# Pick one character flaw to be magically free of **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663 "2006-07-31T04:33:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/61 "2006-08-02T02:51:42Z")
[QUOTE=Sevastopol] Remorse, conscience, compassion, fatigue. All that. [/QUOTE] How are any of those character flaws? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/62 "2006-08-02T03:07:09Z")
\*\*Skald \*\*can I just say, you make some of the greatest threads ever. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/63 "2006-08-02T03:21:24Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] \*\*Skald \*\*can I just say, you make some of the greatest threads ever. Thanks. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Aren’t you glad I’ve sworn off slamming certain movies? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Webner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/0ea827/32.png) [@Webner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Webner)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/64 "2006-08-02T13:14:46Z")
Shyness/lack of confidence ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/65 "2006-08-02T13:19:05Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Aren’t you glad I’ve sworn off slamming certain movies? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Well, yes…although if you wanted to start a big thread saying I HATE LOTR (or anything else) that would be fair enough! And I may or may not even defend it. But that’s all to one side. Your threads really are fun. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/66 "2006-08-02T14:10:20Z")
Self-loathing. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/67 "2006-08-02T14:33:13Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Well, yes…although if you wanted to start a big thread saying I HATE LOTR (or anything else) that would be fair enough! And I may or may not even defend it. But that’s all to one side. Your threads really are fun. [/QUOTE] But that would be misleading; I adore the book\*, and of the movies I only hate the third. In fact, I decided the other day that it was time for my biennial reading of the professor’s opus. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/68 "2006-08-02T15:35:06Z")
Was there going to be something with the star ? I’ll confess, I don’t adore the books. I like them, sure, but sometimes they are much too long-winded. No one talks like that. Instead of saying let’s go, we say a speech. And he was entirely too fixated on food. Other than that, they were good books. And perhaps I should give them a re-read, too, it’s been about two years. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/69 "2006-08-02T15:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] Was there going to be something with the star ? [/quote] Yeah; I was going to go on a long nerdish rant about their being only ONE book, i.e., the LOTR novel is not a trilogy, but I lost interest even as I contemplated it. But forgot to delete the asterisk. > [@](#): > > I’ll confess, I don’t adore the books. :eek: And I was going to order my minions to spare you when they sweep over the lands like a flaming wind this afterooon! Ah well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/70 "2006-08-02T15:45:20Z")
But I do like them! Can I have only a little flaming-wind-sweeping? Please? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/71 "2006-08-02T15:50:11Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] But I do like them! Can I have only a little flaming-wind-sweeping? Please? [/QUOTE] ::checks the schedule:: Now that I think on it, **Anaamika** ,I already gave the order for my VSGEFBWHMs\* to spare you anyway, and it’s bad policy to keep rescinding orders. You should be fine so long as you don’t actively interfere with the pillaging. \*venom-spewing, genetically engineered, fire-breathing, winged howler monkeys ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/72 "2006-08-02T16:04:43Z")
And now back to our regularly-scheduled thread! I would like to be free of self-doubt. Because I’m pretty sure that I can do whatever I set my mind to, and then that little voice kicks in. And, frankly, I’d rather not even try than try and fail. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/73 "2006-08-02T17:39:46Z")
[QUOTE=Avarie537] And, frankly, I’d rather not even try than try and fail. [/QUOTE] This sums up a lot of how I feel about myself. I’d like to change that. I’m also working on not being so passive-aggressive anymore, but it would be nice if that genie would eliminate that in one fell swoop. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663/74 "2006-08-03T01:00:48Z")
Procrastination. Or indecision, maybe. Is there some all-purpose character flaw which encompasses both? If so, that’s the one I’d like to be rid of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-one-character-flaw-to-be-magically-free-of/366663.md?page=3)