• phoeby said on May 06, 2009....

  i can't stand those ones either! oh god im the queen of quirky dislikes!!!!!!! "move OVER"
  
  
  i can't stand barking dogs, farts, feeling cotton sheets right after a bath or shower euuuuuuu, scratchy woolen jumpers, polyester, the crinkly sound of chip packets being opened in the movies (it's enough to make me want to walk out!), being tickled or touched without me knowing it's going to happen nearly drives me into a mini-manic attack. is that enough? i could go on.... :)
  
  
    

• uniquely-ironic said on May 06, 2009....

  bugs
  arrogance
  the texture of buttermilk
   

• Mr_Box said on May 06, 2009....

  Well you know some of mine already...lol I hate tight collars and turtlenecks. I can't touch newspapers or chalk or chalkboards. Also phoeby's comment reminded me that if I take a shower or wash dishes and my hands are all pruny, i can't touch fabrics right away cuz it bothers me....
  
  
  i also have issues with excessive noise in public places and i feel like my head might actually explode and i need to go away...i'm very sensitive to sounds. schreechy nails on a chalkboard or metal schreeching...knives being sharpened or anything that makes that horrid sound, makes me want to kill something. 
  
  
  i'm a little bit crazy...lol ;-)

• Hegemone said on May 06, 2009....

  Huh, well, I can't stand feeling my hair frizzies around my face or on my neck.  Once I feel it I stop whatever it is I'm doing and fix it, even at the expense of having my husband steer the car while I make sure not to speed up too fast as I fix my hair, lol.  Ummm, what else, let's see ... I can't stand tight fitting necklaces or chokers ... I have literally taken both hands and ripped one off before.  Oh, and then as far as an irrational sound irritation, if I go to sleep and can hear even the tiniest bit of music playing that I didn't CHOOSE to listen to, it sends me into an absolute feeling of fury.  I get amazingly pissed off, get back up out of bed and go find the culprit playing the music, and usually it's my dad.  A stand off ensues, and it either ends one of three ways:  a.) He turns it off and I go to bed, b.) He leaves it on and I lay in bed pissed off and make a few more trips out until he FINALLY turns it off even though I get so pissed I can't sleep by that point anyway or c.) I get so pissed that he won't turn it off or down that I get dressed, grab my things and go for a drive.

• phoeby said on May 06, 2009....

  oh me too, me too with chalk and chalkboards euuu.
  it was worse when i was a kid.
  
  
  yes, i forgot all noise at night time. i sleep with ear plugs in my ears! and the sound of flies drives me NUTTTTTTTTTTTS.

  
  

  and don't start me on visual pollution!!! 

• the_infernal_optimist said on May 06, 2009....

  phoeby: Farts?? I'm loving these lists!
  
  u-i: Ah, yeah, one of those things bugs me a ton too, though I'm not sure it's out of the ordinary really. ((hugs))
  
  Jaxl: Eww yeah, touching fabric with pruny fingers (or just really dry skin) is so yucky! I get really unhappy if the skin of my hands gets really dry and I can't go for lotion right away no matter where I am 'cause then everything I touch just feels disgusting. Almost like it catches on your skin.
  
  Hege: Wow, you really really can't stand your hair frizzies that way, can you? I hear ya on the ripping something off if it's too tight around your neck sort of thing.
  
  ~Infernal
  

• beyondtheveil said on May 06, 2009....

  infernal- I don't like silk and hillbilly music.
  
  But of the two, I'd take silk in a second.
  
  Buttermilk was the first creation of satan.
  

• GrapeKoolaid said on May 07, 2009....

  You would think something that has the words "butter" and "milk" in it, both items which I love, would be delicious, but it's not.  Buttermilk is like getting mouthraped by dairy. 
  
  I can't stand wet socks.  And hangnails.  If I see/feel a hangnail, I have to stop whatever it is that I'm doing to remove it. 
  

• javadewd said on May 07, 2009....

  Rap music... White boys who think they're black... Moon bats... Styrofoam squeaking in the back seat of a car while I'm driving it... Automated phone systems (especially the kind you have to speak to) drive my Tourette's... Machines that fail... People who would rather argue or make generalizations than try to understand another's point of view... My cats slurping their asses in three-part harmony... People who take infants or toddlers into restaurants... Non-paying customers... The bitterness of StarSchmuck's coffee... My mother's nosy know-it-all butch asshole dike neighbor... My ghetto-fabulous sister-in-law... Pens that don't write...
  

