Here are six pet-hates my Italian-born mum nurtured about the UK after she married an English soldier and moved there in the late 1940’s in

1. The death penalty. (Finally abolished 1998, though last execution took place in 1964).
3. Sundays. (Trading laws finally eased in 1994 but still limited for larger shops).
5. Gaberdine raincoats especially if forming part of school uniform.
7. Hypocrisy (make your own examples for this).
9. Long time involved in much building works when compared with post-war reconstruction in Italy.
11. Loathing for some historical figures especially Henry VIII ( dissolution of the monasteries) and Cromwell.
12. 
    My mum’s pet-loves regarding the UK would include
14. Much less ‘mammismo’ with kids (being tied to mum’s apron strings) than in Italy where kids aged thirty could still be living with their parents.
16. Odd millinery for women and evocative hats (esp bowlers and boaters) for men.
18. ‘High tea’ (with cream cakes).
20. The northernmost part of the Kingdom (especially Scotland and Orkney).
22. Gothic cathedrals (especially Salisbury – although she loathed Westminster abbey as it was spoilt by all those monuments in it).
24. Her English husband (especially his practical know-how and do-it-yourself).

So there you are: six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.