Seems a rule needs to be seen about hate and dislike, for some of us not agreeing with an others opinion is enough to start disliking them, even hating them one thing for sure both are hollow shallow and in the end achieve nothing

G'day there BELLY ol' mate...

You say in part 'sometimes hating is OK'. Perhaps you're right, but doesn't hating, only really hurt yourself? You tend to simmer and bubble away, all the while plotting to get even with the object of your hate. Whereas, if you're shrewd, you'll simply sit back, and have a bit of a laugh about it all?

There's something I learned, very early on in the coppers: - 'Revenge is always best served cold'. Let your antagonist wait and simmer awhile, and then hit the bastard really hard, in terms he'll never forget. And ensuring he knows the reason(s) why you're squaring up with him.

Especially those gutless, cowardly 'slugs' who've 'king hit' you, or put in the old 'Florsheim' when you're down. Particularly when you're trying to calm down a particularly aggressive and really belligerent crowd of hoons.

There are a few people that I despise, but not necessarily hate. However when I checked the Dictionary it's one and the same - but employing different words. 'Contempt' and 'repugnance for'. I guess it illustrates how poorly educated I really am. If I despise an individual, it doesn't necessarily mean I hate them?

What'll it matter in 50 years time anyway? Got anything good going on for you this weekend BELLY? I guess it'll mean I'll be coerced into to going shopping, with she who must be obeyed. Still we generally partake in a delightful coffee of two, midway through the big shop, and that's brilliant. See you mate!

o sung wu to my mind, those you despise are far too low on the totem pole for you to ever bother hating. They are just not worthy the effort

Those low enough to have earned your hate, are just too low to bother with. It is better to wipe them from your thoughts, & get on with all the good things in life.

Hey Canem Malum,
Thanks for the kind words.

Hi there HASBEEN...

Very wise words coming from you HASBEEN. I think it's a case of being in the job for too long, and living outside it, for too shorter time. Comes a point, if we dwell too long upon the negative aspects of our lives, we can only live by those negative aspects, and that's not much to look forward too, is it. You must've achieved considerable wisdom, aloft on those Carrier based Aircraft? More so than I, undertaking the interminable Route and Forced marches, at Kapooka; back in 1960? Still to each his own.

o sung wo Hasbeen my words are about the two killers mentioned by o sung wo, hate is not a usual feeling for me but knowing from an eyewitness just how bad these men are? hate is the right word, Hasbeen knows my garden,/wild forest, is a big part of me these days but a sixty klm drive each way to two market days is part of this weekend, a scooner in the small village pub of the second one and home for the football, market days are a social thing for many of us who meet week after wee at different ones