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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat non-political thing do you detest the most?
I detest peanut butter cookies and people eating crunchy things next to my ears.
I detest them both equally.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Had a co-worker clipping the other day. I was cringing and trying not to gag the whole time. Do that stuff at home! Bleck
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)Co-workers, girl sitting next to me on a plane.
valerief
(53,235 posts)LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)or any "muiscal" noise blaring from passing cars. I want their cars to explode and them to die in a fire.
Every time I encounter one, I wish for an EMP device to fry their entire car's electronics.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)how will you know how awesome my musical taste is?
(lol)
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Idiots.
Kennah
(14,273 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and the people around them. And there are more of them every day.
Imbeciles who get off escalators and STOP. Where are those of us behind them supposed to go?
Hammerheads who are so utterly incapable of being away from their "devices" that they walk into others on the street. I've seen a couple walk straight into traffic yet escape the natural consequences of such breathtaking stupidity.
The dimwits who charge into elevators like a herd of meth-driven wildebeest as soon as the doors open without giving anyone in said elevator the chance to exit.
Bicyclists who merrily run red lights into cross traffic and smirk at you when you have to slam on the brakes to keep from mowing them down. There should be a bounty on these assholes.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)nolabear
(41,986 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)I thought I had Colon Cancer until I realized it was just the beets.
AlecBGreen
(3,874 posts)oh man... my Great Aunt Olga's beets in a little apple cider vinegar & OJ :drool:
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)Beet, carrot and ginger juice is fantastic.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)That and obnoxious sports programming and obnoxious sports fans discussing same.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)children and animals.
I would gladly push either one in front of a speeding train.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)They are helpless, trusting and people who take care of that innocents should be segregated from the gene pool.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Bad entertainment.
benld74
(9,904 posts)for watching science shows
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Now leave me alone!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Just sayin
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I love the dear Dr.
Does that make me look bad?
Initech
(100,080 posts)Really - I could not give less of a shit about those things. Even worse are the stories that pop up on my news feed about celebrity "baby bumps" or that a celebrity is "preggers" (another word that drives me up the wall). Stop it already!!! Save that shit for TMZ. Keep it off my news.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)HATE that idiocy!
crunch60
(1,412 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)The Kardashians will go away, and some other entity will fill the void... what follows may be worse.
Initech
(100,080 posts)They make fun of "Honey Boo Boo" and then James Cameron finds that "the bar" has sunk to the lowest point on earth and upon raising it they no longer find crap like that funny.
Initech
(100,080 posts)There's a reason why I don't use Internet Explorer anymore.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)There are no moderators on that site, which means anybody can say anything they want without getting banned, no matter how provocative the comments are.
47of74
(18,470 posts)A) Turn off comments altogether.
B) Make it so that I have to approve all comments before being posted.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)and begrudgingly tolerant of one.
I hate hate hate HATE overpopulation.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)Quiverfull Wives Confess -- They put Birth Control in 'God's Hands'
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Wonder how the older kids feel about getting no attention? Oh well....whatever....it's the population impact that I hate.
I googled quiverfull years ago....hoo boy.
bluedave
(366 posts)is not responsible
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Last Thursday at the thrift store a woman came in with 3 kids and a 4th on the way. The kids were little monsters and she did NOTHING to control them!!!
I suspect these idiots are parents because they are too stupid to understand birth control.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)That's the only thing I've hated lately. A few years back I was pulled over for doing 70 in a 65 in the same state and shortly after that for doing 81 in a 75 in Arizona. With the four over and five over I was just tooling along trying to make a little time. When you're going 300 or 500 miles it makes a difference. For the six over I had the cruise set at 75 and then went down a big hill and built up speed. I didn't realize it until it was too late and there was a cop sitting at the bottom of the hill.
I probably would not have been pulled over any of those times had I not been driving a large commercial vehicle. If I was just out there cruising around in my Honda I'm sure I'd get a pass on that stuff. To be fair to the cops they all let me go with a warning, but there's this new thing called CSA. I'm not sure what that stands for, but it basically keeps track of truckers' violations even if they were not ticketed. If you have a violation you get points. Get so many points and you're out of a job and probably won't be able to find another one for a while.
Initech
(100,080 posts)And it was in a damn rental car too - so I wasn't used to the way it accelerated. I was just passing a catering truck that was going really slow. Yeah that sucks.
CSA must be the latest "thing". I retired shortly after CDLs became a nuisance. And that was after being an instructor too. I found it hard to be out there and enjoy driving like I did in the 70 and early 80s. Too much traffic, too many electronic tattle tale stuff, just got to be a pain so I quit and went to college. I always found that cruise control, a new thing on trucks in my day, just didn't work to my advantage unless I was going across the flatlands.
Were you on I-40? And do you know where that big hill east of Moriarty, NM that just a sign that says HILL at the top (eastbound that is) and then you go down on a long curve that's banked the wrong way for about 2.2 miles or something like that? I almost got in trouble there every time, popular speed trap at the time. Even though you didn't get a ticket, it still cost you an hour minimum. Sorry to hear it. Hope make delivery on time in spite of it... or is that even a problem anymore?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Yes, I've had a rough day dealing that.
