Cynicism is the new "cool"

[Master]

Evidence suggests there are 5 steps we can all take to improve our mental wellbeing and stop being a cynical cunt.

1. Connect – connect with the people around you: your family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. Spend time developing these relationships.

2. Be active – you don’t have to go to the gym. Take a walk, go cycling or play a game of football. Find an activity that you enjoy and make it a part of your life.

3. Keep learning – learning new skills can give you a sense of achievement and a new confidence. So why not sign up for that cooking course, start learning to play a musical instrument, or figure out how to fix your bike?

4. Give to others – even the smallest act can count, whether it’s a smile, a thank you or a kind word. Larger acts, such as volunteering at your local community centre, can improve your mental wellbeing and help you build new social networks.

5. Be mindful – be more aware of the present moment, including your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you. Some people calls this awareness ‘mindfulness’. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges.

[Beanz]

I think there is a huge amount of mistranslated intent here and not just a little projection either. Fenster can be an arrogant cunt but the idea that he is seething with anger about anything someone else has posted, is not really born out in his posting. I don't think most people are trying to be cool either, that just isn't on the radar on a forum like this where being the coolest dude would not really amount to a hill of beanz anyhoos. There are of course insults, and observations that are taken as insults, but then there are personal things and those that go over the line. Wishing death on posters has gone on since the day I joined, often by the same people asking for it to be a banning offence whilst threatening to top themselves.

The Des thread situation could easily have been avoided if people had not assumed the worst of all posters who did not subscribe 100% to their own very personal world view. That is the premise on which it was started, the idea that other posters were such low disgusting human beings there would be no depravity or abusive situation they would refuse to defend. That is the long and short of it. To be honest I log in every day to 20 dislikes from posts made months ago and have been called the most heinous things, including worse than somebody who drills holes in children's heads, so I am not sure there is anything that can be done on a forum in which people like that are given free reign. It is part of the 'Freedom' to post relatively unmoderated I suppose.

[Gandalf]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

[Beanz]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

[Gandalf]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

Wishing death on posters by the same people who threaten to top themselves is what you said and that means me as I am the suicide king of this forum. Now blabbering about suing the forum? Stay out of my face. Prick.

[TitoFan]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

Wishing death on posters by the same people who threaten to top themselves is what you said and that means me as I am the suicide king of this forum. Now blabbering about suing the forum? Stay out of my face. Prick.

Stop it guys. It was me.

Yes, I admit it. I wrote that post that Fenster brought up where I said Alpha was slightly unhinged about the Flat Earth thing, so............. in "Fenster-ese", that would translate into me being the one who told Alpha to kill himself.

There..... the secret's out.

Now we can all go back to agreeing with me on transgenderism.

[Fenster]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

Wishing death on posters by the same people who threaten to top themselves is what you said and that means me as I am the suicide king of this forum. Now blabbering about suing the forum? Stay out of my face. Prick.

Stop it guys. It was me.

Yes, I admit it. I wrote that post that Fenster brought up where I said Alpha was slightly unhinged about the Flat Earth thing, so............. in "Fenster-ese", that would translate into me being the one who told Alpha to kill himself.

There..... the secret's out.

Now we can all go back to agreeing with me on transgenderism.

Thanks for admitting you attempted to frame me. Evidence. Noted. Very, very cynical!

[Fenster]

We're a forum full of lonely men seeking companionship and attention that's all.

And if anyone truly does wish harm on anyone else they should think of the children. Or pets. As I always tell my little chihuahua, you're lucky my cock don't fit.

[Gandalf]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

Wishing death on posters by the same people who threaten to top themselves is what you said and that means me as I am the suicide king of this forum. Now blabbering about suing the forum? Stay out of my face. Prick.

@Beanz in response to your suggestion that 'the truth hurts'.....no it does not. I just find you irritating. Your post above is just nonsense. Did I actually say that I said you urged Alpha to kill himself? What are you even talking about?

You have been a nuisance to many a poster year in year out and you coming back after being banned with your alter ego and diving straight off the deep end summed you up perfectly. Everything about that comeback saw you owned. It was akin to me and Adam GB toying with Zelenoff all those years ago, but this time it was me and Lyle. Facts and data and good arguments. All you had was a potty mouth and a SJW balaclava. Such an artiste!

