Irrational dislikes of people you don’t know..

My friend and I for the last 30 years have each had a pretend boat that’s going to sail into the wide blue yonder never to be seen again , so when we see someone on tv usually, that either has taken a dislike to we just say ‘ he/she is going on the boat’ in 30 years the boat went from boat to cruise liner to a fleet . We don’t hate anyone just dislike, Irrational I know but ho hum.

I tend to trust my own judgements, although I often bend over backwards to treat people fairly, when I know that I have an irrational dislike of them. sometimes later on I feel that I must have sensed something about them. I never liked Jimmy Saville. thought he was smarmy arrogant and thought he was the cats whiskers! Never met the man, and never wanted to , but then of course I was pleased to find out that my feelings were very well founded as far as he was concerned. I like Alan Titchmarsh and as a keen gardener myself tend to like most gardeners but not the irishman whose name just wont come to me but he ad curly hair, a pleasant smile and did some gardens for chelsea etc and I think was called diament or dermot something. Cannot stand most male politicians who think they have the right to tell women what they are supposed to be thinking etc. My role model is Stephanie Cole in Waiting for God! As an eldest, teacher, lecturer with several languages, and having lived abroad and travelled quite a bit, I dont take kindly to be talked down to by a man. For example we went to change the car. The garage we normally used hadnt got anything suitable so went to another garage. I asked 2 questions and the man looked directly at my husband and spoke to him. Basically ignored me, after the third question, I said to my husband "come on we will go elsewhere" The man then looked at me and said Oh he had several possible cars that might suit. I replied that I was not interested in dealing with such a chauvanist, and for his information by this time my husband did about 5000 a year for personal use as he had retire. I was doing over 23000 a year doing 3 days a week as hospital car volunteer. Driving sometimes twice a day from the top of the dales to James Cook in Middlesborough. As I would be out and responsible for getting patients on time to the hospital I needed a decent car. He then tried to change his attitude and asked me to look at another car. I looked straight at him, said I do not want to deal with people who do not respect me as a driver, and that not only would I not buy from them but would advise all other hospital car drivers to go elsewhere!! Lying politicians of all parties, who think we are so stupid that we cant remember what they said and try to wriggle out of it. Men who think they can STEAL money from WASPI women. and pretend that they never supported them. The moron who decided that the winter fuel payment should not be paid if you did not get pension credit and who devised a system that pays you just above the cut off level of pension, so that you get no benefits, yet when you ask your bank if you can change to an account that pays some interest, they inform you that you do not pay in enough each month to be allowed to have the better account. My situation is such that if only I could persuade them to CUT my pension by I think it is £10 or £20 a week, I would then qualify for benefits and actually get things like free prescriptions etc etc. The insulting morons who inform women that there are so few that would benefit by received the owed money to WASPI women, that it is not worth paying and not many people would be affected. I dont care if there are only 3 people entitled to it (there are far more of course) we are owed that money and by keeping it they are stealing from us . Could never stand Donald Trump ( well named Trump an unpleasant smell!!. The lying cheating Boris Johnson who thinks you make rules for other people but it doesnt count for you! WHY would we want to have a prime minister , representing Britain, who is a known liar, cheat, and totally untrustworthy? The BBC world service was known and trusted for impartial and truthful reporting. I have been in a war zone and had people from both sides, say that they had heard of a specific thing but that they were waiting for the BBC world service to report it . and then they would act upon it. Now these arrogant politicians decry the BBC because they wont follow the party line. Well I dont give a toss whether people think that the BBC lean to the left or right. When it comes to reporting on specific happenings , I would trust them more than anyone else.In fact I have to say that there are very few men I trust much at all as it stands. My wonderful husband I promoted to Honorary Woman, no greater praise can I give!! Sadly my original attitude of assuming all people were decent and honest until they proved otherwise, has now changed to the opposite. Trust no one., record promises, get written information on headed notepaper. have someone with you so that there are two of you who can confirm what was said. Send important letters by recorded delivery. They have to sign for them and cannot pretend they did not receive them. You had a date and time they are received. When they then tell you on the phone that they have not received this complaint or letter, you say quietly , that is strange, I have here the record that you signed for this letter at x time on y day. Deathly silence whilst they realise they are caught by the short and curlies!! When I am on my phone I use my landline to ring such calls as I record it all. So once again at some point in the conversation will simply say , well that is fine, I always record my calls so I have you stating x or y, and we can carry on from ther. works a treat!!

