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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Holding out for a hero
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#1: Dec 8th 2012 at 11:09:41 PM

I wrote a similar thread to this and I had read the trope but after reading the trope page, it made reflect on my own past experiences. It is very easy to dish these out but actually getting on the receiving end on this makes you really think about your life and words do hurt. With that said, have you been on the receiving end of this trope? I had many times on my laziness, lack of ambition, inability to set goals for myself, procrastination, etc.

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#2: Dec 8th 2012 at 11:18:14 PM

Oh, certainly. A few weeks ago, I felt like blaming my parents for my issues again. This time, my mom finally had it. She admitted that she had tried everything under the sun, including therapy and expensive schools, but that I was so determined to fail that she felt no culpability in how I turned out.

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betterthanstrawberry Dreaming out loud. from back in the atmosphere. Since: Sep, 2010
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#3: Dec 9th 2012 at 11:15:31 PM

Oh yes.

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SBaneN The True Shane from Somewhere calm Since: Nov, 2012
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#4: Dec 9th 2012 at 11:34:25 PM

When I still went to school, I got these kind of speeches every single day (the reason why I suck being that I exist) along with getting beat up so bad that I was bleeding every school day, and eventually it got so worse that it resulted in me actually wishing that I was dead.

...

At least it didn't come true.

(This post will probably reveal the truth.)
Indigo12ash from Aperture Science Since: Feb, 2012
#5: Dec 10th 2012 at 2:53:26 AM

I got one from a teacher in my freshman year.

We both hated each other with a passion. But the speech she dished out at the end of the year wasn't constructive. She pretty much just listed a bunch of negative words to describe me.

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#6: Dec 10th 2012 at 5:54:15 AM

Absolutely. The last time it happened, it was given by a bunch of people who kept on telling people that all they wanted was to have an open forum with me. The "open forum" consisted of them cornering me and giving me the speech. I'm kinda glad they gave up the pretense.

Me being me, I retaliated by giving them one too. It ended up turning into a screaming match.

They had a lot of friends.

And that is the story of how I alienated myself from the majority of people from my class.

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#7: Dec 10th 2012 at 6:52:25 AM

My ex boyfriend used to give me this crap all the time. Like, weekly.

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#8: Dec 11th 2012 at 12:28:28 PM

-hugs X-

I used to get them from my Dad. All the fucking time. Sometimes he'd do it somply because he wanted to. He was a drunk asshole who couldn't stand it when I called him out on his bull. He spit so many lies at me and tried to degrade me so much and put himself on a pedestal that I can't trust him anymore. He's outright admitted to saying stuff just to hurt me. He tried to push all his problems on me from the moment I moved in with him two years ago. We are now living apart.

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#9: Dec 11th 2012 at 12:31:10 PM

My father did this sometimes, but rather rarely. Not that he had much criticism that was worth thinking about, he just spewed his nihilistic philosophy at me. :V

Carciofus Is that cake frosting? from Alpha Tucanae I Since: May, 2010
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#10: Dec 11th 2012 at 12:59:30 PM

Not really. I have been criticized, of course, and more than a few times rightly; but as far as I can tell nobody ever attempted to give me a true "The Reason You Suck" Speech, and only very few people ever got personal or nasty with their criticisms (and the few who did got chucked very quickly in the prestigious "people whose opinion is irrelevant" category).

edited 11th Dec '12 1:01:43 PM by Carciofus

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MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#11: Feb 20th 2013 at 5:34:51 AM

I feel sorry for you guys =/ nobody deserves this if they don't do anything wrong

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#12: Feb 20th 2013 at 6:42:56 AM

i dont know if this counts but.The people who once used to be my pals gave me this about my music & taste of humor.

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#13: Feb 20th 2013 at 6:52:39 AM

Never been given one, but I've dished a few out. I'm generally a fairly laid-back kind of chap, but there's only so much self-indulgent bullshit that I'm willing to put up with from people and when that threshold is breached I give them both barrels.

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nadja mug <3 from under my bedsheets Since: Feb, 2013
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#14: Feb 20th 2013 at 7:08:45 AM

well one of my support stuff who was at my taxi who basically started yelling at me called me nasty names like dosy,lazy,useless all because i forgot that the taxi was there. all that after that i got mad i started calling her a nasty goby fat fucking cunt after that she gave me referral only i called her that because she does that ALLOT but varies on what she says.

Ninja2634 CAPTAIN MEMEFACE from MEME HELL Since: Dec, 2012
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#15: Feb 20th 2013 at 8:00:48 AM

I only tend to get these from arseholes, who quickly wisen up when I present them with my own flavour of verbal assault. I'm not saying their stupid, but they shouldn't come to a battle of wits unarmed.