And still you are up to your old tricks of digging in the dirt. 'He wanted to sue the forum....wah, wah, wah'. Do you think I contacted my lawyer and set off proceedings? You are an idiot sometimes. The truth does not hurt in the slightest. I just think you are a prat with a thing for twisting and being a nuisance. I should have just come out and said 'I think P4P said that thing to Alpha', but I never did as I didn't think it was my place. Now that he has pretty much admitted it then I can say it, but you marching in with your BS posts only ever stirs up trouble.

That you cannot see it sums you up completely.

[walrus]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

Not at all. I certainly did not urge Alpha to kill himself and I did not for one moment suggest you did either. For years you have threatened to top yourself and then when it has went quiet and I have asked people to forward my concern it turns out you were posturing all along. After literally years of it, and then threatening to sue the forum etc, me wishing in jest, 'you would just get on with it', gets twisted into wishing death on you. Daft load of bollocks. I wish harm on nobody here.

Wishing death on posters by the same people who threaten to top themselves is what you said and that means me as I am the suicide king of this forum. Now blabbering about suing the forum? Stay out of my face. Prick.

@Beanz in response to your suggestion that 'the truth hurts'.....no it does not. I just find you irritating. Your post above is just nonsense. Did I actually say that I said you urged Alpha to kill himself? What are you even talking about?

You have been a nuisance to many a poster year in year out and you coming back after being banned with your alter ego and diving straight off the deep end summed you up perfectly. Everything about that comeback saw you owned. It was akin to me and Adam GB toying with Zelenoff all those years ago, but this time it was me and Lyle. Facts and data and good arguments. All you had was a potty mouth and a SJW balaclava. Such an artiste!

And still you are up to your old tricks of digging in the dirt. 'He wanted to sue the forum....wah, wah, wah'. Do you think I contacted my lawyer and set off proceedings? You are an idiot sometimes. The truth does not hurt in the slightest. I just think you are a prat with a thing for twisting and being a nuisance. I should have just come out and said 'I think P4P said that thing to Alpha', but I never did as I didn't think it was my place. Now that he has pretty much admitted it then I can say it, but you marching in with your BS posts only ever stirs up trouble.

That you cannot see it sums you up completely.

oh p4p admitted it. I thought it might be him. In jest of course. I was going to tell alpha to take a real long walk on the flat earth but I feared that could be a death threat. As far as the beanz thing goes I am to blame for it was me that started the bring back beanz campaign. So I am the one that is to blame for all of this

[Fenster]

Are you suggesting I told Alpha to kill himself? Ask him and find out thou permanently banned poster that emerged from the dead despite also having his alter ego banned as well. Am I being cynical? You bet!

@Miles, who told you anyone was "permanently" banned? Where did this narrative come from?

[Fenster]

Evidence suggests there are 5 steps we can all take to improve our mental wellbeing and stop being a cynical cunt.

1. Connect – connect with the people around you: your family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. Spend time developing these relationships.

2. Be active – you don’t have to go to the gym. Take a walk, go cycling or play a game of football. Find an activity that you enjoy and make it a part of your life.

3. Keep learning – learning new skills can give you a sense of achievement and a new confidence. So why not sign up for that cooking course, start learning to play a musical instrument, or figure out how to fix your bike?

4. Give to others – even the smallest act can count, whether it’s a smile, a thank you or a kind word. Larger acts, such as volunteering at your local community centre, can improve your mental wellbeing and help you build new social networks.

5. Be mindful – be more aware of the present moment, including your thoughts and feelings, your body and the world around you. Some people calls this awareness ‘mindfulness’. It can positively change the way you feel about life and how you approach challenges.

1. I have no family or friends.
2. I can't walk.
3. Physical activity is virtually impossible and it's extremely tiring dealing with simple day-to-day affairs like eating and drinking.
4. I can barely afford to eat and get constant threats from extortionate rip-off energy companies let alone donate money.
5. I'm very mindful of everything around me, at any moment one wrong fall could result in death.

1 out of 5.

Although I deserve 5 out of 5 because it's the thought that counts.