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(57 Posts)Chewing gum
Anything mint flavoured
Mayonnaise
Salad cream
Horseradish
Beetroot
Parsnips
Hummus
Tahini
Pork pies
Sausage rolls
and that's just the food - how about you?
Oh, yes - buses! Those people who plonk their bag on the seat next to them, and pretend to be too engrossed in their phones to see other people standing. Most of whom for some reason won't ask them to move their bag.
I have no such scruples.
People (usually young, and active enough when getting on and off) who plonk themselves straight in the disabled/elderly seats, when there are plenty of seats elsewhere, plonk their bag on the outside seat, and again pretend to be too engrossed in their phones to notice the old person with a stick, who doesn't like to ask them to move their bag.
I have been known more than once to do it for them.
People who drop litter at bus stops when there's a bin two paces away. Grrr! I often pick it up, and do get some very funny looks.
People who aren't American, who say 'do the math'.
It's mathS!
Could probably go on all day, but it's high time to go and do something useful.
Potatoes, egg white and tea hate them all and they just make me heave!
I cannot stand that 5 introducing Channel 5 that turns into something else while you look at it.
Drivers who can't be bothered to signal their thanks when you let them by in narrow lanes
Gossip - when it is of the nasty variety
Offal - of any variety
Onions!!! How can you cook anything without onions?
Quite a lot actually, but the too two on my list are
Onions and nuts. Yuk yuk yuk
The only food hate I can think of is tarragon. Unfortunately it seems to find its way into loads of foods and dishes in restaurants, unannounced, these days.
Can anyone tell me what tripe tastes like? I’ve never tasted it, but remember the smell from childhood when my Nanna used to boil it seemingly all the livelong day, for my Grandpa’s tea (he loved it!). It surely can’t have tasted as bad as it smelt?
Brexit, Brexit lies, the amount of airtime given to the Brexit liars by the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation
People who say useless things about my illness e.g. just look on the bright side of life instead of dwelling on the bad bits, smile more, take a deep breath, we all have days when we feel down, I had depression years ago but pulled myself together....the list goes on and on.
The nasty man who lives across the road from me.
My ex.
People who don't hold doors open when you're directly behind them so the door shuts in your face.
Fox hunting, badger baiting, dog fights and all other blood sports
Chitterlings/chitlins/chicklins, tripe, sweetbreads, cheeks, brawn and any other offal.
Shell fish well fish in general tbh other than chip shop battered cod or haddock.
Winston Churchill
Maggie and May
Aged pop/rock stars who won't retire and don't realise how ridiculous they look/sound.
Children's TV programmes that are actually just long adverts for the spin off goods.
vampirequeen I'm with you on the automatic messages and irritating music on company telephone lines - especially hearing "Your call is important to us" when, after hanging on for ages, it becomes patently obvious that my call is not at all important.
Violent and gory films - and the increasing nastiness and violence that is now so commonplace in "soaps".
Words like "snowflake" "virtue signalling", "champagne socialist" used to belittle others, and the term "humbled" which is now so frequently used
"Round robin" letters detailing major house projects, exotic holidays, children's achievements and the minutiae of the lives of friends and relatives who are unknown to the recipient.
The phrase "Keep Calm and Carry On"
People who tut and grumble when you ask them to move over so that you can sit down on the bus/tube.
I'm fairly easy about food, with the exception of Christmas dried dates (yuk!)
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Littlejohn, Jimmy Carr, Keith Lemon, Carole Malone, Edwina Currie, Margaret Thatcher
Lovely pieces of classical music being used on TV adverts/
TV adverts interrupting tense dramas
Musicals esp Les Mis and the works of ALW
Rap, hip hop and all that
TV quiz shows except University Challenge and Mastermind
Violent films
Countryfile (used to love it its gone off).
Loose women and its kind
Talent shows
Cream
Meat fat - except for a little bit of VERY crispy bacon fat
Goat's cheese
Milk (to drink, don't mind a bit in coffee etc.)
Tea with milk - tastes vile to me
Egg white not properly cooked, including the layer on the yolk of fried eggs - yuck
Fennel
Anything over-sweet and sickly
Food wise, beetroot and black pudding. Haven't tried snails and can't say I will, either!!
In other respects, I agree with many others:
Loud music when out and about,
Litter louts,
Shouty, opinionated people,
Spitting
Bad manners
People who think they are superior
Disrespect for this wonderful planet of ours, and all the other life we share it with.
I could go on, I'm sure.
People who tell me 'you want to do such and such'. No I don't!
Donald Trump
Vinegar
Garlic
Chillies
Olives
The taste of alcohol
Cherryade (tastes like my childhood medicine)
Housework
Mowing the lawn (but love to garden)
I agree with Granny23. Coat hangers are evil!
I also agree with many more of the above but too many to mention.
Oh yes, Nigel Farage. I’ll add him to my list.
Food not a problem, I only buy/grow/cook things I like.
Nuisance Calls
Coat Hangers
Question Time (Nigel Farage on AGAIN tonight)
People who offer instant solutions to problems of the 'You should just ......' sort , which imply that I am so thick that I have not thought of that myself and there is a glaringly obvious reason why the facile solution would not work in my situation.
This could be a long list.
Avocado
Smoked salmon
Most pop/rock and the people who perform it
Dumbing down
Chips on shoulders
Donald Trump
Margaret Thatcher
Inverted snobbery
Very hot weather
Old people trying to look young and just succeeding in looking fake
Euphemisms
Disney cartoon films, especially those wrecking British children’s literature like Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan
The increasing Americanisation of our language and culture
Those will do for now.
The way the country comes to a standstill because it snows.
The media obsession with the snow.
Phoning a company/hospital/doctor's surgery etc. and being greeted by a robot that insists you press a specific sequence of numbers which is bad enough but worse still when after following all the instructions a message says they are busy and tell you to phone back later then disconnects the call. Are you listening DWP!!!!?????????????
Hotly tasteless? Totally tasteless!
I'll just add incomprehensible predictive text to the list.
What a lot of food hates! Send some over to me too, unless they're offal, fatty meat, gristle, squid or whelks. You can keep your sickly salad cream and hotly tasteless white sauce as well, thank you kindly.
I ruddy love Richmond sausages (I've never yet found gristle in one). 
Kippers
Walnuts
Serving hatches in houses
...that historian on TV who always has to dress up!
Rude, bad mannered and condescending people
Offal
Peaches, apricots, dried fruit of any kind
People who talk over you
Sprouts eurgh
Virtue signalled a
Beetroot
Slugs
People who insist, loudly, that I am "just being miserable" for not drinking alcohol
Panel game shows on tv
Grapefruit (juice or the fruit)
Feeling sick
An untidy house
Inefficiency
This thread is so funny ?
What did poor butter beans ever do to you? ( I love ‘em.)
Send all your foody dislikes to me, courtesy of Gransnet and I will find a use for them all.
I cannot stand....
Virtue signallers.
Boasters
Snobbery or inverted snobbery
Shop staff who try to ignore you
Late buses
Library staff who you can see are trying to hide their delight that you owe them a fine ?
Eggs that turn out to be broken
Biscuits that turn out to be broken
Cold callers at the door
Scammers on the phone
Birthday cards that arrive too late
Toads in the garden ( yes, good for the garden, but!)
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