I’m assuming this post was provoked by a particular situation in which you had a thought that you believed should have bothered you, but it didn’t … and therefore it bothered you.
Perhaps you have had a recent adjustment in certain personal values which meant that traditionally you would have been bothered by a certain thought, but now no longer - and perhaps this change in values or temporary environmental shift influencing values has come about without your conscience knowledge.
For example you may have previously suffered from OCD, and now due to certain situations you no longer care about anything and are bothered when the impulse to do everything twice is no longer present.
Perhaps it stems from sensory overload - you used to get fired up everytime you saw a Fortune 500 non-compliant site, but now you’ve seen so many it no longer bothers you … and it bothers you it no longer bothers you.
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Aaron Gustafson wrote in to say...
Oh, bother.
JRichmond wrote in to say...
I’m a little bothered by the fact that this post isn’t bothering me more than it is.
Sebastian Redl wrote in to say...
Why are you bothering us with this?
drexel wrote in to say...
i’m bothered that i thought botheration was a word you just made up until i checked dictionary.com.
Hercules Papatheodorou wrote in to say...
I can’t bother to imagine why you even bothered to write that post…
Bryan wrote in to say...
Although both, er, viewpoints are vaild…
Can’t believed I bothered you with that…
Malarkey wrote in to say...
You reminded me that there is something I’ve forgotten.
JCRogers wrote in to say...
Why am I reminded of Winnie the Pooh?
And why does that bother me?
Molly E. Holzschlag wrote in to say...
I wasn’t bothered at all ’til I read this.
John Langer wrote in to say...
I’m not bovvered! Do I look bovvered?
(I think you have to be British to understand that!)
John wrote in to say...
Better bothered than buttered
Roy Schestowitz wrote in to say...
A negation loop. Awesome…
FatBusinessman wrote in to say...
Well … obviously it’s … erm…
My brain hurts :-(
Michael C. wrote in to say...
Oh brother.
Josh F. wrote in to say...
I forgot an anniversary
she’s come to bother me…
Nathanael wrote in to say...
I’m assuming this post was provoked by a particular situation in which you had a thought that you believed should have bothered you, but it didn’t … and therefore it bothered you.
Perhaps you have had a recent adjustment in certain personal values which meant that traditionally you would have been bothered by a certain thought, but now no longer - and perhaps this change in values or temporary environmental shift influencing values has come about without your conscience knowledge.
For example you may have previously suffered from OCD, and now due to certain situations you no longer care about anything and are bothered when the impulse to do everything twice is no longer present.
Perhaps it stems from sensory overload - you used to get fired up everytime you saw a Fortune 500 non-compliant site, but now you’ve seen so many it no longer bothers you … and it bothers you it no longer bothers you.
Something like that? :-)
josson smith wrote in to say...
Totally understanding, totally bothering. Partially understanding, patially bothering. Not understanding, not bothering.
Ben Buchanan wrote in to say...
Should I be bothered that I’m usually amused that the thought may once have bothered me? :)
Stan Grabowski wrote in to say...
That is just a bit too deep a thought to start my Monday with…
Eric Meyer wrote in to say...
Nathanael: No. But they’re interesting speculations.
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Aditya Naik wrote in to say...
Happens to me with every single thought, unless the thought doesnt bother me..
Scottiedawg wrote in to say...
I think that “botheration” is a word that Chuck Berry invented for his song Too Much Monkey Business. He also created “motorvating” for Maybelline.