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ORIGINAL: CrappyDom

In the old days prior to the internet modesty was considered a virtue but now with all the fakes and poseurs, everyone claims to be modest.  I mean in my case, I am actually modest, probably one of the most modest on CM.  When you look at my vast experience, my nearly overwhelming intelligence, and deep understandings of both western and eastern S&M practices, most would find it impossible to be truly modest.  Sure they would fake it, they would say something on their profile about being modest but it would be fake.  So few today have ever seen real modesty, that that sort of fake modesty goes almost unnoticed. 

To make it worse, since they don't have the vast experience and depth of knowledge I have to work at being modest about, they don't even have to work as hard as I do and yet they still want to be complimented on their modesty.  Sometimes it makes we want to just post about how great I am and just say to heck with being modest.

Shameful, isn't it?

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From what is, essentially, a silly post, CrappyDom raises an interesting point.  I myself have almost a pathological inability to boast; I can't even accept praise gracefully without trying to immediately reduce it to nothing by adding a storm of qualifiers and disclaimers.