How's this for an irrational dislike of something?

[flip_flop]

I've just been to lunch with a colleague and she held her knife like a pen.

Bizarrely, it annoyed me!!!

So, does anybody else out there have an irrational dislike of something?

[China Doll]

Wet toilet paper.

[dot.hawkes]

people at work who bring food wrapped in tin foil instead of in sandwich bags!

[Sasha13]

People who confuse 'they're, there and their', 'to, too and two' etc. Totally irrational as it's not like I have the finest command of the English language.

[saxy_jag]

People who pronouce the letter 'h' as "haytch" rather than 'aytch'.

[reachesme]

People who say 'at the end of the day' and then carry on with the conversation for another five minutes.
People who say 'seriously', usually thick people born out of wedlock trying to look bright.
People who chew chewing gum in public, so their mouth looks like a washing machine with the door open. Then they chuck it anywhere thats suits them for others to get stuck and share the offenders bodily fluids.
When i am looking for something and someone says, 'where was the last place you seen it'. grrrrrrrr.
Cold calling.
People who leave their phone on really load in quiet places thinking it's cool to have a mobile phone in 2007 when five year olds have them and they usually wear their phone on their belt, pathetic.
People who flick ash on peoples floors and drop drinks and basically not give a four and a half at partys, i even caught one person once, flicking their ash in the washing up, what a 'see you next tuesday'.
People who get their kids to call non family members 'auntys and bloody uncles', why on earth would anyone do that?
People who say ' i am driving, so i am only going to have two pints'. You need shooting.
And if i have spelt anything wrong, sorry, i was on a roll and i aint a gud speller at da best of times.

[Sasha13]

Ooh, that's reminded me of another one... People who say "I'm not being funny but...." and then proceed to $lag someone off for the next ten minutes.

[BillStickers]

Sasha, I hate that too, also people who say "I was like that.." , and then demonstrate what they were 'like' with gestures or words.
At the very least they could say "I was like this" before a short performance of what they were like, etc.

[BillStickers]

Feet on the seats, on buses. These are grown adults I'm talking about!

[eleanswers]

The length of my boyfriends trousers REALLY bothers me.

[dot.hawkes]

tell him to put some jam on his shoes and invite his trousers down for tea.
(an annoying saying I learnt in Wales)

[katejess44]

People who say 'awww, don't put yourself down'........makes me want to throttle them!

[littleoldme]

Good call, saxy_jag. Daft thing is, it's probably the only time they do pronounce the 'aytch' at the start of a word!

Right then:

People who raise the pitch of their voices at the end of a sentence to make it sound like a question.
People who say 'literally' when they mean anything but. Example - "I was literally frozen stiff". No you weren't. If you had been, you'd be dead now.
People who make any...and I mean ANY...noise while eating. I know some noise is inevitable, but I still find it disgusting. Noisy sucking of fingers should be punishable by hanging.
Wasps.
People who spell "lose" (i.e. opposite of win or find) as "loose" (i.e. opposite of tight).
People who say "I could/would/should OF" instead of "I could/would/should HAVE" - think about it, Einstein.
Patrick Kielty.
The fact that if there is one single solitary dog turd in a field the size of Belgium, my shoe will find it.

I'd better stop there or I'll be here all night. ;-)

[wildwood]

littleoldme, I am so glad to see that you too have an aversion to noisy eaters. It makes me want to shove the food down their throat with one of those wooden pushing implements the butcher uses to push the meat down the mincer.

[eleanswers]

That's a good one dot. and I'm sure to use it. Any suggestions for the length of his arm (or lack of length) which also really bothers me.

[pilotlight]

People who pronounce the word 'drawing' as 'drawring' --- even BBC presenters do it now !

[stewey]

How about people who say:

siblings instead of brothers and sisters.
venue instead of location.
medication instead of pills
urban myth instead of popular misconception.
pg instead of pregnant.
dehydrated instead of thirsty.
avatar instead of picture.
revise instead of study.
gap-year instead of bumming around.
retro-fit instead of rebuild.

Of course, as soon as I post this, I'll think of more!

[gilli999]

People who have a blue tooth stuck in their lug hole when they are walking down the street !

[True Blue 36]

people who live in the same street as you or on the train to work, that you have seen for the last 10 years but still do not say hello or smile

[fran2]

PG.so american stewey. Cant bear it either and men who blow there noses in the street but with no tissue's ot hanky.

[DONNA1458]

Men/lads who wear the collar up on polo shirts