Re: OT: Don't let Peanut Die For Nothing

On 11/11/2024 4:53 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:56:25 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 10/11/2024 11:18 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:51:27 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 10/11/2024 3:16 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 02:59:54 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 10/11/2024 12:32 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 16:38:04 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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On 9/11/2024 11:38 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:00:04 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 11/8/2024 12:58 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

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Well thank heavens that's one character trait you don't suffer from,
Bill. ;->

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It does seem to be trait that nobody imagines that they embody. Since my
reaction when somebody says something nice about me is to look out for
the nasty job that they are about to lumber me with, I imagine that I'm
probably not a narcissist, but I could be wrong.

 Two points here, Bill: when does *anyone* *ever* say anything nice
about you?

It happens, if not all that often.

Secondly, narcissism is a hallmark of psychopathy.

It's a character defect. Dignifying it as one of the many forms of psychopathy is a bit of a stretch. It doesn't seem to mess people up enough to prevent them living more or less normal lives, so it isn't pathological.

Get someone to check you off against Dr. Robert Hare's Psychopathy
Checklist and you might learn something unusual about yourself you're
currently unaware of.

Probably not. My wife worked as a psycholinguist and I got to hang out with a lot of psychologically sophisticated people - I once got told off by Uta Frith for making a joke about being on the autism spectrum - I'm not, but it made for a neat punch-line.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney