Is it possible that someone can die from overexposure to smug?

Yeah, it is. (Needs eyes though.) Still, congrats. :smiley:

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.

The eyes are the “=”.

Couldn’t think of a way to make “wincing” eyes in horizontal ascii. =^{

Okay. I was rushing to get out the door and never picked up that those were squinty eyes. Thanks to you both.

Heh, smug is the first word that comes to mind when I think of the SDMB personally.

Isn’t this pretty much Olberman’s schtick-in-trade? I mean, he even ends his segments with it.

Ditto.

Yes, you are quite smug whenever you post here.

What a smug statement. :stuck_out_tongue:

Liberal, conservative, the smugface is the least attractive face humans can have.

It’s the face that smirks at you because it can treat you like shit and you can do nothing. It’s the ignorant clod who went to an hour and a half seminar on avoiding identity theft and declares that it’s “illegal for you to ask me for my driver’s license!” It’s the smirk of someone who pays in pennies knowing that you have to accept them and knowing it’s going to take forever and knowing he’s inconveniencing the people behind him. It’s the face of the guy who takes 20 items into the 10-items-or-less lane because “well, five of them are the same thing and anyway it doesn’t take that much longer”. It’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 – “Cash only please. No, we don’t accept anything else. No, we don’t have a cash machine on site. I don’t care how you get it, but if you leave the car here for another half hour it’s another fifty bucks. And it was all scraped along the side when we picked it up.”

It’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. It’s an expression born from a culture where coming out on top is treasured more highly than treating people decently.

It’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 don’t even use the treadmills on that half of the room. I can’t stand that expression, and it never goes away.

I can’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.

Dude, we are smug. Nearly all of us think we’re smarter on average than conservatives.

We are, of course, but still…

It’s like the OP saw Seinfeld for the first time and thought “Hey, I can do humor like that!”

No. No you can’t.

I find the fact that I am not smug immensely self-satisfying.

Modesty is just one of the many, many virtues about which I am not smug.

Not that it’s a big deal or anything, but I’m pretty sure I’m much less smug than all of you.

Pheh, I’m the humblest person ever. Bow before my transcendent humility!

After reading Little Plastic Ninja’s brilliant post, I hurried to the mirror to check my face for smugness.

I didn’t find any until I felt good about not finding any.

Aw, shucks!

Oh no! :eek: