I'm not really a fan of art and I know that the Artist category is a little more flexible than this, but I'm struggling to think of anyone. I'm gonna go for Damien Hirst.

If someone can paint or sculpt then I get it, but he just puts a donkey on a treadmill and calls it art. Ok he didn't do that exactly, but not far from it. He uses dead animals as art with I am not a fan of. I won't bore you with my views on animal rights, but let's just say that a pickled dead sheep is not "my bag".

I also think it's appalling that he gets major awards and huge bucks for doing this stuff.

It doesn't require talent and yet he's got a Turner Prize and £235,000,000

For anyone that's interested, I've had a sneak peek at his latest work:

I agree, there is something vulgar about killing an animal for art.

Category: City

Object of HATE: Cottonwood, AZ

This is one is difficult in that there are few cities that I truly hate every aspect of. After a ton of internal debating, I finally figured it out!!

I've lived in a lot of places and only lived there for a few months to help my brother take care of my mom towards her end. I hated everything about it. Its hot, ****ty, dirty, white-trashy, and all of that and then some.

Category: Inanimate Object

3/4 Empty Jar of Generic-Brand Pesto in My Fridge

I'm looking at the brand jar bottle of gourmet pesto next to it like...

^ Pesto is funniest of thread!

So my hated Brand is McDonald's.

I understand if someone wants to get a cheap, quick meal at an airport before a long flight, but every time I've done it I just feel rotten afterwards. It tastes disgusting.

It also looks nothing like the avertised image:




It's not an honest company and if you've seen The Founder then you'll not be surprised in the slightest.

It's nutritionally awful for you. They put sugar on the bread and the only reason that the burgers contain pickles is so that they don't legally have to call it a dessert.

Stuff like this exists for almost every item on the menu:


Perhaps you have the salad because you care about your body:


You've all seen supersize me, you all know that McDonald's is awful, but year after year the post enormous profits. Shame on you if you're one of these people who eat McDonald's food when you're in a foreign country on vacation because it's the "safe option". Shame on you if you eat at McDonald's period...

ROUND 9

Spoiler:

category - Inanimate Object

Spoiler:

Click Bait

I HATE HATE HATE any misleading article title that leads you to click on something you find interesting, only to see it's actually not as advertised. I'm not even talking about the obvious click bait like "18 TIMES DANNY DEVITO MADE US SWOON - YOU WON'T BELIEVE #7!!!" type crap, either. I mean, those are horrible, but it's obvious what you're getting into when you click on it.

I'm talking about crap like this:

Harrison Ford Breaks Silence Over Carrie Fisher's Memoir, 'Star Wars' Affair

This is a Rolling Stone online article that does not, in fact, have Harrison Ford breaking his silence over anything. It only rehashes the year old story about Carrie Fischer's book detailing an affair she and Ford had on the set of Star Wars. So really, it's doing absolutely nothing but garnering clicks with zero content.

Another huge abuser of this is the AV Club - a site I actually like and visit often. But often on social media, they will post something that sounds really interesting, you click on it, and you are lead to a contentless article on ANOTHER article that actually did the work the AV Club did not do on the subject. All the AV Club has is a few paragraphs ABOUT that article or video or something that sometimes isn't even accessible to someone without a subscription to the linked content.

Then there are the "articles" about a new movie trailer, or something. Fine, link me to a new trailer - I like that. But do you have to give me a written blow-by-blow of what's IN the trailer? It's the definition of useless content. All they are trying to do is gather clicks.

Bastards. And **** you. Stop wasting my time.

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DOM'S HATE LIST:

TOMI LAHREN - Celebrity
SRIRACHA - Food/Beverage
KEITH HARRING - Artist
The NBA - Brand
TONIGHT TONIGHT - Song
HOUSTON - City
THE WIZARD OF OZ - Movie
THE WALKING DEAD - TV Show
NO CONTENT CLICK BAIT - Inanimate Object

These last 2 HATES are elite and sooooo well deserved!!!

And yeah, the AVClub has really gone to ****. That used to be my most visited site. Now I rarely go.

This thread is f gold

McDonalds is an obvious choice IMO.

MY FINAL PICK

Spoiler:

category - Wild Card

Spoiler:

Trump Supporters

Yeah yeah, I know, it's politics. But what kind of special moron do you have to be to support this buffoon? I get being a Republican. I get being a Conservative. I even sorta get voting for this guy back in November because Hillary is ****ing awful.

But now? After almost 9 months of this total and abject failure, how do you still support him? He has literally accomplished NOTHING. Zero. Nada. And driven a huge divide between people in this coutry. His foreign policy is non-existent, his appointees and administration officials are incompetent and almost troll worthy - DeVos for Sec'y of Education? Pruitt for the EPA? This new climate change denier who's going to run NASA?

Really??? It's like an SNL skit.

I mean, I won't even get into the white supremacy crap and toolboxes around him. It's preposterous.

Trump is a nincompoop who has his finger on the button. All he's doing is running a long con so he can make more money. That's it. Does anyone believe he's actually concerned with running the country and/or helping Americans who aren't worth at least $100 million?

If you do believe any of that, you're an idiot. And I hate your ignorance.

