17 Nov 2010, 5:57 pm
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17 Nov 2010, 6:07 pm
Weird how this degenerated in a Jersey Shore thread 
Toad - I've never had a go at you or called you a loser and it was actually the first time I tried to offer "advice" - did you read my post?
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17 Nov 2010, 6:14 pm
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17 Nov 2010, 6:43 pm
Sallamandrina wrote:
Weird how this degenerated in a Jersey Shore thread
Yeah, that one is my fault. Still, that stands as an icon of what I could become if I don't remain vigilant against my own ego...
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Toad - I've never had a go at you or called you a loser and it was actually the first time I tried to offer "advice" - did you read my post?
Yes, I did, and I already said that human nature makes people inflate their own achievements and skills such that anyone talking positively about themselves is an unreliable judge of their own character. I need the outside evidence to corroborate my self-worth, or I have to question it in its entirety. Also, by downplaying myself, the response from others is always more positive than my own self-opinion, which means nobody can hurt me... I am effectively invincible. That protection from emotional harm is well worth it.
17 Nov 2010, 6:52 pm
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Sallamandrina wrote:
Weird how this degenerated in a Jersey Shore thread
Yeah, that one is my fault. Still, that stands as an icon of what I could become if I don't remain vigilant against my own ego...
Quote:
Toad - I've never had a go at you or called you a loser and it was actually the first time I tried to offer "advice" - did you read my post?
Yes, I did, and I already said that human nature makes people inflate their own achievements and skills such that anyone talking positively about themselves is an unreliable judge of their own character. I need the outside evidence to corroborate my self-worth, or I have to question it in its entirety. Also, by downplaying myself, the response from others is always more positive than my own self-opinion, which means nobody can hurt me... I am effectively invincible. That protection from emotional harm is well worth it.Sometimes, you just gonna drop everything and not give a f**k. Granted, I have problems dropping my guard down but if I go with the flow with no expectations of landing a date and/or phone number I'll have a good time as well as have a experience to build upon.
I just think the way Aspie male brain operates by using logic and systematization makes functioning socially much harder.
17 Nov 2010, 7:04 pm
17 Nov 2010, 7:05 pm
nthach wrote:
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Sallamandrina wrote:
Weird how this degenerated in a Jersey Shore thread
Yeah, that one is my fault. Still, that stands as an icon of what I could become if I don't remain vigilant against my own ego...
Quote:
Toad - I've never had a go at you or called you a loser and it was actually the first time I tried to offer "advice" - did you read my post?
Yes, I did, and I already said that human nature makes people inflate their own achievements and skills such that anyone talking positively about themselves is an unreliable judge of their own character. I need the outside evidence to corroborate my self-worth, or I have to question it in its entirety. Also, by downplaying myself, the response from others is always more positive than my own self-opinion, which means nobody can hurt me... I am effectively invincible. That protection from emotional harm is well worth it.Sometimes, you just gonna drop everything and not give a f**k. Granted, I have problems dropping my guard down but if I go with the flow with no expectations of landing a date and/or phone number I'll have a good time as well as have a experience to build upon.
I just think the way Aspie male brain operates by using logic and systematization makes functioning socially much harder.
Bingo! We way overthink things. I used to take it personally when someone would tell me this, but now, many years later, I see their point.
17 Nov 2010, 7:13 pm
17 Nov 2010, 7:16 pm
billsmithglendale wrote:
nthach wrote:
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Sallamandrina wrote:
Weird how this degenerated in a Jersey Shore thread
Yeah, that one is my fault. Still, that stands as an icon of what I could become if I don't remain vigilant against my own ego...
Quote:
Toad - I've never had a go at you or called you a loser and it was actually the first time I tried to offer "advice" - did you read my post?
Yes, I did, and I already said that human nature makes people inflate their own achievements and skills such that anyone talking positively about themselves is an unreliable judge of their own character. I need the outside evidence to corroborate my self-worth, or I have to question it in its entirety. Also, by downplaying myself, the response from others is always more positive than my own self-opinion, which means nobody can hurt me... I am effectively invincible. That protection from emotional harm is well worth it.Sometimes, you just gonna drop everything and not give a f**k. Granted, I have problems dropping my guard down but if I go with the flow with no expectations of landing a date and/or phone number I'll have a good time as well as have a experience to build upon.
I just think the way Aspie male brain operates by using logic and systematization makes functioning socially much harder.
Bingo! We way overthink things. I used to take it personally when someone would tell me this, but now, many years later, I see their point.
I've been told by many I try way, way too hard to impress people. I wish I could shut down my Aspie tendencies in social situations.
17 Nov 2010, 8:25 pm
billsmithglendale wrote:
RICKY5 wrote:
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Pistonhead wrote:
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Except now you just sound like a douchebag... I don't want to be one of those. I live in New Jersey, after all... I don't want to become the stereotypical New Jerseyan...
So you think you are better than me now huh?
Are stereotypical New Jerseyans happy?Watch Jersey Shore and decide for yourself. Or don't... you'll save brain cells that way.
Look at someone like "The Situation", he's an idiot who probably couldn't do most things to save his life yet women FLOCK to him and are ready to give them the only thing valuable they have (affection/sex/love).
Why is that?
As for New Jersey, it is probably my least favorite state, right up there with Massachusetts.
Having a partner does not lead to happiness.
Let's remember that the Situation was pretty much the most desperate loser of the bunch before he got famous. So first season, he was actually pretty pathetic and couldn't land anyone. Once you become famous, it isn't that hard to find someone, though that someone may very well just be an attention whore hanger-on trying to get some fame for themselves or a rep with your friends - "I dumped Situation!"
The second season was a farce, I stopped watching it. Now they are all relatively rich and famous, so the circumstance of them all living together and having to share a room is so ridiculous and contrived (even more so than season one, where it would be believable that people of their income level would have to share rooms and pool resources) as to make suspension of disbelief impossible.
You'll also notice Situation is much less of a jerk and a hater in the 2nd season, because now he is actually getting dates and girlfriends -- he's working through some of the issues that made him such an idiot juice-head in the first place. Haters hate because they don't get what they want, and others do -- that's why he was so awful and Machiavellian in season 1.
why are you guys watching a soap opera? lol!
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