[Closed] Roll up! It's Elfin's Monday Anger Management Group Therapy Session!

Your actions are actually very revealing, Onion. Like a naughty child who deliberately acts up, in order to get attention. 🙂 Behaviour driven by anger and frustration. Understandable. 😉

Onion clearly wants to appear clever and funny. Ok fair enough. But behind these actions, is pent-up rage, which he finds difficult to express. As do many people. Which is a shame, because if people could connect with their emotions more, then they'd be less uptight and frustrated, and feel the need to attack others.

Beautiful Druidh !!
(though there was a hint of misogyny in that tall pic, I'm sure)

May I just say that the almost incessant use of the word "bully" and its derivatives on stw is what makes me most mad, these days. I'm holding it together for now though.

I think you're expecting too much from people who generally choose to come on here for a bit of a laugh, light-hearted banter and to share bike info, and not some kinda self-absorbed group therapy session. but also, saying that, some of the most interesting and enlightening posts on here have come from some sort of emotional honesty and life truths.

lovin that crazy long piccie Druidh!

You do remember when you called other people ponces, then got all flouncy and refused to discuss anymore when you got called a ponce don't you?

Fred has on more than one occassion criticised my posts only to be presented with a pertinent question and miraculously disappear

some of the most interesting and enlightening posts on here have come from some sort of emotional honesty and life truths.

This is what I was hoping for tbh Kev. I accept it may be asking a bit too much of folk though. We do live in a pretty emotionally repressed society, which doesn't help. But there are many people on here sitting there harbouring a lot of rage. Such energy needs somewhere to go.

You do remember when you called other people ponces

xbox innit!

crikey. forgot all about the Lazytown nonce thread. that was a classic knicker-twister!

Okay, I'll open up my psychotherapy couch for the evening...

Standard rules, first session is free as long as you lay bare on the couch, and I'm allowed to take pictures* whilst we chat?

*All pictures remain ownership of TSY.Lolpsychos.com

Such energy needs somewhere to go

lol pete, there are no bike riding xbox games 🙄

You stole my wunundred? On my own thread?

Bastid...

😆

Ecks Box is one 'outlet' I spose, but I'm not sure if it's an effective release for some folk.

I had an hour of footy earlier, which was frantic and fast, lots of passion and emotion, but then the final whistle goes and it's over. Bit frustrating as we lost 2-3, but a good game. We need to be far better in midfield, our strikers need to learn how to actually bloody score goals when given the flippin ball on numerous occasions, and people need to track back so's I'm not having to break legs to stop the opposition scoring (like Souness, only less Scottish and much nastier).

I find riding a bike is a pretty good place to release such energy.

We're talking more about emotional, rather than physical energy. Biking can help in both areas, but if you've got issues, then no amount of biking can help. You're just going for a bike ride angry. I've even read on here about someone going for a ride, and being so pissed off with their 'performance', that they came on here to rant about how crap they were! Remember that one??

I think you're onto something very profound here Mr Elf.. the shouting and the battle cries and blood curdling screams that one hears on the footie pitch must allow a certain primal instinct to flex it's muscles.. prolly alongside hormones and other chemicals..

Well I am actually well-known for my profundity, Yunki.

It's clear this is a subject some people are very uncomfortable with. And it appears there's a correlation between the more mardy/arsey/arrogant/bonehheaded posters, and an inability to approach this subject in an intelligent, respectful manner. Ironically, it's their input which might be very relevant. Oh whell.

spunki I was kidding you on the other thread.

Fred your tin-pot psychology gives me the LOLs, keep it up, second only to one.

me too but it is a blokes forum and too many just do a mixture of one up manship and belittle folk.
It is how they know their place in the pecking order

WOW i typed that whilst al was doing his post- I had not seen it - i feel all psychic now

Junky... where are you in the pecking order?

Personally I'm not even in it... someone brings me my meals specially.

I'm reckoning that was the incorrect answer Elfman.

......and now poor old CharlieMungus doesn't know what to say

erm... no, for me and many others it demonstrates elf's lack of self awareness again. But in doing it in a thread in which he asks it of others, he undermines the point of the thread and encourages others to not take it seriously. So, not so much at a loss for words, but realising that all had already been said, only it now seems that not all heard it. Hope this helps

christ! there is a pecking order? how sad! I've never thought of this forum in that way. I've got to be honest though... when I come on here and see people having a go at each other, and bitching, and waving their opinions around - I find it gives the forum some life, humanises it, sometimes it's like ****in Eastenders and can be quite entertaining!

