- Rushing past others to get on a train first
- Walking in crowded areas staring at a phone
- Playing anything loud on a phone instead of using headphones on public transport
- Littering
- Spitting
- Being angry or abusive with people in customer service roles for something they are not at fault for
- Rudeness to staff in restaurants, especially youngsters
- Eating and making any sort of noise on public transport
- Talking loudly on the phone with headphones in, instead of holding the phone to your ear
- Feet on seats on public transport
- Putting bags on the seat next to you on trains
- Stopping in front of train barriers to look for your ticket and holding up a crowd behind you
- Walking around holding a carton of some form of over-priced, frothy hot drink
- Chewing gum
- Whistling a tune
- Prejudice born from religious (or cultural-religious) beliefs
- That individual rights over-ride responsibilities or duties
- Being offended on behalf of others
- Calling for people to be banned for making (what some people think are) offensive remarks (but are not abusive towards anyone)
- Excusing unnecessary personal insult and rudeness as honest opinion
- That saying something to someone's face is an attribute
- Virtue signalling
- Misapplication of the term 'racist'
- Castigating all men for the sexism without realising the ironic reverse sexism in such criticism
- Mocking white middle men aged as Gammons on the assumption that they are racist, without realising the irony of introducing a racial element into that criticism
- Defending immigration as a default position, because to be slightly critical might seem racist
- Being willing to criticise or ridicule one culture/ religion/ political group (etc) but claiming it to be wrong to do so for another
- Belief in cultural relativism
- An unwillingness to acknowledge that lots of people conform to stereotypes
- Hand-wringing sentimentality
- Aggressive social justice activism that demeans others who don't conform to the same opinions
- Egocentrism in general
- Specifically.... People who can't wait for you to finish your sentence so they can tell you about themselves and consequently don't listen to you or ask follow-up questions about anything you tell them
- Interrupting someone talking to change the subject or make an irrelevant comment
- Looking away constantly when you're talking to them
- Being addressed as 'Bruv' or 'Geez'
- Telling you what 'you should do'
- Use of trite, faux wisdom / cliché truisms / platitudes / pocket philosophy
- Use of particular vocabulary, fully aware that the audience won't understand it, in a deliberate show of intellectual superiority
- The '2 shits' habit of responding to something others say with a claim to have done something similar but better (You've had one shit, well I've had two)
- Claims to be mad/ nutty/ wacky, when clearly the person is a complete dullard
- Kids who address each other as 'Fam'
Driving
High St Shops
Places of leisure
Sport-related
- Anything aggressive/ bullying
- Non-disabled people parking in disabled places
- Tail-gating
- Under-taking in the wrong lane
- Speeding
- People with no children parking in parent-and-child spaces
- Not bothering to indicate
- Personalised number plates
- Cyclists
- Parking across 2 spaces
Domestic Annoyances
- Things breaking down or house problems (e.g. leaks, boiler, appliance break down)
- Untidiness (a) Allowing unwanted clutter to build up
- Untidiness (b) Allowing wanted clutter to build up instead of putting it away somewhere
- Food being thrown away (having been bought or cooked and not used before it goes off)
- Noisy neighbours
- Dirty dishes/ pans left in the sink instead of on the side
- Un-emptied shopping bags left in front of cupboard doors in the kitchen
- TV on too loud
- People walking mud into the house
- Clothes left lying around in the lounge
- Curtains half opened
- Diane Abbot
- Jamie Oliver
- Alan Davies
- Danny Dyer
- Stewart Lee
- Lewis Hamilton
- Michael McIntyre
- Owen Jones
- Sinead O'Connor
- Charlie Stayt
Things I hate that most people like or don't mind
- Dancing
- Singing
- Wearing shoes (I always opt for a boot or a trainer)
- Going to the cinema (unless it is one with tables and sofas, for grown ups)
- Parties (with few exceptions)
- Cars
- Football
- Tracksuit bottoms
- Drinking coffee at work
High St Shops
- Starbucks, Pret or anywhere specialising in over-priced, frothy hot drinks
- McDonald's
- Over-priced clothes shops that play loud music
- Nandos
Places of leisure
- People who talk at gigs
- People who hold up their phones (often blocking your view) at gigs to take lots of photos or, even worse, video
- Allowing someone to serve you in a pub when someone next you was clearly at the bar first
- People who take photos of interesting things/ views without stopping to actually look at them
- People who stand in front of you while you look at a painting
Sport-related
- Football tribalism
- Acceptance of cheating as a strategy in football (e.g. inviting contact and falling to the ground to gain a penalty)
Music
- Misogynistic / self-promoting/ brash/ arrogant/ aggressive lyrics in rap
- Rap, grime, urban, R n B.... all that sort of shit
- Improvisational Jazz
- Singers who constantly go up and down the scale while singing one word
- Boy bands
- World Music
- Soundbite arguing on Twitter
- Trolling
- Caring about unfollowing on Twitter
- Preaching
- Posting something copied and pasted for a cause that includes a line like, 'most people won't pass this on, but real friends will'
Regional Accents
- Scouse
People in certain professions/ jobs
- Politicians
- Estate agents
- Barmen in cocktail bars who spin/juggle bottle
TV
- Love Island/ Big Brother style shows, full of thick, egotistical millenials
- Mrs Brown's Boys
- Eastenders
- Most news programmes
- The Big Question
- Irrelevant sex scenes in dramas
- The Politics Show
Smells
- Salami breath
- Sour milk
- Dog shit
- Garlic breath
- Whiskey breath
- Scrumpy
- Bandanas covering half he face
- Hoodies with hoods up
- Tracksuit bottoms (in Chav-grey)
- Skinny jeans
- Crocs
Animals
- Rats
- Wasps
- Cats
- Flies
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