I thought these were funny. Comedian Mark Thomas’s pet hates, from The Irish Times , quoted by Colin Murray on Midnight Meets Midnight Meets

The way Desert Island discs doesn’t play the full song.

The smug class-ridden blather of [Radio Four’s] Today programme.

Anything that involves Piers Morgan and an absence of violence.

Harley Davidson motorbikes and the over 50-year-olds that ride them.

Anyone who has been in a gymkhana.

Any film with Josh Grogan.

Litter and the people who complain about litter.

The Proms.

Christmas markets.

Dyson, the man not the machines.

Ageing.

The BBC notion of balance and inpartiality that invariably sides with the overdog and the establishment, but still manages to say “well we’ve had complaints from everybody, so we have probably got it about right”.

My children ‘borrowing’ my clothes.

News about the Royal Family.

S**t coffee that costs £2.50

Buying water in plastic bottles.

Macaroni cheese.

Having to throw away half of the weekend papers.

People talking about their piercings.

Garden centres.

John Lewis Xmas adverts and the coverage thereof.

Q and A’s

(NB: Tories, capitalism, sexism and racism come under serious hates.