No more Mr Nice Stimbo?

[John V]

I'd like to see how you act when drunk. It should be most entertaining.

I don't drink. If drinking makes you act like a schoolgirl, you shouldn't either.

Very well. Fuck off, troll.

Nicely done!

Interesting that you advise being selective about revealing different aspects. People can and do only respond to what I decide to share here, which represents the merest hint of my world and my relationship to it. I suspect that a comparison between that and what you decide to share might go some way to explaining the relative disparity between our respective reputation levels.

Here's more of the problem. You derive your self-worth from what others think of you. Men don't.

For the record, if not exactly for your edification, I am indeed "doing something about it". Whether it will bear fruit remains to be seen. Almost all of the responses to this thread have so far been quite helpful to me in that regard.

What are you doing?

I can hardly be blamed, I would have thought, for the bottomless depressive pit into which I was cast. I certainly didn't choose any of this; indeed, if I had such power as to make my choices affect reality, do you not think this wouldn't even be the last thing I would pick?

Consider [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control]locus of control[/quote]. Can you be blamed for having an external locus of control? I dunno. Blame isn't the issue - progress is.

I agree that everybody has at least the desire to improve themselves, even though they may not have the means, or perhaps they do and are not aware of it. Here's a deal for you: you show me how it's done - improve yourself into a worthwhile member of our happy little band. Then I'll stop crying like a baby. Though in order to do that I'll have to start first.

Happy little band? Seems every third thread in off topic is about how messed up you guys are.