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Title: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 10, 2010, 07:33:26 AM
Test your anger
Take this anger inventory quiz to see how you score:

http://s.wsj.guy-quiz-10-03.html


HEALTH JOURNAL MARCH 9, 2010

When Anger Is An Illness

'Intermittent Explosive Disorder,' Or Just a Temper Tantrum?

Erin Wigger for The Wall Street Journal


Scream at the boss? Snap at a colleague? Throw your cell phone into your @#$%%&* computer monitor? If so, you may find yourself headed to anger-management classes, which have become an all-purpose antidote for fit-throwing celebrities, chair-throwing coaches, vandals, road ragers, delinquent teens, disruptive airline passengers, and obstreperous employees.

Demand for such programs is coming from courts seeking alternatives to jail sentences and companies hoping to avoid lawsuits and office blowups. Aware that high-pressure jobs can make for hot tempers, some professions offer pre-emptive anger management. A few state bar associations now require "civility" training for lawyers renewing their licenses. And as of last year, hospitals must have programs for "disruptive" physicians as a condition of accreditation.

Programs run the gamut from $300-an-hour private therapists to one-day intensive seminars, weekly group sessions or online courses with no human interaction. Many advertise that they satisfy court requirements—even if all they offer is six CDs and a certificate of completion.

It's not clear if the programs work, as few studies have analyzed their effectiveness. There are no licensing requirements for anger-management trainers—anyone can open a business. And since participants don't usually sign up voluntarily, trainers say it's possible to complete a program without actually changing one's behavior.

Part of the problem is that professionals can't agree whether a pattern of angry outbursts signals a mental illness or simply a behavior issue. As a result, people who need psychiatric help may instead get shunted into a short-term anger-management course. Employers and courts may not adequately evaluate people before sending them for anger interventions, nor provide sufficient follow-up.

There have been some notable failures—the Columbine shooters, for example, attended anger-management classes before their 1999 killing spree. Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama biologist who allegedly killed three colleagues and wounded three more last month, had been advised by prosecutors to take anger-management classes after an earlier incident in 2002. Her lawyer says he doesn't know if she did.

Psychiatrists generally recommend a psychiatric exam for people with severe anger problems, because anger can often accompany depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The closest thing to a formal diagnosis for anger alone is Intermittent Explosive Disorder, defined as episodes of aggression against people or property out of proportion to any provocation. In 2006, studies at Harvard University and the University of Chicago estimated that one in 20 Americans (mostly men) may fit the criteria for IED. Some respond well to antidepressants, particularly serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Brain scans of people with IED found that when they were shown pictures of angry faces, their amygdalae, the primitive, emotional part of the brain, lit up with activity, but not the frontal cortex, which normally exercises impulse control.

"These people are hot heads, and the people around them are walking on egg shells. They don't know when they are going to blow up next," says University of Chicago psychiatrist Emil Coccaro, a leading IED researcher.

IED, recognized as a psychiatric illness since 1980, may be combined with a new disorder, termed Temper Dysregulation Disorder, in the next edition of the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, because both are believed to begin in adolescence.

Psychologists believe that individual talk therapy is the most effective for anger problems. "Anger doesn't occur by itself. It's nested and embedded with a lot of other emotions—sadness, grief, shame," says Raymond Novaco, a University of California, Irvine, psychologist who widely credited with coining the term "anger management" in the 1970s and developed several widely used measurement scales. "Angry people want to talk, given the opportunity," he says.

Professional anger-management trainers say that in most cases anger isn't an illness but a normal human emotion that causes problems when it flares too hot, too often. They believe people can learn to manage their anger with practical skills.

Health columnist Melinda Beck discusses increasing anger in today's society and the rising demand for anger management services. She talks with Simon Constable about new diagnoses and treatments.

