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1. Sock Monkeys
2. Bicycles
3. Quiche
4. The Women On Hollyoaks
5. The New Kylie Video (they all look like MAGGOTS!!)

What are you irrationally disturbed by? Top five, please.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i like those old 5 and a quarter inch disks, irrationally i suppose

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

curly hair
pointy shoes

er, i'll think of three more in a moment

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Sock monkeys. They have a glazed stare on them. They do not look like monkeys. I have no idea how you Americans can cuddle them in bed.

Bicycles. DO YOU WANT TO TURN INTO A BICYCLE OR SOMETHING? Don't you know about the displacement of molly-cules? Aren't you worried that they have taken over half of Cambridge?!

Quiche - URGH.

Women on Hollyoaks - THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME and this reminds of Gene Wolfe book Thee Fifth Head of Cerberus which features millions of genetic clones (and a whonking bit of incest actually, crikey).

Kylie - this might just be me being a menko.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If we're talking about disklikes I rather like the way linux "mounts" disks but DON'T like the way that the Beast only does this somewhat sporadically.

Good old B: drives. I have a new order single shaped like one o' those.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

people chewing gum
chill-out music

― Jonathan Z., Friday, 14 November 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

people who like to travel for the sake of it

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw Jim, pointy shoes are grebt! (Ah posting only to your own thread. I'm not avoiding work until I go for lunch in 8 minutes am I ooh no). I have a smashing pair of black and white no-heels ones.

Which are slightly too big and I walk like one of those monkeys with big toes.

HEY and I have curly hair. Jim do you just hate me?

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

1. people suggesting i do some work (really getting shitty about this lately)
2. poodles
3. people leaving me things on my desk to do
4. people sneakily getting my boss to get me to do things that are really their responsibility (irrational cause why do i give a shit?all i'm gonna do anyway is play the fool until the task is taken off me, or i'm given a platform to tell the truth)
5. internet outage at work

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

jims prolly got really fat feet and can't get into the winklepickers.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Myself. I have to get up and face myself tomorrow, oh lord

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have curly hair Sarah? how curly? i don't mind wavy. i just have a personal backlash against hair like my own (hella curly, like afro curly)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Rice Pudding
Gold jewellery
The Daily Mail
Heat Magazine
The Manic Street Preachers

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

pointy shoes scare me. i like rounded tips. i'd make a terrible woman, i have the drabbest taste in women's shoes

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the thread to address Suzy's IRRATIONAL DISLIKE of comedy earrings?

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

What's irrational about not liking the Daily Mail?

― Jonathan Z., Friday, 14 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

is it irrational for a man to have poor taste in womens shoes though?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1. my hair
2. extremely small dogs
3. pointy shoes (except heels maybe)
4. having to dress up smart
5. car audio systems (except Tipper and that Miami shit)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hush, you, your hair is hottt I will not hear otherwise, Stevem!

― Citizen Kate (kate), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

navel piercings

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"What's irrational about not liking the Daily Mail?"

Good point - make it 'people who touch me on the train', then.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

david aaronovitch
john humphries
patricia hewitt
empire magazine
the new york times
prospect
the saturday times

― enrique (Enrique), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

So enrique, only now do you you admit that your hatred of Humphries is entirely irrational.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, there's an echo around here here.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

busted! i don't care if it's rational or not, and it's really specifically the talky bits on mastermind that get my goat, and his ali g moment.

john robb
the libertines

― enrique (Enrique), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

that bitch at work who came round and condescendingly said "o, can i ask you not to do that anymore" like i was an imbecile. irrational cos i'd deliberatley acted like an imbecile to get out of doing it. but somewhat justified cos she was an imbecile for asking me to do something like that in the first place.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Humphrys.

1. Pedantry
2. Myself

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

madchen.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

buying a house. (although this is pretty rational imo)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Lots of people doing something. If people are doing something I tend to think it's better to do something else and use this as justification for thinking that what they are doing is wrong.
2) Fictional literature.
3) Art that is not in an art gallery.
4) New build apartments (pine/laminate flooring, white walls, door handles with nice action, kitchens with the appliances hidden behind what appear to be cupboards, those tiny wee fucking tiles that are about an inch square an are generally blue, glass blocks)
5) The property ladder.

Alex K: nice one (*sniggers*) ;-)

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Stickers on apples.
People who gesture using inverted commas.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

pp: how far along in the house stakes are you? isn't it exciting?

neil: back to ilm & start a thread. no one else is.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Art that is not in an art gallery.

heh i am more the other way round - i seem to dislike or at least feel largely indifferent to gallery confined art

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Ben" - "I have recently discovered that, "becuase it is so utterly "appalling"", the whole gestured inverted commas thing can actually be quite "fun" if used correctly and with the necessary amount of "irony""

:-"

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem: it's not art if it isn't in an art gallery

"*ducks*"

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i "hate" it whether its "in" an art "gallery" or '"not"'

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

no you don't

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"do"

well, except the water lillies. nothing to hate there is there? lovely.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the lillies are only lovely if you have no interest in life whatsoever (hence their enduring appeal to the aged middle classes).

