What makes you rage?

[DoomyMcDoom]

I don't RAGE anymore, not after the last few times... those memories still haunt me...

But things that irritate me, well there are a lot of those, let me list you a few.

-Whiny wimpy guys who ***** about never having a woman, who are then determined to list every piece of advice I give them as unrealistic or just wrong, even though their method is OBVIOUSLY NOT WORKING FOR THEM, I usually tell them to stop bitching at me if they don't want help, but they always tell me about how horribly they're failing or how lonely they are, it's a never ending cycle, well it would be if I didn't just tell them to get help elsewhere and never talk to them again, they were ok friends when not bitching but over time it builds up and gets more frequent.

-Women who decide the best thing to do during a first date with me is to natter on and on about shoes or hair products and not even let me say anything at all, no I didn't leave you sitting in a coffee shop because you're not pretty, I left you there because your incessant retardation causing natter almost put me into a coma, please, talk about something that heterosexual men can at least kinda relate to, and then let them respond, after all, with so much to talk about hell even telling me about the last time you rode a bus and that smelly guy sat in front of you is more interesting than shoes, because lemme tell you, I ride the bus, i can relate!

-People who cannot bend their tiny little minds around the fact that a man working at a gas station isn't nescessarily there due to being too stupid for other work, after all people need to eat, and pay rent, and you gotta take what you can get in this job market. Does give me a nice treat seeing the suprise on their faces when they ask me a question and I give them an answer detailing every aspect of what they're wondering about in full detail, and some advice on how to solve their difficulty, hell after I explained something to a customer the next customer in line told me and I quote "You should charge people for that kinda advice, you'd make a killing" seriously, I'm far from stupid, I work the register so I can feed myself.

-People who have the strange idea that because I've studied several martial arts(to a degree, I'm no black belt, but I am proficient), that I'm a violent person, this cannot be farther from the truth, though I wouldn't advise trying to cause me harm unless you really know what you're doing or are armed with a gun at significantly greater than arms length distance, I can and will defend myself appropriately.

-Also, women who make outrageous demands, and or try and control me, if you say "If you play wow I'll dump you." I'm more likely to reactivate my account just to spite you, than I am to give in to such a stupid demand, one should take into account that I'm a disciplined individual, if I game it doesn't interfere with the rest of my life at all, or telling me that they'll dump me if i get rid of my beard, or if I shave my head, by the way I will look how I WANT to look, I look good in a large variety of styles, so I change my look every once in awhile.

There are many many more things to list, but since I would write about each and every one of them in great detail, with examples, I'll just stop here, those are my top ones.

 

[neil1990]

People who disagree with you or refuse to help, and then do not justify their reasoning, i.e. "just because". And pig-headed stubborn people

 

[urahara75]

Superficial/Benign Rave (#1):

Restaurants & people than live in places where they have multiple-basin kitchen sinks... and use more than 1 basin for any particular task (i.e., using 2 quarter-full basins just for soaking or scrubbing). It's a personal quirk that gets to OCD-status, but just irks me to the point where I want to do it for them sometimes.

Meaningful Rant:

I'm frankly tired of Caucasian women that (ethnically) hail from post-imperialist/colonialist European countries that can't see that they've had it pretty good, in comparison to us brown folk, for the better part of the last millennium. And yes, even the United States, and to a certain extent, Canada, count.

Seriously... you think being a professionally-pidgeonholed, glorified "breeding mare for the state" (thank you for that one George Carlin, you will forever be missed) has historically been rough? Try having been African, Indigenous American, Indigenous Australian, southeast-Asian or Indian living in slavery in your own country and abroad. Try being one of us even now, you're perception on who's gotten a "raw deal" will drastically change.

Superficial/Benign Rave (#2):

I can't stand people how can't be bothered to make a clarified, specifically accurate statement whilst giving instructions or describing something. If I'm doing a task and you give broad, generalised instructions on how to continue/finish you have no right, or logical reason (in my book), to complain at the results of said task.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Ah ha, theres the thing. What YOU find a joke and what I find a joke are two completely different things. Sure, if both people present find it funny, then its a joke. But the second both people involved do not find it a joke, it is no longer a joke, and can be taken as an insult.