"I don't want everybody who calls up for anger management to be assumed to have a mental illness," says Ian Shaffer, chief medical officer for MHN, a subsidiary of Health Net Inc., which runs employee-assistance programs for companies, including anger management. MHN's anger-management program takes the form of conference calls. After an individual evaluation, employees whose jobs are on the line because of anger issues are told to call an 800 number for a 90-minute group discussion with a facilitator twice a week for six sessions. All participants are anonymous. MHN says one in-house study found that three-fourths of the employees whose jobs were in jeopardy were in good standing after completing the program.

How can they tell if the employees aren't working at the computer or filing their nails during the sessions? "We can't—but we can tell if you're participating or progressing," says Dr. Shaffer, a psychiatrist. "People can sandbag you—bright people know what to say to make it sound like they are progressing," he says. "But at the end of the day, we go back and ask your supervisor if you're better."

Most anger-management programs stress "emotional intelligence"—the idea that understanding why you are frustrated or annoyed or upset, and finding a calm, constructive means to get your way, is far more effective than losing your temper.

George Anderson, founder of Anderson & Anderson, a Brentwood, Calif., firm, says some people who get angry in the workplace are perfectionists who expect perfection from others, while some are subconsciously masking feelings of vulnerability. His firm offers dozens of customized anger-management programs for different professions. Among these: a $5,400 intensive on-site intervention for furious physicians who've lost hospital privileges due to patient or staff complaints.

Mr. Anderson tells of watching one surgeon ream out someone via cell phone while performing open-heart surgery. He says he helped the doctor realize he'd be more effective with a different approach.

"I'm not always successful," Mr. Anderson says. "I usually say, look, you're paying a lot of money for this… What would you be wiling to change? You've tried passive aggressive and it turns people off. Let's try assertive communication—you see if it works."


Tips to Help Keep A Temper in Check

Most anger-management programs use techniques borrowed from cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people deal with anger. Here are some strategies to help keep negative emotions in check.

• Reframe the situation. Instead of seeing every inconvenience or frustration as a personal affront, imagine a benign explanation.

• Find a constructive solution to the issue at hand. "Ask yourself: what do I need to be okay right now?," suggests Rich Pfeiffer, a psychologist and board president of the National Anger Management Association, a group of about 300 practitioners. "That shifts the focus from how the other person needs to be punished to how I need to respond in a healthy way."

• Keep an "anger log" to monitor what makes you angry. Learn to identify and avoid your triggers.

• Be aware that anger tends to rise in increments. Learn to evaluate yours from 1 (frustration) to 10 (rage). If you can catch yourself at 3 or 4, you can think more rationally about the situation.

• If you feel a blowup coming on, give yourself a time-out before acting on it. "Wait 15 minutes before you say something, or an hour before you send an email. Keep your options open," says Pauline Wallin, a psychologist in Camp Hill, Pa., and author of "Taming Your Inner Brat." "If it's not going to be important in an hour, then let it go. It's not worth getting angry about."

• Get a health checkup. Medical problems such as diabetes, chronic pain, low testosterone and low estrogen, can make people very irritable. Anger, either repressed or unleashed, can cause medical problems too. Some 30,000 heart attacks each year are triggered by momentary anger, according to a 2004 Harvard study.

• Be aware of how you talk to yourself. "If you keep saying how awful this is and making yourself feel alike a victim, you will get more angry," says Dr. Wallin.

• Don't ruminate on past affronts or injustices.

• Recognize patterns. "So often, people will say, 'I'm just like my father—my father got angry'," says Dr. Pfeiffer. "You don't have to go back into their childhoods and deal with that. You just have to work on how to respond effectively now."

• Calculate what your anger is costing you. Many people with anger problems think anger gives them an edge, and establishes superiority. "Instead, you just look like an idiot," says Leon Ingram, founder of Chicago-based angermgmt.com.

• Don't use alcohol to "calm" yourself. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions so you are more likely to do or say something you'll regret later.

• Get physical, without fists. When your primitive brain senses a threat, it sets off the "fight or flight" cascade of hormones. Opt for flight instead of fight and burn off the extra adrenaline and cortisol with exercise. Even a brisk walk will help calm you down.

