In my experience, blowhards like that are dealing with extreme inner turmoil. I’d say he is a huge risk to off himself since his personal well being and peace is so tied to lamenting what others have and he can’t.Italianman wrote: ↑November 14th, 2020, 6:36 amYes, sadly, this is all true. For a very long time, he has been denying reality. He figured that in the Philippines, his Italian state benefit checks would go further. He thought that he might fake being educated/upper class and land a hot piece of ass he could used for income at the local brothel. Unhappily for him the dream ended as common kitchen help :/Contrarian Expatriate wrote: ↑November 13th, 2020, 7:42 pmOther than basic jealousy, there is a nasty tinge of Italian Marxism in him since he likes to venerate "hard work" in the form of mindless physical labor and working with one's hands as somehow the pinnacle existence of life. His calls for being ordinary and exhorting others here to be satisfied with being ordinary was shameful and indicative of the type of background from which he comes.Italianman wrote: ↑November 13th, 2020, 10:42 amLol, deny reality all you want PD. Not my problem. In the psychology of human behavior, denialism is a person's choice to deny reality as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. This isn't rare, sadly. You're now an unsuccessful businessman and a dishwasher, but somehow you think you're pretty smart and my insightful thoughts make you feel less so. One four-year study that involved interviews with more than 1,000 board members, found that, when a CEO is ousted, 23 percent of the time it's because he or she was unwilling or unable to accept some basic aspect of reality. When faced with threatening information, people often stick their heads in the sand. Denialism is an essentially irrational action when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality
So for all his denialism as you rightly call it, the jokes on him. He does not realize that he is psyching himself into a lifetime of mediocrity and failure because the success of others really does not exist in his mind.
It will not end well for him in the end and if his being launched from his job in Manila into the land of unemployment is any indication, that fateful process is well underway.
So perhaps we should feel sorry for our sad little Italian "friend." His dour outlook on life and success approximates the horrible state of the Italian economy. Hence, he has no basis for optimism and success. Young Italians far more talented and educated than he have been fleeing that country in droves. So why would he want to bear hearing the tales of success and achievement from those who remind him of his own opposite situation?
Best to let him continue the course he has set in motion for himself and pay the consequences when they come.
And this is the guy who wants to get married and have a family. Fat chance for that when he can't even keep a job of barely skilled labor.
The unemployment thing certainly does not help at all. The most pitiable thing about him is he actually WANTS to cuck himself out in marriage but he’s not appealing enough for any woman to want that with him either in Italy or the Philippines. To me, that means, he’s short, out of shape, unattractive, and again, being an uneducated kitchen guy won’t get any women moist between the legs!
My primary girlfriend has been hinting around that she wants to get married now that she is 27 already, yet this guy can’t even get a desperate Filipina to want him long term. What an absolute LOSER! Italy doesn’t need anyone like that back there. They’ve got far too many in their depressed economy as it is so now he goes back there to muck that society up further.