lonewolfy, pretending that other people don't matter is stupid.

And telling a person who is in misery to stay alive just to you make you, his family and everyone else stay in your happy little cocoons is selfish and sadistic.

Moi? I'd rather be stupid than a selfish asshole any day.

Maybe if you know nothing about a subject and have only stupid things to say, you ought to STFU.

I've been in Psychiatric Wards on two separate occasions.

I have had suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide on one occasion. (My stomach was pumped, and I survived).

I was raised in a Third World, poverty-stricken country where misery is real...and often the only cradle-to-grave experience many people will have.

I was emotionally and physically abused until escaping my family home at age 16.

I have battled addictions, been bankrupt, ripped off by "friends", and was once homeless for a year - sleeping in public bathrooms and scavenging for food in garbage cans.

I know pain. I know misery. I know the depths of depression.

I don't know you, but I'd reckon I "know a lot more about the subject" than you do.

Only stupid things to say? You don't fuckin' know me or what I have been through, any more than you know what the LW has endured / is enduring.

But the key difference is that you assume whatever the LW's problems just, ya know, aren't that bad...while I understand his/her context from my own experience.

"STFU"?!? Look in the mirror, asshole. Who the hell are YOU to give advice to the LW?

Someday that might be your kid asking in public if he oughtta kill himself, and I hope the people who talk to him are as kind and understanding as most of the posters here.

Did you ever see "Million Dollar Baby?"

If my child - my flesh and blood, who I'd love more than anything or anyone - was subsumed in misery and pain, with no sensible or realistic solutions in the near- to mid-future...then I would wish nothing but mercy for him/her.

If he/she chose to end their misery, I would understand. Yes, it would be heartwrenching for me...but UNLIKE YOU, Marc, I would not want my child to continue to suffer for MY sake.

It's called selflessness. It's called love. Get a fuckin' clue.

Have a nice weekend.

You too. May you not lose your job, house & car, get dumped by the one you love, get raped or otherwise abused, cheated out of money by your family, ditched by your friends, stricken with a painful terminal illness, or otherwise shit on by the world.

No, really.

But if any and all those things happen to you, please be aware that I will never tell you to suck it up and just deal with it for everyone else.

Now I will STFU.

Your last post was excellent, Hotspur. I especially liked your "black man" analogy.

I have heard several white feminist peers of mine defend crossing the street when a black male is headed their way by invoking the evening news. That is to say: because one young black male (in a city of 20,000 such individuals) was featured on the 10 o'clock news as having been arrested for assault, these white feminists feel the safest course of action is to cross onto the opposite sidewalk if an African-American heads their way.

*sigh* Remember when feminism used to be about deconstructing generalizations, not reinforcing them?

I often would respond to such statements by asking these women what if they did not know me - a brown-skinned young male; would they also cross the street? The response was usually uncomfortable stutter or stony silence.

My only question now is: if Barack Obama in a hoodie walked in their general direction, what would they do?

=)

If you've got pro-wrestling skillz, Keef, you could earn a 6- or 7-figure salary on the WWE circuit.

You could be The Chronicler! And your finishing move?

Why, The Punch Line, of course!

(As for what The Punch Line would actually entail: I'm thinking flying elbow, Macho Man Randy Savage-style. Oooooh yeaaahhhh.)

;-) =)

I never quite understand the posters who actively read a positive review of a movie they've been prepared to loathe since barely hearing the actors in it, or a shred of then premise...

...And who then proceed to get their indie-only panties & manties (yeah, I went there, GLAAD) in a horrendous bunch over it?

The only reason I can imagine you'd spew your negative opinions here is to let everyone know how soooo beneath you the actors, humor etc. is.

Oh, please. Time spent thumping your precious cinephile chest here is time you've lost mentally fellating Andrew O'Hehir for his glowing review of the latest "Bisexual Serbo-Croatian little people eating pudding - No Subtitles" foreign-indie flick.

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Oh, as for this movie itself?

Looks good for a couple laughs, guilty pleasure or otherwise. Think I'll catch a matinee.