I can't stand Patrick Grant.

Helen Skelton really annoys me as well so does Luke Littler and Paddy McGuiness so you are not alone!🤣

Heartily agree with ALL THE DISLIKEABLES mentioned ON HERE. There's so many more though!

I really don’t like Naga Munchety. Her voice is grating and she interrupts constantly

The whole labour government 😱

I'm sure our antipathy towards some people whom we've never met are not really irrational. For me, there's usually something about their body-language or tone of voice which sends signals which I pick up. It seems that many posting on here are, like me, picking up similar signals from some well-known people, David Walliams, and Kier Starmer being two of them, along with Amol Rajan. But am I the only one who feels Sadiq Khan is creepy? And that's from the very beginning of his tenure as Mayor of London!

Carol vorderman
Amanda Holden
Ant (Dec)
Gino d'campo
Melanie sykes
Davina McCall
Cheryl Cole

To name a few

Victoria Coren Mitchell - really irritating. Looks as though I'm the only one here who really likes Dawn French!

The level of irrationality is just astounding, I didn’t realize it was this bad, we all have our preferences but some posts seem to hate everyone.

“I tend to trust my own judgements,”

I’m not going to quote a post that long, but agree with most of the sentiments, jokingly I always say “trust in god, the rest pay cash” in practice anything with business is done on email these days.

Media does not influence me much because I am very aware that most articles are written by activists who have an agenda and are not balanced, media outlets mostly don’t attempt to be balance, even the BBC has a editorial agenda.

Many on this forum are heavily influenced by biased media.

"Hate" is a very strong word. These are "irrational dislikes" as mentioned in the title.

It’s Joanna Lumley and old Nigella. Cannot stand them. Absolutely adored George Alagiah. So sexy. Was devastated when he died.

It’s an interesting thread, isn’t it ? A bit of entertainment if nothing else so thanks Grandma70s

Nanny Knee. Couldnt agree about Naga Munchety (not sure of the spelling). She is obnoxious and have seen her being so with others on TV. She is also rude, once laughing at someone’s Union Jack he had in the background

Sparklefizz

"Hate" is a very strong word. These are "irrational dislikes" as mentioned in the title.

This is an interesting discussion, thank you.

I agree that there is a big difference between 'dislike' and 'hate'.

I don't like certain presenters or so-called celebrities, because their manner irritate.

But I get very close to hate about people who cause real trouble in the world, and so much death and destruction. I don't need to meet them personally to feel that way. Sadly, the list is long at the moment, and at different levels. My close to hate for Putin or Netanyahu, or Musk even- is at a different level than that for little Farage.

People I don't know but dislike for no good reason are:
Clive Myrie (news presenter) - just seems smug to me.
Alistair Stewart - ditto
Laura Keunsberg
Jack Black - soooo irritating
Matt Lucas

Can I add some more to my post a few pages back - Martin Daubney (GB News), Jacob Rees Mogg, Naga and Eamon Holmes, oh and definitely Donald Trump and Kier Starmer

Martin Daubney, JRM are brilliant!

Laura Keunssberg - definitely,
Clive Myrie, but only because he seems to be on everything recently. I quite like him on Mastermind and I think Amol Rajan has settled nicely into doing University Challenge.
I don’t mind several disliked on here, but that just shows how different we all are.
The idea of an irrational dislike exactly describes it.
You don’t need to have an explanation.

Many on this forum are heavily influenced by biased media.

I'm pretty sure my dislikes have not been influenced by the media, biased or otherwise.

Which ones are examples of this?

How can you not love Lee Evans?! Yes he is sweaty but he's hilarious.

Jaye53

Heartily agree with ALL THE DISLIKEABLES mentioned ON HERE. There's so many more though!

