Do you have an irrational hatred of anything?

[LostInAnomie]

I think if I had to narrow it down to one thing it would be people who own canary yellow vehicles. Something about them just pisses me off. I don't know if it is the fact that anyone driving a canary yellow vehicle usually has a nicer vehicle than I do. Maybe I have the perception that people with vehicles that color are desperate attention whores who are trying to get noticed by having a vehicle that looks retarded.

I just don't know, but I know I hate them.

[Skittles]

1. OK now that IS irrational

I dislike yellow for a car but I think perhaps the people who drive them just like the color yellow!

Hmmmm......irrational hatred - not sure if this counts but any kind of repetitive noise drives me just nuts. Irritates me no end. I have noticed very often others around me don't notice but I certainly do. And people who WHISTLE - g.d. I just want to KILL them.

[LostInAnomie]

2. Nope, they are human filth who deserve nothing less than...

... a painful death.

Yeah, repetitive noises kill me too.

[Skittles]

4. LOL

:D

[Telly Savalas]

79. Feel the hate flow through you...

[kick-ass-bob]

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[Wcross]

3. Harley Davidson riders......

I wouldn't mind it if they didn't put those loud pipes on them. All I see when they ride by is a pathetic person that feels they don't get enough attention. I will give you a hint "harley-boy" people aren't looking at you in envy or admiration- they want to see where the noise pollution is coming from. Oh, and I know your not a "hells Angel" just a wanna-be!

[BOSSHOG]

5. Left-turn protect traffic lights

that operate even when no one is in the left turn lane. Yes, I become border line irrational during such events when I am going the other direction

[alarimer]

44. How about having no protected left turn at all where it is needed

I deal with this while trying to get into my apartment complex in the evening. The street I have to turn from is very busy and I often have to sit through 3-4 changes of the light before I can turn left.

[Az]

6. A good friend of mine happens to own one

And she also happens to be a Freudian Psychologist. I wonder what she would have to say about your irrational hatred. Lets gather some information for her.

Tell me about your mother.

[StopTheMorans]

7. cat threads

[Lavender Brown]

8. I don't understand why people would want a yellow car

It looks like a taxi, and also, the "lemon" connotation.

[Az]

10. They are easy to find in parking lots

Or at least that is what my friend tells me. Personally I go with the remember where we parked gambit.

[SnowGoose]

11. Butterscotch.

It's not a flavor.

It's wrong.
It's evil.
It's an abomination in the eyes of god.

Let even its memory be blotted out forever into an inky-black and dreamless oblivion.

[livinginphotographs]

12. Kind of related.

I can't stand the new Volkswagon Beetles, because everyone who drives them has to have some cutesy fucking license plate like "___'s Bug" or something related to how cute the stupid car is.

[medeak]

23. my kid has one

and it's covered in anti bush bumper stickers...hope you reconsider!

[livinginphotographs]

29. That's different.

The ones that bother me have a flower on it, or are some color like fluorescent yellow and the license plate says "Lemon Drop" or some such stupid thing.

The cars themselves aren't the problem; it's usually the drivers.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. All of my hatreds are completely rational.

[Nikia]

56. Mine are too

I always have good reasons for everything. There is always a logic to things.

[arwalden]

73. Same Here... Every One And Every Thing That I Hate Is Justified.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Yes, anything connected with the GOP!!

[Historic NY]

15. * .......need I say more.

[grace0418]

20. definitely NOT irrational

The entire world has every reason to hate the bastard.

[dean_dem]

16. SUV's

Yeah, I know, many of them get the same gas mileage as cars, blah, blah, blah, blah. They still suck. And I don't care that you have a kid to drive around, or a dog, or whatever. You know you don't need one.

[grace0418]

19. I am WITH YOU ON THAT ONE!

Although I don't think it's entirely irrational. Just because their gas mileage might be improving, they're still a road hazard because they take up too much damn space.

[Shredr]

17. I hate Debra Winger

I think it's because, when I was a kid, my mom took me to see Terms Of Endearment and I watched her die of cancer from her tortured sons' point of view. It really upset me, I had nightmares for months that my mom was dying.
Now I can't stand her. I know it's irrational, I know she's a really good actress, but I can't even look at her.

[Modem Butterfly]

18. Sweet and salty mixed together

Like sausage and pancake syrup, or that "kettle corn" that was everywhere a couple of years ago. Makes me yak just thinking about it.

[BlueJazz]

69. AHHHHH!! ..... Kettle Corn...

I think I'd rather eat a cockroach than that crap.

[medeak]

21. Kathie Lee Gifford

it's very unhealthy. Enrolled my friend in her fan club as a joke (we both hate her) now she's getting all kinds of Kathie Lee shit every month. shudder...

[Patiod]

26. Why is that irrational?

He said irrational.

Hating Kathie Lee is totally rational.

[GRLMGC]

37. Whatever happened to her?

Why on earth does she have a fan club? I haven't, thankfully, seen her around.

