What makes you feel smug? What makes you pathetic?

[shereads]

Smug:

I don't care if Paris Hilton is a hotel or a booze-hound. I woudn't know she existed if not for supermarket checkout lines and the body's natural absorption of mind-numbing tabloid headline rays.

I am cute.

~ ~ ~

Pathetic:

I have named two stray cats "Howard K. Stern" and "Zsa Zsa's Husband."

I have started this thread.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Difficult thread, Shereads....

Makes me feel smug:

I own my (really small) condo outright.
I've been quoted in the Wall St. Journal, and other national press. Some time ago, but still...
I can make people laugh.
I'm really smart about some things.

Makes me pathetic:

I can't seem to hold a job.
I haven't been in a relationship for almost 10 years.
Depression is something I can't seem to kick, though I'm learning to adapt.
I need to stop drinking, so I'm starting to obsess over finding a friendly pot dealer.

 

[elsol]

Smug:

When people prove my opinion of humanity correct... again.

Pathetic:

I don't.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Pathetic:

I don't.

You're right - that is pretty pathetic.

 

[fcdc]

Smug: I got through 5 law finals (four in a row, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - and one last Friday!)
Pathetic: I have no idea how well I did.

Smug: I am a healthier shopper than about 99% of the people at Wal-Mart, judging from their shopping carts. That's including the Rocky Road ice-cream and a carton of iced tea, too. Seriously, the people there, though? Never buy fruits and/or vegetables. It's amazing.
Pathetic: I went to Wal-Mart for groceries tonight because I was too lazy to drive to a real supermarket.

 

[neonlyte]

Smug: I'm really good at what I do.

Pathetic: I don't really do anything.

 

[rgraham666]

Smug: I'm really fucking smart.

Pathetic: It makes me incapable of dealing with most of humanity.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Smug: I pass for 40, when I'm nearly 50.
Pathetic: I give a shit about it.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Smug: I'm really good at what I do.

Pathetic: I don't really do anything.

Big Saturday Morning LOL, neon

 

[Liar]

Smug: I'm really good at what I do.

Pathetic: I don't really do anything.

Darnit, you stole my lines.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Smug: I pass for 40, when I'm nearly 50.
Pathetic: I give a shit about it.

Me too except I pass for early 20's when I'm in my early 30's. Hey, I gotta cling to something.

 

[Recidiva]

Smug:

I'm smart. No, really.

Pathetic:

I get migraines that make all the smart go away. And there's a lot of smart to lose. So I feel its loss and I get to be dumber than the average bear for large portions of time.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Me too except I pass for early 20's when I'm in my early 30's. Hey, I gotta cling to something.

I had you pegged at 15, which is why I've been so aloof. Shows how easy it is to mislead online. But I got the clinginess part right

 

[Wildcard Ky]

Smug I am a really good human being. One of the best that I've ever known of.

Pathetic I don't always do enough with it. What good is it to be a good person when you keep it to yourself?

 

[shereads]

Smug: I pass for 40, when I'm nearly 50.
Pathetic: I give a shit about it.

Fifty is the new forty-five.

 

[Dr_Strabismus]

Fifty is the new forty-five.

Try telling that to the speed camera

 

[shereads]

Try telling that to the speed camera

Soylent Beige is account executives!

 

[Guest]

Soylent Beige is account executives!

*giggle snorting on the inside causes coffee to be sucked into the sinus. just a heads up*

 

[shereads]

*giggle snorting on the inside causes coffee to be sucked into the sinus. just a heads up*

Pathetic: I'm making a note of that.

Smug: My sinuses were rendered incapable of feeling pain during the 80's.

 

[elsol]

More smug:

When I watch someone completely incapable of handling something I consider to be trivial bullshit...


Explanation of Pathetic...

Everytime I've ever felt 'pathetic' someone has crossed my path who is even MORE pathetic... and by MORE I mean like actually making me stare and think "I'd fucking shoot myself."

So my feelings of pathetic lead to feelings of smugness.

 

[shereads]

Pathetic: I keep checking this thread to see how it's doing.

Smug: It's popular!

 

[elsol]

Pathetic: I keep checking this thread to see how it's doing.

Nope... nothing related to AH can be defined as pathetic.

Or I'd have to say that I was 'pathetic'! And that ain't happening.

 

[elsol]

Not even those 3 am get ons to see who is around and pouting because no one is posting.

That is not pathetic! No, it is not!

 

[elsol]

Or posting three times in a row to the same thread.

Not pathetic either!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Smug:

I played contrabass clarinet on a track that Jay-Z sampled for his black album.

I've got degrees in both English and Chemistry

In 7 tries, I've only had one manuscript rejcted for publication


Pathetic:

I was so aimless that I had nothing better to do than get degrees in both english and chemistry

I'm so unambitious I only submitted one manuscript to a decent publisher

Any one of those right-wing assholes could wipe the floor with me in a debate