Things you can’t tolerate-even WITH meds! | ADHD Information

Do any of you find that things just p%ss you off - TV stuff, sayings, etc. that even when you are feeling awesome just put you into thinking you'd love to thump them? (ex. in canada there's a commercial for Juicy Fruit Gum - where a guy is playing annoying guitar song and someone comes and smashes the guitar?). I have a lot but I'll start with a few:

1) Reality TV (especially Ashlee Simpson - oooh makes me so MAD!!!!)

2) Teletubbies

3) Donald Trump (not just reality TV - him in general)

4) Regis and Kelly

5) Country Music Videos

6) Rap Music

7) President Bush and Republicans in power (scares AND annoys me double threat)

8) Prime Minister Martin and Liberal Cabinet (yes, my Canadian Gov't sucks too)

9) POP music (it always ends up blending in RAP so I wasn't sure to include/not)

10) Lip-syncing (see a pattern? LOL)

I'll leave it at 10 - my ADDled mind could go on forever but I don't want to seem THAT curmudgeoning!!! Yeah, like THAT could happen! LOL

Hope that this meets muster with you all - and don't hold back ok?

Yup - you are SO on my wavelength!! LOL

Old navy - does anyone actually LIKE those ads?? I don't even understand them - I spend the 30 seconds looking at it like a dog listening to a high pitch. Whaaaa?

And rap words - oooh - especially if used by young white brats. Ok kids - you aren't rappers - and you aren't african-american - get it???? AAGHHH!

Now even reporters are using them - when did that come around??

TV Always gets me going - I don't know who they are aiming at but it's not me!

And like you - I could care less about Bennifer, J.Lo, any of the royal family, brad pitt, or any of the hiltons or otherwise spoiled brats in the "news" . Nuff said.

Ignorant people? Yup me too - if you plan to battle my wits - please come armed with more than wishes and bubble gum. I love a good battle but never care to get into it with either the foul mouth ignoramus or the "oh yeah I know you are but what am I" endless moebius looper numbbrainer as such. At least challenge my perceptions - or my preconceptions.

I'm getting to like yer style BCGirl - you come armed - and I guess dangerous

- Glen

Oh yeah - and speaking of that "juicy fruit" commercial - the word "sweet" being used to say something is good. It's usually used when something bad is done to someone - like in the commercial. Used by bratty teens who haven't gotten any discipline and see life like one big joke.

I know - I'm an old "fuddy duddy" but spanking and having my mouth washed out with soap saved me from becoming one of the walking rude - and I'm often tempted to walk around the town with a bar of soap in my pocket LOL. True - and I admit the picture I'm forming is a happy one. To quote - SWEET!

Surely you are not including Survivor when you say reality TV? I love
Survivor. I can't WAIT until the new one. But I'm with you on Donald
Trump. I don't understand the appeal of a television show that is about
people trying to work on business problems. The fact that the "prize" is a
desk job boggles my mind.

Survivor, the surreal life, the martha apprentice facade, every one of em.

I'll tell you why I LOATHE survivor so much! :

When I owned my computer corporation - at first I did house call repairs of computers. This was year one of survivor. I spent most nights trying to get the people's attention on their PC - when they were glued to this ... this... UGH!!!

I can't stand it ever since. I can't watch any of them actually - total fluff and they never seem real even in the short term. I sadly suspect even injuries are phony and just can't be bothered. I hate falseness and hypocrisy and they reek of it all and one. Watch if you like - but my TV will ne'er see more than thirty seconds of one.

I know - picky me but hey we like what we like!

Here's some sayings I find intolerable to my oh-so delicate ears:

1) okie dokie

2) know what I mean? (or nowuttahmeen) ugh

3) ya know

4) wassup (sup) - kids said that to me on street - I nearly went back and clubbed the little punk. And no - I dont' want to see your underwear kids!!!

5) "needless to say" - if it's needless to say - you don't need to say it then do you?

6) irregardless - it's REGARDLESS - i.e. without regard to - remove the "ir" ok??

7) AXE instead of ASK - it's really easy one folks! Unless you are impoverished inner city minority kid I can't forgive this - middle age caucasian canadian said that and.. so help me....

8) FIDDY - aka in FIDDY CENTS - puhlease!!

9) oh - and - PUHLEASE!!! - it's Please folks and dont' say it like that it's rude ok?

10) anything from South Park - no more!! please no more!! ARRRRGHHH!!

I know English is not easy folks - but if we speak it from birth there's really no excuse is there? It's something that ticks me but I'll quell my contempt.

- Glen

People who beat around the bush (I don't have the attention span to listen to a 5-minute story drawn out to 20 minutes).

Ads for Old Navy, the Gap, Cover Girl, Herbal Essences, and anything else pink and frilly and girly. Yes, women (including myself) like to shop and wear make-up. But jeez, the vast majority of us aren't 13 anymore.

Ads with any sort of annoying or repetitive song (including many of the above), because they nearly ALWAYS get stuck in my head.

The fact that potentially good shows get cancelled after only 1 or 2 airings, and CRAP like most of that reality stuff is still going strong.

Words like "bling bling", and "dawg", and yes, "fiddy" (good one Glen!).

Celebrity gossip... I really don't CARE if Brad and Angelina are together. I don't know these people! How can I be happy, sad, or shocked about anything when I don't know the person?

And the number one thing I can't tolerate - ignorant people who don't bother to educate themselves before they start an argument with you.

