I really hate it when.....

[mycrabface]

Same concept..

I really hate it when I keep stubbing my toe on the same corner of the table leg

[henrah]

Why not get a saw or knife, and cut out the part you always stub your toe on? Or move the table just a little bit away, not too much so that you don't change your routine, but enough to allow room for your toe to freely swing by and not get hurt.

I really hate it when my hands are cold and tense.

[elspeth]

You're leaning against an open door with this one, I think!

... people who are rude and don't even realise it.

... planning permission is given to buildings or conversions that aren't in sympathy with the particular building and its surroundings - like whichever nitwit gave permission for that youth hostel in front of Whitby Abbey. Or all those beautiful medieval buildings in York which now have huge plate-glass shop windows where the front wall used to be, as if we don't all know what the generic high street shops sell. Grrr....

[ahinton]

... planning permission is given to buildings or conversions that aren't in sympathy with the particular building and its surroundings - like whichever nitwit gave permission for that youth hostel in front of Whitby Abbey. Or all those beautiful medieval buildings in York which now have huge plate-glass shop windows where the front wall used to be, as if we don't all know what the generic high street shops sell. Grrr....

There's no shortgae of that kind of thing in Bath, either (as you may well know already), although it's by no means as bad as in York, I think; here, it would seem, the buildings into which such same-everywhere shops have been shoehorned seem largely to have won the day. We do have some 1960s and 1970s architectural monstrosities such as the Hilton Hotel and the police station in the city centre and a rather run-down housing estate the the east of it, but these are, mercifully, exceptions to the rule. The new Bath Spa, over which there has been so much chagrin, ribaldry and just about every other kind of negative response with regard to the appalling delay of its opening and its uncontrollably spiralling costs, is of little architectural merit either, but although it is located in the city centre it is fortunately invisible to the naked eye until one is almost walking into it, since it is tucked away in a very narrow back street near the Pump Room / Roman Baths complex.

Best,

Alistair

[wishful thinker]

Ribaldry?  in Bath? 

[ahinton]

Ribaldry?  in Bath? 

Yes, indeed, but not only - or even mainly - there; the project suffered so many setbacks and was subjected to such a plethora of idiotic planning and building decisions that it beame a national  - and then an international - joke. When I was in Rome last March for one of Carlo Grante's three performances of Busoni's Concerto, Sr. Grante introduced me to someone connected with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia by telling him not only my name but where I live, at which several people burst into laughter about the new Spa-to-be in that English city modelled on Rome, proving if nothing else that bad news travels not only fast but far...

Best,

Alistair

[elspeth]

Oxford is another prime example... so much of it is so lovely, and then you look at things like the city centre shopping centres, they're just ghastly. Sorry for going off topic, but architecture is one of my biggest 'I hate it when' examples - a craftsman goes to all the trouble of putting up a beautiful building, and then some idiot rips out its soul in the name of commerce and progress. The visitors' centre at Truro Cathedral is just dreadful, and it's not even a throwback to the sixties. It makes me want to weep, it really does... sorry, I seem to have started ranting! I'll shush now... for a while, anyway...

[henrah]

Oxford is really nice. I agree that the shopping centres are ghastly, but in a way they help the beautiful buildings by offering a bigger contrast between them, thus making their beauty more noticeable to the general public.

I love the university parks and the small hollywell area streets with their blue houses. And the Sheldonian is so pretty, shame about the uncomfortable seating

[ahinton]

The visitors' centre at Truro Cathedral is just dreadful,

It is indeed an utter abomination - almost as though someone were trying to put two fingers up to Christianity in a the heathen country of Cornwall...

Best,

Alistair

[mycrabface]

... people who are rude and don't even realise it.

Me too!

I really hate it when people look at me like I'm some kind of confused girl because I take both art and science -  that's NOT normal

[rebby]

i really hate it when some one accuses me of doing something when i KNOW that it wasn't me.

[nicco]

i really hate it when some one accuses me of doing something when i KNOW that it wasn't me.

Dont go there, we know it was you.