To ask why people are so utterly bonkers?

[veryannoyedtbh]

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.

Fortunately, the Walt that I worked with is no longer working with young people.

We found out that he was giving boys advice about joining the armed forces...

Norma , that’s so funny !
Probably ex SAS gone to seed eh?

Oh dear 😂

A couple of my exes were in the forces, so I hope I'd be able to spot an SAS liar 😂

It has to be made up surely 😂

My friend is obsessed with Big Foot, the Yeti, Wolf Man etc etc. In fact she tells me there is a tribe of them living in the Scottish Highlands....
There are also aliens living near the Earth's Core. Sigh.

You should see how Americans make lasagne - I make my husband call it American pasta pie when he makes it because it bears no resemblance to the lasagne made by people in the UK.

It’s apparently down to different immigrants from parts of Italy importing the two versions into the UK and the US.

Agreed!! I don’t think it’s fake though.

but even if it was it was lighthearted and fun - a nice change from the craziness and nastiness

As long as the yeti’s and what not stay away from me I don’t mind them having their own community.
( As I live in Essex, I need to beware human kind most of the time tbf)

@the80sweregreat hey I'm in Essex

If we had actual yeti, I would be delighted! 😂

@MarxistMags that's fun stuff to be obsessed about though, isn't it? Must google Wolf man...

I’ve seen footage of yeti’s on tv and such like.
Bigfoot always looks like a person dressed up , but who knows? I’m sure not all of it is fake ..

Has the lasagne thread been taken down?! (And if so, why?) I can't find it and really want to read it on the back of these comments!

I agree that there have always been fantasists. Social media and its various echo chambers are driving some more gullible people quite bonkers and I think that mainstream media and GB news are making things worse. Worked outside London recently and I’m shocked by the stuff people believe about Sadiq Khan - critical thinking needs to be taught in schools……

FFS It is not made up!!

Lasagna with boiled potatoes is not that shocking or interesting or odd enough to be made up. What is so weird about it, it’s truly crazy 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s not 😩 why would it be

It wasn’t IN the lasagna, just with at the side like chips can be? Am I losing my mind that this is so outrageous, it’s bizarre

Oh, yuck. I hate it when people have big picnic meals on trains, but the smelly fish is something else!

I was once on an underground train and a woman next to me opened a tin of tuna and started eating it with her fingers. At that point I'd lived in the city long enough to brush it off and assume she was either nuts or deliberately doing a "bit" for a magazine or something.

The first post wasn't exactly crime of the century. But the goady follow-up posts by the OP rather gave the game away.

This ^

Not goady at all or intentionally 😩

Anyway, sorry to derail op 😬

It would be amassive turn off to me.

I’m actually crying 🤣🤣

I lived with a walter mitty - Ukranian sea captain - the youngest EVER apparently and every single thing about the dude was FAKE AS FUCK but he believed it. Narcissistic trait central and I believe possibly a psychopath.

That said I never once saw him eat boiled potatoes with lasagna....

I have the impression that most of the conspiracy nuts are also right-wingers. Maybe trying to create confusion or seeing how far they can get in collecting followers, and maybe paid by Russia? Just realised that this is my own conspiracy theory...

I forgot

They used to be a consultant/advisor person at one of my workplaces. He had retired from his main career, but he was always claiming to be the first man to do whatever amazing thing. This is all stuff that you can look up and he was not the first man to do any of it!

My boss said to me one day "I think we better stop using him - because the next thing he'll claim is that he was the first man" 😂😂😂

@EmeraldRoulette instantly would have renamed him Adam. I know the type though - if you have been to Teneriffe I have been to Eleveneriffe and it was better and hotter. They do it for some internal validation.