What is the one type of place that you hate the most ?
Not a specific place, but the type, so not New York or New York real estate offices, but real estate offices is the correct format.
Actually given how vast the US, I think it's fair to allow regional descriptors if real estate offices on the East coast are significantly different from those in the mid-west, South or West Coast.
For me, I don't like hotels at all, doesn't matter what type, I just feel very uncomfortable, I avoid them at all costs. <_<
Airports, planes. Either one is in hurry or has to wait, sit and do nothing. Both are also noisy and crowded environments. And there is always the risk of delay, cancellation etc.
Yeah, I have to go with hotels as well. I don't travel well on a regular basis away from home. I like to be in my own bed, surrounded by my cat and my own stuff.
Willy Loman didn't kill himself so Biff could get the insurance money; he killed himself because he saw one too many karaoke nights at the Bluefield, West Virginia Holiday Inn bar. :bleeding:
Don't mind airports; they're the greatest intersection of international ass on the planet.
Waiting rooms are a 2nd.
And you had gall to call my threads useless. :lol:
But see, Mongers isn't going to wait 2 pages to say, "well, guess where I am right now? The Four Seasons! Look at me!"
The DMV.
Job and family services. The mid 90's version.
Elevators. :lol:
Lines.
I'm not sure they still exist, I have avoided them for over 20 years, but I really hate old-fashioned English tearooms. Not "caffs" you understand, tearooms. The sort of place with tiny tables and swarms of little old ladies, you feel like Gulliver in Lilliput, move your elbow too vigorously.......thwack!!!........that's two old ladies knocked to the ground, 3 chairs broken and a table smashed. You can't talk in those places either, show any animation and there will be waves of disapproval or, even worse, eavesdropping. Hopefully they have all closed, they are places of gloom and trauma.
Hospitals.
Bars and Large densely populated cities.
Places where there are people I don't know and that don't sell alcohol.
Outside of jail? :P
Maybe voting lines? It's generally way early in the morning, it's cold because it's November, and you've gotta stand for like two hours, moving slowly forward, with nothing much to do but play on your phone or read a book, neither of which you're in a particularly comfortable position to do. Also I'm not sure what you're supposed to do if you've got to take a piss. I just held it.
Designated smoking areas.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 17, 2013, 01:19:21 PM
Designated smoking areas.
Modern leper colonies, alone with society's castoffs.
Any place with a squat toilet, especially if in an outhouse. :homestar:
I was in a senior's residence recently. There was this smell of death in the air. Worse than in hospitals.
Second worst are airports. Especially when you have a stop-over for several hours and can not go to a business class lounge.
Quote from: Zanza on February 17, 2013, 02:51:40 PM
I was in a senior's residence recently. There was this smell of death in the air. Worse than in hospitals.
Second worst are airports. Especially when you have a stop-over for several hours and can not go to a business class lounge.
You know what can make the airports better if you don't have access to a business class lounge? At most airports if you go just outside the buisness class lounge, you can still connect to their internet. :ph34r:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on February 17, 2013, 12:12:22 PM
I'm not sure they still exist, I have avoided them for over 20 years, but I really hate old-fashioned English tearooms. Not "caffs" you understand, tearooms. The sort of place with tiny tables and swarms of little old ladies, you feel like Gulliver in Lilliput, move your elbow too vigorously.......thwack!!!........that's two old ladies knocked to the ground, 3 chairs broken and a table smashed. You can't talk in those places either, show any animation and there will be waves of disapproval or, even worse, eavesdropping. Hopefully they have all closed, they are places of gloom and trauma.
Your description amuses me because, while we have those here as well, the old hens chatter and cackle nonstop in our tearooms.
Quote from: Zanza on February 17, 2013, 02:51:40 PM
I was in a senior's residence recently. There was this smell of death in the air. Worse than in hospitals.
:yes: Nursing homes get my vote too.
Nursing homes. Even hospices are better.
Rest areas. As a family, we used to make the trip out to Utah and Idaho almost every year. They're awful places.
I don't like a lot of American suburbs, to be honest. Any place where I can't walk to a train station or bus stop is not worth living in.
