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.

Save us from the people who don't put cheese in the sauce! Cheese, strong and lots of it, please.

I think this is not a new thing we are just more aware of it due to the internet. I read a good book by Zadie Smith ( the Fraud) which was based on a true story about this guy who pretended to be a dead Lord to inherit his estate in Victorian times there was a big legal case about it.

People also claimed to be the princes in the tower and Princess Anastasia. We know that girl wasn’t Madeline MacCan because she had a DNA test. In the past people wouldn’t have had a DNA test.

As to why people do it. I have no idea. The psychology behind it is fascinating.

For a period of time i was friends and holiday companion with a group of conspiracy theorists. They were rabidly anti vax and believed that anyone who had Covid vac had been injected with a micro chip in their arm so the government could track them. Apparently if you you were vaccinated and put a mobile phone against your arm it could be held there in a magnetic field. Then they met other people from different countries who believed the same thing! They were also mad trump supporters and horrendously homophobic. I cut all contact.

If you think of how most people drive (like lunatics), spend money (they don't have on shit they don't need), vote (!?!?), put up flags on lamp posts, get into relationships with the most dreadful people, eat, smoke, drink and vape things that will almost certainly damage if not kill them, regularly take their dogs through fields full of cattle, have a picnic inches from the cliff at Beachey Head and get in the sea when the RNLI have told them not to........well most people are ruddy bananas aren't they?

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I don’t like that they were prosecuted. It’s like Madame Macron is a class above normal people and you can’t say silly/insulting things about her.

Who cares if people think she’s trans? Why on Earth should it be a crime? It’s not even bonkers, people said the same thing about Caprice and Lady Gaga, it’s a pretty common rumour.

In answer to your question, there have always been compulsive liars, they just have a bigger platform now. Whereas before they’d be the the local Billy Bullshitter, now the internet can see them.

I think there’s a difference though between the odd joke thread and serious lies and allegations.

I just want to distinguish the two incase potato lasagne person is reading and worried that they are as insane.

My mother likes to make up lies. I think I she’s had incurable cancer since she was 22 and it makes a reappearance every now and then.

I've been listening to a podcast series about the satanic panic and they talked about a women who published books about her experience as a 'satanic cult abuse victim' and appeared on chat shows and the like. When this was exposed as lies she reinvented herself with a false Holocaust survivor story. Money/attention/delusion/a combination of motives?

I think it's a bit of t'internet and a bit of nowt as queer as folk. Back in the dark ages you'd have Wulfric exaggerating about his exploits in battle to the village womenfolk and everyone would laugh at him and tell him to STFU. Now you get Bill who was in the army cadets saying he was in the SAS, and Betty making up conspiracy theories. The difference nowadays is that they share their tales online and get encouraged by other people so it blows up beyond the local peasants.

The potatoes were to go with the lasagna, the problem was she couldn’t make the lasagna because she didn’t have any lasagna sheets, but did have`other pasta, which is the really nuts thing, why not just use that and make random pasta bake instead of lasagna?

I wouldn’t eat boiled potatoes with lasagna myself but I live in Scotland, home of the macaroni pie, so I don’t think its a shocking thing to do!

To answer the thread, with the way the world is now people are stuck at home and lonely, maybe that’s why doing mad things for attention and / or ‘engagement’, especially if you can remain anonymous while doing so, is becoming very common?

Its not a new phenomenon. Source: BBC https://share.google/PrqyJj32LdWowhtBV
She did it for money and fame.
The Macron thing was vile (and there's loads of dickheads who say the same about Michelke Obama.(though dh didn't know about the huge age gap between the Macrons.

A couple of people I know have gone down the conspiracy theory route. They didn’t believe Covid was real so we couldn’t really talk about the fact that we’d had it.

More bizarrely, though, there was a conspiracy theory going around that Michelle Obama had 6 fingers. They bought into that one too.

What can you say… 🤨

Yabu the Internet has got nothing to do with it. There's always been bonkers people.

I work with someone who absolutely insists that everyone in New Zealand smokes.

Just because you’ve never eaten lasagne with boiled potatoes yourself and have never known anyone else to, doesn’t make the OP a troll ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️ Lots of people have weird family food traditions! In my family we always have apple sauce on our roast and none of us eat pork! Apple sauce in the Yorkshire puddings with mash, veg & onion gravy. Weird but it’s how we’ve always done since we were kids and we loved homemade apple sauce 🤷🏼‍♀️ I suppose that makes me a troll now….!

I’ve had chips with lasagna , but I don’t make it with potatoes. (I do need to find this thread though !)
I agree that some are bonkers, but others are just deceitful. The amount of people taken in by con men and women show how good some are at it as well as the lengths they go to too. I often wonder if they have a kink in their brains or if it was a bad childhood or just for the kicks. People and how they behave is just odd. The man with the medals was disrespectful to those who genuinely were veterans, but it’s also easy to feel a bit sorry for him too. He clearly needs some help.

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

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

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

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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

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

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...

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.

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.