Play Nice Random Chat Thread VI

[Ligma]

One of the team leaders said to me today “omg you look Greek” bitch if anyone has seen me I look the furthest thing away from being greek lol

 

[travelli]

No no all good not your fault, ur entitled to ask questions.

I remember years ago, before mobile phones, that I had an old girl friend that was calling me from the train station on a pay phone. She called me and it would cut out. This happened multiple times, until I thought it was a joke. As it turned out, there was a stalker that was intimidating her and slamming down the phone every time she tried to call me. The dude was just a stranger on the train, fk knows what would have happened if another person hadn't stepped in.

Anyway...I hope you are ok. Crazy bastards are out there. I hope you can see that most are just crazy, not bad.

 

[Ligma]

I remember years ago, before mobile phones, that I had an old girl friend that was calling me from the train station on a pay phone. She called me and it would cut out. This happened multiple times, until I thought it was a joke. As it turned out, there was a stalker that was intimidating her and slamming down the phone every time she tried to call me. The dude was just a stranger on the train, fk knows what would have happened if another person hadn't stepped in.

Anyway...I hope you are ok. Crazy bastards are out there. I hope you can see that most are just crazy, not bad.

That’s so scary omg I hope she is okay.

im ok more mad I couldn’t get my hair cut. At risk of looking naïve, I honestly don’t think he was on drugs. But what freaked me out in a spiritual way was that he told me “from heaven I’m giving you this, spend it on your hair” HOW DID HE KNOW I WAS GETTING MY HAIR DONE. Was it my grandma or nan trying to communicate with me, that’s what made me be like woah. He was just an old wog in which you can never say no when they give you money but in this instance I said no ahahaha maybe if he was a hot sugar daddy

 

[ferball]

That’s so scary omg I hope she is okay.

im ok more mad I couldn’t get my hair cut. At risk of looking naïve, I honestly don’t think he was on drugs. But what freaked me out in a spiritual way was that he told me “from heaven I’m giving you this, spend it on your hair” HOW DID HE KNOW I WAS GETTING MY HAIR DONE. Was it my grandma or nan trying to communicate with me, that’s what made me be like woah. He was just an old wog in which you can never say no when they give you money but in this instance I said no ahahaha maybe if he was a hot sugar daddy

I've noticed over the years seriously mentally ill people are often psychic or at least precognitive. Startlingly so.

For a start that isn't sposed to be possible so it ****s with their head. Secondly cos they are already struggling with reality they don't interpret their ordinary perceptions or their weird, trippy ones properly and that just makes things worse. Finally if they start banging on about stuff that might happen its usually incoherent and disorganised. So they might get current and future events confused and cos the future events haven't happened yet the rest of us think they are just nuts and completely out of touch with reality instead of looking at it from a different angle. This creates isolation and any helpful feedback people might otherwise give them isn't gonna happen cos no one has the time or mental strength to deal with crazy people.

Its kind of weird when they single you out, especially if you don't know them.

 

[Val Keating]

I've noticed over the years seriously mentally ill people are often psychic or at least precognitive. Startlingly so.

For a start that isn't sposed to be possible so it fu**s with their head. Secondly cos they are already struggling with reality they don't interpret their ordinary perceptions or their weird, trippy ones properly and that just makes things worse. Finally if they start banging on about stuff that might happen its usually incoherent and disorganised. So they might get current and future events confused and cos the future events haven't happened yet the rest of us think they are just nuts and completely out of touch with reality instead of looking at it from a different angle. This creates isolation and any helpful feedback people might otherwise give them isn't gonna happen cos no one has the time or mental strength to deal with crazy people.

Its kind of weird when they single you out, especially if you don't know them.

You just had a few mushrooms pal?

 

[koshari]

My mate is a real estate agent and he's basically selling them in less than a few days after listing them.

It's ridiculous.

His shout?

 

[Themanbun]

I think I spoke earlier here about the culture problems developing at my work. Like, really bad ones. People advised me here that nothing I say is gonna change and to walk away amicably, without burning bridges. Anyway, I took that advice and I got a new job which I start next month. My current work did NOT take it well. Being able to distance myself emotionally thanks to the advice here was great - I was able to see the toxicity and the parallels with a romantic breakup with a controlling person were extremely visible.

