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I May Be Broke and Unemployed, But At Least I Ain’t Her

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

  1. R. Mildred says:
    June 29, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    That’s just cruel.

  2. Bitch | Lab says:
    June 29, 2006 at 12:58 pm

    I’m thinking shows like Maury’s have a far more deleterious effect on the status of women in this society than than Deep Throat ever did.

  3. punkass marc says:
    June 29, 2006 at 2:01 pm

    I feel the same way she does. If you swap out pickles for godbags, that is.

  4. Raine says:
    June 29, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    That was painful to watch.

  5. Dykonoclast says:
    June 29, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    Yeah, that was just wrong.

    I have an intense irrational fear of the colour yellow, but at least I don’t fucken flip out like that.

  6. McBoing says:
    June 29, 2006 at 4:46 pm

    I suppose our banner carries a little extra F-U for you, Dykon, considering all the roll-over flashes.

  7. punkass marc says:
    June 29, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    I blame McBoing. He’s a color nazi.

  8. SarahS says:
    June 29, 2006 at 6:20 pm

    I wonder if this girl isn’t actually stitzophrenic (sp?) or something… I mean, that kind of sheer raw unadulturated terror over a pickle has got to be a sign of something deeper…. I worry that maybe she was molested as a child and this is her way of coping? It just seems surreal to me.

    Meanwhile, whomever took her to that pickle factory is a sadistic fuck. You don’t break a phobia by torturing someone or patting their leg and telling her to get over it. Assholes. She needs some good slow long term therapy.

  9. McBoing says:
    June 29, 2006 at 6:39 pm

    I knew a guy who knew a guy that was terrified of mayonaisse. This became a point of real concern for him when he lived in a college dorm and his roommates found out about his irrational fear.

  10. JackGoff says:
    June 29, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    This is exactly why I hate Maury Povich. He will literally do anything to people to get people to watch his show. He’s potentially the worst person on TV. And that’s saying something, what with the black hole of Fox News.

  11. amy says:
    June 29, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    That’s just awful. Yeah, there is definitely something much deeper, most likely she was molested. That is not entertainment. Maury is a total ass.

  12. JackGoff says:
    June 29, 2006 at 7:01 pm

    That’s just awful. Yeah, there is definitely something much deeper, most likely she was molested. That is not entertainment. Maury is a total ass.

    And not only does he molest her with literally TONS of pickles, he tries to calm her down about it. WHAT AN ASSHOLE! It’s like rape but much more passive-aggressive. Disgusting.

  13. SarahS says:
    June 29, 2006 at 7:20 pm

    MBoing – my best friend’s college boyfriend was afraid of fish. Literally terrified. I mean, pictures of fish didn’t bother him (much, he hid it well) but a bunch of his dorm mates once bought a betafish in one of those little bowls and put it on his desk chair. He had to call my friend to come over and take it out of the room because he couldn’t be in the room with it. I guess it might seem funny to an outsider, but I saw him once nearly crap his pants (his words not mine) over some minnows that a couple kids caught in a bucket once when we were at a local lake, and that was not funny at all. Poor guy wouldn’t even go swimming, he spent all day on the beach.

  14. Kate says:
    June 29, 2006 at 7:27 pm

    It is indeed disgusting and disgusting that the entire audience was there to be entertained.

    She does need intensive therapy and i would agree that more than likely the fear came from a real trauma exerienced when she was very young and the visual association remains.

    I agree with bitch lab and others, I worked nights and had a teevee once and was subjected to his ‘find my baby’s daddy’ routines which were beyond horrid.

    And you know, Jack i was thinking the same thing, like she’s being violated all over again, but by a thousand people at once.

  15. junk science says:
    June 29, 2006 at 8:04 pm

    I wonder how much of that was an act the producers told her to put on.* Because it’s amusing to make fun of people with mental disorders.

    *If I can’t trust Judge Judy, I don’t trust anyone.

  16. JackGoff says:
    June 29, 2006 at 9:47 pm

    stitzophrenic (sp?)

    Schizophrenic, sarah.

  17. R. Mildred says:
    June 29, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    I wonder if this girl isn’t actually stitzophrenic

    Schitzoids are paranoid and suffer from audial and/or visual hallucinations.

    This is nothing like that, I’ve seen a freind torn apart by the condition so I’d like it put on the record that I really hate the way schitzoid is often a generic catchall term for any sort of psychotic break, which makes it very hard to deal with sufferers because you have to fight their fear of the stigma attached with it.

    Fat people are lazy and deserve to be mocked, as do furries, mimes and juggalugs. Bastards.

  18. JackGoff says:
    June 29, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    I totally agree R. Mildred. My aunt is schizophrenic and anybody who uses the term “schizo” to mean any crazy person usually gets a earful from me, because I’ve seen what it does and “crazy” is just a stupid way to describe it. “Debilitating,” maybe.

    Anyway, just to say (because I’m a nitpicker), it’s “schizoid.”