I work for a Pepsico company - and we're huge. I walk our halls before work starts and want to bring a pen as I see SO much poor english pasted up by "professional secretaries". MADNESS!!!

What do you do for Pepsico? BTW about two years ago I had lunch with Steve Reinemund, he seemed really nice. He's an alumn of my school and he came to give a speech while I was in school. He was telling us about how he had no idea his people signed up Britney Spears and how his family was mad at him.

you are from a non-english background. Well done! Show us that we need to raise the bar!

Thanks Glen! BTW apostrophes are another pet peeve, thanks for reminding me.

I hate tight fitting clothes!!

I hate sitting in an uncomfortable chair.

I hate the things someone says to me as an ADD coach, even though I know I need to hear it.

Glen, Yes it's about the tv show 'Lost' {It's on TONIGHT ! }. It's the only show on,that I like, that's like a SCI-FI drama. I know it's not a clear Line A to Line B standard show, that's why I like it. They didnt renew the show 'John Doe' {did anyone besides me watch it}, it was really WAY OUT there, a very 'what's really going on' kinda show. Sliders a 'Sci-Fi' show from a few years is just re-runs now, and at the end they shifted gears and became just another action/drama prtending to be sci-fi. There is no more Star Trek, so I have to look High and Low for anything that's really interesting.

Then there are the really goofy ones I need to satisfy the Goof within. King of the Hill, Futurama, According to JIM, Malcom in the Middle, HOmer and the Gang{the Simpsons}, and the new, My name is Earl looked like it might be promising.

Desparate Houswives is a pumped up SoapOpera. Nuff said.

people who think they are better than other people. or a over sized person that looks at a heavy person (who is smaller then them) and says wow look at how big they are......that pisses me off

       Glen >

                      StarTrek-Enterprise was on, like 5-6
years. Of course the first year didn.t count, there
wasn't one show that was even worth taping. It was
painful to watch, but I did {patient me} hoping for
something worthwhile. The second year they really
kicked it into gear. They had a good run.
                      Earl has been compared to Raising
Arizona, which I should buy because I've rented it at
least six times.
                      I'm looking forward to "Lost" after I get
home form work @ 10:30 tonight.

Glen, you MUST just love my posts.

Run on sentences, grammer errors, mis- spelled words, and impropper punctuation.

Critical people

pilgrim -

never saw "john doe" - at least I don't THINK I did! But I know that you and I both do the same thing - enjoy a good sci-fi show and have it pulled out from under us! I was just beginning to trust that star trek : enterprise was going to make it and they snipped it out! AAAGH! Then before that I also enjoyed sliders - well right up to when they started to leave the show like rats on a sinking ship! LOL - it was sad - at the end I think the only one left was the singer! Not even sure if HE made it! LOL. Worst case of premature cancellation had to be "Quantum Leap". Award winning and sharp - and a couple shows into it's last season they just cut it! The director ended up having to make up some cockemamie story that made no sense to tie up loose ends. Almost made me as mad as paying to go see Highlander II in the theater when it came out.

I just don't get "Lost" - but glad you have something to watch. For me it's reruns - can't get into any show this last season. Hope this one is better.

My name is Earl does look ok - kind of like "Raising Arizona" or "Fargo" maybe?

- Glen

I hate the Fanta commercial and the commercial for male enhancement( See Bob why is his smile so big? and his Wife can't get the smile off her face) It's total Bull S**T

               This is one way I'll get some feedback.

        How about John Kerry stickers still on people's
cars. He LOST, get over it.

        Glen, they coach the people on these un-reality
shows if they can't get the shots they want. They will
say something such as " didn't you mean to say it
this way or didn't mean to do this {other thing }
instead " . It's as real as the commercials you see
while watching the ' show ' .

slimacik -

I work for frito lay - one of the biggies in the pepsico universe. We are the only potato chip manufacturer for them in western canada and do a lot of chips for everyone from the midwest states as far south as rancho cucamunga California! Lots of chips every day for us!

I try hard not to obsess when I walk our hallowed halls. Every day I could spend half my breaks just scratching off poor english from almost every wall - things in everything from safety announcements to meeting information. Sad - very sad. Teachers are so overworked in schools today so I can understand some neglect of skills - but come on - spell check people!! That can remove a good part of the simply lazy mistakes I see.

I never thought growing up that basic english rules were all that hard. I guess I'm in the minority though. I'm just glad I had tough teachers that not only helped me work past my ADHD and get the skills but to exceed the standard skill lever out there!! That does make me feel good.

Oh, the only thing I don't like about working for pepsico?? We are giving away Xbox 360s - the new unreleased ones?? There are only going to be about 100 in all of this part of the world and now that it's with us I can't even try for one. The contest rules and all. Can't get family to try either. They aren't all too happy with me now LOL.

- Glen

I'm curious to see what you all think about this. I don't mean to sound morbid so I apologize if I offend anyone.

I've come across people thinking that only somebody who is crazy/mentally unstable can commit suicide. Does anyone disagree? I always thought that a perfectly "normal" person could under exceptionally bad circumstances potentially come to a conclusion that this would be a way to go and go through with this...

I did not know that an ADD has higher chances. Anyone has seen any statistics?

Well, can't say I've seen the stats, but yes, it's true, that seemingly normal people can commit suicide.

Believe it or not, it's easily controlled without mind control, or mind controlling drugs. Something as simple (sic) as an anti-depressant is remarkably successful at controlling suicidal and murderous thoughts, and therefore actions.

