What do you hate?

I hate lots of things, I get frustrated really easily. But I'd just rather not dwell on them, and think about something relaxing instead.

((How was that. Was that OK, or was that totally lame and twee and stuff?))

"Charity muggers"/clipboard-weilding solicitors

I've gotten really hostile to aggressive activists, as well, which I sometimes feel guilty about (since I usually agree with their causes). But why do there need to be eight Greenpeace kids all on different corners of the same intersection, two or three of them coming at me in a row (after I've already been hit up for change several times)? No I can't spare a minute for the environment. Fuck the environment, I have a lot to get done.

Do what I did and become really unhealthy and scary looking. Now all I get is flyers for tattoo parlours.

my hate is passive tho generally, if that's possible. right now i hate nothing more than i hate Macromedia Dreamweaver (except maybe raw hand-coding).

Can i just say that I prefer this type to people who just discovered four or five bands that were never in the top 40 or 4/5 films made for less than a million dollars from reading NME/Empire and suddenly think they're a fucking expert.

Blowhard bullies.

Extreme rationalistic/atheistic fundamentalism masquerading as 'skepticism', 'critical thinking', etc.

(Basically extreme philisophical and religious positions about things that are unknowable irritate the piss out of me.)

Having to get up to go to the bathroom.

Conservative politics.

'Tough love'

Sports (especially football)

The Protestant Work Ethic

Business and money-related things in general

Phones

Bugs

Acne (specifically, my acne)

The subculture surrounding Marijuana (the drug itself I'm indifferent to), especially those who can talk about nothing else.

The idea that not doing drugs makes you 'boring'.

Cars.

Fanboys.

Cliquishness.

Animal Rights extremists

Racism,homophobia, etc.

Commercials, ads, and advertising.

Advertising before movies.

Pop-up ads.

Puritanism/prudishness (though it's excusable with some people, usually relatives).

False modesty (to be more precise, false modesty in instances where it's not just being polite and civil but turns into passive- aggressiveness).

Cat-hating. (I can understand not liking cats, but going out of your way to actively hate them is silly).

People who brag about not watching TV.

People who whine about whining. Especially pertaining to musical artists/bands. (Sorry, but someone's song lyrics are going to end up address unhappiness in one way or another, it's useless to get upset about it).

My fucking piece of shit CD and DVD players.

People who think they're above everyone else because they just discovered jazz.

Vinyl fetishists who still claim that CD's are the modern 8-Track tape. (Actually in some ways this is more endearing than hate-inspiring, though it still can be irritating.)

Extreme ludditism/anti-technology thinking, the cult of 'realness', 'authenticity', etc. (rockism essentially).

'Political Incorrectness'.

Dennis Miller's gradual rightward shift.

Constipation and other digestion problems.

Bloody noses.

Myself (sometimes).

OTM.

Californian type women

hangovers

feeling shame

euphemisms, unless they're funny

cockroaches

fights with people i love

mouth ulcers

cellphone ads that talk about "free minutes" "anytime minutes" etc

licorice

drug sentencing laws

cats

airports

traditional chinese music

people that take wealth, education, middle-classness for granted

oh!! and the narrator on big brother.

- line-in-the-sand critical thinking/critical blanket statements/attempts to turn Big mediocrities into Rich-ly praised artistes!/dismissal of music or film or any art without bothering to understand it

- cowardice, at least when it comes to people who are unwilling to say something to your face or be honest with you

- sunny optimism or "everything is just wonderful!" attitude that is usually just masking a "don't bother me with bad stuff that happens in the world, all is okay with me, that's all that matters" attitude

- the entire concept and execution of jobs and modern employment

- strangely I don't hate anyone on ILX

*people who don't read the thread before they post (such as moi)

my very disrespectful neighbors and their broken windows and shouting at 5 am and the fact that they let their dogs run loose all over the street while they stand and watch because they're too lazy to go get them and the dogs run at my other neighbor's little girl. k thnx I'm done now

the return of the frat boys

my indecision

the death toll in Iraq

- Von Dutch gear and the people that wear it.
- The advertisement campaign for DiTech.Com
- Telemarketers
- Zealouos Republicans
- Religious Fundamentalists
- People who say "take it serious" instead of "seriously".
- Joe Scarborough's "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC
- The following words: "hero", "patriot" and "genius".
- The inexplicable need to reduce everything to a soundbye (i.e. September 11th 2001 now being universally referred to as "Nine Eleven!")

