What do you hate?

Anyway....

- People who pronounce "idea" as eye-dear
- Political Strategists (for either party)
- Tucker Carlson
- Public figures who use sports analogies to make their point.
- People who get all uppity about their right to fly the Confederate Flag. It's offensive. Let it go.

But what do you hat?

Distilled hatredry.

"accentmonkey is so unbelievably OTM here. I want to punch them out repeatedly."

Agree absolutely. English deserves too loose its status as a major language if its speakers are to lose with its spelling of such basic words.

Most British people to thread.

(x-post rhymes with Ikea, innit?)

I too get extremely irritated whenever someone spells "a lot" as just the one word. Argh. Growl. (FYI, many people locally do not know how to merge PERIOD here. And they do pretty much what you described in your list, too.)

Also extreme irritants:

- Drivers who are on the "fast" lane (i.e. left, at least here in the good ol' US of A) who drive like twenty miles UNDER the speed limit.
- Drivers who are on the "slow" lane (i.e. right, at least... you know the drill) who drive like twenty miles OVER the speed limit.
(Please you guys, get the drift of FAST lanes and SLOW lanes.)
- People (mostly women, it seems) who are so enamored of shoes that they seem not to be able to think of another topic to discuss OR who splurge on like $500 pairs of shoes. Even if they're supremely wealthy and could actually afford it. SUCH a waste of money, in my eyes.
- Couples who splurge MEGA bucks on their wedding festivities. I saw this special on the Food Network once where this YOUNG couple got married at Walt Disney World, and all their wedding expenses JUST AT THE PARK ALONE came out to $70,000. You read that right. *sighs* Such a sin.
- People who pride themselves on having "open" minds, who then retreat to outdated stereotypes when it comes to certain segments of the population (e.g. people who live in the rural South, Texans, Americans). The people in charge of special programming for the Trio channel AS WELL AS the idiots at Channel 4 UK, I AM LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU.
- Texas Monthly magazine. The Texas they portray isn't the Texas I know, it's the Texas the residents of the DFW area and Houston know. If they're only going to bother with the Eastern portion of TX, why don't they just call themselves "East Texas Monthly" and stick to selling in those regions of the state?
- People who choose to ignore you instead of telling you they have a problem with you. Such cowardly bullshit.
- Valentine's Day. Worst and longest day of the year.
- Kurt Loder. I had no idea he was still on an MTV channel. He's old enough to be my father and even *I* feel guilty about watching anything MTV-related, much like I did when I was nine and still watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood".
- Parents who try to be "cool" parents and aim for being their children's Best Friends, instead of honoring and respecting the boundaries between parent and child and just being parents.
- The local program "Gimme the Mike!", which is a local version of "American Idol" except without the two reasons anyone watches that program -- one, the crankiness of Simon Cowell, and two, ACTUAL SINGING TALENT. Believe it or not, one of the judges is BOB THE BACHELOR. Dude, he's still in the C-list -- you don't do local programs until you're well into the F-list, at least.

*whew* I feel lots better now.

(So, in this way, "ide-aa" in North American pronunciation becomes "ide-ar" in English pronunciation. I wish I could explain it any better than this.)

But now I've given this tiny little matter far too much of my attention probably ;-)

Or "miss-ull". Or "host-ull".
(For missile and hostile, obv.)

(And, I'm not really on anyone's "side", here.)

-Riding with someone who's insane about listening to music in the car. This entails the following:

* Spending more than five minutes going through a CD billfold, looking for the "right" CD to listen to for our twenty-minute journey.
* Skipping through tracks, going back and forth, sometimes changing the entire album if using a multiple CD changer.
* If no CD is used, than the fast-forwarding and rewinding of songs on a tape can be substituted for all of this, or
* Spending a maximum of three seconds on every radio station, concentrating on looking for the off-chance that someone out there is broadcasting that lost Beefheart classic or something.

Really, I just hate sitting there in the parking space as a passenger as the driver does everything inside the car except DRIVING IT. It's not an airplane, dude.

Madchen, we do it... we just don't realise we do it. ;)

Seriously, I didn't believe it either, until I heard myself say "Canada" one day. Sounded more like "Can-a-der". And now I notice pretty much every visitor from the UK doing the same thing. (It's only those words ending in "a", btw.)

almanac for being a whiny bitch

that is all

Lixi - check your g-mail!

Is there a male equivalent of PMS? Because I feel like that periodically, like it's a cycle or something.

having a penis so enormous I have to strap it to my ankle

That's all I can think of right now.

Oh hang on...

Shit.

alarm clocks

sunburn

the feeling of cotton on my teeth

people who dig in their noses in their cars and then look at you like you're the asshole for making a disgusted face

seaweed

anything that smells like cucumber-melon

when birds crap on my freshly washed car

current gas prices

twix candy bars