What grinds my gears

For quite a long time, pretty much as long as what can be called "primary school" has existed, pretty much everywhere in the world, students were not just taught to read, write and things like mathematics, history, geography and other theoretical stuff, but a quite big portion of the curriculum was dedicated to teaching them practical skills: How to cook, how to do woodwork, how to repair stuff at home, how to sew a button or a torn cloth, and so on and so forth. This was very common in the vast majority of schools up to some time in the 1970's or 1980's, give or take, depending on the country. In fact, it's  still  the case in some countries, although perhaps to lesser extents than it was in the past. Then something happened in many countries. There formed this strange mentality that teaching such practical everyday skills does not belong to school. That primary schools are nothing but preparation for high school and university, and you don't need to know how...

American far-leftists are complete psychopaths , every single one of them. They also cannot open their mouths without lies pouring out . Pretty much everything they say, when it's not pure hatred and racism, is a lie. The number of lies that they have promoted during the last ten years would be really, really long. However, their latest prominent lie is so incredibly obnoxious that it's just astonishing. They feel absolutely no shame about lying about it, no matter how clear it is that it's not true. What is it this time? The claim that "Donald Trump shut down the government", or the Trump administration, or the Republicans (but most importantly Trump himself.) If you guessed that he did no such thing, you would be 100% correct. Neither Trump, nor his administration, nor anybody in the Republican Party shut down the government. It's the  Democratic Party  that shut down the government, just like they did 8 years ago. They, and only they, did that, and there...

Some time ago, perhaps 10 to 15 years ago, the police forces in the United Kingdom, for reasons unknown (I have never seen anywhere how or why it started), started becoming a speech police: They started policing people's "wrong" opinions online. Since then it has only escalated more and more. What started by just a dozen or so incidents per year quickly escalated to several hundreds of arrests per year, to several thousand arrests per year, and there has been no end in sight to this escalation. It has become so bad that, I kid you not, the UK police is making over 30 arrests  every day  for things that people have said online. That's something like ten thousand arrests per year. And that's just the number of arrests; the number of times that the UK police goes to harass people at their homes, sometimes even in the middle of the night (literally!), is even higher. They investigate, harass and arrest literally tens of thousands of people every single year, while at ...