…and the people who frequent it, the drifters, the lurkers, the class-clowns, the drama queens, and everyone in-between. I may not post much, but I read, or at least skim over, most of the posts here. Why do I find what depressed and suicidal people have to say so fascinating? Ugh, idk man. Probably because I’m crazy too. Whatever the case may be, SP has been a weird sort of bastion for me, so I thought I’d throw this out there.
Here’s to Shep, the Kiwi of many names, inspiring many a pondering and many a laugh with thought-provoking posts and witty comments alike. Introduced me to a few good tunes, too.
To Stendarr and C4, who, despite in some ways being polar opposites, I have to put in a category together. Thanks for the laughs guys. Keep twerkin Sten, you know you got swag, girrrrrrl. And C4, what the hell is with you and restaurant food? Seriously.
To Xanadu (Lorax?), for an amazing taste in music, and of course general insanity. Props for some of the weirdest comments I’ve seen on the site, and considering the site in question, that’s saying something.
To Bisban (Morlock?), for…well, absolute insanity. I’ve never been able to figure out quite what the hell was going on with you, but sometimes the crazy shit you say is uncannily poetic. Hopefully the Pokemon will continue to inspire you right up to the end.
To Copelessness, for being too damn nice for his own good. Hope your long-distance thing goes well, man.
To snuffles, for his constant insistence of “Naw, save that for someone who deserves it.” Lol, sorry but it seems like I’ve seen that a lot lately. In all seriousness though, I usually enjoy your posts and comments, man.
To Hjerteblomst, aka SadGiraffe, for her love of video games, specifically WoW, which I played for awhile in the past, but never got too into for whatever reason. I was fond of it, just never got sucked in. Anyways, you’re way too hard on yourself, as you’ve been told many times. You don’t need to apologize for your comments, they’re just fine. For the record, I always like to see you around the site.
To DeathDreamer, for her love of vodka, and the sweet gothic-style pics that usually seem to accompany her posts. I really enjoy those.
To kittin, for a love of Golden Doodles. I found those pics and the related posts amazingly cute. I wish you could live that dream. I really do.
To everyone else I didn’t directly mention here. I’m decently drunk atm, so that’s my excuse for any errors and for leaving anyone out. Alcohol is a convenient excuse, isn’t it? Planning on being plenty more excused by the time the night is through…and the best part is the quick sleep. Usually it takes me 2 or 3 hours to fall asleep. Damned insomnia, man. But a little magical liquid and BAM…sleep, baby! Might not be the best of mornings, but whatever man.
A few honorable mentions off the top of my head would be Buscetti, Anunnaki, and EvilKitten. Some posters I usually find pretty interesting. Also DarkWeasley… you were pretty strange but I liked you. What happened to you? Hmm. Anyways…
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If you ask me, you’re not drunk enough yet…but cheers, man.
“I’m drowning in a whiskey river…” – that old Willie Nelson song, y’know? Anyway, I’m getting me a hip flask sometime. If I can’t keep a steady supply of meds, I may as well have liquor on hand to stave off the pain and bad feelings.
Sleep well, because we know your hangover is going to be a *****. 🙂
Nah, not too bad. I feel it, for sure, but I kept myself from going too overboard. I made the mistake of waking up to living hell too recently to repeat that fiasco just yet. My general rule : Keep chuggin’ those waters, you’ll be good. Of course, there’s a certain point where that rule is hard to follow…
You all seem like one big happy family. Unfortunately I’m banned from your chat room so there’s no danger of us being friends. You’d be on the right path if you said I didn’t like cats but really isn’t it just a bunch of people who claim to be individuals yet represent the very thing they deny. I’d liken it to an angry mob with pitchforks except more intelligent, calculating and dangerous. The only reason I live is the hope that one day I’ll be accepted by an online suicide community and we can all go on a cruise together. Thanks.
Cheers. I like all these people. I like you too, OP (The River).
I guess my name isn’t on that list because I don’t post often these days/I change usernames frequently. I have faded into obscurity. Heh. Oh well. (Maybe it’s a good thing not to be a suicide site celeb.)
I’d like to give a shout out to Kenny’s Ghost, someone else you missed. He’s a cool cat.
Please, I’m not as naïve as a man who gave half of his inheritance to a mail order bride and I don’t believe there is an invisible kingdom in the sky. Perhaps that’s people have the confidence to bully him and make very serious allegations. But I do want you to know that I’m not an idiot and I do understand what happens around me. Even you must admit though there has never been any detection of calculating, manipulating or conniving attributes within my personality. It’s always been that I just tell people to fuck off, straight open and honest even if I’m wrong most of the time. So, no I guess I’m not going to fit in anywhere. This is the main reason I stopped private communication with people I’d known here for years and years. Too keep the fanatics happy and so that everyone could all be happy.
