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.

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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.