You Might Be a Misanthropist If......

[lesbiaphrodite]

This is my list, and I'll be adding to it, I suspect, quite frequently as my misanthropic tendencies are on the rise. Feel free, fellow misanthropes, if you're out there, to add your own ideas to the list......

You might be a misanthropist if:

1. You find society tiresome, bothersome, and stupid.

2. You prefer silence to the constant prattling of others.

3. You no longer feel the necessity to pretend that you're interested.

4. You find yourself understanding the poetry of Charles Bukowski on an intimate level.

5. You spend much of your time devising ways to escape.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

1. You wish they made Happy Bunny t-shirts in a men's XXL size so you could wear "you should be happy I'm pretending to listen to you"

2. You practice Dr. Science's line of "Your ignorance appalls me" to get the various inflections just right depending on which one you need at the moment.

3. When someone asks you to kill a bug, you reply "If I killed every thing I thought was a lower life form because it was gross and filthy..."

 

[CharleyH]

This is my list, and I'll be adding to it, I suspect, quite frequently as my misanthropic tendencies are on the rise. Feel free, fellow misanthropes, if you're out there, to add your own ideas to the list......

You might be a misanthropist if:

1. You find society tiresome, bothersome, and stupid.

2. You prefer silence to the constant prattling of others.

3. You no longer feel the necessity to pretend that you're interested.

4. You find yourself understanding the poetry of Charles Bukowski on an intimate level.

5. You spend much of your time devising ways to escape.

Well, I find Lit tiresome, bothersome and stupid sometimes. I am silent when I have nothing to say here (equals thank GOD! to many) I never pretend ...sometimes, but I never escape, except from anything Charles Bukowski wrote. I suppose I am a Literothropist?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You're willing to accept childish behavior only from those who are younger than 12 and less than 5' tall. Anyone my size and age who acts like a baby is cruisin' for a bruisin'.

 

[where]

you spend a lot of time on forums and spend most of it bashing

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

This is my list, and I'll be adding to it, I suspect, quite frequently as my misanthropic tendencies are on the rise. Feel free, fellow misanthropes, if you're out there, to add your own ideas to the list......

You might be a misanthropist if:

1. You find society tiresome, bothersome, and stupid.

2. You prefer silence to the constant prattling of others.

3. You no longer feel the necessity to pretend that you're interested.

4. You find yourself understanding the poetry of Charles Bukowski on an intimate level.

5. You spend much of your time devising ways to escape.

Okay, this is exactly what I'm talking about. This is a bashing thread pointed at me (lol).

Actually, I'm happy being a misanthropic. Think of me as you would Forrester, played by Sean Connery in finding Forrester.

His character in that movie is so much like me it's scary. I'd rather be in than out...writing.

I live in the ghetto, but in a self-protected mansion of sorts just on the outskirts.

...and I really don't like people. Yeah, you can say that if you don't like people and you are a person then...you don't like yourself. Bingo.

I'm happy to be me. Now, go away and leave me alone (lol).

 

[DeeZire]

You might be a misanthropist if:

1. It would make you happy to see Oprah Winfrey, Regis and Kelly, Ellen, and Dr. Phil develop horrible drug habits and lose everything.

2. It would make you happy to see a terrorist group succeed in blowing up every SUV in the U.S.

3. You wished anyone elected to serve in the government would have to pass an IQ test before running for office.

4. You wished voters would have to pass a current events test before being handed a ballot.

5. You wish for a virus to wipe out all Windows computers in one fell swoop, leaving Mac users in charge of everything.

 

[only_more_so]

This is my list, and I'll be adding to it, I suspect, quite frequently as my misanthropic tendencies are on the rise. Feel free, fellow misanthropes, if you're out there, to add your own ideas to the list......

You might be a misanthropist if:

1. You find society tiresome, bothersome, and stupid.

2. You prefer silence to the constant prattling of others.

3. You no longer feel the necessity to pretend that you're interested.

4. You find yourself understanding the poetry of Charles Bukowski on an intimate level.

5. You spend much of your time devising ways to escape.

You have a hundreds of words/phrases to fill in the blank, "The world would be a better place if _____ people didn't exist."

