Things I hate in list form:
[ul]
[li]Brussels sprouts[/li][li]Eggplant[/li][li]Black licorice[/li][li]Celine Dion[/li][li]Cher[/li][li]Lima beans[/li][li]Mean people[/li][li]People that can’t learn from their past and keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over[/li][li]Jeremy Piven not getting more work[/li][li]Joan Cusack not getting more work[/li][li]Joan Cusack not returning my calls[/li][li]Restraining orders[/li][li]4 am.[/li][li]Excessively loud car stereos[/li][li]Excessively loud cars[/li][li]Smoky non-smoking sections[/li][li]Blue Hairs - old people with a sense of entitlement merely for not being dead yet[/li][li]Grocery shopping once the Blue Hairs get out[/li][li]Mall walkers[/li][li]Horehound “candy”[/li][li]Incessant yammerers who talk way too loud in public[/li][li]Ingrown hairs[/li][li]The small-minded[/li][li]Golf on TV[/li][li]Bowling on TV[/li][li]Popcorn hulls stuck between my teeth[/li][li]Wine[/li][li]Running out of paper[/li][li]Canned spinach[/li][li]Swans[/li][li]Really long fake fingernails[/li][li]Smashmouth[/li][li]“Educational” cartoons[/li][li]Religious cartoons[/li][li]“Kyoo-pon” for “coupon”[/li][li]Soap operas[/li][li]Touched By an Angel[/li][li]Carrot Top[/li][li]Asparagus[/li][li]Mt. Dew[/li][li]Pepsi[/li][li]People who think money = taste[/li][li]Bran muffins[/li][li]Tom and Jerry cartoons with the violence edited out[/li][li]Blue cheese[/li][li]My utter lack of obscene wealth[/li][li]Marmite[/li][li]Rye bread[/li][li]Shoveling snow[/li][li]People who read through my list of things I hate and say “Oh, this isn’t so bad” or “That’s nothing to hate”.[/li][/ul]
-Rue.
OK, I’m with you on 25 of them. Just out of curiosity, what do you have against swans? If you’d said geese, I could add that one to my list of agreement, but I don’t get swans.
And may I please be the first to say:[ul]
[Office Space]
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays!
[/Office Space][/ul]
You had me at “Jeremy Piven not getting more work”. 
What is wrong with the world today if such a fine, hot-in-an-unconventional-way guy like Jeremy Piven isn’t in just about every good movie?
[sub]Rue, I see on the IMDB that Jeremy Piven used to be roommates with John Cusack. Coincidence? I think not![/sub]
Had a little trouble coming up with something this week, huh? On the other hand, giving us a list of acceptable hijack subjects in advance could be considered a masterstroke. Your call.
Seriously, how can you dislike horehound candy? That stuff is great.
Mmmm… Joan Cusack.
I once found a button that said, “Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” I kept it because it reminded me of my love life.
Jeremy Piven gets lots of work. I love him.
I, too, hate black licorice.
I really hate shoes without backs. I know I’ll have to learn to love them, as this is the direction footwear is moving to, but so far, I hate them.
Wow Rue, I’m with you on Joan Cusak, both on the work and the calls. You’d think she’d be a little more polite about it.
Others I agree with:
Cher, Celine, Golf and bowling, ingrown hairs, and Carrot Top.
BUT
How can you not like a big old plate of fresh asparagus? Yum. Ditto for the rest of your vegetable hatreds. I take it that Katcha and Soupo aren’t forced to eat thier veggies, thus depriving them of valuable vitamins and minerals?
Brute.
Rue, the above quoted things from your list are all good things. Each and everyone of them. Of course, if you, say, tried to put all of them together to make a casserole or something, then they would not be good things. Separately, however, they are all good things.
And, in the spirit of all threads Rue, here’s my hijack of things I hate in list form:
[ul]
[li]Pine Tree Pollen[/li][li]Wasps[/li][li]Turnips[/li][li]Port Wine[/li][li]Clowns[/li][li]Jell-O Molds :eek:[/li][li]Mosquitoes[/li][li]Gnats[/li][li]Listerine Mouthwash[/li][li]Closeup Toothpaste[/li][li]Pine Sol Cleaner[/li][li]Sauerkraut[/li][li]Spiders in My Hot Tub[/li][li]Sprite[/li][li]Other Stuff I’ll Think of Later[/li][/ul]
Stuff I just thought of:
[ul]
[li]Rutabagas[/li][li]Sea Urchin[/li][li]Decaffinated Coffee (really, what is the point?)[/li][li]Peppermint Ice Cream[/li][li]Cauliflower[/li][li]Veal[/li][li]Armadillos (they keep digging up my back yard, consarn 'em!)[/li][li]More Stuff I’ll Think Up Later[/li][/ul]
Change “Joan Cusack” to “John Cusack” and I’m right there with you on every single point, Rue.
Except the rye bread. I like rye bread.
Hi, I’m new to Rue threads. That is, I read 'em, but this is my first post to one. That said, I’d just like to point out that I think 4 am is being maliciously maligned here. It’s a wonderful time of the day if you’re sleeping.
Howabout Joan Cusack issuing you a restraining order at 4 a.m. from an excessively loud car with an excessively loud stereo while eating bleu cheese?
Ok now people, before we go any farther here, go back and read that last point on my Hate List. See how it says “People who read through my list of things I hate and say “Oh, this isn’t so bad” or “That’s nothing to hate”.” I really hate that, so knock it off already. Sheesh.