I actually really enjoy airports. O'Hare especially. Probably the best places for people watching in the globe.
Surprised no one has mentioned the DMV yet.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 17, 2013, 03:22:42 PM
Rest areas. As a family, we used to make the trip out to Utah and Idaho almost every year. They're awful places.
:lol:
A chance to stretch your legs and empty your bladder when on a long road trip. How horrible.
You can do that at a MacDonalds and find a cleaner bathroom and a grilled chicken chipotle snackwrap.
So do it at McDonald's. There's no reason to be at a rest stop if you don't want to be there, thus no reason to hate the place.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2013, 03:38:04 PM
So do it at McDonald's. There's no reason to be at a rest stop if you don't want to be there, thus no reason to hate the place.
Most of my memories of rest stops are from when I was too young to drive and/or travelling with family, and thus would have no control over my ability to avoid rest stops.
I consider all the rest stops on the New Jersey turnpike as mini international Mos Eisley spaceports, only with Sbarro's and Roy Rogers. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. You must be cautious.
I was once making a long distance trip overnight, and pulled into a rest stop for a few hours sleep. When I woke up, I think I saw a guy in a pickup parked next to me (which was kind of weird because the rest of the parking lot was empty), who was looking at me and seemed to be masturbating. I immediately got my keys and drove away.
It was the middle of the night and I just woke up, so maybe I was mistaken, but maybe not.
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 03:54:48 PM
I was once making a long distance trip overnight, and pulled into a rest stop for a few hours sleep. When I woke up, I think I saw a guy in a pickup parked next to me (which was kind of weird because the rest of the parking lot was empty), who was looking at me and seemed to be masturbating. I immediately got my keys and drove away.
Are you hot.
Quote from: Caliga on February 17, 2013, 03:59:04 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 03:54:48 PM
I was once making a long distance trip overnight, and pulled into a rest stop for a few hours sleep. When I woke up, I think I saw a guy in a pickup parked next to me (which was kind of weird because the rest of the parking lot was empty), who was looking at me and seemed to be masturbating. I immediately got my keys and drove away.
Are you hot.
Apparently the hottest thing in the rest stop parking lot that night. :blush:
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 04:01:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga on February 17, 2013, 03:59:04 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 03:54:48 PM
I was once making a long distance trip overnight, and pulled into a rest stop for a few hours sleep. When I woke up, I think I saw a guy in a pickup parked next to me (which was kind of weird because the rest of the parking lot was empty), who was looking at me and seemed to be masturbating. I immediately got my keys and drove away.
Are you hot.
Apparently the hottest thing in the rest stop parking lot that night. :blush:
No lot lizards that night, eh?
Quote from: 11B4V on February 17, 2013, 04:10:16 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 04:01:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga on February 17, 2013, 03:59:04 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on February 17, 2013, 03:54:48 PM
I was once making a long distance trip overnight, and pulled into a rest stop for a few hours sleep. When I woke up, I think I saw a guy in a pickup parked next to me (which was kind of weird because the rest of the parking lot was empty), who was looking at me and seemed to be masturbating. I immediately got my keys and drove away.
Are you hot.
Apparently the hottest thing in the rest stop parking lot that night. :blush:
No lot lizards that night, eh?
After googling lot lizards, I'm guessing that wasn't what he was after.
Libraries.
Quote from: Razgovory on February 17, 2013, 04:18:18 PM
Libraries.
You people are picking random places just to be different.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2013, 04:22:04 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on February 17, 2013, 04:18:18 PM
Libraries.
You people are picking random places just to be different.
No Raz has a reason, and he's stated it here before.
No Raz is an island.
Walmart
Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2013, 05:17:37 PM
Walmart
Yeah, I don't like family reunions that much either.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2013, 03:28:00 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on February 17, 2013, 03:22:42 PM
Rest areas. As a family, we used to make the trip out to Utah and Idaho almost every year. They're awful places.
:lol:
A chance to stretch your legs and empty your bladder when on a long road trip. How horrible.
Rest stops can vary quite a bit by state.
