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I couldn't think of anything worse than to be known world wide.

You couldn't go out in public without being hounded or swamped by people. The parasocial relationships people form with you can put your life in danger.

Even worse is being a politician - particularly at a global leader level. Surely there has been an average Joe who has shithoused their way into being a leader of a significant country. Once you do that, with politics being as toxic as it is, for the rest of your days you can be a marked person.

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Tim Ferris once made the point that at an incidence rate of psychotic episodes (~26 per 100.000 people) compared to expected influencer reach (several million if you're doing well), statistically you are expected to have a few dozen severely mentally ill people in your audience. Several of those may project you to be the cause of all their problems, even if you are literally the most wholesome person in the world just because they are not experiencing reality in a sensible way at the moment.

Link: https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/

What does shithoused mean in this context? All the meanings I know for it don't fit, not even metaphorically...

Sorry for the bogan nomenclature.

I mean "fell upwards". Gave it a shot for shits and giggles and made it.

I didn't know what bogan meant either so I looked it up and I have to infer we are speaking with an Australian or New Zealander, hence the small vocabulary differential in our English.

Aussies speak something that sounds vaguely like English but it ain’t.

You know how it's said that eskimos have 50 words for "snow"?

Aussies have 50 meanings for the word "cunt". It can simultaneously be both the worst and the best thing you can call someone. And aussies know exactly which meaning is intended from context.

It's easier than that, the meaning is defined by the previous word. Although you do have to be an Aussie to know that being called a "sick cunt" is high praise, while being a "dog cunt" is a mortal insult.

It also depends on how long you stretch the word cunt. Shorter cunt usually infers insult, longer cunts belie respect, and if it goes for more than a second, you’re probably watching Aussie rules footie or the cricket and something bad/good happened, depending on whether the pitch goes up or down in the last milliseconds.

For the record, eskimo is a derrogatory term meaning "raw meat eater". The term Inuit is nowadays preferred.

Thank you. I did not know that. I shall strive to update my use of wording there.

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