# Is it possible that someone can die from overexposure to smug? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287 "2009-08-22T05:11:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/41 "2009-08-22T20:15:17Z")
Yeah, it is. (Needs eyes though.) Still, congrats. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/42 "2009-08-22T21:23:28Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > I sabotaged any chance of people considering me a master by immediately following up with a hurried, unfocused mess such as you see at the top of this page. That way, in the future, Iā€™d never have to debate endlessly whether an idea I have is worth posting. Hopefully, anything I post in the future can be judged on its own merits, and not as some long-awaited sequel to my freshman submission. That certainly makes sense. Perhaps I was too harsh. Regarding the topic, speaking as a liberal, I am highly satisfied that I am not smug. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/43 "2009-08-22T21:24:32Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Yeah, it is. (Needs eyes though.) Still, congrats. šŸ˜ƒ The eyes are the ā€œ=ā€. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/44 "2009-08-22T21:26:19Z")
Couldnā€™t think of a way to make ā€œwincingā€ eyes in horizontal ascii. =^{ ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/45 "2009-08-22T21:30:40Z")
Okay. I was rushing to get out the door and never picked up that those were squinty eyes. Thanks to you both. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/46 "2009-08-22T21:42:01Z")
Heh, smug is the first word that comes to mind when I think of the SDMB personally. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/47 "2009-08-23T17:57:57Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > - All he really wanted to say was ā€œLOOK SOMEONE ON THE TEEVEE SAID MY NAME WATCH ME CALL HIM A POOPOO FACE.ā€\* Isnā€™t this pretty much Olbermanā€™s schtick-in-trade? I mean, he even ends his segments with it. ---
**Author:** ![ivn1188](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e480ec/32.png) [@ivn1188](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivn1188)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/48 "2009-08-24T16:28:19Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Heh, smug is the first word that comes to mind when I think of the SDMB personally. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/49 "2009-08-24T17:02:03Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Heh, smug is the first word that comes to mind when I think of the SDMB personally. Yes, you are quite smug whenever you post here. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/50 "2009-08-24T17:20:33Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Yes, you are quite smug whenever you post here. What a smug statement. šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/51 "2009-08-24T17:43:05Z")
Liberal, conservative, the smugface is the least attractive face humans can have. Itā€™s the face that smirks at you because it can treat you like shit and you can do nothing. Itā€™s the ignorant clod who went to an hour and a half seminar on avoiding identity theft and declares that itā€™s ā€œillegal for you to ask me for my driverā€™s license!ā€ Itā€™s the smirk of someone who pays in pennies knowing that you have to accept them and knowing itā€™s going to take forever and knowing heā€™s inconveniencing the people behind him. Itā€™s the face of the guy who takes 20 items into the 10-items-or-less lane because ā€œwell, five of them are the same thing and anyway it doesnā€™t take that much longerā€. Itā€™s the face of the guy behind the desk at the towing yard, merrily holding your car until you fork out a hundred and fifty bucks after they towed your car from the almost-empty parking lot when you ran over to the shop next door ā€“ ā€œCash only please. No, we donā€™t accept anything else. No, we donā€™t have a cash machine on site. I donā€™t care how you get it, but if you leave the car here for another half hour itā€™s another fifty bucks. And it was all scraped along the side when we picked it up.ā€ Itā€™s the smile of a person who feels powerless and out of control throughout the course of their lives, the smile of a person whose only power comes at the expense of others. It is a petty, nasty, ugly smile. Itā€™s an expression born from a culture where coming out on top is treasured more highly than treating people decently. Itā€™s a smile that makes my slapping hand itch, and since one screen of the TV bank in front of the treadmills at my gym is always tuned to FOX, I donā€™t even use the treadmills on that half of the room. I canā€™t stand that expression, and it never goes away. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/52 "2009-08-24T17:44:54Z")
I canā€™t stop saying smug to myself. Smug, smug, smug, smug, smug, smug, smug. It is one of those words that loses meaning after you hear it repeated. It also goes nicely with smirk. Smug smirk. That is why I love to watch Colbert so much. He gets the smug and makes it hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/53 "2009-08-24T18:15:36Z")
Dude, we _are_ smug. Nearly all of us think weā€™re smarter on average than conservatives. We are, of course, but stillā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Sinaijon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Sinaijon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinaijon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/54 "2009-08-24T18:36:38Z")
Itā€™s like the OP saw _Seinfeld_ for the first time and thought ā€œHey, I can do humor like that!ā€ No. No you canā€™t. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/55 "2009-08-24T21:29:19Z")
I find the fact that I am not smug _immensely_ self-satisfying. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/56 "2009-08-24T21:33:53Z")
Modesty is just one of the many, many virtues about which I am not smug. ---
**Author:** ![wierdaaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eada6e/32.png) [@wierdaaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wierdaaron)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/57 "2009-08-24T23:06:26Z")
Not that itā€™s a big deal or anything, but Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™m much less smug than all of you. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/58 "2009-08-24T23:15:40Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > Not that itā€™s a big deal or anything, but Iā€™m pretty sure Iā€™m much less smug than all of you. Pheh, Iā€™m the humblest person _ever_. Bow before my transcendent humility! ---
**Author:** ![Maia\_s\_Well](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Maia\_s\_Well](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maia_s_Well)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/59 "2009-08-24T23:23:40Z")
After reading **Little Plastic Ninjaā€™s** brilliant post, I hurried to the mirror to check my face for smugness. I didnā€™t find any until I felt good about not finding any. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287/60 "2009-08-24T23:38:03Z")
> [@Maia\_s\_Well](#): > > After reading **Little Plastic Ninjaā€™s** brilliant post, I hurried to the mirror to check my face for smugness. Aw, shucks! > [@](#): > > I didnā€™t find any until I felt good about not finding any. Oh no! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-that-someone-can-die-from-overexposure-to-smug/507287.md?page=2)