I would imagine that the forum is better than telly for most of us..

I like Elf's ragged trousered philanthropy too.. it's sometimes even good for the soul.. tonight I have learned for example:

That I've never been a purveyor of the beautiful game myself.. but have spent much time indulging in other.. less wholesome.. ways to roar my self imposed suffering into submission.. and cleanse my soul of the sinful and psychosis inducing suppression that our oppressive society occasions..

those halcyon days of sociopathic behaviour are long gone for me however..

and I am a bit grumpier for it for sure..

more whooping and hollering on the next ride must surely be the key..?

spunki I was kidding you on the other thread

that's good to know Mr Al.. you made me quite cross.. I'm harbouring a very strong distrust of you after recent events so I'm quick to bite in your company..

I should have bawled at you about it but I don't want to end up as the next Ricky Butcher in this weeks episode of STW..

it demonstrates elf's lack of self awareness again

But he answered "yes" not "no" to your question.

As I said, he obviously gave you the "wrong" answer.

So you just conveniently ignored it.

But he answered "yes" not "no" to your question.

As I said, he obviously gave you the "wrong" answer.

So you just conveniently ignored it.

No, i didn't ignore it. No it wasn't th wrong answer. It demonstrated his lack of self awareness, because he had earlier mentioned people who were quick to give it out but not so quick to look at themselves. Just to make it clear, he is one of these people, demonstrated by his statement and knowledge of what happened wrt 'ponces'.

It seems that you suffer from a lack of elf-awareness

Crikey.

🙄

The fact he answered "yes" proves the opposite. Elfinmen has on countless occasions been self-critically. If you've never noticed that, then you clearly know little about him. And therefore in even less of a position to pass judgement on him.

BTW, I liked [i]"a lack of elf-awareness"[/i] ........... top marks for that

Theres a real world out there too!

Munki I didn't know you were so sensitive/angry. Looks like we are at opposites of a spectrum.

Every time you read my posts, just imagine there are lots of smilies.

I'd join in giving Fred a virtual head-flush down the toilet but that would mean I'd have to read the thread and no frikkin way am I doing that (that was serious).

The fact he answered "yes" proves the opposite.

oh dear, I rellyucan't be bothered to spell it out. But, in brief, No.

Elfinmen has on countless occasions been self-critically.

If you've never noticed that, then you clearly know little about him. And therefore in even less of a position to pass judgement on him.

False logic

BTW, I liked "a lack of elf-awareness"

The only hint on smartness in the whole post.

This forum is slowly but surely degenerating into self-obsessed onanistic drivel.

And that's just my posts.

I think I'll take a break from STW and come back in a couple of weeks time. I've got a nice bike trip arranged (remember those) and hopefully when I come back the sun will be shining more and there will be some actual sense on here.

3 effin pages!!!

It would seem to my untrained eye that there are those who take the forum very seriously, maybe it has a greater level of importance and meaning in their lives.

There are those who are the oppposite of this and hold little or no regard for the other users of the forum, it's just the internet, they have a real normal life and the forum it literally a time filler during their working day.

Obviously there is going to be a grey area of people inbetween (quite possibly myself included) but by and large its the altercations between the two ends of the spectrum that causes all the handbags, flouncing and general scrapping!

I reckon if we could kerb the blatent trolling it would be much more fun. If you think about it it is threads like Picolax that are the ones you remember as eye wateringly funny not ones where someone has been baited to the point of leaving the forum.

I think maybe the trollists have just ran out of generally funny/odd things to post about and so just resort to making fun at someone elses expense.

I'm not asking people to lay themselves bare

Thank god for that - I don't want sfb to post another photo of his hairy arse.

I think it's an interesting thread. Most posts do seem to be the same twenty or so posters, I suppose if you're on here all the time it's easy to develop a persona with the others that is always combative.

That doesn't make a lot of sense but I know what I mean!

Elfinsafety - Member
I think it's fascinating, the way we all interact, but a bit sad that a lot of interaction between (mostly) strangers can become so negative.

