BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?

Subject: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:25 PM

I only ask, because there seems to be a lot of it around

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:36 PM

Isn't this question a terrible waste of perfectly good thread space?








Sorry Jack... I am feeling better and I couldn't resist poking a little fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:41 PM

MY Terminal isnt Smug !!

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:41 PM

Tell me what to feel smug about and I'll try to do my part.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 02:59 PM

oops... Sorry I mean John not Jack. Must not be feeling all that much better.

Anyway I should not have made light of something that is obviously bothering you. What's the prob? I am new to MC so I can't really make a judgement on changing behaviours here.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:18 PM

Nah. it's OK mate, it's not a serious question, just a wee exploration, to see if anybody is of a similar mind.

John/Jack

My father who was christened John, was always called Jack, so I don't mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Greg F.
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:20 PM

Apparently not- Doug R seems hale & hearty.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:33 PM

Terminal?

Well, I don't think that smugness will kill a person any sooner than they'd be going anyway, but perhaps it is a "terminal" condition for many folks, those who will remain insufferably smug until the day they die...

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:35 PM

Yes

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:42 PM

Everything kills you eventually, John. ;-) Even sex and eating.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:43 PM

No, but it drains one's vitality, probably in an escalating feedback loop. If you think you're reading it around here, you've got to remember that what people type probably doesn't reflect well who they really are. I'm sure lots of corrupted communication occurs. (If you try to be very careful not to sound smug, it can sound saccharine.) In any event, if they are smug, they're not happy, and it's too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 03:44 PM

No, most people afflicted with severe cases of smugness no longer have terminals. They have flat-screen monitors. I guess that makes smugness an LED disease.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:33 PM

How does one recognize smugness in oneself?

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:37 PM

Impossible. One can only be informed of it by others, and one will automatically dismiss whatever they say, because the opinions of others are just so much worthless chaff blowing in the wind... ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:39 PM

If you get several sufferers together on one thread. Is it a Smug-In?

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:42 PM

A good starting point is to assume the worst--that you are, indeed, smug, and have been covering it up from yourself in order to feel humble so you can be even more smug about your humility, and so on.

I have worked very hard for my smugness, and intend to carry it with me through the next several lifetimes, and therefore, ex post facto through their respective deaths.

I suspect smugness to be terminal, therefore, even in cases where people throw themselves on religion in the last hours of their strife in an effort to beat the odds by acquiring last-minute forgiveness. They go off congratulating themselves on their imperfect cleverness, just chuckling over it as smug as you please, until they are rudely awakened by a slap on the bottom and discover they now have to learn everything all over again.

At which point they bawl.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:46 PM

I have bawled a lot in my time, Amos. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:47 PM

Not for me, G.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 04:55 PM

I think you have nailed it in a nutshell, Amos. ;-) You have a great deal to be smug about, clever lad that you are. I dread that point where the slap on the bottom reminds me once again that there is no escaping the cumulative consequences of one's own karma...

I keep hoping to get an escape clause, I really do. The ones who amaze me are those who think they only have to deal with this place once, and simply can't bear the thought of leaving it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: The Barden of England
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:21 PM

"And a Smug-lin I will go, and a Smug-lin I will go"

I'll get me so'wester

John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:24 PM

The thing about being smug
It relaxes you like a drug
You think, "I all right!
Like a pig in the shite...
Oh! I'm sinking! Glug! Glug! Gluggeddy-Glug!"

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:31 PM

Pharaoh chased the Israelites tae try an' get them back
He saw them walk across the sea weyoot a plastic mac
He sais ah'll huv tae dae the same tae prove that ah'm nae mug
Ah'll show these dirty Israelites who's uggle gluggle glug

From The Glasgow Sunday School, Adam McNaughtan version

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 05:41 PM

Is smugness a terminal disease?

Of course it is! Anyone who contracts smugness, dies! 100% !!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Lox
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 08:24 PM

Well I hope not as I shall be feeling extremely smug once I have Submitted this message and read it back ...

... several times ...





(smug smug smug smug) |-)

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Lox
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 08:26 PM

... yup ...

... looks just as I imagined it would ...

Clever me =¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 08:35 PM

Feels great, doesn't it, Lox? ;-) I reread my clever posts for the same reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 08:59 PM

Well, there is such a thing as a transcendent state of Being, LH, but it would require you to disinherit Shatner, so maybe next time, huh?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 09:11 PM

Of course it is. I am SO glad it only affects those lowlier than me...

:-P

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:41 PM

It's only a terminal disease if you don't ever wash under the foreskin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: artbrooks
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:51 PM

Smugness? Sugar Bowl: Utah 31, Alabama 17. Smug? Nah.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 02 Jan 09 - 11:55 PM

Ever know anyone who died of good health????....why waste the time, then?....

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 12:45 AM

Everyone dies of some sort of health problem - quite often a lack of breathing. Besides, life is a sexualy transmitted terminal disease.

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:10 AM

Art, I think your spelling is a little off. Laughed myself sick when I saw they make fridges too....


Laughed even more when I noticed the fridge in 'Wallace and Gromit' animations are made by 'Smug'.... !

So in answer to your question Jockyboy, yes, but only if it falls on you from a great height.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:29 AM

Personally, I'm too close to perfection in all I say or do to ever be smug.

I'm also always right.

Apart from that, I'm a pretty humble guy. Though I say so myself.

And I'd never dream of posting to tell you all how great I am, because I know you already know.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:33 AM

snerk
What was that thing we all used to say in junior high school and thought we were oh so clever?

I am not conceited. Conceit is a fault. I have no faults. Therefore I am not conceited.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 06:49 AM

A mate of mine was walking home late the other night when he was smugged !

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 07:05 AM

Terry's not infatuated with himself. Infatuation is just a passing phase, but with Terry it's true self love.

¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:12 PM

Amos - Well, I wouldn't claim to be perfect. Just the next thing to it, which is far more interesting, don't you think?

The first time I looked in a mirror, I knew I had found complete fulfillment and need look no further.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:24 PM

You want terminal diseases, I'll tell ya for sure there is none so terminal as the need to look no further.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 01:27 PM

I am sorry but you can't all be perfect and damn near perfect?

What if we start a MR and MS Perfect Mudcatter thread? Just what we need a popularity contest.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 02:10 PM

Believe it or not, that's been done too, Virginia. More bathroom humour. They all think they're so funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: maeve
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 03:17 PM

From American Heritage Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary:

"...from Low German 'smuck', neat, smooth, sleek, from Middle German...'smucken', to adorn."

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:08 PM

No schmucks are different maeve. Although they are quite common.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:24 PM

Hey, c'mon, Sorcha! Don't be so unkind. Our illusions may be all we have left to cling to...

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Sorcha
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:29 PM

Well, Hawk, for some of them that is very true. LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Megan L
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:31 PM

Nah lad Illusions are nae worth the bother haudin oan tae, but a true freen is a different matter.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:52 PM

Aye. True indeed.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 04:53 PM

Looks like Sorchas feeling pretty smug there ...

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:29 PM

Ah ken whit ye mean, Megan. Aye.

Subject: RE: BS: Is smugness a terminal disease?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:40 PM

bathroom humour

terminus smudge is disgusting