The Confession Topic: Get It Off Your Chest!

[MotorWaffle]

I saw This is the End this weekend and thought it was mediocre at best.

[King Kool]

I got a hug from a coworker when I gave her a copy of The Matrix.

I don't get a lot of hugs.

[LogicSword]

I get the same feeling of cognitive dissonance from loving shows like Extra Credits, StripSearch and Checkpoint despite them being on Penny Arcade as I do from loving Fringe despite it being on Fox.

[JustAName]

Even if Mike doesn't hate people for their gender expression, and even if that one person who e-mailed him said his particular was of viewing it was fine, I still think it's somewhat transphobic, and I still feel sick.

[Koyote042]

I have an almost uncontrollable hatred towards humanity. I feel I need to talk to someone aboot my issues.
(See how I cleverly squeezed in a Canada joke there?)

[Elomin Sha]

I recommend a thick coating of fire.

[King Kool]

There is a moment at the beginning of Despicable Me 2 that is so cute, I almost cried.

[LogicSword]

I did cry, if it's the moment I'm thinking of.

[Machalllewis]

I have a story that should be discussed, Ah well.s

[Wraith]

In a statement that will surprise...probably no one here; I have some anger issues. I don't think my triggers are that unreasonable; I get mad over things that I think any decent person should get mad over. The problem is that when I see/experience them, I can't just let them go/let them slide. More on that in a bit. I don't really think that I excise my issues in particularly unfair ways; IE, I never get physical, nor do I often say things that later makes me feel like I stepped too far over the line. In short, I'm angry, and I'm overly sarcastic, but I don't feel like I'm unnecessarily abusive.

My problem boils down to me feeling like one of the world's biggest problems is apathy. I feel like the reason there are so many injustices is that no one gives a crap. By extension, I feel like if you see something wrong, and you fail to give a crap yourself, you're part of the problem. And part of me feels like if I say something, if I bring up a logical counter-argument, maybe SOMEONE will read it, and not be convinced by whatever stupid argument I'm arguing against.

The trouble is that this manifests itself in stupid, pointless, futile ways. Particularly on the internet. I can't just see something messed up, shake my head and move on. That's what I should do. And the logical part of my mind knows this. The logical part of my mind says

"dude, look, you saying something about this on the internet is going to do nothing. The person that posted this is probably not even going to see your comment, and even if they do, if they actually think something like this, what are the odds they're even going to spend any time considering your words? You're not going to get a rational debate, and even if you do, you've been around long enough to know that no matter how definitively a debate ends, the other person's not going to change their mind. You could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that what they're saying is factually inaccurate, they're not going to change their mind, and a week later, you're going to be right back here, doing the same thing. And what have you accomplished in all this time? You've been doing this since Usenet. You haven't made the world a better place, you've just gotten yourself banned from forums and alienated from the decent people as well as the morons."

I know all this. I do. And in the meantime, I'm wasting my time writing up responses to this stupid stuff, which gets me nowhere. Even when people I really like say something stupid, I feel the need to pip up. I try to be as respectful and non-hostile as I can in such circumstances, although a lot of times, I fail and the sarcasm comes out (I don't get personal and mean, but I do get snarkier than I probably need to. Anyone who's been on this forum for a few years knows what I mean).

I just...I don't know how to just let it go. I don't know how to just let something bad slide, without feeling like "I let it happen" (which is stupid, because even if I say something, it's not like I magically "stopped it" from happening). I keep coming up with these rules, like "you are not allowed to read the comment section." And "you are not allowed to respond to stupid people's posts anywhere but on your own blogs/media feeds. And I'll stick to them for a week or two and then see something face-palmerific and go "OMGWTFBBQ" and then just...well..."Wraith" all over the bastard. It probably all comes from being a bullied kid and feeling like I never got justice back then, and the other kids always got away with their crap, so now I feel like I can't let anyone get away with anything. I dunno. Self-diagnoses are never impartial, so can't be seen as too reliable, but that's all I can come up with.

So yea, that's my confession.

[King Kool]

Here's a good one.

When I was in a pizzeria yesterday, I actually saw about a half-hour of a reality show I wouldn't mind watching. You can guess at what the common threads might be, but this is the first "reality show" of this kind I've reacted positively to since they canceled "Ace of Cakes."

