# I pit people that accuse me of being "negative." **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 23, 2013, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006 "2013-12-23T09:44:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/181 "2014-01-04T08:07:37Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > If you’re just 30, you haven’t really been living as an adult yet. You’re just about to start the period of your life when you actually start becoming a useful human being. And yet I can’t do anything useful at this point. What does that say about me? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/182 "2014-01-04T08:34:30Z")
I’m done posting on this topic, so I’ll just end it on this note: I hope that one day, I have a son exactly like me. That way, I can beat him every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Fortunately, that will never happen. In order to have kids, someone has to want to have sex with you. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/183 "2014-01-04T12:22:18Z")
Adopt. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/184 "2014-01-04T12:37:38Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Adopt. Sweet, then I can be a deadbeat dad to someone else’s kid instead of my own. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/185 "2014-01-04T14:14:30Z")
Is someone planning for a banning? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/186 "2014-01-04T14:17:09Z")
How about you say to hell with the rest of the world for a while? There has got to be something (other than sex) that you enjoy, even a little. Go out and do it. Stop thinking about how the world sees you, stop comparing yourself to others. Nobody gives a shit if you do it poorly, just go DO something, anything, that gives you a glimmer of enjoyment. If there’s something you like, and are really interested in, then you are on the way to finding people who will be interested in what you like, and so interested in you. And yeah, therapy. Keep trying. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/187 "2014-01-04T15:05:27Z")
^^ **all together now…** “but that never weeeeeeeerrrrrrrks” ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/188 "2014-01-04T15:30:58Z")
Yeah I know. His only enjoyment is in being miserable and berating himself - a closed loop of suck. Somewhere upthread I linked to a piece about the syndrome, it’s an interesting conundrum. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/189 "2014-01-04T15:48:06Z")
And just because this is the Pit and all, I must add the obligatory [poke](https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/7980751360/hD6BDA986/). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/190 "2014-01-04T16:09:47Z")
This thread makes me want to do this. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/g2jAwiq6YsE/hqdefault.jpg "You can act like a man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jAwiq6YsE) ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/191 "2014-01-04T16:32:19Z")
> [@saje](#): > > How about you say to hell with the rest of the world for a while? There has got to be something (other than sex) that you enjoy, even a little. Go out and do it. Stop thinking about how the world sees you, stop comparing yourself to others. > > Nobody gives a shit if you do it poorly, just go DO something, anything, that gives you a glimmer of enjoyment. If there’s something you like, and are really interested in, then you are on the way to finding people who will be interested in what you like, and so interested in you. > > And yeah, therapy. Keep trying. As I said before, I don’t enjoy anything anymore. It’s impossible to enjoy anything when everything makes you head down a path of dying alone and unloved. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/192 "2014-01-04T16:33:20Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This thread makes me want to do this. > [http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jAwiq6YsE](http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jAwiq6YsE) Oh please, I would beat seven shades of shit out of you if you tried. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/193 "2014-01-04T16:44:01Z")
> [@Jesse\_Pinkman](#): > > Oh please, I would beat seven shades of shit out of you if you tried. so - you are good at something? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/194 "2014-01-04T17:12:33Z")
> [@simster](#): > > so - you are good at something? No, just better than him. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/195 "2014-01-04T17:21:37Z")
Which means you are good at something (besides wallowing in unnecessary misery and self pity). If you’re a tough guy and want to fight, go do it. Lots of avenues out there from straight up boxing to any number of martial arts. Get in a nice cathartic kickboxing round. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/196 "2014-01-04T17:26:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > There is hope. [Nazi dad who keeps naming his kids after famous Nazis and then getting them taken away by the state has had 9 children from 5 different women.](http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/12/neo-nazi_father_from_nj_demands_social_workers_return_his_child.html#incart_river_default) Tell me again how hard it is to get a girlfriend. Must remember to not attempt to consume beverages while reading Pit threads. Just gave my sinuses a surprise irrigation with Mt. Dew. 🙂 Well played, Loach. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/197 "2014-01-04T17:28:18Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Now if the Nazis were just impotent, maybe they wouldn’t be so important. > > Of course, that might have made them worse. Well, even Cecil [has addressed](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/881/did-hitler-have-only-one-testicle) the prevailing claim that Hitler was a bit, ahem, underequipped. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/198 "2014-01-04T17:34:47Z")
> [@saje](#): > > Which means you are good at something (besides wallowing in unnecessary misery and self pity). If you’re a tough guy and want to fight, go do it. Lots of avenues out there from straight up boxing to any number of martial arts. Get in a nice cathartic kickboxing round. Sweet, then I can suck at that too. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/199 "2014-01-04T17:36:12Z")
> [@Jesse\_Pinkman](#): > > No, just better than him. you don’t know that - and further, I’m going to guess that you don’t realize who loach is - so, there is a bit of confidence to your statement that makes the rest of your bullshit, well, bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse\_Pinkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jesse\_Pinkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesse_Pinkman)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/200 "2014-01-04T17:38:02Z")
> [@simster](#): > > you don’t know that - and further, I’m going to guess that you don’t realize who loach is - so, there is a bit of confidence to your statement that makes the rest of your bullshit, well, bullshit. That makes no sense. Then again, the thought came from you, so that’s not surprising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006.md?page=11)