[Blue-Jay]

22. Clowns & Billy Barty.

OK, not really a "hatred", more of a sense of general creepiness.

[AlCzervik]

25. Clowns as well, when hear the word clown

John Wayne Gacy is the first thing that comes to mind....yuck.

[Patiod]

24. Mostly language things

Like "home" when you mean house or "townhome" instead of townhouse (or rowhouse).

I hate the noun "learnings" - "I think today's market research resulted in some important learnings"

And grande, tall, whateverthehell when it's freaking SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE. When I'm with clients who insist on Starbucks, I'll be damned if I'll order a freaking "tall" coffee. It's SMALL, MEDIUM OR LARGE. Feh. They taste burned anyway

Oh, and add Starbucks to the irrational hatred list....

[Modem Butterfly]

28. Or the term "gifting"

When did "gift" become a verb?

[Rob H.]

33. Or "chicken-fried chicken"

Just call it fried chicken and get it over with!

When I worked for a semiconductor manufacturer, I used to hear words and phrases used in all kinds of moronic ways. I just chalked it up to dumb people trying to sound smart.

offline
"We don't have time to address that in this meeting, let's talk about it offline." Sorry, I hadn't realized we were online. What's wrong with just saying "later" instead?

bandwidth
"I don't have the bandwidth to get to that today." You are not a file server, nor are you a wireless router--if you don't have the time, just say so!

small form factor
In other words, it's small.

grow
"We're trying to grow our marketshare." By increasing it, maybe?

aspirational
My actual response: "What the hell is she talking about?"

price point
"We'll have to check the price point." How 'bout just checking the price?

authored
"Hank authored a paper that just got published." Can't people just use "wrote"? If he wrote it, then it stands to reason that he's the author.

These are just the ones I can think of right offhand--I think I've successfully "forgotten" all the others. Why do people insist on making language more complex? (Or to use Rumsfailed's term, "complexify," another word that just sounds idiotic.)

Sorry for the rant. :)

[crispini]

46. But chicken fried chicken

is DIFFERENT than fried chicken!

And i know whatcha mean about the biz-speak, but your examples are innocuous compared to the marketing guys i know.... do they even speak English?

[bettyellen]

48. you mean chicken fry the chickens?

[crispini]

53. silly!

:silly: No, it's a *different* way of frying the chicken(s)! :P

[bettyellen]

72. mother + child reunion means chicken and eggs (from a menu)

[Rob H.]

61. If chicken-fried chicken means breaded/dipped in batter, then fried

it's fried chicken. Or it is here in this little corner of the South, anyway. :)

your examples are innocuous compared to the marketing guys i know

Do tell! C'mon, I won't tell anyone. ;)

[crispini]

68. Well, fried chicken is whole pieces with bone in, etc.

Dipped in batter and fried, but it's usually a light crispy batter.

Chicken fried chicken is a breast, no bone, also dipped in batter and fried, but it's a heavier batter more like that used for chicken-fried steak. At least that's how they eat it around here! ;)

Ooooooo... the marketing guys... they move their mouth and it sounds like English but it doesn't make any sense.

We need to have a platform that appeals to a cross-sector of the market, including SMB as well as enterprise blah blah blah blah blah... I honestly can't remember anything they say, it just slides smoothly across my brain and doesn't sink in! :)

[Rob H.]

81. Ha! Wow, that marketing-speak sounds familiar!

Way to block it from sinking in, though. :D

[Hardrada]

27. Riverdance

I used to be sort of interested but now I have an irrational dislike (hatred is too strong a term perhaps). A friend of mine suggested that Riverdance was a good argument against cloning.

[bettyellen]

30. slugs.

[bettyellen]

49. and people who never tip waiters......

[last_texas_dem]

31. American use of the term "fiancee"

Totally irrational hatred of mine... I'm not anti-French at all. I like the language; took four semesters in college, though still nowhere near fluent. And I don't mind other French expressions used by Americans. But for some reason this term just grates on me. Probably 'cause I hear a lot of pretentious-acting people with tiny vocabularies who toss this fancy-sounding word around so casually. Because of a few annoying people using it, it got to me to where I don't like to hear English-speaking people saying it at all. I also don't like the term "my bad." Just always thought it sounded dumb...

[American Tragedy]

38. Well, it's a little less awkward than "person to whom one is engaged"

[lakemonster11]

67. and a lot less pretentious than "betrothed"

:)

[last_texas_dem]

78. True

And I guess it serves its function since I don't know of any shorter way to say what it means.

Still, that doesn't stop me from irrationally hating it. :-)

[Tikki]

32. Rams Owner Georgia Frontiere...n/t

[mark414]

34. people

[Mrs. Venation]

35. To Quote Brett Butler

"I hate bigots so much, I am one."

[montana_hazeleyes]

82. Brett Butler

the actress or the baseball player?

