Professional Hater

Last week, Marek and I were talking a friend, and he told said friend that I'm a professional hater.  If you know me really well, then you'll know that a) it's kind of true and b) I won't deny it (I would like to thank said friend for thinking this couldn't be true though).

So in the spirit of being a true hater, and having wanted to vent about some of this stuff for awhile, here's a list of people who irritate me to no end:

• People who say any of the following: Nordstroms, JCPenneys, Barnes and Nobles
• People who make any of the following grammatical mistakes: use the wrong to/too/two, use the wrong its/it's, use the wrong they're/their/there, say "try and" when they mean "try to", don't know the difference between "lay" and "lie", don't know the difference between "sit" and "set", put apostrophes where they don't belong, and don't use the possessive case with gerunds
• Faux intellectuals - people who think they're much, much more intelligent than they actually are, and use their pretend intelligence to self-righteously expound on issues of which they have very little knowledge
• Hipsters
• People who try to be socially awkward on purpose because they think it makes them cool (Sidenote: are these the original hipsters?  Are they a variant of hipsters?)
• Naturally thin girls who shove it in your face how much food they eat.  Extra hate for these girls who then complain about being fat.
• Girls who purposely and unjustifiably put themselves down, especially in a public forum (usually just to hear other people say how untrue it is, even though they likely already know it's untrue).  For example, a pretty girl who always talks about how ugly she is or how horrible she looks in a picture, when she looks fine, or a skinny girl who always talks about how fat she is when her BMI puts her squarely in the underweight category.  Extra hate for these girls.
• Feminazis
• Preachy vegans
• People who talk like valley girls

And I'm sure there's more.