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Who else isa a sucker for punishment?

Oxwana
11-10-2005, 02:11
Please tell me that I'm not the only one. Do you do anything that you know you shouldn't; things that you know will make you feel bad?
I keep talking to my ex, even though it makes me miserable. I can't stop.
Tremerica
11-10-2005, 02:14
I'm not sure if this is the same kind of thing, but I like to overwork myself sometimes. Taking other people's shifts at work, sometimes working a 12 hour day.
Schrandtopia
11-10-2005, 02:16
are you talking about the commonly know "nice guy syndrome" or do you just like getting yelled at?
Melkor Unchained
11-10-2005, 02:17
Oh I'm a glutton for punishment. If I weren't how would I have lasted here so long? ;)
Oxwana
11-10-2005, 02:19
I'm not sure if this is the same kind of thing, but I like to overwork myself sometimes. Taking other people's shifts at work, sometimes working a 12 hour day.Yeah, I do that too. Six hours of school, eight of work makes maggie a psychotic ex.
Potaria
11-10-2005, 02:19
the commonly know "nice guy syndrome"

I have that in spades...

...But when I get pissed, you don't wanna be within a hundred-yard radius.
Oxwana
11-10-2005, 02:23
are you talking about the commonly know "nice guy syndrome" or do you just like getting yelled at?I'm a chick, but yeah, basically. He's a nice guy who oops! never really loved me, but he still likes to chat.
He tells me that he feels guilty. It's not like I want to give him a guilt trip, but it makes me angry that I try to avoid letting him know just how much he hurt me, for his sake.
And yet I still can't cut him out. Lo que se, I am not only a sucker for punishment. I am the sucker.
Czardas
11-10-2005, 02:23
I have that in spades...

...But when I get pissed, you don't wanna be within a hundred-yard radius.
On the other hand, you don't want to be within a hundred-light-year radius of me.... ;)
Potaria
11-10-2005, 02:27
On the other hand, you don't want to be within a hundred-light-year radius of me.... ;)

...
Czardas
11-10-2005, 02:42
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Really. When I get mad I start shooting out laser energy lightning bolts that destroy everything in their path and culminate in black holes. Not pretty.
Muntoo
11-10-2005, 03:34
Well I definitely qualify here, just having gotten pregnant twice! As if having a hyperemetic first pregnancy wasn't bad enough (with the result I lost my gallbladder) I went and did it again! This time after puking so much my nose would bleed and losing 15 lbs in two weeks I had a catheter inserted through my arm into my chest so I could bypass my stomach to take in fluids and meds.

Believe me, I totally feel both my kids are worth any trouble they cause/caused, but being pregnant totally sucked.

I've informed AlphaGeek that if he even mentions having more kids, even in jest, I will have to open a can of whupass on him.
Vegas-Rex
11-10-2005, 03:37
Umm...I like punishment...but in a different way, if you know what I mean. ;)
Rotovia-
11-10-2005, 03:38
Not me. If something looks like it may involve the smallest amount of pain or hard work I head the other way.
Potaria
11-10-2005, 03:39
Really. When I get mad I start shooting out laser energy lightning bolts that destroy everything in their path and culminate in black holes. Not pretty.

Funny. No, really. I mean it. That was some really witty stuff, there.
Melkor Unchained
11-10-2005, 03:39
Not me. If something looks like it may involve the smallest amount of pain or hard work I head the other way.
Good luck with Life.
Potaria
11-10-2005, 03:41
Good luck with Life.

Hey, you never know... He could become the world's wealthiest beggar!

:p
Oxwana
11-10-2005, 03:44
Umm...I like punishment...but in a different way, if you know what I mean. ;)I like that, too. I just don't really consider that type of "punishment" to be punishment.
Potaria
11-10-2005, 03:45
I like that, too. I just don't really consider that type of "punishment" to be punishment.

The way some people do it... Yeowch. "Punishment" is a fitting term.
Ma-tek
12-12-2005, 00:14
Please tell me that I'm not the only one. Do you do anything that you know you shouldn't; things that you know will make you feel bad?
I keep talking to my ex, even though it makes me miserable. I can't stop.

I do that all the time.

Every day needs a little misery, though. Otherwise there wouldn't be anything to complain about, and then where would we be?

The way some people do it... Yeowch. "Punishment" is a fitting term.

That depends on perspective, I should imagine. What's punishment to one is... something else entirely to others. ;)

But I agree. Some people go entirely overboard. But, eh, it's their flesh, no?
Heron-Marked Warriors
12-12-2005, 00:17
I do that all the time.

Every day needs a little misery, though. Otherwise there wouldn't be anything to complain about, and then where would we be?

Somewhere that isn't the loony bin.