Response to HopeHoops (Reply #22)
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Burma Jones
(11,760 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,300 posts)It shows a complete lack of consideration for those that showed up on time for work, a meeting, dinner, etc.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)digonswine
(1,485 posts)to a book or movie that I KNOW I will never want to read or see. And they are so good at not leaving me an "out" to the conversation.
I don't even want to hear plots of books or movies I WANT to read or see.
trof
(54,256 posts)*Driving While Talking/Texting.
I've seen way more 'accidents' and near accidents caused by assholes who do that than by drunk drivers.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Soap Operas
Shopping mall music
Women who pee all over public toilet seats
treestar
(82,383 posts)what are they thinking? It's far less sanitary than just sitting where someone just sat.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I want to track them down and rip their faces off.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I want to drag them down and ask them why they are so selfish as to make it icky for everyone that follows them!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)AlecBGreen
(3,874 posts)anyone who thinks a tiger's dick can cure impotence should be sent to india with a pocketknife and told to get it their damn self
Kennah
(14,273 posts)Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)let 'em do what they want. You want to snort rose petals or slather horny goat weed all over your pecker? Fine, go ahead.
But, if they want to kill an animal - especially an endangered animal - just so they can get hard, I just don't even have the words for what I think should happen to them. It actually makes me feel more despair than anger, though.
Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)Regurgitating the same old tired cliches.
And "sports journalists" asking questions like,
"How did you feel when that player on the other team
made that great play which figuratively tore your heart and stomped on it?"
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, I hate them together (Reese's Peanut Butter Cups)
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Musicals, wool and straightedgers.
Lots of things really.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)CheapShotArtist
(333 posts)when they're not the ones playing in the game.
Also the people in Maury Povich's audience because they always boo the man without hearing both sides of the story first. They boo the guy before Maury even announces the lie detector results, just because the woman accuses him of cheating. On that show, you're basically guilty until proven innocent.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)"see, look at these naughty black people from the hood/white trash".
It's all about reinforcing the BS meme that poor people, especially poor minorities, are subhumans who cannot control their urges.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)snotty stuff out of the other nostril into public air space.. yuk .
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)I am part Mexican and love my Latin food but the cilantro just kills it for me
Fearless
(18,421 posts)2theleft
(1,136 posts)askholes - those annoying people at work that ask questions to executives as a way of brown nosing
mouth breathers - nothing worse than being in a meeting and feeling like you are sitting next to darth vader
people who do not pick up after their dogs when walking them
calamari
people who eat stinky good for lunch at their desks so the whole area smells bad all afternoon
the smell of burnt microwave popcorn
those that go slow in the fast lane
njlibguy_19656mm
(24 posts)Utter trash imo
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)Either one is bad enough on its own, but making sure your exhaust is dead level with the window of the person you're going past should be a capital offense.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)blogslut
(38,002 posts)"I'm sorry."
Also, teeth suckers.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)DearHeart
(692 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Ice from soft drinks, too. Not just next to my ear, but anywhere in the room. Yuk. Needless to say, I despise those Kit Kat commercials, and will not be buying them as long as they keep airing those disgusting commercials.
Peanut butter cookies, on the other hand--my favorite!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)when my window is down. I find myself blaring the horn and smiling at them.
I need to 'defend' this a little. As a 30+ year Harley owner/rider I can honestly say...the throttle blip as you phrase it is simply to clear the carb so the bike doesn't bog during acceleration due to the carb overfull of gas. Most of the carb models will do this...regardless of the style of pipes. Now the riders with the new fuel injected Harleys....I agree it is totally un-necessary and an attention seeking move when they rev while sitting at a stoplight.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I can tell when someone is trying to keep the noise down vs. enjoying the heck out of making a racket.
It's just that the world is noisy enough without such indecency toward others. I'd suggest a BMW or something, which are made to be quiet.
BTW -- I feel the same way about straight pipes on a car, although I had a Plymouth with a 426 cubic inch engine and cutouts when a teenager. Ran em straight once, and realized it was kind of immature and deafening.
Appreciate the explanation though. Be safe.
Initech
(100,080 posts)And the idiots who use them indoors thinking they can get away with it since they're not real cigarettes.
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)They are flavored water vapor and that's all. As someone who is quitting a long term smoking habit I find them quite useful. BTW, most who use them don't try to shock others by using them and appearing to really be smoking. They (and I) are usually discrete about it.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)Gawd I hate bugs
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)that's quite a comprehensive list ~ I'd say all of the above with the exception of cilantro and calamari, I love cilantro and enjoy calamari once in a while.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)And I don't mean the occasional one that just gets away from you.
It's no different than peeing your pants because you can't be bothered to get up from the dinner table to relieve your bladder.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,733 posts)crunchy peanut butter cookies.
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)yuck... literally would rather eat soggy cardboard....
Evoman
(8,040 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)the latter two ESPECIALLY not on public transportation!
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)I love my dog to death but when he farts and leaves the room before the stink reaches me I want to send him to Hell.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)Chellee
(2,097 posts)Kwik Mart
Lite Brite
EZ Pay
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)small yards. What a joke. This goes for pot-bellied men as well.
If I can PUSH (think exercise) my electric lawn mower around the yard, they can do the same!