'self' and 'this'

Whats your opinion on "self" or "this" in the programming languages. I think it is retarted.

you always see people doing stuff like this (in psudeo-py):

class blah
     def bloo(self, x, y)
          self.x = x
          self.y = y
               pass

when it could be:

class blah
     def bloo (x, y)
         pass


picture unrelated; this is a text board.

Scope in python is semi-dynamic.
Now that I think about it, that's a misleading way of putting it. It's not at all dynamic in that you don't look for bindings in the call stack. Mutable scope? fuck it, who cares