Pet hates but keep it ‘nice’

So many of mine on here already (trout pouts, botox, 'haitch') but also:

People who wait until the cashier tells them how much their shopping is before getting their bag, getting purse out, deciding whether cash or card etc. And who take their time packing their grocery bags, holding those who are in a hurry up in the queue behind them.

Some phrases such as 'thinking outside the box' (just say, be original!) and 'at the end of the day' (ultimately!).

Teenagers telling me colour / symbols / metaphors etc in a piece of literature have no connotations or deeper meaning. (Just do your work for goodness sake!)

People who say floor when they mean ground.

Adverts on TV.
Most of our programme viewing is now recorded.
Advertising minutes on tv is almost as long as the programmes.

The adverts themselves are completely uninspiring withnot even a catchy jingle .
We can all still remember beans, soup, chocolate etc jingles.
Now? mmm nope cant think of one.

Just boring items that drone on ...
Cars, debts , car/home insurance. Compare the market sites (even the meerkats are a bit passed their sell by dates)☹

Hurray for modern TVs
Skip and ignore ?

Trendy management speak, eg ‘Blue sky thinking’ or ‘kicking that project into the long grass’.
People saying pacific when they mean specific.
Idiot drivers who drive up my bumper on roads where it’s not safe for them to overtake.

Seeing TV presenters wearing ridiculous uncomfortable stiletto heels just to read the news. Would it matter if they wore trainers? Surely one day there'll be an injury.

Wheelie bins after heavy rainfall with a couple or more inches of rain inside. Was it beyond the wit of man to invent them with lids which keep the rain out?

One from my oh here people when giving out phone numbers say o instead of zero .
Mine is pictures of young girls with BOTOX lips pouting.
used masks thrown in floor .

When people start a sentence with the word SO.
And people who cut a short story long,my sister was a dab hand at that.
And of course any kind of abuse which should have been on top of the list tbh.

@Callistemon, using our Satnav in France was an endless source of merriment - her pronunciation was the most peculiarly mangled I’ve ever heard.

It was a relief when we eventually worked out a route that worked fine without her - as long as we had the road map with the route (Calais to not far from Dijon) carefully marked.

I shout at ours quite often - "shut up you stupid woman"!!
Mind you, she's sometimes right and has got us out of ever-decreasing circles.

Caterpillar eyebrows and trout pouts
People who throw rubbish out of cars and encourage their children to do the same

That annoying voice on the ‘Moneysupermaaaaaahhhhket' ads - I have to silence him and resolved never to use that firm.

What merlot and callistemon said!

You should have heard our old satnav trying to pronounce French place names Callistemon it was really funny at times.

I looked at the thread title and thought "Don't get me started"

I did try to be nice

Our satnav

Not only does she get lost frequently but she mispronounces place names.

Aksed instead of asked

Sodapop you reminded me of another one, audiobook readers who mangle place names and famous people’s names. I listen to a lot of serious academic works on ancient and modern history, you think they’d take the time to check pronunciations.

Plastic people, they all look the same as though they have been cloned, especially the young girls now! People who tell me all about what’s on or has been on the TV while on the rare occasion I am trying to watch something!!! Litter louts. Relatives who don’t bother to thank you for a present (friends always do). Gosh I will stop now as I am on a roller, could add so much more, must be getting less tolerant as I get older!

DJ on the radio this morning talking about the 'texes' she had sent. The plural of text is texts please.
On the theme of winners cornishpatsy why has one programme I know and dislike said there are no losers just runners up. No, there are winners and losers, save us from anyone having hurt feelings.

Things I can’t stand:-

Child abuse, either mental, physical or sexual.
Victimisation of the vulnerable.
Snobbery.
Being judgemental.

I cannot stand women of all ages walking around with trout pouts thick false eyelashes and rollers but their in pjs. If they care so much about how they look why don't they get dressed.

People who dump rubbish spit out on pavements and don't scoop up their dogs poo.

Flytipping and littering.

I can’t stand Michael Parkinson! Went right off him years ago when he was interviewing a very young Charlotte Church and asking her (to me) inappropriate questions. It gave me the unsavoury creeps which have never gone away.

And later, when he’s been advertising in that oh-so-cosy voice, funeral or other savings plans aimed at people with not much or very little money. And presumably being paid handsomely for it.

Re the original question, radio and TV presenters who I’m sure wouldn’t usually or habitually do it, endlessly dropping their Ts.

I swear they are instructed by the Beeb to do it, in order to sound un-posh, ‘relevant’ or ‘edgy’ or whatever they like to call it - certainly not ‘common’, perish the thought!

Admiration of celebrities, many of whom can hardly speak properly and are, to put it politely, not very bright.

People who talk incessantly about their health.

People on TV, including news readers, who can't say 'sixth', which is most of them. Most say 'sick'.

Pet niggles maybe but hates ?