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Who really gets up your nose ?

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Floradora9 Tue 07-Mar-17 10:10:56

Every time I see Caitlin Moran's photo she is pulling a funny face. I see the same terrible photo in the Times every weekend and have yet to see her anywhere trying to looking normal . Perhaps she has image issues who knows but I refuse to read anything she writes because it makes me so mad.

Chewbacca Wed 08-Mar-17 16:28:26

Nicola Sturgeon who increasingly reminds me of Jimmy Krankie
Jimmy Carr because his eyes alarm me
The Kardashians all of them
There may be more.....

Luckylegs9 Wed 08-Mar-17 16:20:06

Davina McCall, Jimmy Carr, Nicola Sturgeon, Katie Price. The first two I switch off before they open their mouths.

goldengirl Wed 08-Mar-17 11:05:56

Government agencies and others who don't take responsibility for their actions

MawBroon Wed 08-Mar-17 10:23:24

Maw Broon, who wants to be ordinary anyway

confusedconfusedconfused ???? ?

grannylyn65 Wed 08-Mar-17 08:57:16

'On it ' !

Largolass Wed 08-Mar-17 08:17:47

Nicola Sturgeon was my Solicitor many moons ago....

grannypiper Wed 08-Mar-17 08:07:31

Anya i have met Nicola Sturgeon so i can truthfully say i cant stand her.

annodomini Wed 08-Mar-17 07:59:26

Who gets up my nose? A very competent ENT surgeon did just that and relieved my sinus of a very nasty chronic infection!

ginny Wed 08-Mar-17 07:23:59

MawBroon, who wants to be ordinary anyway ?

Greenfinch Wed 08-Mar-17 07:11:22

I have never heard of her and so would not recognise her.

Riverwalk Wed 08-Mar-17 07:05:41

Caitlin Moran is a very talented and successful writer and been so for over 20 years.

Not bad for a girl from a council estate in Wolverhampton who left school aged 11.

Anya Wed 08-Mar-17 06:54:38

You are depriving yourself of some of the funniest, cleverest, most moving journalism around today. What the hell does it matter if she pulls a face for the camera?
Approving what an author looks like is usually not a prerequisite for reading their work.

Well said Nona4ever

It's not who gets up my nose, but what gets up my nose.....questions like this OP inviting this kind of dislike for those they have never met.

Yuk! Just listen to yourselves.

BlueBelle Wed 08-Mar-17 05:53:57

Oh I need to add David Walliams to my list

PamelaJ1 Wed 08-Mar-17 05:25:31

Most of the above?

Jalima Tue 07-Mar-17 23:24:10

I know that Katie Hopkins has had a bad time of it having had brain surgery to cure her epilepsy and I wouldn't wish anyone ill, but it would have been karma if her hair had grown back in a lovely shade of ginger.

MawBroon Tue 07-Mar-17 22:37:24

Oh ffinnochio I am a peaceable soul, but anyone who can say of little redheads such as my adorable carrot topped DGS,
"Ginger babies? Just like ordinary babies but so much harder to love" (Katie Hopkins) is lucky to get away with just a slap angryangry

ffinnochio Tue 07-Mar-17 22:20:52

' needs a slap'
' totally smug and slappable'
' slapping list'

Good grief!

Auntieflo Tue 07-Mar-17 22:05:12

Ah, I see, thanks Shysal.

shysal Tue 07-Mar-17 20:27:17

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/big-brother/11332631/Katie-Hopkins-most-offensive-quotes.html
For Auntieflo.
KH should definitely have been on my list.

Ana Tue 07-Mar-17 20:26:01

Richard Madeley, yes! Smug git...hmm

BlueBelle Tue 07-Mar-17 20:12:37

Oh if we re going for actually people
Katie Hopkins
Nigel Farage
Donald the Trump
Katie price
Jeremy clarkson
Keith lemon
For starters

Auntieflo Tue 07-Mar-17 19:05:13

Who is Katie Hopkins please ?

Daddima Tue 07-Mar-17 18:58:10

I have a slapping list!
( In no particular order)

Ricky Gervais
Richard Madeley
Davina McCall
Tony Blair
James Corden

Rigby46 Tue 07-Mar-17 18:15:00

Well it didn't read that way - it sounded sanctimonious and stated that intolerance got up the posters nose - so I took it at face value . Anyway, what's wrong with a thread that I guess was meant to be somewhat lighthearted about people that that irritate you? And don't be so ridiculous about my belittling people who fought against all the examples I gave - of course I wasn't implying any such thing as having anything in common with what you see as the small minded intolerance being expressed on this thread - I was actually giving intolerance the weight it should have rather than the rather snidey way it was being used by some on this thread. '

janeainsworth Tue 07-Mar-17 17:27:45

rigby you ask what's meant by intolerance.

Literally it means 'not bearing things' and in the context of this threads it means disliking people you don't know and have never met because you have made some sort of judgement about them based on their appearance or how they have appeared on television.

Being intolerant of people is quite different from not tolerating social injustice and I think you belittle those who have fought racism, sexism, discrimination on grounds of religion etc by implying in your post that they have anything in common with the small-minded intolerance that is being expressed by some on this thread.