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spooter		2003-05-06 11:27:00 AM

this just in:

After further research, study author Dr. Kenneth Keith has come to a new conclusion.

"It appears that people with type A behavior are no less satisfied with their lives than people who exhibit type B behavior. Its just that the type Bs dont give a fark."

sfgeek		2003-05-06 11:32:17 AM

Sadly,
Your tax dollars go to fund research like this. I know, because I do research, and it's comes out of your taxes!

HA! I get paid big bucks to surf fark all day on YOUR tax dollars...

Quality.. of life... getting... worse.

-Alan

OJSimpson		2003-05-06 11:36:33 AM

I dunno. My quality of life hasn't been too bad.

Rillion		2003-05-06 11:42:55 AM

Your asshole will have a higher quality of life if you wash it.

Very true. Take good care of your asshole, and it'll take good care of you....

avixxen2		2003-05-06 11:45:36 AM

were you born an asshole or did you work at it your whole life? either way it worked out fine because you're an asshole toniiight.

david allan coe

avixxen2		2003-05-06 11:49:10 AM

was that the song, I_Can't_Believe_It's_Not_Smegma?

FarkingSquirrel		2003-05-06 11:50:31 AM

I am Type A.
I am an asshole.
I did not know my quality of life was poor. So if I don't get a better quality of life soon somebody is gonna get hurt.
Now that you f#$%ing scientist types have identified I am suffering I expect you to fix it.

AaronIsGodOnEarth		2003-05-06 11:51:35 AM

If I'm an asshole, and you're an asshole, then what would be the child of that pair? Normal, if the two assholes cancel themselves out, or a hyper-asshole, one with twice as many assholian traits. It's frightening to consider, but necessary. The assholes are breeding... beware... ooooohhhhh...

cola		2003-05-06 11:51:46 AM

I cannot believe you just quoted david allan coe.

I'm going to laugh now for my own personal reasons.

Haha.

Goodness...

kpar90		2003-05-06 11:51:47 AM

There's my cliche. God job poster.

avixxen2		2003-05-06 11:59:00 AM

LOL! come on Cola, my roomate plays that song constantly. and what a coincidence, he seems to fit that song perfectly...

Fiddle-dee-dee		2003-05-06 12:04:45 PM

Isn't this a no-brainer. If I'm a miserable, grouchy asshat shouldn't it logically follow that I have a lower quality of life? Didn't we all know this before someone threw 50 grand down the hole to a moronic researcher from UC San Diego. Which happens to be my alma mater, so I know how much they love to waste money. They wasted my tuition money.

And another thing, I'm guessing all us fark people have a lower quality of life. Just look at the biatching and moaning we all do.

Underbaker		2003-05-06 12:07:41 PM

I guess I need to learn what "Quality of Life" means. Because by this article Bill Gates could be a Type A and thus have a low Quality of Life and the guy working the window at Jack in the Box could be a Type B with a high Quality of Life.

So what the Fark is the meaning of "Quality of Life"?

KentuckyBob		2003-05-06 12:08:11 PM

The three examples use in the story:

They were asked, for example, how they would feel if a barber cut off more hair than they wanted, if a teenager drove by their house blasting rock music from a car stereo or if they were stuck in a traffic jam.

should piss anyone off. I don't like my hair being farked, that is why I only let female hairdressers with big boobies and russian accents cut it. I hate those damn kids and their loud rap crap. And damn the idiot who caused the traffic jam.

My life is fine, got a good job, plenty of disposable cash, king size bed to roll around in (wink wink, nudge nudge), great parents and friends, and 3 dogs that remind me of the stooges.

nothingyet		2003-05-06 12:11:33 PM

"I use public toilets and piss on the seat. When its 90 degrees I yell HOW 'BOUT THIS HEAT?!!! I'm an asshole!"

That song is hysterical. Bill Hicks did rule however. Thanks to TOOL for hipping them to me. Listen to Bill Hicks's rant on Aenima if you have the album. That guy is Bill Hicks.

drredhook		2003-05-06 12:14:20 PM

Hey, I submitted a link a few days ago, from a story in Scientific American- lab rats are now being bred that actively fight off cancer. Deranged scientists inject them with cancer-laden cells, and the mice either develop cancer but quickly fight it off, or never show signs at all.

"I walk around in the summer time saying 'how about this heat'!" Nothingyet.

Fark's-Unlaid-Mass		2003-05-06 12:14:32 PM

Fvck these dweebs. And turn that crap down!

Mr.Hanky		2003-05-06 12:16:57 PM

"Were you born an asshole? Or did you work at it your whole life? Either way its fine, you'll be an asshole the rest of your life..."

FalseHappiness		2003-05-06 12:16:58 PM

Nothingyet

Which track is the the Bill Hicks rant?