[King Kool]

A new one!

I just watched Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure.

...

I might have loved it.

Why is a movie for five-year-old girls entertaining me so much? I'm smiling the entire time I'm watching it.

[Psyclone]

Something happened at the LRR PAX panel, and I don't know what it is. And that scares me. I don't like uncertainty. I wish they'd just reveal it so I could be excited or disappointed or whatever I'm going to be and stop worrying about it.

[Fezzul]

I'm in love with Natasha.

It's going to make me unhappy.

[Duckay]

I often feel scared when I work night shifts at work. And when I imagine telling someone that I feel scared, I imagine their reaction and for some reason the hypothetical response I imagine is very critical. In the end, I feel childish and incompetent, and I'm still not sure if I am right or wrong in feeling fear in the first place.

For clarification, I will continue to work night shifts because someone needs to and because the fear doesn't get in the way of my doing my job. I am still very capable of doing all the work-related things I need to do despite my fear.

[Bebop Man]

Sometimes, for no real reason, I will take a random sentence someone just said or I just thought of and turn it into the chorus of a '70s theme song. It feels RIGHT, OK?

[Kapol]

When I start to rethink an embarrassing situation or begin to hate myself for one reason or another, I yell at myself. I don't do it when around other people because I'd look insane. But it's not uncommon for me to just scream at myself in the car to shut up.

[LogicSword]

I don't yell at myself, I just tell me I hate myself.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

When I start to rethink an embarrassing situation or begin to hate myself for one reason or another, I yell at myself. I don't do it when around other people because I'd look insane. But it's not uncommon for me to just scream at myself in the car to shut up.

I don't yell, I... well 'twitch' is my name for it. Little spasmodic jerk, usually accompanied by a wince or single-syllable word. I do this in public too, because people already know I'm a little odd upstairs.

I don't yell at myself, I just tell me I hate myself.

Brohug?

[LogicSword]

I'm really struggling to get into any books at the minute. Whenever I try to read a book, I just can't get into the world or just don't find it interesting or whatever. I'm not sure if it's my attention span going or if it's just a case of not reading books I find particularly enjoyable but it's quite irritating nonetheless.

[Jamfalcon]

I'm actually in a similar boat. I've gotten anywhere from a few chapters in to halfway through the last four or five books I've picked up, but I just can't seem to get invested enough to finish them.

[Laurnil]

To slightly lighten the mood: I pooped my pants today. Yes, you should laugh. It is funny and I'm not really embarrassed because I'm sick and I feel that justifies it. I sneezed really hard and it just happened. I excused myself and went home to change clothes. I am just glad I can set my own schedule at work and I didn't have any court today.

[NebulosDisconcertion]

Once I was leaving a McDonald's (which is a confession in itself for some people) and I felt like my hands could be cleaner. Someone had left an apparently unused napkin underneath their empty cup of coffee on an unoccupied table. I moved the coffee, took the napkin and wiped my hands, then threw the napkin out.

Except when I picked up the cup of coffee it was full.
Sorry I stole your napkin, random person.

[My pseudonym is Ix]

To slightly lighten the mood: I pooped my pants today. Yes, you should laugh. It is funny and I'm not really embarrassed because I'm sick and I feel that justifies it. I sneezed really hard and it just happened. I excused myself and went home to change clothes. I am just glad I can set my own schedule at work and I didn't have any court today.

I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, which has the interesting side-effect (among other things) of making me really, REALLY need a dump after going out for a run. I have come mighty close to self-soiling in the past, although I'm able to control it better now.

[Laurnil]

To slightly lighten the mood: I pooped my pants today. Yes, you should laugh. It is funny and I'm not really embarrassed because I'm sick and I feel that justifies it. I sneezed really hard and it just happened. I excused myself and went home to change clothes. I am just glad I can set my own schedule at work and I didn't have any court today.

I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, which has the interesting side-effect (among other things) of making me really, REALLY need a dump after going out for a run. I have come mighty close to self-soiling in the past, although I'm able to control it better now.

I have IBS, too. I've cut out fast food, dairy, Mexican, Italian, tomatoes, greasy food, and really heavy grains.