It literally takes years of really hard work to get on my shitlist. Or for someone to hit on my mum less than a week after my dad has died, and to try and claim that they should shag in his memory. That's a good way to get there without the hard work :)

I tend to think the best of people, and to pretty much always be willing to give people multiple chances, so you have to be pretty consistently horrible to people over a fairly extended period to get there. And that's just not you :)

Most of the people I've ended up hating don't care how much damage they do to others, so long as they get what they want. They use and abuse and they only show signs of remorse if they think that's what will get people off their backs. And if seriously caught out, they will find an excuse, or blame some other poor bugger, rewriting history as much as is needed so that they are back to being squeaky clean.

As shazgirl pointed out to me, I'll take a hell of a lot of nastiness, lies and abuse aimed in my direction and mostly shrug it off (with a bit of whingeing), but when I see someone else being hurt, that's I start to get really angry.