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A person who takes insults as compliments

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  • 26-03-2015 1:25am
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    mick145
    Registered Users Posts: 85 ✭✭


    There was this guy I knew who loved acting like a dick, I was confronted him and called him a devious sociopath, he just smiled and said "yes I know"
    What sort of person is this?


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    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    mick145 wrote: »
    There was this guy I knew who loved acting like a dick, I was confronted him and called him a devious sociopath, he just smiled and said "yes I know"
    What sort of person is this?

    A devious sociopath?


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    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Business School 101.

    If more people think you're sound than think you're a cnut, you're no good at the job.


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    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    A devious sociopath?


    It's really the obvious answer, isn't it? :D


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    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Sounds kinda like me.... He's a good lad. Embrace who you are I say, whether weakling who doesn't get what he wants or sociopathic go getter...


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    TheBrinch
    Registered Users Posts: 291 ✭✭TheBrinch


    If someone called me a devious sociopath I would most likely laugh and thank them


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    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    He's the kind of guy you'll be working for one day. Get used to them. If you're lucky you'll only have to vote for him.


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    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    By calling him something less than ordinary, such as a "devious sociopath"
    Show to him that you have been taliking about him with other people, and you or the people you were talking with coined this name, devious sociopath, for him.

    It shows to him that he is being talked about outside of work and perhaps he gets a thrill from that.

    If you had called him a regular insulting phrase such as a "weird fooker", this shows little evidence that you have talked about him as it is a phrase regularly used to insult.


    It says more about you than him!


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    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    mick145 wrote: »
    There was this guy I knew who loved acting like a dick, I was confronted him and called him a devious sociopath, he just smiled and said "yes I know"
    What sort of person is this?

    Best to ignore him.


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    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    mick145 wrote: »
    There was this guy I knew who loved acting like a dick, I was confronted him and called him a devious sociopath, he just smiled and said "yes I know"
    What sort of person is this?

    ....Lou Bloom?


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    FueledbyCoffee
    Registered Users Posts: 265 ✭✭FueledbyCoffee


    Enda Kenny ?


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    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    I knew someone like that a few years ago. They were told that acting like that didn't make them cool or edgy, it just made them look pathetic, which seemed to make a cut.


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    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,496 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Devious sociopath isn't an insult...especially the devious part. Thats like cunning and clever


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    cloud493
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    Hey hey hey.

    Thats Mr Devious Sociopath.


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    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    Devious sociopath isn't an insult...especially the devious part. Thats like cunning and clever

    Don't think I'd fancy being called a sociopath, tbh.


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    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,496 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Knex. wrote: »
    Don't think I'd fancy being called a sociopath, tbh.

    Me neither but a lot of people associate sociopaths with like power and intelligence, why I don't know. But saying you're a bad/terrible person or something along those lines seems more offensive


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