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10 January 2006

Ten Things I Hate. →[More:]In no particular order.

1. When the cat begs and begs and begs for food (some of which begging includes shredding the already shredded-to-death furniture) and you feed him and he looks at the bowl and walks away.

2. People who leave their grocery carts in the middle of the aisle.

3. People who leave their kid in the middle of the aisle at the grocery store, but then get mad when you accidentally knock the kid down with your shopping cart.

4. Being sticky.

5. Being lazy but being seemingly unable to unlaze.

6. Being lazy and sticky.

7. When your pocket turns up the volume on your iPod.

8. Washing dishes.

9. Not having washed dishes.

10. When the Dish Network signal disappears while you're in the middle of a good show and by the time you get through to customer service (whose lengthy precorded tech help instructs you on how to use the remote to turn the television on), the show's over.

post by: mudpuppie at: 19:39 | 42 comments

10b. People who talk on their fucking cell phones in public restrooms.

posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 19:43

1. Miscolored sports memorabilia. (pink Yankees hats, etc)
2. Iceberg Lettuce
3. The Cure & The Smiths & Depeche Mode (but you knew that)
4. Wine (except the cheap flavored fortified stuff)
5. People who think dropping the latest hep name makes them cool.
6. nose rings (sorry, any nose ring wearers, but they look like shiny boogers)
7. that stupid bowl-cut haircut George Clooney used to wear
8. the New York Rangers (I was a Whalers fan)
9. know-it-alls and judgemental people
10. Miller High Life

10b. People who talk on their fucking cell phones in public restrooms.

Sometimes they can be amusing. I overheard one dude pissing in my local bar, on his cell yelling at someone to "fire the stupid fuck."

posted by jonmc 10 January | 19:47

1. People who talk on the phone while they drive
2. People who don't talk on the phone while they drive
3. People who drive

Hmmm, I may have found the root of most of my aggravation here.

posted by mr_crash_davis 10 January | 19:50

1. The use of "aggravation" to mean irritation.
I'll get back to you on the other nine.

posted by ooga_booga 10 January | 19:52

In no particular order:

1. Cell phones
2. Seattle drivers
3. Air conditioning
4. Leaf blowers
5. Snowmobiles/personal watercraft
6. The Blue Angels flying over our house during Seafair
7. People who can’t/won’t control their off-leash dogs
8. Rudeness
9. The word “tunafish”. If you say “tuna”, “fish” is implied.
10. Cilantro

posted by bmarkey 10 January | 19:55

4. Misdirected pedantry

aggravation: A source of continuing, increasing irritation or trouble.

posted by mr_crash_davis 10 January | 19:55

1. Long periods of weather without rain.
2. Cold weather. Winter in general, actually.
3. Beer
4. Diet Pepsi
5. Howard Stern
6. Bumper stickers.
7. Metallica (used to just hate Metallica after they quit being a metal band)
8. Starlings
9. The neighbor's blind, deaf dog that comes and shits in my yard and then goes back home.
10. Kylie Minogue.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 10 January | 19:56

1. Onions
2. Food containing onions, especially potato salad.
3. Liars who out themselves by saying "To make a long story short" and don't.
4. Phlegm
5. People who insist that onions are good and that I am an unmitigated rectal itch for knowing otherwise.
6. Country western music written in the 21st century.
7. Onions
8. People who attempt to trick me by secretly stashing onions in food then hoping I eat it.
9. Mullets
10. Onions. Seriously.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 10 January | 19:58

My 10:
1. Employers who post a job description I wrote myself and was fired from over a year ago, with a raise in title and pay.
2. Paying for benefits thru my temp agency that turn out to be lukewarm at best.
3. Begging for work from a dozen agencies.
4. Changing jobs every 2 weeks.
5. Eating over $10,000 a year in income.
6. Hearing how great everyone else's benefits are and how they don't have to pay for anything.
7. Hearing multiple versions of "thanks, but no thanks" from admin assistants who write crappy rejection letters.
8. Temp agency reps who don't submit my paperwork to a company, and then get upset with me when I ask why I wasn't paid.
9. Having to shlep timecards by hand every week downtown, requiring a special trip.
10. Bitching about being unemployed all the time.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 January | 19:59

2. Smartasses who're right.

Still irritates me all to hell, though.

posted by ooga_booga 10 January | 20:15

10 things gaspode hates:

1. People who say "with all due respect..." or "no offense, but..." because they think that absolves them of the incredibly disrespectful or offensive thing they are about to say.