See the key difference between a joke and an insult the intent and meaning behind them. If i say "black people cant swim" and mean it, im maliciously propagating ignorance that i actually believe. If i make a joke about it i obviously DONT really think it, its not malicious, and no harm was meant by it. I mean who gets upset because someone pretended to think something bad? Are they THAT soft? Also if people do get offendedi take this attitude.


For someone keen on liberty you seem to be against:

People saying bad things about your country
People doing actions you dont like
People making jokes you dont like

What happened to freedom?

"YOU SAID STUFF I DONT LIKE SO GET OUT" I think was one of your points. I thought america was a country where you could say whatever? I dont think anyone in england takes that attitude. Are we more free than you? I like England, but i have irrational ties to it, i wouldnt defend it to the death just because i was rammed through a vagina in this island. What the fuck does that have to do with its quality as a country? Make it above critisism? Better than everyone else?

http://www.xkcd.com/588/

Apply these to countries. Being indoctrinated to love a flag without any meaning behind it is stupid. Or a bit of land. Defend the rights, the people, the things that matter. Someone in your country is dying of an easily preventable disease right now in a "first world" country and you care more someones burning a flag? I think i know which one the biggest offence to free america.

 

[Lilred9]

I don't get completely pissed off a lot, but one thing that irritates me so much is when I'm eating next to someone and they keep scraping their teeth aganist their metal forks.

Oh, another one is when a girl tries to get some guy's attention by talking loud or arguing with her friends. The friends are all like "What the hell" and most likely the guy is getting annoyed at her loud voice.

Lastly, I hate it when people go off about guys a lot. I know some of them are complete idiots but I hate when people stereotype guys in general. I have a bunch of guy friends that are gentlemen but feel bad because every female besides their best friends believes all they want is to get in some girl's pants.

Hmph i fell better now

 

[RandallJohn]

People who find Christianity an acceptable target.
People who use "Deal with it" in place of a rational argument.
People who think it's okay when women mock men, but not vice-versa.
People who hate a game just because it falls into a certain genre.
Undeserved snark.
Forced memes.
Repetition.
Repetition.
Stereotypes of Americans.
People who dislike football (soccer) for no reason other than the fact that it exists.
People who do not accept the connection between American football and rugby.
Glenn Beck's existence.
Abuse of authority.
Hypocrisy.
Rose Tyler.
People who do not know the difference between "Just expressing freedom of speech" and "Being an asshole."

 

[GartarkMusik]

Overly religious people. The sort that pray to their respective deities for EVERYTHING. I also get irritated by how some of them can work God into EVERY SINGLE CONVERSATION I HAVE WITH THEM!!!! *breathes*

 

[Not-here-anymore]

On a related note, people giving expert opinions on things they aren't experts on.

Oh, and the "I'm not ____ist, but..." thing.

The ist thing can be funny, if you do it with the obvious intention of being funny with the right group of people. But then occasionally you get the horror when you realize someone seriously said it.

Also related to your first point. Yes, entirely. Specifically someone who believes that watching a few episodes of "Brian Cox has a stupid accent" puts you on the same level as someone who's been doing a degree for 3 and a half years. I'm wondering how many more times I have to hear "You're doing a quantum mechanics dissertation? I heard that's really easy!" before I'm legally allowed to set fire to someone.

You're doing a quantum mechanics dissertation? As a physics student, that's really fucking hard! And probably a bad idea.

OT: I don't really get angry, except at wilful stupidity/ignorance. People who don't understand something, but refuse to even make the effort to comprehend it. One of my lab partners for last semester, basically

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much when my family telling me how to live out my life or job related stuff. I'm fine the way I am (antisocial) since I accept who I am (I don't get depress for being single etc) and no one should tell me otherwise (only I get to decide if I want to change my apperance etc).

