So, what does it say about you that your pleasure is derived from the bitching and moaning of others. Your life must be far more pathetic than ours if we are your entertainment.
Sublet a life, steal a clue, and grow an opposable thumb, needle dick.
Damn. I’m smiling now. The horror of it all.
I’ll tell that you are the boy in the margarine box.
hastur
i will admit i have always had doubts about the significance of my life compared to others but your comments as well as the comments of others on this thread have helped me to realize that no matter how low i go i will always have someone to look down on.
and yes it is entertaining for me to watch a bunch of weak minded sheep herding together to puff themselves up against
whatever fantasy menace they can create so that they can appear less frail. i picture in my mind Don Knotts in “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” and no matter how everyone here might want to rip me, i think this movie escapes all criticism. i will admit that The Incredible Mr. Limpet had some character flaws (who would believe Don Knotts as a war hero?")but TGAMC was perfect. (“Atta boy, Luther”)
I apologize. my mind wandered for a moment to its special place where Don Knotts is everywhere. allow me to continue my response:
its not the bitching and moaning per se that’s entertaining, it’s the intensity of the bluster compared to
the perceived danger of the threat.
Wow, craiger, your attitude is so positive and uplifting that it makes me want to smoke crack too, if I didn’t have the self-control that you totally lack.
Okay, thread hijacking slightly, but if you are American, and you ever go to London, don’t come up to me and ask ‘where is Big Ben’ or something INCREDIBLY irritating like that. This isnt New york, you can usually see it just by looking up. USE YOUR BRAIN. OR A MAP. Chinese tourists piss me off as well. They span the pavements [yes, sidewalks in your language] and stop to take photographs of telephone boxes and other shit like that, so I have to go in the ROAD to get past if im in a hurry.
One of the funniest things I ever heard was when some American came up to this english guy and said ‘Gee, yknow I just LOVE your accent!’
His reply was ‘It is you, madam, that has the accent’
I think we’ve just witnessed a drive by pit post. No relevance to the subject (or the hijack) at all!
Zooooooooooooooooooooom!
Zette
Man I hate it when I get to a good thread late. That’s what I get for not visiting the Pit often enough, I guess.
First of all:
Opal, I think I’m in love 
Aaanyway, it’s bad enough when somebody tells me to smile and I’m not actually depressed or angry or anything… but if I actually AM feeling rotten and somebody tells me to smile… that’s just going to make it worse.
Seems to me there’s a reason you feel bad when bad things happen, and there’s a reason you get preoccupied with whatever unpleasantness is at hand - there’s a mental process you just have to go through to deal with it. If something bad has happened - if there’s something I’m mad or guilty or depressed about… well, I’m going to slouch around and stew over it until I’m GOOD AND READY to feel OK again, and not a moment sooner. Although it may feel terrible to go through that process, I’ll be danged if I’m going to interrupt it before it’s run its course.
One of my best friends (whom I dated for a good while) has clinical depression - and during the lowest of her lows, I wished very badly that she could just miraculously cheer up, but I knew that was impossible - it was going to take time. Suggesting otherwise to her would be entirely the wrong to do. The best I could come up with was along the lines of, “Just know my shoulders and my ears are always available to you; I know you’ll get through it, and I hope for you that this will be over sooner than you expect.” (Well, I hope that was a good way to put it, I really don’t know though!)
::reviews previous post::
Boy that’s a lame-ass Pit post I wrote. Do I need flame someone to make up for it? Or just curse incessantly?
Couldn’t you do both?
I have to agree, being told to smile is really annoying. But, I think people have good intentions when they say this. I really don’t think they are actually demanding you smile. Obviously, they could say “what’s wrong?” or something, but you’d probably then rant that they were being intrusive, and should mind their own business.
Being told you are “too quiet” is a completely different story. I rarely talk to anyone, so I somehow got the reputation of being that crazy kid who doesn’t like school-and-will-probably-kill-everyone. Which, is definately not true. I’m just not one to initiate a conversation, this doesn’t mean I’m untalkative, or somehow lacking in social skills.
Anyone who says this to me will be put on my PEOPLE TO KILL list 
Gotta go clean my guns.
Come on, its not completely irrelevant is it? My post is about people who come up to you and say something that irritates you.
Its not very natural having this fixed subject thing is it? I mean, when youre having a conversation with someone, it naturally moves on to a slightly different, but related subject.
Actually, when people ask me what is wrong, I’ll tell them. Hey, I put my personal diary on the web–I’m not a private person.
Try this site out:
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When you get there, check out numbers 161 and 183.