Things that I hate

[starlooker]

Smelling like chlorine.

[Eaquae Legit]

Really?

I love it. I really do. Especially when I take a hot shower the next morning and I can smell it all again.

What's that you say? Weird? Hmmm...

[Dr. Mobius]

The smell doesn't really bother me, however the burning eyes thing kinda does.

[starlooker]

I don't mind it in the pool or right after the pool. I hate it when I'm done and have showered and done everything I can to get the damn stuff off of me, and am sitting and working and all of a sudden I get a whiff. Maddening.

This is in part because I don't care for the smell, and in part because chlorine makes my skin itch, and the smell makes me realize that I still have itch-producing chemicals on my skin.

[Eaquae Legit]

What kind of shampoo/conditioner/body wash are you using? It can make a huuuge difference.

My favourite after-swim shower gel is Dove Cool Moisture (Cucumber and Green Tea). For a while when I was swimming every day, I was using something else, but my skin always got very dry and itchy and I was uncomfortable. The Dove really helped. Also, you may be smelling the chlorine in your hair, if you aren't using a stripping shampoo, like UltraSwim.

Apologies if you already know all this stuff.

[starlooker]

S'ok. I am using UltraSwim, actually, so it isn't my hair, thankfully. It's definitely my skin. Sometimes I even use the shampoo on my skin (in desperate hope) which seemed to work yesterday, but did not work so well today.

I'll try the Dove. I was actually planning on switching it up very soon, so it's good to have an idea of something to try.

[Bean_wannabe]

On the subject of stinging eyes, I was the only one who went to the YEar 9 school residential with goggles and wore them while surfing in the sea.

I'm a nerd

[starlooker]

Ooh -- anyone got any idea how to find goggles that don't let water in but also don't leave rings around my eyes?

[Eaquae Legit]

These are the ones I have, I believe. But what's most important is that you have the right ones for your shape of face, and how you've tightened them. If the nose is too tight or too lose, you'll get rings. Same for the strap. Properly fitting/shaped goggles should suction to your face for a few seconds without the straps - and when they fit properly, you don't have to keep the strap so tight, and that helps lessen the rings.

And just a side note, but if you're swimming a lot (2-3 times a week), you should look into polyester swim suits. It amazes me how many people have never heard of them, but they are practically indestructible. They don't fade and they don't sag - I've had mine for 6 years, and it's still going strong. I'm a big proselyte when it comes to the polyester suits.

[Gravity Defier]

Water bugs - I was showering earlier when one decided to visit; I screamed bloody murder.

Irrational irritation with 99% of the human population - I blame this on it being Friday the 13th.

That Tim Russert died - it just doesn't seem fair.

When people call and don't leave a message, esp. if I don't recognize the number.

[zeroguy]

White/light backgrounds seeming to almost always be the default in GUIs. On pretty much every single application I use (except terminals), I've needed to go through a specific manual process to get dark backgrounds with light foregrounds; or you know, just deal with a light background. Working on web browsers now.... which seems pretty much impossible without getting most pages looking ugly. Sometimes I wonder if it'd be easier just to invert the whole damn display.

When people call and don't leave a message, esp. if I don't recognize the number.

I love this! I get to call back, and it's a total mystery who will answer. It's like dialing random numbers, except you actually have a reason to call, so it'll (probably) be not entirely awkward. Sometimes I get the randomest places, and I have no idea how they got my number.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

I hate writing long posts, then realising that they are not understandable because I'm tired and deleting them.

I hate theatre class. Next year I'll probably hate its subtitute, Robotics, as well, but I at least hope to be good in Robotics.

[Caspian]

People who haven't been on the board in, like, a really long time, and then show up and basically spam it with a bunch of inane comments that really contribute nothing to the community. Jerks.

[zeroguy]

Dead Poets Society.

The RPM package format, all software based on it, nearly all software that uses it, and people who advocate it. They all suck in so many ways.

[mazer]

That I can go days with out checking pweb and there will only be a few posts when I finally check it

[Jayelle]

Perfume. The smell of it on people, the smell of it knocking me over at the store...
it makes my eyes water and itch and I'm not the only one.

I don't get the point of perfume. Humans do not smell so bad that they need to put all this smelly crap on themselves.

