Rage is everywhere – the roads, the workplace, the classroom, the home – everywhere.
Some people try not to lose their tempers.
Others thrive on it, and live their lives very angry about everything.
This is the top ten angry people.
10. The Reverend Ian Paisley.
How can a man so devout be so enraged by everything?
His reign of 37 years as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland featured countless terrifying rants against everything from terrorists to the Pope, who he referred to as “The Antichrist.”
Here’s some clips of him in action
9.
Roy Keane
Another Irishman, this time from the Republic.
The Man Utd midfielder was well known for being a bit angry.
Famous moments include his massive fall-out with Republic of Ireland manager where he said “You’re not even Irish you English c**t, so stick it up your b******s.”
Not sure it makes much sense, but it’s very enraged.
Other highlights include the horrific tackle on Alfie Inge Haaland, which he later admitted he did on purpose after a bust up in a previous game.
He also always used to try and fight with the equally angry Patrick Viera of Arsenal.
Here is the aformentioned tackle.
Not technically a real person, but he used to get well lairy when he was outsmarted by Bugs Bunny, to the point where he’d pull out his guns and start blasting.
Here’s some of their antics
7. BA Baracus
BA, standing for BadAss, used to become incandescent when faced with his A-team colleague Howlin’ Mad Murdoch and when anyone tried getting him on a plane.
However, when faced with milk before a flight, he lapped it up and instantly became unconcious.
Here’s some examples
6.
The Incredible Hulk
You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry,
Damn right, he becomes massive, green and develops an unusual skill of jumping miles.
Bruce Banner’s alter-ego the Hulk was seriously angry
This is the classic 80s cartoon intro
5.
5.
The Ultimate Warrior
One of the greatest wrestlers was famous for two things, his incoherent shoutings and rampant steroid abuse.
Here’s an example of his work
4.
Trevor off Eastenders
The mad Scot who little Mo eventually clobbered with an iron was a seriously unstable chap, whispering in his scary accent before exploding.
Here’s a scary scene with Trev at his most evil
3. Trevor Brennan
Strangely another Trevor, and one you probably won’t have heard of.
Trevor was a rugby player well known for a short fuse on the field, one day, playing in France, some abuse from the crowd led to the Big Irishman wading in the crowd to attack the gobby spectator, thus earning himself a life ban.
Sadly there don’t seem to be any videos of it, but it was likely to have been spectacular.
2. Mike Tyson
Where do we start? Prison, ear-biting, brawls, mental tattoos, Tyson is a man who lived in a perpetual world of extreme rage.
We know he was one of the greatest boxers ever, but boy oh boy was he driven by rage.
Here’s the famous ear-biting of Evander Holyfield.
1. Number one is William Foster from the film Falling Down
The mild mannered unemployed defence worker just decides to lash out against the world in a spectacularly violent and oh-so angry way.
The breakfast scene is a classic.
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Make no mistake – local news is good news.
In Comment on November 14, 2009 at 11:52 amI came across this column by the exotically named Guardian columnist George Monbiot this week on the subject of the worrying plight of local newspapers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/local-newspapers-democracy
It’s a both saddening and surprising piece from a seemingly well-informed member of the national media.
In it, he claims most local newspapers aren’t worth saving and that they now simply act as a mouthpiece for local authorities.
I’m sorry, but that is utter nonsense.
Local papers are like all other business (and despite what people think, they are a business, out to make money like everyone else), there are good ones, there are very good ones, there are bad ones and there are very bad ones.
The good ones are innovative, led by people who understand news, understand people and understand markets.
The bad ones are led by people who don’t.
I’ll start with his comments on acting as propaganda for local councils.
I am a local journalist, I am friends with other people who are or have been local journalists, my mother is a local journalist and my father has been a local journalist, my step mother is also a journalist with local news experience.
We all absolutely refute the implication council PR is copied verbatum.
I remember a few years ago we were sent a release from the local council called something like “Social care continues to improve”.
It was written in a really positive way but right near the end contained the fact the council had lost a star on a social services inspection.
A quick cuttings search revealed previous problems in the department, few quotes from opposition, a bumbled interview with the lead member, Front page lead, pissed off council, job done.
Councils do things well, and do things badly, it’s only fair to slate them if they need slating and praise them if they need praising.
For example, if there is a Baby P style incident in your area, you’d want to know about it and I think most people would also want to know if the area got the best GCSE results in the country wouldn’t they?
In his column, Monbiot says he supports local news, but it’s clear he thinks it’s largely rubbish.
In my view, if what he’s saying about the paper and Tesco and the town council is true, then it’s disgracefully poor journalism.
He’s clearly gone out of his way to find an extreme example of something that’s really craply done, not an example of everyday life on newspapers.
He might also be interested to know I have got stories from all sorts of sources including noticing far-right slogans written on lamposts, from single sentences in obscure meeting agendas and from seemingly innocuous planning applications.
That example is appalling, it’s a matter of course to find whether things are true or not, if they’re not, we swear at wasting all our time and get on with the next thing.
Time is an issue, we are massively understaffed (two reporters and an editor on my paper, try a week long inquest coupled with evening meetings and giant news list on for size), so we can’t give things the time they deserve.
That said, we work bloody hard and we work bloody well.
So imagine what it’s like if you don’t have a local newspaper.
You’ll find all of a sudden someone is wanting to build 100 houses at the bottom of your garden, why didn’t you know? Let’s get a protest together, oh wait, how do we publicise it?
Your child’s school gets a stinking Ofsted report. Why is it so bad? What are they doing about it?
Your local council loses loads of money after investing it collapsed banks of Iceland, how do you know about it? Are they getting any back? Why did it happen?
You can find the answer yourself, but you have to work bloody hard to get the word out.
You want to run as MP, no local paper = no-one having a clue who you are.
Crime is another one, without local news, no-one would know about burglaries in their area, a sex attacker on the loose or strange people lurking outside schools.
These are all important snippets of life without local papers people simply wouldn’t know about.
People also need to know how decisions are made, often by self-important morons who hold far too much power than their tiny brains can cope with.
Local news shows people what is happening in the area, how terrifyingly dim some local politicians are, how bad some decisions are, how good things are, what to look out for, what will be built, what won’t be built, how good your hospital/council is, how broke your hospital/council is, the stupid things hospitals/councils have spent money on, what’s happening at schools, what happens in the community, what the MP has claimed for ( I can tell you 800 pages of our local MP’s claims was a fun afternoon), how to join the art club, what’s on at the cinema, what was in the news 10 years ago, what’s on telly and how good/bad/terrible local sport is.
And much more.
There’s no doubt local news is struggling and like in any business scenario the strong will survive, but to sum it all up as propaganda for local authorities is drivel.