You aren't surprised that shows like "Jerry Springer" attract a large audience.

You only go to movies/meals at odd times so you don't have to deal with the flock.

It's easy to lump someone into the "people" category and harder to put someone in the "person" category.

 

[where]

Okay, this is exactly what I'm talking about. This is a bashing thread pointed at me (lol).

Actually, I'm happy being a misanthropic. Think of me as you would Forrester, played by Sean Connery in finding Forrester.

His character in that movie is so much like me it's scary. I'd rather be in than out...writing.

I live in the ghetto, but in a self-protected mansion of sorts just on the outskirts.

...and I really don't like people. Yeah, you can say that if you don't like people and you are a person then...you don't like yourself. Bingo.

I'm happy to be me. Now, go away and leave me alone (lol).

I think it was aimed at me actually

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

You might be a misanthropist if....

--You have difficulty remembering the last time you found a conversation stimulating.

--You would rather watch hummingbirds come to the feeder than answer a phone call.

--You find the skyline of a city more beautiful than a city.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You might be a misanthropist if....

--You have difficulty remembering the last time you found a conversation stimulating.

--You would rather watch hummingbirds come to the feeder than answer a phone call.

--You find the skyline of a city more beautiful than a city.

You go around correcting another person's usage and tell them the correct term is "misanthrope", not misanthropist.

 

[trysail]

... You

are

a misanthrope if:

1. You find yourself incapacitated by paroxysms of laughter at Mencken's descriptions of politicians and those who elect them.

2. You read Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary for guidance in respect of the true meaning of abstract concepts.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

You go around correcting another person's usage and tell them the correct term is "misanthrope", not misanthropist.

 

[JagFarlane]

-just sighs happily at hearing oft definitions of his thoughts- Heh, now I finally know the category I fall into

 

[only_more_so]

I went to the grocery store today, and felt my misanthropy raging. Not quite vein in the forehead throbbing, but close. But as I was leaving the store, the guy in front of me moved to the side and stopped. The gap he left between his cart and an abandoned cart wasn't wide enough for my cart. Figures, I thought. But a guy walking in saw the predicament and moved the abadoned cart out of the way for me.

So, maybe I'm not such a misanthrope afterall, since that single gesture basically made up for the frustration I felt for the rest of the trip.

Kind of like God talking to Lot about Sodom and Gomorrah. I'm glad I don't have to strike down the Stop & Shop with fire and brimstone.

 

[DeeZire]

You might be a misanthropist if:

whenever you see a nun, you try to imagine what kind of undergarments she's wearing. Oh wait, that would be pervert, not misanthropist. Never mind.

 

[Guest]

You might be a misanthrope if...

Your car/truck/Sherman tank has a bumper sticker that reads,

"I don't ANYBODY! OK??? OK???

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You might be a misanthrope if...

Your car/truck/Sherman tank has a bumper sticker that reads,

"I don't ANYBODY! OK??? OK???

I want that one!

 

[TE999]

Your theme song is "I'm Against It" by The Ramones.

I damn well feel that way sometimes.

 

[starrkers]

I want that one!

Me too.

 

[Guest]

A lot of these things just sound like these are intelligent people with no patience for bullshit.

That's us. Hell, even our children are the same way.

More power to the misanthropes.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Years ago I was out dove shooting withmy son and a trio of African American brothers (my attorney, my Ford contact and a computer genius) and their sons and nephews. It looked like an Africa safari except that I was the porter since they all made more money than I did. As the elders sat around plucking the mornings pile (we were in a very good spot) we shut up for a second and listened to the boys all talking about how stupid "city people" were. Guys, they were all of them raised in the LA Basin! Didn't slow 'em down one bit. You go, misanthropy!

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You have nothing but contempt for the fashion industry and everything it represents.

You wish that we could all just build a bonfire and toss all neckties on it.

You have a desire to start your own nudist colony and charge a bottle of bourbon for admission.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You want to dump all politicians, designers, lawyers, televangelists, and talk-show hosts on a deserted island with only a year's worth of rations.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

You wonder just where the human race went wrong, and can only blame the inventor of clothes.