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DOM'S HATE LIST:

TOMI LAHREN - Celebrity
SRIRACHA - Food/Beverage
KEITH HARRING - Artist
The NBA - Brand
TONIGHT TONIGHT - Song
HOUSTON - City
THE WIZARD OF OZ - Movie
THE WALKING DEAD - TV Show
NO CONTENT CLICK BAIT - Inanimate Object
TRUMP SUPPORTERS - Wild Card

How long do I have? I'll try to mass pick tomorrow morning. Bastards stole Houston and Banksy, though.

Also, the wizard of Oz pick made me cry. My favorite all time movie.

biggerboat, sorry you had to deal with a Florida hurricane despite living in ATX.

I sort of took over since every one, including dominic, ran into some issues.

I would like you to make up your picks. The draft is technically over... please pick all items up to round 10.

Will do. I'll get them all in tomorrow morning.

Pretty obvious song tightly associated with a pretty hatable movie both went undrafted. Unbreakable an elite movie pick, tho. HATE that POS.

My final pick is for an Inanimate Object and I pick Cling Film (Saran Wrap to Americans I think).

It's frustrating and it's useless. The only thing it clings to is you and itself. Whatever you're trying to wrap will stay entirely unwrapped.

Also I find that it doesn't tear properly and the jagged edges that are meant to cut the cling film only end up cutting you.

I understand you can buy dispensers that make things easier but I refuse to spend any money on accessories for something that I hate.

No pictures, it doesn't deserve it.

xander biscuits' picks

Commando
The Apprentice
Kim Jong Un
Hidden Additional Fees
Pineapple Pizza
Earth Song - Michael Jackson
Singapore
Damien Hirst
McDonald's
Cling Film/Saran Wrap

Brand

Marvel



I never really got into comic books when I was young, but I never really hated them. But, the movies....

From what I remember, Iron Man began this onslaught of superhero movies. Everyone I talked to said "you gotta see Iron Man, you gotta see Iron Man". Well, I saw it and my review can be summed up with "meh".

Captain America sucked. Avengers weren't much better. Thor was OK, but not enough to redeem this trend of nonsense coming from the studios. Spiderman didn't just suck, it sucked really bad. I enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy but again, that's like saying I like sand when it is in my fish tank.

I think Ant Man was the final straw. I haven't seen one since and I probably won't again (well, maybe GotG 2).

The comic book nerds I work with remind me that there are non-marvel comic book movies but I don't care. They are all the same to me.

There appears to be a never-ending train of storylines and characters being vomited onto the screens for decades to come.

This genre simply ruined the movie industry.

Food

Celery



Negative calories? Who wants that?

This is just soft bamboo. If you want to scoop your ranch dressing dip, buy some Doritos already. How dare you tard up a plate of real veggies like carrots and broccoli with this green cardboard. Get it out of my face.

City

Well, someone stole Houston from me. Well deserved hate for that place. I struggled with this one for several reasons. One is, I just haven't been to that many cities and the ones I have been to I didn't really hate. I thought about some of the smaller places I've lived - Silsbee TX, Shreveport LA, that probably deserve hate but aren't worthy of mentioning.

So, I have to go with one that I not only hate, but I love.

Austin.



I grew up here. I loved it as a kid. I had a roaming range of about 20 sq. miles. Creeks, woods, plenty of other kids.

But the woods were slowly replaced with houses and the creeks dried up from overbuilding.

The 70s were great. Austin was a hippie haven. It gave rise to "Keep Austin Weird". But the great 70s places disappeared through the years just like the woods and creeks.

In the 80s the city government took a stance that no new roads would be built. Their reasoning was, if you don't build it, they won't come. But they came. And they came. And they came. And Austin still has the same road system. But much much much more crowded. It's pretty much around the clock 5 O'clock traffic.

Austin has great places to go and great events. But there are just sooooo many people now. Just getting in and out of any event is a huge challenge. No place to park anywhere. And, once you get there you are often standing shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other people.

Barton Springs is one of the crown jewels of Austin. Check out what it used to be like compared to now.





I love the Austin of long ago. I hate the Austin of now.

Movie

Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.



I've never even seen this movie and I hate it. I hate it because it has Jim Carrey in it. I hate it because people liked it and Jim Carrey kept making movies.

Artist

Someone took Banksy but for a much different reason than I did. I don't necessarily hate Banksy for his art, I hate him for his presentation. Who is he to think everyone wants to see his crap? I hate him because he's a symbol for others.

So, my pick is......

Graffiti "artist"

Yes, it is generic. But the thought that it is cool to paint crap all over everywhere is OK makes me puke. It isn't art, it is vandalism.

Why do I want to see this every time I drive to work?



And that crap spawns this crap



Toss them all in jail

I thought the Ace Ventura hate would include the whole transphobic ending

WildCard

Packaging.

Why is everything so damn hard to open now? Oh, wait, I know

That damn Tylenol killer. I hate him too.

I never needed scissors to open anything. Now, you can't open anything without them. Even things you don't eat are in a bulletproof plastic sealed cover. How many times do you try to do this? Every time, right? Then you have to figure out where you put the scissors the last time this happened.



Check out this pill bottle. WTF?



Once you figure out how to get the cap off, there is still another seal over the top that you can't possible peel off because there is no place to grab and you can't punch your finger through because it is made out of some sort of flexible titanium.

You could buy one of these but you need one of these to get one of these out to have one of these.



I just want to use the thing I just bought. Is that so hard?