• The ultimate lesson: Pay more attention to the important things in life and recognize that most frustrations, inconveniences and indignities are trivial and temporary.

Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 10, 2010, 08:11:53 AM
oh I scored a 37..I thought I would of been a bigger hot head
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: YoungBlood on March 10, 2010, 10:29:31 AM


I got a 34...anyone that knows me, they see me vent quite a bit, but always assume it's anger and I may fly off the handle or hit things. So I was surprised when I scored so low.

Also, some of those questions really depended on the situation. One of them was about someone sticking their nose in your business...usually I easily dismiss them, but if it's a person that continuously does so after repeated "warnings" from me...sure I might answer I'd be damn angry!!!
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: tonymctones on March 10, 2010, 10:38:35 AM
I got a 40...they need to be more accurate in what the answers entail...little upset=thinking to yourself, very angry=physically assaulting someone...

Whats a little upset to some ppl may be quite angry to others...mine should be much higher  ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Playboy on March 10, 2010, 11:56:06 AM
I scored a 60 so I respond to life's annoyances on an average anger level. Funny, I thought I would have scored a higher number.
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 10, 2010, 01:32:50 PM
i made a 95......i have actually started fist fights over some of the situations in they're questions...

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 10, 2010, 02:00:46 PM
i made a 95......i have actually started fist fights over some of the situations in they're questions...

bench

I didn't see a question referencing breakfast tacos
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 10, 2010, 02:01:20 PM
I don't know,I'm usually not happy unless I'm pissed off about something. >:(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 10, 2010, 02:12:10 PM
I didn't see a question referencing breakfast tacos
that just goes to show you what kind of dumb shit i have thrown hands over.....i have actually been in fights over dumber shit than breakfast tacos... ;D

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 10, 2010, 02:17:45 PM
that just goes to show you what kind of dumb shit i have thrown hands over.....i have actually been in fights over dumber shit than breakfast tacos... ;D

bench

lol
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 10, 2010, 02:46:05 PM
lol
its been a journey ;D

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Eyeball Chambers on March 10, 2010, 04:39:15 PM
32  ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 10, 2010, 08:03:29 PM
32  ;D
my score rapes yours to death....wanna fight about it >:(


 ;D
bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 10, 2010, 10:16:37 PM
GO BENCH !!! ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 10, 2010, 10:38:16 PM
GO BENCH !!! ;D
dont...just dont ;D

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: CalvinH on March 11, 2010, 08:46:51 AM
I was to irritated to take the test >:(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 11, 2010, 08:48:12 AM
ya know what fry's my ass...fucking lazy mother fuckers at the grocery store that can move the carts to where they go they just leave them wherever
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: CalvinH on March 11, 2010, 08:53:21 AM
ya know what fry's my ass...fucking lazy mother fuckers at the grocery store that can move the carts to where they go they just leave them wherever


Then when they go to pay they pull out 1,000 coupons and it takes them forever to dig thru their purse...then they wanna pay by check >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 11, 2010, 09:01:37 AM
lmaoooooo hey I use coupons
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ~flower~ on March 11, 2010, 09:34:18 AM
I got a 66 which to me seemed surprisingly low.    >:(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ~flower~ on March 11, 2010, 09:36:38 AM
ya know what fry's my ass...fucking lazy mother fuckers at the grocery store that can move the carts to where they go they just leave them wherever

I was going to write a 'Grocery Shopping for Dummies' that would address that issue and many more!
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 11, 2010, 09:38:05 AM
omg its sooooooooooooooooooooo annoying, even when my daughter was an infant with me and I was a huge 263 llbs, Id still walk it over the stalls for the carts
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Princess L on March 11, 2010, 10:19:52 AM
55-56 right on the cusp, depending on how I answer a question or two.
So many of the questions depend on the circumstances ~ like the spilled coffee.  If it were a little old lady who was having difficulty walking and she bumped into me, no big deal, but if it were a couple of kids horsing around, I'd be pissed.
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: YoungBlood on March 11, 2010, 10:33:36 AM
ya know what fry's my ass...fucking lazy mother fuckers at the grocery store that can move the carts to where they go they just leave them wherever

