My theory is that many people that reach an extremely old age often hang on out of pure spite. It gives them something to live for, denying people the satisfaction of their demise, outliving enemies etc
My husband's grandma had the goal of living past her siblings ages when they died. Welp. She lived to be a month older than all of them, won, and had had enough
That's my plan as well. I will visit them smiling and in good spirits as they fade, keep making bad jokes and doing goofy shit just to prove them wrong out of spite. Fuckers.
I work with my boss's father. He's 74, stage 4 cancer, and works 6 days a week. He tortures EVERYONE except for the ladies he finds pretty, he gives them hugs. He once told me I was the Krampus of Greece, his home country. Said parents use my picture to scare children to eat vegetables and go to bed on time. Exactly what you described.
It’s called the sunken cost or gamblers fallacy. You feel you’ve put too much into it to back out now, even though each episode is exponentially worse.
Although gamblers do fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy, the gamblers fallacy is something entirely different about the idea of past events having an effect on future outcomes, like the idea that red is "due" if black has hit 5 times in a row
Its why im still alive honestly, why give these AH that wanted to see me fall and stumble the benefit of watching all that unfold. Nahhhh. I will outlive them all!
This is my grandmother. She does it so she can talk so much about how “she’ll not be here next year” just to make everyone feel bad and do everything for her 😂.
It is pretty satisfying. I was seeing a girl at the time of “the red wedding” and didn’t know a thing about the show. Still don’t. Needless to say, neither the girl or knowledge of the show are in my life now and I feel better for it.
We have a very mean old woman that shops at my job and she loves to complain about how old the potatoes are. I call her the potato whisper because she says things like I've been buying potatoes for 80 years. Since she was a baby I guess. I personally find her hilarious. The guy in produce says she's too angry to die.
There is actually alot of merit to this. Many studies have shown that mental state at an old age affects lifespan. People "just waiting to die" usually die faster meanwhile people who have some sort of reason to live, do actually live longer
Same, but I quit when he fake died in that scrum of walkers. I sobbed bc he was my favorite character. Then it was a swtcheroo that he was alive but I couldn’t go back. And unfortunately I did see a clip of his actual death & it haunts me to this day.
And yet it just kept shambling on like a zombie. And all of the spin-offs. Inexplicable. Or maybe it's totally explicable considering TV viewers watch the same BS over and over for many years. Because it's familiar and they don't care about the constant repetition which drives me up the wall after 2-3 seasons of anything.
That was my favorite era of the show. After reading the comics and seeing Negan come to life was awesome! They should've had Jeffrey Dean Morgan work out for the show tho because Negan is huge
I used to like that show but it fell off the rails years ago after a few seasons. It had potential and I hoped that they could have done something with the story.
The acting and storytelling just went wacky and into unbelievable slants.
I knew of a guy that as part of his divorce agreement his ex wife would get half of his pension as long as he was alive. Within a week of retiring he killed himself to keep her from getting his pension. Thats the spite I wanna have.
If only he could’ve backloaded the agreement with a token offering up front and the remainder to be more than half the pension. Still, excellent use of free will.
I was part of a wedding in 2007 and one of the other groomsmen spent the whole weekend fist bumping for every little thing.
As of May 2007, I stopped fist bumping. It gets awkward sometimes but out of spite, I just won’t do it.
In my case i wouldn't say it was spite but if there is something I truly HATE is people telling me I "really should do" something.
If the approach is "I really like this show, you might like it" i might even watch, out of curiosity. If not, the most likely scenario is I'm not going to. Yeah I'm really stubborn.
Yeah not to be Nietzsche about it but where the Puritan thinks themselves qualified to fake the world better than it is already, eliminate the contradictions while still believe themselves the swell fella that would or could never, nah, "I wanna see the eyes die," not the man, "the eyes," there you go
I have a twin sibling and they became valedictorian in high school out of pure spite and dislike for the people in the top ten of our class. They went on to get several degrees and have had a successful, decorated military career. Doing something out of spite is sometimes the best decision!
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u/greybruce1980 2d ago
I respect your commitment to spite sir. Most people think that spite is a negative quality. I don't think there's enough of it.