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

Eating with your mouth open
Eating noisily
Pomegranate
Talking during a film, at the cinema
Fistling sweetie papers at the cinema
Not indicating when coming off a roundabout
Jumping red lights
Getting angry at me for taking too long to cross the road, especially if the person is in a big mercades when it is pishing with rain...

Enough, I am getting angry just thinking about this. Until later....
BCNU - Crescent

Pomegranate?...but without pomegranate there woulnd be no grenadine...and no tequila sunrise

Shop assistants irritate me....especially the plastered laydees who stalk between the perfume/makeup counters in department stores

People who try to disguise spots using coverup/foundation and get it so wrong...crusty beige spots are *far* worse than spots.

Spots....especially the occasional ones that appear for no reason in my ears or up my nose.

Nail varnish annoys me...I can't wear it it makes my fingers feel dirty.

Saturnine, why do you hate thin people who can't put on weight? It's not a very nice thing. Fat guys get more girls than I do.

I suspect the chief cause of irritation would be people who can't put on weight and complain about it to their overweight friends- that's got to be annoying.

People who mention how skinny I am as the third or fourth sentence when meeting me. 1. I have probably noticed already. 2. I don't comment on your lard arse now do I?

People who say 'nucular' instead of 'nuclear'
People who block the entrances to roundabouts queuing for their exit
Trying to buy a suit only to find that none of the shops have both the jacket and trousers in your size
BBC2 cancelling Buffy for snooker
Theme pubs
People who write in text-ese
People who remark on something that hasn't been done as if it was your fault, even when it isn't part of your job

I'm sure I'll be back with more later... What a bitter bunch we are!

See, I said I'd be back...

Mothers who take 9/10 year old boys into the women's changing rooms at the swimming pool - I have no wish to be oggled by a small boy while I'm getting dressed!

Hmmm, now it annoys me my mother never did that

Queue jumpers.
People who don't move down the train when there are tons of people outside trying to get home just like them.
People at the gym who wear full make-up and check their appearance from all angles in the changing room mirrors before venturing into the gym to pose.

Oh and people who use the sauna/steamroom, get all sweaty and then jump into swimming pool to cool off ! Yuk

The fact that most people are taller than me. Please note, I'm not complaining about the existance of tall people. Just that I'm not one.


Geggs

Sci-Fi fanatics - don't know why but it just bothers me that people take Dr Who or Star Trek seriously.

Young (and I mean young) celebs who "write" their biogs. Who cares?

Posh and Becks coverage - I have a strange irrational hatred of these two thanks to the media. I'm sure they're probably terribly nice people in reality.

Tabloids - I need say no more.

People who keep wanting you to justify everything you say or write.

plus many many more.

Wulfric (grouchy, touchy and miserable!)

Gratuitousness.
-It seems as though every 10 damn minutes watching TV or a movie, or reading a book, or whatever, there's a scene with sex, violence, cursing, etc. that isn't there to enhance the experience, but to draw in less intelligent, cultured people who yell and hollar when two women kiss, a car crashes, or someone thinks of four ways to say "poopie."

Get some class, all of you who get off on this garbage, transparently thrown in to titilate you without any concern for content! If you want violence that advances plot, watch "The Bourne Identity," "24," or "Minority Report" to name a few. There are lots of options for anything you want to see.

Further to that posting. People that complain there is too much sex and violence on TV.

And the fact that sex on TV is perceived as being worse than violence on TV.

People who think homosexuality is a danger to their children. And that talking about homosexuality in schools is *promoting* it...

Oh. And people who think music incites violence.

Oh. And when my batteries run out in my walkman *just* as I leave the house.

Great a threat that acts like a stress-relief ball!
Oh how I agree with soooo many of you on those petty hates!! It's like a cyber-Room 101!

Some additions:
Hiccups - why do they happen & what possible use do they serve, except to irritate!!
Facial Hair/Beards on male or female - No point either (see above) from what I can see apart from maybe keeping warm (GET central heating, that's what I say!)
Rolling 24-hour News Channels: by the 'eck, do we really need THREE!! It's just the same thing over & over & over...ad infinitum.
Drivers who insist upon thinking they own the road!!
Shopping trolleys thrown in the canal: what? how? why? 'snot much to put it back now is it.
(As mentioned above in the thread) Twentysomething people who write autobiographies or those folks who go to the Gym just to look good. Waste of a membership fee?!! ...

I could go on, but I may end up like Victor Meldrew!
Having to calm me now!

CNN. It's a crap tv station. They make up news, I swear they do.

People who, upon seeing a piano, play either Fur Elise or Heart and Soul.

People who ask *what's your book about?*

It's like, do you *really* expect me to tell you, so you can go off and plaguarise it?

Worse yet - people who ask you if you've been published yet, and then wonder why you haven't (if you haven't or haven't been for a while). As if publishing ever had anything to do with being talented.

Oh - and from my editor days - teenage angst/love poetry, rhyming poetry, blank verse for no reason, and people who yell at the staff when their "masterpiece" doesn't get into an issue.

Just bad poetry altogether.



Oh, and I can't use apostrophes correctly, and I hate it. No matter how hard I try, I can't learn.

People who, when you say you're a writer automatically assume you write stories or poetry.

I've got to the point at times of saying I'm a playwright! Really confuses them