• MissMimi said on May 07, 2009....

  I cannot eat loose ground beef, like in spaghetti sauce.  The feel of it makes me want to gag.
   
  LOL about buttermilk.  My grandpa used to eat stale cornbread crumbled in buttermilk.  Ick.
   
  I hate having cold hands.  I start wearing gloves when it hits about 50 degrees.
   
  How long of a list can we do?

• diabolicdame said on May 07, 2009....

  I cant stand heavy metal rock songs.. lol.. and people who constantly clean house.. nooo.. it makes me feel really restricted!!

• beyondtheveil said on May 07, 2009....

  Oh, javadewd reminded me of rap music, how could I forget that???

• javadewd said on May 07, 2009....

  Mimi -- My wife is that way, too, on the beef. She hates spaghetti...

• gingersoul said on May 07, 2009....

  Java........me too....i can't stand rap music too..i mean the kind of rap that degadres women to pieces of meat and glorify money and bling bling...
  And those idiotic grills on the teeth....
   
  I agree with you also about not liking people who argue just for the love of being different without really listening. And about Starbucks too....
   
  Oh, and I cant stand to have cold feet at night....i just dont fall asleep if my feet are cold.... ;-p
  Having a chipped nail drives me nuts ...i have to have short and filed nails...
   
  What else? Noise at night and loud people in general....people who bark in their cell and eat at the movies....the smell of popcorn....body humor and not wearing any lipstick.......
   
  'Nuff for now...:-)

• simplyconfused said on May 07, 2009....

  The feel cotton balls. It sends shivers shooting up my arms and makes my teeth hurt. bleh!
  hoods that are messed up.
  
  Really Really Really dense people.. the ones who seem like they don't have a single brain cell. Can they REALLY be that ... well stupid?
  Chapped lips!
  when your feet fall asleep, especially both, there is no hope on standing up! 
  
  
  This isn't something I can't stand, but  when I see peoples veins sticking out I have to trace them! 
  
  

• fragglesrock said on May 07, 2009....

  nasal breathers. they should all be sentenced to death.

  water chestnuts. HATE the texture, they have no taste, what's the point?

• wombat said on May 07, 2009....

  Men with long fingernails

  Too much commotion at once:  Tv on loud, three people talking at once, the kid whining, the phone rings......Get me out of here NOW!

  People who whack their upside-down cigarette packs 40 jillion times before opening it!

  Songs with repetitious lyrics

  Hubby trying to fold his potato chip back quietly because he knows it drives me insane--so he does it S-L-O-W-L-Y!

  And for the last two days....a woodpecker banging his noggin on the neighbors metal shed!

• one_wired_kitty said on May 07, 2009....

  I loathe ... no - hate ... the word moist
   
  mullets, long fingernails on guys, general unkemptness
   
  dirty places .... there's a "lived in" look .... then there's people I know who insist on 100% cleanliness perfection 24/7

• Brunettebmshell said on May 07, 2009....

  
  
  I can not STAND the texture of tomatoes... *blech!*
  
  
  The sound of card board boxes scraping against each other... (like when you're putting them together and the lid scratches against the side.. ugh!... *shudders*)
  
  
  Same goes with styrofoam!
  
  
  I also don't like touching cotton in it's pure form. The kind you get out of a bottle of aspirin. The crunchy sound it makes between your fingers gives me the chills and makes me cringe. My Dad was the same, and when we were younger we would place cotton balls in his shirt pockets, so when he'd reach for his cigs, he'd grab a cotton ball and freak. Ha! We were terrible.
  
  
  BB
  
  
   

• Lucytorial said on May 07, 2009....

  I can't stand it when I can't stand it... LOL too many I'm such a pernickety person.
   
  One thing I can't stand is the feeling of tight things around my neck....

• pusscat said on May 07, 2009....

  Touching anything with my fingers when I just got out the shower/bath!  Eeuk!!
  
  People who don't get back to you when you mail them!  Aaaaaarrrrrrrgh!!!!
  
  Idiots who keep their indicator flashing when they've pulled into a parking bay!
  
  I don't have enough time in the day to put all the things that friggin bug me.  I guess I really just need to say to myself. . . hey Deana, don't sweat it. . .
  

• Zaraida said on May 07, 2009....

  I hate people who talk too much, people who are hypocrites, also rap music,  and I hate children's voices. 