A good friend of mine is so allergic to chemicals that a strong whiff of perfume literally puts her in the hospital.

All so someone can smell like that. Bah. I hate it.

[Dr. Mobius]

It's not hate, really, but I'm rather underwhelmed by Spore Creature Creator. Though, that wasn't my favorite part of the demo videos anyway. I guess I'll have to wait for the full game in September to make my final verdict.

[Eaquae Legit]

Tourists.

[Wil]

Perfume. The smell of it on people, the smell of it knocking me over at the store...
it makes my eyes water and itch and I'm not the only one.

I don't get the point of perfume. Humans do not smell so bad that they need to put all this smelly crap on themselves.

A good friend of mine is so allergic to chemicals that a strong whiff of perfume literally puts her in the hospital.

All so someone can smell like that. Bah. I hate it.

Agreed. Maybe a little something... very little. But not so much that walking anywhere within 10 feet of the person makes me gag. I also hate the "body sprays" for guys. Yuck. Even my deodorant is scentless. I can't stand smelling like anything but myself when I go to bed. Most "body spray" or, generally, guys cologne makes me think of a porn magazine smell and that is disgusting to me.

I hate far too much stuff.. I may as well just kill myself and get it over with.

[Mich]

It's not hate, really, but I'm rather underwhelmed by Spore Creature Creator. Though, that wasn't my favorite part of the demo videos anyway. I guess I'll have to wait for the full game in September to make my final verdict.

I agreed at first, but after I remembered that it isn't the main point of the game, and (supposedly) will function much differently in the real game, I just started to enjoy it as a toy. The full game, though, had better be more than I'm hoping it will be, rather than less.

[zeroguy]

It's not hate, really, but I'm rather underwhelmed by Spore Creature Creator.

See, if they'd just call it the Penismonster Creator, it would be a huge success... because that's the most popular usage I've seen of it so far.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

I hate that geometry question from our last math test.

I already had the answer, I just, for some really dumb reason, couldn't connect it with the question. And it sucks balls; that geometry question cost me 1/4 of the possible test points, which gave me a 75 (C+ or B-, whatever you prefer) in the final test score.

Which is better than what most people got (most of them failed, sadly), but it still sucks.

[Mich]

I'm really sorry, all of you addicts. This is the one thing that I hate that I actually feel guilty for hating, because I know that there is about one case where it is the only option, and, in that case, it is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, noone ever uses it in this absolutely necessary case:

Text-messaging.

I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. It isn't discreet (normally), it isn't cheap, and it, in almost all cases, could be avoided by either a) calling the person in question, b) calling the person and leaving a voicemail, or c) not communicating with that person.

[Wil]

I'm really sorry, all of you addicts. This is the one thing that I hate that I actually feel guilty for hating, because I know that there is about one case where it is the only option, and, in that case, it is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, noone ever uses it in this absolutely necessary case:

Text-messaging.

I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. It isn't discreet (normally), it isn't cheap, and it, in almost all cases, could be avoided by either a) calling the person in question, b) calling the person and leaving a voicemail, or c) not communicating with that person.

f****** TRUTH!

If you want to message with TEXT then get on a computer where the keyboard keys aren't smaller thank your finger!

[Gravity Defier]

Good God, I love text messaging.

I'm really lousy with small talk with 95% of the population and even worse with actual conversation. It's much easier for me to just send a quick text to ask/tell someone something than it is for me to go through the pain of calling them and living through the awkwardness of not knowing what to say or simply not wanting to talk even if I can find something to say beyond what prompted the contact in the first place.

That and it helps me get over the weird guilt I get when contacting the 5% of the population I do like to talk to; I always feel like a call is way more intrusive and time consuming than a quick text, and if it turns out I'm not bugging or interupting, they can call me to respond.

Voicemail? No thanks. I think I've left voicemail messages for 10 people in the time I've owned a cell phone, about half being family and the other half being such good friends, they may as well be family.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

I'm really sorry, all of you addicts. This is the one thing that I hate that I actually feel guilty for hating, because I know that there is about one case where it is the only option, and, in that case, it is absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, noone ever uses it in this absolutely necessary case:

Text-messaging.

I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. It isn't discreet (normally), it isn't cheap, and it, in almost all cases, could be avoided by either a) calling the person in question, b) calling the person and leaving a voicemail, or c) not communicating with that person.