I was going to write a 'Grocery Shopping for Dummies' that would address that issue and many more!

omg its sooooooooooooooooooooo annoying, even when my daughter was an infant with me and I was a huge 263 llbs, Id still walk it over the stalls for the carts


Don't even get me started on grocery stores, customers and how they act....I've got stories upon stories. From carts, leaving items somewhere, rude behavior, odd behavior or just outright stupid & oblivious acts of selfishness.
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 11, 2010, 10:42:16 AM
28   


Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: YoungBlood on March 11, 2010, 11:12:01 AM
28   




No wonder you can tolerate GetBig! ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Princess L on March 11, 2010, 11:14:27 AM
28   



Oh, come on now!  ::)
Did you take the test before the massage and wine or after?
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: w8m8 on March 11, 2010, 11:24:08 AM
78

I'll stop by the mean thread on my way back to my room  :-\
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: powerpack on March 11, 2010, 11:51:34 AM
63
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 11, 2010, 01:48:37 PM
Holding on to your anger is like holding on to a red hot stone with the intention of throwing it at someone.

You both get burned in the end. :-\
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: w8m8 on March 11, 2010, 02:27:05 PM
Holding on to your anger is like holding on to a red hot stone with the intention of throwing it at someone.

You both get burned in the end. :-\

That's good then that I wanna choke people right away ?  :D


 
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 11, 2010, 02:30:37 PM
Shit! Why not just send a bullet through their skull and be done with it? ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 11, 2010, 02:38:42 PM
Oh, come on now!  ::)
Did you take the test before the massage and wine or after?


The first time I took it I got a 22.

I thought that seemed really low so I took it again today (pre!).

I think they just didn't really cover situations that make me really angry.
Plus some situations they presented are very vague so it's kind of difficult to choose.






That's good then that I wanna choke people right away ?  :D

 

 78!!   :o


 ;D


Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 11, 2010, 03:46:51 PM
this makes me want to go POSTAL
(03-10) 19:06 PST OAKLAND -- A 19-year-old Oakland woman arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly suffocating her 2-year-old daughter was charged with child endangerment last month for an incident in San Mateo involving another young daughter and the woman's brother, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Tiffany Lopez, who is three months pregnant, is being held in the slaying Tuesday of Kamilah Russell, a vibrant little girl who relatives said liked the color pink and the cartoon "Dora the Explorer."

Lopez is suspected of suffocating Kamilah in their second-floor apartment on the 2800 block of High Street, where they had moved a few weeks ago from San Mateo.

Family members called 911 at about 4:30 p.m. to report that the girl needed medical help. Kamilah was taken to Children's Hospital Oakland, where she died.

Lopez told police that she had become frustrated with her daughter, said Officer Jason Andersen of the homicide detail. He declined to elaborate.

The mother initially told investigators she had accidentally sat on Kamilah as the two played hide-and-seek, police said.

In February, Lopez was charged in San Mateo County Superior Court with two counts of child endangerment and one count of resisting arrest as a result of an incident in San Mateo on Christmas Eve, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.

The children who were allegedly endangered were Lopez's 11-year-old brother and her then-4-month-old daughter, said Wagstaffe, who declined to elaborate. Lopez posted $50,000 bail in the case and was scheduled to appear in court in April.

The younger daughter, now 7 months old, was placed into protective custody Wednesday, said Joseph Russell Sr., her grandfather.

He said the December incident was primarily an altercation involving Lopez and the 11-year-old brother, which was why the infant girl wasn't removed at the time.

Kamilah, said her grandfather, was "beautiful, intelligent, energetic - a lively baby."

Lopez lived with Kamilah's father, Joseph Russell Jr., 22, who is also the father of the 7-month-old and the unborn child.

