I am working on a concept and I need input for this one from my peers. What I need from you is a list of four things that are hotbeds of conversation. Things that the mere mention of send you into rant mode. Here is the hard part. You are not to rant about them. Just the subject, not your views on it. The format should look like this:

1. Subject A
2. Subject B
3. Subject C
4. Subject D

Nothing more, nothing less. Anything more or less will not be counted.

Here is mine to get you started.

1. Religion
2. Government
3. Mental illness
4. Drug abuse

Ack sounds like fun.

1. Current obcession of thinness
2. Presentation vs. Reality
3. People who think they have the right not the be annoyed.
4. The misperception that the Old City is a dangerous place.



Edited due to the fact that I am unable to count.

ifi had to pick my four right now........

1.bush or consersative politics.
2.substance abuse
3.creative outputs (music or writings or movies either im doing, your doing, or published stuff)
4.computer science, mainly software engineering related concepts.

1) Funding for public schools
2) Funding for public school art and music programs
3) Conservative Repulican party
4) Healthcare in the U.S. versus Healthcare in the rest of the world

Bonus Subject : Plastic Surgery

religion and herd mentality
conservative ideology
sexuality
addiction

1. porn
2. porn
3. porn
4. lesbian porn.

1. The US government
2. Religion
3. Prejudice
4. Herd Mentality

1. Rumors and hearsay about people I know

2. Religion

3. Government

4. When someone tells me how I should act

1. Religion
2. Politics
3. Racism
4. Stupidity

Topics that won't piss people off:

1. the weather
2. the sporting event that was on TV last night
3. The last episode of "Lost" or "The Office"
4. Work


Topics that will piss people off:

1. Homosexuality
2. Abortion
3. War
4. Bush

1.Liberalism
2.the us vs them mindset
3.nascar (sport or not a sport)
4 wrestling (real or fake)

christianity
consensual crime
homosexuality
Iraq

1. Freedum vz. Control
2. Judgement vz. Acceptance
3. Personal Opinionz vz. Programmed Responsez
4. Perceptionz ov Phyzical & Spiri2al Reality

1. Public School funding and education for/in the arts. Music Education, Art, Theatre, etc...
2. And as far as hot topics go.. Abortion is always hot topic.
3. Politics (I think I might be the only person here that considers themselves a conservative. sorry )
4. Religion (I may consider myself a conservative but I am not christian.)

Usual topics
1. Government involvement in parent's right to raise their children
2. Separation of church and state
3. Human nature and behavior
4. Ice hockey

New topic
1. Thought that New Orleans deserved to be hit by Katrina

1. Funding for music/art programs in schools
2. The mentality of "You can't hold me responsible for my own actions because it's all society's fault".
3. The right to keep and bear arms
4. Censorship

1.Defining constitutional rights in today's society...
2.The ability for theory to become fact...
3. Goverments leading their society within their financial means...
4. Racial tensions in politics

in order of 'most likely to generate the biggest, longest winded rant/bitchfest'.

1. the definition of 'computer crime'
2. the definition of 'art'
3. hedonism versus abstinence
4. disasters, natural or otherwise, and humanity's reaction to them.

1. Reality vs. Perception
B. Nature of all things Spiritual
3. Hypocrisy and Corruption
D. The End of the World and How You Can Help Make it Happen

off the top of my head and in no particular order

1. animal cruelty
2. sex education in school (REAL sex ed)
3. fashion trends (who decides and influences and why, not whos wearing what)
4. breeding of the human race