Hmm. I wonder if my barrage of pointless, random lies count?
Pure Metal
12-12-2005, 00:22
meh, my personality feeds off emotion of one sort or another, so in the absence of any external stimuli i'll make myself sad just for the hell of it so at least i feel something.
its weird, not good, and a cornerstone of depression. also its not rational so its not like i have that much control over it...
learning not to do it now though, but still slip up sometimes :(
Ma-tek
12-12-2005, 00:22
Somewhere that isn't the loony bin.

Hmm. I wonder if my barrage of pointless, random lies count?

Actually, I suspect that if one doesn't experience the full range of emotions, one is typically considered to be a viable candidate for the loony bin. So not being miserable on occasion is more abnormal than not, eh?

And I don't think a day goes by that something doesn't make me want to gnaw on my own feet in frustration. Then again, a day doesn't go by that I don't laugh my arse off at something, either. It balances, I suppose. : )
DrunkenDove
12-12-2005, 00:23
I used to. No more. Which came as a shock to those who used to treat me as a doormat and hadn't seen me for a while.
SoWiBi
12-12-2005, 00:26
i keep coming here and spending hours on end while i *know* i really don't ahve any time for it, and i feel like the very last idiot afterwards when i see all the stuff that's not been done and should have (and there's no time left to do it, either). and i come back every day, very aware that it'll end that way again. does that count?
Ma-tek
12-12-2005, 00:26
I have that in spades...

...But when I get pissed, you don't wanna be within a hundred-yard radius.

Exploding teeth?
Heron-Marked Warriors
12-12-2005, 00:28
Actually, I suspect that if one doesn't experience the full range of emotions, one is typically considered to be a viable candidate for the loony bin. So not being miserable on occasion is more abnormal than not, eh?

And I don't think a day goes by that something doesn't make me want to gnaw on my own feet in frustration. Then again, a day doesn't go by that I don't laugh my arse off at something, either. It balances, I suppose. : )

I'm permanently miserable. Even when I laugh, I'm miserable. I suck.
Forfania Gottesleugner
12-12-2005, 00:30
i keep coming here and spending hours on end while i *know* i really don't ahve any time for it, and i feel like the very last idiot afterwards when i see all the stuff that's not been done and should have (and there's no time left to do it, either). and i come back every day, very aware that it'll end that way again. does that count?

Procrastination is the number one form of self-punishment. There is no better way to stick it to yourself than to fuck up good opportunities by looking at porn and arguing politics with faceless handles.
Swallow your Poison
12-12-2005, 00:32
Please tell me that I'm not the only one. Do you do anything that you know you shouldn't; things that you know will make you feel bad?
I keep talking to my ex, even though it makes me miserable. I can't stop.
Quite natural, really. Everybody wants their emotion, and self-pity, sadness, and anger are no exceptions.
Just try and tell me with a staight face that you've never enjoyed misery a little bit.
*tries and fails to resist urge to quote Notes from Underground*
""Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment," I answer. I had toothache
for a whole month and I know there is. In that case, of course,
people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not candid
moans, they are malignant moans, and the malignancy is the whole
point. The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if
he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan."
Dakini
12-12-2005, 00:34
Please tell me that I'm not the only one. Do you do anything that you know you shouldn't; things that you know will make you feel bad?
I keep talking to my ex, even though it makes me miserable. I can't stop.
I stayed in a relationship with a guy who often put me down for two years.

I'm not in it anymore though. :D
Ma-tek
12-12-2005, 00:34
Procrastination is the number one form of self-punishment. There is no better way to stick it to yourself than to fuck up good opportunities by looking at porn and arguing politics with faceless handles.

Miserable Moment No.#447,921,416.
SoWiBi
12-12-2005, 00:52
pain is beautiful.

[or are you trying to tell me you don't poke that sore in your mouth with your tongue repeatedly even though you now it'll hurt?]
Oxwana
12-12-2005, 02:47
I stayed in a relationship with a guy who often put me down for two years.

I'm not in it anymore though. :Dyay
I heard about that, and I'm really happy for you.
It takes a strong woman to leave.
Melkor Unchained
12-12-2005, 02:49
I am, and I suspect anyone who debates here on a regular basis is as well: this thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=458580) is a wonderful [and recent] example.
The Jovian Moons
12-12-2005, 02:50
Please tell me that I'm not the only one. Do you do anything that you know you shouldn't; things that you know will make you feel bad?
I keep talking to my ex, even though it makes me miserable. I can't stop.

I'm on NS right now instead of doing home work, does that count?
Vittos Ordination
12-12-2005, 02:59
I tend to get myself into bad situations and actually get into a better mood when I have to dig myself out. I go into a funk when everything is going good, which in turn puts everything into a downward spin, then when things are fucked up I get a kick out of fixing them. Its a strange cycle.
Megaloria
12-12-2005, 03:04
"Sucker for Punishment" will be my new game show where children beat each other up for candy prizes.