He had left the apartment shortly before Kamilah was killed. In a brief interview Wednesday, he called Kamilah's death "a devastating moment in my life."

After the girl died, Russell went to his father's home in Oakland. Ricky Arroyo, 49, who lives next door, said Russell had screamed, and "the pain in that scream, it was not just a regular ... the pain was so profound."

Kamilah "was his love, his life," Arroyo said.

"It's a horrible thing," the elder Russell said. "I didn't think anybody was capable of this. ... I really want to know why my granddaughter won't get to enjoy her life, why this injustice was brought upon my granddaughter. I just want answers."



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/10/BA051CDMAB.DTL#ixzz0hulc1jFC


Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Eyeball Chambers on March 11, 2010, 07:35:32 PM
my score rapes yours to death....wanna fight about it >:(


 ;D
bench

Nah, it's cool....


hahahah  ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 11, 2010, 07:59:29 PM
benchmstr might have been "accidentally" involved in a fist fight today!!!!!

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Playboy on March 12, 2010, 05:28:47 AM
I have tons of annoyances that will make me rage but the number 1 thing that gets on my F*****n nerves are drive-throughs. All I want to do is go through a drive-through for 1 large double double coffee. 1.50. Thats all...a simple 30 second task. But as usual there is always a jerkoff lazy son of a bitch that has to order 20 different things holding up the entire damn line. Sometimes up to a point where the cars start to line up on the damn street. Why the f**k can't people park their cars, get their fat lazy asses out and go and order large amounts of food/drink/donuts/crap inside??? Answer me that. Makes me want to take a shovel and crack them over the head in the hopes of knocking sense into it.

Rant on  :P
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: w8m8 on March 12, 2010, 05:43:08 AM
The first time I took it I got a 22.

I thought that seemed really low so I took it again today (pre!).


LOL




I really get annoyed at the people who yell about me leaving my shopping cart where I empty it , and those guys in cars behind me when I'm getting my food at the drive thru


I mean JEESH ... without people like me those shopping cart fetchers would have little to do .. AND the drive thru is not marked for 2 items or less  >:(


chill out people !!!!



 ;D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 12, 2010, 06:34:14 AM
Mickey Mouse's birthday,being announced on the tv news as if it's an actual event! I hope that little  rodent dies !!! >:(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 12, 2010, 06:48:14 AM
I have tons of annoyances that will make me rage but the number 1 thing that gets on my F*****n nerves are drive-throughs. All I want to do is go through a drive-through for 1 large double double coffee. 1.50. Thats all...a simple 30 second task. But as usual there is always a jerkoff lazy son of a bitch that has to order 20 different things holding up the entire damn line. Sometimes up to a point where the cars start to line up on the damn street. Why the f**k can't people park their cars, get their fat lazy asses out and go and order large amounts of food/drink/donuts/crap inside??? Answer me that. Makes me want to take a shovel and crack them over the head in the hopes of knocking sense into it.

Rant on  :P

Sorry, I was hungry :(
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 12, 2010, 06:56:04 AM
this makes me want to go POSTAL

Same here
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Playboy on March 12, 2010, 11:06:29 AM
Sorry, I was hungry :(
Nah Stells, I can't see you doing that  :)
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: w8m8 on March 12, 2010, 11:32:30 AM
Nah Stells, I can't see you doing that  :)


you should see how much food migs takes out of her house , she's ran out of everything at one time or another  :D




next time I'm in front of you @ the drive through Playboy ... just relax .. and I'll pay for your large double double coffee if you don't hit me in the head with a shovel  ;D  :-*
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 12, 2010, 01:58:13 PM

you should see how much food migs takes out of her house , she's ran out of everything at one time or another  :D



Bahahaha!!
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: w8m8 on March 12, 2010, 02:32:21 PM
Bahahaha!!

 ;D


boy ... can he cook !!

Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Butterbean on March 12, 2010, 02:41:33 PM
;D


boy ... can he cook !!