Oh so FUCKING OTM!!!!

Aside from that i hate my iMac

a/k/a "von douchebags"

(add "naderites" to the list)

- "ironic" heavy metal kitsch
- Urban Outfitters selling Ramones & CBGB t-shirts
- Ashlee Simpson
- The fact that in order to see the bombing of the Kurtz Compound that aired during the original closing credits of "Apocalypse Now" but also the entire "Redux" footage, you have to buy BOTH the pre-"Redux" DVD and the "Redux" DVD.
- People who think "Friends" and "Seinfeld" are the last words in comedy.
- Pushy Vegans
- Sun-Dried Tomatoes
- K-Mart
- L'Occitane
- The fact that Kiss won't stop spraying dung all over their once respectable legacy.
- Martin Lawrence
- People who waste time strenuously avoiding carbs.

the hell?

ILXing

Not ILXing

-- CeCe Peniston (anthonymicci...), July 22nd, 2004.

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Also audi "tt"s.

Re conspiracy theories: Put me in the 'anti' camp, especially CT's which posit the narrator as the object of the conspiracy.

I am also nearly bored enough by 'Look at me I'm a hero' anti-PC behavior to actively hate it.

The mail autoreply system I wrote replys only once every two weeks to each person and will only reply to emails addressed to your email address(es).

Turn to page 95 please. Facts alone do not a logical, coherent argument make. 'Well-researched' for me = try find something that contradicts your theory before looking for something that supports it.

Listen, monkeydickwads, as silly as they may irrefutably be, once upon a time, Kiss had cred. If only they'd knocked it on the head before the non-makeup years. I was all for the reunion tour and even the farewell tour, but Gene's avarice swelled up like a priapic dirigible and the next thing ya know, you have them releasing albums with symphony orchestras and doing Pepsi commercials. WHY CAN'T THEY BOW OUT GRACEFULLY?

oh fuck xpost

it's incredibly annoying and not funny even after the millionth time.

Furthermore I really hate when kids/tourists/adults fuck around and want to play records on the decks just for a laugh with no intention of buying anything. I don't want to be mr cranky record shop guy but for fuck's sake just leave the things alone!

People seem to be better about this in major metro areas, esp Europe.

You would think so, but nope.

Oh, don't get me started. I really hate it when people look for discounts on stuff that's already pretty cheap in a FUCKING CHARITY SHOP! I mean, okay, I know that me and the volunteers make mistakes sometimes and price things too high, but I'm not talking about that. If someone comes into my shop and tells me that they've seen a book priced at €5 in my shop which is in the Hodges Figgis sale brand new for the same price, that's one thing. But to buy two books that are €6 each and then say 'can you do the two for a tenner?' It just pisses me off. No. I can't. That €2 makes a difference.

Also:
Being called by work when I am on holiday (by somebody in the department I left 6 months ago at that)
Jim Davidson
The smell of Lush

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/96/44/2674469/853487745531l.jpg

Do you know this man?

About 10 years ago I turned an about-to-be-obsolete diary into an address book where friends were filed according to their birthday and most wrote their entries themselves. A few years ago I picked it up and had a very low moment when I found Chris' entry.

Turn to page 95 please. Facts alone do not a logical, coherent argument make. 'Well-researched' for me = try find something that contradicts your theory before looking for something that supports it.

-- fcussen (fcussen33...), July 22nd, 2004.

