Silly little pet hates?

[number8]

Well, what are they? Mine are newsreaders who attempt to come out with a funny little quip at the end of the news - just read the damn news. People who use the words 'proactive' and 'synergy'. And probably my biggest - the fact that politicians are incapable of giving a yes or no answer.

[jills]

- when policemen try to use more words than necessary in an (often failed) attempt to sound clever. - tucking blanks into blanks questions (Bernardo is god like in his responses tho!) - overly bias football commentators/pundits - folk who put gold wheels on Subarus - wet and windy weather - unsolicited telephone calls

[BenDToy]

People who use expressions like "3 times better" instead of "3 times as good" or "2 times cheaper" (whatever the **** that means!) Meaningless drivel which implies more significance than is there. A favoured tool of advertisers bereft of original thought. And don't get me started on shampoo - up to three times shinier! - I ask you. Rant over.

[andy hughes]

I hate people who mis-use apostrphe's (!) and people who talk with the moronic interogative? and boy raceers with �300 F-reg. Novas with two grand of stereo fitted, which they use to play garbage at ear-bleeding volume. People who shout into their mobiles. News readers who say "secetary", I could go on and on and on, so I'll stop and have a lie down!

[becks]

Oooh great post scubaboy! Mine are people who don't know the lyrics to songs but try and sing them anyway, middle lane drivers, people who walk along in front of you in the street then just stop for no reason (also applicable in supermarkets and train stations). people who use big words cos they think it makes them sound clever, esp when they are not used in the right context, and people who use tx spk. GGRRRRRRRR!!!!

[jills]

following on from Andy's post....people who say 'patten' not 'patteRn', and ditto 'drawRing' when it should be 'drawing'.

[Moonhead]

Mine has to be people who are "Welsh and proud" and "hate" the English, i.e wont go shopping across the border to Chester, refuse to support the Olympics because "all the athletes are bl**dy English" etc etc BUT who cant utter a single word of Welsh, mis-pronounce they're own country's Welsh names, and complain about bi-lingual road signs!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr! If you want to be all "Wales of Wales" then at least learn to speak your own language...

[Moonhead]

Ooops sorry about the "they're" and spelling mistakes, I was too busy ranting to notice :)

[lizw]

people who 'borrow' you money or want to 'lend' off you!

[headrush]

On the subject of pronunciation, people who say, "skelenton" instead of skeleton. -People who can't make it all the way through a sentence without 3 x "like" and 4 x "sort of". -People who attend polo matches. -The Nokia ring tune. -The adverts for Jamster (or any ring tones) on cable/satellite. -Any homosexual/God botherer/feng shui fan/vegetarian who tries to tell me that my life is somehow incomplete. When it isn't. But not those people in general! -People who a baseball cap in cars that aren't convertibles. (You do have to wear one with a roof down because the sun comes over the windscreen where the roof normally is...) -Doctors' receptionists. Just give me an appointment. -People who refer to slavery as "the good old days".

[rja211077]

folk who say 'know what i mean' or 'know what i'm saying' in every sentence. hello Victor Ebuwa. Teletext cricket scorecard pages that say 'updates when available' - what the hell does that mean? - log onto cricinfo or countless other websites and there's your update (bit of an obscure one that, i know). Football agents. Pointless sporting headlines in the media e.g. "Wenger positive about prospects for new season". Middle lane drivers. Speed cameras. Films/music/literature that is aimed at a particular sex. Could go on forever.

[Robinia]

All newsreaders, TV / radio presenters etc who 'soldier on' despite being so full of cold you can barely tell what they're saying...."Go home, there are hundreds of others who can do your job for a few days!!" Any body who uses the word infrastructure. People who stand so close behind you in queues that you can hear them breathing - ugh! The term real women, usually given to those over a certain size. I'm skinny ..I can't help it...but I'm a real woman too!!

[CleverClogs]

1) Pizza delivery moped riders. 2) Call centres. 3) The women with the very irritating voice from the Yes Car Credit advert, wearing extremely ill fitting clothes. 4) Adverts that make you feel bad for being skint, then offer you a loan at really high interest rates. 5) Me, for spending so much time thinking about all the things that niggle me. Right, I'm off too the pub to consider some more.........

[rekstout]

Pub chain food - if you can call it that.
People who try to convince me to drink alcohol despite knowing it will nigh on kill me (allergy)
Fake handbags - quality issues aside - you're not fooling anyone by carrying a �2000 handbag then getting into a C reg Nova SRi
Piracy - both sorts
The makeshift buoys the Portug(u)ese fishermen use for their lobster pots in Lagos - Pop Bottles, Oil containers, anything transparent - they knacker props.

[beale]

Aussie backpackers who complain about the British weather are very annoying. Especially as year long hot weather seems like hell to me.

[OBonio]

Motorists who drive at 40mph in a 60mph zone, then carry on doing 40 through a 30! People who say 'racialist'. 'Helpful' software (e.g. reformats something it thinks you've not done correctly). Politicians and their statistics.

[boognish76]

I hate negativity!

[smudge]

1)Political Correctness. 2)Greedy Compensation Grabbers. 3)Ball Park Figure, instead of roughly! 4)Tony Blair, Cherie Blair, John Prescott's ugly & irritating faces.

[smudge]

I can think of so many more silly little pet hates, but the sun's just come out & I must pop out into the garden to clear my head!

[natalie_1982]

-Being stuck in traffic on a bus full of screaming kids -Spoilt/ ungrateful/ insensitive people -That stupid hair gel advert for shockwaves -Calgon adverts The new toilet roll advert that has the two 'sisters' in it, can't remember what brand