h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I really hate that eating the things I like, in the quantities I like (not often, but lots of it!) makes me expand!

I handles on girls

I also hate it when people who *do* know better are so far indenial that they believe in 'miracle' cures for obesity and age! You're making us all, as consumers, look like idiots! Stop and think! Please?

I hate consumers

But we're all worth it!

When the word "fat" is replaced in conversation with the word "obese".

Bacon with too much obese on it.

people who lie to themselves and blame you when the whole house of cards falls down...

Routing personal conflicts through the manager, rather than taking it up in person.

Suppliers. Their only job is to supply whatever it is they supply, so why do they *never* get it right?

Just once, I would like to order something at work, *not* have to chase it when it doesn't arrive when it's supposed to, and *not* have to send it back because some tw@t
hasn't bothered to check it against the order .

I feel your pain. It would also nice for things to arrive *where* they are supposed to... Working on a large site with a sorting office, a garage, several mobile technicians and engineers on the postal side etc, we rarely get stuff for us but we're forever getting stuff for other people!

Indexes in books which direct you to look up another word to find that entry.

For e.g. I just checked my botany textbook for info on Stinging Nettles. I looked uop 'nettles' and it said 'see Urtica'. Why couldn't the word 'nettles' take me directly to p446 ?

Yeah, isn't any longer to print

Internet bus timetables that have no relation to how the busses actually run!

Not exactly a "petty" hate, but people that blame everything that ever goes wrong with anything on everybody else. Then try to be friendly with you later.

I lost an old friend recently over that... I'm much less tolerant of it than I used to be!

Door closers They must be the singular most useless, pointless, annoying invention of all time. And 95% of the time they're not adjusted 'correctly' anyway (whatever correctly is for such a pointless device).

I've just spent the past hour dismantling or disabling the retched devices in a new-build flat we've just moved into.

When i use a door, i want it to STAY WHERE I PUT IT - either open, closed or half way between, not slam shut behind me with the force of an dinosaur rated mouse-trap, waking up half the block, or meandering half-closed at an unpredicatable rate so that i bang my head on it when i turn around, because, hey the door could be anywhere along its pre-defined route, but not actually closed

Why, why, why? Our last place had them as well. If it's fire regs they're pointless because everyone uses door stops anyway and if it's to keep heat in, well bugger that- i can close a door myself as and when required.

They're also so damn dangerous, and no two doors in our place use the same design. I nearly had my arm ripped of twice by handeling the things wrong. Worst part is i'll have to put the evil things back on again before we move out as it's rented accomodation

I agree. We had to put door closers in (to comply with Fire Regs) when we hasd a loft conversion . Noisy, trap you whern you want to carry a large-ish objectt from one place to another...

Another of my bete noirs is child safety gates at the foot of stairs to stop babies climbing up or down. We have to have 'em tofor Mrs BA to have a Child Minding Certificate. I get bored having to open and shutr 'em so climb over instead. Or jump over th bottom one as I'm descending the stairs at my customary two or three at a time. The numbner of times I've caught my toe on the bottom one anbd been propleed into the glass front door...