What is worth your anger?

nanaej - I am in total agreement with your post. I do admire you for doing something positive about the things that make you angry.

I also get angry about most of the things onGreatnan's list but only irritated by stuff like chewing gum, shop assistants, airports etc. I find I keep my anger for big things and either ignore irritations or else make a formal complaint/take action on the irritations!

I am a marcher /protester/ activist for the things that really anger me and for the causes I hold dear.
I am frequently angry with politicians who think I am stupid & treat me and other members of the electorate with contempt!

Hunt...you make sense.

Just thought of another thing lap dancing clubs in high streets. Wish they could be somewhere else, preferably not in areas where there are ordinary shops, schools, places of worship etc. We have a time share in Bournemouth where we go for a week a year and have noticed a proliferation of these places and I have heard locals say they have changed the nature of their town and it is not always a pleasant place to be on Friday/Saturday nights.

I find that being angry makes me feel worse than the person I might be angry with.So I try not to do it.

I agree Anagram

Bags doesn't do hostile.

Angry with people who spit out their chewing gum and leave disgusting blobs all over the pavement. And those who don't pick up their dogs faeces. Agree wholeheartedly with Greatnan's litany and all other examples of pet hates.
Robust is not necessarily insensitive and to disagree is not necessarily to despise or feel superior to anyone with an opposing point of view.For example, I know there have been times when some Gnetters have taken exception to Bags's strongly expressed views on climate change but haven't noticed her getting hostile about it.

Pretty much all of your list, the last ones being personal to you. I think you've probably covered cruelty to anyone vulnerable, or indeed anyone at all, but would add I hate cruelty to animals also find that really upsetting. Minor annoyance compared to the more serious matters you have listed is mums and dads who let their children make lots of noise, and worse still run around in restaurants and coffee shops that gets on my nerves these days.

I get angry with people who dismiss mental health problems as not being real illnesses or think all people with mental health problems are potential murderers.

I get angry with parents who dress their children like little adults.

I get angry with parents who let their children watch inappropriate TV then wonder where they've learned the bad language/behaviours.

Then I'll have to find a way for us to disagree Anagram Politely of course!

Luton Airport! Just dropped off the grandchildren there today (with my son!) Hate everything about it from trying to park in the car park, the VERY high cost of parking even for a short time, the long, windy and sometimes wet, long walk to the terminal building (which is also not safe for young children when you are struggling with luggage et al) and the gloomy entrance way and the awful cramped queue for security. Of course you can pay extra (for just about everything at Luton) for a swifter service. Avoid if at all possible!

Well of course, I always agree with you Alison!

No anagram you hang in there, you have just as much right to say what you think as anyone else and you usually say it in a sensitive manner too

Alison is entirely free to post the same comments time after time after virtually every post I make and I am perfectly free to find the predictability amusing. And, of course, Anagram will always agree with her. Hmm....am I being bullied - I could get very hurt by being called arrogant, rude, lacking in empathy, part of a gang or clique - but of course, the remarks could be aimed at other members, couldn't they? Perhaps I am just too sensitive for my own good and the remarks do not refer to me at all.
Whatever, as my young relatives say, can we just get back to what makes people angry? I meant really angry, not just a bit ticked off or irritated.

I'll get back in my box, then, shall I?

I think insensitivity is allowed in the rules. It's a subjective thing, after all.

PS I don't always agree with robust posts, but it's fun to have them to argue with. Always look on the bri-ight si-ide of life (Life of Brian).

And, by the way, I think both the posters in question post robustly and often provocatively, and am glad of it.

I agree with *Zena

I shall take it as a complement greatnan however you intended it.

If I repeat the same point bagsit is becuase I feel strongly that the relevant people might pick up on it eventually, although it is quite possible that they don't even understand what insensitivity is.

I think the hilarity is because it's the same point, put across repeatedly on several threads, nag. I get the feeling (could be wrong, natch, but I will no doubt be corrected if I am) that gn is not going to stop putting forward her interesting and robust, but not rude or offensive, posts, and that alison is not going to stop complaining about their rudeness (arrogance, bullying, etc). It is quite amusing in a sighing and shaking the head gently kind of way.

People, and GNHQ, have suggested that anything which is felt to be a personal attack, or which is felt to be bullying, should be reported to them. They DO delete anything that contravenes forum rules. Seems fair to me.

I don't think robustness of view, or even apparent arrogance in a post, is usually regarded as contravening said rules, however unpalatable some people may find such things. That's just life.

Well what is wrong with priceless? Proverbs:- A virtuous woman who can find for her price is far above rubies! It then goes on to describe the everyday life of your average Gnetter!
She rised while it is yet night and makes bread for her household. It goes on to say that she is like a ship laden with goods from afar. It finishes. By saying her household will arise and call her blessed!

I can't see why Alison's post merited such hilarity, Greatnan.
Surely she's entitled to put her views across without attracting such a dismissive response.

Injustice (of any kind). Cheating (of any kind). People's greed. Causing hurt deliberately.

Alison - you really are priceless! Keep up the good work!

...and folk who spit on the pavement...