[Bertha Venation]

83. The actress.

[montana_hazeleyes]

85. That's who I was leaning towards but,

since Brett Butler played for my S.F.Giants years ago I always think of him. He did have a good personality and would joke around a little. :-) Then he went to the Dodgers :(

[skygazer]

36. No, all my hatred is completely rational

I hate the warmongering, imperialistic neo-cons, I hate the American Taliban and I really, really hate my ex husband. All totally rational.

Oh, yeah, and anyone who abuses kids or animals. :grr:

[LSdemocrat]

39. The Denver Broncos

[Beaverhausen]

40. Oasis- and all DUers who are obsessed with them

I am really growing tired of it.

[Jessica]

41. Reba McEntire & Easter Bunnies.

I just don't like them.

[Arugula Latte]

50. I'm with you on Reba McEntire.

She bugs the @#$% out of me. I can't even look at her ... :shrug:

[medeak]

54. ditto

what is it about her?

[montana_hazeleyes]

42. clowns, cilantro,

and this may sound unbelievable to some but poetry. I hate it ,can't stand it, am totally bored by it.

People who know me say how is that possible because I'm a huge Dylan fan.

[KamaAina]

43. Of course not. My hatred of Bush** is entirely rational.

Now he wants to take food out of little kids' mouths?! :grr: :nuke:

[meow2u3]

62. I'm with you on that

He not only wants to take the food out of little kids' mouths, he wants to use that money to bomb them into kingdom come. :grr::mad:

* thinks it's easier to murder the poor than to feed, clothe, house, and educate them :mad:

[ucmike]

45. when things are tangled together. arghhhh!!!!!!!!!!

when i get my power supply from my laptop bag and the cords are tangled it makes me insane. i almost threw it two nights ago in anticipation of having to untangle it.

[Guy Fawkes]

47. PEOPLE WHO TALK IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS

IN INTERNET CHAT ROOMS.
LIKE THIS:

Jim2000: HEY GUYS! WANT TO SEE ME DANCE?????????
JohnyD: I wish you would die.
Jim2000: LOLZ!!!!!!!!!!1 WHAT A FUNNY GUY, JOHNYD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
:JohnyD kills self:
Jim2000: WOOT!!!!! LOLZ HAHAHAHAHA

[sendero]

51. Hate might be a bit strong.

.... but in my family we call them "look at me" cars :)

If definitely takes a special kind of person to drive one. :)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

52. yes, Cher

something about her makes me want to punch out my tv screen

runner-up, everyone from the cast of full house

[BlueJazz]

71. I'm with you..Pal..She's pretentious as hell. If she makes one...

.....more fuckin' "comeback" I'll puke.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

55. People who feed pigeons

Disgusting, filthy, disease-laced little animals.

I acknowledge it's irrational because I understand some people have nothing whatsoever to do and want to feel "useful" somehow. But hell, why can't they spend the money to buy something for a homeless shelter or orphanage? Or volunteer?

[Starlight]

57. People who hate animals. n/t

[MisterP]

59. I volunteer to rescue animals, including pigeons

do you hate me or not? :P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

60. If you sterilize them before releasing then no, I don't.

I read some time ago about feeding contraceptive-laced corn to city pigeons to try and reduce the mess in big cities. Don't know if it was ever put in preactice anywhere.

Just kidding about the hate. I was just scouring my mind to find something I dislike the most disproportionately to its importance. But it's true I'm no friend of pigeons, especially in very big cities like the one I live in.

[Telly Savalas]

80. It's not irrational.

The only thing I hate more than when fall rolls around and I have to yank the window AC units out and find them covered in pigeonshit is when I have to listen to the critters copulating on the AC units. Get a room, you little feathered freaks!

[Briarius]

58. Mimes

The get right the fuck under my skin! Just thinking about them gets me all pissed off. I just want to punch them in the face, just for being a mime. Smug silent fuckers...

[mvd]

63. Republicans!

Oh wait - you said irrational. :-)

[DS1]

64. People chewing gum in my ear

I want to smack them

[Pale Blue Dot]

65. My customers.

Come to think of it, it's really not all that irrational.

[Lauri16]

66. Pickles

I have no idea why, I just hate them. :)

[NNadir]

70. The element Thallium.

I hate that element. I just can't stand it. It is definitely the worst element in the periodic table. It's worse than Francium!

It doesn't even behave like the other members of its group Gallium, Indium and Aluminum. Just what is this crap anyway with a monovalent oxidation state! Who the fuck does Thallium think it is?

Rat poison, toxic sludge, heavy, rare and generally useless, I think Thallium seriously sucks.

[Hans Delbrook]

74. Whipped cream

Yuck. I cater as a hobby and when I make whipped cream frosting I have to taste it before using it to check the sweetness, texture, etc and I just hate it. Love all other forms of cream though - liquid, sour, creme fraiche, you name it.

[SarahB]

75. yes

[Floogeldy]

76. I abhor hate

[Anarcho-Socialist]

77. Moths

They're Satan's butterflies.

[AngryAmish]

84. White men

Shit, wrong thread....