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People who are not the full shilling??

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    #32
    con___manx1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    an old guy in my town shouts and waves at cars going over the bridge. just rambling about god knows what. i see him doing it at least once a month in the same spot lol


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    #33
    Clandestine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Clandestine


    Schizotypal disorder you mean?


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    #34
    Hownowcow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Hownowcow


    con___manx1 wrote: »
    an old guy in my town shouts and waves at cars going over the bridge. just rambling about god knows what. i see him doing it at least once a month in the same spot lol

    There was a woman, who always carried a big blue bag over her shoulder, used to do the same thing in the Church Street area of Dublin a number of years ago. However I don't think this is the sort of person the OP had in mind. An unfortunate more to be pitied.


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    #35
    Ann22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,006 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I think I know what the op means. I worked in a place once where there were 3 women who weren't all there. Perfectly intelligent and articulate but compulsive liars. Strange, strange individuals. No close mates but were everybody's best friend. Made up stuff for attention, sad really, even fabricated stuff about close family members with serious illnessess:(.


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    #36
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    There are very few sane people on this planet imo. If people do not fit in with the norm or the majority they are seen as different or weird or even downright mad. Maybe if you are part of the norm/majority you should have a little think about it, are we the mad ones?

    That said there are people who are just crazy and liable to do anything and thats a different kettle of fish.


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    #37
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,450 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Weird people are generally more interesting. But I think the OP means hen they become scary or obsessive and don't recognise certain social queues.

    They may not even be bad. there's a girl I work with. Scary eyes and every conversation with her becomes really intense. even if it's just about the weather. She's actually a quite nice person, but jaysus she's a bit freaky.

    Then there are others like that who aren't nice. They're really scary.


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    #38
    Colours
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Colours


    The Barefoot Pizza Thief wrote: »
    I subscribe to Seal's sentiments in that song Crazy...even if he himself now has changed his mind...

    Barefoot Pizza Thief, I think you mean even if he's lost his mind.

    All these euphemisms for being a bit touched has reminded me of the Queen song "I'm going Slightly Mad" which has begun to play in my mind (or what's left of it).

    "...It's finally happened - I'm slightly mad... tra laa la la"

    It's a good song actually.


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    #39
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    rox5 wrote: »
    As in: a girl I knew who texted a guy she knew only for three days when she decided she wanted to move to his hometown and have his baby and she told him this. He stopped texting after that, so yeah that sort of "off".


    Have you her number?


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    #40
    MickFleetwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    I once knew a literal psychopath. Not somebody who was a bit mad or even full on fúcking insane; a genuine sociopath. Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the works.


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    #41
    Thwip!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭Thwip!


    There's the people who shout and answer back the self service checkout


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    #42
    Colours
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Colours


    MickFleetwood wrote: »
    I once knew a literal psychopath. Not somebody who was a bit mad or even full on fúcking insane; a genuine sociopath. Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the works.

    Was this person a CEO by any chance? With qualities like that a person can rise to the top in the multinational dysfunctional corporation arena!


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    #43
    Mariasofia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Mariasofia


    Right now you could be describing me or
    A few slices short of the full pan or
    A few cards short of a full deck or
    A pint of milk without the cream on top .... Haha
    Or basically (sp) full of Pinot grigio ;)


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    #44
    StillWaters
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,799 ✭✭✭StillWaters


    Not the full shilling = An old fashioned term for someone who is eccentric, in modern terms, perhaps someone who is on the autism spectrum.
    Psycho= An old fashioned term for someone who is mentally ill


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    #45
    rox5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭rox5


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I think I know what the op means. I worked in a place once where there were 3 women who weren't all there. Perfectly intelligent and articulate but compulsive liars. Strange, strange individuals. No close mates but were everybody's best friend. Made up stuff for attention, sad really, even fabricated stuff about close family members with serious illnessess:(.

    Yep this is what I meant here, the type who make up disturbing stuff to get attention.


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    #46
    jobeenfitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,486 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    galway has to have the biggest selection of strange individuals per capita anywhere


    Strange and wonderful!


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    #47
    Colours
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Colours


    StillWaters wrote: »
    Not the full shilling = An old fashioned term for someone who is eccentric, in modern terms, perhaps someone who is on the autism spectrum.
    Psycho= An old fashioned term for someone who is mentally ill

    A couple of centuries back "imbecile" was the term for someone with a mental illness and members of the public used to pay money to go into the psychiatric hospitals - or lunatic asylums as they were called then - to be entertained by the "freak show" that was these poor people's lives.

    Mental illness is one of the last of society's taboos which still remains intact because mindsets of a large part of society has not evolved sufficiently to see that - just as there is no strict division of black and white or straight and "bent" - there is no sane and no mad, but rather a sliding scale on a spectrum on which every one of us shifts about on throughout our lives.


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    #48
    MickFleetwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    Colours wrote: »
    Was this person a CEO by any chance? With qualities like that a person can rise to the top in the multinational dysfunctional corporation arena!

    No, she was not.


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    #49
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Everyone is a bit crazy to some extent. It's just that some people aren't as good at hiding it as the rest of us.

    I've encountered a fair number of people with sociopathic and narcissistic traits.


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