Arizona has really nice rest stops.
Arizona and New Mexico have a lot of rest stops with no facilities. :wacko:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2013, 05:55:11 PM
Arizona and New Mexico have a lot of rest stops with no facilities. :wacko:
Doesn't the countryside count as a facility ? :whistle:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 17, 2013, 05:55:11 PM
Arizona and New Mexico have a lot of rest stops with no facilities. :wacko:
Well, along I-10, the rest stops are nice. :P
Texas, incredulously, has lots of "picnic areas", which essentially turn out to just be a wide asphalt shoulder, usually with a lone picnic bench and a trash can.
Washington's are "meh", and definitely aging.
Oregon = average.
Virginia's "Welcome centers" are fairly nice as well.
Ohio's rest stops are full of faggots that have been driven out of the state parks. Fags. :glare:
I hate the Starbucks inside of the local Safeway. Jeebus, those people in line are maroons.
Fake cities. Like the place I live now.
Look it up on wikipedia and you think "Wow, 200,000 people? And that's just within the city limits! It must have quite some buzz about it!"
But no.
For the entire place seems to have been designed by Jeremy Clarkson's idiot brother. Rather than having all the shops and everything nice and centralised thus pooling their appeal and allowing other stuff to spring up to take advantage of the footfall, the facilities one would normally expect in a city centre are spread out far and wide. Shops cling to dual carriageways miles from the centre of town, horrible strips of cheaply made things that you have to drive to get to.
It strikes me as being like a lesser version of what I'm told LA is like. Simply horrific. And this city isn't a lone abheration, quite a few cities in Japan are similarly horribly designed.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 17, 2013, 06:30:26 PM
Ohio's rest stops are full of faggots that have been driven out of the state parks. Fags. :glare:
Missouri reststops are abandoned ruins where you might see people there scavenging for copper.
Banks. I'll wait months to deposit a check to avoid going to a bank. I have no idea why I dislike them so much, but I truly do.
I like the welcome center in Florida off I-75 where they give you fresh squeezed orange juice for free. :cool:
Quote from: Tyr on February 17, 2013, 06:47:57 PM
It strikes me as being like a lesser version of what I'm told LA is like.
:lol:
Quote from: Caliga on February 17, 2013, 09:08:52 PM
I like the welcome center in Florida off I-75 where they give you fresh squeezed orange juice for free. :cool:
Yeah, that is pretty neat.
Quote from: Queequeg on February 17, 2013, 03:22:42 PM
I don't like a lot of American suburbs, to be honest. Any place where I can't walk to a train station or bus stop is not worth living in. .
Unless you're on an island, you can walk to one of those from anywhere.
It's just a question of how much stamina you have.
Quote from: garbon on February 17, 2013, 09:20:06 PM
Quote from: Tyr on February 17, 2013, 06:47:57 PM
It strikes me as being like a lesser version of what I'm told LA is like.
:lol:
What?
That's what LA is famous for, terribly planned sprawl and everyone driving.
I thought LA was famous for making movies.
And for its bitchin' 1980s punk scene.
Hospitals. I get nauseous as soon as I walk in.
Anyway, I wanted to come back and comment how utterly ridiculous the premise of this thread is.
There is completely no guidance provided by the OP as to what kind of places qualify - e.g. any place you can think of, any place you have visited at least once, or any place you visit regularly?
I mean, do people who say that hotels are the kind of place they hate the most, really hate them more than gas chambers in death camps for example?
Quote from: Martinus on February 18, 2013, 06:53:02 AM
Anyway, I wanted to come back and comment how utterly ridiculous the premise of this thread is.
There is completely no guidance provided by the OP as to what kind of places qualify - e.g. any place you can think of, any place you have visited at least once, or any place you visit regularly?
I mean, do people who say that hotels are the kind of place they hate the most, really hate them more than gas chambers in death camps for example?
So the one type of place on earth you hate the most is this thread? Noted.
The Middle East.
Quote from: Ideologue on February 18, 2013, 12:28:22 AM
And for its bitchin' 1980s punk scene.
And high doughnut consumption.