• silver_phoenix said on May 07, 2009....

  I absolutely cannot stand to be in a room where a dozen people are all yelling/screaming/talking in their loudest voices all at once (moments like these make me nearly deaf). Crying/whining/yelling kids and their parents that yell at them (doesn't solve the main issue/s). Cars next to me in traffic that have their music turned up soooo loud that my damn car is thumping. It appears as if my issues are all noise-related today :-)

• hotaka said on May 07, 2009....

  I always hated a fork scraping in a metal pot. It makes my nerves shiver something awful.
  
  And if we are going to include other people's annoying things, I get so frustrated with people who only look one way before turning out onto the road or crossing the road because usually they look the opposite way of the direction from which I am coming. In the last month I have narrowly avoided three car accidents because the people turning out in front of me only looked the opposite direction before pulling their car out in front of me. How did they survive to become adults if they are so fucking stupid?
  

• speaking_up said on May 07, 2009....

  Bad Feeling Sensations
   
   
  Tin foil accidently touching a filling (cause who would do that deliberately?)
   
  Polyester
   
  Cotton puffs from the pill bottle
   
  Metal on thin metal (you diagnose that)
   
  Split nail on rough fabric, like wool or acrylic
   
  The feel of liver
   
  Dry wood - like popcycle sticks, etc.
   
   
  Bad Sounds
   
  The sound of kids crying
   
  Heavy metal music (music?)
   
  Watching TV and listening to boyfriend at same time (once he said, "I'm not interrupting they are.." (pointing to charactors on t.v.).
   
  My mother's irritated voice
   
   
  Bad Tastes
   
  Asparagus
   
  Cooked peas
   
  Cooked spinich
   
  Spanish rice
   
   
  Bad Noises
   
  Harleys and boom boxes (I live in a city)
   
  Sound of nails scratching on greenboard
   
  Kids whining or crying without reason or parental assistance
   
  Bad Sights
   
  Violence
   
  Cuts, blood (but more the cuts with gush)
   
  Irritated boils or sores, ESPECIALLY on a person's face
   
  Warts
   
  Certain people...men who have red hair, mustache, glasses...wire glasses - (wtf?)
   
  Certain bugs...spiders, ear wigs, cockroaches
   
  SIXTH SENSE
   
  Vibes about a person or situation; for no good obvious reason...
   
   
   
   
   
   

• speaking_up said on May 07, 2009....

  I must be tired...I have my senses all mixed up...you get the point (smiles)...nice post!  Interesting how similar our distastes can be.  I don't mind some things others cannot tolerate, and vice versa...very interesting!

• silver_phoenix said on May 07, 2009....

  Addendum: Windbags and Twitter support. Cannot stand either!

• moonriver said on May 07, 2009....

  hi infernal.
  you ask about (and i emphasize) sounds textures etc. that you can't stand to a completely irrational degree, even without an apparent basis for your dislike.
  
  i don't believe many of the answers here fall in that category.
  or else it would appear that many of us turn completely irrational when triggered by a certain sound, etc...
  i seriously think how to answer, and surprise, surprise!
  i can't think of a single thing that i can't stand to the point of completely irrationality.
  really.
  am i the oddball here?
  is it just me?
  
  so i will just make a list of things that i love, even to the point of almost-complete irrationality.
  * sophie marceau eyes. i will cross a sea of a thousand swords just to etc. etc.
  * andrea corr smile. i will cross a sea of ... etc. etc.
  * a woman's stiff nipples... ;-) okay, i'll be honest: shameless sex. and all-night cuddling. lol
  * airline food. luv it.
  * sound of chalk or fingernail squeaking across the blackboard... if only because others can't stand it. lol
  * animals: dogs. horses. birds. even those slithery and creepy-crawlies without legs so long as i can fit 'em into my pockets. lol
  * a child's laugh, esp if you elicit it by cracking an unexpected joke to stop his crying and tantrums.
  * a boisterous classroom of happy students. it means i've done my work well.
  * oh, and 1001 others.
  
  

• smileonsunshine said on May 07, 2009....

  the sound of non-stop screaming

  my hair in my face ON THE LEFT SIDE

• smileonsunshine said on May 07, 2009....

  the sound of non-stop screaming

  my hair in my face ON THE LEFT SIDE not the right

  the feeling of someone looking at me

  sitting properly

  wool

  cotton

  the sound of crunching ice

  the smell of unnatural scented perfume and soap

  the sound of buzzing(flies or bees mostly for my fear of bees)

• beyondtheveil said on May 07, 2009....

  moon- Hahahahaha....  airline food. 

