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What's your worst quality?

― Tom, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you only want *one*?

drunkeness. then *all* my worst qualities come out at once.

― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is the kind of question which gets asked in job interviews and everyone always says "Well, I think to be honest I work myself too hard sometimes" or some other obvious lie.

My worst quality is that I'm selfish and lazy - well actually it's the point at which my selfishness and laziness combines and some other poor fucker has to do things I should by rights be helping with.

― Tom, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Poor impulse control. Everyone else I know seems to come with this built-in thing that tells them exactly what they SHOULDN'T say or do, but I seem to be missing it. I have a hard time not speaking my mind, even when I should just shut up.

― kate, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm lazy, easily bored and insensitive.

― RickyT, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm pathologically down on myself. even now, after all that medication too

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoy random acts of senseless vandalism, much to the annoyance of other posters.

― DG, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arrogance. No matter how many times it is clearly demonstrated that I am just an average schmuck, I have an ongoing belief in the fact that I am just somehow better than everyone else. Sad really.

― Andrew Williams, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What Andrew said except I'm better than him. ;-) Combined with my extremely withering tone when dealing with people who fail my expectations...

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lazy and self-indulgent with marked swings between hyper and miserable. I only inflict the latter on those closest to me, though, which I'm sure they'd agree is really thoughtful.

― Ellie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[pats Ned on the head] someday my son, someday....

― Andrew Williams, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lazy...

― gareth, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lately my worst quality has been lack of compassion, selfishness and shoutiness (towards boyfriend), a fair bit of laziness and general grumpiness. as well as the drunkeness. i now aim towards general health and sobriety, tolerance for all (except right bastards) and general hippy dayglo loveliness. especially towards my boyfriend who is ACE and he never reads this so he won't be embarrassed.

― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am the most full-of-shit person I've ever met. Everything I say is most likely B.S.

― Mandee, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, ned, and it always aimed at ME for NO REASON...(oh I'm self- centred and defensive by the way);)

― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am also quite impatient.

― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I haf a feeling that at times I can be rather moody - putting that lightly... I think I'm also ill-tempered and too harsh on people sometimes and can be too sour. I am quite capable of sulking, taking things way too seriously and being bitter. Bearing grudges, possibly. Well, that and laughing at Pokémon Poetry:

I love my electrode
It Died,It Died!
My Mother said It ran Away,
SHE LIED SHE LIED

ect ect.

― Sarah, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't have just one worst quality, I have lots. I think that deep down inside I just want to be loved.

― toraneko, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, ned, and it always aimed at ME for NO REASON...(oh I'm self- centred and defensive by the way);)

You egotistical fuckup! BEGONE! ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmm, if this thread were really asking about my dark side as opposed to just my worst quality (not quite the same thing), it would have made for a much more interesting answer (not that I would have been 100% truthfull anyway).

― Sean, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You could always tell us anyway.

― RickyT, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too sensitive.

― Ally, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst quality for me or for people who have to deal with me?

― Nick, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can get a bit bloody tetchy.

― Jonnie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ferocious jealousy and envy.

― j.lu, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Last week I took what I considered an uncontroversial stance: viz that Prince Charles is an idiot.
My sistah chuckled and replied: "Mark, I'm not a Prince Charles fan at all, but you think EVERYONE is an idiot."
I was a bit crestfallen: "Have I just become a person filled with contempt for everyone?"
Becky: "D'you want the true answer or the nice soft answer?"
[pause]
MS: "But I just get so mad at people who are full of themselves."
B: "This a category which could include YOU, you know."

― mark s, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that would be sloth

― dan, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst qualities = I'm esily bored and a bit lazy.

Dark side = don't really have one, I have the odd day where I hate everything, but it's rare.

― james, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark S has proven himself to be my hero and potentially a better playwright than Pinter and Beckett combined.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, this is easy. Impatience combined with procrastination!

― suzy, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Peevishness and a quick temper

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm a bit disorganised and untidy, and I put off making important decisions. And I hate talking to people on the phone. Or at all, to some extent, particularly if it's work related.

― DV, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I worry far too much. (Sean's OTM... not really a "dark" worst quality)

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Procrastination. Self-doubt.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I forgot the self doubt and the weekly, why do I bother posting?

― james, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Procrastinator extrodinaire and a latent public school patronizing attitute which I've almost shaken but sometime rears its ugly head and I come over like John cleese's Tobin Hood in TIme Bandits ("Oh your a robber too, howlong have you been a robber" "four foot one" "That's a very long time isn't it. Have you met the poor. Oh you really must meet the poor. Lovely people. Haven't got 2 beans to rub together but then they're poor"

(this is one of the public school mind melding thingies)

I deplore this trait and wish it gone.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I found out recently that I snore a little. Horrors. I'd have to say laziness, though, just like nearly everyone here. How common.

― Arthur, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am passive agressive and mopey , can be manipulitive and play the victim way too much, i am fucked up !

― anthony, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Add snoring like a bastard to my list above.

― RickyT, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolute worst is ability to see bad qualities, say "oh that's a pity," and do nothing to fix them at all. I am also lazy, argumentative (although sometimes I like those first two), cold, moody, perfectionistic, and have almost no compassion unless I force it upon myself through logic.

― Maria, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cutting people off. Not listening. Finishing their sentences radically different than they would. Listening to people's serious problems and replying with an analogy from my own life that helps them none but which happily turns the conversation back round to ME ME ME

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe you should hook up with Steph, Tracer.

― Ally, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my self-centredness. i act like i think everyones lives should revolve around me. i've also got a mean temper, and my hatred can be pretty intense, like i don't do anything really spiteful but i am REALLY bitchy about people i don't like. i'm also impatient.

― di, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well as far as dark sides go snoring like a saw nails it! I am a perfectionist only in the work I do. I'm oversensitive a ( lover not a fighter.) Galw

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My worst quality is my refusal to accept I have any bad qualities

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am greedy about sweets. I sing in bed. I am bossy. I am vacuous. I butt in. I kick my boyfriends if they talk to me.

I am overly-chirpy in the morning. I get cross when I'm tired. I am annoying. I chew the ends of pencils even if they're not mine.

I think butting in is the worst of these.

― rainy, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have di's bad qualities, too. And I get in huge fights with people and don't realize until later that I actually was in the wrong. This happens every couple of days.

― Maria, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The usual humble need to be understood and liked in lethal combination with the less humble tendency to be cryptic and arrogant = constant overanalysis of mind and motives. There I am.

― Kim, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thats sorta like me too, maria, or i generally just yell at people before giving them a chance to explain themselves. a jumper-to- conclusions.

― di, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lack of self confidence which makes me a whinger who constantly seeks approbration. Impatience, indolence, occasional nasty comments, cynicism, moodiness and so on and so forth

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cynicism and ocaasional nasty comments are qualities i admire.

― di, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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