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She may be being mean, but not pointlessly. The point is, there’s a huge ration of self-pity, “woe is me, I’m sick, you can’t criticize me” coming from DocCathode, which I’ve also seen from Guin, actually. They want to whine about their ailments, which maybe be very real and painful, but no one else can say shit about it. Not even to help, as some have tried to in this thread, only to be shot down rather condescendingly. You just have to offer sympathetic pseudo-support or shut up, lest you be pitted. It’s kind of annoying.
LM is new to the board, so she doesn’t know what the sacred cows are. They do make the tastiest hamburgers, I have to say.
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Is the SDMB the most appropriate place to air this kind of dirty laundry. I mean I have my own problems I’m not going to jump all over you guys about. Thats why we have doctors. People on the webosphere can be unpredictable so don’t get sad when you spill the beans about not ever washing the dishes and some big meany calls you crazy
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I’m a victim and my hands smell like quarterpounders with cheese.
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This is the most devastating disease I’ve heard about yet! Hamburger hands! Quick, give me your address. I’m going to send you some cheek swab brushes. Send them back and I’ll let you know when I’m done processing them in the lab.
God Speed, hamburger hands. I am so sorry and I have the utmost respect for your bravery.
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I CAN’T afford a therapist and psychiatrist. Luckily, you taxpayers can.
Second, please read my posts in the original thread. A maid could wash the dishes, but could they wash them to my standards? Most likely, I’d examine the ‘clean’ dishes and put them back in the sink.
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Why don’t you try tossing them, and buying paper/styrofoam plates and/or plastic utensils? I’m not being nasty, it just sounds more sensibile.
As for lobstermobster, I thought she was implying that OCD didn’t exist. As she wasn’t, then that’s that.
Yeah, it’s really because I “hoped for a pile on”. If that’s what you want to think, so be it. I really don’t care either way.
Someone finally understands. Other symptoms include rapid weight gain, moderate acne and the unexplained appearance of brightly-colored greasy wrappers in my garbage can. What is this hamburger-smelling hands disease and why god, why me.
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Is the SDMB the most appropriate place to air this kind of dirty laundry. I mean I have my own problems I’m not going to jump all over you guys about. Thats why we have doctors. People on the webosphere can be unpredictable so don’t get sad when you spill the beans about not ever washing the dishes and some big meany calls you crazy
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Hey, look, I’m not sad about it, and I agree that if you spill your personal business on a public message board, there will always be someone warming up to take a shot at you. Given that the attack is: (1) never entirely unexpected, for that reason; and (2) coming from an anonymous stranger, I can obviously think of much worse crimes against decency.
But honestly? Even if the attacks are to be expected, I wonder at your mindset - the mindset that is eager to attack. The mindset that still thinks it’s funny. I mean, when I was in third grade, I too thought the height of humor was to figure out someon else’s weakness and turn it into a crude joke. I didn’t take much wit to call the porky kid “Fat-Butt,” and it nicely created an “us versus Fat-Butt” situation in which I was part of the “us,” and that was comforting.
Then I, you know, turned ten and realized that: (1) Calling the kid “Fat-Butt” is kind of mean; (2) It doesn’t actually benefit anyone; and (3) It really isn’t that funny. So I stopped.
You, apparently, never did. That’s OK. I just don’t get it.
I developed a kind of allergy/indigestion/nervous twitch/ocd in reaction to your posting style twenty thousand posts ago. I’m a slow learner. It’s only pity that prevents me from buying a gallon of Famous Dave’s BBQ sauce, doing some searches, and putting you on a spit.
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DocCathode–how to say this? The maid cleans the dishes just fine. It is your standards that are fucked unto the lord. I hope you realize this. Most likely you do, but just can’t stop yourself from recleaning. Ok. So–why not have the maid clean the dishes, then box them up and have your maid or your mother take them off your hands? And while you’re in therapy, you can use the paper plates etc.