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not art if it isn't in an art gallery

you are right to duck sir (*hurls Angel Of The North riding White Horse Of Ueffington at neil*)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(thats me neil though! although i'm still quite interested in life.

just not in art.)

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

but art is where life happens most. That's why it has to be kept in a gallery.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

1. people wearing flip-flops whilst not on a beach
2. people trying to talk to me when i'm on the phone with someone else
3. the newspaper being left improperly folded
4. people with long fingernails
5. non-alcoholic beer (even though i've never drunk it)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

but art is where life happens most. That's why it has to be kept in a gallery.

why are galleries often such stiff lifeless affairs then?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

most piercings, especially on men.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I dont like it when people wear flip-flops with jeans. I also hate people that wear visors upside down, or backwards.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that irrational? Maybe not...

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

never chatted up anyone in an art gallery stevem? perfect.

i wear flip flops (thongs with my jeans when i go up to close the chicken run door at night.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Well then, its possible that i might hate you then. Not going to jump to that conclusion...however you have one strike against you.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

do i go *cries* here?

also spinktor...y-y-y-ou s-s-s-said "don't like" first. about the thongs. not "hate"

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 14 November 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 188 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

what? i've done that recently, but on the thread it happened on, not the Shout for the Mods thread. Is that what you meant, them posting it to that thread?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

no, just in general. if you're really that concerned about the poster's privacy, hop on AIM, find a mod, and ask us to quietly delete the login name from the message.

― ethereal cereal (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

*pens that write in pastel colors
*seeing parents hitting/spanking/etc. their children

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Radios, open windows, tufty Federico sharkfin mullets and similar, particularly when accompanied by chunky pinstripe suit jacket and jeans (very possibly not irrational, but engenders disproportionate amount of rage anyway), post-rock

― F. Anthony O'Reilly (Ferg), Monday, 17 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I second everyone who dislikes general overpermissiveness by parents. I mean I know you're very progressive and lenient but if that little piece of shit steps on my bare toes one more time I'm turning it into glue, that is if I get to it before crystal meth or prostitution do first, something you would consider, "Unfortunate yes, as we love our child, but it is our child's choice, ultimately." Yeah, way to work it through, guys.

― Dancing Queen, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

incorrect/misspelled proper nouns

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

fun

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i no longer dislike the things i said before, except for 1 and 4.

― youn, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

1.People who make quotation marks with their hands while their talking
2.The noise my mum makes when she itches her throat
3.The phrase 'in my opinion' EVERY SINGLE THING THAT COMES OUT OF YOUR MOUTH IS YOUR OPINION BUCKO, UNLESS ITS SOMEONE ELSES AND THATS THE ONLY TIME YOU SHOULD SAY THE WORD OPINION, WHEN YOU'RE REFERRING TO SOMEONE ELSES.
4. 'I'm not a racist...but'
5. 'no offense'
6. Emoticons

Minna, I'm leaving Perenjori and will be back in Perth tonight.. I shall call home on wednesday night.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ppl spelling my name wrong! It's not difficult dickhead!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I poop too much

― Labia, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

lip zits

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

euw!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"chipolte"

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 December 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX, although I fear this may be completely rational.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

People who say they hate ILX but post all the time? :) Strongo Lasagne to thread!

People called "Nikki".
Denim (the fabric, not the band)
Bright lime green bag and scarf combinations
LIPLINER 20 times darker than yr actual FACE!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha, come on now pink you love us really

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Did I say I hated ILX? It annoys me sometimes certainly, but... Hang on, Sarah, you hate me?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Well sarah, you don't have to worry, that'll probably all change.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Only if you come out again in your lime green bag and scarf combo with ridiculous lipliner, Barry :)

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 1 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Non standard size teaspoons - particularly smaller than usual ones.

― MikeB, Monday, 1 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Shallow teaspoons? I'm with you on that. Also, small wine glasses.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Y'all"

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha you would loooove Kentucky

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"bon mots" that are neither witty nor intelligent nor accurate nor even kind of funny in a lame ass way.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Bon Mots Jovi

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we lock it there?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ILXors. I hate you all.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE for more irrational disliking of things.