Why are you so concerned about debunking conspiracy theories? You're obviously just a puppet of the Jew-banker-Illuminati-Lizardmen Cabal!

I hate them because they are defeatist and dangerous. Giving you all the reasons why the world is so shitty but no obligation to try make things better, basically a substitute for religion.

-- fcussen (fcussen33...), July 23rd, 2004.

i was joking...

"People who whistle while walking down the street (seriously, cut that shit out!)"

fair enough. i was just using it as an excuse to do the illuminati-lizardmen joke, that david icke lizardmen-control-the-world shit cracks me up.

- Law & Order and similar TV shows (on moral and aesthetic grounds)
- The Anti-Defamation League
- waiting for promised phone calls
- the cult of Howard Zinn
- sycophants in general (not mine obv.)
- when people are paid an honorarium to give a talk and simply extemporize in an unmemorable manner
- people telling me to "relax" (even if they are right)
- listening to priests, ministers, or rabbis speak at funerals
- jocular criticism
- myself when I oversleep weekday mornings
- the idea of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the reality doesn't bother me as much)
- musical transitions on NPR (especially on "This American Life," where they threaten to spoil perfectly involving segments)
- Seinfeld (not so sure anymore about this one, it's been years since I subjected myself to it)
- Jessica Lange's acting
- critical writing that spends an inordinate number of words discussing how such-and-such a work of art is "underrated" or "misunderstood" (etc.) rather than just telling us how we might understand it (this bothers me all the more because it happens so often in writing i otherwise like)
- the staff of the Coolidge Corner theater ca. 2000-2001
- "i hated high school"
- nonsensical (or seemingly nonsensical) pricing policies at record, video, or book-stores
- the "gotta hear some fun-ky dixieland" breakdown in that Doobie Brothers song
- fun (obv)

*sniff*

caitlin, how about "dude"?

or "bitchez"?

Does this happen a lot?

*parents who swear in front of their kids
*the woman round our way who feeds the seagulls right outside my house so that they all swarm round and then crap all over the cars
*people who think that all football fans are stupid/somehow less worthwhile that other people
*people who talk a lot but have nothing to say
*people who don't know simple things on quiz shows (I get quite irrationally upset by the lack of people's general knowledge when watching the Weakest Link)
*people who judge people on their taste in music
*myself when I'm drunk

:-(

Aw, I don't do it a lot, but I've done it (and you should hear his mom!), but is this really so bad?

Bigot.

I once stood at a bus stop where a mother and her friend were delighting in teaching a toddler, not more than about three years old, to say "fuck off pig" to passing policemen.

- Drivers who don't indicate with their turn signals (a.) when they're going to change lanes and/or (b.) when they're going to turn left (on a non-dedicated lane) or right.
- Drivers who don't stop at stop signs, esp in residential areas.
- Most panhandlers who stand on the corners of major intersections. I've seen them jump into brand new trucks at the end of the day. I know it's a scam. I think only 1/4 of the panhandlers I've seen actually seem to need that money.
- People who abuse the system or know how to work it and do, instead of getting off their lazy asses and actually working for once. (I know this is a small minority, but they still piss me off.)
- Music mags that (or critics who) seem to reassure you that "Oh no no no, we do love [artist], don't you worry about it," but when it really counts, they don't do anything to show that love.
- The pressure from certain individuals in one's life to get married to the biggest "catch" you can score and then to pump out the "cutest" babies around, in order to complete your life. Grrr.
- That ad campaign that used "There She Goes" to help sell something without knowing what that song was all about. (Which seems to be a mini-trend which originated with the whole "'Lust for Life' can help sell cruise trips!" thing.)
- Speaking of ad campaigns, I can't stand the Ovaltine one. Oh yes, abnormally hyper, screaming kids and overly enthusiastic adults will sell a drink powder. You know, after those ads air, I end up wanting headache medicine.
- On a not-so-lighter note -- those people who are "pro-life" (really anti-abortion, anytime, regardless of how the pregnant woman's quality of life would be degraded) and who disapprove of birth control. Makes no logical sense. Even more nonsensical if they disapprove of homosexuality.
- Cliques.
- Especially if the people in them are old enough to know better.
- Both extremes of the political spectrum and those people who hype them up.
- The advice certain individuals give to parents that says that the only way to deal with a problematic child is to try to reason with them. Yeah. Like a small hellion of a child is going to listen to reason. Sure. "Ooh, I'm so scared of reason!" I think not.