Perhaps your OCD will just glom onto something else and you’ll need a new toothbrush everyday. I don’t know. But it would solve the stinky, skanky dishes in your sink problem for quite awhile. That’s a health hazard, unless your name is Alexander Fleming.
I don’t see ANY teasing on the level of “Fat Butt” here-- I see mockery (not wholely undeserved) and some friendly teasing. Lighten up, Francis!
One thing refreshing about truly mentally ill people is that a lot of them have a sense of humor about it. Not a laugh a minute, but they do see the absurdities of their situation. When they’re not in full blown pyschosis, that is. Give me a psychotic any day–the neurotics are driving me nuts! (joke for the humor impaired).
[QUOTE=Southern Yankee] Sister board? What board is that? If there’s another repository with LM’s musings that I’m missing I demand to know about it.
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The Place That Shall Not Be Named. I would tell you more, but I would have to kill you (somewhere else, as I would get banned from here in a hurry)
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The Place That Shall Not Be Named. I would tell you more, but I would have to kill you (somewhere else, as I would get banned from here in a hurry)
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I’m beginning to think that place is the Grey Havens or something. It’s this mythical place that No One Can Name. :rolleyes:
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Properly doing the dishes is a herculean task I just don’t have the energy for anymore. Posting is easy. … I am on meds. I have coping strategies for most of my problems. But the dishes are an obstacle I have yet to overcome.
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Not to belabor the obvious or anything, but after a month of the sink being full of dirty dishes, a lotta guys would say, “Hmm, maybe these aren’t the right meds or my dose is too low. Since I’m talking to a doc anyway, maybe I should say something.” You know, the whole, “This ain’t working. Let’s try something different,” thing.
Make that, “This ain’t coming CLOSE to working, doc!” Because not every med works as well on everybody.
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I’m still waiting to see what answer our funny friend has for calling people with a diagnosed mental aliment “crazy.”
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Err, isn’t “with a diagnosed mental ailment” the definition of “crazy?” I mean, I’m as crazy as anybody here–or am without my medication–and I recognize and accept it as a fact. And leaving dirty dishes in the sink for months on end is seriously crazy. DocCathode, I am speaking as an old friend here, and you should man the fuck up and say, “Yeah, lobmob, you are right. I’m crazier than a shithouse rat.”
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Did I ever tell you guys about the time I got scarlet fever? Like straight up Oregon Trail scarlet fever. Thats what happens if you think you can outwit strep throat. It was spectacular.
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Yep. Works the same when you think you can outwit insanity.
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I’m beginning to think that place is the Grey Havens or something. It’s this mythical place that No One Can Name.
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I’ve been there. You miss nothing. Trust me.
I don’t see ANY teasing on the level of “Fat Butt” here-- I see mockery (not wholely undeserved) and some friendly teasing. Lighten up, Francis!
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When someone was called “Fat Butt” in third grade, that was not “teasing.” That was mockery. And “not wholly undeserved,” to boot. Hell, the kids that got called “Fat Butt” were usually pretty porky. It’s the same thing here. Designate an outsider, mock them, then bask in the adulation of everyone else who is glad they’re not the outsider and tells you how pretty and funny you are - and how much pretty and funnier you are than the outsider. Oh, and if someone gets hurt by it, insist that it was just “friendly teasing.” That was third grade, and that is a big chunk of this thread.
But feh. It’s not really a big deal. Your targets will survive, and regular exposure to people who are nasty for no reason other than that they can be is good education. lobstermobster gets to blow off her aggression and get told how wonderful she is for being clever enough to conflate a bunch of unrelated illnesses in one sentence (hardy har!) and you get to feel hip and clever for stretching a reference to a twenty-five year old movie, and those who read the thread can make their own judgments about what these things say about the lot of us.
I think lobstermobster’s posts are hilarious and refreshingly blunt. (I’m a VCO3 fan as well.) As for offending someone’s Delicate Sensibilities… maybe there are some posters here who need to step back, detach a little, and not take posts on an anonymous message board so seriously.
