The Hate Thread

[Ben Reilly]

First topic message reminder :

I've never seen anyone make a thread about things they hate. Maybe we all just want to live in Eddie's little sheep painting ( ), but I've always been interested in the things other people hate -- beyond the obvious.

So here are the (non-obvious) things I hate; feel free to join in the hate-fest!

Anything done by singer-songwriter Jewel.

People who are polite in personal situations (i.e. restaurants) but act like bastards in impersonal situations (i.e. while driving).

Seafood.

Wine coolers.

Musicians who imitate other musicians without openly acknowledging it.

Bad guys on TV or movies who turn into good guys at the end, especially when they were awesome bad guys to begin with.

People who socialize in grocery stores while others are trying to fucking shop (i.e. navigate their carts and be done in a timely manner).

People who hint at the point they're trying to make instead of for-God's-sake MAKING it.

People who like things (apparently) for the sole reason that a lot of other people like them.

People who hate things (apparently) for the sole reason that a lot of other people like them.

I should probably stop here ...

[harrymuffin]

I also hate people that pretend to be something they're not.

Those that throw stones in their very own crystal house.

[Andy]

I hate Flop.
I hate racists.
I hate bullies.
I hate crime.
I hate tomatoes, gherkins, and whisky.

[scrat]

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius

[Fluffyx]

Agreed Scrat.

And hating other people who have wronged you credits them with an importance they don't merit.

As an aside I am not too fond of parcel delivery companies who go away with your parcel because you are not in.
Why not leave it in the porch or through the letterbox??  

I also detest celery.

[xtras]

Hate ignorance..

[scrat]

Agreed Scrat.

And hating other people who have wronged you credits them with an importance they don't merit.

As an aside I am not too fond of parcel delivery companies who go away with your parcel because you are not in.
Why not leave it in the porch or through the letterbox??  

I also detest celery.

Hi Fluffy, I don't hate anyone other than tories, it's not really a hate, hate thing, it's just I struggle with their cap doffing and forelock tugging stupidity.

I hate butter, margarine and such.

[Guest]

I hate it when a bird poops on the washing.
I hate it when the alarm goes off.
I hate all reality TV
I hate celebrity culture
I hate bad manners
I hate drivers who lane hop
I hate cornflakes
I hate arrogance
I hate deceit
I hate soaps
I hate most fish and seafood
I hate those who hide their hate behind a religion
I hate those who seek to silence free speech
I hate mangoes

[xtras]

I hate it when a bird poops on the washing.
I hate it when the alarm goes off.
I hate all reality TV
I hate celebrity culture
I hate bad manners
I hate drivers who lane hop
I hate cornflakes
I hate arrogance
I hate deceit
I hate soaps
I hate most fish and seafood
I hate those who hide their hate behind a religion
I hate those who seek to silence free speech
I hate mangoes

great list  ::D:: 

[Guest]

I hate fibromyalgia!!!!!!

[Cass]

today I hate my alarm clock

[Lone Wolf]

........................................

I hate most fish and seafood

I hate mangoes...

  

YUM !!!   Seafood and mangoes..

 :::cass:::

[Guest]

I hate it when a bird poops on the washing.
I hate it when the alarm goes off.
I hate all reality TV
I hate celebrity culture
I hate bad manners
I hate drivers who lane hop
I hate cornflakes
I hate arrogance
I hate deceit
I hate soaps
I hate most fish and seafood
I hate those who hide their hate behind a religion
I hate those who seek to silence free speech
I hate mangoes

Britain's Got Talent?????

[Guest]

I hate it when a bird poops on the washing.
I hate it when the alarm goes off.
I hate all reality TV
I hate celebrity culture
I hate bad manners
I hate drivers who lane hop
I hate cornflakes
I hate arrogance
I hate deceit
I hate soaps
I hate most fish and seafood
I hate those who hide their hate behind a religion
I hate those who seek to silence free speech
I hate mangoes

Britain's Got Talent?????

Yes, you and David made me watch it but I cried every minute   

[Guest]

Britain's Got Talent?????

