To ask why people are so utterly bonkers?

are you rolling your eyes at them or me :-)

hes a good person for it

My dad has potatoes with lasagne. He has potatoes with everything 😂

Yes, you add cheese to the béchemal to make cheese sause.

You must have read a different thread. The OP has no idea how you would warm up potatoes (even though she has cooked them hours in advance of the meal), doesn't understand what "leafy greens" are and thinks that pasta and potato is weird when she was actually planning to make a pasta and potato dish herself. It's definitely a goady thread, but it is very funny at the same time.

@Bigearringsbigsmile You've beaten me to it with the flannel derailment comment. Good work!

But it isn’t Béchamel sauce if you put cheese in, putting cheese in it makes it cheese sauce Though to be honest, I can’t think why you would use Béchamel sauce on its own, except as a base for another flavouring, as otherwise it’s extremely bland, to my mind.

🥔 Bolognese, not today.

It isn't all about being "bonkers" though. A lot of people make up things to scam money. And I'm surprised no-one is mentioning the fact that a lot of people are currently demanding that everyone else accepts them as being the opposite of their actual sex, or as being neither male nor female, and our governments in England, Scotland and Wales are strongly supportive of those people and their claims.

A friend of mine, on a long waiting list for hospital treatment, has been told (by Reform?) that a third of all NHS appointments are reserved for illegal immigrants. She is very depressed as a result but will not accept that this is complete BS.

That reminded me of the Ellie Williams, that woman who beat herself up and then lied about being trafficked and raped by an Asian grooming gang. Very interesting BBC documentary on her:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vfd7

I mean. why, WTF?

Aaaaargh!

*new

Too late to edit.

I don’t think it’s new. I’ve been a Samaritans listening volunteer in the past and plenty of people are clearly just making up stuff when they call. It’s like they need the sympathy or attention so it seems reasonable to them to create a pretext for the call?

😂

I'd say the Internet has just highlighted the bonkers people!

If you believe in one batshit conspiracy theory it's understandable of de rigeur to believe them all.

When I was growing up there was a bonkers old lady in the town who wrote mad letters in green ink and sellotaped them to her front door, in an attempt to communicate them to the rest of the world. If she were alive today she'd have ths internet to connect her to like-minded souls and spread her batty conspiracies.

There will always be a proportion of the population who are hardwired to believe Covid was a hoax or the work of all the world leaders acting in cahoots to introduce a new world order or an evil spell cast by the devil or some such.

Mostly, it's people who lack the mental wherewithal to process the random and brutal nature of life and who take comfort in denialism or attributing random catastrophes to the agency of bad actors.

There will always have been fantasists parading about in medals they didn't earn.

The Macron/Michelle Obama are really men stuff is a way to punish/take down women who have taken an uppity stance in life -Macron for having a much younger husband and Obama for being a black woman First Lady.

I think the world seems more bonkers because all the bonkers people are in contact with each other and their voices are louder than they would have been when isolated in the past.

Was on a train the other day. Not many people on it. A woman got on with a big suitcase, found an empty table for 4 and put her suitcase on one of the seats. Not really the done thing, but as I said, the train was pretty empty. She then opened the suitcase and got out a tupperware box containing some smelly fish and various bits of fruit. She cut up the fish and the fruit on the table (juice everywhere) and then put the small pieces of fish and fruit into smaller tupperware pots. Then she got her laptop out, looked vaguely normal for a while as if doing some work EXCEPT she was nibbling on bits of fruit/fish from her various pots. Then she got out a big plastic wallet full of loads of crumpled bits of paper, and a flask which I assume contained tea or coffee, AND a plastic bottle of milk AND a nice mug, and proceeded to prepare her beverage. I can kind of understand not wanting to buy a cup of tea in a disposable cup, but why not add the milk to the flask beforehand and drink out of the flask lid like you're meant to? She was clearly enjoying her picnic - of which I would say she was definitely a few sandwiches short.
I've had quite a few weird train encounters in my life. There are so many bonkers but (hopefully) harmless people out there.

Yes the replies made it obvious it was a wind up. Especially saying that it was "weird" to have the boiled potatoes with a pasta bake but not a lasagne when it amounts to exactly the same thing. If it is not a wind up then the OP must be some special kind of stupid.

There's a vocal (but thankfully small) lobby on the internet trying to tell us that Taylor Swift, who even most of her strongest critics can agree is a very beautiful woman, is actually a man. People are just mad.

The "Walt" phenomenon isn't knew - it's just that we're more aware because of the internet.

I had one at my work some years ago - a young teacher who claimed to have been a lieutenant in a certain cavalry regiment.

Unfortunately for him, my husband had been an actual tank gunner in that precise regiment...

This. But the internet gave them a world wide platform instead of just being the village oddball.

and now it is taking over other threads

the whole of the internet will be talking about lasagne and potatoes soon

civil war by the end of the week

🙄

Yes I have and I didn’t get that impression at all. She’s just asking for recipe ideas. If you think someone is a troll then report to MNHQ don’t troll hunt and ruin threads for everyone else

YANBU, OP, and also this! Humanity's bonkersness is what makes it so interesting!

Have you read all the OPs replies? Totally trying to get a rise out of people 😂