Where is everyone at..

[Greatness]

Hey everyone. I can see why people might think my post was obnoxious or arrogant or whatever (namely, because it is), but its content is basically all legitimate. The reason why it even exists is that I get annoyed at various comments that people make about me, so I'd say it's somewhat justified.
That said, I don't like being seen as pretentious or ostentatious, and I'm basically just relaxed and hilarious in person. Please don't judge me  

I was going to say before, I think I can safely say that no one on AN thinks you're a bad person.

Yep agreed initially your post was a bit iffy, however other users vouching for how genuine you are i understand how your post sounded as it did.

[EvangelionZeta]

No;

Back to Colin - from the piece itself, that was blatantly arrogant - from our perspective.
But a knowingly arrogant person would be a lot more subtle about it, because they would know that people look down on arrogance (rightfully too!). To me this piece is way too frank and blatant to stem from Colin's apparent arrogance. I'll say this though; he is somewhat unaware of these...pragmatics so he would call a mentally ill person a 'retard' and so on - euphemism is not in his vocabulary

Agreed.

Whilst Thushan and EZ would have this issue to a lesser extent, being around Colin all the time can make you feel pretty small a lot of the time. However, you learn to understand him and how he thinks and you just live with it and know he isn't intentionally trying to offend you; he actually has a really good heart.
I've seen on many occassions when he's "bullied" a kid, trash talking and such, but once we point it out to him, he immediately seeks out to apologise.

Hold on, are you saying that I am also arrogant?
Or that I experience being around Colin?

No I'm saying that you're awesome to the extent of not feeling as inferior to him as I do.

Ahahaha, whilst I agree in the sense that I have this issue to a lesser extent, I wouldn't say it's because I'm "awesome" enough to not feel inferior to Colin.  Colin is (much?) better than me at most of the things that I'm meant to be good at.  In all seriousness, I think I deal well with Colin because I spent a whole year talking to James on MSN.  >.>

On another note, to be honest I see talking to frank people like Colin as beneficial for one's character growth.  It's better to have an objective understanding of how things really are: as I said before, Colin is definitely better than me at most of my passions, but to be able to understand this without trying to cover it up is, as I see it, a sort of "enlightenment".  As a result, I know exactly where I stand: I'm more confident in many things because I can objectively tell that I posess a decent level of skill/training in that particular area, and at the same time, I can acknowledge people as my superior.

[thushan]

No;

Back to Colin - from the piece itself, that was blatantly arrogant - from our perspective.
But a knowingly arrogant person would be a lot more subtle about it, because they would know that people look down on arrogance (rightfully too!). To me this piece is way too frank and blatant to stem from Colin's apparent arrogance. I'll say this though; he is somewhat unaware of these...pragmatics so he would call a mentally ill person a 'retard' and so on - euphemism is not in his vocabulary

Agreed.

Whilst Thushan and EZ would have this issue to a lesser extent, being around Colin all the time can make you feel pretty small a lot of the time. However, you learn to understand him and how he thinks and you just live with it and know he isn't intentionally trying to offend you; he actually has a really good heart.
I've seen on many occassions when he's "bullied" a kid, trash talking and such, but once we point it out to him, he immediately seeks out to apologise.

Hold on, are you saying that I am also arrogant?
Or that I experience being around Colin?

No I'm saying that you're awesome to the extent of not feeling as inferior to him as I do.

Thanks Pixon!
But all the same, I do feel inferior to him - especially in maths camp when he blasts everyone.

Colin: Don't beat yourself up for this. We were too judgemental...and now we understand that you are not a bad person at all, and that you don't want to hurt anyone. All I have to say is just be careful of what you say, because people can take it the wrong way. Anyway, you have friends here who know you well, and (as you can see) they are explaining that you don't mean malice.

[tarek]

Get his 'head' of things you know loosen the tension, that's not going to far at all

[thushan]

Hey everyone. I can see why people might think my post was obnoxious or arrogant or whatever (namely, because it is), but its content is basically all legitimate. The reason why it even exists is that I get annoyed at various comments that people make about me, so I'd say it's somewhat justified.
That said, I don't like being seen as pretentious or ostentatious, and I'm basically just relaxed and hilarious in person. Please don't judge me  

Yeah I guess I can tolerate that, lol. Just a tip, it's taken some explaning for me to get your point of view. In real life, if you say that to someone who gave it their all and fell short of the 75 they needed for their course, you better hope you're as good at boxing as you are at maths.

And thushan heres a clue:
I'm a right-handed outswinging(to the right hander) opening bowler who ripped your stumps out of the ground in an under 14s game. I can still hear the noise of it haha.

Ahh bomb, I remember. I know who you are.
How's things? How did you and MPSC go in VCE (apart from your ATAR which is on your sig)

[Greatness]

lol how the hell did we get so off topic??

[thushan]

As bomb said he needs to get laid, whether it's a ten dollar me love you long time sucky sucky or just a good old browse on the net

Totally inappropriate mate

[ariawuu]

i think it started with a guy who presented himself as a very capable person achieving 99.95.. and it sorta grew from there? but anyhow i think i might sleep now x.x such drama today ... lol

[tarek]

This whole thread is inappropriate mate!

[goomblor]

@thushan nah, Tim does all the owning at maths these days
@bomb in person I rarely talk about how good anyone is at anything, and of course it'd be ridiculous to say this kind of stuff to the wrong person in real life

[ariawuu]

then maybe you sholudnt waste your time here zzz :idiot2:

[Greatness]

This whole thread is inappropriate mate!

This:

then maybe you sholudnt waste your time here zzz :idiot2:

[thushan]

This whole thread is inappropriate mate!

Do I smell a troll or what?

[Greatness]

Back on topic: Has anyone made much progress on their hw/studies??

[ariawuu]

Back on topic: Has anyone made much progress on their hw/studies??

(Y) +1karma point :]