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Amen to all the above but... erm, isn't the point that few of these things are really rational? I think few of us really hate, but it's become shorthand for 'it really pisses me off', or 'I think it's really silly.'
A while back I happened to announce, 'Oh, heaven spare me - not another old guy on a huge LAPD-style motorbike!' A friend took me to task: 'What have you got against old guys on motorcycles?'
I had to admit that I didn't really have an issue. But for me it would be excruciating to tool around in my dotage dressed up like Electraglide in Blue. If there is a phrase for my neurosis it would be something like, 'A big Harley and a rebel bandana do not an outlaw make.'
The 'I hate' thread allows us to vent this silly stuff. I think it has great value!