Bizarre Situation

Macavity.

There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

We're all in college and he's well in his thirties (and not a student). Sometimes he rings my friend pestering us to hang around with him. He has the mentality of a 15 year old, gets excited over things a young teen would. The really weird thing is he actually has a law degree and I think he works as a barrister or something. We find the whole situation hilarious of course.

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Yeah a guy in his 60s who wears very skinny jeans and sits on the bench on the Main Street, beating spoons together, roaring obscenities at any young woman who passes him by. He always tells me how he'd "give me one" or ask me where I've been all his life. But the spoons are RELENTLESS

Chocolate Lions

What you're talking about really is people that are mentally not well, and I don't hang out with troubled or emotionally distraught people for kicks.
I know a few people that always want to bring that one guy who's going to make a mess of himself or have some kind of freak out and they think it's funny/great craic and a story to tell, I think they're just really bad friends, worse than that really, and I judge them poorly.

wazky

Everyone I know is bizarre, I'm the only sane person I know.

Macavity.

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

What you're talking about really is people that are mentally not well, and I don't hang out with troubled or emotionally distraught people for kicks.
I know a few people that always want to bring that one guy who's going to make a mess of himself or have some kind of freak out and they think it's funny/great craic and a story to tell, I think they're just really bad friends, worse than that really, and I judge them poorly.

I don't think he is mentally unwell at all. And we sort of have to hang around with him, not as if we can tell him to fuck off. That would be just rude. Have we really gotten to a stage where anyone deviating from the norm has to be considered "mentally not well"?

MarkR

Ive heard that if there is no one weird in your group, you're the weirdo. Glad there's no one weird in my... Oh. wait.

the_syco

Macavity. wrote: »

Do you know any bizarre people? There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

Sounds like one of those people one of you met in a pub on a night out, and probably brought them back to your place.

PizzamanIRL

There's a rapper in the band D12 who is really bizarre. He likes to wear a shower hat.

AndonHandon

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

What you're talking about really is people that are mentally not well, and I don't hang out with troubled or emotionally distraught people for kicks.
I know a few people that always want to bring that one guy who's going to make a mess of himself or have some kind of freak out and they think it's funny/great craic and a story to tell, I think they're just really bad friends, worse than that really, and I judge them poorly.

Heaven forbid you judge me badly.

CrazyRabbit

Macavity. wrote: »

Do you know any bizarre people? There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

We're all in college and he's well in his thirties (and not a student). Sometimes he rings my friend pestering us to hang around with him. He has the mentality of a 15 year old, gets excited over things a young teen would. The really weird thing is he actually has a law degree and I think he works as a barrister or something. We find the whole situation hilarious of course.

What bizarre people do you know?

Just sounds like a lonely guy going through a mid life crisis.

Omackeral

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

Just sounds like a lonely guy going through a mid life crisis.

Sounds like the plot to Seth Rogan's next movie

Chocolate Lions

Macavity. wrote: »

I don't think he is mentally unwell at all. And we sort of have to hang around with him, not as if we can tell him to fuck off. That would be just rude. Have we really gotten to a stage where anyone deviating from the norm has to be considered "mentally not well"?

Wellness isn't subjective. I'm not speaking about you personally, I don't know you or him so I can't say.

"Characters" in Ireland would be judged elsewhere as people with some issues and they wouldn't be wrong.

Being rude isn't the end of the world either if you need to be. You can't be everyone's friend you know.

Fat Christy

wazky wrote: »

I'm the only sane person I know.

Yeaaaahhhh, keep telling yourself that.

Celly Smunt

Remember this guy anybody from D12?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bAK_l5JIaY

Theres also the woman who collects bags of weeds near the kestrel.

And the older guy who used to clean the streets for the council who still wears the uniform and sweeps the roads.

Mickey H

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Yeah a guy in his 60s who wears very skinny jeans and sits on the bench on the Main Street, beating spoons together, roaring obscenities at any young woman who passes him by. He always tells me how he'd "give me one" or ask me where I've been all his life. But the spoons are RELENTLESS

Just give him a sympathy throwdown already. Sorted.

wazky

Fat Christy wrote: »

Yeaaaahhhh, keep telling yourself that.

