You would swap places with a guy in the dark and have physical contact with his girlfriend without telling her?
Good to know, now Shaggy can pull the same trick with his jewish heiress. Be quick though, you’ll only have a few weeks to pull it off before she ghosts him.
I guess I skimmed over that! :smack: But wasn’t it a “college prank” he regrets? Many of us have closet skeletons; at least he admitted (one of) his.
If I believed it actually happened I certainly wouldn’t believe he regrets it…
Still though, my closet skeletons don’t involve anything even close to sexual assault, but perhaps I just haven’t lived on the edge.
Why are you defending this douche?
Maybe I should change my user name to Summer’s Eve.
Sounds refreshing.
I viddy.
How many skeletons do you have that you boast about at least four times on a message board?
You must have skimmed over a lot if you believe he regrets it. People who sincerely regret a past misdeed don’t repeatedly boast about what a hilarious joke it was, and when called out on it they don’t try to paint themselves as the real victim while blaming the actual victim.
Summers eve?? He didnt really just post that did he? Has he no shame?
How stupid can you be? I am kidding, that is seriously lame. I agree we have played right into his self aggrandizing mindset. But it is so hard not to try and tell him how ignorant and evil he is. I just want it to stop, some how!
No, they’re not. The sociopaths I’ve met wouldn’t inflict harm on a family member just because they didn’t like them. You have to on some level relate to someone as a fellow human being to like or dislike them. Real sociopaths don’t even consider their fellow people human. They consider them things that can be useful or manipulated as serves their own needs. A sadist who was a sociopath might inflict harm on another for their own pleasure, but they are not kicking puppies for teh evulz outside of bad fiction. IME, they actually tend to be quite charismatic and charming, especially if they think you might be useful to them in some way. I feel that after eight pages of this pit thread, I can safely say that charismatic is not a phrase anyone has used to describe the 'Nasty.
Now what we here is much more straight forward. Shag is a liar and a narcissist. I don’t buy his internet tough guy act, especially since that thread about evil he started. I’m fairly sure the real reason he is trying to convince everyone here that he is some sort of badass is because in the real world he is so very sad and insignificant. Here on this message board he can pretend to be something he’s not, which is someone who actually matters.
And now I’m done feeding this narcissist. It’s hard to shame a narcissist, because narcissism is such a common defense against shame. It’s just more attention to him, which he feeds off. Same goes for insults. I’m just putting him on my ignore list so I’ll remember not to feed him in the future and move on, knowing that having to live in his head is far worse punishment than any method I’m willing to use.
This is a little over the top. He was making a joke. If you really “just wanted it to stop” you wouldn’t post anymore about it.
I was kidding, I said so. But, I also said I wanted it to stop, what I meant to say is I wanted him stopped. But when he is stopped, another one more blatant and perverse will pop up, they always do!
I didn’t say they exemplified the characteristics of all sociopaths (or those with APD, if you prefer), but rather those of some. The point is, persons who weren’t sociopaths wouldn’t behave in this manner - not that all sociopaths would do so.
I have a little direct experience in this matter, as my first cousin pushed me down a flight of stairs when I was four years old. Without rage, without provocation, without any visible emotional affect. This same cousin went on to be physically abusive to his own disabled mother, all the while presenting to the world a facade of successful normalcy. He is presently a respected pediatrician in Philadelphia.
There are of course many books on sociopaths, but one I found quite readable and interesting was “The Sociopath Next Door” by Martha Stout. Here’s an excerpt from an interview:
You might find it informative to compare that quote to the one I just posted regarding the subject of this OP.
The DSM-IV has seven qualifiers for qualifying for ASPD, and I’ve only seen Shag show evidence of two of them; deception and lack of remorse. Three are required to qualify. Lack of remorse is also part of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as well, and it’s a far closer fit IMO. Given that they are both Cluster B personality disorders, similarities between the two disorders are not surprising.
I’m not doubting the story or your assessment about your cousin however. That does sounds like a sociopath, and I’m sorry you had to deal with them.
I have a relative who was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, and he says shit like this all the time—he’s just making “different choices” and enjoying life, unlike all the chumps who obey rules and social norms.
He’s been here for 18 years - why all the sudden outrage? I’m not defending Shag or not defending him, I’ve just never seen a poster of this length of tenure receive such a pitting. I’m sure it happens, I’ve just never seen it. I haven’t seen a lot of things, I have no idea what a carborator looks like**,** for example.
Hey, no worries. 
I wasn’t looking to get into a pissing match with you or anything. It’s just that - now that I think about it a bit more - that quote of Shagnasty’s where he describes pushing his infant brother down because he “didn’t like him” hits a bit close to home for me. I wasn’t injured or anything in the incident with my cousin, but it certainly showed me in no uncertain terms - well before I understood it on a conscious level - that some people are broken and dangerous from the time they can walk.
As I said in the closed thread that immediately prompted this OP, I think Spice Weasel may have been more accurate in her armchair assessment of NPD. As you say, there’s a good deal of overlap. I’m just glad that Shagnasty is not someone with whom I am forced to have interactions…
Probably because for the first decade or so of his tenure, he primarily posted about how miserable he was in his marriage. It took some time for his youngest daughter to reach dateable age and for him to extricate himself from his wife, so that we could all enjoy the horror show he’s become.
Like carburetors, pittings of long-time posters exist, and occur all the time. Shodan, Diogenes the Cynic, Lissener, Der Trihs just off the top of my head were the subject of more than one pitting.
When something brings it to a boil, so to speak, may people who were just keeping quiet vent.