Thanks, BF gang. I've got my confidence and mojo back.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

His shout?

Bloody oat, especially when he's selling houses that 12 months were going for $400,000 for $675-700

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I think I spoke earlier here about the culture problems developing at my work. Like, really bad ones. People advised me here that nothing I say is gonna change and to walk away amicably, without burning bridges. Anyway, I took that advice and I got a new job which I start next month. My current work did NOT take it well. Being able to distance myself emotionally thanks to the advice here was great - I was able to see the toxicity and the parallels with a romantic breakup with a controlling person were extremely visible.

Thanks, BF gang. I've got my confidence and mojo back.

Good stuff. Toxic workplaces are the worst.

 

[Themanbun]

Good stuff. Toxic workplaces are the worst.

Absolutely. Never realised how much it had affected my confidence until my amazing wife pointed it out, and now I'm leaving and have emotionally distance myself I can see how it affected me. Just admitting it and voicing it to a few close colleagues, they found they were feeling similar. Recognising that it's not a personal fault of ours but a legitimate shift in culture dynamics also helped.

 

[koshari]

I think I spoke earlier here about the culture problems developing at my work. Like, really bad ones. People advised me here that nothing I say is gonna change and to walk away amicably, without burning bridges. Anyway, I took that advice and I got a new job which I start next month. My current work did NOT take it well. Being able to distance myself emotionally thanks to the advice here was great - I was able to see the toxicity and the parallels with a romantic breakup with a controlling person were extremely visible.

Thanks, BF gang. I've got my confidence and mojo back.

Not unusual. Wife just gave notice and the mood has suddenly changed from being overlooked for payrises to you can't leave what are we gonna do without you ..

 

[ferball]

You just had a few mushrooms pal?

If you do them properly they never stop.

I've had a bit to do with crazy people over the years. Its a serious observation that had been growing in the back of my mind before one particular series of events.

In 1999 a friend of mine came to our place to get clean from serious heroin habit. She planned to get clean from the start of the year. The year before she'd done honours in a uni degree that was concerned with future directions, the internet etc etc. It was the start of 1999 so lots of what we take for granted (gene technology, online connectivity, drones etc) was the subject of her degree. She was taking heroin. Specifically self medicating and using it as an anti psychotic but we didn't know she was psycho. I don't think she did really either. At the time i'd helped a few people get clean but most of them were really just dabbling or had easier things to deal with (like PTSD.) She'd spent alot of time speculating on the future and what it would bring and we used to sit up for hours talking shit about stuff that might happen. That was a big part of our relationship and had been for years.

Over the next ten days she got more and more ****ed up and we ended up getting her parents up to put her in hospital. The local mental health joint in Lismore knew about her by this stage and they were looking for her to have her admitted but I wasn't gonna do that myself. I'd given her my word I'd look after to get clean and even tho i was way out of my depth the only people I felt comfortable leaving her with was her parents. They lasted a day before they had her admitted. Years later she'd tell me regularly that the best anti psychotic medicine she ever had was heroin. It was the only one that made her feel normal and functional. I think that is the case for alot of junkies actually.

During that time she had plenty of events where she'd predict the immediate future and get freaked out by it, and trying to make sense of the world crumbling around her definitely sent her paranoid and crazy.

Ironically the thing that convinced us she was completely loopy turned out to be true.

She had a twin sister who I was also very close to who was living in NYC at the time. She would panic about her sister all the time because as far as she knew 9/11 was happening. Every morning she'd wake up from what little sleep she had freaking out about 9/11 and her sister dying or being in danger from planes flying into buildings and the city collapsing.

Crazy stuff right? Nothing was happening in NYC that was anything like that.

A bit over two and a half years later her sister was back in Australia when the attack on the twin towers happened but it was exactly what she was talking about while she had her psychotic episode.

This is just one example from her and she is one of a couple of people I know who've done similar things as they went mental.

But its the most striking example and its something that is undeniable. It couldn't be just some weird coincidence.

She predicted what Nassim Taleb called a black swan event. (I think he's wrong about that but that's another story.) But there was no way she could make sense of that event or place it into a logical or coherent framework and integrate it into her worldview. She died earlier this year, her body ****ed after a lifetime of legal and illegal drugs. She was a bit of a ****ed up genius too but never recovered from that psychotic episode. Spent most of the rest of her life on a disability pension breeding pedigree cats.