2. People who give their opinions as facts (most commonly seen as "xyz sucks.")

3. My world-class procrastinatory habits

4. The term "southern etiquette", particularly with regard to wedding etiquette. People usually employ this term to pretend self deprecation, but they really mean to imply that they are so much more polite than the other person.

5. People who correct other people's manners (which is the rudest and most ill-mannered thing you can do, imo.)

6. Passive-aggression in all its forms (sometimes guilty of that myself, but try really hard not to be.)

7. American punctuation, particularly the whole full-stop inside brackets thing (in USian: period inside parentheses.)

8. That really high-pitched squeal that small children do.

9. Humidity

10. Dr. Pepper

posted by gaspode 10 January | 20:18

8. People who attempt to trick me by secretly stashing onions in food then hoping I eat it.

Hee! that would totally be me, DFT

posted by gaspode 10 January | 20:19

gaspode, I made burgers the other day stuffed with shredded cheese and diced onions. Snuck them past one kid, the other caught on and spat them out.

It was hilarious.

posted by mr_crash_davis 10 January | 20:28

ThePinkSuperhero hates:

1. Shyness- It frightens me.
2. Showy humility
3. Nosy "peacemakers"
4. Being shushed- Shush me and die.
5. Mushrooms
6. The girl who was talking on the cell phone in the locker room at the gym yesterday, standing right next to one of the 10 million signs that says NO CELL PHONE USE IN THE LOCKER ROOM.
7. People who feel the need to, out of the blue, say they don't like short hair on girls. I didn't ask you, asshole. Didn't your mother teach you it's rude to give people unsolicited negative feedback about their looks? Well IT IS. So fuck off.
8. Dealing with bureaucracy- I haven't had health insurance for almost two months, just because I haven't set up my COBRA. Everytime I call in the insurance company, it takes twenty minutes to bypass the voice mail, and then they're stupid and #@*#&@*#&@! Same with dealing with my huge college when I was a student. Makes me want to scream.
9. Not being able to figure out why my checkbook is unbalanced.
10. Losing things.

(I, too, hate onions, DFT)

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 January | 20:30

10. Being sick for the past week.

09. People who feel the need to be insufferable assholes towards customer service reps, retail employees, etc., and act all superior.

08. World of Warcraft. It's taken over my household for the past year.

07. When people think they have license to say awful, bigoted things under the guise that they are "refreshingly un-PC" or "ironic hipsters."

06. Trying to find an apartment and a car and feeling the deadline creeping closer and wanting to rip my hair out from the pressure.

05. When it gets so hot outside that you want to kill someone and you can't walk to your car without getting drenched in sweat.

04. Ennui.

03. Getting in the car in the morning and nearly having a heart attack upon starting it, because my roommate left his stupid SOAD on full volume.

02. Shaving my legs. It's always a bloodbath.

01. Hurricanes.

posted by SassHat 10 January | 20:32

Hurricanes. Why didn't I think of that? I feel so petty now.

posted by mudpuppie 10 January | 20:45

You know, I think I must have it pretty good.

posted by Wolfdog 10 January | 20:55

1. Loud vehicles, especially monster trucks.
2. Those stupid arch windows and two-story foyers in McMansions. Ugly and wasteful.
3. George W. Bush and the people who love him.
4. The Beach Boys (Yeah. I said it. I HATE THEM.)
5. Tom Cruise and any movie containing Tom Cruise.
6. Driving
7. Snakes
8. Cancer
9. Pants with words on the butt.
10. Vomiting!

posted by jrossi4r 10 January | 21:06

1. the way Craig Ferguson's suit fits him on the People's Choice Awards.

posted by amberglow 10 January | 21:17

1. sasshat's #7. (*stealing shamelessly*)
2. When it's so cold out that your nose runs constantly, but inhaling/sniffling makes the sides of your nostrils freeze to your septum.
3. Students I advise who continue to believe that they're going to get into medical school with their 2.7 GPA and their inability to get above a C+ in their science and math courses. Listen to me, foolish students! I know what I'm talking about here! Give it UP!!
4. The retail clothing market's utter refusal to provide for sale any women's pants with waists that come to the WAIST, instead of the asscrack-zone.
5. Stupid pointy-toed women's shoes.
6. The Social Security Administration's apparent belief that I earned no income during various years in the '80s when I'm pretty damn sure I wasn't beachcombing and living off breadfruit, and their refusal to credit me with any SocSec income for those years, hence increasing the likelihood that I will spend my declining years living under the bridge in a refrigerator carton.
7. The apparent determination of my under-chin regions to develop unsightly bags.
8. Women who monopolize a key machine at the gym, doing 34756 sets of no-weight reps while reading some stupidass fashion magazine. Because god FORBID they do the exercise with actual WEIGHT, causing them to develop OMG MUSCLES!
9. My local grocery store's decision to go from bag-it-yourself to Hey, we'll have a slack-jawed teenager bag it for you!, thereby guaranteeing that half my purchases will be squashed.
10. Did I mention the fact that I cannot buy pants with a waist that comes to the WAIST?? Because my GOD, that torques me.

posted by kat allison 10 January | 21:19

1-10: whingers.