Damn, this list is long.

Only if the UK takes back Anna Wintour and Graham Norton first.

Deserving objects on my hate:

People who sing along with the music that's playing. In the case of people who are singing along with whatever's playing on their walkman/iPod, I long to yank the headphones off their inconsiderate gourds and say "Hey! You've got that turned up so loud the sound is coming out of your mouth!"

Parents who do nothing to try to manage their crying, cranky, or uncontrolled children. I always want to say "Ordinarily I would never dream of disciplining another person's child...but in this case I might make an exception."

Drivers who won't acknowledge pedestrians' right of way. They zip around corners as if their cars don't have brakes.

Landlords who jack up rents to drive out nice independent restaurants or retailers, in order to replace them with chain stores.

read and weep:
The woman in the cubicle next to me

A related complaint: other people misinterpreting your stomach grumbles as farts. My stomach has always rumbled horribly at the most inopportune times, but I dismissed the idea that other people thought I was passing gas as paranoia until one day after a grumble in class I heard a girl sitting me whisper to her friend "Woah! Did you hear that guy just fart?"

* bad code
* the New Economy
* "Intelligent Design"
* alternative medicine
* the Wayans brothers
* Warren Ellis -- I recently exchanged several emails with him asking politely to be taken off of his mailing list, because the unsubscribe function did not work. Every time he wrote he back, he called me an asshole in one way or another, presumably just because he was offended I would want to unsubscribe from his mailing list. At first he refused to take any action at all, and when I insisted, he got nasty. It was startling at first, but then I got the idea. Ok, this guy's an enormous jerk, and doesn't understand the basic rules of mailing lists -- like, for instance, don't write five or ten mass emails a day about abso-fucking-lutely nothing, and with some weird unreadable formatting to boot. I will continue to hate him until I buy his next comic book.
* Kill Your Idols. Stupid idea, worse writing. I am done with ragging on DeRogatis personally, because he's actually about the nicest guy you can imagine. But this book is loaded with a lot of "eh, I don't get it" reviews masquerading as bravely attacking some imaginary establishment. Jim, get over it. Rolling Stone fired you, and you hate them, and sure, I understand how you would. The thing is, everybody who thinks about music hates them, too. No need for a book like this. It's pointless, and it reads like Amateur Hour at the Village Voice. Fuck this stupid shit.
* Being broke all the time
* Microsoft
* Spam that makes me curious as to its contents

-the endless parade of celebrities as national heros

-Wifey's undiagnosed acid reflux and the ensuing howls of pain

-people who say 'on accident'

-new york fuckin' city

- The cats that made 6 piles of shit which I had to scoop up from my garden yesterday and a further 1 pile of shit which I had to scrape from the sole of my trainer.

- Another vote for Americans (and Canadians) who do not put use/know their international dialling code and also those who put their state in the country box.

???

grrrr. just because you have a kid doesn't mean you don't need to have courtesy for the rest of the world! hopefully baby doesn't turn out as clueless/selfish/self absorbed as mom is...

Otherwise I have to wait until 5. My friend Ranka the Croatian Hardwoman has offered to have a word with them if they can't self-regulate.

I hate quiche, mayonnaise, tartare sauce and the majority of white foodstuffs. I hate having a great 7 letter word but nowhere to play it. I hate the way my skin is blotchy and full of blackheads. I hate the way I am incapable of getting up in the morning to go for a run and my general fitness levels.