Towering		2003-05-06 12:22:53 PM

G is for Git, not Goon
K is for Knutsack
O is for Orifice (as in Bleeding)
Q is for Quim
R is for Reamer (Reemer? Spellcheck) or Retard, not Runt
U is for Unctuous Littlebrain (hehe... Hector Hammond Ref)
Y is for Yutz
Z is for Zagnutz

SockMonkeyHolocaust		2003-05-06 12:23:33 PM

Cola
Yeah, maybe he should try some of DAC's other songs...

You're not a human being until you are in my phone book...

batcar01		2003-05-06 12:26:03 PM

I'm type A negative. Never realized your blood type made you unhappy and poor.

"Doctor, I need a transfusion!"

Rosalea		2003-05-06 12:32:26 PM

so lemme get this straight...people that tend to be uptight and unhappy are unhappy with their lives? And believe that their quality of life is pretty bad...and in addition to that seem to have trouble getting along with other poeple and making their quality of life better....oh man wouldn't have seen that coming.

I happen to be a type AB. I'm a laid back biatch.

stymie		2003-05-06 12:36:45 PM

Yes, David Allan Coe.
A fine human being.

/sarcasm

TheBigZ		2003-05-06 12:40:51 PM

Dammit, my personality is type O, nonexistent. As evidenced by that sad attempt at wit.

Man, I'm in the wrong field... this is also 'research'? Finding out that unhappy pissed off people don't enjoy their lives?

skinink		2003-05-06 12:44:35 PM

Thanks for the heads up on Bill Hicks, I'm gonna look for his comedy album now. Just one question though, is Lewis Black similar to Bill Hicks as well ?

avixxen2		2003-05-06 12:45:27 PM

oh jeez farkers/ettes hate david allan coe, who would have thought?

i have heard many songs he's done, and i have to admit i've giggled at some.

anyway, ya just know in this farked up world someone was going to write songs like that. i never said he was a fine human being. if you can't quote that song in a thread about assholes, where can you?

pepys1234		2003-05-06 12:45:33 PM

Daymn, I had no idea there were so many A-Type asshats on Fark. David Allan Coe? "Jack Daniels if you please, knock me to my knees...." If that song ain't country it'll hair lip the Pope.

Rillion		2003-05-06 12:50:57 PM

Thanks for the heads up on Bill Hicks, I'm gonna look for his comedy album now. Just one question though, is Lewis Black similar to Bill Hicks as well ?

Not really. I think they biatch about dissimilar things. Bill Hick's hot topics were the War on Drugs, fundamentalist Christians, George Bush (Sr., and would be Jr. as well), porn, smoking (which is where Denis Leary especially ripped him off), and the stupidity of...well, stupid people. I say "were" because he died of pancreatic cancer in (I think) 1996.

NurdSweat		2003-05-06 12:59:12 PM

grr!

Sinatra		2003-05-06 01:12:07 PM

If this observation has already been made, I apologize, but it seems strange that a word like asshole would be filtered here in the comments area, but allowed in a headline on the main Fark page.

Sinatra		2003-05-06 01:12:58 PM

Oops, guess not!

aerojockey		2003-05-06 01:20:21 PM

1. I'm rather offended by the insinuation that type A people are uniformly assholic. The only asshole here is the ignorant type B sap who labeled type As as such.

2. A type B person might feel just as bad as a type A person, but a type A person will be more likely to verbalize it. I highly doubt the morons who did this study took that into account. (They were probably type B people themselves, with some kind of point to make.)

3. Type A/Type B is a really primitive classification of personality. The two classifications encompass a bunch of traits that aren't entirely related. For example, I'm quite high-strung, somewhat impatient, and hardly ever hostile (although one of the things that does it is ignorance and disappreciation of different personalities, as you see here). Maybe these type R and type C personalities people keep talking about are there to add another dimension to A/B? I never heard of them. Myers-Briggs is a much better system than A/B.

Sorry....

aerojockey		2003-05-06 01:24:05 PM

BTW, type A does not mean unhappy. Happiness is an emotion; it has nothing to do with personality.

Schulte		2003-05-06 01:48:26 PM

Aerojocky
BTW, type A does not mean unhappy. Happiness is an emotion; it has nothing to do with personality.

I believe the article is actually stating that Type A personalities in general are not as happy as Type B personalities. Not that Type A's are unhappy. Just less happy. But still happy. Are we happy?

So I believe the writers of the article would also agree with you.

Far_queue_2		2003-05-06 01:56:42 PM

Not Safe For Work

Victoly		2003-05-06 02:04:04 PM

fark you.