@2Kool4Skool It was funny, I had written my comment earlier then seen that you had replied above me with a new username. (Yes, I could recognize your writing style.) I doubt you were making people unhappy by communicating with them, I’ve always thought you were a nice person. Nonetheless, everyone needs to move on from suicide sites at some point. I don’t even know why I visited today; I really need to quit. 🙂
Aquamarine, yeah I seem to recall usually enjoying your comments, from this username. I’m struggling to remember who you might be, though. Wait… who is Persa nowadays? Is that you? I know she changed names but… or is she GalacticHitchhiker now? Or is that someone completely different? Or all the same? I can’t keep up anymore man. People change names too often on this site.
Whatever the case may be, Persa is another I really meant to mention. Whoever you are now… I miss that little pyramid picture.
@TheRiver Hehehe yes, I was both of those names. 🙂 I suppose I might change monikers too often but it keeps things interesting, I suppose.
Good, so I’m not completely clueless then. I wasn’t just saying that last bit to cover my ass, btw. I was actually going to make a comment mentioning the name Persa, but then I saw your comment.
nice post here 🙂
i like you all. i dont reply to posts much at all now, but i still try and read them
Thanks for the shout out Riv. Much appreciated. Hopefully, you’re still asleep as of this comment. I’m guessing your morning isn’t going to be one of your best.
Hey now, my comments aren’t weird, they’re just special. 😛 Ha.
I appreciate that you mentioned me. I don’t deserve it, but thank you. And I don’t think the long-distance thing is going well. In fact, I’m worried it may be over…but then I didn’t deserve someone like her anyway.
The nicest thing I could probably do right now is give in to the urge and let nature run its course rather than fighting to survive.
Man, this mirrors that aforementioned friend of mine’s attitude pretty well. All I can say is… let it be her decision, at least. Let her decide if you’re good enough. Don’t give up yet, man.
I will try. Sometimes I feel like I can’t do anything right though and it’s hard to take. It’s like nothing matters. She and I are both sad and broken people. I won’t give up on her even though she seems to have given up on herself.
For what it’s worth, your thoughtful comments do not go unnoticed and are always appreciated.
I hope you didn’t have too much of a hangover.
Wait… I think I missed something here. I just saw Hjerteblomst’s latest post and the comments. You and her? Unless I have just woefully misread the signs.
We allude to each other but aren’t generally overt about it. But yes, ’tis the giraffe I speak of.
Ah. Well that brings a new element to this. Both of you always seem incredibly nice. And humble, sometimes to a fault, probably. You seem like as good a match as any… I hope things somehow work out for you guys. I really do. It would be nice to see.
And I probably shouldn’t get into you two’s business, but Hjerteblomst, if you’re reading this… you say you’re a waste of his time, a failure and so on. But what if a lot of the traits you think of as attributing to being a failure or a waste of time are actually exactly the traits copeless is looking for? Some guys have this kind of complex, they feel a need to… “protect”, I guess you could say. These types don’t want the “perfect” girl. And copeless seems like a nice guy, he probably enjoys helping as much as he can.
I think the reality is that you’re perfect for him for exactly the reasons you think you’re wrong.
I used to think that I was pretty good at determining a person’s gender based on their writing. This site has taught me that I’m not as smart as I thought I was.
Take The River for example. He/she is analytical, articulate and rational. Sounds like a guy, right? But The River also displays empathy and compassion, and he/she/it rarely makes grammatical errors. That screams “chick”. So Idk what the hell The River is. A nice guy who’s in touch with his feminine side, or a (rare) woman guided by logic? You don’t have to answer. I’ll wait for more clues to emerge; eventually The River will reveal it’s gender. 🙂
Thanks for the shout out. “We’re here to entertain and be entertained by others”. – Unknown
Hah. Interesting to see the C4 gender-detecting thought process laid out here. Sorry for the confusion. It almost seems like a shame to spoil the mystery for you at this point. But like aqua said, I’ve mentioned my gender on here a couple of times. I’m a guy, and a straight one at that. In touch with my feminine side? Hmm, idk if I’d put it that way. I’m not super-strict on the Bro-Code, though, so I guess one could argue.
I must have missed the earlier episodes where you mentioned that you’re male. It’s all good. You do express yourself – excellent, in fact, for the internet.
I suppose it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things, I just wonder sometimes who’s on the other side of the screen. You never can tell. I could be a distraught Victoria’s Secret lingerie model…..?
*typo* I meant to write “you express yourself well”. How ironic. I made a grammatical error while complimenting your command of the English language.
