# Is there anything out there that's universally hated?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 27, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271 "2012-12-27T12:58:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/1 "2012-12-27T12:58:12Z")
It seems that whenever you come across a book/movie/song that most people dislike, there’ll always be someone who actually likes it.
Is there anything that every person on Earth hates? A book, movie, song, artwork, food, human action, etc.?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/2 "2012-12-27T13:00:15Z")
Rule 34.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/3 "2012-12-27T13:16:55Z")
Cholera?
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### Author:  [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/4 "2012-12-27T13:17:57Z")
Westboro Baptist Church
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/5 "2012-12-27T13:18:44Z")
Telemarketers.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/6 "2012-12-27T13:30:38Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#):
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> Westboro Baptist Church
Good point. I feel stupid for suggesting Cholera when that was an option.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/7 "2012-12-27T13:39:08Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Cholera?
Marketers of water purification systems love cholera.
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/8 "2012-12-27T13:43:09Z")
Mosquitoes.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/9 "2012-12-27T13:48:54Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> Marketers of water purification systems love cholera.
There probably isn’t anything on the face of this planet that can’t be turned to profit for someone, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to that someone _loving_ the thing, unless we water down the meaning of ‘love’ a fair bit.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/10 "2012-12-27T13:50:32Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> There probably isn’t anything on the face of this planet that can’t be turned to profit for someone, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to that someone _loving_ the thing, unless we water down the meaning of ‘love’ a fair bit.
You got me there. 😃
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/11 "2012-12-27T13:52:39Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#):
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> Westboro Baptist Church
I was going to say death, but WBC is a much better choice.
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### Author:  [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/12 "2012-12-27T13:54:52Z")
Wedgies.
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/13 "2012-12-27T13:57:13Z")
> [@Rick](#):
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> I was going to say death, but WBC is a much better choice.
I thought of WBC but they’re not _universally_ hated.
Presumably Phelps and his followers think they’re doing great works. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/14 "2012-12-27T14:17:14Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> Wedgies.
Then how do you explain thong underwear?
The answer is pubic lice.
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/15 "2012-12-27T14:19:19Z")
Fingernails down a blackboard
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/16 "2012-12-27T14:22:06Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#):
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> Westboro Baptist Church
Yep.You know you’re a special kind of scum when you get the KKK to hate your ass.
And that’s coming from a bunch of white people who hates “fags”!
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/17 "2012-12-27T14:23:02Z")
[Guinea worm disease](http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/guineaworm/gen_info/faqs.html).
(Safe CDC link, thankfully with no images.)
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/18 "2012-12-27T14:23:24Z")
hypocrites
cancer
failure
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### Author:  [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/19 "2012-12-27T14:24:33Z")
It can’t be something that humans do, because presumably if some humans are doing it it isn’t universally hated. So WBC is out, baby raping is out, eating circus peanuts is out, etc.
You can’t even say something like “blowing up the entire planet” because there are plenty of people who think all of humanity including the entire world should just get snuffed out.
This is tough…
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-out-there-thats-universally-hated/645271/20 "2012-12-27T14:27:01Z")
> [@chiroptera](#):
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> I thought of WBC but they’re not _universally_ hated.
> Presumably Phelps and his followers think they’re doing great works. :rolleyes:
I actually think WBC might be a contender:
Everyone not in the WBC loathes them.
Everyone _in_ the WBC is too fucked up to have a normal sense of appreciation.
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