To ask why people are so utterly bonkers?

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Reading about the man who faked being a naval officer to attend memorial events. The lengths he went to, getting a suit altered and buying medals of the internet. Was a professional teacher as well. Madness.

Then the ten people prosecuted for saying Brigitte Macron was born a man. Again, the efforts involved and they mostly appear professional people with full lives. Just mad.

Then you get the people on here pretending with fake stories or just trying to troll people. It’s just bizarre. It’s like validating you are indeed the saddest person ever.

I don’t get it. Is it the internet age? It’s like a boundary has been removed and people in freefall.

When I was a very naive 17 yo and first year University student, I met a 19 yo in a band who told me he was a recovered heroin addict and anorexic. He told me a shocking story about going on tour with the band at 15 and how his manager had threatened to stop the tour as he had eaten nothing and spent the last 4 days doing heroin. He invited me on a date which I agreed to, then cancelled on me with a few hours notice saying that he was in trouble with a protection racket associated with his band and didn't want to be seen with me in case I was targeted by them.

By this point I was starting to feel a bit suspicious. However, it was when I met the other bandmates that his cover was fully blown. When I told them what he'd told me they howled with laughter. The band started when he was 18, they'd never been on tour and he had arrived at University as a coddled home counties boy with no experience of drugs or any other criminality.

He became quite notorious amongst our year group, and then the one below, for his wild stories to get girls into bed and then excuse his poor behaviour afterwards. He told one girl he'd been abducted by the mafia. She poured a drink over him and slapped him and he spent the rest of the evening whining and saying that he now had a cut in his mouth and this could damage his singing voice which was his livelihood.

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Oh bless him. I knew someone similar, a privately educated young man who pretended to have been homeless and in recovery from addiction, when he had never actually left home, and his drug taking was a couple of paracetamol on occasion. These silly boys think it makes them sound glamorous. There is nothing glamorous about addiction or homelessness.

😆 just being truthful!

Love it 😁

Excellent. But yes. And the fact it is not at all clear the publishers care.

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While it was dumb to say Brigitte Macron is a man, it is even more bonkers to me that it was prosecuted as a crime. If it met the legal definition of libel, she should have been entitled to sue for damages, but that is in civil court, not criminal.

8 men and 2 women were prosecuted for cyberbullying. One woman had published a 4 hour video on Youtube. The allegations against Madame Macron included allegations of paedophilia.

Yes that did make me wonder, where do the potatoes go!

That's not entirely untrue though, is it? She was 39 when she met 15 year-old Macron. He was in the same class as her daughter and Brigitte was a teacher, in a position of responsibility and authority. I know what I'd be saying if it was a 39 year-old male teacher dating one of his 15 year-old students.

Yes, she may not be a man/lizard/whatever but she is a safeguarding nightmare and terrible human being.

My dm used to put halved boiled eggs around the side of the dish of cooked cauliflower then put cheese sauce over both 🤷🏻

He just makes you both believe he's attractive ....

I was looking at 17th century English witch trials the other day. It was striking that many of them confessed, despite never having claimed any special powers before then and being horrified when arrested. These women and girls weren't facing torture as far as I can tell, it seems to have been the trial itself that led to their confessions. Your explanation makes the most sense.

Flour in the Béchamel and the pasta means it's still not suitable.

And everybody knows that potatoes with a lasagne should be chips.