# Why is it important to be humble? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141 "2013-04-30T20:28:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/161 "2013-05-03T12:19:47Z")
Thanks **Nzinga** , as usual. **twicks** , thanks - yeah, I read **rhuby’s** post the same way… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/162 "2013-05-03T12:36:03Z")
> [@panaccione](#): > > **Rhubarbarin** , based on the one picture I’ve seen of you, I think you’re a 10. I don’t know why anyone would think different. A 10? I don’t think so. [At best she’s an SDMB 9.](http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/85503.html) I don’t see what the big deal is. She’s certainly attractive enough to objectively say “I’m an attractive girl”. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/163 "2013-05-03T13:28:52Z")
Beauty measurement is a weird science. And objectivity isn’t for the faint of heart; you have to be the type you can wake up, eat breakfast, club a baby seal, and pack your brats into the family truckster for a long vacation. Even then, one person’s idea of attractiveness is not necessarily another’s. Bearing a passing resemblance to a celebrity can be a benefit, but let’s say you’re the masculine type-- what if people say you look just like: a) Mark Anthony b) George Michael c) Monty Hall d) All of the above If it’s (d), the only way you’re getting your hands on a girl’s panties is if she’s doing you a favor. Not to mention that most of us have a dead zone in our own self-perception. And beauty isn’t permanent— we’ve seen the child actors who are cute and gangly when they’re young, but lose their appeal when they grow up to be stocky and weird-looking with a disproportionately large head. So pace yourselves, Beautiful Folks. It’s a long way down the Holiday Road. ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/164 "2013-05-03T16:05:49Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Beauty measurement is a weird science. And objectivity isn’t for the faint of heart; you have to be the type you can wake up, eat breakfast, club a baby seal, and pack your brats into the family truckster for a long vacation. > > Even then, one person’s idea of attractiveness is not necessarily another’s. Bearing a passing resemblance to a celebrity can be a benefit, but let’s say you’re the masculine type-- what if people say you look just like: > > a) Mark Anthony > b) George Michael > c) Monty Hall > d) All of the above > > If it’s (d), the only way you’re getting your hands on a girl’s panties is if she’s doing you a favor. > > Not to mention that most of us have a dead zone in our own self-perception. And beauty isn’t permanent— we’ve seen the child actors who are cute and gangly when they’re young, but lose their appeal when they grow up to be stocky and weird-looking with a disproportionately large head. So pace yourselves, Beautiful Folks. It’s a long way down the Holiday Road. no u di’nt! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/165 "2013-05-03T17:17:06Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Beauty measurement is a weird science. And objectivity isn’t for the faint of heart; you have to be the type you can wake up, eat breakfast, club a baby seal, and pack your brats into the family truckster for a long vacation. > > Even then, one person’s idea of attractiveness is not necessarily another’s. Bearing a passing resemblance to a celebrity can be a benefit, but let’s say you’re the masculine type-- what if people say you look just like: > > a) Mark Anthony > b) George Michael > c) Monty Hall > d) All of the above > > If it’s (d), the only way you’re getting your hands on a girl’s panties is if she’s doing you a favor. > > Not to mention that most of us have a dead zone in our own self-perception. And beauty isn’t permanent— we’ve seen the child actors who are cute and gangly when they’re young, but lose their appeal when they grow up to be stocky and weird-looking with a disproportionately large head. So pace yourselves, Beautiful Folks. It’s a long way down the Holiday Road. [Masterful.](http://i.imgur.com/MIj6o.gif) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/166 "2013-05-04T06:37:36Z")
No, it’s not masterful. I don’t necessarily disagree with what **Vinyl Turnip** wrote, but " So pace yourselves, Beautiful Folks." is in no way humble. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/167 "2013-05-04T07:01:22Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Beauty measurement is a weird science. And objectivity isn’t for the faint of heart; you have to be the type you can wake up, eat breakfast, club a baby seal, and pack your brats into the family truckster for a long vacation. > > Even then, one person’s idea of attractiveness is not necessarily another’s. Bearing a passing resemblance to a celebrity can be a benefit, but let’s say you’re the masculine type-- what if people say you look just like: > > a) Mark Anthony > b) George Michael > c) Monty Hall > d) All of the above > > If it’s (d), the only way you’re getting your hands on a girl’s panties is if she’s doing you a favor. Okay, am I the only one here willing to admit that I’m not at all sure what you’re trying to say here? ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2013, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/168 "2013-05-04T07:51:19Z")