Stop stalking me, I'm not in your clique :rolleyes:

Fat Christy

wazky wrote: »

Stop stalking me, I'm not in your clique yet :rolleyes:

FYP

Wanderer2010

There is an old guy who works in the cinema in Waterford city.....thats all i will say. Anyone who has ever met him will know what I am on about.

scream

Crazy Gerry. Likes to take endless rides in and out of Limerick on the bus, while cursing and ranting angrily to himself. Oh and, watch out for that umbrella. He wields it like a goddamn Morning Star.

holystungun9

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Yeah a guy in his 60s who wears very skinny jeans and sits on the bench on the Main Street, beating spoons together, roaring obscenities at any young woman who passes him by. He always tells me how he'd "give me one" or ask me where I've been all his life. But the spoons are RELENTLESS

We blokes sometimes mix things up and think we are doing a great thing. This lad probably heard that many women like spooning. He just took it up wrong. I've been that guy. Don't mock us

losthorizon

Macavity. wrote: »

Do you know any bizarre people? There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

We're all in college and he's well in his thirties (and not a student). Sometimes he rings my friend pestering us to hang around with him. He has the mentality of a 15 year old, gets excited over things a young teen would. The really weird thing is he actually has a law degree and I think he works as a barrister or something. We find the whole situation hilarious of course.

What bizarre people do you know?

What a weird post!

the_syco

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Yeah a guy in his 60s who wears very skinny jeans and sits on the bench on the Main Street, beating spoons together, roaring obscenities at any young woman who passes him by. He always tells me how he'd "give me one" or ask me where I've been all his life. But his spooning is RELENTLESS

FYP :P

Czarcasm

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

What you're talking about really is people that are mentally not well, and I don't hang out with troubled or emotionally distraught people for kicks.
I know a few people that always want to bring that one guy who's going to make a mess of himself or have some kind of freak out and they think it's funny/great craic and a story to tell, I think they're just really bad friends, worse than that really, and I judge them poorly.

Bizarre doesn't mean mentally unwell at all. It just means exactly as the OP describes - strange or unusual behaviour!

By your standard everyone would be mentally unwell as no matter what we ever do in life, someone else is going to judge our behaviour as bizarre. Does that mean we're all mentally unwell?

No, no it doesn't.


I know far too many people that behave in all sorts of bizarre and unusual ways, and none of them are mentally unwell. They just don't give a shìt

Bafucin

Macavity. wrote: »

Do you know any bizarre people? There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

We're all in college and he's well in his thirties (and not a student). Sometimes he rings my friend pestering us to hang around with him. He has the mentality of a 15 year old, gets excited over things a young teen would. The really weird thing is he actually has a law degree and I think he works as a barrister or something. We find the whole situation hilarious of course.

What bizarre people do you know?

Drugs. Trust me. He's ****ed.

Chocolate Lions

Czarcasm wrote: »

Bizarre doesn't mean mentally unwell at all. It just means exactly as the OP describes - strange or unusual behaviour!

By your standard everyone would be mentally unwell as no matter what we ever do in life, someone else is going to judge our behaviour as bizarre. Does that mean we're all mentally unwell?

No, no it doesn't.


I know far too many people that behave in all sorts of bizarre and unusual ways, and none of them are mentally unwell. They just don't give a shìt

Your own judgement doesn't sound great and you sound like one of these "it's all a bit of craic" lads. Everyone cares, in general terms. Everyone gives a **** and has feelings and all that.

I disagree entirely that no matter what you do someone is going to think you're mentally unwell. That's stretching things and then some, like the rest of your post. Head in the clouds.

Czarcasm

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

Your own judgement doesn't sound great and you sound like one of these "it's all a bit of craic" lads. Everyone cares, in general terms. Everyone gives a **** and has feelings and all that.

I disagree entirely that no matter what you do someone is going to think you're mentally unwell. That's stretching things and then some, like the rest of your post. Head in the clouds.

Someone please wring the irony out, your post is dripping with it, and y'know what the worst thing is?

You can't even see it.


Mine's the unicorn parked out back with the rest of the high horses

Chocolate Lions

Czarcasm wrote: »

Someone please wring the irony out, your post is dripping with it, and y'know what the worst thing is?

You can't even see it.


Mine's the unicorn parked out back with the rest of the high horses

Talk all the manic-stage nonsense you want, there's no irony in my posts. If you had anything worth saying you'd say it but I don't think you're all there. Talking about unicorns is making you look very grounded obviously.

Tail Docker

wazky wrote: »

Everyone I know is bizarre, I'm the only sane person I know.

erm.. if you're the benchmark, that lad in Tescos, rolling in the freezer cabinet eating his own poo is doing grand.

Czarcasm

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

Talk all the manic-stage nonsense you want, there's no irony in my posts. If you had anything worth saying you'd say it but I don't think you're all there. Talking about unicorns is making you look very grounded obviously.

The gift that just keeps on giving

Chocolate Lions

Czarcasm wrote: »

The gift that just keeps on giving

And why do you say that? Why not articulate yourself and show me just what you mean. Or do the intricacies of conversation startle you? I don't think you really have a notion but give it a go and let's see.

