Nasty Streak

[odeon]

Do you have a nasty streak? I mean genuinely? Is there something you do that is just, well, nasty?

And if so, when does it happen? Do you control it? How is it triggered? And do opinions vary, in that what you do not consider to be particularly evil, others invariably do? Or the other way around?

I started thinking about this after my last few rounds of, um, friendly exchange with Scrap. It's not secret that we don't particularly like each other and so there are comments thrown across the pond, some of which can be considered to be quite nasty.

Now, my line has always been about people including loved ones in such exchanges. Nasty, unwarranted comments about the people I love. That is when I react without holding back. And, it would seem, the (to me) childish joy over my predicted death. I've been known to respond in a rather nasty manner.

How about you?

[bodie]

Well,  Thatcher made me nasty.  hehehe get that,  'she made me'!!   

I am 'all wind and piss'  and i might get really mad for 5 mins,  but then if i don't see that person just at that time
it is usually gone when i do.   It makes me quite cross as i miss out on carrying out some real ingenious acts of
revenge.... ahhhh never mind 

Life is too short to be all pissy.

["couldbecousin"]

  I can be gossipy and bitchy as far as venting at work about people who piss me off, though there are a few work friends
   I will never bitch or gossip about.  I can be catty and petty and judgmental.  I don't attack people but I suppose if they
   overheard my bitching it would hurt them.  I don't purposely hurt people, I just have a nasty attitude sometimes. 

[Pyraxis]

I don't have a nasty streak. I hate being mean. Being angry is different, but I don't set out to cause pain for the sake of it.

[McGiver]

I get moody at times.
But, I wouldn't consider myself nasty.

I am fully aware that some people may consider me nasty.  Although I like to challenge people because. Want to get the most out of them.  I want to learn something new.  And I am under the impression that you can't get people to be truly honest until they lose their comfort.

I may take the piss.  But I won't hold a grudge.

[Icequeen]

I can be nasty, takes a lot to get me to that point, but when forced into a proverbial corner...things can change quickly.

I have been known to psychologically fuck with people on occasion also, not without cause though.

I'd like to say I'd never hold a grudge, and maybe I don't because I can forgive just about anything...I just can never forget.

[McGiver]

I started thinking about this after my last few rounds of, um, friendly exchange with Scrap. It's not secret that we don't particularly like each other and so there are comments thrown across the pond, some of which can be considered to be quite nasty.

First, great post and subject matter.  I am curious to know, both how people see themselves, and each other.  Should be a great discussion.

Second, everybody has done what you stated above.  If attacked, a person will respond in kind.  It's understandable. They don't really add to the discussion. I suspect it only makes the author feel better.

Third, SKYBLUE, I love you!  . 

[Queen Victoria]

Even in my younger years I was never one to do much retaliation (payback pranks, lying, etc.) because I was just plain chicken.  I would either cry or just sulk.

Over the years I have "mellowed".  Now for the most part I either speak up in a (hopefully) nonjudgmental/confrontational way or let the matter pass.  For the most part it's just not worth it.  Getting back at someone doesn't correct the wrong done to me.  I've got enough amends to make without adding to them.  However, on more than one occasion I have had some wonderful mental imagery that would have gotten me in trouble if I had acted on it.

As an aside the hardest nasty streak I'm overcoming is gossip.  I've decided to define gossip as telling something to make myself feel important or make the person spoken about look bad.  It's hard to extend this courtesy to celebrities, but even they are fellow human beings and have feelings.  If I want to share that someone I know is going through a hard time I will ask a friend or two to pray for "someone I know who is going through a hard time" without any details.  G_d is smart enough to know who we're praying for.

[Al Swearegen]

Yes I have but it is not a default setting. I expect and try for fair. I am a pretty easy going bloke in real life. Push comes to shove I can be nasty though

[Jack]

Yes, have a nasty streak; her name is bitch; she doesn't get out much. Fairly content.

[Parts]

Yes I have one and it can be very bad sometimes.  I do my best to avoid getting to that point though and I give plenty of warnings so the person knows it's coming and that they could have avoided it.  It's mostly reserved for people who knowingly  piss me off and continued to do so after I try and settle the issue.  I have been known to hold grudges for a long time but in general if I don't like someone I just avoid them which most of the time is easy enough

[P7PSP]

Yes I do. It generally stays under wraps nowadays.

[odeon]

I started thinking about this after my last few rounds of, um, friendly exchange with Scrap. It's not secret that we don't particularly like each other and so there are comments thrown across the pond, some of which can be considered to be quite nasty.

First, great post and subject matter.  I am curious to know, both how people see themselves, and each other.  Should be a great discussion.

Second, everybody has done what you stated above.  If attacked, a person will respond in kind.  It's understandable. They don't really add to the discussion. I suspect it only makes the author feel better.

Third, SKYBLUE, I love you!  .

When I was a kid of thirteen or so, I knew a kid a year or so younger. He lived just across the street and we sometimes did stuff together.

Something about him - and I still don't know what - set me off and I played mind games with him. Tested things, psychological stuff, to see what would happen, and logged the results in the back of my head to be used in further experiments. Sort of what House sometimes does to his poor team. Some of it was quite nasty, I suppose, but it took me months to realise it was, at which point I stopped.

I haven't thought about him in years, pretty much, until now. We moved when I was fifteen and I haven't seen him since.

I can still do the mind games but I know of my nasty streak and tend to avoid it. With some exceptions. I can sometimes do it with people I consider to be morons. Not for any particular reason, really, other than that.

["couldbecousin"]

  ^ That post sounded very much like House.  I can almost hear him saying  "moron." 

[odeon]

I suppose it's one of the reasons why I liked the show right from the start. I saw similarities. The mind games are one. The tendency to acid comments another.

But I'm no medical genius.