Pet Hates

My Pet Hates !

On the internet:

Web pages with just one huge graphic which takes ages to download and just links to another page.
Commercial sites which demand that you 'register' before you can see the site - how many shops insist on you registering before you look around the store ?
Home Pages with Under Construction all over them - last updated 1998.
American road construction signs used on British web sites.
Use this British roadworks sign instead :

or better still, don't use one at all, keep your site in a fully usable state, and just add things later!

Other things:

Wild pigeons in towns (feathered rats). New York knows how to deal with them.
The damned Heron that ate my goldfish! (Pilots of aircraft flying below 7 feet are advised that there is now a prohibited airspace above my garden pond which is protected by lots of very thin wire.)
TV Soap Operas (subliminal social education for the masses).
People who can't be bothered to use Capital Letters when typing on a computer.
Calling photos taken from satellites Satellite Photos when they should be called Orbital Photos.
(Photos taken from planes aren't called Aeroplane Photos !)
Advertising breaks during televised Formula 1 races (companies who do this ought to consider that they are alienating the very people to whom they are trying to sell).
Magazines published with a cover date month that is two months ahead of the actual publication date. Somebody ought to pass a law preventing idiot publishers from doing this.
Waiters in restaurants who ask you a question when you have a mouthful of food. Unprofessional idiots.
People who think that Tom & Jerry cartoons are too violent.
Pretentious corporate rubbish such as 'mission statements' and 'brand values'.