Oh, quit groaning at my title. Venomous Kate wrote an entry about quirks, and finished up with a list of things she hates. Mine won’t be as long as hers, mostly because I hate a lot of the same things

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I hate people who say ‘I don’t care who started it.’ It re-injures the original victim.

I hate people who wear Ché shirts and keffiyehs.

I hate people who don’t hate Jimmy Carter.

I hate moral equivalence.

I hate diplomacy.

I hate pacifism.

I hate tenured English professors who teach leftist politics and not English.

I hate the ACLU.

I hate those who oppose the death penalty.

I hate spammers with such a passion that I would allow myself to be televised wielding a sledgehammer to the skull of a spammer, Gallagher-style, on TV.

I hate those who don’t argue to allow — strike that — REQUIRE cluster-bombing the rallies where Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Aqsa, et al are doing Nazi salutes.

I hate that there is no Democrat I can trust with foreign policy — lack of competition for the GOP is bad.

I hate that neither the GOP or Democrats are securing our borders.

Above all, I hate people who won’t hate. They are part of the problem.

I’m with you on pretty much your whole list. My mother sucks her teeth, and it drives me insane. Yet one more reason we don’t socialize much.

I love your blog!

Piggybacking onto the complaint about use or lack of use of signalling lights on a vehicle… people who insist on driving in any lane on any road I happen to be on, with a signal light going blinky-blinky-blinky. Mile after mile after tedious mile, they trundle along (usually in an RV of some sort) signalling that they’re going around the world either to the right or to the left. Hate it.

Anybody, under any circumstances, touching anything on my desk in any way. I have a mailbox that I check many times a day…leaving something on my chair for me is a guaranteed way to a series of pithy, pointed, and highly poisonous pronoucements, for example. Actually sitting at my desk is more irritating than I can say…and adjusting my chair…well, that’s just profoundly unfortunate for the person who is responsible.

Leaving dirty dishes in the sink without first rinsing them. Ugh. Do you know what lives in peoples’ kitchens?????

Improper use of any of the following: Two, too, to, their, they’re, there, or ever referring to it as “nuk-yoo-ler”.

At one point, my now-fiancee used to sneak into my office and rearrange everything under the clear plastic cover. It speaks volumes about her that I am marrying her nonetheless.

Leaving any electrical device on when noone is in the room – lights, television, radio…doesn’t matter. Likewise, leaky faucets or sinks that don’t drain offend me.

People who are overly offensensitive (offended by other people being offended, without any particular reason).

People, especially managers, who ask for input, take notes, and discount everything you say. Likewise, people who want something from you, call you to ask for information, then tell you, “Hang on, lemme get a pen.” (If you knew you’d be asking for information and likely writing it down, having a utensil with which to do so ahead of time would be good. I’m just sayin’.)

People who try to rant and can’t because they are illiterate or just generally suck.

Forwarded email I receive that was addressed to “All Staff” to begin with.

Chain letters.

People who talk and talk about things that annoy them, and never listen to any other contradicting opin…hey, stop looking at me like that.