Stuff We Hate

You know what we hate? :-

1. Quizzes involving flags.
2. Excessive celebrations by athletes.
3. The Age (of recent times).
4. Fitted sheets with narrow walls.
5. The paper on which UK Grazia is printed.
6. Alcohol-free wedding receptions.
7. Expensive compacts (I’m looking at you, Lancômbe and Chanel) designed so that the application sponge presses against the mirror when the compact is shut – smudging and smutting the mirror. The much cheaper Revlon compacts are designed so that this doesn’t happen, people!
8. Christmas wrapping paper on those annoying, inconvenient rolls. Why does it never come flat and folded up like other wrapping paper?
9. The conversation-starters which dress-shop assistants learn, “What’s it like out there?”, “Are you looking for something for a special occasion?”
10. When a hotel charges you for parking.
11. Drivers deciding at the last moment to turn right across traffic.
12. People dithering on pavements.
13. People in our way in general.
14. Buffering.
15. People who buy a big dog and never walk it.
16.  Rap.
17. Appliances with no ‘on/off’ switch.
18. Quizzes involving flags.
19. ‘Artists’ who can’t draw.
20. Calling babysitters “Nannies.”.
21. Houses without books.
22. Bono (except when he sings “One”)
23. The ‘mobile phone’ gesture; – fist at the side of the face, thumb up in the air, pinkie out.
24. “I literally died”. (No, you didn’t.)
25. Dinner guests adding salt to food without tasting it.
26. The conversation-starters which hairdressers learn, “Have you got the day off?”, “Do you work around here?”, “What have you got on this weekend?”
27. The conversation-starters which dress-shop assistants learn, “What’s it like out there?”, “Are you looking for something for a special occasion?”
28. The cult of Sir Donald Bradman
    29. We, like Roger Moore’s character in North Sea Hijack, “like cats…and don’t much like people who don’t.”