What sort of people do you avoid?

RosieandherMaw

Babs03

Men when out at night, and pretty soon it won’t need to be night when it becomes dark.

Why?
They’re not all muggers and rapists.

True, but you cannot tell which is which, hence the fear especially if you are a woman and alone.
Daytime is safer as there are usually more people about.
Being old in itself also makes peoples easy targets.

It was soon after Sarah Everard was abducted one night ,when the then government were saying our streets needed to be better lit up to make us safer, that my local council decided to save money by fitting our lamp posts with exceedingly dim lights. The only thing they light up is themselves.

I would be nervous, so I just don't do it.

Skydancer

People with unruly dogs.
People who continually talk about their perfect families.
Moaners.
Scruffy people.
Show-offs.

Don't all the people posting who they "avoid" fall into one of two of your categories?

sarcastic people who don`t offer any positivity

energy drainers

negative people

misery talkers, misery likes company, well they don`t get my company

My days of giving my energy to the takers are well and truly over

Not keen on being hugged apart from family but I don't "intensely dislike" anyone.

Caleo

nanna8

Oh dear- I’m a bit of a hugger. Maybe it is different where we live because many of us are. It is a normal way of greeting friends.

My dog always tries to join in a hug. Would this be okay where you live?

I wouldn’t mind a dog hug so long as the dog wasn’t a drooler. I’d prefer a cat hug though and have been trying to encourage my cat to hug me for the last 5 years. The look of disdain he gives me is unmistakeable. Ah well…..

I intensely dislike people who gossip. Also: people who stand too close, get in my space or try to maintain eye contact. And don’t dare touch me unless you are a close friend or relative.

Caleo

nanna8

Oh dear- I’m a bit of a hugger. Maybe it is different where we live because many of us are. It is a normal way of greeting friends.

My dog always tries to join in a hug. Would this be okay where you live?

Dogs tend to jump on my knee- even large ones. Friends laugh about it. So the answer is probably yes.

The list is endless for various reasons regarding people I dislike or avoid. I prefer down to earth honest and direct people whatever their background best.

Mean people
Loud people
Racists
Bigots
Little Englanders
Nosey people
Reform supporters or anybody who thinks the current littering the streets with national flags and the vandalism of our streets is just ‘patriotism’

🤣 ha ha

Shirls52000

Homophobes
Transphobes
Racists
Bigots
Misogynists
Trump supporters
Nigel Farage @co

Think that ll do for now 😂

Am I mistaken or don't those characteristics tend to coincide in the same individuals?

nanna8

Oh dear- I’m a bit of a hugger. Maybe it is different where we live because many of us are. It is a normal way of greeting friends.

My dog always tries to join in a hug. Would this be okay where you live?

People to whom you listen to attentively when they complain about their husbands, their kids, their neighbours, etc, etc, but who, when you try to introduce a subject not directly connected to them (just general chit chat like a TV programme or a newspaper article), look blank and make no response.

I think I am a good listener and I appreciate that sometimes we need to give vent to our feelings, but I don't want to be treated as just a sounding board for someone else's disgruntlement.

Also anyone who starts a topic of conversation with "I'm not a racist, but ...".

Rude,arrogant,entitled,loud.....I could go on.....and on🤣🤣🤣

Hypocondriacs.
Those who constantly dwell on long past perceived wrongs and grudges.
Those who perceive themselves as superior to everyone else.

Those who are judgemental, bossy, or those who are correct. People who are shouty, attention grabbing, and talk too much. I'm an introvert, talkers wear on me. I prefer to work problems in silence.

Belligerent and resentful people. Sadly my sister is one of those and has caused my parents untold heartache. Sometimes not speaking for months due to a perceived slight. What she has to be resentful about , no one can fathom, although she has been belligerent from childhood.

People who show off.

Paople who talk at you and not to you and who hijack every conversation and won’t ever stop. I am quite introverted and quiet and find the clamour distressing.

People who are closed minded and shout, ‘racist’ or ‘bigot’ whenever they hear something they don’t like.

Ill read and ill informed people who think they know more than anyone else.

Irrational people whose beliefs preclude them from thinking.

But I know enough folk who are not entirely like this to admire, like and whose company I enjoy. I’m not stupid enough to think I am perfect!

Bossy people and those who make no exception for others.

In recent days I've been coming across a comment at intervals about "the English are individualistically minded and some other nations think more as a group". It simply hadn't occurred to me to regard going in for "group think" as anything other than "weak".

I thought everyone who didn't think for themselves was "weak" and not that it's apparently a national characteristic of the English to think individualistically and maybe other peoples national characteristic to think more as a group. So yep....that's probably what I avoid most in the event - ie people who think "as a group" - rather than individualistically for themselves.

I think I've probably done a fair bit over the years of finding umpteen different ways of saying "Yeah - that's what they think (ie a particular group) - but what do YOU think?"

People who eat smelly food on public transport. It's a confined space, please don't make everyone suffer!

My next door neighbour, who puts Mrs. Bouquet in the shade!

People who talk over you, butt in
And loudly take over the conversation.

Homophobes
Transphobes
Racists
Bigots
Misogynists
Trump supporters
Nigel Farage @co

Think that ll do for now 😂