It has to do with serotonin levels in your cerebral synapses. Hence, the proliferation of serotonin activity enhancers, such as 5 HTP, Prozac, Effexor, etc. BTW, carbo cravings are an indication of serotonin insufficiency, as well as craving protein. Some foods high in tryptophan, besides meats, inlcude chocolate, milk, and bananas. Incidentally, my favorite night-time go to bed snack...

Here's the pathway.

I think some people commit suicide because all the facades fall away from everything and looking at the real world is unbearable...I also think that some "insane" people are actually the sane ones and all the "sane" people are the real nuts!

Brookelea-It wasn't a joke. It seems like the only solution for those whe do it or those thinking about it.

I'm sorry if it came off the wrong way. As if i've never done that before . . .

[QUOTE=LTC1]Critical people

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*ack!

I came here to post just that very thought.
no-nADDs

Know it all about AD/HD non-ADDer people that think they do, but don't

Can you do a pre-post or is it batter to do a post-post, Davido.

Oh, I've got one. When my DW can get me talking {major accomplishment. no he wasn't in the armed forces} and then she INTERUPTS ME. I lose my whole thread of thought. Bugs the hecks out of me.

myself --- i am probably my biggest irritation in my life.

i am my arch nemesis. i drive myself mad.

i quite often want to kill myself but only to get revenge on the
other half of me --- like hahahahaha try tormenting me NOW,
now that you're splattered all over the back wall...... didn't see
that coming, eh?

(oops - that sounds a little overly dramatic, i am not really
suicidal i just fantasise about it from time to time).

perhaps a good reason to start trying with the meds, then!chjones38619.6491203704

ch, I know what you mean when you talk about being your own " arch nemeses ". I drive myself crazy too with the -ADDer things I do. Then my negative ' self-talk' tape clicks on.

I know your not suicidal, but I heard a good about it.

Suicide is a long term solution to a short term problem.

[QUOTE=pilgrim]
Suicide is a long term solution to a short term problem. ; &nb sp; & nbsp; [/QUOTE]

mmm, pilgrim, suicide is not a joke - my cousin decided to place a shotgun in his mouth and pull the trigger.. solution?? no - we all suffer..

i realise it was just satire, but adhders have a very high rate of suicide..

brookelea, normally very unpolitically correct, except today

good one!

as a youngster in sunday school aged 5 or 6 i was SO horrified
by the idea of life after death that they were teaching us about --
- i blurted out in horror "if i wake up again after i'm dead, i'll kill
myself."

and i got sent out of the class by an irate teacher in disgrace.

of course i was thinking --- what, what did i say???? because i
was just being honest - the idea of more life after you're
dead..... oh no, it sounded like the most appaling thing ever,
and what was worse no escape route....

at least here on earth if it all got too much there was an exit
button - whereas eternity sheesh that sounded like my idea of
hell - trapped forever in a state of consciousness aaarrrrrggghh
no release. no oblivion.

and then as an adult when people used to joke that men
thought about sex every seven seconds - i used to think well,
i'm about the equivalent but thinking about topping myself (but
despite that i never felt genuinely suicidal ---- i just always had
it there in my head). weird huh?

i actually feel too guilty to commit suicide now,

thinking about it --- it's as if i believe in hell but not heaven. and
now i know i am going to hell i think well, i prefer to be here on
earth before having to face horrible torments and pains and all
that.

whereas before i thought oblivion, release from the misery of
temporal existence, nothingness no existence - sounds
fantastic.

now i reckon i'm gonna have to pay for my sins. a LOT more
worrying.

socrates said "nothing can hurt a good man either in life or after
death" but he never really covered what would happen if you
weren't good exactly........

dante has you going to hell (or purgatory if you truly repent on
your death bed. purgatory doesn't sound TOO bad, at least you
know eventually you can get out of it.)

boy am i just running off with my train of thought again????

all i meant to say was good joke! i like it.....
purgatory only exists if you are catholic - but i must confess, it sounds very attractive!! oops brooklea

didn't mean to offend. i realise suicide is always a lot harder on
those left behind.

another reason for not doing it.

i am sorry to hear about your cousin. life can always overtake
us and then that seems the best solution....

i am truly sorry for all you have been through - i almost wish
your cousin could have heard the joke though. sometimes
putting like that can bring back a sense of perspective ---- i
know that the times i feel suicidal it is always because my
perspective has become so narrowed. so tiny.

anyway - this isn't turning out a good apology.

i appreciated pilgrim's joke but i don't want to offend anyone. i
am very sorry for what happened to your cousin. truly. i hope
his family and you are managing to hold themselves together.
all the bestoh you don't have to apologise.. neither does pilgrim!!

i just wanted to make him aware that adhders have a higher rate of suicide than non adhders..
brooklea!!! purgatory isn't meant to be attractive!!!! (i don't
think, is it?)

that must practically be heresy isn't it - or maybe not but yeah i
too must admit that it is the fact that there is a goal it is just a
question of enduring being crushed under the weight of huge
stones for thousand of years etc........ but finally you will get
there. that is so much better than hell where there is no escape
until what - i don't know exactly. until another messiah comes
and releases all from their sins?

who knows?

i like the idea of atonement --- but am not quite sure how it
works exactly. it sounds good though.thanks.