Ew! Sauerkraut! I hate that too Swampy. Blargh!
Don’t worry welby. They get a chewable vitamin everyday after dinner. So they won’t get rickets. I really take my children’s health seriously. 'Cause when they’re sick it’s just whine, whine , whine. It makes you crazy. And Child Services says I can’t duct tape them to the porch anymore. The bastards.
Don’t give in on the shoes Kalhoun. Hate them! Hate them heartily! Just keep on hating them until the next stupid shoe fad rolls around. Then hate those shoes EVEN MORE!
I found a button once flight. It was bouncing around loose in the drier. It came off one of my shirts. I hated that.
Did you watch “Cupid” Skerri? I did. Every episode. It just kept getting better and better. Until the cancelled it. The TV bastards. (And Paula Marshall is hot too.)
Just because you’re my Specialest Special Friend Snickers, I’ll tell you what I hate about swans. “Oh, they’re so pritty!” people say. No that aren’t! They are mean bastard birds! They just swim around, then they try to bite you. And if you grab them by the head and shake them around some, not even hurt them much, people get all mad. Sometimes you even get kicked right out of the cemetery. Gah! I hate swans.
Just for Exgineer…
Wow were my glasses dirty. After I painted Soupo’s room and got little spatters of paint on them, I really had to clean them. Only while I was cleaning them, I noticed they were way dirty. Way down between the lens and the frame. All gunky. I had to clean this. I mean, come on! These are my glasses. The go right on my face. I don’t want that sort of gunk near my face. Even though the gunk came from my face, the oils and stuff. But still I had to clean it all up.
So I got a roll of paper towels, Q-Tips, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, my glasses cleaner in the handy spray bottle, the little cleaning cloth they gave me when I got my glasses that goes along with the glasses cleaner in the handy spray bottle and my little Precision Screwdrivers.
The first step was to take out the screws that holds my frames together so my lenses don’t fall out. When I really clean my glasses I actually want the lenses to fall out. Not actually fall, since this could break the lenses, but take them out all carefully.
Gah! Even the screw that holds the lens in is covered in goo. Drop that bad boy right in the rubbing alcohol. And the other one when I get it out.
Now the lenses come right out. Put those to the side.
Now, I have to soak a Q-Tip in the alcohol to clean up the groove the lens sits in in the frame. Ew! This is going to take a couple of Q-Tips. For each side. But it all comes nicely clean. Man! Those Q-Tips got gross!
Now the lenses… a paper towel with alcohol and rub, rub, rub along the edge. Gotta take care not to rub on the lens. I got the scratch coating, but why take chances?
Now I have the lenses clean and the frames clean and the little tiny screws that hold the frames together so the lenses don’t fall out are all clean too. Cleaning off the nosepiece was a little harder than I thought it would be. I had to get under the little metal part, but it went OK.
Now to put it all back together. And clean off the lenses with the glasses cleaner in the handy spray bottle and the special cleaning cloth. There! All better. And I can see better. That’s so nice.
You know the worst part about cleaning your glasses? You can’t wear them at the same time. So you have to squint and hold everything real close. It would probably be best to have a spare pair of glasses to wear for when I clean my regular glasses. But what do I look like? I’m made of money?
There Ex. Was that better?
-Rue.
I go and “Preview” my post (Like I always do. Sure.) and look! More stuff to chat about.
Change Joan to John BiblioCat? Why? There already is a John Cusack. He’s pretty good an actor too, but he’s no Joan.
Hi Leifsmama. Since this is your first time replying here in one of my threads and I really value your opinion, I won’t just say “shut up!” for you not agreeing with me wholeheartedly. Work on that next time. Huh?
Inky-, you are mean.
-Rue (again)
That’s much better, Rue. Thanks.
That’s the sort of high quality Monday morning goodness I’ve come to expect from you.
Holy crap! I just casually glanced outside, and it’s freakin’ snowing! It’s not allowed to do that! I thought we were skipping our annual March snowstorm this year.
I really, really hate snow in (almost) April.
I hate some of the things on your list, but not all, Rue. Sorry. I usually enjoy shoveling snow, for instance. And I like rye bread, but not canned spinach.
Are you kidding me, Rue? Anything that has to do with sweet sweet love and Jeremy Piven gets my vote. Too bad those Nazi TV execs don’t listen to me. (I saw a couple of episodes. I had a rather busy social life at the time, which impeded my Piven-worship.)
Here’s a short list of things I hate.
[ul]
[li]Madonna (singer, not religious-type person)[/li][li]Liver and onions[/li][li]Having weird food allergies.[/li][li]People who blow their noses in restaurants.[/li][/ul]
Sorry. I’m just not into hating things today. I had a really excellent weekend, despite the fact that I spent half of it in shorts and a tank top and the other half in a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt.
I’m sorry. Let me try again. You’re right about canned spinach; it’s the foulest stuff on earth. Why they even make the stuff is beyond me.
Better?
[ul]
[li]Cavities[/li][li]Vomit[/li][li]Cavities filled with vomit[/li][/ul]
Yes, both John and Joan are fine actors, but John’s more my type. I’m a heterosexual female, ya see. John Cusack makes me drool. And he never returns my phone calls. 
Touched by an Angel???
Rue, dude! I’ve spent entire evening thinking about being touched by that actress who plays Monica!
Oh, BABY!