Yes, you and David made me watch it but I cried every minute   

Rubbish, David and I gave up after the first week.  We only watched for you

[Ben Reilly]

Not a big seafood fan either ... I was at Guero's Taco Bar in Austin last week and somebody ordered the fish tacos -- the smell alone was just about enough to run me off  

[Guest]

Yes, you and David made me watch it but I cried every minute   

Rubbish, David and I gave up after the first week.  We only watched for you

You is meeeeen

[Guest]

Rubbish, David and I gave up after the first week.  We only watched for you

You is meeeeen

Do you realise how many hours we gave up watching that with you so you had someone to chat to about it?? Now you deny it

I bet you are watching Celebrity Big Brother aren't you?????  

[Guest]

You is meeeeen

Do you realise how many hours we gave up watching that with you so you had someone to chat to about it?? Now you deny it

I bet you are watching Celebrity Big Brother aren't you?????  

[Lone Wolf]

Not a big seafood fan either ... I was at Guero's Taco Bar in Austin last week and somebody ordered the fish tacos -- the smell alone was just about enough to run me off  

     Tonight I had fish and chips with a side salad, for tea...

With black pepper, salad dressing AND VINEGAR..


FOR Nems and Ben, I have an old saying that may be apt for you two : "Don't eat fresh seafood if you can't see the ocean/sea from where you are !"       


I live near the coast, Lake and estuaries, and there are professional fish co-ops reasonably close..

AS for mangoes ~ they grow well around here, but a lot better again a few hours north where they don't have the winters to interrupt their activities.  The only reason i don't have a mango in the backyard is that I simply don't have the space for one (some mature trees that I have seen had a spread of over 30 m/100 feet !).    Even then, when the mango season is well under way down here, you can buy them for only a dollar or two each for big fresh specimens, especially if you buy them by the tray or box (holds two or three trays..).

:::cass:::

[Guest]

Not a big seafood fan either ... I was at Guero's Taco Bar in Austin last week and somebody ordered the fish tacos -- the smell alone was just about enough to run me off  

     Tonight I had fish and chips with a side salad, for tea...

With black pepper, salad dressing AND VINEGAR..


FOR Nems and Ben, I have an old saying that may be apt for you two : "Don't eat fresh seafood if you can't see the ocean/sea from where you are !"       


I live near the coast, Lake and estuaries, and there are professional fish co-ops reasonably close..

AS for mangoes ~ they grow well around here, but a lot better again a few hours north where they don't have the winters to interrupt their activities.  The only reason i don't have a mango in the backyard is that I simply don't have the space for one (some mature trees that I have seen had a spread of over 30 m/100 feet !).    Even then, when the mango season is well under way down here, you can buy them for only a dollar or two each for big fresh specimens, especially if you buy them by the tray or box (holds two or three trays..).

:::cass:::

Hmm I do something like that - if I didnt catch it I dont eat it as far as fish go.

[nicko]

Can't understand why anyone would eat any shellfish, don't they feed by filtering water for the food they need?

People eat shellfish that live by sewer outlets. Think about it!

[eddie]

I like shellfish!!   

I've done my list but here's one that I really really hate:

Stickers on things when you buy them!!!! They don't come off!!!! You,have to soak everything (if it isn't too,big) to get the sticker off and it leaves a residue FOREVER!!!

There was a sticky label on my new cooker once - telling me the oven door was heatproof!! WHAT THE FUCK?????
I can still see the residue and it still bugs me.

[Ben Reilly]

Maybe if I lived less than 300 miles from the Gulf ... but, alas ...

[Cass]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

[Original Quill]

Not a big seafood fan either ... I was at Guero's Taco Bar in Austin last week and somebody ordered the fish tacos -- the smell alone was just about enough to run me off  

     Tonight I had fish and chips with a side salad, for tea...

With black pepper, salad dressing AND VINEGAR..


FOR Nems and Ben, I have an old saying that may be apt for you two : "Don't eat fresh seafood if you can't see the ocean/sea from where you are !"       


I live near the coast, Lake and estuaries, and there are professional fish co-ops reasonably close..

AS for mangoes ~ they grow well around here, but a lot better again a few hours north where they don't have the winters to interrupt their activities.  The only reason i don't have a mango in the backyard is that I simply don't have the space for one (some mature trees that I have seen had a spread of over 30 m/100 feet !).    Even then, when the mango season is well under way down here, you can buy them for only a dollar or two each for big fresh specimens, especially if you buy them by the tray or box (holds two or three trays..).