I do not hate bicycles. I just think they are a hundred levels of ALIENATION. I do not hate cyclists. I worry for them, is all.

hello everyone at the municipal office, since i can tell you're reading this!

'This desk is TOO COLD'

'This desk is JUST RIGHT'

two. raves with lasers that don't come down low enough to dance in.

three. people who think raves are just drug parties. when will they understand the community spirit of rave culture? probably never!!!

four. people who think it all happened in the eighties. i was born in 1985, and fuck all happened to me.

1967

1974

1976

1979-82

1988

1993

2004

I think that 1993 was an especially good year: techno, black metal, ambience, all kinds of things. You really must come and say hello on the mongrels and sheepfuxors thread Mr Attacker.

people who insist on driving one foot off my bumper on a pretty empty freeway, when I'm already doing 80

liver

brussel sprouts

mayo

eggs

people who say nuke-u-lar

'a lot' written as 'alot'

the gardeners who start work at 6 am Wednesday morning around my building

bronchitis

people who belittle others for not having gone to college

assholes who purport to be 'good christians' while they stab you in the back

atm dawdlers

mariah carey

my sister when she tells me that I don't know ______ yet and she does because she's older and refuses to listen when I tell her that I worked ________ out when I was about 12

sushi

jaegermeister

that squeaky sound balloons make sometimes

the sound of people eating

the way my ex thought boob grabbing was a turn on for me, too

eyeliner pencils that break when you're using them

people who can't fucking merge onto the damned freeway and pull out in front of me GOING THIRTY FIVE

grown people who throw tantrums

leaving my favorite discontinued lipstick in the car and having it melt and die

anise

people who say things like, 'so how are we doing on project x' when they've had nothing whatsoever to do with it

coffee grounds or eggshells in the sink

people who seem to forget how to work the handle on the toilet after they've taken big nasty craps and then walk out and leave it as a gift to the rest of mankind. lemme tell you lady, your shit stinks.

people who want to spray me with perfume in stores - thank you no, I already put some on before I left the house and yours smells like a monkey's armpit after a particularly difficult day in the jungle.

people who lie and think I'm too dumb to figure it out

the fact that I'm hypocritical sometimes

the smell of burnt popcorn

running around like a maniac trying to get something done at work while my co-workers sits on her ass and checks her email every two and a half seconds

wet towels on my bed

Me too, ass well as the variation of it known as "bongchitis".

You work with Matthew Broderick?

Oops.

I've said too much.

accentmonkey is so unbelievably OTM here. I want to punch them out repeatedly.

Anyway....

- People who pronounce "idea" as eye-dear
- Political Strategists (for either party)
- Tucker Carlson
- Public figures who use sports analogies to make their point.
- People who get all uppity about their right to fly the Confederate Flag. It's offensive. Let it go.

But what do you hat?

Distilled hatredry.

"accentmonkey is so unbelievably OTM here. I want to punch them out repeatedly."

Agree absolutely. English deserves too loose its status as a major language if its speakers are to lose with its spelling of such basic words.

Most British people to thread.

(x-post rhymes with Ikea, innit?)

I too get extremely irritated whenever someone spells "a lot" as just the one word. Argh. Growl. (FYI, many people locally do not know how to merge PERIOD here. And they do pretty much what you described in your list, too.)

Also extreme irritants:

- Drivers who are on the "fast" lane (i.e. left, at least here in the good ol' US of A) who drive like twenty miles UNDER the speed limit.
- Drivers who are on the "slow" lane (i.e. right, at least... you know the drill) who drive like twenty miles OVER the speed limit.
(Please you guys, get the drift of FAST lanes and SLOW lanes.)
- People (mostly women, it seems) who are so enamored of shoes that they seem not to be able to think of another topic to discuss OR who splurge on like $500 pairs of shoes. Even if they're supremely wealthy and could actually afford it. SUCH a waste of money, in my eyes.
- Couples who splurge MEGA bucks on their wedding festivities. I saw this special on the Food Network once where this YOUNG couple got married at Walt Disney World, and all their wedding expenses JUST AT THE PARK ALONE came out to $70,000. You read that right. *sighs* Such a sin.
- People who pride themselves on having "open" minds, who then retreat to outdated stereotypes when it comes to certain segments of the population (e.g. people who live in the rural South, Texans, Americans). The people in charge of special programming for the Trio channel AS WELL AS the idiots at Channel 4 UK, I AM LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU.
- Texas Monthly magazine. The Texas they portray isn't the Texas I know, it's the Texas the residents of the DFW area and Houston know. If they're only going to bother with the Eastern portion of TX, why don't they just call themselves "East Texas Monthly" and stick to selling in those regions of the state?
- People who choose to ignore you instead of telling you they have a problem with you. Such cowardly bullshit.
- Valentine's Day. Worst and longest day of the year.
- Kurt Loder. I had no idea he was still on an MTV channel. He's old enough to be my father and even *I* feel guilty about watching anything MTV-related, much like I did when I was nine and still watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".
- Parents who try to be "cool" parents and aim for being their children's Best Friends, instead of honoring and respecting the boundaries between parent and child and just being parents.
- The local program "Gimme the Mike!", which is a local version of "American Idol" except without the two reasons anyone watches that program -- one, the crankiness of Simon Cowell, and two, ACTUAL SINGING TALENT. Believe it or not, one of the judges is BOB THE BACHELOR. Dude, he's still in the C-list -- you don't do local programs until you're well into the F-list, at least.

*whew* I feel lots better now.

(So, in this way, "ide-aa" in North American pronunciation becomes "ide-ar" in English pronunciation. I wish I could explain it any better than this.)

But now I've given this tiny little matter far too much of my attention probably ;-)

Or "miss-ull". Or "host-ull".
(For missile and hostile, obv.)

(And, I'm not really on anyone's "side", here.)

-Riding with someone who's insane about listening to music in the car. This entails the following:

* Spending more than five minutes going through a CD billfold, looking for the "right" CD to listen to for our twenty-minute journey.
* Skipping through tracks, going back and forth, sometimes changing the entire album if using a multiple CD changer.
* If no CD is used, than the fast-forwarding and rewinding of songs on a tape can be substituted for all of this, or
* Spending a maximum of three seconds on every radio station, concentrating on looking for the off-chance that someone out there is broadcasting that lost Beefheart classic or something.

Really, I just hate sitting there in the parking space as a passenger as the driver does everything inside the car except DRIVING IT. It's not an airplane, dude.

Madchen, we do it... we just don't realise we do it. ;)

Seriously, I didn't believe it either, until I heard myself say "Canada" one day. Sounded more like "Can-a-der". And now I notice pretty much every visitor from the UK doing the same thing. (It's only those words ending in "a", btw.)

almanac for being a whiny bitch

that is all

Lixi - check your g-mail!

Is there a male equivalent of PMS? Because I feel like that periodically, like it's a cycle or something.

having a penis so enormous I have to strap it to my ankle

That's all I can think of right now.

Oh hang on...

Shit.

alarm clocks

sunburn

the feeling of cotton on my teeth

people who dig in their noses in their cars and then look at you like you're the asshole for making a disgusted face

seaweed

anything that smells like cucumber-melon

when birds crap on my freshly washed car

current gas prices

twix candy bars

adverts in general are annoying, not just the ones on tv, the way that there doesn't seem to be a square foot of space in the whole of london that people aren't either trying to stick bill posters on or cover with their idiotic tags. (although during the recent Tetris documentary one bloke did point out that Russia was very grey the first time he visited but was a lot more colourful now because of all the adverts (mainly for american products)).

but mostly athletics.

I swear to god, I'm not making this up. That's just disgusting.

also missing closest thing to a hot date in several years due to illness.

furthermore people making cranky faces when crowds start moving and bouncing around the place. I find them so grim I've started shouting "stop touching me!!!" at concerts.

x-post I think I hate gigs too. everyone stands looking so miserable.

