Why are people jerks?

[ZombieNixon]

No particular reason for asking, but some people are just total dicks sometimes. Why? :shrug:

Discuss. :popcorn:

[Deja Q]

1. Afraid, discontented, angry, spiteful, jealous, and/or just plain hateful.

[evirus]

2. i feel you

just try playing any computer game online, i guarentee you that youll meet at least one dick daily.

[JVS]

3. Cause it feels so good!

[ZombieNixon]

7. No, no, that's jerking

OFF.

(Oh, my God, did I just say that? :blush:)

[JVS]

9. But it does feel good to be a jerk. Try it sometime.

[wildhorses]

4. cos they don't know how to spell herks?

:P

[hfojvt]

29. the definitive answer

but no replies :wtf:

The other answer is that they are trying to be friends with WCGreen, but they have to be within 500 miles.

[tjwmason]

5. I dont know - but you manage to pull it off with quite some aplomb

:P

[ZombieNixon]

10. Well, see, I have style.

Panache. And so people don't realize I've snapped then until I've moved on until my next viction so they still think I'm a nice person.

I'm talking about people who don't realize this and can't pull off the delayed reaction jerkosity and therefore come across as being a jerk.

:P

[tjwmason]

19. That makes sense.

The main part of your panache - no doubt - being your modesty?

:P

[ZombieNixon]

20. Patently.

:eyes:

:P

[JVS]

6. I realize that it can be hard to deal with the actions of the Cubs, but...

don't lose hope! You're going to be ok.

[ZombieNixon]

12. Uh, what?

I don't really give a rat's ass about the Cubs. :shrug:

That was some brawl, though. :o

[JVS]

14. I can't belive that they would start such a fight! Won't they think of...

the Children?!??!?!?!?!?!?

[ZombieNixon]

16. Are these children Cubs fans or Sox fans?

Because that makes all the difference. ;)

[JVS]

17. I would hope that no child would be encouraged to be a Cubs fan by ...

his/her parents. Such an act could easily be considered child abuse.

[JohnKleeb]

21. It should be a felony if not a federal crime

Forcing a child to root for a baseball team that hasn't won a pennant since 1945.

[radwriter0555]

8. because they're unhappy. people who are desperately unhappy are

mean and nasty.

[kiraboo]

11. Some people think that being an asshole is a demonstration

of strength of character.

[JohnKleeb]

13. They're my brother?

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

15. Every single jerk in the world is your brother?

:o

Even the women jerks?

:wow:

Uhh...I don't know if we can be friends anymore. :P

[JohnKleeb]

18. Nah I actually stole a good theory on why people are dickwads

It's because something is bothering them. My brother though is a major dickwad for the record.

[Xipe Totec]

22. There are three kinds of people...

- Team America, World Police

[JVS]

23. I saw that last night, funny stuff

[Kerrytravelers]

24. Because by publically disrespecting you, they feel it makes them look

superior.

In reality, they just look like inferior jerks.

[jukes]

25. i'm not!

i'm a "fucking asshole"!!!!!

some people, even here in the lounge, take themselves *much* too seriously. someXs it's fun to watch them splutter y rave....

[Kerrytravelers]

39. Much too seriously... like drooling over pictures of entertainers.

Just saying. :shrug:

[MiniMandaRuth]

26. Well, the jerks who I deal with....

They're minds are tiny, and extend no further than their little backyards or three feet around them, and they lack the ability to see five seconds into the the future,

[ZombieNixon]

28. Well, you're in middle school

It's a different kind of jerkosity...extra-concentrated but without enough means to get it out. It drives the rest of you nuts. :crazy:

[MiniMandaRuth]

30. About 95% of the people are not jerks, surprisingly...

But they people that are more than make up for it.

Jerkisim in Middle school irritates me, but I don't think that it's like conventional jerkisim. It's more stuff like:

Swearing for no reason,

Being loud for no reason,

Being an asshole and holding up the class so you can get attention.

The last one has severely messed with my math experience, and I want to get my hands on the people that do it! :grr:

[JVS]

31. What the fuck is wrong with swearing your ass off and shit like that?

[MiniMandaRuth]

32. Eh. At school, it gets annoying,

especially when the people doing it don't know the difference between a monkey and Bus-

Bad example.

