Sometimes I'm just not very smart.

[torquill]

Things I really should learn to ignore:

* Young Earth Creationist physics/astronomy. I know too much physics to miss the gaping logical holes, and they hurt my brain. Yet I keep looking at the "explanations". Oh, the stupidity...

* The BMI. I can't shake the fierce urge to construct a real fitness program, lose all of my excess weight, then go and take a water-tank test to prove to the medical idiots that it really doesn't apply to everyone. It's impractical for several reasons (most notably that I just had a detox reaction after losing four pounds in a fortnight; my fat does not leave gently), and it's petty, and I really should just tune it out. Yet I keep picking at the scab by reading things like Dr. Donohue's assertion that a BMI over 40 (and a waist measurement over 35 for women) means you're obese and facing serious health risks. Fuck you, Phil.

* People who worked at a job while doing college full-time. Their condescension toward those who get a "free ride" from financial aid still bugs me, even with a disability voucher I can wave in their face. Of course, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is imaginary anyway -- I look fine, so I should be able to pull my own weight and get a job. Argh...

I guess I'm just thin-skinned today.

Comments

[semy-of-pearls.livejournal.com]

If CFS is imaginary, there are a whole bunch o' peoples out there on the same acid trip.

And if you, with all the activities that you do on a regular basis, are in any more risk to heart failure than your average gardner/bicyclist/student, I'd love to compare your BP to theirs, the lazy swine.

Kick 'em all to the curb, tell 'em to get on the short bus.

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm beating my head against someone who *knows* that if I just ate right, did yoga and learned to meditate my ADHD would completely go away. That, and it was caused by malnutrition and lack of physical activity as a child.

[firestrike.livejournal.com]

I see your problem: you're using your head. A piece of pipe is more effective.

[catnip13.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to agree with you, love. Problem is I'm doing this over the internet, not in person. Makes the "blunt object" solution trickier.

[superlib.livejournal.com]

Just an.. idle thought, if you are storing so much bad stuff in your fat that it causes major detox, then maybe it would be beneficial to get rid of some of those toxins anyways? I know the detox reaction sucks ass, and you're probably not at a place where being knocked on your butt is a reasonable thing to try what with how busy you keep yourself with school and everything. Was just a thought.

[tiggerypum.livejournal.com]

Things sometimes get to me too - especially stupidity. Like finding out that indeed people so poorly understand percentages that in a game I'm playing someone 'helped' someone else by doing things that damaged the other's standing, and thought they really had helped! (and we're talking basics here, not complicated math - like winning 5 out of 10 for the numbers) And then I wonder why they didn't understand the arguments that setting this part up using percentages was a bad idea.

Anyway, enough of my rant for the day, I will not do my entire laundry list. *hugs* Try to not let the ignorant folks get you down.