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

Over zealous wheel clampers whose common sense is smothered by their desire for a quick buck.

For some reason I managed to resign from this thread just now. So todays petty hate is inappropriate mouse clicking!

Zantic

The Angel Of The North. It looks rusty. Please paint it white.

People who get to the top of an escalator and stop dead.

People who say "I knew it was going to be one of those days" thus making it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Street singers (especially ones with microphones) who are clearly entertaining themselves more than any person passing by.

People who see their pet doing something potentially life-threatening but instead of rushing over to avert disaster they pick up their camcorder and film it in the hope of sending it to a "You've been framed" show.

Ugly 'street graffiti' style murals on the metal shutters of shops. Can make any respectable row of shops look like a Bronx.

People on transport who think the seat next to them exists for holding their briefcase/shopping bag.

While on the subject of rusty, so does B of the Bang, and that hasn't even been finished yet!

Hotmail message "server is too busy". How much money has he got?

Looks like they were updating the system, it's not doing it now.

My petty hate is having a hole in your sock.

(And that IS petty!)

Alex

It's been moaned about on here before - when the TV companies scrunch-up the credits at the end of a show. I was watching CSI, Crime Scene Investigation on Tuesday and I realised I recognised the actor (the one causing the coach tyres to explode). As I leant forward to scrutinise the credits they scrunched them up and made them unreadable. Grrrrr.

The sound of someone eating an apple. So ingly self righteously smug!

I think one of my first postings in Petty Hates was about people who manage to 'whistle' when they are eating a biscuit.

Thinking of a really good petty hate to post on this thread, getting on here ans forgetting what it was.

The media saying things like "Sharon Osbourne has had a bad week". She's had some jewelry stolen that's worth more than ten years of a nurse's wages.

My heart bleeds.

Watching half of a really good program and then taping over the end with Casualty cos you're going out and in a hurry cos you couldn't find your mascara.....

Oh, and Sharon Osbourne in general.

*Takes a deep breath*
People who lack basic computer skills getting office jobs.
Pigeons
People who cycle on the pavement.
The fact that I'm scared of pigeons.
People who think the Burberry check is tartan.
The Burberry check.
The youth of today.
Feeling old at twenty-five.
Being asked "do you like HIM?" when I tell people I'm into metal (the answer being, of course, "No, I said I'm into metal.").
Being interrupted by customers phoning me while I'm typing this.
People who use TXT SPK on message boards.
All those bloody kids who think that wearing a Cradle of Wilf t-shirt and their mum's eyeliner makes them goths.
People who think I'm a saddo with no social life just because I like Doctor Who and play D&D.
People who think Budweiser (or any other crappy bottled lager) is real beer.
Having a cold that won't die no matter what I throw at it.
Yogurt drinks with 'friendly bacteria'.
The fact that we're supposed to believe this bacteria can actually survive in the stomach.

Okay... spleen vented.

I think I love you.

Awww, shucks

People saying "Can I lend you a pen?" when they actually want to borrow a pen off you

ES

Walkers Lites - 100% Taste, 33% Less Fat!

If they taste so good, and they are better for you, why sell the 100% fat version?

And there's more...

People who amble across the road without looking when there's a crossing ten yards away (it sounds harsh, but they deserve to get run over).
Parents whose idea of discipline is shouting "Jordan, get the f**k back here!"
People who think RPGs are Satanic.
People who think something cannot possibly be right just because they don't beleive in it.
People who think something cannot possibly be wrong just because they do beleive in it.
Kids who stand outside newsagents asking people to get them fags.
The kid who did the above to me and when I said "no" pointed to his Limp Bizkit hoody and said "come on, man, you gotta help out a fellow goffic."
McFly.
Being this angry at the world around me.

When (often during election campaigns) politicians deliberately try to make a powerful quote that will be used in the papers. The quotes often end up sounding pretentious and contrived.