Would you ever let people roast you?

[Parasondox]

Sun's out and so are the skins. SHOW US THOSE GUNS AND PECKS BOYS!!! Yeah, I am sexualising men. Sue me!!

Turn up the heat, let the heat cook that sexy meat. Let the skin darken and the fat drip. The juices making that meat glow with such organic flavour.

Hungry? Good because we aren't taking about a cooking roast. We are talking about having the truth, or hyperbolic truth come out and hit you square in the face by your closest and dearest.

Bieber has done it.
Franco has done it.
Tramp has done it...

WAIT WAIT WAIT DONT LEAVE! This isn't about Trump.

It's simply would you be able to handle a roast. Or have you been in a roast before? Either at the receiving end or giving out the nasty?

Would Parasondox hadn't a roasting from the Escapist? Yeah.

Would he be able to handle it from Mama Para? Buuuuuuuuuut no. She will destroy me. She's sweet but wow she can delivery that sniper from miles away.

 

[Phasmal]

I don't know. I'm used to a bit of back-and-forth between my friends and family anyway, as that's generally our sense of humour.
I think some of my family would be too worried about upsetting me to go too harsh though.
To be fair, I don't think in real life they'd have much roasting material anyway. I'm pretty nice in person.

I am aware of how I can come across online, though, so that'd be a whole other thing if it was on here. Sometimes I think I'm probably known as being a bit of a *****.

Spoiler: I'm 100% okay with it

 

[sageoftruth]

Probably not. Depends. I can handle teasing and ribbing, but if someone mentioned something about me that I didn't know about, I'd probably disappear for a few days to brood in silence. Nothing brings me down like finding out I've been making an ass of myself for months without realizing it.

EDIT: Thinking back on it, I actually might be able to handle it. When it comes to insults for me, it's the thought that counts. A dumb insult thrown just to be mean-spirited upsets me far more than a potent one delivered for a reason I can respect.

Since everyone's obliged to throw out insults in a roast, I probably won't be too hurt by them.

 

[sageoftruth]

I don't know. I'm used to a bit of back-and-forth between my friends and family anyway, as that's generally our sense of humour.
I think some of my family would be too worried about upsetting me to go too harsh though.
To be fair, I don't think in real life they'd have much roasting material anyway. I'm pretty nice in person.

I am aware of how I can come across online, though, so that'd be a whole other thing if it was on here. Sometimes I think I'm probably known as being a bit of a *****.

Spoiler: I'm 100% okay with it

If it's any consolation, the few times that does happen, there's usually someone else on the thread who ends up stealing the ***** spotlight.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I never understood why someone would volunteer for a Roast. I mean we all say its in good fun, and its just jokes and we don't mean it and we're such good friends...and that sounds exactly like what my 3rd grade bully used to say to the teacher whenever she'd catch him trying to dead leg me.

Or like when men said they read Playboy for the articles. We were lying.

Yeah, jokes about Bieber's douche-bag lifestyle or Shatner's distinct lack of acting skill are funny to us, but the Roastee knows they're true. We really do hate Bieber. We really do think Shatner couldn't out act a brick. We really do think Franco is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with Hollywood.
I would never do a roast, because I know its what people really think. They're wrapping it in jokes, sure. But they really do hate you. Really do think you're ugly or sad or worthless or lacking talent or anything. Its not so much 'all in good fun' as it is your closest friends revealing they've always hated you and the world would have been better if you fucked off.

Not my idea of a good time.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would like to think I can handle it but deep down I know I'm can't, it depend what material they used on me for the roasting.

Let just says I get sensitive when people compared my living standard to another person.

Hey it could be worse, imagine if they try to roast my teenage self? Boy he was really sensitive about anything back then!

 

[Lightspeaker]

No.

Not even a "maybe, maybe not" issue. Just no. I know I couldn't deal with it.

Occasional light-hearted laughing about things back and forth and self-deprecation is okay and basically an expected thing with friends and family.

Full-on like that though? I have clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression and enormous issues with my self-confidence and self-esteem. I already totally shut down over some things when they cut too deep into my insecurities. Full-on it'd probably make me have a total mental breakdown.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Isn't that what family reunions are? Where everyone sits there and roasts each other? Thought that is what happens any time you get siblings together. After dealing with my brothers and cousins, a Roast would probably be minor, they do not forget what you did when you were 3 years old. I am one of 10 children from the same parents though so most probably would not understand what that is like.