 

[BOOM headshot65]

*more snipping*

Ah ha. Now we're getting somewhere. There seems to have been some miscommunictaion. If it is JUST a joke, wither I find it funny or not (most likely not), I usually dont care. However, when it touches certain things, I may be alittle more P.O.ed. As for what stance I take:
Pretty much that...including everything he said in the video.

As for Why I stand up for our flag and America, it is because the flag is the international represention of America, and I think that America is the greatest country on the planet. Thats just my opinion. You can think the UK is the best, and I will be like "Meh, I still like the US, but thats your opinion." What I cant stand is when people ACTUALLY mean what they say, hence the flag burning. Kind of hard NOT to mean it when you burn the American Flag. Where I live, no one give a flying crap if you fly a flag upside down or wash a flag. They will think "Oh, hey this guys mad. I wonder what about?" But if you stomp on, burn, or otherwise desicrate the American flag, being chased out of town as people are calling you an "unpatriotic, Godless Commie" is the least of your problems, in an area where the average resident has 3 guns.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

*more snipping*

Ah ha. Now we're getting somewhere. There seems to have been some miscommunictaion. If it is JUST a joke, wither I find it funny or not (most likely not), I usually dont care. However, when it touches certain things, I may be alittle more P.O.ed. As for what stance I take:
Pretty much that...including everything he said in the video.

As for Why I stand up for our flag and America, it is because the flag is the international represention of America, and I think that America is the greatest country on the planet. Thats just my opinion. You can think the UK is the best, and I will be like "Meh, I still like the US, but thats your opinion." What I cant stand is when people ACTUALLY mean what they say, hence the flag burning. Kind of hard NOT to mean it when you burn the American Flag. Where I live, no one give a flying crap if you fly a flag upside down or wash a flag. They will think "Oh, hey this guys mad. I wonder what about?" But if you stomp on, burn, or otherwise desicrate the American flag, being chased out of town as people are calling you an "unpatriotic, Godless Commie" is the least of your problems, in an area where the average resident has 3 guns.

I dont see why anyone would burn the flag to be honest. Its a stupid way of showing how you feel, and is usually done JUST for the reaction. Id never do it no matter how angry i was since it comes off a little pathetic. Im fine with any joke, even if its at my expense, i accept thats the price for my right to do the same to others. Id say its someones right to burn a flag, but id never understand why someone would do it. Its just so weak. Im fine with loving your country for valid points, but that isnt patriotism. Thats opinion based on your views and reason. Patriotism is loving your country for NO other reason than its your country. I dont really subscribe.

Especially so much that the person refuse to accept ANY critque or think your country can do no wrong (this isnt you). It just seems to be the same irrational faith that its perfect and above critique that some religious extremists use. It also tends to be the case that people patriotic for democracy seem to hate critique, but i thought critique (not hatred) for ones own country was the foundation of democracy.

 

[south-base-spartan]

I have a few. I never really voice them because I'ts not my buisness how others live thier lives BUT:

- Americans

- Narrow minded attitudes and hypocrisy

an entire group of over 300 million people, with differing beliefs and opinions, and every last one of them pisses you off, yet narrow minded attitudes also piss you off. I'm quite sure you don't know every american on a personal basis.

 

[south-base-spartan]

random government censorship and rampant expression of preferences or loyalty to a subculture, ie the recent eplosion of bronies

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

Hmm...

Elitists
Attacks on my religion
And the most recent rage, people acting like they know what I'm thinking

 

[BOOM headshot65]

*flame shield up*
-_- OK, now you are taking that too literally. When I say freedom, I dont mean Anarchy-free or Liberitarian-free. If the world was a vacuum, I would be fine with those, but its not, so I mean Republic-free. I think the western world is free enough now. Its Africa and the middle-east that I was talking about. The ones suffering under dictatorships, child-soldiers (oh, look, I just remember another rage: People who hurt children [unless it is punishment]), militias that shoot first and dont even care later, sherria law (dont think I spelled that right). So to that end...

