stealing an idea from sweetalyssm

[scottobear]

Scotto's Hateful/Distasteful Things

running out of hot water in the shower
unfulfilling food (Tasteless Produce for example)
people who think they're brilliant, but aren't.
paper cuts
folks with no sense of humor
circular arguments
high school level politics on LJ or at work
wearing neckties
melted slurpee
bullies
casual profanity
newsprint stains on fingers
software that only works "sometimes"
$.35 pay phones, without a dollar bill changer
tardy taxicabs
off-schedule buses
public toilets with 'leftovers' inside
bars with music too loud to converse
home-based e-mail spam of "this is sooooo funny" incoming a dozen times
hot Gatorade
toilets with no lids to shut pre-flush
insect bites
"reality" TV
badly handled firearms
greasy/sticky floors
folks in communications industry, that can't communicate.

What harshes your mellow ?

Comments

[dexterx.livejournal.com]

My favourite hate is consultants/management types pursuing strategic planning objectives with reckless disregard to the business and how it evolved to where it got to before it was processed, restructured, re-engineered, downsized, retooled, refocused around core competencies and purpose driven into oblivion taking peoples jobs with it by these talent less troglodytes whose minds and approach are an intellectual and theoretical moras.

I will say this simply - I hate MBA graduates. Personally I think the only good use for MBA graduates is to set their feet in concrete, link them togehter with chains and use them as parking barricades.

Casual Profanity is OK as long as it is not used repeatedly (ad-infinitim)and front of children or the aged, purposeful profanity can be scary.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

things i really don't like:

people who can't write decently and/or think critically, & people who blindly accept things
bigots who claim to be liberal, leftist, whatever (well, in addition to bigots, period, but i'd imagine that one is obvious)
people who cut others down to try to feel better about themselves
people who break promises regularly
companies who have monopolies
almost all sitcoms
almost all fluffy movies
most beer.

hmm, i'm sure there's more, but that's enough. :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah. "I'm liberal, so I can be bigoted vs christianity" is a bugaboo to me too.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

well, what's worst for me are people who proclaim to be totally open-minded and un-bigoted and don't even realize that they're spouting stuff that's bigoted.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The most you can hope to do is show how you feel it's bigoted, and hope they get the picture.

[laurak.livejournal.com]

folks in communications industry, that can't communicate

Ahhhh I see you've paid a visit to my company! ;-)

on a more serious note, I do agree with that one. it can be quite frustrating!

I will add the first distateful thing that pops into my head:
Parents who blame everyone but themselves for their children's shortcomings. For example, the parents who blame stores for putting things where children can reach them, rather than take some responsibility for their children and teaching them the meaning of "no" (or some good old-fashioned discipline.) argh!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

right on!

[dorkgirl.livejournal.com]

Inconsiderate drivers. Had some *sshole in a 4WD try to run me off the road today, simply because she was unwilling to move over and *share* the road. Grrrrr!

I'm afraid I'd harsh your mellow IRL. I'm terribly profane. I don't try to be, but it all comes tumbling out as though it were regular, acceptable vocabulary. Difficult at work sometimes!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Aw... well, you keep your gutteral verbiage to a minimum here! (I let one slip, too, once in a while)

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

uh-oh casual profanity...I'd better clean up my potty mouth.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

not so much of a peeve anymore... I've been immersed!