Tail Docker

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

And why do you say that? Why not articulate yourself and show me just what you mean. Or do the intricacies of conversation startle you? I don't think you really have a notion but give it a go and let's see.

His unicorn is in my space - he can go move it right now, then chitter chat with you. And he doesn't have it taxed.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I've a mate who's always acting really bizarrely. He's always trolling online with the latest of his many personas pretending to be living this high-flying lifestyle when really he's just posting from this squalid bed****, eating cups of beans and smoking Bensons. Poor guy's only in his 30s and he's already a lost cause.

Tail Docker

Casey Nice Onion wrote: »

I've a mate who's always acting really bizarrely. He's always trolling online with the latest of his many personas pretending to be living this high-flying lifestyle when really he's just posting from this squalid bed****, eating cups of beans and smoking Bensons. Poor guy's only in his 30s and he's already a lost cause.

Serge? Poor fecker. Wish him well. I believe life has been tough lately.

major bill

Work or live in Rathmines and you could fill this thread alone with Stories...

strange place

chupacabra

I regularily drink with a convicted rapist and a "reformed" murderer at the local **** hole that passes for a pub in my "town" here in estonia. Currently writing a book about it.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Tail Docker wrote: »

Serge? Poor fecker. Wish him well. I believe life has been tough lately.

Different guy, mate. Not really interested in your Thunderdome nonsense.

Tail Docker

Casey Nice Onion wrote: »

Different guy, mate. Not really interested in your Thunderdome nonsense.

No? Could have fooled me. Bizarre.

Bafucin

major bill wrote: »

Work or live in Rathmines and you could fill this thread alone with Stories...

strange place

http://www.librarything.com/series/Rathmines+Tales

Adamantium

chupacabra wrote: »

I regularily drink with a convicted rapist and a "reformed" murderer at the local **** hole that passes for a pub in my "town" here in estonia. Currently writing a book about it.

Do you end up dead in it?

Macavity.

Chocolate Lions wrote: »

What you're talking about really is people that are mentally not well, and I don't hang out with troubled or emotionally distraught people for kicks.

I have amended the thread title to reflect recent developments, however, you would really want to be careful about labeling people who are a bit odd as mentally ill. I know you mean well, but if anything it undermines genuine cases.

wazky

Tail Docker wrote: »

erm.. if you're the benchmark, that lad in Tescos, rolling in the freezer cabinet eating his own poo is doing grand.

Takes all sorts to make a world.

*kum by i my Lord, kum by I*

Chocolate Lions

Macavity. wrote: »

I have amended the thread title to reflect recent developments, however, you would really want to be careful about labeling people who are a bit odd as mentally ill. I know you mean well, but if anything it undermines genuine cases.

I said mentally not well and didn't refer to any illness. You can be unwell without one, many are. And I raised the issue as such in a thread that was made to tell stories and poke fun at people who are "different".

I'm not undermining anything except this dodgy thread you made.

The Diabolical Monocle

aye cup a been leek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDEUnlg7TQ

Davarus Walrus

wazky wrote: »

Takes all sorts to make a world.

*kum by i my Lord, kum by I*

Is this some sort of painfully unfunny 'in joke'?

wazky

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Is this some sort of painfully unfunny 'in joke'

Awww, who's a little cranky pants?, do you need some emotional affection that you lacked from your mother?

--LOS--

Is it that bizarre though? "well in his 30s" I find that part kinda funny, that you think someone in their 30s is a world apart from you. Why do you expect someone to be a different person than they were say in their 20s? Maybe he doesn't give a damn and just likes hanging out with you guys. You don't just have to be friends with your own peer group you know I'd say one of your friends met him on a night out and probably invited him out, then forgot about it or something like someone else said. I lived with a bunch of girls before, they met this guy out randomly and must have mentioned we needed someone for the spare room and jokingly asked him to move in, but he took them seriously and actually did move in. Then he took to playing the same beatles cd on repeat all night every night -_-

Bafucin

Bizarre Situation
There's this man who hangs around with us, we have no idea where he came from. One day he was just there. He calls over to our apartment randomly and goes on nights out with us sometimes.

We're all in college and he's well in his thirties (and not a student). Sometimes he rings my friend pestering us to hang around with him. He has the mentality of a 15 year old, gets excited over things a young teen would. The really weird thing is he actually has a law degree and I think he works as a barrister or something. We find the whole situation hilarious of course.

Yeah a guy in his 60s who wears very skinny jeans and sits on the bench on the Main Street, beating spoons together, roaring obscenities at any young woman who passes him by. He always tells me how he'd "give me one" or ask me where I've been all his life. But the spoons are RELENTLESS

You guys live very sheltered lives.

I love bizarre people. They are my people.