Events that raise your Hackles

Mookie Betts being traded to the Dodgers.

Terry Francona being fired from the Red Sox.

Johnny Damon taking a job with the Yankees.
 
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Events that raise your Hackles​


When you are headed towards the last packet of your favourite biscuits in the supermarket, and some fleet of foot young sod get there first and grabs them. Honestly, I could murder them. :)
 
Hardly a day goes by that something on the news doesn't make me wonder. Daily murders, dumb moves in Washington, "political correctness" gone wild, all this Covid BS...from all sides, etc., etc.

I'm just glad we live in a quiet rural area, where I can always find something to take my mind off the stupidity that is increasing throughout our society.
 
Timely thread this one, as a counter point to my recently started thread, (or vice versa, if that isn't a tautological thing to say?).

What "raises my heckles", well I'll have to cut that down a bit to "what raises my heckles most, or most often"?

Most at this moment is " ignorant behaviour".

"Lying" I'm not too keen on either!

Let's settle for those two hey, lest I fall into the trap of saying too much, and fail to appreciate that "Less is more", (a phrase that often winds me up ironically!). :)
 
Shero said:
People who find every lame excuse why they should not get a life saving vaccination during a pandemic sweeping the world. These people who want to steal my oxygen, raise my hackles.
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Its worth showing as much patience as possible though, and remembering even such vital childhood vaccination programmes like the Polio vaccine only had just over 90% uptake in the UK I believe, and luckily this is enough to stop the disease coming back.

Why I suggest patience though in the face of seeming idiocy, is a fair percentage of those refusing the Covid jab are said to come around if patience is shown by those trying to persuade them to have it.

(btw at the weekend I met a man who suffered with polio aged 9 years contrasting it just before vaccines became available, and spent six months in an isolation hospital, with his parents only permitted one or two visits, and even then having to stand a great distance away!).
 
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grahamg said:
Timely thread this one, as a counter point to my recently started thread, (or vice versa, if that isn't a tautological thing to say?).

What "raises my heckles", well I'll have to cut that down a bit to "what raises my heckles most, or most often"?

Most at this moment is " ignorant behaviour".

"Lying" I'm not too keen on either!

Let's settle for those two hey, lest I fall into the trap of saying too much, and fail to appreciate that "Less is more", (a phrase that often winds me up ironically!). :)
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I hate liars with a passion.
 
grahamg said:
Its worth showing as much patience as possible though, and remembering even such vital childhood vaccination programmes like the Polio vaccine only had just over 90% uptake in the UK I believe, and luckily this is enough to stop the disease coming back.

Why I suggest patience though in the face of seeming idiocy, is a fair percentage of those refusing the Covid jab are said to come around if patience is shown by those trying to persuade them to have it.

(btw at the weekend I met a man who suffered with polio aged 9 years contrasting it just before vaccines became available, and spent six months in an isk!action hospital, with his parents only permitted one or two visits, and even then having to stand a great distance away!)/
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Yes I do appreciate the patience thing Graham, but, covid has no patience and time to waste. So in this instance, I have lost patience!
 
Shero said:
Yes I do appreciate the patience thing Graham, but, covid has no patience and time to waste. So in this instance, I have lost patience!
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I do get that too, and if rates are around 50% for some demographics then that's an issue too, one I can't solve, because I know just how intransigent some are in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. :(
 
Judycat said:
I don't like people who cheat, then when called out, act like it's something everyone does.
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That's how they justify it to themselves. They probably feel guilty to some degree, but they'll never admit it. Also, they don't want anyone who knows to not like them because of it (fear of rejection).

When I failed 25% of my accounting class students (30+ years ago), I had proof positive. I went to all the trouble I did to catch the cheaters because I wanted to make sure they stayed caught. They did. No other professor had ever failed so many people, because they didn't "think like a criminal". Not that these kids were criminals -- it's a saying.
 
senior chef said:
I don't recall reading in the United States Constitution anywhere that says the entire world is entitled to enter the USA.
There is literally no end of needy, desperate people, and you bloody well know it. Would you allow every one of them into the USA ?
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"Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

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