(my posts must read weirdly because i am always replying to
the one before the above one - but ya know)

heresy yes according to other christian dogmas..
but the sheer idea that you can atone for your sins in a temporary place sounds cool.. its as if hell doesn't have to be a life sentence..
dumb ppl, especially those who believe that they are smarter than you..

yes, pilgrim. I KNOW these shows are at the very least manipulated so it goes where they want it to. I was even watching a talk show featuring Danny Bonaduce (Partridge Family) where he discussed his own "reality" show coming up. He spent most of it agreeing that it's totally scripted and directed - even with his own he admits. As he put it "you know when it's not real - when the moments for drama are so well lit and the sound is perfect - the REAL moments in my show are so badly lit I look unrecognizable"

It's just sad that SO many people get off on watching other people suffer - even when it's all a setup.

Oh, and pilgrim - please PLEASE don't tell me that your signature at the bottom is about the TV program lost?? AAAARRRGH!!! That's another one for me. I tried to watch it and it was totally unwatchable for me. For me the title is how the audience feels trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Polar bears in the tropics?? Super trained soldiers?? Drug dealers? Whaaaaa? I was spinning watching the startup recap of last weeks show.

Oh, speaking of TV that drives my ADD mind up the WALL - desparate housewives - how did that get on the air someone tell me?? It is a bunch of spoiled women - acting WAY richer than their characters are supposed to be. Spoiled sneaky and oversexed. My neighbors were never like that! LOL. Seriously though I don't find it funny or riveting at all.

Another is the sopranos. They are actually airing that on regular TV stations in Canada at 10 o'clock! It's so nasty and dirty and just mean spirited! When I was a kid I would often be popping out of bed during that time of night and I certainly wouldn't want my kids if I had them seeing that stuff. Not for nudity but just the cruelty of the characters. And I have my bar of soap ready if I ever see those guys! Ugh.

Well rant done - for now.

Thanks everyone for spending time here - I thought it would be nice to give all of us an "Andy Rooney moment" - ROFL!!

- Glen

Ok - I've heard enough of his chinese medicine... Brookelea: what is it and where can you get it?

ch, that reminds me of one about, men asking for directions when driving. Men don't ask for directions, they just drive faster!

well there was a whole tradition of hari-kari (or whatever it was) where it
was considered honourable to commit suicide if you had done something
to bring shame on yourself/family in Japan. so you have to assume they
were sane.... or at least i would.

also in India women had to commit suttee - which meant they were burnt
alive on their husbands funeral pyre and the ones that chose not to (it
was a sort of choice, very vaguely) were the ones who were considered
mad and then shunned by society --- so it just depends on the
conventions of your particular society i guess as to what is mad and what
isn't.

they used to lock up women in Ireland in mental institutions who became
pregnant without being married as they considered them mentally
impaired. so definition of madness is very changeable. it often means
someone who won't conform to society's mores and conventions
unfortunately.... i think we are a little more advanced now although
sometimes i wonder!

i think suicide in England used to be (perhaps still is) against the law.... going back to original topic ---- another thing that can get me cross is if
someone is very definite about something without genuinely knowing.

for example, ex-boyfriend and i were walking in street when a couple of
tourists approached and asked if we knew where King Street was... i
wasn't sure but thought i had a vague idea but boyfriend was like "yes i
know", and gave directions.

as he was so definite i presumed i must have been wrong and didn't
mention anything - yet when we got back to the car and looked at the
map he had sent them in entirely the wrong direction! why did he not
say, "i am not sure but i think it is in such and such direction??????" as he
didn't actually know.

it's crazy. if you don't know - don't say you do. say you THINK it is like
this or that - unless you know for sure.

i never know anything for sure because i have such a dodgy memory - so
i always believe people if they say they KNOW. therefore they have to be
reliable or it is just chaos and very frustrating to go against what you
think because of someone else's certainty --- only to find out that
certainty is entirely worthless!chjones, everyone does that all the time.. the facade of confidence does build a good healthy false sense of security that may enable you to get through your day..

i don't know where you live but i do know that chinese herbalists have amazing ways of increasing your memory span..
i know, i've done it

Omigod, I just found out that I missed the first episode of Survivor, which
apparently aired last week. I am totally, totally bummed out. How, how
did I miss this? Usually I miss things like work deadlines... my partner's
birthday... paying my bills... NOT SURVIVOR!

(weeping)

Glen,

I have to disagree with you on the Desperate Housewives but I share your English language frustration. I am a foreigner and in my old job used to constantly annoy my US boss by trying to correct spelling on our marketing materials which I considered crucial (I always think when I read someone's misspelt brochure that they're a bunch of idiots so I assume others think that of ourselves if we cannot bother to proof-read). He thought it was minor details. Other than that we got along great.

My pet peeves are mixing up following words:

- its/it's, they're/their, you're/your.

I do have to say it is easier to learn to spell right when you learn it as a foreign language than when you grow up here and are surrounded by people who don't speak English good (just kidding, I meant well) so I have a little more sympathy.

Linda

[QUOTE=pilgrim]          &nbs p;     This is one way I'll get some feedback.

        How about John Kerry stickers still on people's
cars. He LOST, get over it.

   .[/QUOTE]
HAHAHA my family's car has a neon yellow bumper sticker that asks to reelect a judge who died like 5 years ago! The judge was our next door neighbor. I can;t imagine what his widow feels every time she looks right outside and she sees that her dead husband is up for reelection....