My husband thinks Gransnet is an agreeable little social media site!!!! Fool! What a misguided innocent he is! 😚

madeleine45

I tend to trust my own judgements, although I often bend over backwards to treat people fairly, when I know that I have an irrational dislike of them. sometimes later on I feel that I must have sensed something about them. I never liked Jimmy Saville. thought he was smarmy arrogant and thought he was the cats whiskers! Never met the man, and never wanted to , but then of course I was pleased to find out that my feelings were very well founded as far as he was concerned. I like Alan Titchmarsh and as a keen gardener myself tend to like most gardeners but not the irishman whose name just wont come to me but he ad curly hair, a pleasant smile and did some gardens for chelsea etc and I think was called diament or dermot something. Cannot stand most male politicians who think they have the right to tell women what they are supposed to be thinking etc. My role model is Stephanie Cole in Waiting for God! As an eldest, teacher, lecturer with several languages, and having lived abroad and travelled quite a bit, I dont take kindly to be talked down to by a man. For example we went to change the car. The garage we normally used hadnt got anything suitable so went to another garage. I asked 2 questions and the man looked directly at my husband and spoke to him. Basically ignored me, after the third question, I said to my husband "come on we will go elsewhere" The man then looked at me and said Oh he had several possible cars that might suit. I replied that I was not interested in dealing with such a chauvanist, and for his information by this time my husband did about 5000 a year for personal use as he had retire. I was doing over 23000 a year doing 3 days a week as hospital car volunteer. Driving sometimes twice a day from the top of the dales to James Cook in Middlesborough. As I would be out and responsible for getting patients on time to the hospital I needed a decent car. He then tried to change his attitude and asked me to look at another car. I looked straight at him, said I do not want to deal with people who do not respect me as a driver, and that not only would I not buy from them but would advise all other hospital car drivers to go elsewhere!! Lying politicians of all parties, who think we are so stupid that we cant remember what they said and try to wriggle out of it. Men who think they can STEAL money from WASPI women. and pretend that they never supported them. The moron who decided that the winter fuel payment should not be paid if you did not get pension credit and who devised a system that pays you just above the cut off level of pension, so that you get no benefits, yet when you ask your bank if you can change to an account that pays some interest, they inform you that you do not pay in enough each month to be allowed to have the better account. My situation is such that if only I could persuade them to CUT my pension by I think it is £10 or £20 a week, I would then qualify for benefits and actually get things like free prescriptions etc etc. The insulting morons who inform women that there are so few that would benefit by received the owed money to WASPI women, that it is not worth paying and not many people would be affected. I dont care if there are only 3 people entitled to it (there are far more of course) we are owed that money and by keeping it they are stealing from us . Could never stand Donald Trump ( well named Trump an unpleasant smell!!. The lying cheating Boris Johnson who thinks you make rules for other people but it doesnt count for you! WHY would we want to have a prime minister , representing Britain, who is a known liar, cheat, and totally untrustworthy? The BBC world service was known and trusted for impartial and truthful reporting. I have been in a war zone and had people from both sides, say that they had heard of a specific thing but that they were waiting for the BBC world service to report it . and then they would act upon it. Now these arrogant politicians decry the BBC because they wont follow the party line. Well I dont give a toss whether people think that the BBC lean to the left or right. When it comes to reporting on specific happenings , I would trust them more than anyone else.In fact I have to say that there are very few men I trust much at all as it stands. My wonderful husband I promoted to Honorary Woman, no greater praise can I give!! Sadly my original attitude of assuming all people were decent and honest until they proved otherwise, has now changed to the opposite. Trust no one., record promises, get written information on headed notepaper. have someone with you so that there are two of you who can confirm what was said. Send important letters by recorded delivery. They have to sign for them and cannot pretend they did not receive them. You had a date and time they are received. When they then tell you on the phone that they have not received this complaint or letter, you say quietly , that is strange, I have here the record that you signed for this letter at x time on y day. Deathly silence whilst they realise they are caught by the short and curlies!! When I am on my phone I use my landline to ring such calls as I record it all. So once again at some point in the conversation will simply say , well that is fine, I always record my calls so I have you stating x or y, and we can carry on from ther. works a treat!!

Oh madeleine 45 couldn’t agree more with your post hit the nail on the head with all of it well said especially about us waspi women this would never had happened if it had been men !!thank you for your interesting post

Mollygo I was not a fan of Laura Kuenssberg on TV, but several years ago we met her in a pub near H of P. In real life she is very pleasant and personable, and I totally changed my mind.