two people i have an irrational hatred of

[datasuspect]

oprah winfrey and jerry bruckheimer.

what about you?

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I don't like Katie Couric - no reason that I know of.

I just have never been able to watch her.

[datasuspect]

8. i think i'm right there with ya on that one

can you hear me seethe?

[idgiehkt]

64. me too

I am repulsed by her.

[Katina]

75. bingo on Katie

and the second one who just turns my stomach is Martha. God, they make me want to gag! :puke:

[Debi]

83. I think it's the perkiness factor

and that she thinks it's 'cute' to flirt with the male guests and co-workers (cute if you're 14, otherwise you look desperate!)

I don't think I'll be watching her 'hard hitting' news anytime soon.

[Zavulon]

2. Keeping politics out of it?

Rick Moranis and Tony Kornheiser.

[datasuspect]

3. politics is fair game

bush, goes without saying.

[Zavulon]

43. Bush? The original question said "IRRATIONAL." What's so

irrational about hating the most festering piece of shit to ever desecrate the Oval Office?

[datasuspect]

53. well like i said

i don't even know the guy, but i cannot account the visceral disgust that man inspires in me, so to an extent it is irrational. believe me, i can come up with a thousand RATIONAL reasons to despise him though.

[MrCoffee]

4. Nothing irrational about hating oprah

[datasuspect]

5. treu dat

[KamaAina]

10. Nothing irrational about hating Bruckheimer, either

He singlehandedly (well, with some help from Bay) drowned the story of Pearl Harbor in goop like "there's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer". :puke:

Maybe they'll get him to do a doco about Tennessee football. :P

[JackBeck]

6. Mine are Sports and Pop Culture:

Chipper "Larry" Jones and Mariah Carey.

[Sugar Smack]

7. Regis Philbin. Like an over-the-top hatred.

Like skyrocketing blood-pressure-inspiring hatred.:grr: :nuke: Like Rabrrrrrr in a grocery store parking lot. Like going postal.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. Anyone remember the guy on Laswrence Welk who played the

acordian? Never could stand to even watch him, either.

It was his hair.

[Sugar Smack]

19. *foams at mouth*

YEARGGH! Yes! Hold me leftylady! :hug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

You actually remember that guy? I think he died not too long

ago.

Lawrence Welk had a bunch of really nerdy looking guys on it.

[Sugar Smack]

26. All I remember is lots of bubbles.

:cry:

[Love Bug]

44. Myron Floren?

God, don't EVEN ask me how I know that...

[kwassa]

25. and his sidekick Kathie Lee Gifford

I remember when they disappeared from their local show in LA, hopefully never to be seen again. Then they re-appeared in New York and WENT NATIONAL.

AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH.

[Sugar Smack]

31. SHE MAKES MY BLOOD FUCKING BOIL.

And my head explode. :nuke:

[datasuspect]

32. she named her kid "dakota"

that is enough right there.

[huskerlaw]

She did?

I thought her kids were Cody and Cassidy.

And the fact that I know that really, really fucking scares me. :scared:

[datasuspect]

38. i might have my targets of visceral scorn mixed up

but anyone who names their kid dakota needs to be strung up.

[Sugar Smack]

37. Monster.

What a monster. :mad: And did we really have to listen to all that talk about her baby nappies? Was that ever truly necessary?

[Mad_Dem_X]

67. No, her kids are named

Cody and Cassidy. Just as nauseating, IMO.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I don't understand your hatred.

I hate Jerry Bruckheimer because he makes shitty movies. Sounds damn rational to me.

[datasuspect]

13. i really shouldn't hate him

i don't even know him, but i wish a pestilence upon him. one with oozing pus filled sores.

[terrya]

11. WLS Channel 7 Weatherman Mike Caplan

The local ABC affilate here in Chicago.

Don't ask me exactly why...but everytime I see him doing his weather shtick, he just pisses me off to no end. It's completely irrational.

[datasuspect]

16. that's fine

just so long as like good old tom. tom skilling that is.

he is the bona fide pimp mack daddy boss player of weathermen.

[terrya]

22. Tom Skilling knows what he's talking about.

He's quite knowledgable about the weather.

That dumbass on Channel 7 just babbles.

[ceile]

12. John Madden

Troy Aikman

[MrCoffee]

14. Rachel Ray...makes me want to kill kill kill

[datasuspect]

18. i get a semi when i watch her

actually, i turn the channel if a female family member comes in, because that's how filthy my thoughts become when i see her.

[Rude Horner]

66. I'm with ya

I think she's really cute. And she's got a nice butt. :evilgrin:

[huskerlaw]

17. Julia Roberts

Celine Dion. Jack Black.

[datasuspect]

20. good choices

definitely celine dion or any other so called diva.

[MrCoffee]

21. Jack Black is the shiz-nits

[huskerlaw]

33. I can't stand him.

Seriously. Can't even watch previews of movies he's in.

