Feb 9, 2018, 8:36 PM

@lotherio said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm finding I don't like comment 'X seemed upstanding to me, I would never have expected (really bad behavior) from X' more and more these days.

Feels like it implies that we should expect the behavior of some people or something. It just feel its redundant, we shouldn't expect anyone to be a mass murderer, rapist, serial killer, clown, pedophile, whatever.

I don't know that I agree. I know people iRL who're too emotional, or whom I've seen kick a wall in frustration, make crude jokes, etc.

Would I expect any of them to escalate it to the point of being killers or whatever? Of course not, that's a hell of an escalation! But if I saw their mugshots somewhere after something bad I'd be able to say something to the effect of "well, that doesn't really surprise me I guess."

What it comes down to is... it's just something people can say because what else can they?