No more Mr Nice Stimbo?

[Cyberman]

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.

It doesn't, generally. On this occasion it had the effect of making two friends, who enjoy one another's company at the best of times, happy.

Very well. Fuck off, troll.

Nicely done!

I aim to please, especially the easily-pleased.

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.

Except for the tiny detail that I don't. You took one observation about a specific point and inflated it into a general assessment of a person's whole character. How very Christian of you!

As an example of your reading comprehension, this and one yet to follow can't be bettered.

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?

At the moment, replying to you. In the context of my personal situation, I haven't even decided to mention it to my friends yet, let alone you.

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

. Can you be blamed for having an external locus of control? I dunno. Blame isn't the issue - progress is.[/quote]

I'm not looking to apportion blame. If I had some tangible target on which to focus any blame, that might be one thing. As it is I have no such focus, thus nothing to rage against, even if I were to do so.

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.

And this is the other example of which I spoke earlier. Apart from the detail that I typed a couple more than three words, try looking up the word "irony".

Also, I suggest you replace the words "you guys" with "humans". Unless you're suggesting you are a breed apart?

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Nothing wrong with temporary relationships or being friends with benefits, so long as all parties understand that's how things are with no guarantees for the future.

My feelings exactly. Glad to know I'm not alone in thinking this.