Okay. When the people that are doing the swearing don't know the difference between they're head and they're foot.

[donco6]

27. Revenge.

I think there are people who feel so victimized, they respond to everyone else with anger and suspicion and jealousy.

[bridgit]

33. because i said they could be...

:P :P

[ZombieNixon]

34. I shake my fist at you.

:P

[Skittles]

35. they need an ass-kicking

yes INDEED

[ZombieNixon]

36. Yes, they do

yes INDEED

:D

[Lilith Velkor]

37. Can people be herks and jerks at the same time?

Would those people be considered, "herky jerks?"

[Haole Girl]

38. Well, I'll give you a couple of more answers:

- Their upbringing
- Their peers
- Genes
- Desperation
- Perspiration (I made that one up because it sounded good)
- Culture
- Illness (usually mental)

[In_The_Wind]

40. Because they can't stand to see someone being happy.

How ya doin'

[ZombieNixon]

42. Meh...OK, I guess.

I'm ready for this school year to be over, though. In all honesty I'd rather fast forward through the summer too. :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

43. Isn't school is almost over for this semester?

What are you doing this summer?

[ZombieNixon]

44. We're on a quarter system, not semesters,

so we don't get out until the beginning of June.

Summer plans include drudgery (read: work :puke:) and avoiding people I don't want to see (read: my ex-girlfriend x().

:(

[In_The_Wind]

45. There are far worse places to be stuck than school.

Why don't you visit some place new for the day on your days off from work.

[ZombieNixon]

46. I rather like school.

Problem is, for the summer, I have to leave Chicago and go home to Freeperville where, well, there's never anything knew. x(

And they don't have high speed Internets, either. :cry: :scared:

[In_The_Wind]

47. Where is that?

[ZombieNixon]

48. Northwest New Mexico.

The area outside the town is *very* nice. Problem is, everything cool is at least 50 miles or so away and I don't have the money to pay for the gas to go anywhere fun (I've been to a lot of the national monuments around there, but some of them are worth a second visit). Meanwhile, in town, people know who I am and 65% of them don't like me (it's for political reasons and 65% of the town are staunch Repubs x(). One of my best friends is leaving for boot camp about a week after I get back, too. :cry:

[In_The_Wind]

49. It doesn't sound like very much fun at all.

How long is your break? Have you thought about renting a room and getting a job in your college town for the summer?

[ZombieNixon]

50. I thought about it,

but only after I had already bought the tickets back home. I do look forward to seeing my parents, so I'll just have to make the most of it. I will, however, have money to spend when I come back! :woohoo:

[Liberalynn]

41. I always thought a little respect and kindness went a long way

I don't always succeed but I try. I guess I just never saw the fun in deliberately trying to bait and upset people.

Although when really angry at a jerk, I have been starting to get jerky back. Not proud of it, but anger has always been a tough emotion to handle for me.

[billyskank]

51. Some of them are assholes

You can't forget the assholes. :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

52. There's a fine line between the asshole and the douchebag

:D

:hi:

[billyskank]

54. It is indeed a most subtle distinction

:D

[ZombieNixon]

55. Douchebags wear polka-dotted bandanas.

Assholes wear pinstriped ties. :silly:

[billyskank]

57. I'm sure I've seen assholes without ties before

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

58. Well, they probably weren't on duty

They get coffee breaks, due to the powerful Asshole Union, you know. :D

[billyskank]

60. Or maybe they were undercover

:D

[ZombieNixon]

63. An undercover asshole...

:scared:

[Random_Australian]

53. ask wavefunctions and statisical thermodynamics.

[ZombieNixon]

56. Jerkosity has a formula?

x (Lambda)µm = x^*p^/?(1-p^)

? :shrug:

[Random_Australian]

59. Nope.

[BlueIris]

61. I find it's usually unresolved childhood abuse issues, sexual frustration,

withdrawal of some variety, hormone fluctuations, (yes, men have them, too) exhaustion, ill-managed stress or some unfortunate combination of the above. And a general lack of compassion for others. Sometimes lack of a conscience factors in, too. 1 in 26 Americans is a sociopath, you know.

Wait--this wasn't another Lounge "in joke," right?

[ZombieNixon]

62. No, not another in joke, just a musing.

:)