...preferably in as few words as possible. How do I do this? How do I make shame well up inside anyone? How do I make someone I have never met hate themselves in just a sentence?
Please help me figure this out. Without this ability, my life is awful. I have some parts of the puzzle but I'm not fast enough. I guess I can find the egoism, but actually landing a hit on it is hard- I'm not quite articulate enough yet to do persisting damage.
HELP
if a person like you, who i barely knew tried, to destroy my self esteem i would definately send him in hospital the least.
You are a waste of flesh and your life is unworthy of living.
Some rare people would think nothing of killing a man just for making them feel bad.
You'd best work out your personal issues with others in a different manner.
"Did the best part of you run down your mother's leg?"
Child, do not play in waters that are to deep for you yet. I have meet a true master of the art and it's... ugly. One needs to posses a deep inner grudge/problem/psychosis to pull it of. Which I doubt you have.
>One needs to posess a deep inner grudge/problem/psychosis to pull it off-- Which I doubt you have.
I can learn!
Dear OP,
It takes a while to master it. A good insult is pretty much the same as a good compliment: it needs to be customised to the target. As you get to know people you get to understand the source of their self-esteem: their pride.
Once you've become good at analysing people and can get the info you need in just a random conversation. If you ask me it works better to undermine it silently and slowly so you pass unnoticed. This works by comments that might suggest that their achievement/appearance/or any other reason to be proud is preposterous.
Once you master it be careful not to let it out of control: you end up hurting bad people who are close to you and they are the ones who get most injured because you know them better.
If you weren't so fucking stupid, >>1, you'd be able to think of a way. But that's okay because no one would want to talk to you anyway.
i agree with >>6 not play with fire kid, you may not like the result.
ironically, it takes a lot of empathy to make a good insult. you need to be able to put yourself in that person shoes. its not exactly healthy emotionally, in the long run.
i'm a very good insulter, (i don't know if that's a word, english is not my first language) i developed it as a defense mecanism, since i was bullied in school (not highschool, i was pretty good at it by then). as >>6 said, you need some kind of trauma to be able to pull it off.
if you're going to hone your insulting skillz, be careful, you may lose control over it. i sometimes say some pretty nasty stuff to my friends when drunk or annoyed.
>>11 yeah im in the same boat. bullied in school, to the point where i actually broke their arm and spat in their face. you need to have something so bad happen to you, so when you dont like someone you can put all your anger and frustration of that bad incident and channell it into an insult (if that makes sense). i dont even think nowadays, shit just comes out..