Urbn		2003-05-06 02:20:28 PM

It's not that they have a lower quality of life, it's that they actually care to do something with their life so they're not as satisfied with being lazy slackers who make no impact on anything like so many others.

Plus, it's not my fault there are so many stupid people in this world. It is THEY, not me, ruining my quality of life. If they'd just stay home or get a little common sense when conducting everyday business (grocery shopping, driving, banking, etc.) everything would be just FINE.

FLCJR42		2003-05-06 02:27:01 PM

Anything about said ASSHOLES posting articles on FARK?

FLCJR42		2003-05-06 02:46:56 PM

People who can't tolerate the stupidity of others typically can't tolerate themselves. They are too busy looking outside themselves for everything that is wrong with their lives. Inside is where the real problems lie.

"But how can I look inside with all these STUPID people getting in my way".

sigh...

Urbn		2003-05-06 03:06:07 PM

I don't know, FLCJR42. I suppose some people do that, just like the soccer moms who complain about everyone else's kids or the school or the blah blah blah, while never bothering to see what a brat their own kid is.

I, however, use what annoys me in other people to make sure I behave more courteously than that. If someone is kind or gives me great service, I reward it in spades. But if someone is a jackass or behaving as if the world revolves around them, I will let them know I find their behavior rude. There are 6 billion people on this planet, far too many to spend your life being an inconsiderate ass and always making everyone wait for you or specially accomodate you (unless such accomodations are reasonable; I'd never get uppity about someone in a wheelchair moving slow or taking up too much space, for example).

TentaclePr0nRocks		2003-05-06 03:10:13 PM

This is why I smoke weed. Makes me less of an asshole.

Though, I guess it's funny for a few days when I'm pot starved. That's just what my friends said.

Ayandia		2003-05-06 03:19:02 PM

FLCJR42: People who can't tolerate the stupidity of others typically can't tolerate themselves. They are too busy looking outside themselves for everything that is wrong with their lives. Inside is where the real problems lie.

Stupidity annoys me, but I still think I rule and I enjoy my company. Tee-hee. If I think that the biggest problem in my life is the walker-pusher in the left lane ahead of me going 25 it doesn't automatically mean I'm shielding myself from the truth.

I think OUTSIDE is where most of the real problems lie, and if everyone gave up on this introspection crap and got back to doing something useful the world would be a better place, and would certainly have less syndromes.

If the world were less tolerant of stupidity, it would be a better place. Think about it...we take away all the helmet laws, seatbelt laws, drinking laws, smoking laws, and let all the people who want to take their hemmroid creams orally do so, we'll thin out the morons in a few short years and get back to breeding smart people.

Survival of the fittest, it's an amazing concept that could save millions of people the pain of going through their whole lives as idiots.

Just_Another_Arsehole		2003-05-06 03:26:53 PM

bummer for me

NathanAllen		2003-05-06 03:38:49 PM

They asked about "percieved" quality of life, and of course people who are either too afraid to assert themselves, or really aren't bothered by a gibbering idiot up in their face are going to respond differently than people who assert themselves or are constantly bothered by gibbering idiots.

Think of it this way, in their narrow definition you go to a restaurant, your entree is overcooked, cold, and not even what you ordered in the first place.

Type A - Screams about it and throws the waiter through the front window

Type B - Makes the best of it

In their definition you're not allowed to politely ask for your money back and go someplace else for dinner.

Underbaker		2003-05-06 03:52:46 PM

Ayandia - If we all got back to something useful, then where would we find time to spend here at Fark?

NathanAllen - I agree with you, I consider myself a definate Type B who is content with my life in most ways, but I am also politely assertive when I feel I didn't get something I ordered. You get a much better reaction from people if you smile and explain to them what is wrong, rather then scowl and get angry. Just watch some of them court shows and see how often the one who stays calm wins their case. :o)

Ayandia		2003-05-06 04:11:32 PM

Underbaker - Sorry, let me restate that:

and got back to doing something useful (i.e. Fark) the world...

It was not my intention to imply that Fark lacks purpose. I'm sure very very few of you are driving slowly in front of me while on Fark. :)

Gargoylemann		2003-05-06 04:41:14 PM

What a load of pretentious bollocks. I certainly do not stand outside the local multiplex because I've confused XXX, X-Files, X-Men and The Matrix (?!) and nor does anyone else for that matter.

/Emporer has no clothes

Robot_Head		2003-05-06 04:55:18 PM

05-06-03 02:46:56 PM FLCJR42
People who can't tolerate the stupidity of others typically can't tolerate themselves. They are too busy looking outside themselves for everything that is wrong with their lives. Inside is where the real problems lie.

Quite right, these are the arsewipes we all see every day blaming everyone else but themselves for their own problems.

Particularly noticeable in political flame wars.