And I liked School of Rock. It's just...everything since then. :shrug:

[MrCoffee]

57. He was hi-frickin-larious in High Fidelity

Let 'em riot. We're Sonic-fuckin'-Death Monkey.

[huskerlaw]

59. See, I just think he's an idiot.

And not even the slightest bit funny.

He's like Jim Carrey...a total one-trick pony. "Maybe if I'm stupid enough, they'll laugh at me"

The previews for Nacho Libre were so fucking retarded that I couldn't even sit through them and his next movie looks even worse. I forget what it's called, but it has something to do with the Tenacious D's stupid song "Tribute". Ugh.

My friend and I saw the preview the other day and she turned to me and said, "I'm offended. I'm actually offended that this movie was made." I couldn't agree more.

[datasuspect]

60. i completely admire your sensibility

i like the cut of your jib

[Sugar Smack]

23. *you rock smilie*

:thumbsup: :hi: I know, what is it about Julia Roberts? Something about her really tweaks me the wrong way.

[huskerlaw]

35. I don't know!

I loved Pretty Woman.

But since then? :puke:

Really, for me, things went wrong when she won an Oscar for "Erin Brokovich". Such a travesty. I don't think she's the least bit talented...and that movie was crap.

But some people think she's the best thing that ever happened to acting and I just don't get it!

[Reciprocity]

24. Julia Roberts and Reba McIntyre. I have no idea why.

[datasuspect]

28. reba's lack of an upper lip

she looks like an alien.

a very perky alien.

[kwassa]

27. Meg Ryan, Shelley Long, Rachel Ray, Katie Couric ... the perky ones

I hate perky.

[MrCoffee]

30. hell yes on the Shelley Long/Rachel Ray perkathon...gag me with a spoon

[querelle]

29. Will Farrell

He is NOT FUNNY! Everytime I see his ugly fucking face on TV or a movie trailer, it makes me want TO KILL!!!!! Okay, I think I need an anger management course now.

Q

[dolo amber]

34. Gloria Estefan and John Elway

Gloria more scares me than anything...but I hate her just like I hate clowns. Elway just makes me wanna spit. :shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Hey! I don't like John Elway either, but I have a reason...perhaps

not a good one. He's a loser. Whining like a baby when the Colts drafted him. :hi:

[dolo amber]

41. There was a rash of QBs I couldn't stand

Elway, Simms, Flutie (but fuck him, he beat the U of Miami and the adorable Bernie Kosar with that stupid Hail Mary pass...so that's perfectly rational :D) Esiason, etc. They just all seemed smarmy beyond belief. :shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

46. Agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed.

Yes they do. :D

[Sugar Smack]

39. Ooh, ooh! Dumbest lyrics EVER:

Bad boy bad boy
Boys will be boys
Always get so
restless
Nothing but trouble
Leaving me feeling
breathless
Nothing but trouble
Bad bad bad bad
boy
You make me feel so good
You naughty bad bad bad
bad boy
You make me feel so good
Knew you would
The way you hold me tight
You get me so excited
You do me oh so right
My heart goes beat beatBeat
beat beat beat
Bad bad bad bad boy
You make me
feel so good
You naughty bad bad bad bad boy
You make
me feel so good
Knew you would
Boys will be
boysBad boy bad boy
Always get so restless
Nothing but trouble
Leaving me feeling breathless
Nothing but trouble
And when he drives me home
I feel so safe at night
He'll call me on the
phone
It goes ring ringRing-a-ring ring
Boys will be boys
Bad boy bad boy
Boys will be
boysBad boy bad boy
Always get so restless
Nothing but trouble
Leaving me feeling breathless
Nothing but trouble

x( :hi:

[datasuspect]

40. dumbest album title (tangent)

Rhythym Nation: 1814

[Sugar Smack]

48. A drug-addled test monkey could have written that stuff.

x(

[dolo amber]

45. See! That's as terrifying as getting propositioned by Gacy, innit?!

:scared: :cry:

[Sugar Smack]

55. I KNOW! All that's missing is the clown nose!

:scared: :cry: :grouphug:

[sundog]

56. how could you hate "dr. beat"?

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

42. Dr. Phil and Katie Couric. gotta add one more--Bobby Flay.

[datasuspect]

47. dr. phil needs to be injected with mutated cells

and drawn and quartered.

[AlCzervik]

50. and then we can ask him "Howz that workin for ya?"

[datasuspect]

52. and then call him a "dummy"

[Sugar Smack]

58. Dr. Phil's patently hateable.

:applause: Well done!

[Castilleja]

82. Ewww.....Bobby Flay. n/t

[TommyO]

87. I'll back you on the Doc and Katie

but I'll give Bobby Flay a pass, simply because of the experience that one of my co-workers had. She was flying from Las Vegas to New York, and guess who she was sitting next to? That's right, Bobby Flay. She said he was one of the nicest people that she's ever flown next to, they wound up chatting most of the flight.

