Rant 331 26/11/12 Subject: Medical exaggeration

Rant number 331

I'm somewhat of a medical skeptic in many ways. I think that people give medical reasons to things too easily and that everything is a symptom or a syndrome according to someone or other.

A prime example of this is depression. Now don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that some people don't feel medically depressed due to horrible things in their lives. I don't agree that it should be thrown about in the way it is however. If you are depressed because your job sucks and you never have any money - you are a perfectly normal person and I really don't think that that constitutes any medical problems.

I also have been quite pessimistic of the so-called 'animal flus' that have appeared over the last couple of years. I don't know why these flus are:
A) Named after animals anyway
B) Meant to be worse than normal flu - which can kill you if you are a vulnerable person just the same as the animal flus.
C) Why they have only appeared over the last few days
D) (And most importantly) Who the hell was interfering with a chicken/pig enough to catch its case of flu. I'm guessing some spooning was involved is all I'm saying.

I know that they are severe illnesses - I myself got 'swine flu' (not from a pig may I mention) the winter before last and have never felt more ill. I even had a hallucination about a coffee machine - which is another story. The thing is, I don't think I've ever got non-animal flu - so I'm not able to compare it really.

Another thing thats been thrown around often is 's.a.d' (clever see they spelt sad...) which stands for 'Seasonal Affective Disorder.) Essentially, its a feeling of tiredness and fatigue around the change of seasons.
I definitely feel like I'm suffering with that at the mo - not so much through any medical reason - but merely due to a lack of daylight. Over the last week, its got even darker in the mornings and evenings - and the feeling has got under my skin!

Its most vexing!

Rant over.

Rant 35 - 4/2/12 Subject: People who exaggerate everything

Rant number 35


If there is one thing that gets on my nerves. Its people who exaggerate everything. They are literally the most annoying thing in the world! Ever.

Bloody irritating isn't it?


Life is sadly full of mediocrity. This applies to things both good and bad. As such, stubbing your toe is not the worst pain you have ever felt. An ice-cream is probably not the best thing you have ever tasted. You are not dying of boredom, you are not freezing cold (unless you are actually encased in it - in which case, you should probably try and do something about that.)

Nor are you boiling hot unless you are:

• Currently human 100 degrees celsius - in which case you are probably going to die
• Actually some kind of liquid with a boiling point of body temperature.

We all do it, but why!?

We all know that there is no way that one of our friends almost died of laughter - otherwise we might feel the need to offer them a little condolence - and suggest that they buy a Roy Chubby Brown DVD (no chance of any laughs there!)

There is also no way that I could say that Twilight absolutely and totally has to be the worst book ever. This would be grossly unfair of me.

Jordan writes books after all...

When someone gets on your nerves - you might say you want to kill them. You might even say that you would do something horribly unpleasant to them using a tube of KY jelly, a partially fossilised kookaburra, a packet of maltesers and a small Albanian goat herder called Hans. 

Truth be told however, most of us do nothing of the sort (particularly the latter - but mostly the former.)

In print we get even worse. It's too easy to add an explanation mark or even 2 - 3 - 4 (or in the case of the particularly diseased of mind) even more to the end of a sentence that does not require any!!!!!

We can also write things in bold, underlined & italics. Which are all just ways of exaggerating the point.

Particularly on facebook, people are guilty of these shameless abuses of good grammatical practice.

In my humble opinion, it is never ever ever ever appropriate to exaggerate and you will make very very angry to do so!!!! 

Seriously though, don't exaggerate so much people. Its annoying

Rant over.