Not always Homeboy....

(life aint always fair)

Egotistical pricks like me not only play the game....we are good at it.

Don't believe me? Ask a Peacock.....

This was the easiest question in the entire history of the Internet since its inception in 1976.

Bragging achieves one thing, and one thing only: disdain. Nothing else.

I successfully stayed away from bragging, except once when I was seventeen and once when I was 36. Both times I got kicked and beaten. Then in more recent times I got a whole busload of students get to hate me coz I bragged with the inventions I have thought up and made. And sometimes on this site I think I brag, but it could be more like a "blech", not quite so much a "brag".

Blech does not draw universal and maximum disdain like "brag" does, but some people who used to count me as friend here, and made that visible on my porfile, withdrew their friendship from andrew. Both formally and in behaviour. It hurt, but I have only myself to blame.

True to form...I disagree...

Apparently, you people ain't good at bragging and because you kids suck at it...you assume it is a bad thing.

Every person who has posted a negative opinion on this topic have posted at least one reply on other threads about how they ain't all that handsome/beautiful or are not attractive....

You guys are your own worst enemy. Especieally when it comes to dating.

Stand the fuq up and BE PROUD of who you are...if people can't accept you for who you are...that is one thing.

But, alot of people here just assume that the only proper decorum is to be meek and subserviant....to be less than what you are in some misguided belief that to be proud of yourself is a bad thing.

Your parents raised you to be p*ssies and need to be slapped for failing you.

Stand the Hell up for your good aspects.

Don't bow.

Don't drop your eyes.

Be PROUD of the good things you have done with your life....damn the torpedoes!!!!

STAND THE HELL UP.....be the person the people around you dont have the spine to be.

if you don't toot your own horn, who will

$10 hookers....next question....

If and when I stand up, I still only come to the belly-button of tall males and to the nipples of reg'lar females. (That latter in and by itself is not bad, if you think about it. Think "public single's dances".)

But the second part... you are the only vertebrae around here, so you took your own advice. Please allow us the freedom to to take our own advice, too. (This is as spiney as I will ever be.)

It's easier to wallow in sorrow than to say hello to a willow.

It's easier to laugh than to cry.

It's easier to dream who we could be, than to ask permission to be that person.

It's easier to be a smart *** or a wise guy than be a wise guy.

There. Your turn.

against my better judgement I wonder...you know that how?

I don't know about Krupps, but I know that 'coz my sis told me.

Bragging, like anything else, needs to be taken in context.

For instance, many people in real life believe I've had a relatively boring, uneventful life thus far. That's because they didn't know me back when life was more interesting. So if I don't tell them about some of the bigger things in my life, they never know how much I have really experienced.

When I was doing college interviews, I shied away from bragging, but the interviewer told me exactly what Ese just posted. And, he was right. To impress the college, I needed to brag about my accomplishments and interests.

On the other hand, having ADD, I can be prone to periods of hyperactivity. So, when talking about my life, I can get a bit carried away. It's not intentional. I just get excited about some of what I've experienced, and while hyper I talk really fast....non-stop. That is when people get turned off because it sounds like I am patting myself on the back. Truth is, I just need to calm down because I am hyper.

That being said, I admit I do have an ego. Sometimes it gets bruised. Sometimes it shows. Most of the time, I try to keep it reined in. I like exchanging ideas, views, and information with people. I like learning from other's experiences. An unchecked ego gets in the way of doing that.

Excellent! THAT is standing up! Not nesecarrily my speed but, I respect it!

P.s. Height has zero to do with it....most of my friends have married taller women....

Stature is a mental frame....I am 12' tall when I need to be.

There is no measuring the height of a big spirit...

when you are more than what your body is....

then you have succeeded.

I hate braggarts...most are lying anyhow...others are usually social outcasts trying to get "inside"...In my experience you don't need to brag...either you've got it or you don't...if you do, no need to brag...if you don't...well...either work on getting it or be quiet.

I sometimes think that others think I am bragging but I don't mean it that way.. I had a rough life growing up (as others here have)and during my first marriage..but I am just proud what I have been able to accomplish in my life..My kids, grandkids and like some of the daring things I do/have done(drive race cars, parasail and hang glide and riding my harley) and hopefully not finished..(still want to do that shark dive in a cage..lol)

I have been told that we have to learn to "sell" ourselves if we are to be successful in life because if we don't believe in ourselves who will. I have a problem tooting my own horn though.

Bragging bothers me usually.

people will see you for what you really are, we don't need to tell them...when people brag about themselves, it is just showing a lack of self esteem, a way to make themselves seem important...

If you are good, and if you are confident, you don't have to brag. Bragging is saying that you are good when you are not.

Selling yourself and bragging are not the same thing.... as long as you are honest.

Saying, "I am good at this, or good at my job" is not bragging if it is true. But your record will speak for itself. What have you actually accomplished?

I love confidence. Bragging goes beyond that to arrogance, though. And for me, that's a complete turn off.

I've met a lot of people who believe they're good at bragging. Though, I find that those who feel they must brag are lacking in certain areas and are trying to make up for it.

but I guess I'm sayin and I thinhk krupa is too - that at the crucial moment it can ehance sex - and ya it can



so there's a place for it

yes. I understand & agree

there is a difference between bragging and being confident, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being confident... being confident is knowing your abilities, knowing who you are, bragging is just telling people what you've done, and how you did it...