This is not evidence or research based and meant to be more playful than serious. However for those of you who don’t take it that way and become intolerant of it, feel free to lay into me in the comments... and then stop taking yourself so seriously.
12 Signs of Blah, Blah, Blah Intolerance Disorder
- Become annoyed when other people go on and on about something of little importance to the listener and not usually that important to the talker
- Get driven crazy by people who don’t get to the point
- Not uncommonly found in CEO’s, founders and entrepreneurs
- If the CEO of a company, usually have head of HR or COO deal with “blah, blah, blah” people
- Form opinions and judgments of people based on their actions much more than words
- Feeling their time is being wasted is one of the things they can’t stand
- Often perceived as more angry, critical or negative of a person than they really are, they really just can’t stand feeling someone is wasting their time
- May cause "non blah, blah, blah’s" to walk on eggshells around them (the "blah, blah, blah's" being clueless)
- Tend to put down “small talk” often because they are awful at it
- Tell spouse that they’d rather not socialize with a couple who has a “blah, blah, blah” person in it
- Anti-depressants often help them to be more tolerant of others and life in general
- More than occasionally lapse into pontification, believing their “blah, blah, blah” to be more important than other’s