RIP Sophie.

I know this sort of thing isn't part of what is sposed to be normal consensus reality but it happened. It probably continues to happen with crazy people all the time and they are medicated to dull their perceptions but if we could find a way to help them harness those perceptions all of us would probably benefit.

 

[Ligma]

If you do them properly they never stop.

I've had a bit to do with crazy people over the years. Its a serious observation that had been growing in the back of my mind before one particular series of events.

In 1999 a friend of mine came to our place to get clean from serious heroin habit. She planned to get clean from the start of the year. The year before she'd done honours in a uni degree that was concerned with future directions, the internet etc etc. It was the start of 1999 so lots of what we take for granted (gene technology, online connectivity, drones etc) was the subject of her degree. She was taking heroin. Specifically self medicating and using it as an anti psychotic but we didn't know she was psycho. I don't think she did really either. At the time i'd helped a few people get clean but most of them were really just dabbling or had easier things to deal with (like PTSD.) She'd spent alot of time speculating on the future and what it would bring and we used to sit up for hours talking sh*t about stuff that might happen. That was a big part of our relationship and had been for years.

Over the next ten days she got more and more f’ed up and we ended up getting her parents up to put her in hospital. The local mental health joint in Lismore knew about her by this stage and were looking for her to have her admitted but I wasn't gonna do that myself. I'd given her my word I'd look after to get clean and even tho i was way out of my depth the only people I felt comfortable leaving her with was her parents. They lasted a day before they had her admitted. Years later she'd tell me regularly that the best anti psychotic medicione she ever had was heroin. It was the only one that made her feel normal and functional. I think that is the case for alot of junkies actually.

During that time she had plenty of events where she'd predict the immediate future and get freaked out by it, and trying to make sense of the world crumbling around her definitely sent her paranoid and crazy.

Ironically the thing that convinced us she was completely loopy turned out to be true.

She had a twin sister who I was also very close to who was living in NYC at the time. She would panic about her sister all the time because as far as she knew 9/11 was happening. Every morning she'd wake up from what little sleep she had freaking out about 9/11 and her sister dying or being in danger from planes flying into buildings and the city collapsing.

Crazy stuff right? Nothing was happening in NYC that was anything like that.

A bit over two and a half years later her sister was back in Australia when the attack on the twin towers happened but it was excatly what she was talking about while she had her psychotic episode.

This is just one example from her and she is one of a couple of people I know who've done similar things as they went mental.

But its the most striking example and its something that is undeniable. It couldn't be just some weird coincidence.

She predicted what Nassim Taleb called a black swan event. (I think he's wrong about that but that's another story.) But there was no way she could make sense of that event or place it into a logical or coherent framework and integrate it into her worldview. She died earlier this year, her body f’ed after a lifetime of legal and illegal drugs. She was a bit of a f’ed up genius too but never recovered from that psychotic episode. Spent most of the rest of her life on a disability pension breeding pedigree cats.

RIP Sophie.

I know this sort of thing isn't part of what is sposed to be normal consensus reality but it happened. It probably continues to happen with crazy people all the time and they are medicated to dull their perceptions but if we could find a way to help them harness those perceptions all of us would probably benefit.

RIP

No one truely understands the battle of addiction until they have someone in their family/friend. My a few of my mums cousins battled with it, one unalived himself, another has put on significant weight which is really good she seems to be doing a lot better and we don’t know what my uncle is doing rn probs roaming the streets of north Melbourne.

 

[Themanbun]

Not unusual. Wife just gave notice and the mood has suddenly changed from being overlooked for payrises to you can't leave what are we gonna do without you ..

Exactly the same here as well.

 

[ferball]

RIP

No one truely understands the battle of addiction until they have someone in their family/friend. My a few of my mums cousins battled with it, one unalived himself, another has put on significant weight which is really good she seems to be doing a lot better and we don’t know what my uncle is doing rn probs roaming the streets of north Melbourne.

Its a ****ed thing. Most serious drug addicts are medicating something.

Why is meth a problem? How many undiagnosed adhd cases are there floating around? We treat that with stimulants.

