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Does it bother you when...
People on the internet try to prove to everybody else how cool they are? The most recent example I’ve witnessed was about three minutes ago someplace else on the internet, where a guy had made a thread and in it put a picture of three girls acting like lesbians on a park bench. They are clearly not lesbians, they just looked like three girls who were really good friends. Anyway, that's all he puts in this first post. Then a few posts down, he admits to them not actually being lesbians and adds the line "yea but I wanted to join in while I was taking the picture."
Seems harmless enough, and maybe it is, or maybe I read to deep into it. But I took this line not as a simple, 'oh I wish they were doing that to me instead of each other' but as 'look at how cool I am to have three girls who are quite attractive and like to hug and cuddle each other while I take pictures of them! Yea we're really good friends we go out all the time, god I’m so popular with the ladies!' It's not just this guy though; we've all had it happen.
In a 'post your pic' or 'post your girlfriend' thread. Especially the latter, because making a thread about your girlfriend just seems like an excuse for you to post your own (i.e. look at me I must be cool because I have a girlfriend). There are plenty of examples, plenty, and I don't feel like covering every type.
But does it bother you when this happens? It really aggravates me, and I know it shouldn't but immodesty is the most annoying attribute to have. I don't care if you drove your Lamborghini to a mansion, partied till four the morning, made love to a dozen beautiful women, then drove your Lamborghini back to your beach front house and made breakfast with your washboard abs and rippling biceps for the other dozen beautiful women your physically intimate with who live in your house. You don't come on online and talk about it. Not only because you can't prove a damn word of it (realistically), but because it's immodest.
If I see some guy trying to impress a group of girls with a handstand, I don't walk over and do a back flip in front of them. If I see a dude doing a back flip to impress a group of girls, I don't walk over and do one. Why? Because it's immodest. A smaller example could be if I went to boarding school out on Long Island. If I currently go to school in Alabama, and somebody asks me if I’m from Alabama, then I say 'yes'. I don't say, "No, I’m from New York (la de da), I went to private boarding school." Because if you say that, it sounds like you're trying to impress people, which is bad. You shouldn’t try and impress them by doing a back flip; you just act natural (but not impressed/cocky) until one of them asks if you can do that, then you just smile and do one.
I guess I’m overreacting, but it just upsets me, when I see people trying to show off so much. I’m sure I’ve done it before, so I won’t deny anything. But even if you are the coolest guy evar and you can’t even remember a single dude’s name amidst the hundreds of thousands of girl’s names you must remember, you shouldn’t come online and try to impress people here. Besides, pretty much everybody thinks everybody else is some 15 year old, hairless, overweight, never been kissed, driver licenseless, never touched alcohol, anti-social, geek.
...but maybe I'm just wrong.
--My $0.02, flame on.
People on the internet try to prove to everybody else how cool they are? The most recent example I’ve witnessed was about three minutes ago someplace else on the internet, where a guy had made a thread and in it put a picture of three girls acting like lesbians on a park bench. They are clearly not lesbians, they just looked like three girls who were really good friends. Anyway, that's all he puts in this first post. Then a few posts down, he admits to them not actually being lesbians and adds the line "yea but I wanted to join in while I was taking the picture."
Seems harmless enough, and maybe it is, or maybe I read to deep into it. But I took this line not as a simple, 'oh I wish they were doing that to me instead of each other' but as 'look at how cool I am to have three girls who are quite attractive and like to hug and cuddle each other while I take pictures of them! Yea we're really good friends we go out all the time, god I’m so popular with the ladies!' It's not just this guy though; we've all had it happen.
In a 'post your pic' or 'post your girlfriend' thread. Especially the latter, because making a thread about your girlfriend just seems like an excuse for you to post your own (i.e. look at me I must be cool because I have a girlfriend). There are plenty of examples, plenty, and I don't feel like covering every type.
But does it bother you when this happens? It really aggravates me, and I know it shouldn't but immodesty is the most annoying attribute to have. I don't care if you drove your Lamborghini to a mansion, partied till four the morning, made love to a dozen beautiful women, then drove your Lamborghini back to your beach front house and made breakfast with your washboard abs and rippling biceps for the other dozen beautiful women your physically intimate with who live in your house. You don't come on online and talk about it. Not only because you can't prove a damn word of it (realistically), but because it's immodest.
If I see some guy trying to impress a group of girls with a handstand, I don't walk over and do a back flip in front of them. If I see a dude doing a back flip to impress a group of girls, I don't walk over and do one. Why? Because it's immodest. A smaller example could be if I went to boarding school out on Long Island. If I currently go to school in Alabama, and somebody asks me if I’m from Alabama, then I say 'yes'. I don't say, "No, I’m from New York (la de da), I went to private boarding school." Because if you say that, it sounds like you're trying to impress people, which is bad. You shouldn’t try and impress them by doing a back flip; you just act natural (but not impressed/cocky) until one of them asks if you can do that, then you just smile and do one.
I guess I’m overreacting, but it just upsets me, when I see people trying to show off so much. I’m sure I’ve done it before, so I won’t deny anything. But even if you are the coolest guy evar and you can’t even remember a single dude’s name amidst the hundreds of thousands of girl’s names you must remember, you shouldn’t come online and try to impress people here. Besides, pretty much everybody thinks everybody else is some 15 year old, hairless, overweight, never been kissed, driver licenseless, never touched alcohol, anti-social, geek.
...but maybe I'm just wrong.
--My $0.02, flame on.
