things that make my head feel like exploding

[mickeym]

Commercials. Jesus Christ, the commercials on television make me want to throw things AT the television.

This is what nearly tipped me over the edge tonight. The diet industry in general annoys me, just on principle, but anything that has "quick" in the title gets an extra GRRRR aimed at it. Anyway, the 2nd commercial on that page is a woman in a bikini, all bony hipbones and angles, and she says, "I'm the mother of three kids, and I just couldn't lose those last twenty pounds--"

Which, yeah, okay. Reasonable; lots of women battle with baby weight.

THEN:

"QuickTrim helped me lose those, and I went FROM A SIZE EIGHT TO A SIZE ZERO."

I *know* that weight and body image are relative and subjective, and twenty pounds can seem to someone else what 100 seem to me.

But it just really made my blood pressure go up, with the size-eight-to-size-zero.

The other thing making my head feel like exploding is the weather. We're in between storm systems right now, but the next one's due to roll through later tonight. We've already had the tornado warning sirens, and the extreme lightning and rain -- also, six inches of rain in 24 hours, oi. The river is at 23F right now -- which is flood stage -- and is supposed to hit 34F by Monday/Tuesday. That's if we have NO more rain... and we have rain expected for the next four or five days. Ugh.

I guess I should try to get some writing done, yeah? Yeah.

Comments

[rainbow.livejournal.com]

what i find very discombobulating is multiple diet ads itnerspersed with multiple food ads.... o.O

i mean, honestly... multiple long term peer-reviewed studies show a 5% or less success rate for long term weight loss via diet.

and yet most ppl _who already know they're part of the 95%_ will defend diets and insist they really work!

*sigh* education. i want our country to have decent education and stop trying to teach ppl magical thinking...

[munibunny.livejournal.com]

Wow. That girl is ridiculously skinny.

Did you watch the last one where she says, "Do you feel sexy? Do you have the body you've always dreamed of...?" *eyeroll* Yeah, I totally hate these diet ads. Way to make the rest of us real women feel like crap about ourselves.

[mkitty3.livejournal.com]

The weather has been insane! I always look forward to the stormy season during the winter months, but this is ridiculous. The boy's were supposed to start baseball season two weeks ago, we have yet to play our first game due to rain! So annoying. I bet it is extra bad up in the Louisville area. I remember when I was in school, it seemed liked the storms there were so much worse than in Berea.

[fufaraw]

Commercials are stupid. Society's eptitude for dealing with (the growing population of) people who are larger than a steadily declining model of "normal" is practically nil. People? Not very bright.

Stay weather safe! And otherwise-safe, too, of course.

Laptop tits up. Most doc files duplicated in online mail. Most. Arrrgghh.