What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?

I really hate that California dropped all new shower heads down to 1.8 gpm. I feel very alone in this outrage. People are flying around in private fucking jets, and you want us all to take one for the team and suffer a shitty dribble of a shower every day. A generous hot shower is one of the few things that makes our lives far better than our great great grandparents. Taking out the flow restrictor is like having sex without a condom. A whole generation of suckers won’t even know what they’re missing.

I hate ordering a beer in a restaurant and it comes in a shaker pint (conical pint), which is usually a 13 oz pour. How can we have a government who verifies the measurement of fuel pumps, but not beer, when beer costs like 15x more than fuel. Fill lines are a simple, cheap, and good solution.

I hate metering lights. For those who don’t know they’re stoplights on the on-ramp to an interstate highway. Waste of fuel, don’t help with traffic.

I really hate advertisements. It seems the more I block them, the more offensive they are when one gets through.

Goddamn. LED. Headlights. Also the way different manufacturers have these tacky headlight setups to somehow set then apart from others so not only are they as bright as the fucking sun, they have way more diodes than is ever necessary.

When people block aisles at the grocery store and you say "excuse me", but they act like they don't hear you and don't move. It's literally just you and them in the aisle, they don't need to have their cart in the middle of the aisle while they stand next to it. There's enough room for 2 people and their carts to fit in an aisle.

Cars. They ruin cities.

"Hate" is a strong word, but I very much dislike it when a website that I can access on my computer only allows phone users to actually use it, or when certain features of a website are hidden for desktop users but available for phone users, such as Instagram Stories. I just don't agree with desktop/laptop users being restricted or offered the barebones version of a website considering that the internet has existed long before smartphones were a thing.

I remember that thing I hate: Ice cream melting faster than your consumption speed. Aaaaarrrrrrrgghhhh I hate it!

Billionaires.

People who subscribe to the whole male power struggle culture. Not just in a political sense; people will say things about respect or posturing etc. and it physically disgusts me to be reminded that people live like that.

Ice in drinks, because I hate straws so I almost exclusively drink from the side of the glass. Ice slams into my teeth and makes me rage. What a first world problem lol

people who go outside with zero spatial awareness. if youre going to walk slow, stay to the side. if you go up to get a closer view and take a pic, gtfo once ur done so others can get closer

You think I have that much time in my life to list all of them!?

The one that pops into my head immediately is:

There is a special place in hell for people who don't hug the curb when yielding to traffic before making a right hand turn. Instead they take up the half the through lane and half the turning lane, meaning that the person behind them can't pull forward.

Plug in air fresheners.

If I rent an Airbnb which has them I will hunt every single one down and it's going straight out the window.

Mercedes & BMW drivers

Dogs. I don't want to hear about yours and if I'm in public keep your dog away from me.

I hate dish towels hanging on kitchen drawers. Do people just like picking up the towel every time you need a fork?

The color brown, especially in clothing. I can't quite put my finger on why that is.

Wood is mostly okay, though.

Bowling.

MONKEYS! I HATE MONKEY!

It's like God drew a crude Picture of you and said "Hehe thats you!". My God I hate Monkey so much. They are evil, they are gross and they are ugly.

Coming out of left field, I'll have to go with the number 22. Absolutely hate that number to death. Used to show up all the time when I was growing up, so I've learned to be a 22 hater. I'll go to war with that number and nuke it to death before admitting it's a good number.

The sound of flip flops. Drives me up a wall!

Liberals ✊🙃

People who use their turn signal AS THEY'RE TURNING. You asshole! You're supposed to do it a bit before you turn to let people know your intent. There's no point in signaling as you're turning because I CAN SEE YOU TURNING! Fuck!

Audio messages, I hate them with a passion. Sometimes I just refuse to listen to them. Can't search them for info, and why tf do you assume I can just stop my day to listen to this shit I don't have my goddamn headphones connected all the time, and I'm not about to put the phone to my ear for a full 5 minutes and no talk looking like a goddamn weirdo.

People who get offended by a behaviour that doesn't affect them at all

buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it's like nobody cares about light pollution.

• TikTok.
• Short form videos.
• Tutorials in a 10 minute video format. Just give me a list of instructions I can skim to find the thing I'm looking for.
• Influencers and "content creators". Please get cancer and die.
• YouTube after 2011 or so
• Monetization of platforms
• The way software development evolved from a highly praised skill to being regarded as nothing more than a fleshbased code printer for creating more shareholder value
• How the art scene is now mostly relying on social media exposure and followers
• so, Actually most of the modern internet.
• The lie that you can become rich and succesful by working hard and putting in the hours

I can go on for quite a while. Millenial disillusionment is real.

The concernedly rising sightings of "could of" and "should of". And it's always the native English speakers. It irks me every time I see it. Why are you making such an obvious mistake? The sentence doesn't even sound coherent. How about you speak the sentence aloud and see how wrong it sounds?

Biweekly and bimonthly each also meaning their respective reciprocals.

(Every two periods, or twice a period.)

If a technical term such as a frequency specifier has multiple incompatible meanings then it has no value and needs to stop being used entirely. Or one of the meanings chosen as correct and the others rejected forcefully (good luck with that)

I hate people who wear cold weather gear in warm/heated places

Schizophrenic people are very likely to do this. I work in mental health and this was mentioned in our training. At my location maybe 1/3-1/2 of folks wore one or more puffy jackets all summer long.

I HATE PEOPLE WHO CARE WHAT THE FUCK IM WEARING!

Birthday celebrations

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I used to work in an email heavy industry, so people who don’t use email or more specifically what I call “threading” right.

Changing the topic (so that the discussion no longer relates to the subject line), replying to add someone in without reattaching the relevant attached files, not using redirect email functionality, including screenshots that either lack relevant information due to poor cropping or forces the recipient into retyping its contents by hand all make email super annoying to deal with. And what’s with being expected to confirm you received each and every email? Ever heard of read receipts?

Also, people who don’t read error messages. As a web developer (or more broadly “computer person”) I cannot count how many times someone has sent me a picture of an error asking me what to do. 90% of the time the error itself tells you exactly what to do. Why do I need to read it for you?

the way yoga instructors speak, for some reason. I don't hate Yoga itself, just that fake calm voice makes me pretty mad. I could relax much better if the instructor just shouted like a drill sergeant all the time

Got misophonia, the sound of dog licking triggers me

People that leave trash in my car, usually the same people that exclaim “your car is so clean” when they first get in and see that it’s completely empty save for a few things in the glovebox.

Perfume and cologne. Makes me wheeze. Also long dirty fingernails, people who work with soil or grease or something excused from that.

When people let their phones ring endlessly. For God's sake - either answer it or mute it, don't just ignore it!

The smell of coffee. I don't know what's wrong with me (or alternatively the vast majority of people) but it smells as disgusting to me as a steaming pile of dog poop. I learned to ignore it to some extend but I still hate it in all its variations: The powder, freshly roasted beans, freshly brewed coffee, cold coffee, coffee breath, ...

Double spaces in text

I personally hate it when people get weird about the word 'hate' and try to use the word 'despise' instead.

The use of "alumni" in the singular. A person is an alumnus or an alumna, the alumni are always a group. Seems to be a very American usage, and I don't know why it feels aggravating where other Americanisms like positive anymore don't.

New year's eve. I'm generally not a depressed person but new year's eve just reminds me of the unstoppable passage of time and how I have one fewer year left here and haven't achieved a fraction of what I want to. Just really depressing stuff, generally. Being at a party with cheerful friends and alcohol helps a bit.

Same with birthdays a bit, but not as bad.

Every article lately using the word "quietly" in the headline to drive clicks, to trick the user into thinking they're getting in on some controversial secret. It's the new "slammed".

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Newspapers who use the word "ouster" but as a noun, not a verb.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ouster

"With Torres conspicuously absent from City Council and committee meetings and events in District 3, the mood quickly changed from offering Torres due process to calling for his ouster as many residents and organizations felt Torres was in no position to effectively represent his constituents."
—Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024

"Niccol’s surprise hiring in August — announced alongside Narasimhan’s ouster — was greeted with widespread praise from the Club and Wall Street, with Starbucks market capitalization soaring by $21 billion in a single day, to nearly $109 billion."
—Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024

"The news of Hinton’s award comes weeks away from the first anniversary of Altman’s brief, stunning and ultimately unsuccessful ouster—as well as the second anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022."
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024

"That experience was in the back of my mind when reading about the struggles at CVS Health, which owns Aetna, and the ouster of CEO Karen Lynch last week."
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024

As opposed to:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oust

Ouster - One who ousts.

When people linger in doorways. We're not hanging out with you because you're cool; we're trying to get past you. In or out, you're wasting the heat/AC!

I have a weird dislike of Tom Hanks. It isn't hate, but I find myself inexplicably hostile towards him. No idea why.

The word "poop". It sounds so disgusting and I can't bear it if anyone over 6 years of age uses it. Say shit or crap or manure or even stool, just not that stupid nauseating word.

The habit of people to skip any or all nuance in assessing a situation because it's "more palatable".

A good example of this is familial relations. Family is more than just "parent", "child", "sibling", "friend", and/or "spouse", you could have grey areas where something would come off as not quite one thing or another thing. Age-gap siblings can develop into having an aunt or uncle who is younger than you, or you might be older than your step-parent, or you might manifest a relationship in a way that contains some aspects of a friendship, etc. But there are people who don't want to hear any of the buts about it, they just want a one word answer.

Myself

I hate when people use my shoulder as support, as I'm showing them something. Simply... don't, okay?

I hate getting my feet wet in the bathroom because someone else dripped all over the floor/rug because they didn't dry themselves before they got out of the shower. Especially when I have socks on. Dry your entire body before you take any body part out of the shower. 😤

I'm sorry, but why do you care if people wear hot clothes in warm places?

For me it's enshittification, stupid policies in any institution or just overrergulation in general.

Edit: read the other comments

Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice

The fact that middle-click is used for pasting in Linux

Greeting people or goodbye's. Please don't touch me, unless you are my child or pet. I was hoping the new covid habits of not shaking hands or hugging would become permanent, but it's back again. And i still have this reflex of shaking hands, instead of keeping my hands in my pocket.

What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate?

Hate is a strong word, with or without vehemency.

There are things I despise (most media, social or traditional, being an example of), there are things I don't like (bananas), stuff and behaviours I disagree with (certainties and personal opinions used as indisputable truth, violence), and then there are people I dislike, some deeply (like... nope, I won't name anyone) but I'd rather not hate. Not anymore, like I may have hated when I was younger.

Hate helps no one solve any issue, helps no one in becoming a better person. It certainly does not help me, quite the opposite.

Just randomly thought: I also hate people who seek thrills and extremely "unique" experiences. Like those who own pet chimpanzees, try various drugs to get high, or risk their lives for TikTok.

Celine Dion

Alicia keys

Soup served in a bowl.

Who would want to consume a warm smoothie slowly with a spoon?

People who do not backup their laptops or phones, then come complaint to me when they are unable to to access and get a photo when the device dies.

When people pronounce "debut" as "day-boo"

People who wear sunglasses indoors. I get fluorescent or bright led lights bother some folks, but it still screams asshole to me.

Hate is such a powerful emotion. I can't honestly think anything that I hate. I dislike many things but not hate.

People who engine brake without at least tapping the brake pedal to signal it.