Confess something that might surprise others or damage your reputation on JUB - 2012

[JohannBessler]

Dear Mr. X:

The point is, the man in the picture must feel the same humiliation, the same shame, as another man who's had his pictures stolen for an identity. The humiliation and shame isn't any less acute.

Which goes back to the original theory: No one must post pictures, unless he is willing to take the risk that they will be stolen.

The same thing goes for words, too. While I haven't posted pictures that have brought me shame or humiliation, I certainly have posted words--words that are capable of inflicting pain; words that are capable of bringing humiliation to another human being. I am no different--I have posted words that I bitterly regret. I consider it a learning experience.

Which goes to a final theory:

No one should ever post either a picture or a post that might bring them shame or humiliation later on, because no one can "unring a bell". Once those pictures or words are posted, the Internet has them forever. See attachment:

[RazorzEdge88]

Probably. I've been on what I'd consider a few at this point, but not enough to not have a case of the jitters. I'm sure that it will be fine.

Haha, I'm not sure if those EVER go away.

[loki81]

I think it's hard to escape the feeling of wanting to be perfect to impress a guy, even if objectively, I wouldn't want someone who'd only be with me if I was perfect (because really, who is?)

as for something that may surprise others... I'm sleeping with my computer tonight, because having it running with the door closed is the only way I've figured out how to stay warm. I may not even brush my teeth tonight because I don't want to brave the cold in the rest of my apartment.

[JohannBessler]

^What's wrong with your heater, Loki?

[loki81]

I assume it's not turned on, but for now, I'd rather suffer in the cold than have to deal with my crazy landlady.

I don't pay for heat, but the downside is that I don't have a thermostat in my apartment... it's usually really hot all winter, but I'm guessing she's refusing to touch the dial out of principle (because it's just barely October)

[reone]

Your comments are quite valid, Loki.

Is it that cold up North already? :< It will be down here very shortly then...

[Lefty]

Picture this,

my self confidence is shattered.

I feel lower than the cheapest whore on Capitol Hill n DC.

Me, .a 5 generation proud California American reduced to

being an identity thief and a cruel boor who humiliates

third parties so stupid they post obscene pictures on

the internet. I have betrayed the Roc of Thunder

and must pay for my transgressions...

BEFORE punishment

AFTER punishment

[RazorzEdge88]

It was the first really cool day today. It's supposed to warm up a little bit again, but the nights are getting pretty cold (below 50 now).

I welcome it. I have this loooong walk to class (should have applied for a parking pass sooner - doh!), and I was really getting sick of doing it in 80-degree heat.

[reone]

The first guy is so muscular that he almost looks deformed. His face is similar to JP Pitoc, though, one of my celebrity husbands.

[RazorzEdge88]

Dayum, I could write an entry in the Stories forum about what I'd like to do to that guy in the second photo.

[JohannBessler]

Our colleague RJ asked me for another riddle.

OK: I have one. What's wrong with this picture:

[RazorzEdge88]

The more I look at that really fat guy at his computer desk, the more I realize that'll be me in a few months if I don't stop eating Ben and Jerry's Half Baked fro-yo. :-x

[RazorzEdge88]

Johann: "RazorsEdge (sic), you should understand how that man must feel, then, about his picture being used on the Internet for the purposes of his humiliation. Put yourself in his shoes, and ask yourself how that's any different...blahblahblah non sequitur to revive pointless, meandering argument, blahblahblah"

[reone]

You know, I kind of said this in passing before, but their resemblance is really strong in the face I think.



Those eyes...God.

[zoltanspawn]

I don't like eating at restaurants--even very good ones--where I receive consistent, reliable reports that the ownership is mean-spirited. It dulls my appetite to think that the staff is being abused.

It makes me wonder if I'm being unfair.

Tonight, I enjoyed some extraordinary film art. And then I learned that the artist is insufferable. What a disconnect between the beauty of the work and the artist! What a disappointment.

How much can I enjoy the work of someone I have good reason to dislike?

[reone]

^What kind of film?


And I know exactly what you mean. When I meet artists and filmmakers if their attitude stinks it really takes away from their work. I can still appreciate the beauty in it, but I'm much less likely to profess it or even really acknowledge it. Arrogance is pretty common among artists. It's very...bleh.

[pat grimshaw]

…When I meet artists and filmmakers if their attitude stinks it really takes away from their work… Arrogance is pretty common among artists.…

Artists think they're outsiders. They say they have superior insights to the Philistine mob. They think they're Byronic heroes.

[zoltanspawn]

^What kind of film?

French experimental.

But the artist's behavior was bad beyond even French experimental standards.

