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Started by Anna Mae Bollocks, April 12, 2013, 04:16:37 PM

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

God, I know a guy who is nearly insufferable simply because from childhood him mom has been telling him he's smarter than everyone else and that's why he has a hard time getting along with people.

The tragedy is, he's smart. Smarter than probably 90% of people. But he is absolutely incapable of being non-intolerably-smug and correcting everyone all the time (even when he's wrong) so it doesn't fucking matter.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

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Nigel, Could I interest you in rehashing SGITR for big words? Pretty much sums up this mindset but I don't think we applied to broadly enough the last time.

It's not just the smart, wealthy, entitled, or any other factor. This is human wide. I've met people who are incredibly stupid and impoverished that exhibit these behaviours. Humans have a strong desire to believe that "Even though I'm only X secretly I'm actually Y and none of these people really appreciate me. But I am. I know it because I tell me"

The concept of affirmations is pretty much built around this bullshit. Convince yourself of something and magically it will be true. If it fails it's because you didn't really believe. It's one of the things that caused me to lose a significant degree of respect for Scott Adams.
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I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Triple Zero

Wow that is awesome, what is that for kind of thingy? A beam splitter prism thing?

Also :lol: @ the elevator pun
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Rococo Modem Basilisk

Quote from: Triple Zero on August 14, 2013, 07:00:44 PM
Wow that is awesome, what is that for kind of thingy? A beam splitter prism thing?

Also :lol: @ the elevator pun

It looks like a beam splitter. I found it without context, and posted it because it was pretty.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Junkenstein on August 14, 2013, 06:12:44 PM
Nigel, Could I interest you in rehashing SGITR for big words? Pretty much sums up this mindset but I don't think we applied to broadly enough the last time.

It's not just the smart, wealthy, entitled, or any other factor. This is human wide. I've met people who are incredibly stupid and impoverished that exhibit these behaviours. Humans have a strong desire to believe that "Even though I'm only X secretly I'm actually Y and none of these people really appreciate me. But I am. I know it because I tell me"

The concept of affirmations is pretty much built around this bullshit. Convince yourself of something and magically it will be true. If it fails it's because you didn't really believe. It's one of the things that caused me to lose a significant degree of respect for Scott Adams.

SGiTR is a very specific thing, but I am sure there's something else to explain the rest of humanity.

Probably something TGRR has already written about, to tell the truth.

Or there's always the ever-popular Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Talk to me about writing something after finals.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


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" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."