I'm not sure it's irrational but the horrid unoriginality and lack of meaning people name their children with, at least in America, is horrible. Names like Tyler, Taylor, Brandon, Cameron, Tucker etc... names that are just locations, surnames and professions given with no regard to their meaning. There must be at least 20 million Tylers in the US. Even my own nieces just have place-names and patronyms for given names; Sydney, Ashley and Madison. Madison means "Son of Maud"... SON and it's a common name given to girls. It just baffles me.

People.

When i'm walking down a busy street, a thought often occurs - most of these people around me are worthless trash.

It's rather shallow to hate someone just because of the way they look or dress, but a lot of the time I can just tell what kind of person they are at a glance, by observing their mannerisms.

I named my son Aaron Gabriel, and it has boatloads of meaning..

[which may dawn on people if they understand part of my sig..]

None of my hatred is irrational, I wouldn't hate on something if I couldn't provide myself with a reason to get mad.

The funny thing is, most of them probably think the exact same thing about you. It's normal to think you're superior, and everyone around you is an idiot.

Dealing with irrational hatred would make me think of pet peeves since hated can be rationalized except in certain circumstances such as a person hating something without experiencing it.

Speaking for myself I hate people that talk in cell phones while driving. Walk up to a local store near me atleast once every week for a bit of exercise. Was nearly run over 3 times in one day because of idiots talking on their cell phones. Also hate people that turn right on red when the directly in front of them specifically states "No Right turns on red when pedestrians are present." Swear people would just give me the finger as I was standing on the corner turning right in front of me just to tick me off.

Nope, it fits this thread perfectly.

Sure there are. Accents from Britain.

It is? I know a few people like that, but I wouldn't consider them normal.

Pretty sure they like to call it "Queen's English."

I think this is the point Emz was making: there is no single, standard British accent. God knows the way I speak could never be termed "Queen's English", nor most of my countryfolk.

I don't think, I know

Indeed though we are a smaller country than say America we have widely different accents. Unforunately due to my place of birth my voice is a mix of posh southerner and [censored] I said asbo kid,

People who refer to their character in RPGs as "toon". You say toon, i think of Bugs Bunny. And you aren't playing with Bugs Bunny. And if you are, i want to know what mod you are using

Yes, but nobody in this thread stated otherwise.

I've seen a lot of Americans refer to something as being "British" only for Brits to leap on their backs and say "Aha! There is no "British" accent!"

But the American as often as not was simply referring to an accent that was British, they were not saying all British people have that accent.

It depends. Some are aware there are other accents, others when learning I'm English launch into some weird lah-di-dah piss-taking accent (or its typed equivalent) that's utterly unrelated to the way I speak. But I get what you're saying, in much the same way I'll describe someone with an American accent as having an American accent, even though I'm aware that there are lots of American accents. I think it comes down to context, in this case "[I dislike] children with British accents" which seems oddly all-encompassing to me; I mean, I dislike the whiny brats in Skyrim but it would make little sense to say "I dislike children with American accents".

In all honesty it was more a reaction to the statement 'kids with British accents' and my dislike of other people using it as a term that makes it sound as though we all sound the time. Which is obviously rubbish. Its less to do with the term 'British accent' and more to do with my dislike that people use it as an interchangeable term for 'London accent'.

I hate "Rest In Peace".

They won't rest in peace, they're dead.

http://xkcd.com/610/ is still full of truth

That's exactly what I was thinking of when I typed that.

i thought this thread was about irrational hatreds, not british accents...
i have more hatreds to add to my list:
Justin Bieber. his her music makes my ears bleed
Australian politicians. or any polotician, for thst matter. tie 'em to a polygraph for once.
cliffhangers

Well, I hate people who overcompensate for their many insecurities with extreme arrogance.

Nice.

I'm sure they think the same about Sheo - especially with that attitude.

It drives me nuts when a "foreign" word mixed into a sentence is pronounced with an agonizingly heavy accent compared to the rest of the sentence. Like being in my mother's car and she's listening to Spanish radio stations, and an ad for an American company comes on in Spanish and then suddenly the name of the company/product is announced robotically without any accent. Or watching Chopped, and that Latin-cuisine-expert judge is talking and comes to an ingredient from Mexico, and just slathers the word in accent before resuming normal English speech. It's so jarring and unnecessary, even when the person actually knows how to say it, let alone some plasticky newscaster awkwardly trying it.

I hate people who go to America and don't know English... I wouldn't go to a different country without getting to know their language (to an extent)...