All peanutbutter!
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 12, 2010, 04:24:02 PM
i scored a 27.....

as i expected to....i have a few pet peevs that annoy me to no end but other than that i pretty much never get angry

besides ...there is a little dood that sits in one corner of my brain thats constantly telling me " dood...you r better looking"....soo i'm usually in a pretty good mood! :D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 12, 2010, 04:59:41 PM
i scored a 27.....

as i expected to....i have a few pet peevs that annoy me to no end but other than that i pretty much never get angry

besides ...there is a little dood that sits in one corner of my brain thats constantly telling me " dood...you r better looking"....soo i'm usually in a pretty good mood! :D
my brain has a little guy in it that says shit like "fuck him up".... "your a bitch if you let that happen"........"your hungry for a hamburger, with hot wings instead of fries".......

.....but sometimes the little guy say's nothing....sometimes i just black out, and go into beast mode.........i once back handed a airport security guard in houston for blowing a whistle at me.....i then took his whistle away and kept it....

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 12, 2010, 05:04:32 PM
my brain has a little guy in it that says shit like "fuck him up".... "your a bitch if you let that happen"........"your hungry for a hamburger, with hot wings instead of fries".......

.....but sometimes the little guy say's nothing....sometimes i just black out, and go into beast mode.........i once back handed a airport security guard in houston for blowing a whistle at me.....i then took his whistle away and kept it....
bench
i dunno...i'm a pretty happy guy...partly cause most of the time people are pretty nice to me :-\
only time i've fought in a night club ws to save some little guys ass from a bigger guy....

ya got 1 life mang...why waste it walking around feeling bad right?  i never even get any meaner when i took tren... :-\   besides...from a carreer stand point....i cant have a single bad thing on my record...there r top level security clerances to be had....which = $$$$$$
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 12, 2010, 05:18:03 PM
i dunno...i'm a pretty happy guy...partly cause most of the time people are pretty nice to me :-\
only time i've fought in a night club ws to save some little guys ass from a bigger guy....

ya got 1 life mang...why waste it walking around feeling bad right?  i never even get any meaner when i took tren... :-\   besides...from a carreer stand point....i cant have a single bad thing on my record...there r top level security clerances to be had....which = $$$$$$
i am never mad...just irritable........hasnt mattered though, since i have gone through most of the security clearences you seek ;D

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 12, 2010, 05:42:22 PM
i am never mad...just irritable........hasnt mattered though, since i have gone through most of the security clearences you seek ;D

bench

lol TS SCI?   neat....!  8)
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 12, 2010, 06:35:51 PM
lol TS SCI?   neat....!  8)
have they showed up to your childhood friends place of work yet?.....or visited them in prison?

it gets pretty invasive...if you ever need any help with that stuff let me know..

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 12, 2010, 08:13:52 PM
have they showed up to your childhood friends place of work yet?.....or visited them in prison?

it gets pretty invasive...if you ever need any help with that stuff let me know..

bench

they can get as invasive as they want....i wouldn't care..i got nuttin to hide ....they prolly know quite a bit about me anyhow since i taught  a class or 2 for certain ajencies...
worse they'll find is that back in my college days i've been known to snort a line or 2  :-\

but yeah...come july or august...i'll take all the help i can get 8)
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 12, 2010, 08:52:47 PM
they can get as invasive as they want....i wouldn't care..i got nuttin to hide ....they prolly know quite a bit about me anyhow since i taught  a class or 2 for certain ajencies...
worse they'll find is that back in my college days i've been known to snort a line or 2  :-\

but yeah...come july or august...i'll take all the help i can get 8)
it really suprised me how much they knew.....like when they asked me of the exact contents of several packages that were drop shipped from romania when i was 18-20. the packages werent even seized!!!!!......just be honest with them...i was..

judging by your post about your work, it wouldnt suprise me if you ended up working under my cousin in the near future...