[JitterbugPerfume]

49. hate is a counter productive emotion

and it harms the hater , not the hated

A good friend (and fellow DUer) told me to NEVER HATE but it is ok to dislike intensely:think:

[datasuspect]

54. "hate" in this scheme is shorthand

and used in an offhand sense.

[buddhamama]

61. lol

:D

[ghostsofgiants]

51. Jerry Bruckheimer is not an irrational hatred.

He has been a thorn in the side of filmmaking for years.

[Reciprocity]

62. Also Globe Trekker's Ian Wright

I think its his voice.

[kwassa]

63. The entire cast of "The View", past and future

why does this show exist?

[Burma Jones]

65. Julia Roberts and Bill Parcells

[taterguy]

68. George Bernard Shaw and Lenny Bruce

[Mad_Dem_X]

69. #1 - PARIS F***ING HILTON

Also Mariah Carey and Julia Roberts.

[zanne]

70. The creepy detective on "Law And Order"

I don't know what his name is, but when he gives somebody the third degree, he looks insane. When he's not looking insane, he's acting superior.

[Mojambo]

71. Sally Field and Dennis Leary n/t

[Tikki]

72. Bob Woodward and Patricia Heaton...........n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

73. Lindsay Lohan. Paris Hilton. Britney Spears.

Not necessarily in that order.

[Arkham House]

74. Any performer who asks the audience to "sing along"...

...to Gitmo with all of them...

[Broken_Hero]

76. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Both are okay actors...but they both irritate me...but, I like some of their movies, I liked the Bourne flicks, and Daredevil...but..its irriational..:)

[reyd reid reed]

77. Anyone who denies morning

And bounds out of bed, perky and cheerful and oh so chipper.

Unless there's a damn good reason for it.

[hyphenate]

78. Irrational fear?

No person can earn that title for me, I'm afraid. I have a completely healthy fear of the people in this administration, but that's justified.

I have a fear of the entity of fundamentalism and of such groups as Operation Rescue because there are far too many people who take them seriously. But again, no one in those organizations is fearsome to me except for the issue of influence.

If we boil it all down to basics, everyone is pretty much all the same. We get where we are through money, knowledge, luck or influence, or a combination of all of the above. While we like to think we all start on equal footing, we don't--many people have an advantage that others don't, and the scales tilt immediately in their favor. And while some of those people might be psychopaths (we already know a few) the majority of them just have resources that the rest of us never had.

Since they are still flesh and blood, they don't have invulnerability, just opportunities. As a result, they get more, have some ability to deflect criticism and get what they want. If we are to fear someone, we need to wonder what aspect of their personality frightens us--are they psychopaths, mentally deficient but with the influence to get things done, do they have power to make, break or have someone killed by mere whim? Are they so charismatic that they can command people without question? IF so, it isn't irrational to fear them, but a healthy one.

Do we underestimate someone? Can that create a fear of what they might or might not do? Yes, but again, it's not irrational, it's perfectly legitimate.

Therefore, in my mind and opinion, fear can not be "irrational," it can be justified or not justified.

On the other hand, I DO have a phobia, which is irrational fear, but it's usually not "people" oriented. In my case, it's bugs, insects, crawlies, slugs, centipedes, millipedes, worms, and anything else that is insectoid or composed of more appendages than our own, often with a exoskeleton and most likely with a brain the size of a molecule. :) And yes, it's TOTALLY irrational.

[Beausoir]

79. Demi Moore.

It started when she refused to stop flaunting her gynormous naked pregnant belly in my face at every turn. Who told her I wanted to see her all decked out in diamonds and emeralds, cradling her born-with-a-silver-spoon fetus?

Absolute wretched excess and I saw nothing beautiful about it.

I know women who are pregnant and who worry about how they are going to feed themselves and their baby.

I really dislike her. She is fake from stem to stern.

[liontamer]

80. Rebecca Gayheart and ananda lewis

RG is an actress/the noxema girl. I got so freaking sick of looking at her face when she played the insipid good girl from the wrong side of the tracks on Loving.
Ananda Lewis was an MTV VJ. I just didn't like her.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

81. We hatessss Bagginsssss!!!!!

:evilgrin:

[driver8]

84. I could not stand Paul O'Neil from the NY Yankees...

he was a great player, but his whining and his little tantrums bugged me.

[blm]

85. I think you're rational for loathing Bruckheimer - he's a longtime Bushie

and many insiders suspect he's total BFEE and worked with Bush1 undercover for decades.

It may sound like it's off the wall, but it's actually true that RevMoon was a CIA operative and got into many countries with his singing group "The Little Angels" in the 60s. Bruckheimer arranged tours for another global "star" attraction, Elvis Presley. What they had in common was that they could pretty much get into ANY country and be met by ANY leader, even dictators.

[NJ Democrats]

86. Tom Cruise and Curt Schilling are two

There are many others...

[femmocrat]

88. Carol Burnett and Ronald Reagan n/t