Pet hates...

OK so we all have them, right?

Here's a few of mine.

1. People min riasing 1st hand of a tournament after a few limpers.
***Nuff said , it is silly. The by product of possibly sending me on tilt in a fit of frothy rage should be weighed against the fact it is pointless, irritating and will earn u a pint over your head if i ever meet you.

2. People prefacing their name with a location, in particular Vegas.
****I don't know, maybe it's irrational but i just don't like it.

Maybe it's because it re-inforces ideas of the piece of land on which we live somehow defining us, a concept i find antiquated and reactionary.

Maybe it's becuase most of the people who do this seem almost indistinguishable in evolutionary terms from cro-magnon man.

Yes they seem to have swapped mammoth skin coats for burberry socks and pre-historic caves for bungalows in essex with hyundais parked outside but they have retained the protruding foreheads and gutteral speech expressions that defined our ancestors.

Maybe, and perhaps this is the most compelling reason, it's because i can't stand it when some1 called Lasvegasjim or some such, sits himself down at my omaha hi lo table with 5$.....I mean clearly in this scenario, the name is worn as some sort of badge of pride. It is announcing, "I'm a big time player, I kick ass, I rule vegas, I..." SHUT UP IMAGINARY VOICE I AM CREATING IN MY HEAD AKA LASVEGASJIM. YOU RULE NOTHING. YOU HAVE SAT DOWN WITH THE BARE MINIMUM AT THE TABLE ONCE AGAIN IN SPITE OF THE MANY VICIOUS DIATRIBES I AHVE AIMED IN YOUR DIRECTION. YOU WILL SHORTLY BE GETTING QUARTERED/ SCOOPED BY ME OR SOME OTHER SUCKER YET AGAIN.
THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE DOMINION OVER IS A KEENLY DEVELOPED ABILITY TO SUCK, A SKILL YOU HAVE NURTURED SINCE BIRTH AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE REGULARLY TILL THE DAY YOU DEPART OUR PLANET, HAVING ADDED LITTLE OF VALUE OTHER THAN A +10$ EXPECTATION IN MY PROFIT LEVELS EVERY TIME YOU LOWER YOUR GREASY LITTLE SOON-TO-BE-SEPERATED-FROM-ITS-MONEY ASS ON MY TABLE. IF YOU TRULY REPRESENT LAS VEGAS THEN ITS ENTIRE POPULATION SHOULD IMMEDIATELY LAY HANDS UPON A FIREARM, INSERT IN THEIR MOUTHS AND PULL THE TRIGGER, AN ACT THEY WILL HAPPILY PARTAKE IN IF THE RESULT IS TO TERMINATE A LIFE ASSOCIATED WITH SOMEONE OF YOUR CALIBRE.

Ok so i lost it a bit there. These shortstacks really are getting to me these days!