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What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« on: Jun 17, 2012, 10:13:40 AM »
What are your least desirable fundamental character traits? Things you might class as flaws, perhaps impediments to some aspect(s) of your life, but which are pretty well ingrained and might require constant vigilance to counteract.

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #1 on: Jun 17, 2012, 10:21:45 AM »
Pfft, you can't ask us that without offering up yours first!  Otherwise we'll just think you're probing us for weaknesses you can exploit.  ;)
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #2 on: Jun 17, 2012, 10:40:16 AM »
General laziness, I guess, and physical unattractiveness. My biggest thing that gets me though is that I don't really have any kind of goal in life (At least right now), so I never really feel motivated to actually do anything ever but browse forums like this one that at I find interesting enough to read. Of course, this becomes a problem that really only reinforces itself after a while (The lack of motivation, not the SGU Forum browsing).
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 17, 2012, 10:52:16 AM »
Pfft, you can't ask us that without offering up yours first!  Otherwise we'll just think you're probing us for weaknesses you can exploit.  ;)

Haha, okay, that's cool. Reason I didn't is that I think it seems like such an attention grab to unload in the first post of this type of thread—like, "look at this stuff about me, comment on me, here's a thinly disguised way of getting people to give me attention, me, me, me!" Whereas the truth is I'm interested in comparing and learning about other's experiences/conditions and how they view themselves.

But, no problem. One of my biggest flaws is a low threshold for irritation, and I'm quick to anger. And there are plenty of things that annoy me. If I'm not careful, I'm much too short with those I love. One might euphemistically say that I "don't suffer fools". But that sounds more noble than what it really is. If I could change my brain structure/chemistry instantly to induce a more laid back temperament, I probably would.

To be fair, I have the ability to reflect afterwards and impassively consider my behavior and actions, and I'm not afraid to apologize or change my view. However, it would be nice not to have to apologize in the first place. :)

And not to insinuate I'm an out of control maniac in public, I'm pretty reserved actually. It mostly affects me when I'm alone (for instance, experiencing disproportionate anger if my computer crashes, or if I'm driving and encountering silliness on the road), and, secondarily, those who're very close to me.

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #4 on: Jun 17, 2012, 11:16:01 AM »
All of the above to some degree.  ;)  Especially the lack of motivation.

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #5 on: Jun 17, 2012, 11:32:39 AM »
I am almost too easy going. I will tell people when I think that things need change, or if I am upset, but I don't often emphasis the point.

So I let things slide and slide and slide and slide until I get really pissed off and then I will be really grumpy and I might even yell.

On occasion I get overwhelmed by things so that I just don't do anything about them and procrastinate.

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #6 on: Jun 17, 2012, 01:27:54 PM »
General laziness, I guess, and physical unattractiveness. My biggest thing that gets me though is that I don't really have any kind of goal in life (At least right now), so I never really feel motivated to actually do anything ever but browse forums like this one that at I find interesting enough to read. Of course, this becomes a problem that really only reinforces itself after a while (The lack of motivation, not the SGU Forum browsing).

What about insatiable greed for money and other material things?

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #7 on: Jun 17, 2012, 01:49:50 PM »
I thought we were listing negative traits, not awesome ones.  >:D
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #8 on: Jun 17, 2012, 02:04:35 PM »
I'm incredibly lazy and have too much body hair.
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #9 on: Jun 17, 2012, 02:13:03 PM »
The urge to capitolize the word "are" in your title.

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #10 on: Jun 17, 2012, 02:20:58 PM »
The urge to capitolize the word "are" in your title.

The urge to correct your spelling of "capitalize."  :P

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #11 on: Jun 17, 2012, 02:56:22 PM »
Fuck the speling poliece!

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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #12 on: Jun 17, 2012, 03:11:20 PM »
But, no problem. One of my biggest flaws is a low threshold for irritation, and I'm quick to anger. And there are plenty of things that annoy me. If I'm not careful, I'm much too short with those I love. One might euphemistically say that I "don't suffer fools". But that sounds more noble than what it really is. If I could change my brain structure/chemistry instantly to induce a more laid back temperament, I probably would.

Same. I have a very short fuse when it comes to other people, mainly because the quirks they consider to be cute annoy the living shit out of me. I don't blow up and rage or anything like that, in fact most people describe me as overly silent and extremely laid back, but in my mind I'm cursing you with boils and hemorrhoids.

The result of this, of course, is to be anti-social. People ask me to hang out with them, and no matter who it is or what they're proposing, my very first instinct is NO DUDE, JUST NO. I have to force myself to ignore that instinct and just go hang out.
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #13 on: Jun 17, 2012, 03:44:03 PM »
I am almost too easy going. I will tell people when I think that things need change, or if I am upset, but I don't often emphasis the point.

So I let things slide and slide and slide and slide until I get really pissed off and then I will be really grumpy and I might even yell.


This.  Mix it with a particularly bad PMS cycle, and I end up saying some pretty awful things. 
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Re: What are Your Least Desirable Traits?
« Reply #14 on: Jun 17, 2012, 05:57:59 PM »
I have difficulty speaking to strangers or anyone I'm less familiar with than immediate family or close friends.

My body language is frequently ambiguous and I often express the wrong emotion for what I intend to express.

I have a low tolerance for dangerous stupidity. That sounds like a good thing, and part of it is, but the bad part is that sometimes I just have to stop a discussion mid-sentence lest I start angrily ranting unproductively. So I have trouble tolerating difficult conversations even when it's important.

I am a total n00b at taking notes in class and really suck at it.

I am quick to doubt my accuracy (which can be good, except I take it to extremes).

I am extremely anxious when my performance is being judged and either shut down completely or take a "whatever I don't care" attitude and do it quickly and usually badly, even when it's something I really care about.

 

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