Okay, it’s some kind of coded locker-room tittering about how **rhubarbarin** looks like Anthony Michael Hall that’s pretty fucking stupid and anyway you left off Freddy Got Fingered ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/169 "2013-05-05T04:58:32Z")
I think Anthony Michael Hall has aged very well, actually. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/170 "2013-05-05T13:47:41Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Not to mention that most of us have a dead zone in our own self-perception. And beauty isn’t permanent— we’ve seen the child actors who are cute and gangly when they’re young, but lose their appeal when they grow up to be stocky and weird-looking with a disproportionately large head. So pace yourselves, Beautiful Folks. It’s a long way down the Holiday Road. Random story. When I was a kid I often had people (even strangers) tell me I looked like famous person X. Now, even as a little kid I recognized the name as he was a famous musician. But I was a little kid and this was back in the day where you were lucky if you could get all three channels AND PBS. And sometime late at night/early in the morning they played the national anthem, showed a waving American flag, and then went off the air. So, between those two factors I went years being told I looked like X, knowing X was famous, but not really knowing what he looked like because his thing was music, not chatting with Oprah, or having his own show on Fox News. But eventually I saw a TV show and there was this odd ugly dude being interviewed. Then I found out it was X :eek: Glad my selfworth back in the day wasn’t based on looks because I would have probably exploded. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/171 "2013-05-05T16:51:13Z")
> [@rhubarbarin](#): > > I thought about this all a lot today, and my ultimate conclusion is that the reason these remarks are a pattern for me is that that my inner troll is showing. I know certain things I say piss certain people here off (because they call me on it at the time or make snarky mentions of it other times), repeatedly, but I continue posting in the same vein when the spirit takes me because I can justify it with ‘heh heh [roll voice], they’re annoyed again, how dumb to be annoyed by something like this’. > > But it isn’t dumb. It (by which I mean comments which are, or can easily be interpreted as, bragging) may not be something I notice so much personaly, but that doesn’t mean being annoyed by it isn’t justified. > > And on another level, it can be an outright thread shit, or provoke negative emotions beyond irritation, neither of which is something I want to be doing. > > I’m certainly going to be much more aware of it from now on, as if nothing else, it makes me a less interesting contributor to this board. So I’m doing a quick Dope Scan and see some thread locked - about sexting nudie pix; again not my cuppa tea, but it is always interesting to see what leads to locked threads. While there, near the end - and the thread was interesting from a cultural standpoint - I see this from yesterday or so - AFTER all of this thread: [QUOTE=rhubarbarin] Even if, like me, you don’t care if people see you naked, and get paid by artists to sketch you naked (and there are plenty of existing photos taken of you while posing) - it would still be deeply wrong for someone to post those pics with identifying info on the internet in an attempt at defamation and/or harassment. I’d pursue legal action as well. [/QUOTE] You know what, **rhuby** my dear? Yep, it’s in line with the thread, and yep, it’s a POV that could be relevant and share-able, but you know - it’s got enough sneak-brag in it, especially after this thread, to be really glaring IMHO. The others are right - I am a sucker and you’ve got enough of a fixation on yourself to be an issue. I’m done here. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2013, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141/172 "2013-05-06T12:23:55Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > The others are right - I am a sucker and you’ve got enough of a fixation on yourself to be an issue. I’m done here. Minor update: I’ve gotten contacts from folks via email and PM - thank you for your kind words about my approach to this thread. I did try ;). I promise that I am not, to use the SDMB phrasing, “butt hurt” or feel like a sucker in any significant way. I make it a point to not invest that much into postings on an anonymous message board, even a great one like the Dope. You started this thread, **rhubarbarin** - hope you got out of it what you wanted. It may not be important to be humble, but if you talk with folks in a self-absorbed way, it may put them off…just in case you haven’t noticed. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-important-to-be-humble/657141.md?page=8)