• moonriver said on May 07, 2009....

  yup, airline food. indeed.
  i've eaten rotten buffalo meat and ant larvae and learned to love 'em as delicacies.
  so i don't know what's there to hate about airline food.
  i have a draft blog about this, but i'm still whipping up enough courage to post it, for fear of being lynched here... :-)
  
  

• PAPERBACKWRITER said on May 07, 2009....

  
  (lol, I have been silently following along, infernally... could not come up with answers too - I am perhaps in the Sound of Music emotion zone, lol, everything makes me happy at the moment...but moon LOL, I cannot resist coming out of the lurking shadows to say : I recorded somewhere in the net that I love airline food too!!! hahaha)
  

• moonriver said on May 07, 2009....

  i'm so happy to have a great ally in you, ate papel!
  
  

• diabolicdame said on May 08, 2009....

  Thats a nice list moon but airline food? Yeah I guess you could do much worse.. lol.. nice list you got there.. I love to hear a child's laugh too.. makes my heart happy.. :-)

• moonriver said on May 08, 2009....

  ddame -- i should ask my favorite airline to video me while i'm attacking with method and gusto all the food that they serve.
  down to wiping off the last traces of airline butter with the last piece of airline bread.
  they could use me for their commercials for all i care.
  i'd charge only a small talent fee... :-)
  
  have you ever stopped a child's crying with a joke or gag that assails him so suddenly, that he has no choice but to laugh even while his sobbing has not stopped yet?
  he's smiling even though his face is wet with tears and snot?
  that, to me, is one of the most priceless moments one can have with a young child... :-)
  
  

• diabolicdame said on May 08, 2009....

  moon I've got pictures of my sis when she was a kid in which she's grinning with tears on her face and her thumb in her mouth, laughing in the middle of tears and sucking her thumb! lol.. yeah I've had those moments with kids.. their little cute gargling giggles that are still watery with tears are sooo cute!  :-)
   
  I think we should let the airlines of world know asap about you.. they can finally make ads with someone eating in them! I think its no co-incidence that they havent done it yet.. you're a freak of nature! lol..  the only time I enjoyed airline food was when a cute steward was flirting with me by offering me lots of food and all kinds of it.. but I'm not sure it was the food I was enjoying.. hehehe.. I've blogged about it way back..  :-D
   
  infernal, sorry for hijacking you post! Please dont add me to your list of pet peeves!  :-)

• destinydiva said on May 08, 2009....

  hiya infernal, just noticed your profile change, I love it :-)
  
  what peevs me...  I cant think of anything right now... erm, the fact that my neighbour parks his car right outside my drivaway and makes it a nightmare to get in and out of the drive, thats prob my biggest aggrivator at the moment :-)  oohh and scraping forks on a plate like the chalkboard one! :-)
  
    mr river I know that feeling! feels magical doesnt it :-) xx
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on May 08, 2009....

  Ack, I don't have time to reply right now to every response, but thank you all for responding. :) This has been really interesting to see!
  
  moon: Leave it to you to invert this. I like. :)
  
  dia: No worries! ;-)
  
  des: Thank you...glad you like it. :)
  
  ~Infernal
  

• moonriver said on May 08, 2009....

  hi infernal.
  you know me.
  the inveterate rule-breaker... :-)
  
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on May 08, 2009....

  I also know it's a full moon tonight, my friend. ;-) Isn't that interesting?
  
  ~Infernal
  

• moonriver said on May 08, 2009....

  yeah i know, friend.
  but i'm getting ready to attend the wedding of a very good friend today!
  a whole day affair, as these things go hereabouts.
  (not to mention the follow-up whole night affair. lol)
  and i have to be on my best behavior, from church to formal reception to party... or she'll kill me.
  so, no werewolf changeling tonight.
  unless... ;-)
  
  

• beyondtheveil said on May 09, 2009....

  mrmoon- I wrote this somewhere before, but don't know if you saw it. I've flown quite a lot, but only in this country and have never been given a meal on a plane. I flew from El Paso to Boston and back and wasn't given a meal. The few comments I've heard about airline food from others weren't encouraging, but honestly have no personal experience. It just sounds like a place you wouldn't get good eats. 

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