You said it, "Being the resident OLO psychopath," and not so well written if by reading I want to throw up because it is so much dribble!

Suppose you would think my suit cheap, and being a heterosexual woman I am not likely to dribble over your bumpy bits like a bored middle age man might.

Now I (mostly) acknowledge my mistakes and I do owe an apology to Col for calling you a psychopath. As any competent psychiatrist would point out your lack of compassion combined with your grandiosity, indicates narcissism.

"An absence of conscience, a psychological need for power, and a sense of importance (grandiosity) are often symptomatic of malignant narcissism. Pollock wrote: "The malignant narcissist is presented as pathologically grandiose, lacking in conscience and behavioral regulation with characteristic demonstrations of joyful cruelty and sadism."...

Kernberg wrote that malignant narcissism can be differentiated from psychopathy because of the malignant narcissists' capacity to internalize "both aggressive and idealized superego precursors, leading to the idealization of the aggressive, sadistic features of the pathological grandiose self of these patients." ...

Malignant narcissists, in contrast to psychopaths, are also said to be capable of developing "some identification with other powerful idealized figures as part of a cohesive 'gang' ... "

Your post, supposedly about the unfortunate state of middle-aged men in cheap suits, was simply a self-serving piece of dribble (thanks Ma Edda), your only omission was your adoration of Maggie Thatcher. Regular readers of OLO would be familiar with your idealisation of this former political leader.

I guess the title for Resident OLO Psychopath is still up for grabs. Houellie, I know you hanker for this dubious distinction but you're just not nasty enough. Suggest you read the following checklist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopath#Hare.27s_Psychopathy_Checklist-Revised_.28PCL-R.29

Piper

Yeah, wrong thread. All I can say is it is about time that the kids learned that cavemen and astronauts are real as opposed to the comic book characters - not that there is anything wrong with comics...

I do believe that 'super-girl' was not a feminist construct (although I admire your extrapolation on this) but simply a means to propagate further super-heroes. But I might be wrong, super-girl could indeed be an evil evil construct by obese lesbians intent on domination of comics.

For any reader who may feel they are missing out, I posited the question:

Who would win a fight?

Cavemen or astronauts?

The only condition being that the combatants use materials found in the natural environment eg, rocks.

I favour cavemen as they have to fight every day just to eke out a living, whereas astronauts who do have greater knowledge of the environment (ingredients for gunpowder) would be massacred before they even found some flint.

The caveman and astronauts may be middle-aged, or not. Whether they look fetching in their animal skins or spacesuits is a matter of individual taste.

Fractelle “As any competent psychiatrist would point out your lack of compassion combined with your grandiosity, indicates narcissism.”

Ah but of course, you are not a competent psychiatrist… and talking to trees, don’t count as “psychiatry” either, even if within your realm of narcissist grandiosity you are full competent it would be only in “your realm” that such a delusion exists.

Mind you, many doctors, psychiatrists included, as well as psychologists have monstrous ego and narcistic tendencies…. It is what allows them to feel entitled judge and label the rest of us.

As for compassion.. you just don’t have a clue, simply because I do not pander for popularity by piling on the faux sincerity of left wing half-wits, does not reflect any level of compassion or any other worthwhile standard. I simply recognize that people build the lives they get and the indolent and incompetent, the source of most left wing support, who plan to build nothing get exactly that.. nothing and even less from the scum-bag left wing politicians they elect to care for them..

So no compassion for you fractelle, regardless of your past breakdowns. That you have failed to deal with what life has challenged you with is no excuse because it is the same for all of us and it is called “the path to personal growth” – try it sometime, instead of trying to exercise your (misplaced) sense of self importance by criticizing whatever I write.

My life is complete, rich and beautiful. I neither seek nor expect nor care about your views. Your very existence is a matter of complete indifference and merely a source of small chuckles.

And now you will probably complain to the authorities .. demonstrating that whilst you feel fully entitled to hand it out, your capacity to deal with what is handed back is severely and hypocritically limited.

Hooleybeck

‘I'd love to feel more pity, but somehow the image of the suit and tie, the middle aged spread, the balding comb-over and glasses just fills me with loathing.’

It could be a lot worse … just imagine if you were married to him.

rstuart

‘Obviously the joke is a little dated. Old men don't discuss the worlds problems in a park any more, nowadays they do it on OLO.’

WHAT?! … THAT’S the reason you deem it 'outdated'?!

Try ‘outdated’ because we have hopefully moved on as a culture from finding rape jokes funny.

Perhaps we loathe that which we fear.

I don't undersand the comb over - it always looks worse and there are many men who look good with a bald head.