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pennben

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  1. What a great thread!

     

     

    Well one of the last things I hung in there for was How I Met Your Mother and I severely regretted that.  (Although in my defense, I was only watching season 8 because it was supposed to be the last and then SURPRISE they pulled a ninth out of their ass.  Almost literally.)  But that was a lesson learned, so if this is a help-me-kick-the-habit group then count me in. 

     

    Hello random chance, how did you write the post I was going to write?  HIMYM kicked my completionist tendencies right out of my life.  Honestly, watching 2-3 years that I didn't really like waiting for an ending to make it all better.  Yep, I was the fool.  I dumped several shows that I was becoming ambivalent about other than sticking with them, and I don't miss them. My new rule is that if more than 5 episodes pile up on my DVR, the show is purged.  It is working pretty well for me.

     

    P.S.  Even completionist me dumped Parenthood with the launch of Kristina's run for mayor last year.  Sometimes you don't need a blue french horn to the head to know when to get out!!

     

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    I don't even care if it's ALMOST done, I will bail if I wanna. Case in point: Angel. Two episodes left to go and I just didn't feel like finishing it out. You'd think that with only two dinky little episodes, I'd go ahead and watch them but nope. To this day, I don't even know what happened. I never read a recap either.

     

    Okay, even trying-to-reform me chafes at the notion of leaving two left unfinished without at least finding out how the show ended.  I can see me never watching the finale to HIMYM if it was on my DVR unwatched after I had read about the ending.  I can't see me ever not wanting to know how it ended.  I see I still have more work to do in completionist therapy. 

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  2. A:  This person had his notable winning streak this year brought down by a new win streak within a couple of months.

     

    Q:  Who is.... Arthur Chu? :)!!

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