:::cass:::

+1  I know every great seafood restaurant in the US, and they are all right next to the ocean.  Of course, tops on the list of seafood cities are New Orleans and San Francisco in the US, and maybe the greatest seafood city in the world, Lisbon, Portugal.  It's the home of the black lobster.  :::cass::: 

[Ben Reilly]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

[Original Quill]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

I remember the great newsprint debate. The SF Chronicle held out for the longest time, but then on day, ink black hands...

[Ben Reilly]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

I remember the great newsprint debate.  The SF Chronicle held out for the longest time, but then on day, ink black hands...

Don't know how it is out there, but here -- it's barely above toilet-paper grade

[Original Quill]

It has gotten better. SF Newspapers has switched to a new kind of photo print, so it's less pen and ink stuff.

[Ben Reilly]

It has gotten better.  SF Newspapers has switched to a new kind of photo print, so it's less pen and ink stuff.

Nice! I once had a supervisor who worked for the Chronicle -- this conservative member of the media (audience: gasp!) used to piss and moan about the union influence out there. And yet ... higher paper quality. I choose to believe it's because of all those lazy awful union members Don't tell me different ...

[Original Quill]

Oh no, I won't. SF is a strong union town. More than likely it is due to them.

San Francisco is the no. one liberal city of the US. Jeeez, Nancy Pelosi is the Congresswoman. Can't get more LW than that. Lol.

[Lone Wolf]

I like shellfish!!   

I've done my list but here's one that I really really hate:

Stickers on things when you buy them!!!! They don't come off!!!! You,have to soak everything (if it isn't too,big) to get the sticker off and it leaves a residue FOREVER!!!

There was a sticky label on my new cooker once - telling me the oven door was heatproof!! WHAT THE FUCK?????
I can still see the residue and it still bugs me.

  

A little Tea tree oil or Eucalyptus oil (a few drops on a cotton ball or a tissue) should be the "bee's knees" for removing any such residues...

(AS for those stickers that are on too hard, I simply let them fall off in their own good time - as long as they're not in a bad or inconvenient spot..).

[nicko]

I hate Americans and Aussie's trying to tell us how to run our country!

[veya_victaous]

I hate Americans and Aussie's  trying to tell us how to run our country!

we know that, that is why we keep doing it      

and revenge for the colonial era      and fun      

AND frankly because you're not doing a very good job..   and you did use that as the reason to take the land off the natives of our countries..    so it all just seem to make sense really  ::D::  ::D::  ::D::  ::D::  ::D::  ::D:: 

[nicko]

IT was nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with you either.  

[Fluffyx]

Agreed Scrat.

And hating other people who have wronged you credits them with an importance they don't merit.

As an aside I am not too fond of parcel delivery companies who go away with your parcel because you are not in.
Why not leave it in the porch or through the letterbox??  

I also detest celery.

Hi Fluffy, I don't hate anyone other than tories, it's not really a hate, hate thing,

Oh it is for me,I despise the Tories,UKIP,anyone of that ilk who preys on the vulnerable,has zero empathy and wants to keep a divide in society between the 'have' and the 'have not's'.

However unlike yourself,I do like a nice bit of butter   

[Guest]

Hi Fluffy, I don't hate anyone other than tories, it's not really a hate, hate thing,

Oh it is for me,I despise the Tories,UKIP,anyone of that ilk who preys on the vulnerable,has zero empathy and wants to keep a divide in society between the 'have' and the 'have not's'.

However unlike yourself,I do like a nice bit of butter   

Well I dont hate but really dont like very much those that pass judgement on things without taking the effort to check if that which they are basing their judgement on is actually the case.

[nicko]

Hello fluff, I see your another one who's been brainwashed.

[Cass]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

cause its you I wont charge you for the extra word

as regards paper yes I can remember......its not just the ink running off but you can feel how the paper is....nasty.....I just stopped taking ours - mum gets it so lets me know if anything important is going on or I can partially read it online cause they charge for that too!

^Eds I totally get what you say about the stickers but thanks wolfie for the tip......

now....did someone mention lobster and shellfish?????????? mmmmmmmm.......ITS NOT FAIR THAT IM STUCK IN A DESERT......just saying

[Fluffyx]

Hello fluff, I see your another one who's been brainwashed.

