Bob and Sheri talked to a Men's Health expert about a new-found disorder called IED, or Intermittent Explosive Disorder, which primarily affects men. In the age where Alec Baldwin calls his 11-yr-old daughter a "thoughtless pig" among other expletives over the phone in a fit of anger, this has some merit. I definitely think I've got it. I usually bottle up, and then unload on some poor folk when it becomes too much.Just this week, I yelled at two colleagues for about five minutes over a minor photocopy issue. I realized its effect when I found one of the poor colleagues avoiding me on the street after two days. Well, until there's a drug available, I'm just gonna continue being the ticking bomb. The bomb, yeah, that's me. "I've got moves you haven't seen" (Dean, here's another quote from MBFW)
I just added one more word to my list of pet peeves recently. I think that American English is often dumbed down, but this really takes the cake. It's the word "Nucelar", which is not even a word, but there are 79,400 pages that contains this word, thanks to Americanization of grammar. You would be surprised at some of the sites. I've heard George W. Bush pronounce it "nucelar" instead of the correct word "nuclear". Several movies and TV show, including the usually articulate show "West Wing" made the same mistake. Do these people think that people are not able to understand the phonetics, if pronounced the correct way?
We need to stomp out mediocrity, one word/idea at a time. Otherwise, who knows where we'll end up?
