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[Disposable Ninja]

Will your mother die if those minute things aren't correct? If not, you're just a picky asshole.

[Classic]

Well, OCD is one of those things that normal people do, just amped up to crazy.
So, in one sense, you've got OCD. But in a more useful sense, you don't, because if that drive isn't amped up to crazy then you're not OCD. Get it?

[R^2]

In order for an action to be OCD it must be done obsessively and compulsively enough to be a disorder. That's why they call it that.

[Royal☭]

It, most notably, has to interfere with your daily life as well and it has to be practically autonomous.. Such as people who just cannot stop washing their hands, or must continually flip and re-flip a light switch.

What Niku describes is just annoying perfectionism. It would cross into the realm of OCD if he could not proceed until those little details were exact.

[Brentai]

And that would just make him a tester.

[Joxam]

Also I don't think most people know what OCD is as a rule. I have kids at work that think I'm 'OCD' because I wash my hands pretty much every time I walk past a sink, when in reality, I do that because projector oil is one of the most vile smelling and tasting liquids on the fucking planet. But they think that because it causes dry skin on my hands that can crack into wounds its must mean I'm OCD. No, that's not the case, the fact that I hate lotion is the reason my hands crack when they dry, not because I'm 'OCD'. Stupid kids.

[Brentai]

OCD is often used as a descriptor and not as an actual medical diagnosis, like retard or psycho.

[François]

Or motherfucker.

[Büge]

OCD is often used as a descriptor and not as an actual medical diagnosis, like retard or psycho.

One of my roommates was a nursing student and she casually threw around the term "retarded". You'd think they'd have sensitivity classes on that sort of thing.

[Romosome]

I typed this rant up in response to a sort of dumb internet discussion I saw elsewhere and figured at least someone might get a kick out of my bitching here, so here you go: my pet peeve of people not understanding and overreacting about "human cloning".

The problem with cloning is that nobody actually fucking knows or cares to think about what it involves.

There is SCIFI BULLSHIT CLONING and ACTUAL CLONING

SCIFI BULLSHIT CLONING is creating an exact copy of an adult person with all their memories and experiences and personality and all that. This creates all kind of crazy ethical and existential issues about identity and shit! How do we know we are original! Is there a soul!

ACTUAL CLONING is literally just creating an embryo genetically identical to another organism. That's it. You may be familiar with this as "identical twins". You may also notice nobody says stupid navelgazing bullshit about twins, like, DO TWINS HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS THE ORIGINAL? SHOULD WE HARVEST TWINS FOR ORGANS? CAN TWINS BE USED FOR IMMORTALITY?

"Cloning" itself isn't a big deal at all because it's actually pretty fucking useless. If you hadn't noticed, animals take a while to grow up and all that shit. About the only use for cloning we have is in breeding livestock where we've already been cloning plants for a shitlong time and mucking with genetics since before we had the goddamn word "genetics".

Sorry but this is a pet peeve of mine. The ability to do all the shit we talk about when we talk about cloning? Transferring or copying memories, or instantaneously growing adult bodies within a very short period of time? THOSE are technologies that would have huge potential applications and a shitload of ethical problems.

Making a test tube embryo twin really isn't.

And the mitosis keeps fucking up in mammals anyway just in case the whole shitstorm over nothing wasn't already laughably overblown.

[Royal☭]

But we just shouldn't play God!

[Romosome]

But we just shouldn't play God!

I can't hear you over this suspension bridge I'm building

[Royal☭]

You shouldn't build God!

[Romosome]

Additional pet peeve:

When things that are incredibly obvious jokes are overheard by stupid people and begin to be used as actual arguments.

like "The five second rule", and "If eating animals is bad why are they so tasty"

and then we have to disprove that shit to lowered-bar idiots.

If I see another article about people bothering to "debunk" the five second rule I am going to absolutely lose my shit. It's like people having serious discussions over whether he who smelt it reliably dealt it.

[Royal☭]

People just like numbers, makes it easier because we only use 10% of our brains to think about sex every 7 seconds.

[Thad]

like "The five second rule", and "If eating animals is bad why are they so tasty"

Or "I DO help with the problem of bovine flatulence -- I eat the cows!"

[Classic]

I'm annoyed whenever I see an ad for a bank that tries to recast, say Chase, as an institution that cares about "main street" in any real capacity.

... Am I being unfair here?

[Thad]

No.

Chase does not care about anything.

Love is just an abstract concept.  It can't knock down stuff.

[Brentai]

But but but love kicked all the changelings out of ponyville

[Silversong]

Mandatory Bosses' Day donations. (We are celebrating this belatedly this year.) The bosses make an awful lot more money than I do, and while I'm all for signing a Hallmark card thanking them for another year with barely any floggings, a mandatory $15 contribution to gifts (in addition to bringing food to share for breakfast) really irks me. Especially considering all the admins got for Admin's Day was a tiny flower bouquet and a free lunch, and we make the least amount of money in the company.