blunt knives

not being able to buy a knife-sharpener in ASDA (do people just throw away blunt knives in this brave new world?!)

crap TV reception

people who block the pavement in front of you walking really slowly

being constantly tapped for money by street beggars in town. it's a tax on being out!

not being able to smoke in pubs- surely they could allow it in a few?

an endless stream of interchangeable hollywood rom-coms that make Friends look like gripping social realism

jokes about the German's having no sense of humour. I think you'll find that was the nazis, and it was over 50 years ago.

the country being at war

Daily Mail readers

17 year old skinny Pete Doherty wannabes

crap seals on the windows in my flat, despite them being changed just 6 months ago...

tabloid stories about what Amy Winehouse/Britney Spears/Paris Hilton just did

getting old

the cold

the taste of mould

Okay... start with Daily Mail Readers, followed by the taste of mould.. the others seem self-explanatory, but those two have me mystified

List my pet peeves...ok - you asked for it:

Ignorance

Rude people

Loud music

Anyone who tries to impose their beliefs on others

Teeth

People who allow their dogs to shit all over the pavements

Dogs

Drunks

Tesco

Perfume

Stupid mobile phone ring tones

Old people that smell of wee

Butterflies and moths

Text speak

Bad spelling

People who stand in shop doorways because they've encountered a friend on their way in/out

Tesco

People who say "at the end of the day"

Spam

People who wear hats whilst driving

Political correctness

Smoking

Bill Gates

Idiotic instructions on packaging, like "Food may be hot once heated" - no shit, really?

Tesco

People who blame violence in modern society on television and computer games

Alarms - car alarms, burglar alarms, alarm clocks and the look of alarm on the faces of old ladies just before I hit them with my car because they've stepped into the road without looking

People who leave me messages saying "I'll call back" - good for you, thanks for wasting five seconds of my life making me listen to a message with absolutely no purpose.

People who talk to me when I'm trying to work.

People who tell me that my work is unfinished when I'm still working on it.

People who don't close doors

People who leave the lights on in rooms and don't return to them for hours.

The price of cut flowers

Tesco

Screaming children

People who state the bloody obvious and then expect to be commended for their insight

People who refuse to use computers because they're "too complicated". Hundreds of millions of pounds have been spent making computers so easy to use that a retarded three year old could figure it out, and still some people profess they'll never be able to work one.

Microsoft Expression Web - the bastard hell-spawn of web design programs

Hairspray - product and movie

Brad Pitt - if I wanted to watch a chimp perform I'd go to the zoo

Paper clips

Eggs

Britney Spears and anything to do with the sad slapper

That's it for now. Just a few things off the top of my head. I'm sure there will be more later.

Rob

PS Tesco

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Rob @ Feb 6 2008, 10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>Occasionally guilty of that. Only when provoked, though :P

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Guilty. But only when nobody else can hear it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Perhaps guilty. I'll argue my point of view, but so do you I won't call people bad for not agreeing with it (unless it's an indisputable fact).

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Marginally guilty, but I always pick it up.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Guilty, have two and love them to bits. You would, too

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Occasionally guilty, but only very VERY occasionally. I've been trollied in public about three times...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Guilty. We shop there for little bits and bobs, but they don't sell ethically sourced products so we mainly do meat shopping in Waitrose (which is the best out of all of them)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>A bit guilty. I never wear aftershave unless it's a special occasion - wedding, interview, important meeting with people, funeral etc.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div>Accidentally guilty. I never knowingly leave lights on.

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I'll post my list :P

hangman@itsabitchthing.com

My pet peeves/dislikes:

• Religous preachers
• Tailgaters
• People who drive whilst on the phone
• Those who don't wear killcords and buoyancy aids whilst in boats
• Interfering parents who interrupt and contradict you whilst you're teaching their little shits how to sail
• The smell of sailing bags (the most repulsive "cheesy" smell imaginable)
• Exams
• Laziness (because I suffer from it)
• Chavs and scallies
• Those who claim benefits when they are not entitled to them
• Illegal immigrants
• Those who are not patriotic
• Those who have no regard for our history, traditions, landmarks, and forms of transport (Mersey Ferrys - Routemaster buses etc)
• Those who feel they have to be the centre of attention at all times - especially those who would "attend the opening of a letter" (going to every social occasion they can).
• Those who don't understand that there is more fun to be had than going out and getting hammered
• Insurance groups (means I can't drive a Volvo)
• Boy Racers
• Those who "soop" up cars with stupid body kits. Especially small 1.2 cars. They need to accept that only Subaru Impretzas and Mitsubishi Evolutions look good with whacking great spoilers.
• Those who hate the Police
• Those who terrorise and vandalise Fire and Ambulance services (they're the total shitbags in society)
• Parents who do not control their kids
• Kids who are afraid of nothing
• Fuel prices
• Fuel companies who cover up other forms of power by buying them out
• Those who spam
• Those who distribute warez
• Those who never shut up about sex and how straight they are
• Positive discrimination
• People pleasers
• Those who do not form a full opinion i.e. "do you like this"... "it's okay".
• Liars
• People who do not use the "rolleyes" IPB smily properly -
• Those who criticise driving techniques when there is nothing wrong with them
• Those who cannot admit they are wrong in either facts or assumed circumstances
• ClaimsDirect (and similar)
• Money grabbing relatives
• Death
• Coffins

That's everything I can think of at the moment.

hangman@itsabitchthing.com

Well judging by those lists, none of you are going to run out of threads to start any time soon :P

Rob, Spam... would that be the pain in the arse email spam or the tinned .. I hesitate to call it meat... variety?

