Brain Rot

Spiritual

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

It is really draining having someone with so many words to use on so many topics. He also taps his fingers while talking as though he is recording it in some database in his brain so that he can repeat in the future at the merest mention of a topic that may have a similar tone.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

squod

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

It is really draining having someone with so many words to use on so many topics. He also taps his fingers while talking as though he is recording it in some database in his brain so that he can repeat in the future at the merest mention of a topic that may have a similar tone.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

It's pronounced fuck

im invisible

i think i have brain rot, in the sense that i have no opinion on, or interest in, anything at all...

zuroph

That's not brain rot.

af_thefragile

Yeah, you just described all of AH there...

Spiritual

af_thefragile wrote: »

Yeah, you just described all of AH there...

I did?

Grimebox

Sounds like everyone on After Hours

MusicalMelody

My friend is like this... I just tend to tell him to shut up when he starts rambling on and trying to get a rise out of someone so he can have a debate with them.

Spiritual

MusicalMelody wrote: »

My friend is like this... I just tend to tell him to shut up when he starts rambling on and trying to get a rise out of someone so he can have a debate with them.

I think it is rude to tell someone to shut up, so not an option.
Thanks for posting a piece of advise, I was sure I had asked a question.:)

caste_in_exile

Opinions aren't like arseholes, not everyone has one....

If not opinionated then you may he wrapped up in your own personal life or worse still; yourself most of us who ultimately befell thus fate will seize any opportunitstic subject regardless of being out of our depth... sigh.

Spiritual

caste_in_exile wrote: »

Opinions aren't like arseholes, not everyone has one....

If not opinionated then you may he wrapped up in your own personal life or worse still; yourself most of us who ultimately befell thus fate will seize any opportunitstic subject regardless of being out of our depth... sigh.

I am sure there is advise in your post. I will try and decipher it and thank you if I do manage.

When or if I get a thanks option.

MusicalMelody

Spiritual wrote: »

I think it is rude to tell someone to shut up, so not an option.
Thanks for posting a piece of advise, I was sure I had asked a question.:)

Well I'm pretty comfortable with this guy and he knows he rambles so that's why I can tell him to shut up and he won't take offence. Maybe when having a discussion and your friend starts to do this just try not rise to it there is no way of saying you are too over opinionated and are wrecking my head nicely.

Max Power

Is this anyway like cock rot?

Spiritual

MusicalMelody wrote: »

Well I'm pretty comfortable with this guy and he knows he rambles so that's why I can tell him to shut up and he won't take offence. Maybe when having a discussion and your friend starts to do this just try not rise to it there is no way of saying you are too over opinionated and are wrecking my head nicely.

It won't matter, he knows himself that he does this but still continues to carry on with the same behaviour. So much so that some good intelligent friends have just said enough is enough and don't bother with him any more. This has brought the whole social aspect of our group to a bad place.

Some are away in their own splinter groups carrying on behind the scenes and he pretends that he isn't aware of it but continues to be happy to continue with the deterioration of the whole dynamic, to the point it will just crumble and seize to exist. He seems contented to just have an endless line of new people to express his abundance of opinions to but doesn't realise he has lost the quality of the group.

B.A._Baracus

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

Sadly alot of people like that who use boards aswell.

KKkitty

Is there any topic your friend doesn't know about? If there is put that into a conversation and watch as he looks aimlessly around wondering what to say.

IceFjoem

Spiritual wrote: »

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

I see your brain rotten friend and raise you one brain rotten friend with a stutter.:(

Spiritual

KKkitty wrote: »

Is there any topic your friend doesn't know about? If there is put that into a conversation and watch as he looks aimlessly around wondering what to say.

Lack of knowledge on a subject is not a deterrent to him. He will literally Google and repeat mid flow.

Scioch

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

Yeah I've met a few dubs all right.

KKkitty

Spiritual wrote: »

Lack of knowledge on a subject is not a deterrent to him. He will literally Google and repeat mid flow.

Then steal his phone and laptop for a bit and see how much he knows. He must love the sound of his own voice.

Spiritual

KKkitty wrote: »

Then steal his phone and laptop for a bit and see how much he knows. He must love the sound of his own voice.

He is backed up.

Barry Barry

I thought this was gonna be about zombies

disappointing thread is disappointing..

KKkitty

Spiritual wrote: »

He is backed up.

You'll catch him out eventually. Hate people like that though.

