Declared a war and gone

At the risk of another SensitiveSingh episode. You win. I'm a terrible person with no friends and women don't like me. I apologize for making a comment not directed at you which you found offensive, I will be more vigilant of potentially offending you with my internet posting that is not directed toward you. I would also like to apologize for any future transgressions which may be committed by me or anyone that could be associated with me.

This is true. But simple is not always the same as easy.

Your sarcastic tone..... It might save your face, and I am OK with it. My goal is not to force you away from here, but to force you to be civilized, at least with me.

I know that I win. And that has nothing to do with this 28 y.o little boy.
I win because I am an old hag and every insult, every bad word you could direct at me, I heard many times. I win because I can read . I win because I am fully and completely me with my disturbed relationship with food, me being revengeful ***** and many many many other faults.

I wouldn't label anyone as just lazy. Or anything else. Including "just an *******." There are a multitude of factors, environmental, biological, or otherwise that contribute to someone finding something easy or difficult compared to ourselves. Willpower/WIM is a finite resource. If it's going to numerous other things, making something else a priority won't suddenly create more WIM, especially if those other things are (or feel as though they are) unavoidable components of survival.

Mikhel is playing the savage internet burn game on super easy. Most of us are playing it on very hard. Just the way it is.

that may or may not be my instagram handle.

eta: and I'm also guilty of sucking at opening mail and not paying bills on time not cuz i'm poor but cuz i'm dumb and lazy with the mail.

Indeed. I chose words carefully.

I suspect will power fits

I think that this "hack your behavior" is totally interesting topic. I mean we can agree that there are a bunch of things that make things easier. One of that I found for me in M's thread is: "eliminate the choice". I have a little bit used it before, but to read and use it mindfully was a big deal for me.

Starting with 16:20 was interesting for me about building new habits:

New for me was, that you need not only to force yourself to do things for a certain period of time, but this "new" thing needs to cause positive emotions.

With M.... I think for her going out for food is somehow connected with positive things.... I don't know.... For me cooking is actually something meditative. It is not an annoying chore, but a luxury time, when I can completely focus on this manipulations with ingredients and I do get this " flow state". And for M cooking is annoying work. May be moving in with sister will resolve this.

It's made her fat. So I can think of at least one negative thing that going out for food has done. It's more expensive than shopping and preparing food, so that's two negatives.

I have to assume that to continue the same behavior the positives must outweigh the negatives? Right?

Maybe not... *shrug*

eh, I was kinda being glib. Kinda what I mean is those with good habits are, generally speaking, good at forming habits. So when you're someone with your **** together but who's a little unruly with the diet, it's not a huge leap to get into meal prep and calorie counting. And once you get in the groove of doing that it's just a habit and not something you think about.

I'll read this later. The deplete willpower thing is a little tenuous to me, but I get it to a degree. There's also some questionable science out there regarding willpower (the famous marshmellow study) so we should be a little leery with this stuff.

But part of what I'm saying is those "decisions" you convert to habits don't actually weigh on your willpower. They're just something you do.

It's a common theme among the habitually offended to turn "statement I disagree with" or even "distasteful joke" into "things aimed at harming me and I must defend myself." It's pure post-modern madness.

I like that usage of post-modern. I may steal that.

I am to please and steal from those smarter than me.

I'm not entirely without thought as that above post suggests. The 2p2 app crashed as I was writing something and it somehow posted?

What I was intending to say was: I think will power fits into the lesson of filling a jar with rocks, sand, water, pebbles and the professor asking each time if the jar is full.

I read this on my phone and thought you said "I suspect will power lifts" and my reaction was

Dr Squat's gains returned to zero

RIP Fred.

lol I read the same

hahahahahahahaha


Just give him another 10 years further, he'll get there.

I miss all the e-fights... is lapka the new ss?!? IS lapka ss?!?!? The avatar would suggest yes!

Snitch,

Possibly the only bad thing about being Aussie. I've come on here in the morning when there has been an obvious **** storm but by that point some mod has deleted the whole thing!

Yeah. I've been timezoned out of so many classics over the years...

lapka is a cray cray older woman from Austria or something iirc. So basically identical to SS.

Ahhh Austria! G'day mate. Let's put another shrimp on the barbie