Whats your Pet Hate?

MANTO said:
People who stop dead in their tracks to look in a shop window - they deserve a good kick in the ankles.
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People who keep adding to their list on this thread instead of making one list :D only jokin' says she adding another one to her list.

Absolutely tiny, tiny, tiny font on Terms and Conditions that affect something important like your health, car or household insurance :mad:
 
Women (should i have said people?) who poke in their purses at the check out for presumably lthe correct amount and engage conversation with the check out person completely ignoring the queue behind...
 
1) Uninformed people who think that if they say something often enough it must be true... e.g. if Thierry Henry didn't handle the ball Ireland would have qualified, most Public Sector workers have only recently had to start contributing to their pensions, 'foreigners' are ripping off the Social Welfare system in Ireland...

2) Bad manners

3) Cycle lanes in Dublin - generally substandard and of no use to cyclists

4) Not being able to get BBC iplayer in Ireland (without having to resort to proxy servers)

5) Paying high rates for a substandard broadband

6) Govt policy of encouraging use of public transport despite huge swathes of the country having no public transport option. Try getting from Navan to Tallaght without a car

7) Gerry Ryan

8) Big screen TV's in small living rooms

9) Parents who drive their kids around in mini tanks

10) Wine snobbery
 
1. When you send a PM to someone to offer assistance and they completly ignore you.
2. People who cough in to the back of your head when you are standing in a supermarket queue.
3. People who leave their bins out several days after they have been collected.
4. Neighbours who plant invasive ivy and bushes in their garden and don't maintain them and block out your bit of sunlight.
5. Cars that block footpaths.
 
1: Drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts
2: People driving Audi cars who seem to think the rules of the road don't apply to them
3: Coleslaw and chutney
4: Radio DJs who have to have a posse to stroke their ego
5: Ferral children
6: Going to the dentist
7: Not being able to watch the 6pm news when I get home due to having either Waybuloo/In the night Garden on one telly or Strictly Come Dancing it takes 2 on the other telly
8: Rude, ill mannered pig ignorent boorish shop assistants.
9: The Naas bypass.
10:The camera at the short term car park in Dublin airport not being able to read my number plate for some unknown reason
11: People who hit "reply to all" on emails when the issue is of no interest to me
12: People who don't know how to use WinZip and clog up my inbox with attachements.
13: Joan Burton's voice
14: Muppets who have one light not working on their car so they turn the other one on full beam and leave it on.
15: Muffin tops on women
16: Sinn Fein
17: Casualty/Holby City etc, I've spent enough time in A&E over the years for various reasons without wanting to watch it on the TV
18: Comedians who are obscene to cover up the fact that they have little or no real talent

Aside from that, life is pretty good !!!!!!!
 
1. Arrogance/pretentiousness.
2. Excessive consumerism, often related to self-obsession (affects the ladies more so than the lads I think).
3. Losing stuff.
4. Stress carriers - those whose goal it is to cause stress in others. You know the ones, all their Christmasses would come at once if they thought you had made a mistake and they had picked up on it.
 
Girlf said:
  • People who are constantly organizing collections at work if someone so much as moves across the hall (may be a CS issue)
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+1. Definitely a CS thing. Even when someone says the don't want a fuss, and they don't want a collection, someone will still insist on organising one. With all the early retirements at the moment, everyone's broke, and you still have to give for Mary who's transferring all the way upstairs.
 
Washing my 4 kids teeth before bedtime and in the morning or anytime for that matter, soon they will be doing for themselves and no I won't be looking back fondly wishing I was doing it for them again...............I think it's one of my husbands pet hates too so "who's putting the kids to bed" is always met with one of us trying to get busy doing something else quickly and dare I say inconspiciously..........
 
It used to be when I was dragged around clothes shops by my other half.

I said in the beginning that it used to be my pet hate but :) not any more. I discovered a use for my mobile phone.

When we go into town ( any town) she goes right and I go left and at an agreed time I phone her to ensure that the meeting time is still on as in the past I have been left standing for half an hour or more. Meeting in a pub did not work out either because once I had almost to be carried home .
 
