Irrational hatreds

Jay dubbleU

CiB wrote:

Chelsea, and Man Urenited. I really can't stand the both of them. Extend that to encapsulate Mr Ferguson too, not least for his now childish refusal to talk to the BBC and in not doing so prevent the next generation of fans from hearing the manager's views unless we buy Sky, which I refuse to do out of principle.

Sky tv.

+10

ketsbaia

CiB wrote:

Labour.

As in 'having to do any work'?

I hear ya...

dvdfoz

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Microsoft and all it stands for

CiB wrote:

Chelsea, and Man Urenited

CiB wrote:

Soaps

Surely OT, all seem perfectly rational to me.


And anyone in a busy pub who'll stubbornly stand in the way at the bar and pointedly ignore me when I try to get served.

lost_in_thought

Oh god, fog lights, they're another one. Oh, and made-up American words, like 'burglarized'. What's wrong with 'burgled'?

CiB

lost_in_thought wrote:

Oh god, fog lights, they're another one. Oh, and made-up American words, like 'burglarized'. What's wrong with 'burgled'?

You know what the Yanks say LiT. There's no noun that can't be verbed.

<off now>

Gypsum_Fantastic

Pandas - I f*cking hate pandas

notsoblue

People being wrong on the internet. Its a personal flaw of mine :oops:

W1

notsoblue wrote:

People being wrong on the internet. Its a personal flaw of mine :oops:

Thank god I don't suffer from that. Sounds ghastly.

Gypsum_Fantastic

wheeled_warrior wrote:

The Antiques Roadshow

Top answer

DonDaddyD

Jeph Loeb

Jeph Loeb and his entire bibliography dating as far back as the early 90s!

I hate him for helping to destroy comics in the 90s.

I hate him for destroying the hulk after he went through the most beautiful piece of character development.

I hate him for killing Sabertooth if the way he was killed.

I hate him for destroying the Ultimates - my favourite comic.

I hate him for have Red Hulk lift Thor's magical hammer who only the worthy can lift.

I hate the pen and paper that Jeph uses to script comic stories.

I hate him with hate!

Ian.B

CiB wrote:

[PS; include the use of "they" when faced with the indeterminate gender singular personal pronoun. No - don't use they for one unknown person, it's he or she. Right?]. Where was I? How can someone be expected to know something that he or she doesn't know that they don't know?

Hmm? What was that again?

'Criteria' as a single noun; 'protest' as a transitive verb (in most cases, although 'protesting one's innocence' is OK - not sure what the grammatical distinction is there)

Collins English Dictionary says 'octopuses', BTW

jonginge

Ian.B wrote:

CiB wrote:

[PS; include the use of "they" when faced with the indeterminate gender singular personal pronoun. No - don't use they for one unknown person, it's he or she. Right?]. Where was I? How can someone be expected to know something that he or she doesn't know that they don't know?

Hmm? What was that again?

'Criteria' as a single noun; 'protest' as a transitive verb (in most cases, although 'protesting one's innocence' is OK - not sure what the grammatical distinction is there)

Collins English Dictionary says 'octopuses', BTW

Also here: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/octopus

Agent57

notsoblue wrote:

People being wrong on the internet. Its a personal flaw of mine :oops:

People who don't capitalise "Internet". I feel the same way about people who use "website" rather than "Web site."

mkirby

Ian.B wrote:

[Collins English Dictionary says 'octopuses', BTW

The dictionary mearly states the common usages of the day. It does not however mean that that is gramatically or syntactically correct.

Flyingbogey

Inflections, worst offenders are aussies and posh teens.

SimonAH

Customers who call me up and assume that I'll recognise their voice on the telephone because we indulged in a little bit of small talk the last time we had a conversation about six months ago and they feel we bonded.

and

The modern Disney corporation.

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American officialdom

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Tofu especially braised tofu....why?

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People who pretend to be Japanese????????? Affecting Japanese mannerisms and buying anything with Hello Kitty on it makes you a particularly sad subset of western culture. stop it you weirdos.

UndercoverElephant

This must have come up already, but people in character suits. For example football mascots and Disneyland type Goofy and Mickey. They make my blood run cold. I have to resist the urge to punch them in their giant, foam heads.

And clowns, obviously.

rjsterry

UndercoverElephant wrote:

This must have come up already, but people in character suits. For example football mascots and Disneyland type Goofy and Mickey. They make my blood run cold. I have to resist the urge to punch them in their giant, foam heads.

And clowns, obviously.

Surely you mean hot, or are they really that scary.

UndercoverElephant

rjsterry wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

This must have come up already, but people in character suits. For example football mascots and Disneyland type Goofy and Mickey. They make my blood run cold. I have to resist the urge to punch them in their giant, foam heads.

And clowns, obviously.

Surely you mean hot, or are they really that scary.

Really that scary; it's fight or flight time. I usually manage not to do either, thankfully, as long as they don't bother me.

dhope

rediculous

Stoo48

Being called mate, especially by Muppets I have never met before.

My wife give me the look every time I correct them in my most condescending tone, that I am not currently your mate, nor am I ever likely to be your mate.

rick_chasey

Stoo48 wrote:

Being called mate, especially by Muppets I have never met before.

My wife give me the look every time I correct them in my most condescending tone, that I am not currently your mate, nor am I ever likely to be your mate.

It's usually used as a way to diffuse the situation...

Take the hint - don't escalate it.

Agent57

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

Stoo48

By Muppets, I mean people working in shops etc. not people I am trying to wind up or down in such a way that they might hit me!

I walk or run from them!

rick_chasey

Agent57 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

What is?

UndercoverElephant

Rick Chasey wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

What is?

Diffuse/defuse, at a guess.

rick_chasey

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

What is?

Diffuse/defuse, at a guess.

I thought the saying was in reference to pressure?

Rather than a fuse...

UndercoverElephant

Rick Chasey wrote:

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Agent57 wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

diffuse the situation

This isn't an irrational hatred, but it's another one of my pet peeves.

What is?

Diffuse/defuse, at a guess.

I thought the saying was in reference to pressure?

Rather than a fuse...

Not so, defuse as in to render harmless/less tense.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000273.htm

Edit: Not that I give a stuff, naturally.

rick_chasey

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Not so, defuse as in to render harmless/less tense.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000273.htm

Fair enough - I'm foreign - I'm doing alright in using the saying in the first place.

Mine does make sense though...

You want the pressure of the situation to diffuse into the air? To disseminate? The tension is there, you just let it leak out...


Aaanyway.

UndercoverElephant

Actually, can I add people who pull others up on relatively meaningless grammatical errors to my list? They come between nose-touching and people with big, foam heads.