Well, I’ve always liked to write. When it’s something I want to write about, anyways. Don’t get me started on written assignments with specified topics. Some abilities just seem to emerge almost randomly… I remember being really good at spelling bee’s as a kid. Sometimes it’s hard for me to pinpoint where some things come from, like the ability to write or draw really well, or the ability to pull a convincing Scottish accent. I’ve always wanted to be able to draw, but I’m god-awful at anything to do with drawing. My sister, on the other hand, sells drawings and paintings for hundreds of dollars on a regular basis, and that’s just on the side. No art school or anything like that. Most of these things can be learned… but some just have the gift, ya know?
You can usually recognize my writing by an over-flowing amount of commas and random instances of …’s everywhere. Not always technically correct, but it works. You have kind of an interesting style too, for the record.
Then again, if you want to regain some faith in gender-determining stereotypes, the handwriting thing still applies to me. My handwriting is…. atrocious. I might be able to put words together well and sound somewhat intelligent while typing, but make me write it down with paper and pencil and you’ll think a 5 year old wrote it.
When it comes to essays and such, give me typing rights or give me death!
How would handwriting apply to gender? Mine is terrible, but I’ve seen guys with immaculate handwriting skills. Very tidily written, their efforts could almost be used for computer fonts.
Some of the commenters here (including myself) have often been mistaken for the opposite gender. Something to do with styles of expression. I don’t think it’s related to how empathetic/sympathetic a person comes across as. For instance, certain members seem very understanding and compassionate, but they’re either All Male or All Female, no cause for uncertainty (sometimes because they’ve made their gender clear already). It might have something to do with their monikers at times as well.
It is interesting, anyway. I admit that I have guessed wrong before with a few people.
Idk, it’s always seemed to me that it was common belief that males generally have chicken scratch handwriting, and female handwriting is usually neat and pretty. In high school, when they would occasionally pass out peoples papers at random so that the students could “grade” them, there was always a little game people would play where they tried to figure out who’s paper they had, or at least the gender of the person. Messy or neat was seemingly one of the methods of figuring out the gender part.
Just going from what I’ve heard. Don’t shoot the messenger! And of course I take these types of generalizations with a grain of salt.
I’ve guessed wrong a few times too. ClairDeLune comes to mind. Did I get that name right? I think so.
I enjoyed reading your drunken tribute, TheRiver. It is indeed quite fascinating reading the thoughts of lost souls, that’s why I hang around here. Now if only there was a bar like this.. With crocodiles and men in army uniforms.. I digress. See you on the flip side
Displaying empathy and compassion “screams chick”? Haha. I’ve seen many men both on the site and IRL demonstrate words/actions that would indicate they possess both empathy and compassion. Those are traits that every single human being should naturally hold, unless they are a psychopath who was born without much capacity for emotion, and a disregard for the well-being of others. Many people are clueless, sure, and cannot immediately see another person’s point of view (this is common in both genders), but if one has no empathy whatsoever for their fellow human beings, they will likely become a very bitter and/or self-hating misanthrope. (Or a criminal.)
BTW, I’m pretty sure that The River has previously stated to being male, or at least I’ve always had the understanding that they were.
Yeah, I guess I have to tone down the compassion and empathy. According to C4, I should have gender identity issues or something. 😛 Should I be saying “hang in there bro” instead and chest bumping?
Don’t worry about C4, he’s a lesbian. That is, everyone never seems sure if C4 is male or female. I wouldn’t take offense from his comments if I were you. 🙂
Although he helped to clear up confusion a bit by no longer having a scantily-clad chick as his avatar.
That’s right, all the boys used to hit on him ’cause they thought he was some hawt lingerie model named Lucy.
I guess I don’t really care who is male or female unless it is part of what hurts them in some way. We are all people who struggle within our lives just to find a reason to continue existing, that we are male or female doesn’t change that or make it less so.
I didn’t take offense to C4’s comment.
Personally, I think empathy and compassion are the hallmark of men who aren’t stupid. But that’s just my view on it. What screams, ‘chick,’ is wearing a bra and panties. I mean, unless you’re Herbert Hoover, in which case, carry on Mr. President. I always figured that compassion and empathy were human traits – things humans possess and display as evidence that they’re not, say, rocks, or celestial bodies, or trees, or sprockets in the great camshaft of the universe, or something. But what do I know? I got bats in me bellfry.
Yes, thank you Xanadu. My thoughts exactly.
(This was supposed to be a reply to C4’s comment. Damn WordPress formatting doesn’t always work on my phone.)
I hate to be a suck up but I love your comments and posts, TR, you’re brutally honest with an edgy sense of sarcasm. 🙂 I remember back when your name was ThousandCuts those were the days lol my favorite post of yours was when you addressed people that chronically post here about cutting and other attention seekers (“no one can see through my mask :'( ” ) i think I actually saved it somewhere lol thanks for the shout out
Brutally honest, yeah, usually. I like to be realistic, you know? As for the rest, well, idk what to say about that… 🙂
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