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Talking to oneself in public

  • 02-07-2019 03:59PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else do this.
    I'd imagine you could have really interesting insights if you talked to yourself more.
    And just making sense of the insanity around you.

    I'm wondering if I should start.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    As long as you don't answer yourself back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 Jimmy Conway


    Do it with a phone to your ear, no one will bat an eyelid


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    "No please don't make me hurt them again. They don't deserve to die"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    When you're talkin' to yourself
    And nobody's home
    You can fool yourself
    You came in this world alone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,584 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Anyone else do this.
    I'd imagine you could have really interesting insights if you talked to yourself more.
    And just making sense of the insanity around you.

    I'm wondering if I should start.
    Yes. It's a bad habit. I try not to though.

    I don't know if i have very interesting insights though.:o


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Depends what you are talking about really.


    If your shouting at yourself to punch yourself in the d*ck, that's cool.
    Lamenting on the one that got away, not so much.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I don't have to this as Napoleon is always with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Your Face wrote: »
    I don't have to this as Napoleon is always with me.

    That Napoleon fellah told me you were a bollix.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,365 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    To be honest i never the get the chance to. The voices in my head wont let me get a word in edgeways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,892 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    Did it all the time when out walking with the wife and kids!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I passed a fella yesterday on a road partially covered in trees and he had them big earphones on, frantically dancing to very loud Disco music, Bee Gees type stuff, looked like Saturday night fever type dancing, obviously didn't see me.

    decent dancer too

    22/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Pretty good way to get people to leave you the fcuk alone. Very few people will try to sign you up to something or sit beside you on the bus if you're muttering away to yourself.

    You want to avoid the nutter, you have to BE the nutter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,282 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    My father does this at home and in public and it's so annoying.
    If he's making a cup of tea.
    He'll go I'll fill the kettle.
    I'll turn on the tap.
    I'll put the kettle down.
    I'll turn on the kettle.
    I'll get the tea bags.
    I'll put them into the pot.
    Etc.
    Every task he does he talks himself through it out loud.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'd ignore the talkers


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Yes. It's one of many reasons why I seem more normal when I'm with my kid.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Only in vitally important scenarios like the supermarket. I'll be muttering 'Don't forget the milk, don't forget the milk'. Then I'll walk out without getting the milk have a few more words with myself and go back in. For the milk.

    The only insights gleaned from this are that I can forget things even as I'm out looking for them, and that a constant supply of milk is the most important constituent of any well-run household.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,995 ✭✭✭take everything



    You want to avoid the nutter, you have to BE the nutter.

    Words to live by


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    There's a lot could do with taking themselves to one side for a good talkin' to...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭dhaughton99


    Big difference between talking and shouting in public.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    When you're talkin' to yourself
    And nobody's home
    You can fool yourself
    You came in this world alone

    ......Alone


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Your Face wrote: »
    I don't have to this as Napoleon is always with me.

    What are his views on brexit?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    The voices from beyond say proceed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    Half of dublin doing this walking around and having full blown.conversations into.mid air. Most bizarre thing ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    I see Nigerians doing it all the time

    Or so I think; you hear them coming a mile off but on closer inspection they’re on the phone with an earpiece.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,476 ✭✭✭✭RMAOK


    My father does this at home and in public and it's so annoying.
    If he's making a cup of tea.
    He'll go I'll fill the kettle.
    I'll turn on the tap.
    I'll put the kettle down.
    I'll turn on the kettle.
    I'll get the tea bags.
    I'll put them into the pot.
    Etc.
    Every task he does he talks himself through it out loud.

    Maybe he's trying out for an audio description job on the TV? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Sometimes I do. More a case of thinking out loud. Or when I'm writing something and putting a bit of effort into it I more or less have to talk through what I'm writing as I am writing it, just to get a sense of how it sounds.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    What are his views on brexit?

    He says it's a realisation of his Continental System.


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