# Bitterness, bitterness, bitterness! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2000, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178 "2000-02-29T10:55:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EvilGhandi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@EvilGhandi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilGhandi)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/21 "2000-02-29T19:13:00Z")
This is hard to resist, So I won’t. Pit here we come. “I’ve only been here a few days not but have noticed something amazing.” I’ll bet you are similarly amazed by the sunrise taking place daily. " There are more bitter ‘members’ here than at the local retirement home." Wassa matter? don’t buy into all those “Ensure” ads? Looks like you have issues with old folks as well. “It seems to me that everyone is trying to duel each other with MORE sophisticated answers, and it’s beginning to make me sick.” Not hard to imagine intellectual discourse making you physically ill. "People, realize that the more you think about what you type, the more you sound too damn technical and too damn cold, yeah, COLD! " As opposed to not thinking about what you type and sounding like an idiot, Yeah, a blithering IDIOT! "(I’m sure that others have noticed this.) " Can’t say I have… “So, my question is as followed:” You mean, As follows? “WHY are there so many bitter people here?” I only count one in this thread. My mood is bemused indifference, if you’re taking a poll. I realize posting a personal attack is bad form in MSPIMS but, HE STARTED IT MOMMY! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/22 "2000-02-29T20:44:00Z")
Of course people are bitter here, they are bitter everywhere. If we arent sunshiney-happy enough for you, why waste time trying to fix us? Just a life clue here buddy, people are bitter for many reasons. Like alphagene, I agree, he is a twisted hate-filled individual, but I dont know why…maybe he has things in his life that make him bitter, so what? I could name a few more, one in particular, but she makes alpha look like Mr Rogers, so she will remain nameless. So am I, on any random day I might be as hateful as could possibly be. Who knows why we are bitter? Who cares really? Do you really care? Is what this thread is really about : how you want to help all of us to be happy cheek-achingly smiling happy-drones? It aint gonna happen pal. I, twisted and bitter kellibelli, on behalf of the other twisted and bitter folks, do hearby welcome you to life. Its a rough ride, often lonely, boring, or painful, with the odd happy moment. Admission is free. ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/23 "2000-02-29T21:13:00Z")
**upstatic** you sound as if you live a sheltered life. I am soooo envious. You have obviously never been to the land of the “f\*\*k you” attitude - Southern California, - or New York, or Chicago for that matter. The folks here seem downright friendly for the most part. Disagreeing with **your** opinion does not qualify them as being bitter, does it? Also, IMHO people who act like friekin cheerleaders, especially in the A.M. ought to be shot anyways, just on GP. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/24 "2000-02-29T21:30:00Z")
This looks like a fitting place for an excerpt from the Maya Angelou poem _Still I Rise._ You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/25 "2000-02-29T21:30:00Z")
Personally, I think life is too short to be grumpy, and I firmly believe the right to pursue happiness is an individual thing. Having said that, I firmly support my fellow Dopers in whatever moods they care to indulge, and your course seems clear to me Upstatic. Either kiss and make up or be dragged screaming to the pit for some more flagellation! Your choice, homey. * * * VB Cowabunga Buffalo Bob! ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/26 "2000-02-29T21:38:00Z")
I thought \*\* Alphagene \*\* was set to play Doc in our new production of Snow White and the Seven dopers. Going by this thread, it looks like he is going to play Grumpy. Why doesn’t anyone let me know about these changes? Geez. When will rehearsals be? pat “Dopey” ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/27 "2000-02-29T23:00:00Z")
{{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}}}}}}} xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox {{{{{{{{{{upstatic}}}}}}}}}} 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/28 "2000-02-29T23:12:00Z")
My ears are burning. That’s the last time I light a Q-Tip on fire. Upstatic, you walked in to the SDMB and proclaimed that Cecil and the Mailbag Staff don’t go into enough detail for your liking. In short, you whined and complained. I’m not grumpy, I jusyt have a very low tolerance for bullshit. IMO, the Staff here works damn hard answering questions. Christ, just filtering through all the mail has got to be a chore. I converse with a staff member or two from time to time. So you’ll excuse me for whipping your ass into line when you accuse them of being bad journlists. Don’t act like an ass and them complain about how we’re being bitter. * * * **Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you. **Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/29 "2000-02-29T23:18:00Z")
…wait a minute… THINKING ABOUT WHAT YOU POST and BEING INTELLIGENT equals being BITTER? Very interesting. * * * – “it’s all real” “I KNEW IT!!!” O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/30 "2000-02-29T23:21:00Z")
kellibelli: > [@](#): > > Like alphagene, I agree, he is a twisted hate-filled individual, but I dont know why…maybe he has things in his life that make him bitter, so what? **Hate-filled?** I am hardly “hate-filled”. In a board that has been frequented by racists, homophobes, anti-semites and mysogynists, I am honestly offended to be called “hate-filled”. And people wonder where my low bullshit tolerance comes from. * * * **Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you. **Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/31 "2000-02-29T23:23:00Z")
Uncle, Thanks for posting that poem. I love it! Zette (only occasionally bitter) * * * “If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit) [Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/32 "2000-03-01T01:11:00Z")
upstatic, your response to me in the “Favorite Quotes” thread was bitter. * * * Rilchiam, who turns 30 on Thursday the 2nd of March. Tick…tick…tick… ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/33 "2000-03-01T01:37:00Z")
Upstatic, I’m sorry you feel this way, but if you don’t like the tone here or if you are uncomfortable then why do you stay? * * * Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/34 "2000-03-01T02:44:00Z")
Alphagene, that wasnt meant as an insult. I always you pretty much despise everyone. Thats cool. You arent stupid. Stupid is bad. If I wanted to insult you, I would have condemned your intellect. Twisted bitterness is something I can respect. I absolutely did NOT mean to offend you, and I apologise for doing so. Forgive me, I am not quite myself. ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/35 "2000-03-01T02:55:00Z")
Hmmm, all this from a person who answered honest answers to his questions with sarcasam ? [http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000517.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000517.html) Ayesha - Who is \* \*\* never \*\* \* bitter \* * * * " The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference." Elie Wiesel ---
**Author:** ![upstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@upstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upstatic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/36 "2000-03-01T02:57:00Z")
Alphagene- Tis the season to be jolly. Fa-la-la-la-la la-la-la-la. Low tolerance is another way of saying quick temper. * * * R.J.D. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/37 "2000-03-01T03:00:00Z")
well, as a deafened person who gets most of his communication through writing, I notice written communication can be mis-understood. Often people get negative feelings readings something not meant to be. Guess the old tonal inflection is needed. This was added with smileys which aren’t really happening so much no more. ---
**Author:** ![upstatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@upstatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/upstatic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/38 "2000-03-01T03:00:00Z")
About the ‘link’ post, it was just a suggestion, take a chill-pill and reread it. * * * R.J.D. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/39 "2000-03-01T03:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Alphagene: > **In a board that has been frequented by racists, homophobes, anti-semites and mysogynists** You’re talking about **me** , aren’t you, Alpha? Bastard. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![CalifBoomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CalifBoomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalifBoomer)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bitterness-bitterness-bitterness/14178/40 "2000-03-01T03:23:00Z")
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