Betsy Og said:
Excessive consumerism, often related to self-obsession (affects the ladies more so than the lads I think).
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You nailed that one. As I laughingly said to my husband from my old motorola phone from the queue in Penneys- 'sure I KNOW I don't need another top, pair of tights, etc but I HAD to have it'.

He replied from the Phonestore shop on his I-Phone, while pre-ordering the new N900, 'never mind darling, I know what you women are like!'

We met later on- well he picked me up in his latest car ( alloy wheels, sat nav, heated seats, climate control, integrated phone etc) as my old volvo ( basic no extras ancient model) was being serviced in the hope it might pass yet another NCT.

I looked at my penney's bag and felt a little ashamed at my prolifigate spending especially as Mr.V would never spend a cent on clothes if I didn't buy them for him.

Ladies, we are so lucky with the men in our lives. Let's take a minute to really appreciate how selfless they are.
 
One of my pet hates is women who do everything for their husband (cook,clean, iron, buy their clothes, manage the kids, etc) without complaint as long as they can give out about their husband to other hard-done-bys in the sisterhood.

Why not deal with the issue at source?
 
Staples said:
One of my pet hates is women who do everything for their husband (cook,clean, iron, buy their clothes, manage the kids, etc) without complaint as long as they can give out about their husband to other hard-done-bys in the sisterhood.

Why not deal with the issue at source?
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Hmmm, TBH if I had a spouse who did all that AND who didn't complain to me about it, I'd be quite happy to let them complain to other people. ;)
 
Vanilla said:
You nailed that one. As I laughingly said to my husband from my old motorola phone from the queue in Penneys- 'sure I KNOW I don't need another top, pair of tights, etc but I HAD to have it'.

He replied from the Phonestore shop on his I-Phone, while pre-ordering the new N900, 'never mind darling, I know what you women are like!'

We met later on- well he picked me up in his latest car ( alloy wheels, sat nav, heated seats, climate control, integrated phone etc) as my old volvo ( basic no extras ancient model) was being serviced in the hope it might pass yet another NCT.

I looked at my penney's bag and felt a little ashamed at my prolifigate spending especially as Mr.V would never spend a cent on clothes if I didn't buy them for him.

Ladies, we are so lucky with the men in our lives. Let's take a minute to really appreciate how selfless they are.
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Strangely familiar scenario this! Especially when he rang me from the video store the other day to give out that I had sent back a dvd late costing €5 in these worrying times! ...... arrives home 20 minutes later with Band of Brother's box set and the new xbox 360 war game! - €110. :D
 
New pet hate:

Numerous threads about Public Sector and Private sector then newer threads started which supposedly aren't about public sector but really they are and in about 6 more posts it will once again degenerate into public sector v private sector! Boring;)
 
Originally Posted by Staples http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?p=963236#post963236
One of my pet hates is women who do everything for their husband (cook,clean, iron, buy their clothes, manage the kids, etc) without complaint as long as they can give out about their husband to other hard-done-bys in the sisterhood.

Why not deal with the issue at source?
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Women love being in control ,which is why they do all these things;) and it also gives them the pleasure of being martyrs when they gather in a girlie huddle
 
Vanilla said:
I looked at my penney's bag and felt a little ashamed at my prolifigate spending especially as Mr.V would never spend a cent on clothes if I didn't buy them for him.
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LOL!!

Myself and Mr. V must be the two luckiest men in the world, I also have a wife who I have to convince to spend on herself. Boys do like toys, I like tv/IT gadgets but wouldnt spend loads (never a new car, good but sensible one).

Who I had in mind was the vacuous types who drone on about labels in BT's, who never have a bob but feel "they're worth it" - the slogan paved on the road to female financial hell, have no time for anyone except where it might suit them. There was a clip of yer wan Aoifffffe from Apprentice, yacking on about how she'd like more Louis Vitton and Jimmy Cho or whatever list of brands she reeled off - I cringed even more that usual !!!!
 
Those car alarms that sound as if someone's leaning on the horn. There's one going off outside the window at the moment.
 
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