Wait, why even put the flame shield up? Honestly, you're being really good about this. So far as I can tell, you're a bloke with slightly extreme right-wing views, especially for this site, but I'll tell you right now, you're more polite than any of the leftist hippy fucks scattered around here, and I'll go on record to say I damn well respect you for it. I'm arguing you because I love debating, I'm not trying to make you feel stupid or seem superior, and I just want to get all that out of the way first. Don't worry about the flame shield, at least not from me. If you don't want to argue, say so now.

Oh. Well then in that case *flame shield off*
I just know that on here I always get blasted front, back, and sideways, most likely because I AM substancially more right than this site. However, I am not Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh-right, contrary to the belief of some people on this site. For where I live (Kansas), I am "just Right", or if the extremist on the Hill are to be believed, "Liberal Right" -_- Seriously, what happened to Reagans 11th commandment: "Thou shall not insult another republican."
But I digress, as it stands I am Socially "Liberal" and fiscally "Conservative," Even thought there are things I dont like from either (the lefts support of pro-choice, the rights crusade to destroy entitlements. I will admit, they do need some serious trimming though)

...I supported Iraq, Afganistan, and Vietnam. Just to name a few. So does my girlfriend, who thinks pretty much the same way as I do, but more "extreme." Plus, most of thoses countries mentioned also broke my "genocide" rule as well, so thier leader should be blown away on those charges alone. Now mix in that they are a dictator, I would be willing to say that not even a MOAB wouldnt be enough of what they deserve. As for my other super-rages:
If you live in America, show a little patriotism. You could move to another country sure...I bet you regret it in the first month, because what you can get away with in America, you cant elsewhere.

But this is the thing, you supported Vietnam, but denounce genocide. What do you think you guys did in Vietnam? Over two million, two million North and South Vietnamese civilians died in that war. Agent Orange is still destroying the lives of thousands and they can't get some much as a fucking apology out of the US. As for Iraq, they broke the "genocide" rules with weapons you sold to them. You are so far from the hero here, this is how the rest of the world sees you.

As for "not getting away with stuff" in other countries, mate, that's bollocks. Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, essentially all of Western Europe, basically the whole first world, it's all pretty equal. And why is patriotism required? I didn't realise being born on a certain patch of land required blind, unquestioning and often illogical love.

I think the reason I find it so hard to be mad a Vietnam is because while I didnt have family who served there (although my Grandpa was in the navy in the 70's), my girlfriends grandpa served in Vietnam, and I have talked to alot of 'nam vets in my lifetime. It all boils down to how the vets were treated when they got home, and I just cant bring myself to look badly on that war and not feel guilty about it later. Plus, I can almost always find the good in things, and I can find good in Vietnam. But I can find PLENTY of good in Iraq and Afganistan, again, from talking to the men who have been over there. But I will say this...given that hindsight is 20/20...I think we were shooting the wrong way in Vietnam, that we should have been shooting South at that farce of a "democracy." Ho Chi Minh LOVED America and wanted to be more like us, so eventually he probly would have given up his socialist state in favor of a capitalist republic.

As for the second bit, yeah, I might have phrased that badly. A little complaining never hurt anyone, heck, it might even help things. What I mean is the people who say NOTHING but complaints, and how much they hate it here, and how much they wish we were like X, to which I reply "Really, If you like X so much, why dont you move there." To me, patriotism means recognizing your country has flaws, and there are things that can be imporved, but you prefer it over the rest of the world because X. Lets say that you are from *insert random country that isnt the US* and you told me that IT was the best country on the planet because of X. I would say "That your opinion, but I still prefer the US."

For respecting the military, I meant more the latter than the former, although I prefer people respect the military as an institituion as well. But I can handle them hating the US Army(tm). I CAN NOT STAND people hating the US army though. Those boys have been though hell to keep you safe, and then you go and spit on them because you didnt like the war. What happened to us?!! After WW2, soldiers came home to ticker-tape parades, military bands, people having put BILLIONS of thier own dollars into the war though War Bonds (a process I REALLY want to bring back). And now, nothing. They come home, and no one except family is waiting for them. I blame Vietnam for that, when people where waiting all right...to call them "Warmonger", "Murderers", "Baby-killers", and worse. I will NEVER!!! forgive the 'nam war protesters for that.

