(1.) When someone tries to hold a contest on whose had it worse, as if suffering was a cereal box with a prize at the bottom.. And not in fact, a depressing reality with no winners.
(2.) Employing mental gymnastics to try and cement the message that your suffering is the only suffering that counts.
A suffering olympics can be held in either a one on one scenario (where the person directly compares their own suffering)...Or it could be a context where the person compares first world to third world problems, and individual vs. Systemic, (always as if one cancels out the other. )
(2.) Employing mental gymnastics to try and cement the message that your suffering is the only suffering that counts.
A suffering olympics can be held in either a one on one scenario (where the person directly compares their own suffering)...Or it could be a context where the person compares first world to third world problems, and individual vs. Systemic, (always as if one cancels out the other. )
People who try to turn other people's pain into the suffering olympics, usually have one of two goals:
(1.) They're purely seeking personal vindication, because they're too dumb to realize this isn't a contest anyone should want to win.
(2.) They're trying to police someone else's feelings, boundaries or expectations, after being called out for bad behavior. (I.E. I'm not that bad because I had it so much worse growing up. (Or) How dare you even suggest I modify my behavior in any way! Aren't you aware there are children in Africa dying of AIDS?!)
(1.) They're purely seeking personal vindication, because they're too dumb to realize this isn't a contest anyone should want to win.
(2.) They're trying to police someone else's feelings, boundaries or expectations, after being called out for bad behavior. (I.E. I'm not that bad because I had it so much worse growing up. (Or) How dare you even suggest I modify my behavior in any way! Aren't you aware there are children in Africa dying of AIDS?!)
by Olive989 March 16, 2023
by JudastheBudist March 1, 2021
by Asadefa May 21, 2021
Example 1) Bob: Hey guess what?....Laura and I are getting married! Tom: What the fuck is wrong with you dumbass? Why the hell would you want all that Pain and Suffering? Kiss your life goodbye you fuckin tard.
Example 2) Laura: Bob asked me to marry him, and I said yes. As soon as the honeymoon is over, my pussy is off limits to him and I'm going to put that stupid motherfucker thru more Pain and Suffering that he could ever imagine. Then I'll divorce him and take all his fuckin money.
Example 3) Bob: Laura won't let me go out with you guys tonight. Tom: I told you too not marry that ball and chain you dipshit. How do like the pain and suffering?
Example 2) Laura: Bob asked me to marry him, and I said yes. As soon as the honeymoon is over, my pussy is off limits to him and I'm going to put that stupid motherfucker thru more Pain and Suffering that he could ever imagine. Then I'll divorce him and take all his fuckin money.
Example 3) Bob: Laura won't let me go out with you guys tonight. Tom: I told you too not marry that ball and chain you dipshit. How do like the pain and suffering?
by Floss 69 January 22, 2006
Succotash: Oh, I'm just so sick of it all. Nobody really likes me. What's the point of life?
Mashed potatoes: I feel your suffering succotash... bro.
Mashed potatoes: I feel your suffering succotash... bro.
by onelongdrinkofwater April 24, 2011
by Marsquakes August 1, 2016
We tried to have the first meeting, but half of the people who signed up didn't show and the half that did show up were all drunk or high. Instead of arranging the second meeting, a group vote established that we would play paper basketball and then leave an hour before we were scheduled to.
by LRay10 January 12, 2011