[reone]

Most of the 'master' artists (or the celebrated ones) that I've studied seem to exhibit many of the characteristics described by the 'Byronic hero' (as described in the Wiki article that I just breezed through ). I think it's unfair to say that all artists are that way, however. Many of the movements that I'm reviewing in the course that I'm taking were led by men that felt like their work had the power to completely change civilization, though. That their work would lead to the development of different variants of some dreamed utopia. That is arrogance if I've ever heard of it. And of course they were all for rising against the current order. Even Hitler was very much involved in art and architecture.

I think most people are outsiders on some level. It's ironic, really, but I think it's a human condition. It seems like people ostracize themselves.


^Ah, okay . Attitudes that poor tend to stand in a person's way to an extent. Hopefully he can get himself together.

[RonR18]

Since criticism about Lefty posting that pic is nonsensical, it belongs in the nonsensical ramblings thread. That guy has accepted the fact that he's morbidly obese, and is using humor to make light of a bad situation. And he wouldn't have posed for that pic if he didn't want people "laughing with him." As well, not reposting it would deprive him of the attention he's seeking, and would make him feel like he's being pitied because people view him as a freak.

Moral of the story: Don't shun people just because they're different from you.

[RazorzEdge88]

Anyone still going on about that shit needs to down a half-bottle of Wild Turkey and/or GTFO.

[RonR18]

Anyone who thinks everyone is retired and has time to immediately click on this thread every time a post is made to it (so he can respond instantly if it's of interest to him), should just skip the Wild Turkey and proceed straight to the GTFO option.

[JohannBessler]

Johann: "RazorsEdge (sic), you should understand how that man must feel, then, about his picture being used on the Internet for the purposes of his humiliation. Put yourself in his shoes, and ask yourself how that's any different...blahblahblah non sequitur to revive pointless, meandering argument, blahblahblah"

Sugar that man has likely been dead for many years.

The pic comes from a movie that was filmed in 1941.

[RazorzEdge88]

I seriously doubt that fat, nearly-naked guy at his computer desk, in a color photograph, appeared in any 1941 movie.

[JohannBessler]

I seriously doubt that fat, nearly-naked guy at his computer desk, in a color photograph, appeared in any 1941 movie.

Anyone still going on about that shit needs to down a half-bottle of Wild Turkey and/or GTFO.

The liquor store is right next door, Razorz.

[RonR18]

I confess that I DO NOT TAKE INSULTS/PUT DOWNS/CRITICISM WELL (unless it's said in jest, or I really deserve it), and I have the tendency to respond like a snapping turtle to these verbal spears. Although I'm guilty of occasionally resorting to similar behavior myself, I only do it when there's sufficient justification, and the situation genuinely warrants that type of response. A good example would be when someone is seriously making a monkey out of himself...

[Lefty]

rahnee rahknee rawknee,

Wese both nose wheese above approachment so all them basturrdish people has to be gest innoculating with

ussens. Eargo, we has to jest grim and embarrass it....they love us.

[Nishin]

Our colleague RJ asked me for another riddle.

OK: I have one. What's wrong with this picture:

It's reversed/shot from a mirror?

[refujiunderground]

Our colleague RJ asked me for another riddle.

OK: I have one. What's wrong with this picture:

can't really see the picture well since it's grainy BUT i think she's trying to choke a kitten to death with both of her hands. i think that's a kitten she's holding. is it? i know she's holding what i believe is an animal.

[holeconfusion]

I think it's hard to escape the feeling of wanting to be perfect to impress a guy, even if objectively, I wouldn't want someone who'd only be with me if I was perfect (because really, who is?)

as for something that may surprise others... I'm sleeping with my computer tonight, because having it running with the door closed is the only way I've figured out how to stay warm. I may not even brush my teeth tonight because I don't want to brave the cold in the rest of my apartment.

Let's pitch in and buy our friend a small electric heater

[JohannBessler]

It's reversed/shot from a mirror?

Why do you think that? You may be specific.

[Nishin]

The guy's jacket's pocket should be on his left side ... ?

[NCAA Umpire]

I rang in the new year alone... for the second year in a row.

Ah, you get used to it! I'm on 4 years in a row. And counting.

[G-Lexington]

No, don't repost it because that would be wrong. But keep it and use it as your own secret testament to your secret love. Use it for your fevered masturbation fantasies. Use it, and use it often to feed your orgasms.

Well, what else would he use it for?

I'm all for people getting laid, hired and becoming popular as well, but the point is that in reality you have no idea what purpose people are using your picture for. You can claim that you wouldn't care if someone uses your picture but the bottom line is that most people would care, and you know that as well as I.

Well, here's hoping you're getting good use from mine. And if you want to posit yourself in the "I care about a guy potentially getting his picture used without his permission" spot, that's all fine and good. But that's just not the vibe I'm getting.