bench

Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Parker on March 13, 2010, 03:48:25 AM
I'm not even going to take the quiz, I'm soo chill, that I make Don Cornelius look like Oscar the Grouch
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 13, 2010, 07:50:11 AM
it really suprised me how much they knew.....like when they asked me of the exact contents of several packages that were drop shipped from romania when i was 18-20. the packages werent even seized!!!!!......just be honest with them...i was..
judging by your post about your work, it wouldnt suprise me if you ended up working under my cousin in the near future...
bench
one ajency i can mention is DISA(i put that on my resume also)....i taught a class for a few of those guys and the military combined at Univ of MD B-more...as my students told me...JUST DONT LIE....
they really dont give a crap about a few 'packages' ya got so ya could stick a few steroids in my butt to look good...vanity i doubt is on top of their "no no" list. I dunno if i will go govt though...i dont wanna end up back in paki or worse afghanistan....BUT even in the private sector a clerance does bring ya on average 60K more then you'd otherwise make. I dont have many expensive habits...not into cars...etc but i do go a tad apeshiit spending wise when on vacation :D
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 13, 2010, 07:53:48 AM
I'm not even going to take the quiz, I'm soo chill, that I make Don Cornelius look like Oscar the Grouch

it shows on here mate....

usually spells ...good selfesteem easy going..dood i wouldn't mind having a beer with ...to me
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: yng466 on March 13, 2010, 09:15:27 AM
I don't have "PET PEEVES",I have major psychotic hatreds,alright? >:( Makes the world easier to sort out.
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 13, 2010, 11:10:56 AM
one ajency i can mention is DISA(i put that on my resume also)....i taught a class for a few of those guys and the military combined at Univ of MD B-more...as my students told me...JUST DONT LIE....
they really dont give a crap about a few 'packages' ya got so ya could stick a few steroids in my butt to look good...vanity i doubt is on top of their "no no" list. I dunno if i will go govt though...i dont wanna end up back in paki or worse afghanistan....BUT even in the private sector a clerance does bring ya on average 60K more then you'd otherwise make. I dont have many expensive habits...not into cars...etc but i do go a tad apeshiit spending wise when on vacation :D
the pay never meant much to me.....work for me has always been secondary income....but if you like vacation go private.....cause it wont happen often with the other route..

bech
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 13, 2010, 07:10:46 PM
the pay never meant much to me.....work for me has always been secondary income....but if you like vacation go private.....cause it wont happen often with the other route..

bech

i'm pretty easy going....but with my girlfriends illness i need to make sure i make more than just enough...

for the first 5 yrs or so....my focus is $ not vacation....if u have a nice enough place to come home to...everyday can be a vacation!
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 13, 2010, 08:00:48 PM
i'm pretty easy going....but with my girlfriends illness i need to make sure i make more than just enough...

for the first 5 yrs or so....my focus is $ not vacation....if u have a nice enough place to come home to...everyday can be a vacation!

see i am on the opposite end of this spectrum.......i work constantly, i am never home....i have stopped dating, and relationships, because they took time away from work, and hobbies..........last year i gave most of my money from work to my sister. i know that the life path i have chosen is not the one my parents wanted for me (being a workaholic).....so i decided to leave it to my sister to do the family thing, get married, have kids, all that shit so i dont have too...

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Migs on March 13, 2010, 08:17:58 PM
i got a 28

I think becasue i expect very little of most people and don't really care about many people.
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 13, 2010, 09:22:38 PM
see i am on the opposite end of this spectrum.......i work constantly, i am never home....i have stopped dating, and relationships, because they took time away from work, and hobbies..........last year i gave most of my money from work to my sister. i know that the life path i have chosen is not the one my parents wanted for me (being a workaholic).....so i decided to leave it to my sister to do the family thing, get married, have kids, all that shit so i dont have too...

bench

i give most of my money to my girl....makes me happy to see her happy...i walk around (other than work clothes)...dressed pretty much like a bum! :D   but if u love what u do...being a workaholic isn't too bad..

