Now, if a particular pet hate happens to strike a strong enough chord then an item or object symbolising that pet hate is then enrolled into the fabled Room 101 via a conveyor belt and a mock dustbin chute.
If I had my way then I would love to go on that programme, put up football internationals as one of my particular pet hates and I would take a model of David Beckham with me just for good measure in the hope that it is flushed down the chute into oblivion.
I am a fairly patriotic bloke (for my sins) but to be honest England internationals, amongst others, simply get in the way of what really interests me, namely Arsenal FC and the only reason I even bother to watch England games these days is because it beats watching Coronation Street or Eastenders on say a Tuesday or Wednesday night. Mind you, given the dross that the national team invariably serve up most of the time I often find myself wondering who is really fooling who.
If there's one thing that is certain in all of this, it is that I certainly appreciate what we have going for us right now at the Arsenal a whole lot more. Watching the sterile, ponderous and invariably tedious England matches seems light years away from watching the dash and panache of the current Arsenal side when in full flow.
Yep, my fellow Gooners, Saturday cannot come round quick enough for me I can tell you but just before I get on to that, it would be rude of me not to jog your memories on a little article I read in last Sunday's News of the World and it was written by Martin Samuel of all people.
I though my eyes were deceiving me at first but there, in the midst of all the haranguing pieces about England, was a rather damning piece on ManUre and in particular, Old Purple Nose.
To cut a long story short, Samuel charted the relative amount they had spent on players since the summer of 2001(£162 million) against Arsenal's (£34 million) in the same period and then married that all up with the relative success of both clubs since then.
Aside from the backhanded compliments Samuel gave to Arsenal, he then went on mischievously to suggest that if Old Purple Nose was given that sort of money at Barcelona or AC Milan and only won one title he would have got the boot by now and if he fails to win either the Champions League or the Premiership this season with ManUre then they will indeed show him the door.
Now don't get me wrong; I know full well that Samuel is as two faced as sports journos get. I remember him vehemently claiming on TV for example that the Arsenal had become a selling club when we sold Petit and Overmars to Barcelona. But, even if it was in a roundabout way, it was, for a fleeting moment, bloody nice to actually see some somebody in the press applying a sharp and apt sense of perspective to what we have achieved lately.
Now it's time for me to look forward to Saturday and our trip to Craven Cottage to face Fulham.
You know, they say that God moves in mysterious ways and I suppose the same can be said of football. Whilst Arsenal will have left their spiritual home two years from now that was a scenario that Fulham themselves were faced with two years ago.
Of course, the days of sharing Loftus Road with Queens Park Rangers is very much over and to the delight of every true Fulham fan, they are back at the Cottage indefinitely.
Major refurbishments took place off the pitch over the course of the season in order to turn the place into the all-seater stadium that it now is and Chris Coleman has certainly had to make one or two alterations to the playing staff on it.
Saha departed in January of course but in the summer, Coleman also lost the services most notably of Sean Davies, Barry Hayles, Facundo Sava and Junichi Inamoto. However I think that Coleman has done some pretty good business over the summer.
For a start, he brought in Claus Jensen from Charlton. Now, this lad may not grab the headlines and the plaudits that Scholes, Lampard and Gerrard get but I tell you what, the lad has got bags of experience and is one of the canniest midfield operators in the English game.
Jensen is far more gifted technically than most people give him credit for and though he can play anywhere across the midfield, I thought that he was at his best for Charlton when he was allowed to break forward from central midfield just like the Scholes' and the Lampards of this world. In the absence of Malbranque in midfield, he is definitely one player the Arsenal boys will need to watch out for.
Coleman also managed to bring in Andy Cole. No real introduction need there. But the man I am really wary of is Coleman's other recent recruit to the striker's department and that is Tomas Radzinski.
In the last two years of his time at Everton this lad was a real thorn in our sides whenever we played them and the fact that he has scored a goal in each of the last four games he has played against Arsenal emphatically endorses that.
With Radzinski, Cole, Luis Boa Morte not to mention new Dutch international Collins John in the ranks, Fulham are certainly not short of pace going forward or indeed experience.
It's a shame that Sol is not quite ready to come back yet. His speed and know how would have been more than useful here and the fact that Pascal Cygan should be fit enough to fill in for him does not, in my opinion, make his absence for this game in particular game easier to bare in the slightest.
You see if I had the choice this is not the type of fixture I would have picked straight after an extended international break. Fulham themselves will be able to argue that they have had a few internationals away on duty for their countries over the last 10 days or so but the fact is they also go into this game with absolutely nothing to lose.
If ever there is a good time to play the Arsenal these days, it's probably after an international break and Fulham will feed on that. I remember what happened at Goodison Park a couple of years ago when our last long unbeaten run came to end immediately after a break for internationals. I remember all TOO well.
The Gunners will need to be well on their toes on Saturday at the Cottage if history is not going to repeat itself.