SmokeyTA wrote:
Its weird how some people think ‘straight talking’ is something to be admired.
In my experience anyone I have met who has described themselves as ‘straight talking’ is generally just an insecure, insensitive asshat who lacks basic social skills and common courtesy. They seem oddly proud of their bravery in being so ‘straight talking’, like they imagine themselves as some harbinger of undiscovered simple truths, whilst the people they are talking to are simply equating straight talking with an abrasive, over-aggressive moron who needs to stop making these dumb generalisations, logical fallacies and insulting and offensive statements.
An inability for empathy, a lack of social grace, an under-developed ability to express and communicate ideas in a way that connects with the audience is not something to be proud of, it is evidence of a struggling intellect and frustration and insecurity in your own beliefs.
SmokeyTA wrote:
its a pretty interesting question though. Is Flexwheeler not more of an asshat for only pretending to be an asshat?
I mean i would have at least a little sympathy for someone who was just naturally an asshat, they have no choice about it, their asshattery is almost a disability.
Those who just pretending to be an asshat are making a deliberate choice to be an asshat, that surely must increase their asshattery level. Like an asshat Donnie Brasco they have spent so long thinking they were pretending to be an asshat they lines have become blurred and their very pretence of asshattery has drawn them in to being an asshat.
Thanks for the armchair psycho analysis. I never claimed straight talking was something to be admired, but this is an internet forum.
What you are basically doing, is taking my post, where I insulted no one, and using a pseudo psycho analysis of it to try assasinante my character!
That's quite slippery and slimey. I think if you are going to try and deduce much from someones actual character, based on what they write on a recreational internet forum you are going to get nowhere fast. At best your post was foolish, at worst unsavoury and devious!