You're Not A Loser

[Tim Brownson]

I was reading an article today about ways to raise the profile of an individual or website on the Internet via Blogging, social networking and other miscellaneous ways. It was an interesting piece with some valuable ideas, but one thing irritated me somewhat.



Now you may very well be thinking “I bet he’s the kind of guy that gets irritated when he mistakenly buys raspberry yogurt thinking its strawberry” and maybe you’re right. However, I think we all know that it’s a conspiracy perpetrated by Publix Supermarket to confuse me, knowing I always forget my glasses when I go shopping and can’t tell the difference between the aforementioned red fruit. I’m not totally sure what they have to gain by it other than entertaining their stuff, but I’ll get to the bottom of it one of these days and their whole house of cards will come tumbling down, mark my words.



Anyway back to the post. The article in question was talking about LinkedIn and suggesting it was a cool way to build up exposure and personal networks and went on the say:



“It’s important to have a few dozen connections minimum, otherwise you’ll look like a loser!”



Oh well thanks very much Mr Demopoulos because if that is the case then I am a loser. In fact I don’t think I have even clambered up to loser status, I am still stuck at sad-man with no life level being spat on by rats with learning difficulties. Excuse me for not e-mailing people I don’t know pleading with them to accept me as a friend to make me look like I’m popular!



I’m not really having a go at the author, well maybe just a tiny bit, but I am having a go at society. I like to aim high. Cut out the middleman and go right to the top that’s my motto, blame the world for everything.



I hear the phrase ‘loser’ bandied around a lot, and I do mean a lot. This person is a loser because they flunked an exam, that person is a loser because they didn’t get a job promotion and another person is a loser because they lost a Presidential nomination.



Everybody, you included, loses from time to time; it’s the nature of the beast. I’m not even going to bother listing examples because simply enter the person you most admire in the world here _____________ and accept that he or she lost dozens of times in their lives and will continue to do so. Have you now lost all respect for them? I doubt it, and if you have, then you are in for a very unhappy life and you are coming close to thinking how a loser would think if there were such a thing.


Read more ramblings like that at my Blog if you are so inspired

[Brutha]

“It’s important to have a few dozen connections minimum, otherwise you’ll look like a loser!”

That sentence doesn't say that someone is a loser.

blame the world for everything.

Doesn't sound like a good philosophy.

[Kingston]

Originally Posted by Tim Brownson

I was reading an article today about ways to raise the profile of an individual or website on the Internet via Blogging, social networking and other miscellaneous ways. It was an interesting piece with some valuable ideas, but one thing irritated me somewhat.

Thanks a lot for the link! It's great info on improving your online public profile, something I currently work on.

The word "loser" is used a lot these days. It is a destructive seperation device, used to place the speaker above anything that they don't recognize in themselves. It basically means the speaker wants to be a "winner" by some random definition, but doubts that he is one.

[Keith]

Originally Posted by Tim Brownson

However, I think we all know that it’s a conspiracy perpetrated by Publix Supermarket to confuse me, knowing I always forget my glasses when I go shopping and can’t tell the difference between the aforementioned red fruit. I’m not totally sure what they have to gain by it other than entertaining their stuff, but I’ll get to the bottom of it one of these days and their whole house of cards will come tumbling down, mark my words.

Presumably, you end up going back for a strawberry yoghurt later so they make twice the yoghurt sales off of you.

[Tim Brownson]

Originally Posted by Brutha

That sentence doesn't say that someone is a loser.

Doesn't sound like a good philosophy.

It was a joke. The whole post was tongue in cheek but with a serious message about the use of the word, loser.

Keith, nah, I just suffer in silence and eat the stuff

[JimOfferman]

The word "loser" is mostly used by people who think that being successful means putting other people down so that they themselves can feel just a little bit better. If and when they are lucky enough to realize that their success as a person has nothing to do with those other people, they soon find themselves having little need to ever utter the word again.

If someone calls you a loser, shake his hand and tell him what magnificent journey of self discovery still lies ahead of him (or her).

[Tim Brownson]

Originally Posted by JimOfferman

If someone calls you a loser, shake his hand and tell him what magnificent journey of self discovery still lies ahead of him (or her).

Jim I love that! What great idea, thanks for that!