Excerpt for The Official World Institute for Trivia Top 100 Pet Hates by Tim Hadleigh, available in its entirety at Smashwords

World Institute of Trivia Presents


The Official World Institute of Trivia Top 100 Pet Hates


Compiled by Tim Hadleigh


Copyright Tim Hadleigh 2011

Smashwords Edition




In Reverse Order:


100

People who stand there with their mouth open all the time.


99

The poor quality of the jam in the middle of a jam donut


98

idiots who think that pushing the envelope means becoming a postman


97

Any television commercial with a meerkat in it


96

Men who don’t know what a loo brush is for


95

Mountain bike riders who peddle like mad but make no real forward progress


94

Dog owners who say to their dog “now don’t do that”, after it has done whatever it wasn’t supposed to do


93

Male chauvinist pigs


92

The whistley bit at the end of the Eastenders TV show theme tune


91

Female chauvinist pigs


90

When chefs slightly overcook something it is classed as seared, but when you slightly overcook something it is classed as burnt


89

Women who walk around the supermarket drinking a large cup of Starbucks or Costa coffee, like buying groceries is a leisure pursuit.


88

Ambitious cats that think outside of the box when using the litter tray


87

Young mothers who ignore their children’s continual verbal request


86

Young mothers who breast feed in public


85

Young mothers in general


84

Plasma screen TVs that are mounted too high on the lounge wall for practical use


83

People who say that using Pay Pal is easy, only for you to become embroiled in a 5 day saga trying to undo all of the things that you have supposedly done wrong


82

The pointlessness of a pogo stick


81

Luxurious brand names on cigarette packets, as if causing yourself to stink and killing yourself to boot is a luxury pastime


80

Getting invited to a dinner party where the hostess has spent hours in the kitchen reducing wonderful fresh ingredients down to inedible and unrecognisable lumps in a pool of foul liquid


79

Horse lovers who quite happily leave 5 pounds of horse plop outside your house, but if you leave 5 pounds of potato peelings outside theirs then they call the police


78

How teenagers fail to realise that the reason that we adults don’t walk around with our trousers falling down is because it looks utterly stupid and childish


77

Your excitement over a new government coming into power being dashed when you discover that they couldn’t run a bath let alone run a country


76

The word ‘nourishment


75

People who think it is funny when they see people lined up on the ski slope having skiing lessons and the person on the end falls over causing the rest to all fall over like dominos


74

Celebrities who have done nothing to be celebrated for


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