 

[happyninja42]

Not sure, depends on who is doing the roasting. It's very easy for a "roast" to turn into an insult fest with genuine hostility to it. I mean, I got a little roasted by a friend of mine at my wedding, my best man. But that's sort of expected of that kind of ceremony. It didn't bother me that I recall, as it was a goofy thing about how I was as a kid.

But an entire group of people who decided to get together to "honor" me by making fun of me? Eh, I don't think I've done anything worth roasting.

Now I'll sit around with friends, and occasionally toss out little roasts back and forth. Little one line riffs of each other based on something they say. Like with a friend of mine who really enjoys lesbian porn, and ALWAYS plays female characters. We were talking about a character he was thinking of making for the new Exalted 3.0, and he mentioned making a guy. I said "Come on man, we BOTH know you like pussy too much to play a guy. You're characters going to be a hot chick in tight pants, just admit it and lets move on." To which he laughed and said "Yeah, true, ok so SHE will be like this..." little stuff like that is fine with me. But a concentrated, extended session of "Make fun of him." is sort of....eh.

 

[Zontar]

Given how that's already about 40% of the interactions my friends and I have already, sure, would be more of the same anyway. No need to fix what ain't broke.

 

[Barbas]

No. A few have attempted something like it, while others tried grilling instead. All were fools; I like it hot and steamy.

The worst they could do was probably imply mentally illness because of unorthodox behaviour, but that would only succeed in making them look malicious as well as ignorant.

. . . Franco has done it . . .

...I thought he died in 1975. o_.

 

[Leg End]

THE PARAS MUST BE STOPPED

Sure I would. Let's do it like the Comedy Central Roasts(are they still doing those?) and get F list celebrities to shit all over me for a few hours. Then I fire back at none of it being funny.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I guess I'm in the minority because I would totally be up for a roast. I don't know, maybe I'm just confident enough in myself and faithful enough in my friends to be able to just have fun with it. I don't let a lot of stuff get to me. If someone has an issue or something nasty to say about me my reaction is more of a "fuck you too, I'm awesome" than "oh no, someone's being mean to me!"

Psst... I know you didn't post that for this reason but... What is this from? Paris Hilton is looking good.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I was expecting a sexual theme with that title, am vaguely relieved to find it is not the case.
Happily. Honestly... No one can say anything worse than what i already have thought of, and perhaps forever will think of myself. It'll let their steam off while i try and think of another method of ignoring that critical bastard inside my head. It's...complicated, but i consider a temporary exterior roasting to be an upgrade to the constant repetitive beatdowns from within. A fresh perspective may help matters anyway.

 

[Phasmal]

If it's any consolation, the few times that does happen, there's usually someone else on the thread who ends up stealing the ***** spotlight.

That's good, I try for mid-range bitchiness. I'm too lazy to do full-on. Then you just get people quoting you forever.

Psst... I know you didn't post that for this reason but... What is this from? Paris Hilton is looking good.

It's from her cameo in Supernatural (season 5 episode 5 to be specific). I normally get all my reactions by typing in the general gist of what I want to come across into a search on this one tumblr, but for this one I was like "Damn I need that incredibly specific gif of Paris Hilton sharpening her nails on a blade".

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

It's from her cameo in Supernatural (season 5 episode 5 to be specific). I normally get all my reactions by typing in the general gist of what I want to come across into a search on this one tumblr, but for this one I was like "Damn I need that incredibly specific gif of Paris Hilton sharpening her nails on a blade".

Ah, gotcha. Well I'd say it was worth the extra effort. I'm not gonna mess with you, you sassy savage.

 

[lacktheknack]

Probably not, really.

I'd never be a roaster either.

I'm all for harsh truth in a one-on-one setting, but making it public makes me really jumpy.

 

[Luminous_Umbra]

I dunno, there isn't really that much to roast me with that I would care even slightly about, so sure?

That said, if it involved me being unable to respond to said roasting at any point, then I wouldn't be able to handle it.

 

[MythicMatt]

I can deal with friends and family trying feebly to pick away at my ego, but the moment it starts coming from randos, I take everything as a compliment.

It's a weird coping mechanism, but it can seriously throw someone off to have insults blown off with a legit "thanks".

Younger me didn't have such an elaborate yet effective system in place, and basically exiled himself from internet discussion for getting banned from one website over not understanding age restrictions on forums. A stupider time...