Actually, I hate voicemails (text-messages are much more preferrable). Nobody uses them anymore, and it takes forever to actually get the message, after the system tells you who it was from and when (stuff that you already knew).

[Dr. Mobius]

I tend to use missed calls in the place of actual voicemail unless it's something important. I expect people to, when they get back to their phone, see my missed call and, if they want to talk, call me back.

(That's a lot of commas, but I think it's right...)

[Wil]

Actually, I hate voicemails (text-messages are much more preferrable). Nobody uses them anymore, and it takes forever to actually get the message, after the system tells you who it was from and when (stuff that you already knew).

I agree with this also. ONE NEW MESSAGE. FIRST NEW MESSAGE. RECIEVED TODAY AT 9:25AM FROM PHONE NUMBER 523-222-3245... it does take what seems to be an excruciatingly long time. It's probably only about 15 seconds though, so that doesn't say much about our patience as a species anymore.

Honestly, though, I'd be the type of person that would call, ask one question, and say goodbye. I don't care.

[Mich]

I often take great joy in calling people and awkwardly making small talk. I try to put the other person on the spot, and make them feel embarrassed. It's like a game.

Anyway, perhaps I should rethink this. In my opinion, what is annoying about text-messaging (besides when people text-message me without first checking to see if I have a plan) is seeing people texting, because it seems they only do it when it is the most rude time: in the middle of class, during a movie, while walking somewhere with you. They think it is unobtrusive, and it isn't. But maybe I only notice when people do it because they're bad at at; maybe the good texters aren't noticable.

So I guess I hate it when people text and I can tell they are texting, much like you aren't cheating if you don't get caught.

[UnnDunn]

You want to know what I hate? Nextel phones. Specifically, the walkie-talkie feature. Especially when I'm on the bus, and some ignant ni**a in the back is chirping his boy, and the "chirps" are so loud they could be heard in freakin' Los Angeles.

Drives me absolutely up the wall.

[zeroguy]

Text-messaging.

Agreed, although not quite so vehemently. People text me, and I just call back. I don't really like voice messages either, though; so far, neither one has been really necessary when both ends are using cell phones. You call, and if they're not there, they see that you called, and they call me back. If I left a message, that's pretty much just what it'd be most of the time, anyway: "hey, I called; call me back".

Also, did you know it's over four times more expensive than transmitting data to the Hubble telescope? It's rather ridiculous, but it won't change as long as people keep just accepting it for no reason...

And while we're hating things about cell phones, I don't really get why so many people have any kind of ringtone on at all. Keeping it on vibrate (or off) all of the time is so much less annoying for all, and not hard to notice (unless you tend to have a lot of vibrating things in your pants...), and there's no question of whose phone it is.

Oh, and I hate cell phones in general. But I do have one; people bitch at me when they can't reach me, so alas.

Edit: Geneology, family trees, etc. I mean, if that's your thing, fine, but I'm getting rather tired of getting told about my own. I don't care.

[Gravity Defier]

At home, I keep the ringer on because it's very unlikely I actually have my phone physically on me; it's usually in a different room altogether. If I hear noise, I go get it and if not, it's just one less thing to worry about carrying - a lot of what I wear is pocketless.

[Wil]

I leave my cellphone on vibrate 99% of the time because I don't want to forget to turn the ringer off in class. One time I was working up in the attic and the phone fell out of my pocket; it was on vibrate. Took me two hours to track it down by the faint, faint sound of the vibration and the very little light it put out while covered in insulation.

I hate that telephone companies don't have an option to call your phone, enter voicemail, and then force it to ring as a sort of "phone locator" function.

I also hate that I have a cellphone and nobody ever calls. Okay, not really... I don't really like talking on the phone; it's uncomfortable. I hate that it feels like I'm wasting my phone. I also do not understand how people can talk for hours and hours, day after day, on the phone. I quite hate the small talk, and not enough happens to me during the day to have hours worth of conversation material. Maybe I just need to talk to people whose answers are of greater substance.

[Luet]

Oh, and I hate cell phones in general. But I do have one; people bitch at me when they can't reach me, so alas.

Oooh, Mr. Popular. Hehe.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

I hate capitalism. And socialism.
Especially in sports, though socialism doesn't apply there that much.