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Ever known anyone with no redeeming qualities?
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Dev



Joined: 18 Apr 2006

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes. This guy
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Canadian Club



Joined: 12 Aug 2006

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

flotsam wrote:
peach.

I am so radical.



What does "I am so radical" mean?
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think some people have no redeeming qualities. I read a lot of true crime books (mostly about murders). Some of the people are sociopaths and are downright evil. What about OJ Simpson? I wonder if he has any redeeming qualities (meaning characteristics, and not abilities). After writing his new attention-mongering book, it makes me wonder....
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canadian Club wrote:
flotsam wrote:
peach.

I am so radical.



What does "I am so radical" mean?


Uhhhh...
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twg



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

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dev wrote:
Yes. This guy


It's sad how that lack of being a mammal gets him followers.
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

periwinkle wrote:
I think some people have no redeeming qualities. I read a lot of true crime books (mostly about murders). Some of the people are sociopaths and are downright evil. What about OJ Simpson? I wonder if he has any redeeming qualities (meaning characteristics, and not abilities). After writing his new attention-mongering book, it makes me wonder....


True enough. I guess you've read some Ann Rule? A good one is "The Stranger Beside Me" about Ted Bundy. She worked with him at a suicide hotline crisis center. He was helping save lives!

(A friend claims he once got picked up by Bundy while hitchhiking...)

It would be hard to say Paul Bernado, Dalmer, etc.. had any good qualities.

Even the worst probably have done some good at some time though. I'm not sure anyone is just pure evil always throughout life.

An Oprah show once mentioned that about 4% of Americans (i.e. 4% anywhere I suppose) are sociopaths. Yikes. If so, we've all met a few.

Some of us have had employers who, well, you know.
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Doogie



Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My sister in-law. She's rude, obnoxious and will lie through her teeth to get whatever she wants. She's the most selfish person I've ever encountered. I don't know how my brother stands being married to her. Actually, I don't think he can anymore. I think the only reason he stays is because of their 3 beautiful kids. Wait a minute.....maybe that is a redeeming quality. She did manage to produce great children. Does that count?
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khyber



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Compunction Junction

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My guy was just unreal.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of stories surrounding him and I don't want to type it again.. Leaf through the craziest waygook contest. I think he's on p6/7


Oh, a good Korean friend of mine divorced a wife beating alcoholic that has taken to beating her child now. Not her ideal playout of the situation but she's FINALLY trying to get custody (and have grounds for it...because being an abusive *beep* isn't enough.....

I'd bet he doesn't have any redeeming qualities.
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Benicio



Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This guy, Dale, who used to work here years ago. He was a real cancer on humanity- probably still is.
Would get drunk at the bar and yell at every girl in the place, calling them whores and whatnot. He particularly liked to negatively comment on ethnicities, especially the Koreans- funny because he lived in Korea and was surrounded by them.
He would talk about girls right in front of their boyfriends. He never did it or picked on anyone who could challenge him in a fight, though. For all his talk, he was a real coward.
He couldn't stand it if the whole bar was not paying attention to him, so he would yell, throw things, make scenes and do his best to upset people. If they weren't going to like him, he was going to make damn sure they hated him!
I couldn't find one person who had a good thing to say about him.
I almost got into it a few times with him when I told him to shut the f*** up! He really seemed to intimidate people. Most seemed afraid to confront him or just pop him in the mouth. Me- I'm a lover, not a fighter.

Well, he took to drinking real hard and hallucinated that he had a conversation with his boss that he had been fired. He calls the boss at 2 in the afternoon, drunk off his a$$, and b!tches him out for firing him. Said boss was very surprised by this and ended up firing him.
Thankfully, we were deprived of Dale's presence after this.

Another would be my former stepmother. What a cold, superficial, materialistic beeyotch. She didn't start out this way. When my dad married her, she was a young, redneck with a high-school education, a big rack and not much of a clue. Within a couple years, she refashioned herself as a hotshot real estate agent with a BMW and a desire for 3 things: 1) money 2) the most expensive sh!t money could buy 3) the envy of all the superficial, fake sh!theads in our small town.
She ended up cheating on my dad with another fake, money grubbing "Gordon Gecko" wannabe. Two weeks after my dad moved out, the dude she was screwing left his wife & kid and moved in with her.
A month after they got married, my uncle saw that guy with another woman at a bar. I laughed so hard!
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gordon Gecko wannabe... Very Happy
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mateomiguel



Joined: 16 May 2005

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually give up looking for redeeming qualities after a while, so I can't really swear up and down that I've met someone with no redeeming qualities. I can say that I've met people without enough redeeming qualities that I no longer care if they live or die, however.
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ilovebdt



Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KWhitehead wrote:
i really dislike my stepmother, but... i guess she must have some redeeming quality, or else my father wouldn't be with her, right?


I could say the very same thing about my stepfather Laughing

ilovebdt
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Corporal



Joined: 25 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ever been annoyed by a rhetorical question?
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Haven't we all?
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