This is a little section of the site where I write about things I hate, and so is cunningly called 'things I hate.' (Genius!) It is a thinnly veiled attempt for me to let off steam when I feel like it. There is a lot more I could have said here, but it was all libellious and I could have the pants sued off me. Which isn't good.

#1: Under Construction web sites

I dread to think exactly how many sites live permentantely under the banner of 'Under Construction', but it must be at least 100,000. Who thought of this awful thing? Roughly translated in my books, it means "Please don't get angry with me because my site is rubbish. I might improve it one day." No excuse at all. You either live with the fact your site sucks and at least can say you had a go, you delete it, or do not upload it until it is finished. Then people won't have to go through the pain of broken links and so on. If your site really is under construction, how about doing us all a favour and just put a short, small text page saying you're working on it. Save the bandwidth, people!

#2: Exams

Yes I know, everyone hates exams, but I have a point to say exactly why exams suck. Why should we be put through years of living hell, so we can regurgitate useless facts on to a paper, and leave it to pure luck which facts we need to know? Hmm? Why aren't the results based on your work in class? If you didn't pay teachers on how well the kids they are teaching perform, then the reports wouldn't be glizted up would they? "Aha," says Mr. Education System, "but we give you coursework. That's classwork." Rubbish. All coursework has done is bias results towards the female of the species, because, let's face it, can boys really be bothered to do work? The only thing that scares them enough to get them to do real work is exams. Hell, I should be doing my history coursework as I write this. Fight the system, kids!

#3: Net lingo

Net lingo is one of the most ugly, rankest things which live in the net. There is no such word as kewl, so don't use it OK? The same goes for ph33r, ch00n and every other useless word which could just be typed properly. If you use them regularly, you'll only end up writing them on your CV, be unable to get a job and die poor somewhere. Maybe.

#4: Loving, but blind parents From swampy

Yes, this is an attack on loving parents. Why don't they see things for what they are, eh? Their child could have hospitalised three children via repeated headbutts to the face, yet the parent will always tell the headmaster "He/she is not an angel, but he/she is not a bad person." They are bad people OK?

If you have something you really hate, tell me about it.