[QUOTE=GlenW]

Here's some sayings I find intolerable to my oh-so delicate ears:

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I hate it when people say 'at this point in time'when what they really mean is NOW.

Best wishes, VicMarmalade_man38615.9290162037

[QUOTE=Marmalade_man]
I hate it when people say 'at this point in time'when what they really mean is NOW.

[/QUOTE]

Yeah I hear you!! Other ones in that vein I hate are "needless to say" - then don't say it!! or "I don't mean to be rude but..." which always is something rude!

English isn't the problem - it's the system man!!!

- Glen

[QUOTE=slimacik]

My pet peeves are mixing up following words:

- its/it's, they're/their, you're/your.

[/QUOTE]

AAAGH!! YES!!!

I work for a Pepsico company - and we're huge. I walk our halls before work starts and want to bring a pen as I see SO much poor english pasted up by "professional secretaries". MADNESS!!!

Some examples are like "employee's room" - where unless there's only one employee the apostrophy is in the really wrong place!

to/two/too - can people not remember grade 5 english?? It's so easy to keep track that even I can!!! We used to drill on this one - but my niece who is now 15 says they don't do much more than spelling and error correction on the PC. Dear dear tsk tsk. It's not too hard people - "I went TO the store TO buy TWO loaves of bread and butter TOO". But once you graduate I want to be allowed to smack them with prejudice.

By the way - your english skills seem very impressive considering you are from a non-english background. Well done! Show us that we need to raise the bar!

And folks - as a Canadian I have it doubly hard here as I am always self-correcting when I use the non-US type of spelling. It's not as easy as it looks!

- Glen

New ones I've been pondering on.

pop stars - those little imps that become famous by just "being famous" - paris hilton, dog the bounty hunter, etc. They have not done anything remotely interesting - but they have agents and people who want to exploit a moment so they become big and popular. Annoying to the nth power.

people who can't debate properly - you get into a discussion, it becomes heated. Instead of coming back with a counter idea they attack you and make you seem as if you are racist, or some other hater. They try and take you from the original argument and turn it into a "you're a... whatever" - and try and put you on the defensive on that term instead. It's a sign of a person with nothing to add but wants to "win". I don't see arguments as win or lose - but something you can come out with more knowledge and things to think about. Or that could just be me. Even with meds and inner peace that pisses me off a lot.

service charges - damn - remember when you put a thousand in the bank and it grew? Now you get pathetic interest - and every month they take out 5 bucks, or far more depending on what you choose. If you aren't rich you get pennies and they get to loan out your money for 15 or more percent as loans or credit card money. And if you leave it in for years and find a way to do this - they can close your account because you're not using it! I just never understand where we ended up owing the banks so much and they owe us nothing! Only been a couple of decades to end up that - as a kid I had an account that paid me lots but I could never do that now!

- Glen

Thanks for the comments on my contribution to this post.
Please don't encourage me. I've got a million things that piss me off, it
seems. At least my wife thinks so. 484,568 of them are things she does,
or so she tells me that it feels that way to her. ;-)

Right now I'm pissed at my straterra. It's not working. And I took 80mg
today instead of the usual 40 mg helper dose I take. I'm trying to study
for an exam I've got coming up and I can't seem to stay focused for more
than 4 minutes. Argh.

And for some reason I seem compelled to sniff my left hand over and over
again because I think I touched something moldy and it smells like mold.
I've got a feeling there's some OCD in me that's running rampant today.
Maybe the straterra unleashed it. Lemme go wash my hands.

Oh, and I'm pissed that my local electric utility - like many other
companies - are opting to charge their customers a new, bigger
surcharge to cover the more expensive cost of fuel they consume to make
their product for you. I know it's anti-capitalism to say, but can't they just
make a couple million less for a little while? Because EVERYONE is raising
their prices for EVERYTHING it seems, along with TAXES, yet the money
coming in to my budget does not increase. It costs us more to get
everywhere, to buy everything, and it's getting to the point that I do not
know how much longer I can afford to live where I do. My house went up
in value, maybe 3 times what I paid for it, but if I sell, I can't afford to
move anywhere and....

OK, 'nuff outta me. Lemme go wash my hands. Sniff. Sniff.

SR

Things I can't stand, even w/Meds...

1)TRAFFIC JAMS

2)RACISM/IGNORANCE

3)Condescending Idiots/Know-it-ALLS

4)Boredom/Monotony

5)Big Trucks

6)Poverty

7)Heavy metal

8) Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, George W Bush, Dick Cheny

9) Crowds

10) cigarette smoke

11) Cigarette SMOKERS who think they have the right to just blow ANYWHERE.

12) People who ride your bumper when they can EASILY GO AROUND you...

13) Rich/Famous People who think the world should MOVE for them "just because"...

14) RUDENESS

oh but i LOOOVE your big trucks over here. they are so much nicer than the stupid, boring lorries we have in Europe.

here they are all shiny! with lots of metallic chrome and and and they have a nice shape and they are great. i love your trucks. American trucks are without doubt the best....

our trucks/lorries are rubbish - they are dirty and not shiny and have a boring unintersting shape and are not nice at all in any way.
[QUOTE=chjones] well you already did. it's called Iran (quite close to Iraq but not quite the same place).

luckily n & q on the keyboard are fairly far apart so no worrying confusion with hitting the wrong letter and reinvading iraq by mistake.
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Although I wish they hadn't fat-fingered it the first time, either!