I have a customer who calls very frequently who runs a business with the word "Anaconda" in the title. She of otherwise very clear speech and enunciation persists to pronounce this word "anDuhconduh" (with emphasis on the "Duh") as well as use it far too frequently (sometimes twice in the same sentence). I don't know why but this literally makes my skin kuhRAWL and I swear if she calls me one more time today and says "hi, this is [blankity blank] again from anDuhcondah [blah blah]" I probably really will yell at her.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

There's this middle aged couple, and every Sunday morning they walk up and down the same hill in the park, they don't go anywhere else, they just trudge up and down the same damn hill. They annoy me so much.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 30 January 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

"anDuhconduh" (with emphasis on the "Duh")

don't want none unless you got bunDs hon

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"1. Raw tomatoes" i share this same affliction
'"Y'all"' i'm glad that this is the irrational dislike thread or i'd be very offended, as would most people from the south.
i love the taste of mushrooms, but i can't stand the texture to the point where i gag when i try to eat them.
small dogs
babies
people who think it's wrong that i don't hold babies (i guess that's rational)

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine pronounces 'genre' as zhan-drUH.

I feel your pain.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

People who are over twenty and still do hunt and peck typing (I just got this one yesterday)

People pounding hard on the keyboard so you can make out every time they type a key(got this yesterday too)

People drumming on something who can not come up with one consistant beat and any rythem whatsoever

People sneezing so loudly you can hear them in the next room, with the door closed

People poking me, especially in the arm

People telling me to shut up about something when they have nothing to talk about and then they complain about how bored they are and how quiet it is

Actually, make that last one hypocrisy

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a customer who calls very frequently who runs a business with the word "Anaconda" in the title

Maybe it's something in the air, but I can't come up with a possible business that could have Anaconda in the name that doesn't have something to do with the sexing.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

- Every scene I have ever seen of urban Japan
- Singapore, my "homeland"
- People telling me my English is very good. I know they mean it as a compliment but I find it massively condescending. Of course it's very good, I've spoken nothing else my entire life!
- People who, when you criticize contestants in various competitions (American Idol, beauty pageants etc.) for their failings, say either a)Well, that's just YOUR opinion or b)Let's see you go up and do better then. It's about self-awareness not courage, pinhead, if someone's untalented/ugly/stupid then they shouldn't be taking part in these competitions!

― syntaxfree, Friday, 9 April 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's time to remember the "button fear support forum."
irrational hatred of objects

Fear of tomatoes
irrational hatred of drapes

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 April 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Clip shows - such as Channel 4's "Fifty Greatest Comedy Sketches" - which give away all the fucking contenders in a dumb montage at the beginning. Similarly, any show which previews the next show/the next part of the show by showing THE BEST BITS.

― Mark C, Friday, 16 November 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

Those dislikes are perfectly rational.

― Duane Barry, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago)

Emollients.

Seriously, if it moisturizes, and you make it touch my skin, I'll hit you. I'll hit you real hard.

― en i see kay, Friday, 16 November 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago)

These for starters...
http://www.grechenscloset.com/images/lookwhatifound/01_16_06_shoe.jpg http://www.montpellier-beauty.co.uk/blog/images/manicure-2.jpg

― not_goodwin, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

You and me both, NGoodwin. Esp the nails. It's not irrational, but GREBT taste to dislikeç

― stevienixed, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

Radiohead video for 'Karma Police'.

― moley, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:43 (seventeen years ago)

1997-2001 was a good period for unshaven, thickset, panicked, possibly mentally deranged eastern European men running down streets trying to escape from something in a videoclip.

― moley, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago)

notgoodwin otm

― gabbneb, Friday, 16 November 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

Emollients.

OTM.

― Aimless, Saturday, 17 November 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago)

Having my bellybutton poked, tickled or touched by anyone other than me.

― marianna lcl, Saturday, 17 November 2007 08:34 (seventeen years ago)

^^ me too! it makes me queasy :/

― Rubyredd, Saturday, 17 November 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

human touch

― chaki, Saturday, 17 November 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

that shirtless bert comedian. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i can't stand his face so much. he's always got that huge guffaw face. and he's so popular that comedians i actually like are constantly having him on their podcast shows. i can't listen to one joke. ahhhhhhhhhhh.

also i almost punched a guy at barnes & noble last night for having a really loud and long phone convo while i was trying to browse the sci-fi. it went on forever! some sort of new coffee bean machine idea? i have no idea. he finally moved away from me and i went to find the criterion dvds and there he was! so loud. i was tempted to start a long loud conversation with myself right next to him but i just glared and he moved away again.

also i was really happy to go to popeyes after - omg i was like a little kid - and i kinda hate that so much of their time is taken up by huge phone orders. takes so long to get the chicken. phone orders to a fast food chicken place seems like something that should be outlawed. or reserved for pandemics.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 16:06 (one year ago)

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