Lex

[JohannBessler]

Well, what else would he use it for?


Lex

Not in this case, Lex.

I DLoaded RJ's photo when he was somewhat new to the forum. I'd noticed that he seemed pretty shy, so one day when he posted his photo, I'd gotten the feeling that"this is probably the only time that he'll have the nerve to post it. Soon, he'll delete it."

I liked him as a person. I've always been a visual person, so I saved it so I could have a visual picture of the guy to whom I was speaking.
It turned out that it wasn't his last photo, though. He has posted several other times.

I have a picture of one other JUBber who very seldom posts his picture. I am not sure why I keep it, because we're not crazy about each other. There's nothing sexual about it. I think it evokes a sense of mystery, I believe, to have in your possession something that is rare. Probably no other JUBber has a picture of him.

[JohannBessler]

The guy's jacket's pocket should be on his left side ... ?

Very astute, Nishin. You are correct. The only other person who guessed it correctly was Lefty.

The still was taken from a "Soundie", which was the early 1940s version of MTV, and projected in reverse on a Panoram. That's why the image is reversed.


Our good friend RJ tried too hard,I think.

[Nishin]

OK my turn for a riddle
This one is rather well known but maybe some don't know it...

It's better than God
It's worse than the Devil
Poors have it
Riches need it
And if you eat it, you die

What is it?

[tombastep]

At this point I am actually afraid to sleep in the dark. I get anxious if the lights are out.

[RonR18]

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of what might crawl under my bed while I was asleep, waiting for me to get up so it could yank me under the bed with it.

[G-Lexington]

I never had that "fear of monsters under the bed/in the closet/down the hall" thing. I think I vaguely had a fear of UFOs taking over the world at one point, and I recall being scared of nuclear war for a long stretch. Both seem rather specific for a child to have, in retrospect.

Lex

[Seghers]

Well, here's hoping you're getting good use from mine. And if you want to posit yourself in the "I care about a guy potentially getting his picture used without his permission" spot, that's all fine and good. But that's just not the vibe I'm getting.

Lex

To be honest, I main reason for why I care is because it has happened to me and I know what it feels like.

[refujiunderground]

it seems like everytime i'm in a good mood, somebody or something ends up pissing me off. man, i'm just trying to be happy BUT somebody outthere seems to want to piss me off to the point where i feel like beating their ass, choking them out, threatening them, or doing something else crazy. it would be one thing if i wasn't in the position that i'm in now BUT if i feel like my back is against the wall where i'm feeling down, stressed out and etc then i feel like i should respond through physical means as a way of saying don't try to make me more annoyed than i am already. i don't want to hurt you BUT i will if you push me.

[RazorzEdge88]

OK my turn for a riddle
This one is rather well known but maybe some don't know it...

It's better than God
It's worse than the Devil
Poors have it
Riches need it
And if you eat it, you die

What is it?

My best guess is carbon. Better than God - gives us life (basis for organic compounds); worst than the Devil - atomic number 6 (this is where I feel wrong); poors have it - obviously all living things have carbon in them; riches need it - diamonds are pure carbon; if you eat it, you die - all I can come up with is carbon is found in cyanide

[Ram]

OK my turn for a riddle
This one is rather well known but maybe some don't know it...

It's better than God
It's worse than the Devil
Poors have it
Riches need it
And if you eat it, you die

What is it?

Er...nothing?

[loki81]

confession: ever since I was a kid, I've fucking hated riddles.

the idea that there's only one correct answer to almost any question really bugs me.

[Ram]

I used to hate riddles until I discovered Google. Heh.

But I guessed that one.

[Nishin]

My best guess is carbon. Better than God - gives us life (basis for organic compounds); worst than the Devil - atomic number 6 (this is where I feel wrong); poors have it - obviously all living things have carbon in them; riches need it - diamonds are pure carbon; if you eat it, you die - all I can come up with is carbon is found in cyanide

Love your thinking, very clever

but it's :

Er...nothing?

that's correct, google wins the price ! ... And Lex too who PM'd the answer

[JohannBessler]

To be honest, I main reason for why I care is because it has happened to me and I know what it feels like.

Seghers, but surely you must have at least suspected? Your pics were overtly sexual, more than any other JUBber.

[maxpowr9]

Halloween is by far my least favorite holiday. I think if I got scared easily, I would enjoy it more but I don't. It's the same reasons I find horror movies usually cheesy right up there with survival horror games.

[JohannBessler]

One of the Big Bang Theory's closing cards was censored, and not permitted to air. Of course, I had to go online right that second to read the censored version.

I love stuff like that--the hidden; the mysterious, the underbelly of life...