why do people take every little thing so seriously and personally?

[mark414]

someone says they don't like a city that you live in or like - take it personally and call them names;

someone says they prefer a certain look or body type that you don't possess - take it personally and call them names;

someone likes this and you like that; someone doesn't like this and you don't like that - take it personally and call them names.

whatever happened to allowing for personal tastes and opinions? jesus christ settle down everyone, smoke a joint, this is the internet...RELAX

edited to say i'm not talking about anyone so DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY!

[LSK]

1. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I TAKE EVERYTHING PERSONALLY!?!?

I cant believe this!!!














:P

:hide:

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Immaturity and general inability to suppress the ego like an adult.

Childishness, boorishness, toddler-like mentality - all those reasons.

Plus too muich self-invesment in and self-worth based on externals, and not based solely on internals like a mature, actualized person.

It's pretty fucking sad, but I have learned that not only the majority of people really fucking dumb, they're really fucking immature.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Ha, Ha. Rabrrrrrr made a typo. Rabrrrrrr made a typo.

:hide:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. It's the preferred, more elegant French spelling of the word. Philistine.

:eyes:


















:rofl: Just for the laughs, I'll not edit it.

[ZombieNixon]

35. So it's pronounced

"Moo-eesh selv ee-vay-maw(n)" then?

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. That's it precisely!

The PROPER way to say that phrase.

[LSK]

4. so whats your point?

:D

[johnnie]

10. I can't think of a better way to put it Rabrrrrrr

:thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

12. Yeah, but would you have spelled everything correctly?

I think so.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Spell Check is your friend.

:rofl:

I, Personally, haven't invested enouigh in myself.

[anarch]

15. Spill Chock if yore fiend

Jest Satan. I mien, I spell-chalked this post....

Also, hi Mrs. G! :hi:

[Susang]

23. I agree

I find all generalizations to be quite dumb & immature. Don't you? }(

[Critters2]

29. Yeah? Well, I hate Wisconsin

because it's so close to Chicago. :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. That's okay - hate it all you want. I'm differentiated and mature enough

to not take it personally.

[Critters2]

32. Damn! You're no fun at all

This is the internet, ya know. Stop being so civil!

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. Sorry. I have the disadvantage of having evolved

beyond ignorant tribal identifications.

[anarch]

5. "people"? You're totally talking about me, aren't you?

You're so going on the ignore list!!! :mad:

[graywarrior]

7. Because we're a buncha sick fucks.

[Wetzelbill]

14. I was horribly offended by this yet I cannot disagree with your logic

:rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. OMG I'M SAYING I DON'T LIKE THE WORD HUBBY!!!

I'M MORTALLY INSULTING YOU!! COME HUNT ME DOWN AND HANG ME!

!1!11!11!

:P

[Orrex]

9. May I offer a corrolary?

There is a widespread inability, on DU and elsewhere, to distinguish asking a question or proposing a hypothetical from actively advocating a behavior.

I don't understand the squeamish inability to explore a given topic without automatically making emotionalism the first, last, and only response to it. We all have deep feelings about certain topics, but some of us are unable to discuss them except in terms of those feelings.

[Left Is Write]

13. You're talking about me, aren't you? I know you are.

Stop picking on me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. We shall pick on you

until you post the butt shot.

:evilgrin:

[Left Is Write]

40. Is that so?

;)

[leftofthedial]

16. are you implying that I am overly sensitive??!!???

:wtf:

[philosophie_en_rose]

17. well then... if someone calls you names... don't take it personally...

:shrug:

[enigmatic]

18. It goes both ways

The extremes are the perpetually offended and the those who can't help themselves and take a giant, steaming pile on a number of innocuous threads w/ their asshole-ness.

We've got both in abundance here (and just about everywhere on message boards, big and small), and it's ridiculous in both cases.

Both need to relax...

[tigereye]

56. great comment!

I might steal that!