  19. Friday Random Ten - The Something Or Other I’m Drunk Edition at PunkAssBlog.com says:
    June 29, 2006 at 11:49 pm

    [...] 8) Wesley Willis – I’m Sorry That I Got Fat (I Will Slim Down); By a true schizophrenic (not to be confised with the vernacular), with a badass documentary to boot. Make your friends watch it and bump foreheads. [...]

  20. flawedplan says:
    June 30, 2006 at 12:52 am

    This is a great thread, no one talks this openly.

    About terminology–the labels are metaphors, there’s no falsifiable medical test that prove their existence. That said, schizoid is not classified as a mental illness but a personality disorder, as is schizotypal.

    Schizophrenia is designated as a mental illness.

    A big difference is that schizophrenia is considered a biologic brain disease. Personality disorders have more to do with maladjustment.

    Activists disagree that major mental illness is biologic, and believe trauma is the cause of mental illness. This is the crux of the war between psychiatric rights patients and mainstream psychiatry, which denies therapeutic recovery and prefers to shove expensive, fairly useless and debilitating drugs down the throats of consumers. The stigma of the biologic model is exponential compared to the trauma model, and it’s become conventional wisdom. Everywhere you go you will hear that mental illness is a brain disease, and its symptoms can (and should) be tamed by medical treatments; pills and electroshock.
    Dissidents call that horseshit.
    I’m labeled schizophrenic, to be specificer, schizoaffective disorder, but before big psychopharm took over I was able to get the long term therapeutic help so many mentally ill are now denied. I only take a fraction of the meds most schizophrenics take, and I am ten times more functional than most, but I was able to get 2 decades of state funded therapy to get me here. It is a travesty, it’s criminal, anti-psychotics are chemical handcuffs, they eat the personality, and often people have no say as to whether they want this. Forced treatment is a reality in this country.

    Hope this wasn’t too much information, by the way I do give people cause for making fun of me sometimes, it’s more to do with cognitive brainfairts, temporal confusion, forgetting how to use a phone or making a pot of coffee and getting the procedure wrong, it’s screwey enough that I’m considered totally disabled. Still as far as I’m concerned Maury Povich has more troubling problems than ‘ll ever have no matter how I trip up.

  21. McBoing says:
    June 30, 2006 at 1:23 am

    I have to admit I rankled at the casual use of schizophrenia on this thread. I attended the funeral of a man who wrestled with it since his puberty and finally gave up on the pharmaceutical madness — and eventually went downhill after being unable to access cognitive-behavioral and/or other talk therapies in addition to his meds. It was all the more disappointing because we could see it happening way back down the road but nothing was in his hands. One more reason to hate insurance companies.

  22. flawedplan says:
    June 30, 2006 at 3:34 am

    But it seems this kind of talk is more possible on this blog than anywhere else in blogistan. Psychophobia is real, people clam up. This thread is a breakthrough.

    My condolences on the loss of your friend and teacher. I’ve attended those funerals too and they have a way of radicalizing a person, there will be more casualties until massive structural change happens. I am out of my mind with worry for certain strangely gifted and tormented friends, here is a tribute to all who’ve left this plane and for all that’s still to come:

    Outside This Bar
    American Music Club

    The hospital wouldn’t admit you
    So we go home again
    Right back to the same old room
    Right back to the same old thing
    But you know you’re just another girl
    Come from some carry-out in hell
    You’re just another story of how they fucked up the life
    Of a sweet girl
    We’ll sit and look at the street
    Watch the El Dorados roll by
    You can’t look your murderers,
    You can’t look them in the eye
    But you know they can always spot you
    From a mile away
    They give you anything you want
    They’ll do anything you say
    And outside this bar there’s no one alive
    Outside this bar how does anyone survive
    Together you and me
    you know we’ve gotta destroy this world
    C’mon darling we’ve gotta destroy this world
    And I remember when
    Your girlfriend would put you on display
    You’d be the life of the party
    ‘Til they come and drag you away
    But in the end we’ll watch the pattern
    As it begins to tear
    We’ll see the chaos that’s underneath
    All the clothes that the angels wear
    And outside this bar there’s no one alive
    Outside this bar how does anyone survive
    Together you and me
    you know we’ll never destroy this world
    C’mon baby I wish we could destroy this world
    Outside this bar

    Together you and me turn this quiet night into silence
    Together we’ll turn this love into violence

  23. Writhe Safely » Bury the hatchet says:
    June 30, 2006 at 7:14 am

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  24. flea says:
    June 30, 2006 at 9:59 am

    That was unbelievably cruel, if it was true. I’m afraid of roaches, and if somebody came out with two big platefuls of them, I would have acted the same way.

  25. junk science says:
    June 30, 2006 at 1:02 pm

    Especially if they were alive. And squirming.

    Excuse me. I have to go lie down.

  26. Raine says:
    July 1, 2006 at 4:18 pm

    oh my. roaches.

    i once faced the prospect of spending the entire night trapped in the bathroom because there were two large roaches sitting in the doorway.

    luckily my mom saved me.