Heh, seriously though, it seems that I, like Wolfdog, have a pretty sweet life.

posted by nomis 10 January | 21:36

#'s 1 through 10: That fucking Crazy Frog.

posted by Jimbob 10 January | 21:47

Hee! that would totally be me, DFT

I guess we know who's bringing the Dr. Pepper souffle to gaspode's house, don't we?

Oh, and TPS, I now officially swoon over the sight of your name, you onion-hater you

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 10 January | 21:47

Woo woo, onion haters unite! My parents always tried to sneak them into foods, but I always caught them!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 January | 21:51

2. People who give their opinions as facts (most commonly seen as "xyz sucks.")

Gee, there's no one here who does that, is there?

posted by matildaben 10 January | 21:59

I love everything.

posted by eamondaly 10 January | 22:15

2. People who give their opinions as facts (most commonly seen as "xyz sucks.")

Gee, there's no one here who does that, is there?

but it's more grating face to face, matildaben.

posted by gaspode 10 January | 22:22

1. My assholish ex-boyfriend who doesn't understand why I get peeved that he feels he is entitled to more than the 40% usage of the car that his 40% share of the car insurance money is buying him.
2. Having to still live with my assholish ex-boyfriend because we live in a pretty damn nice apartment that I don't want to move out of.
3. Things that are bad for you but feel so damn good: smoking, sleeping around, pigging out on my favorite foods.
4. My intermittent DSL connection (work, damn you!).
5. The fact that I can't get a good paying job as an editor in this city, of all places.
6. The supervisor who went home sick today, like she seems to have done last week and every week since she came back to the company.
7. George W. Bush and his cronies.
8. Having to live paycheck to paycheck.
9. Getting to the point to where I hate myself in pictures now.
10. Being too lazy and poor to do anything about it.

posted by TrishaLynn 10 January | 22:41

01. Headaches
02. Diabetes
03. My shyness
04. My lack of self-worth
05. Social conservatives
06. All degrees over 80 Farenheit
07. Grey skies
08. Being (relatively) poor
09. Not having a puppy
10. People who don't pay attention

posted by deborah 10 January | 22:58

1. People who drive while talking on cellphones. If I had a dollar for every time I've had to stand on the brakes, swerve hard enough to stand on two wheels or dive out of a crosswalk to avoid being killed by same, I'd have, um, some dollars.
2. "In any way, shape or form." You might as well just fart loudly in midsentence as use this idiotic, useless phrase. In fact it'd probably sound more intelligent if you did.
3. Leafblowers. I react to the sight of someone using one about the way I would to his burning old tires on the sidewalk and pouring gasoline down the storm drain. If you're too lazy to rake, spend the money to hire some neighborhood kid to do it.
4. Broadcast television.
5. Urban sprawl.
6. Strip malls.
7. Being in a town where there's no place to eat that's not a franchise.
8. What passes for food in your average supermarket.
9. What passes for customer service in your average supermarket, and the deeply miserable faces of the people expected to give it. Makes me want to shoot the CEO and shareholders.
10. People who point out that America has "the best healthcare system in the world" while you're trying to point out to them that at least 50 million Americans have no coverage at all and another 100 million or so have so little that a major illness would wipe them out.

posted by George_Spiggott 10 January | 23:03

Okay, I won't be taking on social ills here, or man's inhumanity to man, etc.; just go ahead and assume I hate all that. This is just the me-centric stuff:

01. Hot weather
02. Dealing with any form of authority or bureaucracy
03. Anything to do with medical doctors *
04. Answering the telephone
05. Compulsory social stuff
06. Blowhards
07. My procrastination
08. Gossip
10. Loud noises

* I don't hate doctors, I hate having to consult with any doctor in his/her professional capacity, for any reason.

posted by taz 10 January | 23:55

10-6 cellphones
5-2 Republicans
1 Republicans on cellphones

posted by trondant 11 January | 00:18

Ten Things I Love:

1. Metachat, Metafilter, and Monkeyfilter.
2. Winking Owl Cabernet at Aldis--$2.49 a bottle!
3. Letterman's Top Ten
4. The word "squalor."
5. Music blogs and my new MP3 player.
6. Road trips and quirky small towns.
7. Reading in the bathtub for hours.
8. Cilantro.
9. Good thrift stores.
10. Samuel Epenow Cebula, age 6.

posted by LarryC 11 January | 00:26

...sorry to derail...

posted by LarryC 11 January | 00:27

In principle cellphones make more sense than landline phones. What blows is the way people use them. If it were illegal to use them while driving and if every decent restaurant, theatre and music venue had a cellphones-off policy on pain of immediate public humiliation, bodily ejection and banning-for-life, I'd have no problem with them at all.

Oh, my point #7 above -- I should have phrased it "Towns where there's no place to eat that's not a franchise." I don't live in such a place but I have to visit them more often than I like.

posted by George_Spiggott 11 January | 00:33

jonmc, when you said "dropping the latest hep name" my first thought was that you were talking about some new scoop on the Hep C virus (since it seems like about half the people I know are on Interferon for it).

(gaspode, I'm with you on the American punctuation thing.)

posted by small_ruminant 11 January | 01:21

No big stuff on here, just those little annoyances that get under my skin and never leave, like those scarab beetles in the mummy. Anyway:

1) Bratz dolls and this whole corporate-created "preteen whore" culture that spawned them.
2-5) Actually, that one deserves the first half of this list, since it's so vile in concept and practice (my six year old next door neighbor now has a pair of pants that have "cutie" written across the ass)

6) People who drive 35 or slower on a 45 mph road, leaving me stuck crawling behind their self-absorbed ass, and making me late for work.
7) People who state their tastes as fact rather than opinion. "Your favorite band sucks" vs. "I don't like your favorite band" This applies to lots of things.
8) Those stupid animated auto insurance commercials with the spy chick. The first one was okay, but each following one got more and more asinine.
9) Those fucking racist psp commercials.
10) Pizza commercials. It used to be just those damn puppet ones, but their all annoying now.

posted by kosher_jenny 11 January | 01:28

ooh, ooh! kosher_jenny's a pair of pants that have "cutie" written across the ass reminded me:

I cannot overstate my hatred of those jeans that are designed to look worn and dirty on the thighs and rear. I find them utterly revolting. (Please don't take this personally, unknown person, if you happen to own a pair! I don't care what people choose to wear; I am just personally ultrasquicked by them.)

posted by taz 11 January | 01:37

taz, there was a time when I had to venture into the men's section of Target in order to get a decent pair of sweats. *shudders*

posted by kosher_jenny 11 January | 02:58

1.My super.
2. The spoiled retail prince in the penthouse over me who created a modernist nightmare in a prewar building.
3.When my right to be left alone isn't respected : harrassers, proselytizers, telephone solicitors....
4. Men who splay their legs into three other seats on the subway.
5. Rap music, though I like the blues, reggae, the apartheid-era cheery bloodthirsty South African songs...
6. Being fat.
7.The belief that having dangly bits makes one better than those who don't.
8.Whiny nasal voices.
9.That I don't easily connect with other people.
10.When a lake of raspberry coulis is poured on a dessert with no mention of it being there on the menu.

posted by brujita 11 January | 05:12

1. The cages that house the animals in pet shops.
2. Those days where you keep dropping shit all day.
3. Countertops for normal-sized people. [6" higher please]
4. People who don't listen and then call you all the time to ask you about what you already told them a million times.
5. Hangovers
6. Tarantino
7. Brushing snow off the car and then getting it all over you and then it melts inside the car and freezes and thaws until spring.
8. Cops [totally irrational hate]
9. Light Beer
10. Waking up because you have to pee.

posted by sciurus 11 January | 08:51

tr33 hates: (and to wit, what taz said above in preface)

1. Worrying about financial matters
2. Sore throats
3. Laundry
4. Feeling defensive when people inquire about my convictions
5. People who have made me feel defensive about my convictions
6. The runs
7. Razor burn
8. Showering with a sunburn (I like really hot showers)
9. Having to apologize for my convictions, because "I'm sorry but there's nothing I can eat at Famous Dave's BBQ, and a salad doesn't count."
10. The ugliness discussions on the 'Filter used to bring out in me (and sometimes still does, which is why I try to spend my time with y'all!)

posted by tr33hggr 11 January | 09:24

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