# Am I Satan, or just a garden variey psychopath? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656 "2011-01-06T20:53:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/261 "2011-01-12T17:02:08Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Did **tdn** put up some kind of Sneak Bragging bat-signal in the OP? We seem to be attracting them like moths. It’s not “sneak bragging” to point out that if you are attractive and in good shape that you aren’t going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel as you suggested here: \*Originally Posted by MsWhatsit PS, regarding this tired meme that “women only have to walk six feet to have sex if they want to” : **Yeah, maybe, if you have no standards and don’t give a shit about the person you are having sex with.** If you actually want to find someone you have an emotional connection with and find attractive, instead of just using the criterion “will have sex with me if asked,” it’s a bit more difficult. \* ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/262 "2011-01-12T17:30:31Z")
It occurred to me this morning that in light of his refusal to update us, the answer to tdn’s original question can be definitively determined to be “Satan.” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/263 "2011-01-12T17:30:46Z")
The sneak-bragging part was specifically: > [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > When I’m not in a relationship and want an emotional connection, I’ll get another relationship. If I’m not in a relationship and want to get laid, I’ll pick someone who isn’t relationship material (for me at least) but meets other personal standards. Yes yes, you’re unbelievably attractive and fit, we’re all very impressed. Good for you. Feel better now? ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/264 "2011-01-12T17:31:16Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > It’s not “sneak bragging” to point out that if you are attractive and in good shape that you aren’t going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel as you suggested here: > > \*Originally Posted by MsWhatsit > PS, regarding this tired meme that “women only have to walk six feet to have sex if they want to” : **Yeah, maybe, if you have no standards and don’t give a shit about the person you are having sex with.** If you actually want to find someone you have an emotional connection with and find attractive, instead of just using the criterion “will have sex with me if asked,” it’s a bit more difficult. \* I didn’t read that suggestion at all. It was a response, not to the OP, but to another post suggesting that the woman didn’t need to drive to have sex. If anything the OP was classified in the “someone you have an emotional connection to” category. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/265 "2011-01-12T18:32:59Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > It occurred to me this morning that in light of his refusal to update us, the answer to tdn’s original question can be definitively determined to be “Satan.” As he pointed out previously, the weekend is this coming weekend, not past weekend. ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/266 "2011-01-12T21:35:02Z")
> [@lindsaybluth](#): > > As he pointed out previously, the weekend is this coming weekend, not past weekend. And as he also pointed out previously, he has no intention to do so later either. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/267 "2011-01-12T21:38:33Z")
Oh. Well then that makes him a douchebag. There should be a rule that if you start more than 3 relationship threads without returning to them you get banned ;). ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/268 "2011-01-12T22:03:42Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Yup. Now, if we’ve coined ‘stealthbragging’, or ‘sneakbragging’, or whichever it is, is ‘not speaking of ones conquests after discussing them ahead of time’ gonna be ‘_ **stealthreticence** _’? You _know_ it’s ‘_sneak_-bragging’. [Cut it out.](http://http://cache.blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gary-coleman.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/269 "2011-01-12T23:45:23Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > It occurred to me this morning that in light of his refusal to update us, the answer to tdn’s original question can be definitively determined to be “Satan.” There will be no update because one or the other of them is going to crap out on this thing. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/270 "2011-01-13T00:04:25Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The sneak-bragging part was specifically: > > Yes yes, you’re unbelievably attractive and fit, we’re all very impressed. Good for you. > > Feel better now? I take care of myself and am fit because I work hard at it. Bitter much? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/271 "2011-01-13T01:17:26Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > I take care of myself and am fit because I work hard at it. > > Bitter much? Of course you are very fit. Very fit and very, very attractive. Could you rate your fitness/attractiveness on a scale of 1-10 for us? Because, I’m pretty impressed as it is but if it turns out that you’re a 9 or even a mythical 10, I’m going to be SUPER impressed. I just want to be able to accurately gauge my impressedness. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/272 "2011-01-13T01:28:29Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Of course you are very fit. Very fit and very, very attractive. Could you rate your fitness/attractiveness on a scale of 1-10 for us? Because, I’m pretty impressed as it is but if it turns out that you’re a 9 or even a mythical 10, I’m going to be SUPER impressed. > > I just want to be able to accurately gauge my impressedness. I’d rather he post a picture so I have something to fap to later. And by “later,” I mean “immediately.” ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/273 "2011-01-13T01:59:45Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Of course you are very fit. Very fit and very, very attractive. Could you rate your fitness/attractiveness on a scale of 1-10 for us? Because, I’m pretty impressed as it is but if it turns out that you’re a 9 or even a mythical 10, I’m going to be SUPER impressed. > > I just want to be able to accurately gauge my impressedness. Jeez, what’s your deal? I think a lot of people find it bizarre that this woman is going to fix up her clunker so she can drive six hours to meet some guy from internet site for some strange at a discount hotel. Just – what the hell? Apologies if this means I’m sneak bragging, too. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/274 "2011-01-13T02:03:23Z")
I’m really only directing that at **LurkerInNJ** ’s whole “I’m so unbelievably fit and attractive that I can get a new relationship like you buy new underpants” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/275 "2011-01-13T02:09:04Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > I’d rather he post a picture so I have something to fap to later. And by “later,” I mean “immediately.” OH my God, he’s in NEW JERSEY! He must be orange with weird eyebrows! Uh, if the InNJ doesn’t mean he’s in New Jersey, then never mind. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/276 "2011-01-13T05:09:58Z")
Based on tdn’s most recent threads, I think he’s following a certain guide book on how to woo the ladies. One of the testimonials for the book in question include getting a woman to do something like this. And the book itself uses terms like “giving women a great experience” actually explaining how to set up the encounter, as well as “creating a closeness” or whatever it was **tdn** said about the last one. And, no, I’m not saying anything good or bad about **tdn**. It’s just an observation. I used to read those books back when I was a kid. The reason I never tried the techniques offered was because my goals were different than that of the author. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/277 "2011-01-13T05:40:35Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I’m really only directing that at **LurkerInNJ** ’s whole “I’m so unbelievably fit and attractive that I can get a new relationship like you buy new underpants” thing. Well, the majority of the people I have met in my adult life have been in relationships. Everyone in my family is in a relationship, me being the last holdout a few years ago. It’s not so easy for everyone but you shouldn’t feel snubbed by someone who says they could manage average. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/278 "2011-01-13T08:52:30Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I’m really only directing that at **LurkerInNJ** ’s whole “I’m so unbelievably fit and attractive that I can get a new relationship like you buy new underpants” thing. Yikes. It seems like this has hit some button with you that is making you a bit unreasonable. **LurkerInNJ** didn’t seem to say that as far as I can tell. It seems like you took her statement where she disagreed with you and are pretending that she claims she’s super hot. What I read was her responding to your notion that you need/want an emotional connection. She simply said that if she wants emotional connections she looks for a relationship. If she just wants sex (which is what that old tired meme is about) she looks for someone who simply meets “other personal standards” she holds. Somehow you twisted that into sneak bragging, which is hilarious as you’ve spent most of this thread defending someone who drops brags like rain falls in Seattle. Brags that I’m not too sure a lot of people around here believe. Only then, in response to your odd snide response did they bring up attractive and fit. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/279 "2011-01-13T12:08:11Z")
Yah, I have to say I’m about a “4” right now, and far from fit. And I’m pretty well certain that I could go down to the local and find a partner in about 35 seconds if I chose to do so. It’s nice to be female, if that’s type of thing you want; in which case you deserve to get it. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656/280 "2011-01-13T13:13:19Z")
Hm. OK, clearly I have seriously misinterpreted LurkerInNJ’s tone/intent. Yeah, the whole “if I want a relationship I just go get one” bugged me but I think you are right that I read more bragginess into it than was there. My apologies to LurkerInNJ for inappropriately unholstering the .50-cal Snark Cannon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-satan-or-just-a-garden-variey-psychopath/566656.md?page=15)