Hating things that don't make sense...

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I'm curious if I'm the only one that almost gets angry trying to understand things that don't make sense. It doesn't necessarily matter what it is, it just bothers me... a LOT.

What made me think of it, is that I have been watching a lot of Animal Planet lately, and for some reason, these shows keep focusing on prehistoric times. First off, the shows are normally to teach about real animals that exist today... you know, where we can visually see and be sure how they act around them, lol, which is the point of the show usually. So they keep going into prehistoric times, and these people are like "I'm going to catch a T-Rex and see how he survives in the 21st century".

I'm just staring. I comprehend what they are trying to do, but I really don't get the point of the show, or why they attempt to make it realistic providing dinosaurs are not around today. So I'm watching it, and the whole time I'm getting frustrated every time they run scared saying something like "Wow! That was close, he almost got me!". It keeps making me wanna just grab the people in the show, shake 'em, and yell "NO HE DIDN'T-STOP ACTING LIKE THAT!" lol. It almost gives me the creeps.

I don't really know why it annoys me so much that they keep doing it... maybe it's because they act like it is so real. They actually go through the trouble of building cages, act like they've been stung by giant scorpions, panic when being stalked by a saber tooth lion... it's just ridiculously confusing to me for some reason. I grasp it, yet I don't, and it drives me bonkers! lol.

Discovery Channel and History Channel have both done things I have not been fond of at all.
They've dramatized small incidents to seem to the scale of The Titanic and made Mexico's third largest city look like some random town.
I stick to National Geographic.

Maybe I can help - this sort of senseless programming has been happening to the Biography Channel as well.

The problem is that they are running out of material - or rather they think they are. Maybe you got the impression of what the channel is all about, and now they are changing the impression and you are having trouble making sense of that. Understandable.

Channels change. I'm sure in the US, ABC, NBS and CBS have evolved and changed over the years. Okay - they are more general and not subject specific like Discovery or History, but you take reality TV for example. Because writers (notwithstanding the strike at the moment) can only come up with so much the ideas run dry and in order to keep the channel going new things like extinct animals or sensationalising past events out of proportion become compulsory in order to keep the channel on air.

I have a feeling that's probably not enough for you, but I'm trying! I understand the annoyance - I just change channels!

Also bear in mind that like the History Channel, they ran out of original stuff to air some time ago.

That's why history channel at one point was nothing more than WW2 documentaries.

I hate the colour pink for no particular reason, so you're not alone

I hate things that don't work as they should.

My husband though, he gets extremely frustrated when something is contradictory or doesn't make sense. His world is based very much in logic, and if something doesn't make logical sense, it's very stressful. And yes, he's an aspie.

That happens to me! I don't understand people who lie, because telling the truth just...makes sense I guess

I hate how young NT women talk like bimbos? I hate how they talk that way, and now, all women are starting to talk like that. No wonder I get along better with men.

I get what the OP is saying. I also get extreamly frusterated and angry if I dont understand something, if it does not make sence, then I loose my temper quickly.

I also understand the whole pretend dino thing, that is stupid. I think I know what show you are talking about. They show a T-rex running on a tredmill and that is how they determine the speed of its fastest pace.

Pretty dumb, but unlike me who likes a show with strait up facts usually, I dont need any fancy BS like they are doing with the dino's and pretend and all, I would much rather prefer a show like myth busters, those guys present facts and do things in a way thats understandible. They dont need to make a computer animation, a model, and then use that model as a way to determine things about the life form its attempting to model. I also did not enjoy that show and watched only a little bit. The whole fakeness and pretend of being excited and nervous when the T-rex fell and all is pretty rediculous.

lol, yep. I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by these things.

Right now it's Jeff Corwin and this Nigel guy (I forget his last name) that are doing it... they've done 2-3 versions of pretty much the same darn thing, lol. Then, when they are "seeking" out the dinosaurs, they're like "let's see how close it'll let me get to it", and I'm thinking "oh sure, as if you could know that for certain!" lol. I don't get it.

I think I get frustrated so badly because I KNOW it's fake, and they are putting so much effort into making it look real... and it actually DOES look real. So my comprehension goes right out the window when these shows come on. I always wonder if there really is a way they could know for CERTAIN how close a human could get, etc. But I have doubts that they could know it 100%, so that bothers me as well.

I dunno if it's because I think it's ridiculous, or that they are trying so incredibly hard to make it look real and all that it immediately conflicts with me knowing that it isn't.

I have one that bothers me much more than your dino thing.

I can't stand it when they make a movie about a shipwreck or a disaster where no one survived. That means NO ONE knew in any way what actually took place. But they make a whole 2 hour movie about it and say "Based on a true story" or that it is a factual event, when in fact the whole thing is made up.

It's like finding a bicycle along the road with a flat tire and then writing a 2 hour movie with great drama all about the person who bought that bicycle and rode it and what happened and how it came to have a flat tire. You would know NONE of those things, it ALL has to be made up and the possiblities are nearly endless on the kind of crap you can makeup. A dinosaur probably rode that bicycle! Yeah, that's what happened.

I have a very short fuse for fantasy anyway. It is very confusing and disorienting and frankly it's boring.

I'm exatly the same! I get really anoyed with documentary programmes when they try and exaggerate something to a stupid degree.

I think it's just because we like to know the FACTS, and haven't got time for someone else's own views clouding over the documentary.

I watched a documentary the other day about dolphins saving humans who were in danger from sharks, and they were supposed to have 2 instances to show this. The second one was pretty good, and pretty likely that the dolphins had been altruistic, but the first case didn't prove anything, and they even said it was probably just the mother dolphins looking after the young, so I just thought why even show it? It's not a case of dolphin altruism towards humans because there's a much more likely reason for their behaviour. I was angry they'd spent so long building it up.

Television seems to be changing for the worse these days. The want to hype everything up, and I just want to know the truth!

As you can see, I feel strongly about this too.

I know what you mean! For me it has to do with fact v fiction. If I want to learn about dinosaurs, I want to know the facts, not some theoretical about how they would survive in the modern world (or whatever the case is). I know it's an attempt to make things interesting, and to present the facts in a unique way, but sometimes I want to say, "Just get to the POINT already!"

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Steve Irwin clones?

This is the ugly side of Degrees in Marketing and Communication.

I hate things that don't make sense because I want to fix them so they make sense, but I can't because I have no control over such things. The worst part is that there are so many things that don't make sense but yet other people can't see what's illogical about it and therefore they get conned. Then when that happens, the consequences of such things usually have a negative effect on the lives of those who can see what's not making any sense! Does this make sense?

And they only talk about the TV show Big Brother and who got voted out, and yet if you mentioned the novel 1984 where BB comes from, they'd look at you like you were nuts.

Pop music: The singer always seems to be talling me that I'm the only one for her... yeah, your in a recording studio singing something written by a guy who was paid to write the song. So stop singing it!

And how anyone is swayed by advertising is beyond me...



If you've ever seen the documentary series Seconds from disaster, you'll notice that they do that ALL THE TIME, and it gets very annoying.