I'll post my list up tomorrow!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Azhria Lilu @ Feb 6 2008, 10:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>By spam I mean emailed spam, posted junk mail and that vile meat-like product old people buy, so I guess the answer to your question is "yes".

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hangman @ Feb 6 2008, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>Promoting and defending your beliefs is not the same as imposing your beliefs on others. I support the right of every individual to promote their beliefs and I consider people hypocrites if they don't stand up for what they believe in. Imposing your beliefs on others means forcing them to do something, or live their life in such a way, that complies with your beliefs whilst contradicting theirs. For example, my cousin is a vegetarian. I'm vegan, so I support her 100% and can understand how frustrating it is for her to live in a house full of meat eaters. However, a couple of years ago she decided she didn't want her family eating meat anymore, and so she went through the kitchen removing all meat products and threw them in the bin outside.

That's just a mild example - I could talk about the religious fundamentalists who are trying to impose their beliefs on others every single day, but I'm not in the mood to be too bitchy tonight.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hangman @ Feb 6 2008, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>After an experience with a vicious dog a few months ago, I can't even look at the Andrex puppy without shuddering, so for now I think it's safe to say I wouldn't love them, but I'm working on getting over it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hangman @ Feb 6 2008, 10:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>I spit at Tesco. Waitrose is a great supermarket for vegan foods too, but there's only one in the entire city of Edinburgh and in my two years living here I still haven't managed to find it.

Rob

Pet peeves:

Racists
Rudeness
1st thing in the morning for anything
Someone interrupting my 1st hour of waking up. Unless you're bleeding/dying or the house is on fire- I don't care
Ignorance
Illegal immigrants
People who twist innocuous words to mean something other than what you stated. Remember they and them Azh. Meh!
Body odor
People who have no idea how to apply perfume/cologne.
Bad breath. Eat a breath mint, PLEASE.
Foods that smell funky....and are supposed to.
Twinkies
Liver and onions
Bad movies
Stupid wait staff
Customer Service reps who give you everything BUT service.
People who under estimate me
Old people who smell like wee (Sorry Rob, but that was good.)
Half assed sentences or replies that make little to no sense to the statement/question posted. *smirk*
Snobs
Sales callers who ask you why you can't talk to them right now. Uhmm, because I'm busy..
Shrieking children

This list could get ugly. :P

Ignorance

Mean-spiritedness

Smoking

People who don't pay attention to what's going on around them

Disloyalty

People who drive slowly in the top (fast) lane of traffic

People who tailgate me, especially at night on the winding mountain roads where l live, with their headlights on bright

People who let their dogs bark for hours

People who inflict their noise on other people and then get angry when you ask them to stop

Loud sounds of any kind

Spammers

Having to get up in the morning

Having to go to bed at night

The use of masculine-derived surnames or boys' given names, often kre8tively spelled, for girls' given names. For some reason, the current crop of parents seems to think it's "cool" to use these names for their poor, sweet baby girls; for example, Makena, Mykennsie, Emersyn, Madisyn, Carsyn, Peyton, Ashton, Ethan, Ryan, Aubrey, Sawyer, Hadley. (Oh, I do feel a wonderful post coming on .)

Anything that doesn't work when it's supposed to, or do what it's supposed to




Oh, I know there's more I could add to this list, but I can't think of them right now. (Don't you just hate it when that happens? :P )


Kitty

"Set a new course. There's coffee in that nebula." -- Capt. Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

Laptop hippies
Snobs
Inverted snobs
Yuppies
Apologists for terrorism
Cyber-abusers
Townies who 'relocate' to the countryside and demand it's just like the town
Alleged lefties who turn out to be stonking authoritarians
Huntsmen and their toadies
Working class conservatives who claim their views are 'common sense'
New Labour MPs
David Cameron
Minor Royals
Major Royals (except the Queen and Princess Sourpuss)
Tatler
Julia Roberts
Nigel Kennedy
Jamie Oliver
Private schoolboys with fake working class accents
People who say "No way!"
Owners of 4X4 who live in Highgate
Women who beat their children in Iceland
Wealthy people who visit my area of London to buy illegal drugs
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Nicholas van Hoogstraten
Daytime TV programmes featuring working class people yelling at each other, e.g. the Jeremy Kyle Show
People who at the end of a pop music "track" shout "WOOOOOO" in a falsetto voice
Boris Johnson
Biros which won't write upside-down

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.