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Ever known anyone with no redeeming qualities?
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:33 am    Post subject: Ever known anyone with no redeeming qualities? Reply with quote

For some reason I was just thinking, I like to do that occasionally, remembering this guy back in my hometown, a compulsive talker, liar, generally unpleasant to be around though not entirely dumb, and sometimes OK in some ways.

Perhaps not the worst excuse for a human I have ever met, but I remember long ago my brother and I once played a silly little game, where we'd name a person that we both knew and say one word, the first descriptive word that came to mind regarding the person named. For the guy in question my first thought was "inconsiderate." Then I said, "Well, that's the nicest thing I can say about him." It makes me wonder how unfair it is, some people have a lot of good qualities, and others almost none.

Just a thought.
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Hosub



Joined: 17 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nein, there's always one thing that can be said, even serial killers, mass murders and what not. :O
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Porter_Goss



Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Location: The Wrong Side of Right

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hosub wrote:
Nein, there's always one thing that can be said, even serial killers, mass murders and what not. :O


This guy Hosub from the internet.
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twg



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A few people, yes.
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knew a guy who got girls drunk and forced them into giving up their virginity in high school.

He had a lot of fights and hit women when he felt it was necessary.

He also stole checks and other items from his friends, sold a lot of coke, and bought surfboards with credit cards he made in his dead father's name.

He was pretty much a complete piece.
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RACETRAITOR



Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know a kid, he's 5'4", missing his front teeth and speaks like Elmer Fudd on steroids. He talks about the glory of the white race online and usually backs down from everything in person. Then one time he took a knife to a girl's birthday party and was chased away. When he moved to my hometown, he went to a reggae show because he knew that's where the skinheads would be hanging out, but he had no idea what reggae was. I told him "I'm racist too--I don't date white chicks" and he freaked out. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this guy, although he recently told me he's given up on the whole skinhead thing.
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to work with a guy everyone called "ninga".
He got this nickname because he and his buddy decided to tattoo their knuckles one day and that's what was put on his... he and his buddy didn't know how to spell "ninja" (but you have to ask- even if it was spelled right, would you really want to walk around with "ninja" tattooed on your knuckles? In some ways ninga is better).
Wierd scrawny guy, always making up stories about how many people he knew in jail. He had a voice like a 90 year old who had smoked 3 packs a day since he was 8 and a half dozen frogs down his throat- sort of the ultimate stoner wheeze.
He was not without any redeeming qualities though- he usually had good weed.

Swear to god he could (and should) be a regular character on the Trailer Park Boys...
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Green Tea



Joined: 04 Nov 2006

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

George W. Bush
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Green Tea wrote:
George W. Bush


Come on, he's cute. You can't tell me he doesn't make you giggle every time you listen to him speak
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

met in person or on Dave's?
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Boodleheimer



Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man

PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i really dislike my stepmother, but... i guess she must have some redeeming quality, or else my father wouldn't be with her, right?
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peach
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Joined: 16 Oct 2004

PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

VanIslander wrote:
met in person or on Dave's?


Let's not mention people who post on this site and let's not name names either.
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peach.

I am so radical.
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JeJuJitsu



Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:44 am    Post subject: Re: Ever known anyone with no redeeming qualities? Reply with quote

jajdude wrote:
For some reason I was just thinking, I like to do that occasionally, remembering this guy back in my hometown, a compulsive talker, liar, generally unpleasant to be around though not entirely dumb, and sometimes OK in some ways.

Perhaps not the worst excuse for a human I have ever met, but I remember long ago my brother and I once played a silly little game, where we'd name a person that we both knew and say one word, the first descriptive word that came to mind regarding the person named. For the guy in question my first thought was "inconsiderate." Then I said, "Well, that's the nicest thing I can say about him." It makes me wonder how unfair it is, some people have a lot of good qualities, and others almost none.

Just a thought.


Really fat people who aren't jovial or funny. Angry, fat, bitter people are really not a good combo. If you're rolly-polly, you owe it to the rest of us to at least be good-humored.
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cwemory



Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

djsmnc wrote:
sold a lot of coke


well at least he would make his supplier and customers happy...
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