Talking to oneself in public

take everything · 02-07-2019 3:59pm #1

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.

Ipso · 02-07-2019 4:00pm

As long as you don't answer yourself back.

Jimmy Conway · 02-07-2019 4:02pm

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

Force Carrier · 02-07-2019 4:04pm

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

Deebles McBeebles · 02-07-2019 4:04pm

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

ILoveYourVibes · 02-07-2019 4:05pm

take everything wrote: »

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

Boom_Bap · 02-07-2019 4:05pm

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.

Your Face · 02-07-2019 4:11pm

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

corner of hells · 02-07-2019 4:18pm

Your Face wrote: »

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

That Napoleon fellah told me you were a bollix.

ohnonotgmail · 02-07-2019 4:29pm

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

Spook_ie · 02-07-2019 4:32pm

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

uch · 02-07-2019 4:38pm

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

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 02-07-2019 4:45pm

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.

freshpopcorn · 02-07-2019 4:51pm

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.

branie2 · 02-07-2019 5:02pm

I'd ignore the talkers

s7ryf3925pivug · 02-07-2019 5:03pm

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

[Deleted User] · 02-07-2019 5:18pm

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.

take everything · 02-07-2019 5:23pm

Aitana Blue Trespasser wrote: »

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

Words to live by

Poor Uncle Tom · 02-07-2019 5:23pm

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

dhaughton99 · 02-07-2019 5:25pm

Big difference between talking and shouting in public.

FanadMan · 02-07-2019 5:29pm

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

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

......Alone

Bobblehats · 02-07-2019 5:54pm

Atoms for Peace · 02-07-2019 6:03pm

Your Face wrote: »

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

What are his views on brexit?

RobbingBandit · 02-07-2019 6:04pm

The voices from beyond say proceed

Bobblehats · 02-07-2019 6:12pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7VZrqzBYDQ

Outlaw Pete · 02-07-2019 6:13pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk8ZNOHTTOw

Wesser · 02-07-2019 6:15pm

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

Bobblehats · 02-07-2019 6:20pm

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.

RMAOK · 02-07-2019 6:24pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

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?

Arghus · 02-07-2019 6:26pm

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.

Your Face · 02-07-2019 8:24pm

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

What are his views on brexit?

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

Talking to oneself in public

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