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moonrockmushy
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: memes]
#23662609 - 09/20/16 06:27 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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How the fuck am I back to 4 shrooms Asante I was five shrooms yesterday. Ya'll are playing with my crabmotions.
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Moonshoe
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Asante] 1
#23662624 - 09/20/16 06:30 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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"members of a group will attempt to negate or diminish the importance of any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of envy, spite, conspiracy, or competitive feelings, to halt their progress.[6][7][8][9][10]"
This same phenomenon has been described using the phrases "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" Or "the tallest poppy gets chopped down"
Sadly, this does seem to be a very real dynamic.
People often think tall, attractive or intelligent people must have it remarkably easy, which to some extent is true, but the benefit is mitigated to some extent by the way in which these gifted people often elicit reactions of envy, resentment , jealousy, spite , bitterness , possessiveness and even hatred from others.
People often percieve very attractive people as being arrogant , even when those people are internally painfully shy, lonely and self conscious.
Likewise, people often interpret highly intelligent people as being smug, patronizing or condescending, often to the frustrated bafflement of said person.
People who are athletically, musically or mathematically talented may be seen as having everything come easily and naturally to them, without realizing the Amount of hard work and discipline they may have had to Invest to reach the level of achievement they have.
I know lots of extremely hot girls who are extremely , painfully shy, insecure and self conscious .
Ironically, it's sometimes this very shyness and insecurity that leads them to remain distant from people, which people sometimes interpret as being a "stuck up bitch"
Likewise a highly intelligent person may find herself consistently being called patronizing or smug, and that upsets them and makes them feel uncomfortable around others, and the withdrawing is interpreted as being aloof and thinking they are better than others.
The sad irony is that often it's exactly the signs of shyness, loneliness and Insecurity that people attribute to arrogance, aloofness and "thinking you are better than everyone else", creating a painful feedback loop/ reinforcing cycle .
Another example is how short men will often imagine that tall men are being disrespectful To them and be unnecessarily aggressive to the tall man, or how people assume a large muscular athletic man must be a "meathead" or a "dumb jock", or how a big strong man who walks into a bar may become the target of violence simply because he looks big and strong .
Even something that Is attained entirely through hard work can cause people to despise them, such as people who feel highly educated people must be arrogant, or people who feel justified in picking fights with someone who has a black belt .
Highly attractive women are more likely to be sexually harassed by men and at the same time elicit the jealousy of other females.
Highly attractive men, likewise, can cause other men to be unnecessarily defensive around Their girlfriends.
The student with the highest marks In a class Can elicit the bitterness of her classmates and be called a "teachers pet " or a "brown noser" or a "suck up".
Someone who has worked hard to cultivate spirituality or morality may be painted as judgmental , sanctimonious or on a high horse.
Someone with good fashion sense can be called shallow, and someone who is financially successful is painted as greedy or materialistic.
Someone who is successful in sex or romance can be called a whore or slut.
People feel uncomfortable around someone who surpasses them in some way, and this leads to projecting negative qualities that do not exist over positive attributes that do.
The general term for all these examples is "player hating" or just being a "hater".
When a person who is gifted or talented makes an honest and accurate appraisal Of their own qualities, this is taken as arrogance or boasting.
If someone who is actually a genius says "I am very intelligent " they are actually being modest, but will be accused of being egotistical.
If someone who is extremely athletic says "I am in very good shape" he is actually downplayin things, but people will take it as bragging.
If a gorgeous woman describes herself as pretty, men and women alike may call her stuck up or full of herself .
And God forbid you are highly intelligent, tall, athletic and extremely attractive all at Once.
Even if you are always as kind and modest as you can be, Many people will hate you for it.
If you ever give an honest account of your own qualities, you will surely be despised as an egotistical narcissist.
A blonde woman can say she is blonde without being hated for it, but a smart man who honestly recognizes his own intelligence or a sexy woman who doesn't deny the truth of her own beauty will be hated .
When someone feels lesser than you, they automatically tend to assume that you must also feel greater than them, and hate you for it, even if you weren't making any comparisons to them at all.
For a tall man, having a short boss is a nightmare .
For a hot woman, having an ugly female boss is a nightmare.
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Edited by Moonshoe (09/20/16 06:40 PM)
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23662641 - 09/20/16 06:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Quote:
moonrockmushy said: How the fuck am I back to 4 shrooms Asante I was five shrooms yesterday. Ya'll are playing with my crabmotions.
Someone must have appropriately changed their rating of you.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: PartoftheSource]
#23662649 - 09/20/16 06:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought when someone edited their rating it went back to the top. The best I figger someone changed the "weight" of their rating making it more or less powerful towards the average.
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Burke Dennings
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23662826 - 09/20/16 07:27 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I edited a rating of someone a couple days ago, and was surprised to see it not go to the top. They've been tinkering with the feature.
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Jokeshopbeard
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Burke Dennings]
#23662838 - 09/20/16 07:30 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Indeed, it has been tinkered with. To the benefit of all, IMO.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23662844 - 09/20/16 07:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Oh I see. Fuck you then partoftheshart you snarky bitch
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Burke Dennings
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#23662912 - 09/20/16 07:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't like that edited ratings don't go to the top. I get why they did it, though.
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23662925 - 09/20/16 07:56 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Talk dirty to me, pooprockflushy.
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Burke Dennings]
#23662928 - 09/20/16 07:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah I get it too. They realized I hit 4.5 and they're like, y'know what? lets round down guys. can hardly blame them.
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23885391 - 12/01/16 06:24 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: Asante]
#23885455 - 12/01/16 06:44 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's not everything I dreamed it would be, I'm not getting as much pussy as I expected, but I do feel redeemed.
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ohcrapitsnico
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: moonrockmushy]
#23885508 - 12/01/16 07:08 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
moonrockmushy said: It's not everything I dreamed it would be, I'm not getting as much pussy as I expected, but I do feel redeemed. 
Looks like you're at 5 now. You're welcome.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Crab Mentality and a Shroomery that efficiently takes care of its own. [Re: ohcrapitsnico]
#23885591 - 12/01/16 07:35 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've been a five for weeks, but thank you. I couldn't have done it without you.'
What was even more satisfying was knocking Herbologist down to a 4 with a single 0. Who's King Crab now?
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