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62 Responses to “I May Be Broke and Unemployed, But At Least I Ain’t Her”

1. liz says:

   January 15, 2007 at 4:29 pm

   that was horrible to watch. i can sympathize with her…. thanks to obsessive compulsive disorder, i have 8 irrational phobias. until you have a phobia you have to deal with, don’t make fun of her.
2. JACKASS says:

   April 30, 2007 at 3:47 pm

   the phoebia is there in years with her AND HOW IS IT FUCKING POSSIBLE TO CURE IT OVERNIGHT???? YOUR JUST AN IDIOT MAURY!!
3. caile says:

   May 18, 2007 at 4:34 pm

   This girl went on the show knowing it concerned her pickle “phobia.” She knew it was going to be seen by millions of people. No one hogtied her and dragged her there, she went there voluntarily and of course enjoyed compensation and a free trip, etc.

   And yes Maury’s a sleazebag, but as long as there are attention-seeking schmucks willing to go on national TV and humiliate themselves, these shows will continue. There are much more effective places to get “cured” of a phobia than a 1-hour TV talk show notorious for its drama-fests. Yet she chose to go this route, so if people find it hilarious, she brought it on herself.

   I don’t mean to sound mean-spirited, because I myself have a few not-so-normal phobias. But I find them embarrassing and certainly would not parade them around on a sensationalist TV show. So IF she’s even sincere about the depth of her phobia or if it was caused by some horrible trauma, she needs to be seen by professionals, not by Povich with his camera crew and jeering audience members.

   Bottom line: She’s either an idiot or an attention-seeker, and I don’t feel all that sorry for her, and I laughed my ass off at the video. Sue me.
4. Cameron says:

   July 18, 2007 at 12:12 am

   I don’t know, the show host may be a bastard, but that was pretty funny still. Why on earth would she agree to go to a pickle plant (Hah. Pickle plant sounds funny) if she was scared of it? I don’t know, but it was REALLY funny.

   Oh, and my favorite line from the comments is “Everyone’s afraid of something; just because this girl is afraid of something so obviously irrational everyone’s completely victimising her.” Heheh. Yeah. It’s so obviously irrational that it’s funny. It may be depressing humor, but it is most certainly humor. Irrational things can be funny. The reason no one laughs at people who are scared of heights (At least not very often, and certainly not as hard) is because a lot of people are scared of heights. Not many people are scared of pickles, and probably not to that extent, either. Instant comedy classic.
5. dhdude says:

   July 18, 2007 at 8:33 am

   i think that the way maury deals with her problem is stupid. he just showed her pickles instead of talking about her fear.
6. jkillah1 says:

   July 18, 2007 at 4:26 pm

   I’m afraid of bees for sure. Ever since I got stung by one when I was little. I’m also afraid of bugs, but I don’t run away screaming at the sight of bees. Heck, if there’s a bug or something I’ll usually try to kill it, even if it’s a bee or wasp flying around in my room. Of course, if I have to move stuff with bugs on it, I get scared that they’re gonna crawl inside my clothes or something, but other than that I’m fine.

   But seriously, pickles? At least be afraid of something that makes sense! Something that can hurt you or make you sick or something, not pickles! Maybe if you’re allergic to pickles and you almost died… IDK.
7. Greg says:

   July 18, 2007 at 4:49 pm

   She must have had a terrible experience and associated it with pickles, ie maybe she was sexually assaulted when she was younger and the offender referred to his penis as a pickle, she dealt with the abuse by suppressing the memory and associates pickles with the terrible experience. Just a theory…
8. punkass marc says:

   July 18, 2007 at 4:58 pm

   Why is it McBoing’s old posts that always seem to have immortal comment threads?
9. Tai says:

   July 23, 2007 at 1:40 am

   Yeah, someone posted the video in this gaming IRC chat I was in, and I commented on how she probably had pickles shoved up her butt when she was younger and probably hates anal sex. Or, maybe it was the other hole. Or both.

   I personally thought the video was hilarious. That all said, you definitely don’t get that freaked out over seeing something for no reason at all. Definitely going to go for the deeper story theory, and I already explained what I mean by that :p.
10. David says:

    August 6, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Her stepdad must have shoved a few hundred pickles in her pussy when she was young, no doubt about it, is there anyone scared of brussel sprouts?
11. Kyso Kisaen says:

    August 6, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    McBoing brings the winners to PAB every time.
12. Bernie says:

    December 8, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Frankly, I feel sorry for Maury Povich.