But it's not interaction is it, it's reaction.
That's where the agro starts, people expecting lag-time forum postings to be like a proper real time conversation with body language and voice inflections etc.....

.......as for the psycho babble personality 'analyses' well that's really rather pathetic - 'judging' a person by their forum postings is one of the more insidious versions of pettiness and prejudice.

For a real taste of what a forum can give (IMO) I'd like to refer to Sharki's 'little hill' post the other night - real life experiences and reactions to the wonderful world we live in, not the self indulgent tip-tip-tappings of some frustrated keyboard jockey 😉

cynic-al - Member

blah blah blah blah blah

🙂 😀 bell-end 😀 🙂

funki I thought further on this on the bog this morning (despite Fred's deepest desires, I am not at all blocked up).

You said you got angry reading my post...a 1-liner from a stranger on the internet who has a reputation for being a wind-up merchant really affected you emotionally?

i quite liked onion's contribution to the thread.

for me he was merely stating that there are sometimes people here that unilaterally decide that a thread has run it's course and then spoil it or try to stop it with random thread drifts (usually images).

didn't sense any anger in his postings, just a little irony and humour in pointing out the self appointed loftiness of others.

as you were.

I'm a very emotional person at the best of times Alan.. I cry at a haunting melody or a crashing crescendo or even the tearjerker scene in Hollyoaks occasionally..

Maybe I could help with some tough love trunki?

TM - agreed...Fred's been thoroughly pwned on his own thread.

'judging' a person by their forum postings is one of the more insidious versions of pettiness and prejudice

so people can just post on here but we cannot judge them for what they say? seems a bit odd - they can be racist , abusive or a flowery liberal do gooder but we should not assume this means anything or judge it. Are we meant to assume the posts are all random and no reflection of what the person is like/thinks?

Maxray was spot on some take it more seriously than others some view it as a release- to be rude, troll, joke , bait whatever. Sometimes the two clash. Some epole like a reac

TM - agreed...Fred's been thoroughly pwned on his own thread

he did not even say that poor troll or just part of your pecking order game?

It doesn't help that I've I watched with some queasiness the disturbing Alan versus Jeremy situation unfolding over the last year or so.. and that I've gradually come to associate your user name with genital herpes and indigestion..

I'm a born again ex-wind-up (real world) merchant myself.. I get it.. it's fun.. but the cowardice displayed by chucklingly doing it from the safety of the internet has me reaching for the sharpened knitting needles in despair.. I don't think you have any tough love to give kiddo..
😛

Junkyard - Member
so people can just post on here but we cannot judge them for what they say? seems a bit odd - they can be racist , abusive or a flowery liberal do gooder but we should not assume this means anything or judge it. Are we meant to assume the posts are all random and no reflection of what the person is like/thinks?

People may do as they wish: make judgements, take it seriously, have a laugh, throw their toys out of the pram, treat it as recreational wind-ups, indulge in psychobabble, cry to the mods etc etc, not an issue for me it's only t'internet innit.........

...suns out, trails are dry'n'dusty I'm taking a half day and getting a ride in, enjoy your keyboards.........

Fair point
jammy bastid but I have a night ride tonight

yerp.. I'm orf out too..

IMO you guys take this all too seriously and it's no surprise that you get upset.

Junkyard I was alluding to TM's comment's re druidh's posts - basically druidh was acting like Fred does when he wants to spoil a thread, on a thread of Fred's. To me that was ironic, funny and a bit of a pwning.

I don't have a pecking order game, I just like taking the piss and having a laugh. I agree racism etc should be tackled (and not none of it matters that much to me, it's just something to do while bored at work...if someone takes the piss out of you, is there a need for a hissy fit?

Beer, theprawn etc would be turning in their graves at what this place has become.

I get it.. it's fun.. but the cowardice displayed by chucklingly doing it from the safety of the internet

Each to their own I guess...some folk can't even handle in on the internet.

Excellent thread, Fred. Very interesting. Well done for digging. Just pondering on the more "aggressive" responses/reactions - introspection can be scary.

Take me for instance.

I'm reading "Catcher In The Rye", finally. There's bits of Holden Caulfield's behaviour that I recognise.

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear... 😡

Hello, is there a space on the couch?

....funny and a bit of a pwning.

I don't have a pecking order game,

I'm struggling with the contradictory nature of that statement there.