I hate certain words

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Diabetes. The word bugs me like crazy. 'Dia-beee-deeeez'. There is an ad on the radio right now talking about it and the word is said thirteen times in the ad.

"can you", as if, just because you can, you have to.

"Girls" used for women.

"Unfortunate" for every slightest thing

"Sucks" likewise

"Cool", as if the lil dipshit has a moral right to get everything they want. Veto authority

"Congratulations". Flap their trap a couple of times and I have to say "thank you"

"Hurt".

"hurt" mixes up physical, emotional, intentional, accidental. It sounds like the speaker is some innocent lil victim and has never done anything wrong before in their life and "the meaning of life is helping people!"

"You do not look like you would hurt anyone"

People that do not look like they would hurt anyone, still hurt people

Every action is helping, neither or hurting


Some actions help some people and hurt some people

"If I ever hurt you, it would be accidental because I am not a mean person"

Situational versus dispositional

"Hurt" is for the alleged victim to decide

Anyone can claim anything "hurt"

Vague and misleading



f**k mister redelings

f**k Jeanne Courtney


So what, he was homophobic.

He did not invent homophobia

She was not homophobic but she is gay

You do not get 75 bucks for successfully refraining from being homophobic



They were both closeminded to something they should have been receptive about

They appeared nice and normal

They did not admit they were wrong

They acted like they did me a personal favor

They told me that I was "mad"and "annoyed"

At least say "I made you mad when I discriminated against you when I "refused to call you by your boys name"

"You want me to call you ("boys name").? ". "ok"


How about he could have said , "you want me to successfully refrain from shooting you with a gun? " "Ok "

It sounds like a personal favor. But it is not a personal favor

Another word that I really hate is hamburger. This word has always made no sense to me as burgers are NOT made out of ham and even the concept of a burger without cheese is really confusing as far as I'm concerned. Unless you're lactose intolerant, I can't wrap my head around the idea of anyone wanting a burger without cheese. It's like having a hot dog with no condiments or cookies without milk.

A phrase that I really hate is the phrase "friends and family". Why is it that family comes behind friends? Alphabetically speaking, family comes before friends in the dictionary and I would argue is the more important of the 2. Family are the ones you start off life with and spend the most time around.

"danish" is called "vienna bread" in Norway.......

They ate meat between bread at the Coliseum 2000 yrs ago , technically that could be called a burger

I have a severe aversion to hearing or reading my legal first name. It's something similar to pain.

I avoid individuals, including family and old acquaintances, who will use this name to describe me. People feel entitled to it. If you ever ask me "what's on your birth certificate" trying to counter my demand to be called by my chosen name there is no coming back. There is no forgiveness for such an offense and I will plainly tell you this.

I will not make an acquaintance of someone who has this name, purely because it is painful to hear/see.

It's not an incredibly unusual or embarrassing name. I just hate it for whatever reason.

The story may or may not be apocryphal, but it's supposed to have it's origin in a period when bakers in Denmark went on strike and the employers had to bring in bakers from Austria to get work done in the meantime. The layering technique used on Danishes was invented in Austria and brought to Denmark via these Austrian bakers, but was later to become a signature technique in Denmark.

I rarely hear it, but I cringe when someone uses the word "tushy", meaning butt. Not a fan of "tummy" either.

Umm. For me it is not so much a hate but a disslike in how certain words are used. For example, while I understand how easily we can all get into habbits, I don't like hearing people use the F word. Why use sexual terms to highlight a non sexual situation? Have they considered what the words mean?

Abreviated words I don't really like to use. I use things like don't instead of do not (Not all the time) but I don't often abreviate words too much.

One thing I do not like at all is the modern trend to use words to mean the complete opposite to the meaning they used to have. For example, someone says something like "That's a sick car!" and I reply "No it's not. It is a rather nice car. I like it a lot". It is not always obvious to me what people mean. It is like saying "Cool" when the thing they are referring to is actually quite warm!

One very confusing one is something that seems to have come into Britain in recent years and that is a rather strange idea of asking a question in the form of a statement but not providing an answer to the question. I hear it a lot now on TV and it is not only confusing, but bad grammar. My mind has gone blank in trying to think of an example at the moment. I may have to come back to this one.

I remember working a train and a young man boarded. He said "Whats happening dude?"
So I said "We are on a train just leaving Burry Port heading towards Llanelli..."
He looked puzzled and said "Say what!"
So rather confused I replied "What".
He then said "Say what" again so I did.
He then thought I was funny!
I checked his ticket and moved on before even more confusion followed.