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Title: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: Gopher on May 15 06 11:11
Perfection is disqualified from the answers.  
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: kitten on May 15 06 11:39
My humility in spite of being perfect.
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Post by: Gopher on May 15 06 11:40
Ah, modest as ever.
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Post by: kitten on May 15 06 11:55
This I can't help. It's my one great failing.
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Post by: Gopher on May 15 06 12:02
Humility AND modesty?
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Post by: kitten on May 15 06 12:30
Shyness, too.  I cower in fear at the thought of meeting someone new.
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Post by: Lise on May 15 06 02:17
Giving up easily on certain aspects of life. I'm not a fighter at times.... feel that I should have more spunk in my soul.
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Post by: Sportsdude on May 15 06 02:29
Are we talking physical or mental because in order to know the mental with me one must know the physical.    
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Post by: Lise on May 15 06 02:35
Damn deep, Sportsdude. DEEP.
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Post by: Sportsdude on May 15 06 02:49
Lets see I'll start with physical.

  I was born with a birth defect commonly known as funnel chest but medically known as pectus excavatum which sadly looks like it runs hereditary in my family. My cousin (girl), her baby, my dad, my uncle and I all have this.  I had surgery for it about 8 years ago. The hole is gone but the self-conscious awareness is still there but now its better thanks to chest hair which has covered up the surgery scares.

  Here's a little info on pectus excavatum:

Estimates vary, but pectus excavatum, or funnel chest, is thought to occur in one of every 600 to 2,000 newborns. It is caused by an overgrowth of cartilage between the sternum and the ribs, which causes the bone to turn inward. Only 15% undergo surgery to repair the sunken grooves and concave appearance that mark their bodies, usually for life. Many children will start to experience symptoms around school age, and often they complain of shortness of breath and reduced endurance. Many are extremely self-conscious about their appearance, don't participate in sports, and will not wear bathing suits; boys often refuse to go shirtless. The disorder is twice as common in men than women and can run in families

    Now the mental. Already shy that (above) doesn't help. But I'll move on.  Next is my ADD/HD and history of depression.  I'm the smartest kid in the room (or so they say) but I do not apply myself and I tend to give up and hide.  I struggle for will power. Something which my sister doesn't struggle with, its what runs her.

  My sister didn't talk until about 2 or hear anything until about 3. Doctors said she could be deaf.  She also has severly learning disabilities something which I never had.  She struggles and struggles to get through school and works until its done and when its done she ends up getting only a C on a paper (although she's got a 3.2 something while I always was around 2.5).  She has come along way. Parents really proud of her and so am I (even if she won't talk to me).  But she has the one thing I'm missing.  And I hate that while I have the one thing she's missing and she hates that (so I've been told).  Could learn a lot from each other but she refuses to talk to me (publicly anyway).

  Bottom line: I had the brains but not the will power while she learning processing problems, learning disabilities and so on but runs on only one thing will power.  
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: TehBorken on May 15 06 04:00
What do you least like about yourself?

I despise the fact that I'm not super-handsome and incredibly wealthy. I really, really hate that about myself.
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Post by: kitten on May 15 06 05:59
I wouldn't know about wealthy, but I'm sure that you are being far too modest and really are a modern-day Adonis.
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Post by: Future Canadian on May 15 06 08:08
Too shy and quiet. Too lazy to follow through (or even try) great ideas or skills.  
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Post by: P.C. on May 15 06 09:59
I'm a procrastinator.  I hate this about myself.  I suppose the only saving grace in this 'flaw' is that I never do nothing during the time I'm putting something else off. (if that makes any sense).   But it's still most annoying, because I even recognize BEFORE the fact, that I'm going to procrastinate on certain 'tasks'.

  I comfort myself by throwing myself into other tasks, which allows myself to believe that I'm not getting down to business on somethings, because I'M BUSY with other things.....but I know the truth.  (I know how obsure that sounds, but I let it make sense to me)  
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: kitten on May 15 06 10:38
I'm the same way.  When there's a task I truly dislike, such as ironing, I'll find a host of other things that I would rather do, and ironing goes to the bottom of the list.  Once I get started, I'm fine, but the setting up beforehand irks me.
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: Gopher on May 16 06 11:10
Just as I thought, everyone here really is extremely congenial.

  What I dislike most about myself:

  1) My ability to work very hard so that a golden opportunity will come my way, and when it does,   my subsequent  haste to turn my back on it.

  2) My inability to withstand emotional blackmail.

  3) Evading the fact that within the next couple of years I have a HUGE decision to make.

  4) My far too often failure to resist the urge to interrupt when someone's talking to me (especially when an interesting subject is involved)                    
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Post by: Pinworm on May 16 06 03:08
My addiction to granny porn. I masturbate to it every chance I get. It keeps me from being as productive as I could be.  
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Post by: P.C. on May 16 06 08:55
Well, it's nice to have a hobby, Pinworm.  
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Post by: kitten on May 16 06 09:05
Pinworm wrote:
My addiction to granny porn. I masturbate to it every chance I get. It keeps me from being as productive as I could be.  
     Insanity is no defence.
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Post by: Trollio on May 16 06 10:51
Pinworm.
 