I like big trucks.

Whopper choppers.

And don't worry a/b the gas.

We'll think of something when we run out.

Like Iraq.

well you already did. it's called Iran (quite close to Iraq but not quite the same place).

luckily n & q on the keyboard are fairly far apart so no worrying confusion with hitting the wrong letter and reinvading iraq by mistake.
chjones38634.7262152778

TV has been a consistent disappointment since the Thunderbirds were taken off of the air. It is designed to appeal to the "lowest common denominator" or LCD. So sex, violence, and stupidity reign supreme.My swife ohh i love some reality tv.. i really like project runway and americas next
top model.. and i even like some of the dumb dating ones cuz they are so
funny like date my mom and elimidate.. the women are so trashy! but
yeah I CANT STAND ASHLEY SIMPSON OR DONALD TRUMP and the
apprentice drives me nuts.. i cant see the appeal of that either![QUOTE=GlenW]

how about those disclaimers on commercials. "professional stuntman, do not attempt" why do they bother showing us stuff we aren't allowed to do.

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how about those disclaimers on commercials. "professional stuntman, do not attempt" why do they bother showing us stuff we aren't allowed to do.

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Why? Because sadly the average north american TV watcher is dumber than your average golden setter. If you don't put the warnings on pretty much everything they will inevitably try it - then the lawsuits begin. So it's gonna be either the dumb ones or the litigious ones. Argh.

That leads me to another one that ticks me off - the fact that people are suing for things like the above. No matter how much something seems to be "common sense" - the people are suing if something doesn't go their way. Blah. It all goes back to that woman who burned her crotch on McDonald's coffee - then was totally surprised that happened. Oh, if I could only give her a nasty slapping. I can dream.

- Glen

Here's another thing that boils my blood all the time - "psychics" and "ghost hunters". AAAAHHHHH!!!!

I don't believe one iota in the world of ghosts and ghoulies and such. Never have - don't have the belief in the pink unicorn world at all.

I thought I was safe from most of them on TV after they took that "crossing over" show off the air. Now on my local TV there's this lady they call the "antique psychic". She gets people on with old stuff and supposedly reads the vibrations and tells them of who used to own it. Blah. It's just cold reading - a very old magic trick where you throw out things all of us can say yes to and read what the person reacts to. Very old and typical trick.

I don't mind that people believe things that I don't. Whatever makes your life more bearable is cool with me. It's when people decide to make money on the weaknesses of others that I get really really mad. Same with faith healers and the "fire and brimstone" preachers looking for that fast buck. The people they are fleecing are the ones we need to protect the most in society.

Anyway that's a big one for me. believe it if you must - just don't make a buck and then expect me to sit and watch silently. That's the line I don't want them crossing.

- Glen

Oh - if you lived here you would probably think again about the trucks. North Americans have been carrying on a major love affair with big, gas-guzzling vehicles. Gas was so cheap that they could treat these things like a status symbol. Seriously - who needs a humvee in the suburbs. Actually - unless you're going out in the middle of nowhere - who needs them??

Over in Europe you've been crunched by the super-high costs of gas and the overcrowded ancient little roads. So, you have the tiny little trams and micro-cars that save gas and can be parked in a closet. That's logical and you watch- as long as bush*tes have control of the US and they keep messing with other countries - you'll see fiats and austin minis being the "in" thing soon.

Nothing more annoying to me as seeing a big-city rube driving to work everyday in a big ford hemi - taking up 3 parking spots and using 4 times the gas as he should. Tragically sad.

that is why Americans shouldn't have given up the word 'lorry'. a lorry can only refer to a huge eighteen-wheel type-thing.

see independence isn't all it's cracked up to be.
chjones38634.6678703704

I was assuming he meant trucks like those off-roaders - but maybe he meant the bigger ones. Hmmmm.

As for the big trucks - I don't care much for them. Well, the one thing that bothers me is that they do their bathroom business lately in empty pop bottles, etc. and throw them out all over the place. It's revolting - and happening all too often as they are on a deadline.

Yuck.

but i thought you meant a TRUCK. like those huge eighteen-wheeler things that transport goods around the country.

not the stupid hummers --- which annoy everyone in the world except those who are stupid enough to buy them. hhhmmm Arnie???

Here's another - specifically for us night owls - or like me on different shifts all the time.

They keep removing shows late at night and replacing all programming with infomercials!! Why!!! I know they are cheaper but why isn't everyone bitching about it?

I know there are not as many people watching - but for us that need to stay up all night it's stupid! I don't want to see exercise equipment, computers for 99 cents a day or how to make money on real estate!!

I want the old days of showing classic movies and reruns of old TV shows! I loved that - I got to see all the old movies as a kid with insomnia.

Ah - to only get some good stuff back in life. Even my space channel (canada's sci-fi channel) has only infomercials after 3AM. Sad.

Here's another:

Closing restaurants before midnight, and hotels at all. I've gone hungry, and slept in a car.
I know that! My lil' town rolls up the streets at 11:00 (except for the bars - wouldn't want the drunks to have to go home!). There's mcdonalds though I dare not call it a restaurant. That's why my bank statement shows lots at the 7-11 - it's close to home and after a long graveyard shift that's all that's open. But it's not good 20 bucks for a sandwich and a couple of apples. What can ya do?

didnt read all of these.....so if it already here too bad...CANT TOLERATE IGNORANT, AND STUPID PEOPLE!!!!

