You look like you've very recently found out your estranged great aunt owns a farm and you're off to try and ingratiate yourself with her before it's too late
That's Igor Gutman, a mentally-ill Canadian who's something of a meme over at the new German Place. There's a Brit who I've noticed enjoys crossposting a lot of his idiotic threads over here, typically with little or no comment in the thread itself. The /iq/ thread about Kyriakos Grizzly is another of them, and I'd wager he's responsible for a lot of the MRA-tinged discussion about the perils of finding love when you're not a 10/10 Chad with perfect bone structure. It's very tedious and I wish he'd stop.
The saddest part about the chaps who subscribe to this is that even if you tell them that genuinely, they look pretty good, they just think you're lying or trying to be nice, because that's exactly how they operate as Nice Guys.
I still haven't decided if I feel sorry for them or if they're just useless cunts. From my experience trying to talk to some of them on here, they just don't seem interested in listening to someone else's ideas.
>>5955 > even if you tell them that genuinely, they look pretty good, they just think you're lying or trying to be nice, because that's exactly how they operate as Nice Guys.
I can sort of relate and understand them, frankly.
I think the dad likes the hat. Or at least likes it as an expression of the hat guy's personality.
Are you a judgemental prick by chance? I only ask because the people who I know who are most insecure in themselves are judgemental pricks and can't take a complements at face value because I think they believe everyone is secretly as judgemental as them. Also because your first thought about the man's interesting hat was that it was stupid.
People are probably less judgemental than you think. The halo effect means that you can get away with pretty much anything as long as you shine brightly in some other capacity.
The person wouldn't have worn the hat if they didn't like it. Even if the dad doesn't really care for the hat or perhaps just wouldn't wear it himself, the support he offers is genuine.
>>5966 >your first thought about the man's interesting hat was that it was stupid
No, my first thought was to actually read the comic in question and see that the hat is described as "ugly".
As for "judgemental pricks" being insecure, how do you think people get insecure? It might have something to do with, y'know, other people being critical of them. But yeah why not blame insecure people for being the result of other people's behaviour.
> yeah why not blame insecure people for being the result of other people's behaviour.
Ah I see you are a dialectic materialist. You know not even Hegal himself believed such principals should apply to the self and to personal happiness.
Let me put it another way. You can sit there like an entitled snowflake complaining about how your perception is the product of your environment and that it's not your fault and that the whole world needs to change as you aren't personally responsible for your own psyche.
Or you can grab life by the reigns and decide to try make a change yourself starting with yourself. Really no one else can. This really isn't an exercise in who is at fault but who is in a better position to fix the situation and what is easier to solve. And quite frankly you fixing you and going from there is a lot more realistic then some nebulous decree the whole system needs to change whilst actually propping up the system yourself and not claiming any responsibility for it or yourself and your own toxic thought patterns.
I asked you if you were a judgemental prick, but now that we have accepted you are, what are we going to do about it. Because I think you would be more happy and less insecure if you weren't.
>>5973 I had read the comic previously and had skimmed over it the 'ugly' part my mistake. I admit that.
I still don't think the comic is a bad message, as my stance about the expression of the persons personality stands. But I understand your perspective better.