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Sorastitch Eden from Last Seen in The Shadowlands Since: Dec, 2011
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#16: Feb 20th 2013 at 9:37:42 AM

I am a admin on a wiki called Fantendo, and the community is extremely tight-knit; in a about a week you pretty much know everyone.

This rather "sophisticated" fellow named Devil Hulk visited our wiki a while ago, and started calling me out on my rudeness. I wasn't even being that rude, and the only thing provoking it was the fact he wanted me to treat a user who puts no effort into their work better (they also never listen to criticism). It pretty much developed into a shouting/whispering match, with him shouting on how I was super incompetent (ironically, I've never given up on a project) and mean and rude and how I shouldn't be an admin. It took the founder to come in and give HIM a few Reason You Suck Speeches, and I haven't seen his ass on the site after that.

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terlwyth Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#17: Feb 20th 2013 at 10:23:36 AM

Oh yes,everyone in family except Mom has given me one.

Very little of the time was it ever in any way accurate,either because A) It never was or B) I learned from it and made inaccurate.

My sister always about how I'd mooch off Dad's Parental Favoritism (Which was pretty much not the case at all)

And from my dad always about I was lazy,trying to fail,cutting corners,and'd probably leave my head on the back of the bus if it wasn't screwed on.

But to be fair I dished out as much as I took on both of them.

In the case of my sister for exaggeration,always getting into trouble,and using whatever illness real or not to get out of stuff,and C inaccurate The Reason You Suck Speeches.

In the case of Dad,insanely high standards,a huge Never My Fault complex,hypocrisy,and not siding with me during conflicts.

So yeah,...what comes around goes around.

Oh and I wrote myself into one in one of my short stories for being abusive,single,and barely passing classes in favor of My Little Pony or Avatar or tropes

edited 20th Feb '13 10:24:36 AM by terlwyth

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SimplyWhatever bla bla bla from bla bla bla Since: Sep, 2011
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#18: Feb 20th 2013 at 10:58:29 AM

I don't think I've ever really received one, but maybe I just don't interact with the speech-giving types very much.

edited 20th Feb '13 10:58:38 AM by SimplyWhatever

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GEROME Since: Feb, 2013
#19: Feb 20th 2013 at 2:10:27 PM

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Contributing. Blue is me.

I honestly didn't know how autistic I was being until he snapped.

edited 20th Feb '13 2:11:44 PM by GEROME

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#20: Feb 21st 2013 at 4:18:08 AM

Me, normally I'd get nasty comments, but I received one because of my appearance and about how the other girls are better looking than me, which is why I despise these tropes with a burning passion. I guess this is why I also find myself disliking characters who bully the protagonist for being freaks of for not having something everyone has , especially when they get away with it.

I'm telling the truth, but I remember one time I got pissed off at one bully. He kept berating me for my appearance, and I got up an threw a book at his face. Granted it didn't end well for me, but I consider that to be a CMOA for me.

edited 21st Feb '13 5:30:39 AM by MsCC93

Sorastitch Eden from Last Seen in The Shadowlands Since: Dec, 2011
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#21: Feb 21st 2013 at 9:19:53 AM

I think you need to give him a speech about how he's judging others on appearances.

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#22: Feb 21st 2013 at 9:50:55 AM

[up][up]Or if you are still at school and so on, get the teachers of the establishment to do their jobs and enforce their anti-bullying policy and remind them firmly that if they have one of those, they are usually legally binding, and paying off a settlement to you and your family can be really expensive.

On the topic, yeah, but a lot of the time the ones giving it are just as screwed up as I am. And I have really slopey shoulders for those instances. I gave a pretty epic one a long time ago but I am conflicted on it. It needed doing but it didn't help.

edited 21st Feb '13 9:52:40 AM by TamH70

MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#23: Feb 21st 2013 at 12:37:52 PM

@21 Yeah, but that was in the past. And in the area I live, it's a Real Life non-metaphysical version of a Crapsack World, where the "beautiful" people are made to be better than the others and people act like assholes to people who are "different", so if I made a speech, I'd probably be laughed at than cheered for.

@22 Thanks, but I'm in college now. I was pretty ashamed writing it because of how this topic was portrayed in "Troper Tales."

edited 21st Feb '13 12:39:02 PM by MsCC93

Alma The Harbinger of Strange from Coruscant Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
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#24: Feb 21st 2013 at 1:05:00 PM

I don't think so... But I've GIVEN one. However, it was, IMO, constructive, and it was deserved.

You need an adult.
MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#25: Feb 21st 2013 at 2:01:53 PM

[up]What did you do to deserve it =/


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