Inarticulate Rage GQ: What is the name of this stupid, insipid attitude I keep encountering?

Perhaps you should strain a little harder.

Hijack…

You really want to have a laugh? Wait until it really kicks in and then write something out on a word doc or some such. Read it the next day! It’s amazing that what seemed perfectly clear at the time is a total crack up by the clear light of day.

:smiley:

The only person acting like a jerk here is you, unfortunately.

He does that too sometimes. :smiley:

I’m sure I’ve said this before, only with more vowels.

Just trying to take some of the heat off poor Boyo Jim.

the internet has been encouraging apathy since compuserve. It has just followed the natural progression, and become aggressive apathy.

Christ on a Crispix OP. chillax.

Ha! I corrected at least 15 typos while typing that and I see at least one that got by me anyway. Mmmm, Ambien! All the staggering without the hangover. :slight_smile:

That’s funny.

I’m not sure I completely grasp the OP’s point, but I think that I ache to do something kinda similar to what he is complaining about.

In my work, there is a certain thing everyone complains about. People need to vent…I get that. But every single co-worker comes over to my desk, every single time this happens, and they complain about it as if it were not only new, but as if it only happens to them!

“I just a transfer from this jerk, and he told me he set up the customer for paid support, and the customer came over to my line and had no idea we were paid support! This is gonna kill my conversion rate!!”

Guess what, genius? Same thing just happened to me. And to you, earlier. And to Bob and John and Tim and Sue. Get over it. I long to say, "yeah, I know, it happens all the time to all of us. You are not the unique exception that this happens to.

I think if you just said the part in quotes you could get your point across without seeming to be jerkish about it and maybe they wouldn’t do it as much.

Tahssa, I would be saying that over and over to several people every day. I would literally begin annoying myself.

Instead, I just bite my lip and keep my thoughts to myself. Till I can get home and vent to my husband. Or you guys.

Is that the generic name for Ambien?

I found it horrifying rather than amusing. I’ve never taken anything where I was so convinced I was perfectly unimpaired, only to face incontrovertible evidence the following day (in the form of half-remembered, nonsensical, error-ridden emails) that I wasn’t.

I don’t mind being impaired from time to time, as long as I’m self-aware of when I’m too addled to be near a keyboard. Ambien and benzodiazepines are, I came to realize, not my thing.