When are you most likely to rant at

[JTFrog]

a fellow DU'er?

I have found that I tend to jump in and defend others who get criticized. It's habit I've decided to start working on (even if I have to leave for a while!). I'm just curious what tempts others the most to reply with a rant?

[saltpoint]

1. If somebody on here knocks Joni Mitchell, I'll likely challenge it on the boards,

but later that evening I drive over and firebomb their damn house.

Which I think is fair, given the severity of the transgression against Ms. Mitchell.

Who by the way has a new CD due out in a couple of weeks -- SHINE.

[JTFrog]

5. I'll have to look that up.

It's been a while. :)

[taterguy]

2. When they complain about gas prices

Although I try to restrain myself since that usually goes over like a lead balloon.

[LWolf]

3. When they support and defend bad policy, inaction,

or indefensible action.

[MethuenProgressive]

4. When they slam one Dem while having another's Dem's pic in thier post.

It really isn't helping "your guy". It makes him look bad by being connected to the slam.

[Posteritatis]

6. Another one..

(First off, one can have far worse habits than wanting to defend others.)

My personal hot button - well, my main one - is disdain for medicine as a field of science or knowledge - the application side of it, not the commercial crap. It's one of my Issues. While I'm fully aware of some of the massive problems inherent in the business side of it - particularly, though not exclusively, in the States - I lose patience quicker than I probably should when people start dismissing the whole of it, or large sub-sections of it, as fradulent as a whole.

That goes a bit more for psychology in particular; a couple of the brighter lights in my life are only alive and happy and healthy right now because of it (and it was a narrow thing with one), so I don't feel terribly guilty feeling some gratitude towards a decent chunk of the field. I know it's not the intent of people, but when someone suggests that doctors or medicine or whatever are all frauds and should be tossed, I can't help but see that as people wishing that my little sister had simply died.

On that note, my hottest button on the issue is the people who provide fuel for all those straw-men interpretations of it in the first place. I came across an article on the Rotenberg Center the other day - I plugged the article in GD here - and I'm only now starting to cool off from it.

[LeftishBrit]

8. I sympathize with you!

I generally don't rant on this subject but I argue.

I think the two issues that get me to rant are (1) any accusation of voters or politicians having 'dual loyalty' to their country on the grounds of their ethnic/religious group (most commonly but not always referring to Jews - I don't care WHICH ethnic group it refers to; I won't tolerate it) and (2) people sneering at the UK for having gun control. I don't mind if people don't want to emulate it or don't think it would work in the USA, but I don't like it when we are accused of being either a fascist police-state or a bunch of irresponsible nuts because *we* happen to have a different approach.

Well, the OP did ask!

[Annces]

7. I sometimes jump in

when I feel the poster could benefit from a 2nd voice chiming in. I know sometimes when I make a post and get jumped on by people who just seem to like to jump on people, I really am glad when someone lends a hand. It makes a big difference.

If I notice that poster gets into the same predicament a lot, I will leave it go, because then I feel like it is a chore to help out, unless it an issue of special importance to me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. I detest it when people make fun of how some people spell. Correct poor grammar and make fun of

them, in general. Not everyone was blessed with a photogenic memory and can remember everything all the time. Not everyone was blessed enough to go to a wonderful school. Hell, my father and mother didn't make it to high school because of their family situations. My mom had a life I wouldn't wish on my worse enemy. My dad had to work the family farm.

"Trailer Trash" pisses me off too. Not everyone can afford to buy a house and why should ANY Democrat feel they are any better than anyone else because they live in a house???....unless it's a repuke, of course.;)

I alway try to defend people who are being picked on for stupid shit. Bullying should not be ignored. EVER.

[JTFrog]

10. There are some pretty

famous people that would give the spelling police a run for their money around here, lol :)