'Whatever the reason, how to get them to stop?'

Dear Ammonite,

I was curious so I looked up "Narcissist" on the web. I discovered that there's a mental disorder called the NPD (Narcisstic Personality Disorder). And the common behaviours of this disorder are as follows:

1) "Me versus You" mentality.
2) Competitiveness.
3) "Tit for tat" retaliations.
4) Abusive verbal behaviour when angered and insecure.
5) Inappropriate and inapplicable language in front of
women and children.
6) Glorifies and falsifies achievements - past and present.
7) Extremely sensitive to criticism.
8) Pathological lying.
9) Disdain for rules, regulations, decency, morality.
10) Very little consideration for how behaviour affects others.
11) Capable of sexually degrading name calling.
12) Gross failure to apologise or have sympathy.
13) Uses allies real or imagined to back up claims and arguments.
14) Little (if any) sense of conscience.
15) Will "attack" when confronted or questioned.

And the list goes on.

This is a pretty serious disorder and only a medical professional could tell whether one is suffering from it or not. As I said the list
of symptoms is quite lengthy and quite frightening.

Because these people are insecure. They want to fit in. They want to create an impression that they're rich or pretty or popular or all of the above.

Ah if I were vain, I would think this post was about me, like the song….

Supposedly about Warren Beatty. Who, lets face it, was a good looking hunk and responsible for many a dripping wet panty shield.

I do find it puerile that some of the “little people” find that when I simply state facts…. It Is contrived to be bragging

Fact, my wife is a show-pony… (‘Barbie Doll’ as she is known in one circle). Fact, she does have an IQ of 170 and she married me because, despite the obvious differences, I am her “mirror”

So when the “lightening wits” write things like

“Competition is part and parcel of a capitalist society.”

I ask what the hell has “capitalism” got to do with it ?

“competition” is just as an important part of a “collectivist” society.

Certainly Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were most competitive (especially Stalin, who ensured his competition were killed off), so too, arrogance personified, the dismissed Whitlam.

Hawke had his competitive moments, just ask Bill Hayden but I was thinking especially of Hawke competing with Keating…

Krudd and Gizzards.. they were competitive to the core… (I use the past tense because they are both washed has-beens)

But one difference to capitalism, on the collectivist agenda competition is accompanied by backstabbing and in some versions, mass murder

For “Collectivists” it is for them all about “power”.

Houelle – “Well, more interesting is the motivations of a person who would get themselves in such a tizz about such things, or feels they need supporters in scoring some kind of point against our Col “

I have no clue to their motivations, ask the thread originator, she seems to fixate on small things.

Poirot “but, by the same token, he does invite us all to have a go at him.”

Indeed, such manipulation - and so self excusing

Finally, Lexi, “narcissism” – just look in your own makeup mirror – you only find comfort in the illusion of “control” and that’s what irritates you:

I refuse to be controlled by the unworthies of the left

Dear Col R.,

Would you like some cheese and crackers to go with
that whine?

Hey Foxy, how about just typing out the whole book all at once and be done with it.

Say what you want about Col, at least he doesn't plagiarise, and has the imagination and intelligence not to regurgitate other people's quotes without attribution.