THERE I VENTED...HA

[QUOTE=GlenW]I know that! My lil' town rolls up the streets at 11:00 (except for the bars - wouldn't want the drunks to have to go home!). There's mcdonalds though I dare not call it a restaurant. That's why my bank statement shows lots at the 7-11 - it's close to home and after a long graveyard shift that's all that's open. But it's not good 20 bucks for a sandwich and a couple of apples. What can ya do?[/QUOTE]

Lose weight and wake up with a kink in your kneck. Hmm, that looked fine, but it was misspelled, wasn't it?

Once I parked a jeep on a slope so I could lay flat with the seat all the way back. Got four hours!

who's pat robertson?

[QUOTE=chjones]who's pat robertson? [/QUOTE]

To keep a psycho story short: He is a televangelist nut. He tried to be president - and when that didn't work he intimidates republicans to let him play too.

He's the one who threatened to nuke the supreme court because they wouldn't let him ban abortion. Poor baby!

He then went on to say we should assassinate president of venezuala because he's a commie. Then he denied saying that - but said it would be cool with him if we did.

He's insane. I'd ignore him if it weren't for George W. admiring him so much. That red button scares me!!!!

oh, THAT guy...

i know who you mean now.

I agree with GlenW ........Banks absolutely infuriate me !!!!!!!!! I bet they probably feel the same about me, too, but I don't care...they have a "service fee" for EVERYTHING.......overdrawn....00...overdrawn for more than 7 days...00........NSF......00........closing your account by mail.....00................and WHY ??? so they can come up with more BS fees...... and we gotta build a branch over on that side of town so all those dummies can come and bank with us and we can invent ways to KEEP their money .......

and it's not like I don't know when I have money in there...my husband's $ is Direct Deposited in there by midnight on Thurs....so YOU KNOW they have to send eveything they possibly can through hoping to make something bounce...tht's why they always put the BIGGEST checks through first....then they can charge me .00 for a .00 check....it just happened to me......I went there and raised H$LL,,,and got them to take it off,.....that was just plain stupidity. They sent the check through fri before they opened, supposedly.they said his $ hadn't POSTED yet ,, it was there, but not actually on the books...whatever........how do we stop them from legally being able to do this ?? I think it's wrong for an employer to REQUIRE for you to have a bank account anyway just so they don't have to print you a paper check...this sucks.........and we let them get away with it..... I would pay everything by MO if I could..I love being able to do things over the internet and paypal and all, but I would do without convenience to shut down the banks STEALING my money...

I'll get off my soapbox now...I just needed to vent ...Thanks !!!

OK, I'm new here, but I have a list of things that get right past the effect
of my meds and right into my piss-off trigger:

1. People who drive like they're the only one on the planet. Sorry, but I am
behind you and I do indeed have to be somewhere. Very soon. We know I
have a problem with this when my 3 and a half year old is yelling "C'mon,
GENIUS!" from the back seat at the mere sound of me taking a deep
breath trying to refrain from saying it myself. It makes me laugh, for a
moment at least.

2. People who drive as though the rules do not apply to them. And then
they park the same way. Handicapped spots, loading zones, right in front
of the damn store instead of in the lot. Excuse me, but your financial
status, the sheer magnitude of your SUV, or your cojones for that matter,
do not entitle you to drive however your please.

3. People who think that because you have ADD, they must be smarter
than you to the point that they can talk about you to others when you're
right there and you wont pick up on it, because you have such a hard
time being in the moment. Hey, dumbass. How about I pick up on every
single thing, all at once, including the fact that you are talking about me
right friggen now. And that there's something creaking, and dripping, and
a jackhammer outside, and a radio in a cubicle three rows down that is
grating on me. I pick up EVERY THING. And for that, being in the moment
is tought. But you wouldnt get that, would you.

4. People who are in positions of authority, and truly "get off" on being
there, and being able to tweak you.

5. OK, one that is not about people. Poor timing. I am the one who
manages to be in the wrong place at the wrong time so often, and it really
bugs me. I go out at 8:42PM to gas up the car because I hear prices will
go up tomorrow, and lo and behold the tanker is at the gas station filling
their supply tanks, and the pumps are off until they're done. Or the
timing of being behind the old lady paying for a can of cat food with a
check. Maybe it's just luck. But I notice these things happening to me and
I just dont have the restraint and proper attitude to keep from getting
frustrated.

6. TV ads where the people talking are paid actors trying to act like
everyday people telling you about products. Radio versions are even
worse. Does anyone every buy anything as a result of hearing this crap?

7. REALITY TV. No such thing. And it's getting to the point that anything
qualifies as reality TV worthy. There's no need to leave your house
anymore. You can watch people standing on line at an airport, right in
your living room.

8. ADVERTISING that is EVERYWHERE. Remember that movie Minority
Report where as Tom Cruise walks through an urban area, ads are
projected everywhere? It's coming to that. The mall nearby just put in a
hundred flat screens, some of them in 3x3 panels of them, just to blare
ads at you. The food court used to be such a nice place to sit and eat and
people watch. Now you have to see Kirstie Alley and her fat ass telling you
she's not that fat anymore.... over and over and over. Oh, and the
supermarkets have put flat screens at every checkout station to bombard
you with ads. That and they've got one by the deli counter. Nice. I'm sure
the guy busting his hump back there for a few bucks an hour really wants
to have that ,000 50" flat screen up there reapeating the ads all day,
and it's because of overhead expenses that he cant get a raise.

9. My ADD gives me a knack for things. People just need to accept that. I
do not know why I can do the things I do, I just can. Stop giving me flack
about it. And stop asking me why if I'm good at this or that, am I no good
at such and such. I don't know. It doesnt work that way. That's why I
spent all of grade school being labled BRIGHT BUT DOES NOT APPLY
HIMSELF.

10. My self - like a few others here, I annoy myself. Even on meds. I dont
like being so in tuned to so many things at once. I dont like being able to
hear every single thing when I dont want to, and if there is no sound to be
heard, having my brain fill in with a barrage of random thoughts that
sometimes make me think my grey matter is nothing more than a highly
fragmented hard drive with random bits of information that somehow
escape and get piped through my operating system when I need them the
least instead of when they were important. My brain has no ctrl+alt+del.
No esc key. Most of all, I wish my life had a ctrl+z command. There's lots
I'd undo.skylarkragtop38632.702337963

Welcome Skylark! And thanks for diving in like this - it's great to read!!

And don't worry - it doesn't have to be about someone - things, places whatever ticks you off it's all fair game!!

That all ticks me off too - don't worry I have never bought a thing I saw advertised.. doubly so with "actor reenactments". Bug me too - my fine-tuned bullstein detector (you figure it out! LOL) goes to the red when they come on.

I get the same thing too when people are told by me about my ADHD. At work where I have been most open I get people whispering and talking about me. I must be honest with myself though that I'm an odd bird and that some of my mannerisms (like being super friendly and hyper when medicated) can tend to seem odd to normal people. I shrug and move on now - life is way too short to worry about the state of other people's gossip.

And - of course - I am my worst enemy. I think I've mentioned in threads a lot how I have a theory of why we hate certain traits in other people. When we see traits we have in others that we don't want in ourselves it causes us anger. It's easy to spot - ask someone why they dislike someone else and most often you'll get an inventory of their own bad traits. It's like looking in a psyche mirror and that's too much to bear very often.

Again - VERY glad you are here and keep posting! I enjoyed it a lot and hope to see you here again!

[QUOTE=seeker63]

maybe someday we will get back to thinking in terms of the greater good for all, and move away from all serving the greater good of the privileged few.

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It'll take the likes of Pat Robertson to lead us, eh? hehe

yeah! skylarkragtop- you tell 'em!!

i was reading your post, and going 'yeah! rabble, rabble, rabble!' "that's right! you tell'em"

driving idiots, idiots in line, idiots, idiots, idiots everywhere!

that pat robertson, he's an idiot too. it's a good thing god doesn't tell everyone to be such an ass, like apparently he's advised pat to be

and the banks- omg!

on a political note, look at all those service industries. deregulation means not that the businesses are unfettered and can serve consumers better, but that there are fewer and fewer laws protecting us consumers from abject greed. it also falsely makes it look as if the economy is strong.

those greedy bast**ds have us gauging the economy by how well the well-off are doing, and scr*w the 96% of us that are not super-rich. you've seen it- ignore the poor, what have they got that we want anyway? besides, they make us look bad.

maybe someday we will get back to thinking in terms of the greater good for all, and move away from all serving the greater good of the privileged few.

Got one - Pat Robertson TV Evangelist!

Watched him on CNN today. He is still spouting off about assassinating world leaders. Even tried to link Venezuelan president to Al Quida! Man what brass ones he has!

Christianity is fine for those who want it - but this guy is a total psycho. He has the ear of a lot of americans and he can say whatever comes to his little twisted mind. I just get very boiled whenever he comes on. I can't possibly be the only one who thinks this guy should get a good therapist!

[QUOTE=GlenW]

New ones I've been pondering on.

- Glen

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Ditto on pop stars and service charges. I freaking ESPECIALLY hate credit card companies. What they do should be illegal.
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Topic: Things you can�t tolerate-even WITH meds!

Myself

[QUOTE=kittywahwah] I can't bear people pecking or rapping with a pencil, their fingers or feet. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=repairman] YOU would hate me in a store,

You would hate me on the shore,

you would hate me at the table,

as i'm told i am not stable,

You would hate me in a car, you would hate me near or far,

you would hate me with a candle , sitting still i cannot handle,

I do not like ADHD, but it is I and it is me. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=I just laughed at this here quote, so Davidornado] I am with you in the store, I am with you on the shore,

I am with you at the table, you missed saying cable,

I am with you near and far, oh i almost missed the car,

I am with you in the candle, Ambien I cannot handle,

I do not like the ADD, but it is you and it is me.

You forgot a/b the plane, and I think I found the train.

Again I will say train, will not happen with my brain.

What a/b your lovely goat? And I've got the sail boat.

I can cook green eggs and ham, b/c ADDer that I am.

Hey, they taste Great! [/QUOTE]

Anyone doubt Dr. Zeuss was ADHD?

Or that he was the first Rapper?

[QUOTE=kittywahwah]

I can't bear people pecking or rapping with a pencil, their fingers or feet.

[/QUOTE] YOU would hate me in a store,

You would hate me on the shore,

you would hate me at the table,

as i'm told i am not stable,

You would hate me in a car, you would hate me near or far,

you would hate me with a candle , sitting still i cannot handle,

I do not like ADHD, but it is I and it is me.

repairman38642.2072337963

i wouldn't hate you repairman... neither would the animals by the barn...