 He doesn't say much, but when he does, I usually spit out the contents of whatever might be in my mouth at the time. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Other/5.gif)  
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Post by: weird al on May 16 06 11:31
Pinworm wrote:
"My addiction to granny porn. I masturbate to it every chance I get. It keeps me from being as productive as I could be."  
  Hey, pinner. Is it true what they say about needing glasses? I guess by now you oughta know.
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: Dissident on Jun 13 06 12:38
 news hound wrote:
news hound hasn't had a hug in over 5 1/2 years. ( no, not 'that' kind of hug, i mean literally, a hug. the most human contact comes from a handshake or the cashier handing back change. pathetic eh?)
 

Let me guess:  you live in Vancouver, right?

God, Canadians are so f*cking cold.  Why is it that the occasional affectionate hug or arm around the shoulders is perfectly normal (even between strangers in some circumstances) less than a hundred kilometres to the South, but here it has to have a sexual connotation?  You'd think we all had communicable diseases or something.
 
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Post by: Sportsdude on Jun 13 06 01:00
geesh somebody is in a bad mood tonight.
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Post by: tenkani on Jun 13 06 01:02
News Hound bro, your avatar is the f*cking bomb     (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/19.gif)  
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: Dissident on Jun 13 06 01:08
 Sportsdude wrote:
geesh somebody is in a bad mood tonight.

Try living here for four years.  The quoted post really hit a nerve.  It could almost describe me, too.  Only physical contact I get is when I visit my family in Seattle or when my long-distance squeeze comes for a visit.  That's it.  I'm a total WASP, and even I'm used to more physical contact than that.  Not to mention just emotionally warmer friends.  People I've known for years here are still very distant.  They're that way with one another, too.  You try living like that (especially with a lot of stresses in your life) and see how long it takes to get to you.

You're right, though.  I'm just really down right now.
 
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: TehBorken on Jun 13 06 07:48
 Dissident wrote:
Try living here for four years.  The quoted post really hit a nerve.  It could almost describe me, too.  Only physical contact I get is when I visit my family in Seattle or when my long-distance squeeze comes for a visit.

I hear you. Seattle is much the same way. Unfortunately I don't even have a long-distance squeeze. The people here are about as friendly as a barbed-wire enema. If you dare to smile at a woman walking down the street here you'll get a "how-dare-you" glare back.


You try living like that (especially with a lot of stresses in your life) and see how long it takes to get to you.

Yep. If I'd known about this before I moved here I'd *never* have moved here. The Northwest is full of very distant people who are difficult to be friendly with. I didn't know Vancouver was the same way.

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Post by: Gopher on Mar 14 08 12:33
Bump (for the newbies)
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Post by: purelife on Mar 14 08 12:37
I don't know how I missed this thread....

  Least that I like about myself?

  Speaking up for myself.  At times, I regret later and wished that I had spoken up or worded it this way.  Then, I feel bad for not speaking up because I should've defended myself.  
Title: Re: What do you least like about yourself?
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 14 08 12:49
not being able to be a leader, when I know I can do it, i just don't.  
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Post by: P.C. on Mar 14 08 12:52
I'm a dreadful procrastinator....I keep meaning to do something about it. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]
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Post by: Gopher on Mar 14 08 12:53
You're just a meanie!
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Post by: P.C. on Mar 14 08 12:56
I'm a meanie ? [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/traurig/a005.gif" border=0]
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Post by: Gopher on Mar 14 08 12:58
Well, meaners mean, don't they?  I was just using the affectionate form of the word.(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Word_Love/1.gif)  
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Post by: P.C. on Mar 14 08 01:04
Oh pheww Gophie !  You had me worried there.  (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)
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Post by: Gopher on Mar 14 08 01:07
How could you have so woefully misjudged me?.  
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Post by: P.C. on Mar 14 08 01:12
Sorry Gophie. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/d038.gif" border=0]

  Another thing I least like about myself is that I woefully misjudge people sometimes.
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Post by: Lil Me on Mar 14 08 08:14
I'm terribly impatient.  I dislike that about myself.  So does everyone else.  
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Post by: P.C. on Mar 14 08 08:53
I don't think I would have recognized that Lil Me....but I think I am too.  I'm more impatient with myself though, than I am with others. (I think)  Although I have ZERO patience with bull.
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Post by: Lil Me on Mar 14 08 08:58
(//vny!://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ic0ilHiqEOHCEM:vny!://www.romesdalhighlanders.co.uk/uploaded_images/bull-755094.jpg).
 
 is a mechanical bull ok with you?