook. Especially that group which appeals to the Principle of the University...gah!
*The fact my SAAS payment doesn't even cover the cost of living in student accommodation, never mind anything else.
*People who argue fees should go up, not down.
*When money enables you to do things that merit should decide. [waits to be flamed]
*The lack of compassion and social justice in the world really makes me angry!
@Beeny: I hear you on the trust fund thing; I think I'm one of those people who just got lucky as I don't come from an affluent family but don't currently need to work...sorry

[Frank]

*Those times when you state your point of view, with evidence, and people tell you you are categorically wrong without having the courtesy to realise that it's just another way of looking at things...

* When people insist 'oh that's just another opinion' when discussing any sort of credible idea of a shared, vaguely-objective reality. E.g. gravity working isn't 'just an opinion'.
* People who insist on proclaiming they're being victimised/having their opinion crushed despite being demonstrably wrong

Not to say that that's you, but the point did bring to mind another slightly-related pet hate.

[ct3012]

*Trust fund princes/ses who take up the entire cereal/biscuit/dried food aisle in Tesco who ignore my "excuse me"s.
*People who barge round the corner coming up from the library to Market St at the Keys. Again, these tend to be the financially advantaged.
*People who are so stubborn they can never admit that they are wrong (i.e. I have a friend who is both Chinese and the most racist person alive - hating anyone who isn't Chinese or white. When he gets told off for saying something that could get him in serious trouble, he refuses to accept that it's racist).
*People who don't return short loan books.
*The Daily Mail/Express.
*University of Dundee undergrads. (or maybe it's just the people from my school who went there purely because 'its a cool place to go', rather than looking for a uni that might do a better course in their subject)
*People who drive at 40mph, no matter what the speed limit is on the roads between Kirkcaldy and St Andrews.
*First years (and to some extent second years) who moan about workload. I know we've all done it, but I became bitter in my third year.

And currently, being too ill to go out when it's one of the nicest days we'll probably get all year.

[Duggeh]

Positive discrimination.
People who don't stack the dishwasher efficiently.
Girls who picnic and/or chat in the library (and it's always girls).
Indigestion.
Self service checkouts (oh how i do hate those). they could be great, but they're nothign but patronising sluggish fail.
Going for a nap and sleeping for too long.
The ubiquity of "coffee".
Super chilled lager.
The rise of the term "let's be clear" and its varients as the stock phrase #1 for both politicians and reporters. Even John Humphries has succumbed to its insideous pointless fecklessness.
The layout of Word 2007
Facebook groups which are profoundly stupid (I don't mean lulz or pointless, I mean things like "join to stop facebook chargin money" rather than "join if you fart in stereo".
Students who participate in activites like that occupation of college hall debacle.
Unrestrained and improprietous and vulgar behaviour on the part of people who retort to critisism of it by responding with accusations of homophobia or similar.
Torchwood
Anyone who ever appeared on Big Brother after series 1.
When a new ale turns out to be insipid garbage.
The car windscreen being frozen over.
Being conned on ebay or similar.
The Loudness War (google it)
Getting just past halfway to your destination and then remembering what you've forgotten.
Aspartane
Sucrulose
Easter eggs in the shops in January, Christmas stuff in the shops in September, etc.
That you can't buy Lucky Charms here for less than £10 a box.
Aikmans still being closed.
Woolworths dying.
People who walk out in front of my car in St Andrews (I had Prince William do this to me once ffs) and expect me to come to a halt while they don't speed up their slow pace.
Pavement blockers.
Disabled car park spaces being right next to the shop.
Hospital dramas.
BBC3
The awful picture quality on Dave
My Internet download cap.
The end of your pencil falling out or snapping off, right after you've sharpened it perfectly.
Unfairly disproportionate hangovers (2 pints and feel like death).
Recalled books taking until the last possible day to be returned (photocopy the bit you want and hand it in ffs)
The cost of a cup of tea (which is always awful) at coffeeshops.
Turning up for a seminar or tutorial and you're an hour/day/week early.

[wild_quinine]

Positive discrimination.

Yeah. That's a funny one.

Self service checkouts (oh how i do hate those). they could be great, but they're nothign but patronising sluggish fail.

Since the price of the item includes the cost of being served, and there's no discount for serving yourself, I think those machines are pretty much a rip-off.

Here's my list:

Self-referential justification for, and normalisation of, evidently undesirable things. (a.k.a. 'That's just how it is'.)
Hypocrisy. (Except when I do it).
Moral certitude (especially as it applies to philosophically inconsistent viewpoints).
The Socialst Worker's Party (see above).

Oh.. also Digital Rights Management, and the evil forces that drive it.
And people who can't do hypothetical situations.

[kerryflett]

@Duggeh: Wee point; the disabled spaces are right next to the shop door for a reason; it's so people it wheelchairs/with walkers don't have to negotiate the pavement and so that people for whom walking is difficult or painful don't have to do something which hurts or is bl**dy difficult for any longer than they have to. Sorry, but as the twin sister of someone who uses disabled parking spaces for exactly those reasons, that is a pet peeve of mine! As for all the other ones: standard.

[steelegbr]

The self service one is an interesting issue. I do know that there is an "operator mode" on the model Tesco uses. I used it once in when the staff member in Edinburgh supervising self-service couldn't be bothered mucking about. It turns off the weight checks and pointless pauses.

Mind you, I also used to work at the call centre for one of the national supermarkets. Amongst many jobs I did, as well as calling up injured customer to ask how they were, I used to have to pretend I was in the store as the 01/02 numbers now get redirected to the call centre. The only complaints I saw in the computer system surrounding self-service were people being forced to use them at 2am in 24hr stores.

Personally - I find the shorter queues better when I want to just get a couple of items and run out again. Sadly, that plan falls apart in St. Andrews and I end up popping into Nisa with the shorted queues.