This bit confused me a little, but I'm assuming you're referring to the institution as (TM) and individuals as the army? On that note, no war past WWII had anything to DO with keeping America safe. You can't use that line. Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq had fuck all on America. There wasn't a threat. The rate of war that doesn't involve you (read: over half a century) is so consistent that these things are relevant. WWII is a different story, you guys got fucking bombed, by an actual COUNTRY I might add, and half a bloody continent was at risk.

And well, they are enablers. Murders is certainly apt a lot of the time, babykillers not so much, we'll leave that to Hezbollah and the fuckin' Israelis.

As for the bolded part, yes, US Army(TM) is the army as an instituition, while US Army is on the personal level.
Now to the meat of things:
It is all a matter of proception. Where I live, we see Vietnam and Korea as defending our allies, which is something held high in my parts. Afganistan is seen as defensive, because they were sheltering Al-Quida, and where I live, if you hide a wanted felon, that makes you just as guilty (although, by that standred, we SHOULD have been in Pakistan back in May. Oh well, maybe its for the best since they have nukes. Still wish we could liberate the people there though) As for Iraq, I am sure there are still some here that think that they had something to do with 9/11, but they are as rare as Westboro. But I favor interventionalism. So, Saddam dies because he is a dictator opressing his people. Great, now set up a democracy or republic and move on to the next one. (my stratigic intution says Iran)

As for burning the American Flag, that is the downright, most unpatriotic thing to do, EVER! even in the event of protest! You want to protest the government? Hang the flag upside-down, wash it. But DO NOT burn it or stomp on it. That is not protest, thats saying you want America to be destroyed, just as you are destroying her flag. As for "its just a piece of cloth..."

No, it isn't. I've never burnt a flag in my life, but I have to tell you right now, that view worries me. This undercurrent of paranoia is something I've never understood about the right. I know you, as a country, grew up in a state of fear, but this shit won't fly now. There are no threats out there to you. YOU are your biggest threat. Look at the Wall Street debacle! Noone else can do that do you. Nothing is a threat. Noone is going to "destroy America".

As far as I can tell, people burn for flag because they feel the values it represents are already dead. Remember Nietzsche's famous quote "God is dead"? It's something similar. It's an observation, not a demand. It's an expression of the identification of corruption, corrupted values, morals, whatever.

To quote Howard Zinn, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

Again, this probly all has to do with location. Round my parts, most people treat "Big Daddy Fed"(local equivalent of "Big Brother") with a grain of distrust. Reminds me of a list of rules I saw at a gun range once. The last one said "No. 30: I LOVE this country! Its the government that gives me the creeps." Plus, where I live, most people know that there is corruption (not really at the state level. Or at least in Kansas's case), but think that there are better ways of combating said corruption or showing your dissent. Round here, that would be flying the flag upside down, which is pretty much universal. However, round here, you WASH the flag rather than burn it. Washing says "Our Ideals have become dirty and need to be cleaned." while burning gets you chased out of town by an angry mob, wavying shotguns above thier heads, calling you an "unpartriotic, Godless Commie!"

 

[Giftfromme]

The heroes Night Hound, Blood Hunter and Scout from Heroes of Newerth all make me rage. When they're on my team they're shit, but when they are on the opposing team, they own me. I get mad everytime.

When someone in HoN says they will go into the jungle and then procede to stay there all game.

 

[LogieBear]

I have a few. I never really voice them because I'ts not my buisness how others live thier lives BUT:

- Americans

- Narrow minded attitudes and hypocrisy

an entire group of over 300 million people, with differing beliefs and opinions, and every last one of them pisses you off, yet narrow minded attitudes also piss you off. I'm quite sure you don't know every american on a personal basis.

I never said all Americans. Yes Americans piss me off, such as FOX news, or Westbro Baptist Church. Im more than sure that there are lovely people in America which I have never met before. I just use the word 'Americans' in a wide term