"The extremes are the perpetually offended and the those who can't help themselves and take a giant, steaming pile on a number of innocuous threads w/ their asshole-ness."

[redqueen]

19. you're talking about me, aren't you?

what did i ever do to you?

how can i not take it personally, when EVERYTHING IS ABOUT ME!

/narcissist

[Juffo Wup]

20. HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE CHICAGO

I WILL DESTROY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!! YOU ARE SCUM!!! SCUM!!!!!

Every day, this place reminds me more and more of a high school cafeteria.

[Critters2]

27. I deserve it

How dare I think differently from you. I'll just slink over here and hate myself appropriately.

[Blue-Jay]

36. Amusing.

Or should I say; "AMUSING!!!111lolol", Jethro?

[celtdem]

37. Look...a case in point nt

[Name removed]

38. Deleted sub-thread

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[celtdem]

55. HI! How ya doin'? nt

[Susang]

22. Sounds like somebody's taking things a little too personally

Why don't you relax a little. Settle down, if you don't like the subject of the thread, smoke a joint, turn off the computer, use the hide thread or ignore button.

Isn't technology wonderful?

[Jamastiene]

24. Why are you taking it so personally that other people are

taking it so personally? :P

[Critters2]

25. I hate Chicago

At this point, it's just fun to watch the reactions.

I suppose that makes me a troll.

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. I'd say that you don't hate it as much as I do,

but I've never had my car broken into there.

[Fox Mulder]

26. No shit.

I have opinions. If people don't like them, then tough shit.

Likewise, if someone hates the state or town I live in, then I don't care. Just as long as I like it, that's all that matters (I hate the town I live in, btw. But I do love MN).

[Guava Jelly]

28. It depends on my mood actually

I am normally easy going and playful.
But sometimes I get "Man Pms" and shit hits me wrong.
And i shouldn't take shit so personally but sometimes I just do.

[struggle4progress]

30. Huh ... Ya wanna step outside and REPEAT that?!!

[Deja Q]

33. Because I'm alliteral when not a literal?

:rofl:

[Name removed]

34. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Blue-Jay]

41. You just made me cry!

:cry:

[Susang]

45. Don't cry

I'm pretty sure this won't last long. :hug:

[Benfea]

39. You got a problem with that? Huh? Do ya?

Just kidding. I couldn't resist.

[swag]

46. It's fun to get all het up.

As Marshall McLuhan told us, "Moral indignation is one means by which the idiot can be endowed with dignity."

[jpgray]

47. More like Marshall McCLUELESS

Yeah,

[swag]

49. Take that horned helmet off your head for a second, dipshit.

It's stanching the bloodflow to your brain. You're confusing Marshall McLuhan with Wilson Bryan Key again.

Eat some lutefisk, or some Spam, or some fucking Schwan's. It won't do anything for your brainpower, but it might keep your fingers out of your buttcrack for a second or three.

Anyway, aren't you late for your gig as Godspell extra out in Chanhassen?

Whassamatter, run out of corpses to fuck in Murderapolis?

[jpgray]

50. OK, you asked for it. I'll form a sentence that includes "Sin Twitties"

Anyone who says "Sin Twitties" should be sentenced to fuck a cactus for six hours, pursuant to mye "mentiona oft Wilson Bryanm Keye" statute.

[swag]

51. Again you effortlessly best me.

When will I get used to the inevitable?

[jpgray]

53. Nah. I'm burnt out, spent, ruined, over-modified

[bridgit]

48. cause the world is falling a-fucking-part at the freaking seams...

imo

[swag]

52. I applaud the employment of "fucking" and "freaking" in the same sentence.

There was a golden moment in the early 80s when the two words meant entirely different things.

[bridgit]

54. thanks, but alas, i don't think they're worth all that much in Scrabble...

http://scrabble.com x(

[tigereye]

57. crap!

I missed the high-end, esoterically worded brawl between Swag and JP. Dammit. Like has no meaning for me now.