what do u do if ya dont mind me asking?
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 14, 2010, 07:04:33 AM
Bench and Toxicy..HUGE Points, if in fact you guys do that, that is one of the sweetest things I have seen. Bench I'm sure your sister appreciates it and Toxic I hope your gf knows how good she has it
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 14, 2010, 03:45:35 PM
Bench and Toxicy..HUGE Points, if in fact you guys do that, that is one of the sweetest things I have seen. Bench I'm sure your sister appreciates it and Toxic I hope your gf knows how good she has it
i make more from my rental properties than i will ever make from my job......how much money does 1 man need?

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: newmom on March 14, 2010, 03:46:49 PM
i make more from my rental properties than i will ever make from my job......how much money does 1 man need?

bench

in the words of my 5 year old..YOU MAKE MY HEART HAPPY
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 14, 2010, 03:51:52 PM
in the words of my 5 year old..YOU MAKE MY HEART HAPPY
im just not greedy....as long as i have enough money to support my hobbies, insane eating habbits, and whatever else i might want to do at the spur of the moment....im rockin.....

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 14, 2010, 06:59:41 PM
i make more from my rental properties than i will ever make from my job......how much money does 1 man need?

bench

rental properties...dood you r set! 8)   wheh i have some "non parental" $ in the bank i intend to buy some beachfront...

well i actually own rental property in pakistan (poultry farm believe it or not :D :-\) but i dont count pakistani property..
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 14, 2010, 07:00:50 PM
im just not greedy....as long as i have enough money to support my hobbies, insane eating habbits, and whatever else i might want to do at the spur of the moment....im rockin.....

bench

i am of your thinking...totally..

but..as i said before..my girls illness...i need a big chunk of what if $ in the bank...which i dont touch..
peace of mind
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 14, 2010, 07:03:48 PM
rental properties...dood you r set! 8)   wheh i have some "non parental" $ in the bank i intend to buy some beachfront...

well i actually own rental property in pakistan (poultry farm believe it or not :D :-\) but i dont count pakistani property..
to be honest i really dont know shit about rental properties.....my mom owns her own real estate company and she handles it........she gives me my options, and i just sign where she tells me too.....

those rental properties are the best thing i have ever did...

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 14, 2010, 07:05:02 PM
i am of your thinking...totally..

but..as i said before..my girls illness...i need a big chunk of what if $ in the bank...which i dont touch..
peace of mind

that definitely needs to be your priority.....

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on March 14, 2010, 07:10:04 PM
to be honest i really dont know shit about rental properties.....my mom owns her own real estate company and she handles it........she gives me my options, and i just sign where she tells me too.....

those rental properties are the best thing i have ever did...

bench
thats awesome!  8)  i dunno anything about rental properties either...my dad made me sign a buncha stuff once and now  apparently i own stuff in pakistan..some i prolly dont know about...the rent goes to an account i dont touch...either way..i'll prolly sigh it back to my dad..when asked..who needs the headache of going to pakistan to check on em  :-\
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: benchmstr on March 14, 2010, 07:13:37 PM
thats awesome!  8)  i dunno anything about rental properties either...my dad made me sign a buncha stuff once and now  apparently i own stuff in pakistan..some i prolly dont know about...the rent goes to an account i dont touch...either way..i'll prolly sigh it back to my dad..when asked..who needs the headache of going to pakistan to check on em  :-\
mine are all pretty close to me....the farthest one i have is in san marcos (3 hours).....and my sister lives in it...

bench
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: 24KT on March 22, 2010, 05:29:06 PM
My score was 29. This surprises me greatly.

i guess I'm just pretty laid back in the areas they questioned me about,
...and completely psychotic in areas they didn't even touch upon   :-\
Title: Re: What's your Irritability Quotient?
Post by: Parker on March 23, 2010, 03:24:42 AM
the pay never meant much to me.....work for me has always been secondary income....but if you like vacation go private.....cause it wont happen often with the other route..

bech

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