No. I speak as I find.

[Fluffyx]

Oh it is for me,I despise the Tories,UKIP,anyone of that ilk who preys on the vulnerable,has zero empathy and wants to keep a divide in society between the 'have' and the 'have not's'.

However unlike yourself,I do like a nice bit of butter   

Well I dont hate but really dont like very much those that pass judgement on things without taking the effort to check if that which they are basing their judgement on is actually the case.

I am basing my scorn of the Tory party on their policies.
How else do you suggest I 'judge' them?

[Ben Reilly]

I would like to add....

childproof tops.......I PROMISE I WONT OVERDOSE ON VITAMINS....

excess packaging......why must it take me half an hour to unwrap a toothbrush??????

newspaper ink that bleeds into your hands.....

updates as warranted......

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

cause its you I wont charge you for the extra word

as regards paper yes I can remember......its not just the ink running off but you can feel how the paper is....nasty.....I just stopped taking ours - mum gets it so lets me know if anything important is going on or I can partially read it online cause they charge for that too!

^Eds I totally get what you say about the stickers but thanks wolfie for the tip......

now....did someone mention lobster and shellfish?????????? mmmmmmmm.......ITS NOT FAIR THAT IM STUCK IN A DESERT......just saying

We've made so many blunders over the years in the way we do business -- one time we had readers calling in and complaining that we'd made our TV listings too small and they were impossible to read. So we tried sending them one of these:



Needless to say, the people who got a company-branded magnifier in the mail in response to saying they couldn't read the paper were even angrier   

[Cass]

that idea should be filed under not helpful dumb idea.......

I wish I could believe you are joking but I'm thinking not....

[Original Quill]

I hate Americans and Aussie's  trying to tell us how to run our country!

Then do a better job of it yourself.    

[xtras]

arrogance ^^^^^   

[Original Quill]

Remember when newspapers didn't leave you with dirty hands???!!! I've got four words for you, and I can't count for shit: We use cheaper paper now.

As a member of that beleaguered industry, let me just say -- our response to our beleaguerment has been like an auto-maker deciding to make cars with just two or three wheels ...

cause its you I wont charge you for the extra word

as regards paper yes I can remember......its not just the ink running off but you can feel how the paper is....nasty.....I just stopped taking ours - mum gets it so lets me know if anything important is going on or I can partially read it online cause they charge for that too!

^Eds I totally get what you say about the stickers but thanks wolfie for the tip......

now....did someone mention lobster and shellfish?????????? mmmmmmmm.......ITS NOT FAIR THAT IM STUCK IN A DESERT......just saying

There is a great restaurant on Camelback Rd. in Phoenix...or used to be.

It's just called FISH. Right off the Squall Peak Parkway. Seafood is flown in daily from coastal markets.

But they are obviously west coast. Prawns from the Sea or Cortez are not near as plump and tasty as from the Gulf of Mexico, for example. But then, there's no petrale sole on the east coast.

The African black lobser is the best in the world. Much better than the Maine lobster.

[Original Quill]

cause its you I wont charge you for the extra word

as regards paper yes I can remember......its not just the ink running off but you can feel how the paper is....nasty.....I just stopped taking ours - mum gets it so lets me know if anything important is going on or I can partially read it online cause they charge for that too!

^Eds I totally get what you say about the stickers but thanks wolfie for the tip......

now....did someone mention lobster and shellfish?????????? mmmmmmmm.......ITS NOT FAIR THAT IM STUCK IN A DESERT......just saying

We've made so many blunders over the years in the way we do business -- one time we had readers calling in and complaining that we'd made our TV listings too small and they were impossible to read. So we tried sending them one of these:



Needless to say, the people who got a company-branded magnifier in the mail in response to saying they couldn't read the paper were even angrier   

Or......



I've been wearing 'em for years.

Your customers are called "readers" Ben...they should get a hint.

[nicko]

Evening vaya, sorry can't do it my self not intelligent enough, but looking at the state of your country no one there is either!!

[nicko]

Correction,change Vayer for Quill

[Irn Bru]

I hate Americans and Aussie's  trying to tell us how to run our country!

Then do a better job of it yourself.     

Well the murder rate here isn't as high and we don't have an NRA and people running around legally with guns so I suppose we must be doing something that you guys can learn from.

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