  27. Patrick says:
    November 17, 2006 at 9:19 pm

    Dykonoclast, as far as I know the color yellow naturally has a fear and attention effect on people. Hence the color yellow on school buses, and the color yellow for the warning light between green and red.
    Maybe yours is just a little more advanced.

  28. Hugh Jass says:
    November 18, 2006 at 9:11 am

    Another talk show hoax contributing to the deterioration of society; or not.

  29. Kyso Kisaen says:
    November 18, 2006 at 9:39 am

    McBoing really knows how to write those posts that get zombi threads that just won’t die. I’m impressed. It seems like long after humans evolve into pure balls of energy and leave the earth forever, the energy balls will still pause every once in a while to tells us what they think about Brangilina or picklephobic women.

  30. JackGoff says:
    November 18, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    I keep telling you people. We’re all oppressed by the McBoingiarchy.

  31. Pickleboy says:
    November 19, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    LOL Funnys. This well funny vid imo mabe she was molested by a pickle? :) Gud vid imo :D

  32. Brian says:
    November 19, 2006 at 8:10 pm

    I think it’s hilarious. People 30 years ago didn’t have phobias like this 30 years ago, maybe thats because they’d be called an idiot.

  33. Ben Lee says:
    November 19, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    OMFG that is the funniest thing ever, she is a loser.

  34. Jess says:
    November 20, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    That video’s so sick. Everyone’s afraid of something; just because this girl is afraid of something so obviously irrational everyone’s completely victimising her. Millions of people are afraid of the dark, spiders, losing things; all totally harmless, but everyone’s humiliating her because she’s afraid of pickles.

    Making her face it. I actually can’t begin to describe how stupid this man is and how dim-witted the audience is laughing. And by the way, there were overly irrational fears thirty years ago; people just didn’t showcase them the way we do now – it’s like the new ‘freak shows.’

    (I’m from the UK and don’t know this show, but I hope if I ever go to the USA the people there are far nicer than him.)

  35. James says:
    November 20, 2006 at 3:09 pm

    Silly ass pickle hating schizo-crazy-persons!

  36. Kyso Kisaen says:
    November 20, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    McBoing, you are a goddam genius. You really are.

  37. McBoing says:
    November 20, 2006 at 7:57 pm

    McBoing: Bringing the crazy since 1973.

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    November 21, 2006 at 7:14 pm

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  39. StevieMC says:
    November 25, 2006 at 5:21 am

    I’m pretty sure he knew saying get over it wouldn’t cure her.

    Therapy? Facing your fear would be the best way to beat it.

    Funny. A woman features on this episode and suddenly all men a sad chauvenists.

    That video was highly entertaining for me. If that woman was so unfairly treated poor her stuff, why did she agree to go on the show?

  40. stupid crap says:
    November 26, 2006 at 11:14 pm

    THe fact that the show never really got to the bottom of the phobia, such as it is probably some terrible childhood trama inapropriate for day time TV, is fucking disusting and cruel. No one has a phobia like that without some REASON.

  41. Nick says:
    November 27, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    Its brought such an enlightening discussion. Bummer is…

    It’s fake and shes now a quite rich drama student.

  42. Pickle Monster says:
    November 28, 2006 at 3:06 am

    I am the pickle monster. I like to eat 18 year old girls. Boohahahahahaha.

  43. Pickle Monster says:
    November 28, 2006 at 3:10 am

    I am the pickle monster. I have come to eat your flesh. Boohahahaha Boohahaha. Come on get a sense of humor. Its nothing classical conditioning cant cure. Even little Albert would agree.

  44. bones says:
    November 28, 2006 at 7:14 am

    I Need help.

    I have a terrible fear of flying bullets, knife weilding maniacs and falling from great hieghts onto parked cars or concrete.

    I can’t walk ito a hail of gunfire without sh***ng my pants and when I am on a tall building I just can’t bring myself to jump!

  45. Stinkbottom says:
    November 28, 2006 at 7:19 am

    It was a bit mean for Maury to antagonize her with pickles. I was almost expecting him to have someone come out in a giant pickle costume and chase her around.;

  46. Kyso Kisaen says:
    November 28, 2006 at 7:54 am

    McBoing, what the hell is going on here?

  47. Dykonoclast says:
    November 28, 2006 at 8:19 am

    I don’t know what the hell is going on here, either, but someone seems to have addressed my xanthophobia 5 months after I expressed it. How queer.

  48. JackGoff says:
    November 28, 2006 at 10:53 am

    Voodoo rays, mind control, McBoing is a google magnet being from a distant planet.

    Any or all of these things.

  49. Kristen says:
    January 1, 2007 at 1:45 am

    The girl who was afraid of mustard is my moms friends sister and she wasn’t actually afraid of mustard. She just faked it to get a free trip to new york. shes pathetic. woah. i just realized that as you type, your comment appears under the preveiw thing. as your typing. haha. cool.

  50. Luvinthebass says:
    January 14, 2007 at 4:01 am

    If she’s afraid of pickles then she’s prolly afraid of cocks.

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