daytime 'running lights' (stupid fairy light things)

they look so awful

I think that's just about the only thing I have to disagree with on this list

Just a few off the top of my head

- People who amble on pavements or worse, abruptly stopping. Generally old people, oblivious to anyone else around them.

- Cars with performance badges that don't belong on the car. My favourite is M badges stuck on the boot of a bottom of the range 3 series.

- Clumsy people, who seem to be able to break things on a regular basis

- People who don't take care of things, I like my stuff to be kept in mint condition

- the Scouser accent

- Project managers, overpaid [cloud9] whose sole role is to play around with Microsoft Project and come up with inachievable dates and get bonuses for taking the credit for the engineers that actually do the work.

- Teachers, moaning lot, thinking they're under paid for what they do .. [cloud9] right off, generally, if you can't do, teach.

Oi, try it from my side sometimes...

You saved your best, most irrational one for last Dunc

Strangely enough even if Cus Serv is another remote control operation I have always found them more than patient with my glaring ineptitudes. Also the help line is free.

The only thing which spoilt this Elysian field was the aggressive terrier/lassie from Upgrade Team who knew zilch about my details and was hell-bent on commission regardless.

I have an irrational pleasure in disappointing said folk and had no hesitation in doing so.

A lot of people disagree with you. To be fair, though, they're only trained and qualified experts in the field and I doubt that more than a handful of them can drive a lorry, so the chances are that you're right and they're wrong.

Possibly.

But then, there is not a ream of leaked evidence to say that i cannot actually drive a lorry at all.

You misunderstand the evidence that was leaked and its significance. Read up on it a bit more.

There is reporter on BBC Wales who , how do I describe it?

He cannot pronounce his Rs or Ss and is generally an absolute disaster to watch. It used to be funny, I would literally have tears running down my face while he told of tragic local news stories.

Lately, its really getting me down.
This man has a disability, why is he given a job where that disability is is laid bare so dramatically?
What is new, an Art critic who is blind?
Music reviews by the deaf?

I wrote an email to the BBC a few years ago, it stated that although the story of the sucides in Newport was indeed very tragic, the whole pub was in fits of laughter watching him struggle through his piece to camera.
Their reply was the usual "we are an equal opportunities employer" crap.

If your bored have a look, its brilliant for the first few years.

Do we have a link?

When equal opportunities amounts to employing incompetents, that is funny!

I hate these fancy-dan coloured football boots....they should be black and made of leather dammit, with proper screw-in studs!

Receiving a call from your bank or other provider and after they have introduced themselves, they ask
"Due to the data protection act, please can you tell me your ..."

I hate it so much that i now always reply with "I can't tell that in the interest of my data protection, If it's important send me an e-mail!"

Unless you bank with The National Bank of Uganda, in which case I would always take the call

1) Credit agencies. Just what the [cloud9] gives these self-appointed guardians of our the banks' best interests the right to screw around with people's lives? Getting hold of reports can be very dificult, time consuming and costly, which begs the question how dare they keep data on you that can affect your life and then charge you to access it? Furthermore, once you have got the report and gone through it with a fine toothcomb, you may (as happened to us) find a 3-year old phone bill for a house you haven't lived in for 3 years on a line that should have been closed for 3 years (but that wasn't due to someone else's incompetence). This phone bill may have caused you to be inconveniently and rather embarrassingly declined for a mobile contract in a busy shop... Having these erroneous entries changed on your report takes a great deal more time, effort and ultimately expense (as you order another report to check the alterations have been carried out. Note, you can only suggest alterations then wait for action, not alter things yourself.

2) Not loading the dishwasher properly. OK, we all hate washing up, so we buy (at not inconsiderable expense) a machine to perform the task for us. The machine has neat rows of spikes and ridges to help make it really easy to put the dirty dishes in neatly. The reason for this is not so that anally-retentive people (I hear you) can arrange them in pretty rows, it's so that the dishwasher can wash the [cloud9] dishes properly. Remember the reason you bought the dishwasher? To wash the dishes. So why dump the dirty stuff in the thing (at infinitessimally less effort that stacking it neatly) and have hot, dirty dishes 30 minutes later.

3) My neighbour in France. For obvious reasons. Now can't get the electric connected until January.

4) Misreading thread titles. I thought this was for rational hatred.

Audi drivers, 'nuff said.

So what exactly is irrational about that?

people using fog lights when its not foggy.

this has to rate as one of my biggest hates.

its not cool, its not clever, its just annoying.

... and it is rife in the Mediterranean countries now. On Kos it was the norm. I flash my main beams at them. Agreed - it's not funny and it's not clever.

As it's a bit of a generalisation, surely they dont all drive like a$$holes? They just annoy me... totally agree about fog lights, just screams chav! Worst is people in people carriers with them on thinking theyre 'cool', fail!

I'm sure I've suggested this in the past, but all we need is one simple bit of Euro-legislation. All new cars must have an ECU which limits the speed to 50mph when the fog-lights are turned on.

It's usually along 30mph zones and country lanes when you get blinded by their fogs

Fog lights during daylight or night when there is no fog.

Crossover & SUVs and crew cab 4x4 pick ups for tax dodgers and gypos.

Not really a fan of private plates, but badly spaced private plates a definate hatred.

'Crackhead' drivers - the type you see in towns or on Roadwars, normally driving an old Mk1 Mondeo or Mk3 Cavalier held together with spit and tape. Always driven badly and very impatiently through red lights, wrong lanes at junctions etc as a way of highlighting to the police that they need arresting and charging with driving without licence/insurance for the 50th time that week.

Russell Brand - what a waste of DNA

Bono

Yes.

Any South Park fans will love the 'Worlds biggest crap' episode

People who DON'T use their fog lights (or any other lights) when it is foggy, or there are clouds of spray on the motorways (sorry Barnacle).

I must confess to using my foglights on some country roads at night as they shine further up the road than the sh*te glow-worms on the Coupe (memo to self; fit the HIDs that are still boxed up in the boot)!

One more... bloody outdoor Christmas lights, Santas on chimneys, reindeer in gardens, fake icicles, radioactive snowmen and other such garbage, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE UP THE DAY AFTER BONFIRE NIGHT!!!

My road at night is brighter than a Heathrow runway, and I'm sure a Ryanair plane will land at any minute. At least I don't need my foglights along my road .......

You know it's a bad sign when the electricity board come and drop in a new substation...

I have a new favourite.

The church 500yds from my office playing Silent Night over and over and over again.

DO THEY NOT KNOW ANY OTHER BLOODY TUNES!?!!?!?!?!?!

Going to Maccies drive through and after taking my order AND my money being told to park up and "we'll bring it out to you"

then 10 minutes later when they do bring it out to you (whats fast food about that!) the burger is cold i could ' kill em

A folding door in my house that won't close properly after being re-fitted by me! Even though I used all the existing screw holes

Inanimate objects that conspire to fccuck you up. As in hose pipes that get stuck under car wheels Bin liners and other random things in the garden that blow everywhere but where you want them Pockets and sleeves that catch on door handles

ah that's better

New cars should be fitted with fog lights which default to OFF when the ignition is switched off. This would help stop the dozy who insist on leaving them on until June from irritating the out of me.

People that walk straight into your house without taking their shoes off!!! (people you have invited in that is, not just strangers!)

Even if they asked it would be something!

"oooh look brand new carpets! do you wan't me to take my shoes off"

"No go ahead and walk grit salt and crap all over my house!!"