To ask why people are so utterly bonkers?

Sadly, the man she claimed was her fiancé, was a real person who died, which made it even more despicable. She also told real victims that they hadn’t suffered as much as her. Disgusting person that she is.

I don’t know how to say this without sounding patronising but some people are either not blessed with huge intelligence, or they didn’t have stable, consistently loving parents who pointed out life’s realities and dangers to them, and/or they cannot or choose not to, distinguish between delusions in their own head and reality, or they have a weak spot that makes them vulnerable.

For example, there is a middle-aged lady in my village who is extremely competent and impressive in many ways (think self employed hairdresser, care-giver or dog groomer type job) who drives around visiting people in their homes and is successful and popular with her clients. So by definition, she is trained and competent in her trade, she can drive, do accounts, interact and be personable on a professional basis.

BUT she also fell for a scam whereby a young man from the Congo, twenty-four years her junior, apparently fell in love with her on-line and wanted to marry her. Unfortunately, she sent him enormous amounts of money over two years. We tried to kindly warn her to be careful, and that he may not be who says he is, but she wanted to believe it so much that she wouldn’t hear it.

And to an extent I think it is the same with all of these delusions. Some like the Macron one are obviously politically motivated, but many are just people latching on to a certain theory because it makes them feel safe or gives them an ego boost in a very complicated, rather brutal and unsettling world

@FOJN very interesting, thanks!

Lol 🤣

His name is Xavier Poussard the book was called Becoming Brigitte. When I first heard the claims I thought it was batshit but then the Macrons decided to sue Candace Owens and the Streisand effect kicked in so I watched the series CO did based on the book. The evidence is quite compelling but it's easy to make a compelling case if you only present information which supports your claim. What's more interesting for me is that none of the court cases have ever dealt with the substance of the claims, they always deal with something else, a small inaccuracy, hurt feelings etc and if course Xavier Poussard has never been sued.

I don't know what the truth is but the reaction to something most people would have assumed is crazy makes me wonder.

I think im a pretty logical person, I am high in common sense, im laid back, happy to go along with things and I think im a pretty well rounded person not much upsets me but I can't stand stupid people or people lacking in common sense. But i am also bonkers to the outside world because of my family size. To me its normal, I love it, I do it all well. But ask those around us that I must have a mental health illness for wanting to keep adding to my family. Though I wouldnt every hurt anyone else or make someone's business my business. I definitely wouldnt go around posting fake things for likes or airing out my dirty laundry online.

And all the men pretending to be women and poncing about on videos with scary makeup, cheap wigs, and lifting their leg behind them as if this is the most female thing ever.

Search for 'I've made lasagna without the lasagne.

Me too! I didn't get to the end but most of what was suggested was a no, that's weird 🤷🏻‍♀️

I do know people who really were in the SAS. Basically anyone who openly says they were in the SAS..........wasn't.

Milk in drinks from a flask tastes horrible, it's the reason that in th'olden days a lot of flasks had a little bottle in the screwed on base for carrying milk.

It's very odd. I suspect most (on here) do it for attention as they can't get it any other way.

And on the other side of the coin, remember how insane people were being on here during lockdown? My favourite was posters telling others to put cheese in their coffee because they’d be murdering people if they went and bought milk, but there was tons of even more batshit posts, too.

Now that’s a venn diagram I’d like to see!

Take a look at at the current thread about lockdown. There's an extraordinary number of people seriously claiming it was totally ineffective.

I worked once with someone who was convinced the Royal Family were conspiring against her and her family. She used to write to the Queen asking her to stop. When we asked her why on earth they would bother, she'd hint mysteriously that that was all part of the conspiracy.

I was around 19 at the time, so were most of my colleagues, and we used to giggle about it. However, we came to realise that it was all really rather sad, because this lady's life was taken up by this belief and she must have spent all her time feeling scared to a greater or lesser degree.

I’m disappointed that Candace Owens didn’t get shut down.
She’s the #1 Macron shit-disturber from what I understand.
She’s got a large following here in the US - but I can’t imagine who that would be, or why they follow such a hateful, divisive person. Oh - maybe they’re all hateful.
Australia refused her entry as did New Zealand - which we found very humorous in this household.

I read a thread here a few days ago from a Mum who was worried about her child vomiting black liquid and being itchy and they were snowed in on a mountain. It sounded like a dire situation so when I looked for an update earlier the thread seems to have disappeared. Don’t tell me thst was made up…

I vaguely recall a poster getting caught out in a show me your bedroom thread, using google images. Cringe.

The amount of scammers out there, romance and business, people who have a gift for talking their way around things have made millions.
Some don’t even get any financial rewards for their disgusting cat fishing and fake identities, they just cause pain.
Many faking their way into psychology or medical roles caring for the vulnerable.

If men can become women why not - beam me up as they say!

Not to mention the PP who wants to divorce the DH she still loves because he’s going to inherit some money. Possibly same bonkers person.

The worst are the "false flag" conspiracy theorists who won't accept that things like the Sandy Hook mass shooting actually happened, even in the teeth of absolutely conclusive evidence that that they did. Our own home-grown version was Richard Hall who wouldn't accept that the Manchester bombings happened, and made life hell for people who had been seriously injured claiming that they were making it all up -https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86q0ypq7q0o. I wonder whether he's ever paid out the damages ordered against him?