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This organization consists of teams, containing a psychologist, a compulsive hoarder, and a film crew. They trek across the continents, and across borders, in search of obsessive compulsive people that hoard.
When a hoarder is located, the team splits up and each one in turn attempts to explain their
point of view. The hoarder on the team will congratulate the guy on his piles of useless crap, and suggest improvements. The psychologist will attempt to explain the intricacies of obsessive compulsive disorders, and how he believes the guy is a sick person in need of assistance and psychiatric medication. After both have made their case, the guy then must decide whether he wants to continue his hoarding ways or seek assistance to kick the habit (often with the help of rock-paper-scissors with his spouse, and a stealthy discussion of the black market value of any psychiatric medicine he is able to extract from the team).
The various interactions are mixed and recorded for use in prime time cable markets, financed by pharmaceutical companies.
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I hoard emptiness. My place is crammed full of it. |
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Might I suggest a nice serotonin reuptake inhibitor medication... |
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There's no such thing as 'hoarders', but there are sick, perverted people who think that it's OK to throw away something that might potentially have some use, and that there's even such a place as 'away' on a finite planet. |
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What if they find a hoarder that collects documentary film
crews? |
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[spidermother], thanks for that. (Maybe you should write that down and hand it to the producers -- nah, they'd probably just send a film crew over...) In the mean time, might I suggest a nice serotonin reuptake inhibitor medication... |
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[Ian], I suppose the number of episodes would depend on the ratings (and the willingness of the producers to post bail when they're caught). Even if it turned out to be compelling reality teevee, the producers could still pull the plug. Just look what happened to Firefly. |
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[8th], that would make for an excellent final episode! (Provided the guy would allow the film to leave the pile) |
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I think there should be at least a few episodes where the teams don't speak a word of the language for the country they're in, and don't have interpreters. They would have to communicate their points of view through pointing, charades, and wild arm gestures. Sure to be a hit with the kiddies! |
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The twist here is to portray the hoard as the normal state of things. I do not think the boring psychiatrist would add value. Gesticulating foreigners with weird foreign hoards are a sure thing. I envision this as Hoarder Eye for the Hoarderii. |
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ok, "Hoarderii" is a stretch. |
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" ... and thankyou, Ian. Does anyone else have something they want to share with the Group ...?" |
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"I have this compulsion to stalk self-help gurus..." |
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/ that I had somehow caught like a disease/ |
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If the disease was scabies, I wonder if a thick coat of vaseline or pharmaceutical grade lard on the affected skin would suffocate out the little buggars. If it was not, carry on as you were - but if anyone else tries this for scabies please let me know what transpires. |
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// "I have this compulsion to stalk self-help gurus..." // |
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In what way does this statement represent a divergence from the median opinion ? |
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(Hint: This is not a trick question, nor is it rhetorical). |
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Stalk self-help gurus could be styled stylites. |
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Most posts so far are related to compulsive behaviors of OCD, not so much obsessive. A compulsion to stalk is a compulsion to obsess, divergent as compulsive obsessive, or COD... ? |
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