# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/141 "2013-12-30T21:15:27Z")
Oh great. Let me guess. Commie is now considered offensive. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/142 "2013-12-30T21:15:55Z")
Iono, wasnt [Uncle Joe](https://www.google.com/search?q=image+young+joseph+stalin&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS563US567&espv=210&es_sm=91&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=n-LBUsToDsekyQHKhoDQCw&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=853&bih=405#facrc=_&imgrc=14qIq0Xcdhpt5M%3A%3BEvmR_-BPmA_6RM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252F6%252F6e%252FStalin_1902.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FEarly_life_of_Joseph_Stalin%3B897%3B1206) kinda hawt in his younger days? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/143 "2013-12-30T21:18:37Z")
Pinko lover! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/144 "2013-12-30T21:18:47Z")
Now if the Nazis were just impotent, maybe they wouldn’t be so important. Of course, that might have made them worse. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/145 "2013-12-30T21:29:23Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > But lets face it, there is nothing sexy about Commies. I think Putin is kinda hot. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/146 "2013-12-30T21:36:26Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > I think Putin is kinda hot. In a beady-eyed kinda way? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/147 "2013-12-30T21:36:40Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > And I mean you, Loach. > … > What the hell kind of user name is that anyhow? I have it on good authority that Loach took his name from the [slithery little aquarium fish](http://www.loaches.com/species-index/photos/p/Pangio_kuhlii_01.jpg/image_medium). It had nothing to do with the [big manly helicopter](http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780764323430_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG)of the same name. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/148 "2013-12-30T21:38:25Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > I think Putin is kinda hot. yeah, but pussy riot around him. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/149 "2013-12-30T21:51:32Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Why is always the Nazis? Why not somebody else, at least occasionally? > Come on, Pol Pot was pretty amazingly evil. Will no one think of the Khmer Rouge? > > I suppose not. > > Perhaps it is for the best. Because, honestly, Khmer Rouge is hard to spell. It’s the uniforms. Nazis are snappy dressers. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/150 "2013-12-30T21:57:08Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > It’s the uniforms. Nazis are snappy dressers. wha??? [![](https://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/ZgB_bucket/gring.jpg) ](https://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/ZgB_bucket/gring.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 30, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/151 "2013-12-30T22:43:45Z")
> [@SerafinaPekala](#): > > wha??? > > [http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/ZgB\_bucket/gring.jpg](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t193/ZgB_bucket/gring.jpg) It takes flair to rock a hat like that. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/152 "2013-12-30T23:02:23Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Because, honestly, Khmer Rouge is hard to spell. True, but Khmer Rouge is hella fun to say. That defeats the point of being negative so can’t use them in this thread. What about smurfs? They’re already blue - they’re the perfect antagonist in this kind of thread. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/153 "2013-12-31T02:46:23Z")
> [@simster](#): > > yeah, but pussy riot around him. I see what you did there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/154 "2013-12-31T12:02:42Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > I think Putin is kinda hot. [You’re not alone.](http://newsthump.com/2013/08/16/putin-looks-coyly-into-camera-and-takes-off-shirt-to-criticise-homosexuality/) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/155 "2013-12-31T15:50:41Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > One thing I have noticed in 15+ years working is that even the most scummy alcoholic junky criminal losers all have girlfriends. Bill Hicks, on the show \*Cops \*: > [@](#): > > Every night it’s the same show. A woman has been beaten by her husband, her head looks like a melon, the cops are called on a domestic call […] and every time the woman stands up for the guy. Head looks like a melon : “he didn’t mean to 'it me, offifer, he’s a guuud man offifer don’t take 'im away”… and she stands up for that fucking guy. That cracker is balls deep in that whore every night, I haven’t been laid in three fucking years ! It’s not right ! ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/156 "2013-12-31T16:11:43Z")
Holy shit machine, the OP reminds me of my husband on a tear. The primary difference being when I tell him to snap the fuck out of it, he usually does. His primary source of misery is himself - what he wants that he thinks he’s not getting or won’t get, but refuses to do anything about. Honestly, the whole thing elicits less sympathy than it does annoyance. Thank goodness it’s not as neverending as the OP’s - stopping the bitching and taking action (like starting a budget, planning for retirement, deciding on next steps) is what drags him out of it. For most people, action breeds action, which breeds satisfaction and/or ambition for more. But all that requires getting over yourself first. So if you ever decide to write out a to-do list, put that first. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/157 "2013-12-31T18:58:52Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Holy shit machine, the OP reminds me of my husband on a tear. The primary difference being when I tell him to snap the fuck out of it, he usually does. Well, fair’s fair : he probably gets laid once in a while too. Being married and all. Incredible boost to the old self-esteem, sex. Helps one keep things in perspective. Also relieves anxiety, depression AND lets you do cardio, all at once. That stuff should really be sold in pharmacies but noooo, they kick you right out when you ask 'em. Same with shrinks - you ask them for a simple handjob and next thing you know you’re out the door. Shameful shit. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/158 "2013-12-31T19:18:19Z")
It’s funny because it’s … wait a goddamn minute. You don’t need a doctor or a pharmacy to get sex. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/159 "2013-12-31T19:56:53Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > It’s funny because it’s … wait a goddamn minute. You don’t need a doctor or a pharmacy to get sex. WHERE then? And are they in my network? ---
**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:** [December 31, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006/160 "2013-12-31T21:22:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Well, fair’s fair : he probably gets laid once in a while too. Being married and all. > Incredible boost to the old self-esteem, sex. Helps one keep things in perspective. Also relieves anxiety, depression AND lets you do cardio, all at once. That stuff should really be sold in pharmacies but noooo, they kick you right out when you ask 'em. Same with shrinks - you ask them for a simple handjob and next thing you know you’re out the door. Shameful shit. 20 seconds of cardio once a week isn’t going to help much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-that-accuse-me-of-being-negative/677006.md?page=9)