Thursday, 4 October 2018

Hate List

Behaviour in Public
  1. Rushing past others to get on a train first
  2. Walking in crowded areas staring at a phone
  3. Playing anything loud on a phone instead of using headphones on public transport
  4. Littering
  5. Spitting
  6. Being angry or abusive with people in customer service roles for something they are not at fault for
  7. Rudeness to staff in restaurants, especially youngsters
  8. Eating and making any sort of noise on public transport
  9. Talking loudly on the phone with headphones in, instead of holding the phone to your ear
  10. Feet on seats on public transport
  11. Putting bags on the seat next to you on trains
  12. Stopping in front of train barriers to look for your ticket and holding up a crowd behind you
  13. Walking around holding a carton of some form of over-priced, frothy hot drink
  14. Chewing gum
  15. Whistling a tune
Attitudes/ opinions
  1. Prejudice born from religious (or cultural-religious) beliefs
  2. That individual rights over-ride responsibilities or duties
  3. Being offended on behalf of others
  4. Calling for people to be banned for making (what some people think are) offensive remarks (but are not abusive towards anyone)
  5. Excusing unnecessary personal insult and rudeness as honest opinion
  6. That saying something to someone's face is an attribute
  7. Virtue signalling
  8. Misapplication of the term 'racist'
  9. Castigating all men for the sexism without realising the ironic reverse sexism in such criticism
  10. 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
  11. Defending immigration as a default position, because to be slightly critical might seem racist
  12. Being willing to criticise or ridicule one culture/ religion/ political group (etc) but claiming it to be wrong to do so for another
  13. Belief in cultural relativism
  14. An unwillingness to acknowledge that lots of people conform to stereotypes
  15. Hand-wringing sentimentality
  16. Aggressive social justice activism that demeans others who don't conform to the same opinions
In social interactions
  1. Egocentrism in general
  2. 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
  3. Interrupting someone talking to change the subject or make an irrelevant comment
  4. Looking away constantly when you're talking to them
  5. Being addressed as 'Bruv' or 'Geez'
  6. Telling you what 'you should do'
  7. Use of trite, faux wisdom / cliché truisms / platitudes / pocket philosophy
  8. Use of particular vocabulary, fully aware that the audience won't understand it, in a deliberate show of intellectual superiority
  9. 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)
  10. Claims to be mad/ nutty/ wacky, when clearly the person is a complete dullard
  11. Kids who address each other as 'Fam'
Driving
  1. Anything aggressive/ bullying
  2. Non-disabled people parking in disabled places
  3. Tail-gating
  4. Under-taking in the wrong lane
  5. Speeding
  6. People with no children parking in parent-and-child spaces
  7. Not bothering to indicate
  8. Personalised number plates
  9. Cyclists
  10. Parking across 2 spaces

Domestic Annoyances
  1. Things breaking down or house problems (e.g. leaks, boiler, appliance break down)
  2. Untidiness (a) Allowing unwanted clutter to build up
  3. Untidiness (b) Allowing wanted clutter to build up instead of putting it away somewhere
  4. Food being thrown away (having been bought or cooked and not used before it goes off)
  5. Noisy neighbours
  6. Dirty dishes/ pans left in the sink instead of on the side
  7. Un-emptied shopping bags left in front of cupboard doors in the kitchen
  8. TV on too loud
  9. People walking mud into the house
  10. Clothes left lying around in the lounge
  11. Curtains half opened
Most irritating celebrities
  1. Diane Abbot
  2. Jamie Oliver
  3. Alan Davies
  4. Danny Dyer
  5. Stewart Lee
  6. Lewis Hamilton
  7. Michael McIntyre
  8. Owen Jones
  9. Sinead O'Connor
  10. Charlie Stayt

Things I hate that most people like or don't mind
  1. Dancing
  2. Singing
  3. Wearing shoes (I always opt for a boot or a trainer)
  4. Going to the cinema (unless it is one with tables and sofas, for grown ups)
  5. Parties (with few exceptions)
  6. Cars
  7. Football
  8. Tracksuit bottoms
  9. Drinking coffee at work

High St Shops
  1. Starbucks, Pret or anywhere specialising in over-priced, frothy hot drinks
  2. McDonald's
  3. Over-priced clothes shops that play loud music
  4. Nandos

Places of leisure
  1. People who talk at gigs
  2. People who hold up their phones (often blocking your view) at gigs to take lots of photos or, even worse, video
  3. Allowing someone to serve you in a pub when someone next you was clearly at the bar first
  4. People who take photos of interesting things/ views without stopping to actually look at them
  5. 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
Social Media
  1. Soundbite arguing on Twitter
  2. Trolling
  3. Caring about unfollowing on Twitter
  4. Preaching
  5. 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
  1. Scouse 

People in certain professions/ jobs
  1. Politicians
  2. Estate agents
  3. Barmen in cocktail bars who spin/juggle bottle

TV
  1. Love Island/ Big Brother style shows, full of thick, egotistical millenials
  2. Mrs Brown's Boys
  3. Eastenders
  4. Most news programmes
  5. The Big Question
  6. Irrelevant sex scenes in dramas
  7. The Politics Show

Smells
  1. Salami breath
  2. Sour milk
  3. Dog shit
  4. Garlic breath
  5. Whiskey breath
  6. Scrumpy
What people wear
  1. Bandanas covering half he face
  2. Hoodies with hoods up 
  3. Tracksuit bottoms (in Chav-grey)
  4. Skinny jeans
  5. Crocs

Animals
  1. Rats
  2. Wasps
  3. Cats
  4. Flies

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