Wacker The Attacker

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

It is really draining having someone with so many words to use on so many topics. He also taps his fingers while talking as though he is recording it in some database in his brain so that he can repeat in the future at the merest mention of a topic that may have a similar tone.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

Punch him in the face. HARD

Spiritual

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Punch him in the face. HARD

Thank you for the suggestion but violence is never the answer.

Wacker The Attacker

Spiritual wrote: »

Thank you for the suggestion but violence is never the answer.

I think you'll find the harder you punch him the quicker he'll shut up

IceFjoem

Spiritual wrote: »

Thank you for the suggestion but violence is never the answer.

What's never the answer?!

ViveLaVie

Tell him you think he suffers from Kruger-Dunning syndrome.

Spiritual

ViveLaVie wrote: »

Tell him you think he suffers from Kruger-Dunning syndrome.

And be accused of having it, I know his games.

whatsthetime

Spiritual wrote: »

I am sure there is advise in your post. I will try and decipher it and thank you if I do manage.

When or if I get a thanks option.

How do you get a thanks option?

Spiritual

whatsthetime wrote: »

How do you get a thanks option?

It's there now so I assume it is after a certain amount of posts. Must re-read the charter.

whatsthetime

Spiritual wrote: »

It's there now so I assume it is after a certain amount of posts. Must re-read the charter.

OK. Thank you

Stroll

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

It is really draining having someone with so many words to use on so many topics. He also taps his fingers while talking as though he is recording it in some database in his brain so that he can repeat in the future at the merest mention of a topic that may have a similar tone.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

Dave???

3rdDegree

Was it Richard The Lionheart or Henry V who was shot in the face with an arrow but survived thanks to a gifted surgeon only to die of dysentery years later?

What was the topic? Oh yes, brain rot. I thought that was caused by excessive alcohol abuse over many years. Causes a sort of senility. Also called "wet brain". I once knew someone who got that. Very sad.

im invisible

I knew a Fr. Brian Roth...

Spook_ie

Spiritual wrote: »

My friend has brain rot. Brain rot in this case is that he has an opinion on everything, every topic, everything that is going on in the world. This may not seem like a problem but it is so tiring and really tedious that he tries and succeeeds to dominate every conversation we have as a group with his never ending opinion.

It is really draining having someone with so many words to use on so many topics. He also taps his fingers while talking as though he is recording it in some database in his brain so that he can repeat in the future at the merest mention of a topic that may have a similar tone.

Does anyone else know of anyone like this and if so how do you deal with it or have dealt with it.

How do you deal with repetitiveness, I am close to telling him to fcuk off.

It's a new part of the taxi driver test introduced recently

I've a friend who dominates conversations aswell only I wish it was with opinions instead of the same story told ten times to the same people. I don't know why anyone in their 30s feels the need to tell everyone constantly about how fuked they were the weekend before.

--Kaiser--

Your friend sounds well read. Unless of course he's talking from his anus

Akrasia

You could give him some busy work to make him feel important. Tell him you're thinking of installing a new under floor heating system in your house (or something equally as mind bendingly complex yet mundane) and send him off researching it on google when the rest of your group talk about the football, every time he comes back with a suggestion, ask him how this system compares with something slightly different and get him to check what the alternatives are..

It'll keep him quiet, make him feel important and allow you to have a normal coversation with the rest of your friends.

bullvine

I have a friend like this, one of my closest, we're actually like brothers the way we argue, he questions everything you say and doesn't believe anything you tell him.

Hes an opinion on everything, me, I only talk about things I know about, football, films, computing, when I talk to him these days I feel like John Doe in Seven when he describes being on the Subway and some stranger talking to him and causes him a headache and threw up all over him.

Thats how I feel about him.. Not good!

saiint

his name doesnt happen to be evan grehan? :L cause he who your describing sounds like someone i know :L haha

--Kaiser--

saiint wrote: »

his name doesnt happen to be evan grehan? :L cause he who your describing sounds like someone i know :L haha

I was wondering if he was describing me but I don't drum my fingers. I do tend to know more about most subjects than most people (excluding x-factor, TV and sports)

Just turn off.

Brain rot runs in the male side of my family. I can't even listen to opinionated people anymore, even if I am genuinely trying. Just flicks a deaf switch.

Spiritual

saiint wrote: »

his name doesnt happen to be evan grehan? :L cause he who your describing sounds like someone i know :L haha

No, but I am sure there are a lot of this type out there.
Amazingly he has informed me this morning he doesn't use social media much and hasn't ever been on boards. I am going to get him to join up and it might keep him busy just enough to give us some peace.