...leaving the caps off of felt-tip/ink pens after using them....or any pens for that matter. THE CAPS COME WITH THEM FOR A DAMN REASON, PEOPLE!

I don't really like going to gigs unless I can sit down.

I've just seen this! If you can find it again I'll unlock it.

Dryer sheets

Do I have to fucking re-wash my clothes now?

the outboard handbag-on-forearm

THERE IS A THREAD CALLED "WHAT DO YOU HATE?" AND I DIDN'T CONTRIBUTE TO IT, SOMEHOW?? WAS I ON VACATION?

i hate nothing. i am a ray of fucking sunshine. (i wish this was true.)

i hate everything besides coney island and the film ghost rider starring nicolas cage.

otm

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=8&boardid=44&threadid=172

When I'm at the customer service window at the bank or post office, and the next person in line comes up and stands next to me instead of behind me...? THAT'S what I hate.

Along those lines: when people make left turns around you from behind while you're also making a left turn.

Also anyone who drives on the shoulder because they just want to get somewhere faster.

* Inflation. And economic assessments that just happen to be rigged to not reflect said inflation.
* The colors royal blue and orange-red.
* Buyers for department store plus size departments (judging from their selections, the hatred is mutual).
* "Red state" culture.

ISPs

Also anyone who drives on the shoulder because they just want to get somewhere faster.

― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Friday, September 19, 2008 10:27 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, everyone knows that's what bike lanes are for

VAT

that it's this sunny and settled NOW but it wasn't in July

I hate my last 200 or so posts on ILX. I'm in a severe slump.

aww cmon boo

people who don't use turn signals when turning - including left turns.

obnoxious parents at open house night - "I majored in history, and blah blah blah...."

Sort of Rock Hardy's queue rage, but at the other end of the queue: I hate it when I'm at the back of the queue and the next person stands alongside me and edges a little further ahead of me whenever the queue moves. If you're on your own in a queue where most people are in groups (flights, big events, etc) and so not single file, someone WILL do this to you. HATE.

Also, the cyclist who nearly hit me by going full speed up the 20% of the pavement right between the bus and the bus stop. It's supposed to be illegal to cycle on the pavement here, but I know that's a losing battle. And I'm sure it's annoying that buses have to pull in across the cycle lane, but it does tend to mean that someone is about to walk across the pavement between the bus stop and the bus, and if nobody is standing at the stop then that somebody is probably on the bus and can't see you lurking behind it.

(I did look before I stepped out! I guess I was looking down at actual time of hitting ground, and there she was. It's really just that if she'd used the other 80% of the pavement or just gone slower I would have seen her, but she was right on the inside of the bus.)

And lately about 6000 other things besides.

I hate how many times I used the word "queue" in that explanation.

is fcussen the same dude as gff/goole or did i just invent that

I'm close to going haywire on the next person who sidles up next to me, close enough to read the account number off my checkbook, when they're supposed to be behind me. But in this tiny town, I would get a reputation or a booking photo.

I think we have an "Americans don't know how to queue properly" thread, but this one was good enough.

these, with a passion!
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QaUnBoDpL._AA280_.jpg
http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/files/rosashoes3.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/slink/images/255x143/hb/manicure.jpg

THOSE ARE SARAH PALINS HANDS U RACIST

Who?

not_goodwin otm

http://wizbangblog.com/images/2008/05/alaska_gov_sarah_palin_to_meet_with_mccain_vp_search_team/sarah-palin-thumb.jpg

AAAGH I HATE THOSE NAILS SOOOOOO MUCH

Im pretty sure Palin's got an American manicure and not_goodwins pic is French. French is way worse.

Yeah actually I have seen worse on Palin than the pic above--the horrible bright white French with long square tips UGH.

surely cindy and michelle have the same?

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/michelle-obama-and-barak-400x250.jpg

Mac Demarco's existence