:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Thursday, October 24, 2002

And for my last negative thought of the day (and hopefully the week):

One last thing I can't stand, are people who will harp on the same jokes over and over and over and over, every day, ad nauseum, thinking that it is absolutely hysterical, but being totally obnoxious.

Let's be honest. Catch phrases in sitcoms work because you only have to hear them once a week. I think that it is safe to say that if you heard it thirty times a day, every day for 22 weeks, you would get pretty annoyed. And that would just be for a television season. Imagine having to do it year round.

My problem is that for a good portion of the day I am surrounded by people who spout things that aren't inherently funny unto themselves, over and over again, and laugh at the sheer stupidity of it. I got the joke (or at least pretended to) the first thousand times. After the seventeen thousandth, you tend to get a little annoyed.

I personally have my own personality quirks, but I don't necessarily intend for them to be funny per se, I just like them. For example, I occasionally speak in accents. Maybe it emphasizes things for comedic effect, but for the most part I don't lapse into it to be funny, and if someone is getting annoyed, I will stop.

But these meaningless catchphrases and wacky musical stings (which are even less funny when produced by a person's voice than they are by musical instrument) are slowly starting to get to me. I am so glad that I am not a violent person, and that I have my nice music to keep me (for the most part) blissfully out of it.)
:: J 2:56 PM [+] ::
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