Lack of tolerance.

Unwillingness to allow different ways to do things.

Barnacle's irrational hatred of smilies and Christmas.

No, cancel the latter, I agree with that.

Oh and on the spelling thing yes some folk have fair trouble with it [my first missus for example] but there is always something else they can do really well which makes up for it.

I've got a coupe, I hold it on the footbrake at the lights to stop the rears freezing on in the cold weather!

Sorry I drive a Coupe FIAT and its so cold I am afraid if I use the handbrake it will never release!

Lol, I used to keep my foot on the brake at lights, but due to several people mentioning their annoyance at this on previous threads, I have tried to stop doing it, especially at Coupe meets

People randomly whistling whatever random tune they are supposed to be whistling is annoying

The latest thing to really, extremely annoy me are people who say a sentence like it's a question.
Hard to explain this in words, but seems to be happening more often and it's really irritating.

Instead of speaking in a normal tone of voice, the person speaks, with the tone of voice becoming higher towards the end of the sentence and says it like it's a question.

For example, instead of just saying something like 'I took my car out for a good run today and enjoyed it', it seems to have changed into 'you know what I did today? I took my car out for a run? and you know what? I really enjoyed it?'

Obviously hard to explain the tone of voice on here, but I really feel like thumping the next person that does it

Every Tom, Harry and Dick(head) thinking they can tell the world, the pub patrons, or Facebook that global warming/climate change is in full swing simply because they looked out the of window and white crap is falling from the sky.

No, really now, NO, you actually know naff all about an incredibly complex system that is by its very nature unpredictable and nobody, including politicians taxing here or there, can control. Simply because we're having unusual weather it doesn't give you the right to pretend you have any more clue than the useless Met Office about what's happening or why. Take your ill-informed bullshit, roll it into a big snowball and ram it up your arse

It's an American thing?

What really makes me wriggle and seethe inside my outfit is when someone starts a very long sentence (?), and the tone gradually goes up (?), leading you think it is about to end (?), but then it continues (?), until eventually you just can't stand it any more (?), and want to scream at them (?) just finish the sentence ???!!!

Phew!

Phenomenon - used as the plural!!

One website which is entitled 'Unexplained Phenomenon' proceeds to discuss 'an unusual phenomena'. The worst case was a 'PhD' from the States, who announced in serious academic tones, "These phenomenae deserve further study .."

I mean. what else can you do but laugh?



Criterion. 'This is the criteria for ...'

For God's sake, it's not as if people are being asked to speak Greek!

Err...

The rising tone at the end of a sentence? Australian... I blame Neighbours and similar brain-wash.

And I have an irrational hatred of Edinburgh's irrational hatred of my irrational hatred of smilies and christmas... until I read the next line and realised I have an irrational hatred of of recursion.

And an irrational hatred of recursion. To see why, go back one paragraph.

I'm with Brian on misuse of language though: it's not difficult - if you don't know the word, English has so many (well over half a million) that there's bound to be one for which you *do* know the plural. And by the way, all reporters on the BBC and everywhere else: One is 'ahead of' someone in a race; an event (or phenomenon) happens 'before' another... get it right.

Oh, and aberrant apostrophe's. <-- spot the aberrant apostrophe!

Aye, the so called upward speak, this realy does my head in. Both my daughter & son inlaw suffer this annoying trait from time to time. It's "me" who gets into trouble if I point this out though.

Worse for me, is the very nasal or raspy voice of an American who has the upward speak habit. The Yanks do irritate me. Not that I'm at all religious, but they tend to say...Oh my "Gad" a lot. Even as a grumpy git, I feel most will agree with me on this Stop now Jim step away from the key board. Ach its early & I need more coffee.

I never know which to put, end up nearly always re-writing the sentence which probably makes matters worse.

Received is another one that I nearly always have to re-write.

As for my irrational hatreds

+ People with BO
+ People that think it's ok to be messy
+ Croydon Town Centre
+ My Client that asked me to put a DVD in the drive of a computer - I had an tannoy 'Can tim urgently go to meeting room 1' (4 flights of stairs away)TWWWAAAATTTTTT!
+ My boss for shouting at me for not doing a 5 min admin job, despite working a 60 hour week working on a project that couldn't be completed because my other boss didn't bother to get a license for citrix despite numerous emails for it.
+ Calling BT - This is definitely a new thread!
+ I think this list could go on for quite sometime!!

Mine is the "Tosser Tense". You know "I am loving..." rather than "I love", "I am soooo liking the...." instead of "I like.."

I am totally agreeing with you on this one.

Biggest pet hate is jumped up keyboard warriors who spend all their time in forums moaning about other people - ironic isnt it?

Don't be so hard on your self!

I cant help it, I guess that is what makes it such an irrational form of hatred

+1

But I am FREE, FREE, as I've kicked the bu99er's into touch and joined TalkTalk instead.







Oh, naughty tease that I am.

Oh I have a go 'in real life' too. In fact, the team at work reckons I should have a slot on Harry hill's TV Burp; Moan of the weeeeeek lol


Another thing that makes me angry, is seeing a happy person. Don't they just make you sick? Nothing cheers me up more than someone else having a bloody good rant about one thing or another.

hmmm, i hope you don't have any issues, their customer service is astonishingly inept and irritating....i'm think of leaving them for sky!!

I'll add phoning British Gas to phoning BT.

Yes - definitely need a new thread to follow Edinburgh's adventures with Talk Talk.

How long will it take for him to start complaining?

Do you mean to say that when you pay your regular visit to McDonalds you aren't lovin it?

Until they offer me a plate and a knife and fork, I shall not be setting foot in that place!!!

Theresa I found a video?
Click on the link below?
The quality isn't great?
Turn your speaker up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3d3nf8WNSU ?????????

OMG

I can't believe you found a video, showing what I was trying to explain perfectly and that other people besides me are also noticing this tone of voice.

In fact, only you could have found this JKD. Brilliant, thanks!

Why are people doing it? Do they think they sound more intelligent or something? (questions marks NOT with THAT tone of voice attached to them )

It's annoying anyway, but when you know people that have spoken normally for years and have now started doing this,, then it's even worse

As I said earlier, this is so called upward speak. Seemingly this is a legacy we inherited from neighbours according to one of those top 10 worst things of a certain decade TV shows.

Seemingly this type of speaking is to show that your a caring person when you say something in this way. Well thats what the programme indicated.

Well, someone will certainly be caring for the next person to try and speak to me in that way

I hate this as well Theresa. Another one for me is the apostrophe fingers, I just want to snap them off when someone does this.

I thought this thread was supposed to be about irrayional hatred, all the things listed so far seem perfectly reasonably to me!

well said that man.

i cant imagine why people think we are having unusual weather though - its November, we live on an island in the northern hemisphere, and its winter.

snow is always possible.

global warming is not.

+ ringing BT. its good to talk my arse.

Natwest 'helpful banking' not so helpful when my local branch does not open on saturdays!

Jenson Button

Russell Brand - i want to harm myself every time i see his hideous face

ConDem party - what a joke

Gok Wan - why must a gay man tell fat people to take their clothes off?

Council tax - £100 per month to get my bin emptied - and the cheeky buggers still want me to wash and sort my rubbish, are you kidding me?

more to come i expect.