Between 70 and 75% of heroin addicts are victims of childhood sexual abuse. Another 15 - 20% have some other form of PTSD. Who knows what the rest of them deal with. There are probably a few people here who've had a bit of fun with party drugs in their youth. How many of them would have seen heroin being used as a party drug on its own? Not many i'll bet. That's because its pretty shit. Its a painkiller that numbs people.

Who wants that at a doof?

I haven't even mentioned people self medicating psychosis or some other serious mental illness, and I'm sure there is some overlap in those categories.

Alcohol is very similar. I'm sure we all know people who binge drink by writing themselves off at every opportunity. (There might even be posters here who do that, spare them a thought.) Its very different to having a few beers before the footy.

Anyway its a long way from crazy people are psychic but there you go.

If there is something to that theory idea (and I obviously reckon there is) then its no wonder they want something to shut out the noise.

 

[Ligma]

Its a f’ed thing. Most serious drug addicts are medicating something.

Why is meth a problem? How many undiagnosed adhd cases are there floating around? We treat that with stimulants.

Between 70 and 75% of heroin addicts are victims of childhood sexual abuse. Another 15 - 20% have some other form of PTSD. Who knows what the rest of them deal with. There are probably a few people here who've had a bit of fun with party drugs in their youth. How many of them would have seen heroin being used as a party drug on its own? Not many i'll bet. That's because its pretty sh*t. Its a painkiller that numbs people.

Who wants that at a doof?

I haven't even mentioned people self medicating psychosis or some other serious mental illness, and I'm sure there is some overlap in those categories.

Alcohol is very similar. I'm sure we all know people who binge drink by writing themselves off at every opportunity. (There might even be posters here who do that, spare them a thought.) Its very different to having a few beers before the footy.

Anyway its a long way from crazy people are psychic but there you go.

If there is something to that theory idea (and I obviously reckon there is) then its no wonder they want something to shut out the noise.

I totally agree with everything your saying Ferb. It sucks to see people having to rely on something dangerous to make them feel better

Adhd meds are fking crazy.

like even caffeine addiction has become so normalised, I don’t want to compare my experience because it’s like it’s not even an 1000th of the pain that some people feel. I had a mad caffeine addiction like I couldn’t go a day without having a drink, when we ran out i would crack the shits like 0-100, the worst headaches ever like hot sweats and shit. I put 2 and 2 together why I was so dependent on caffeine. I really hope we can do more to get the help people struggling with addiction

Also can I say how easy it is to get prescription pain meds well at least at my doctors

 

[Del191229]

Origins of russiagate, John Durham has another scalp. On November 3, 2021, Igor Danchenko – Christopher Steele’s primary subsource – was arrested by federal authorities.

The Igor Danchenko Indictment

It was all a fraud.

technofog.substack.com

A brilliantly successful M16 op that one.

 

[Del191229]

I've noticed over the years seriously mentally ill people are often psychic or at least precognitive. Startlingly so.

For a start that isn't sposed to be possible so it fu**s with their head. Secondly cos they are already struggling with reality they don't interpret their ordinary perceptions or their weird, trippy ones properly and that just makes things worse. Finally if they start banging on about stuff that might happen its usually incoherent and disorganised. So they might get current and future events confused and cos the future events haven't happened yet the rest of us think they are just nuts and completely out of touch with reality instead of looking at it from a different angle. This creates isolation and any helpful feedback people might otherwise give them isn't gonna happen cos no one has the time or mental strength to deal with crazy people.

Its kind of weird when they single you out, especially if you don't know them.

In previous times (and still in some parts of the world) this kinds of folks had a formal role in society as priests/sorcerers/prophets/holy wanderers etc.

 

[Val Keating]

Dave Portnoy in a bit of trouble

'I was literally screaming in pain': Young women say they met Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for sex and it turned violent and humiliating

Women as young as 19 say they were too scared to speak up after having rough sex with Dave Portnoy, fearing retaliation from Barstool Sports' fans.

www.businessinsider.com

Dave’s currently on a rampage on Twitter for anyone that can be bothered checking out what he’s got to say about it

I might’ve went a bit early on this. Portnoy has all the receipts of his and the girls conversations with him and is posting them on Twitter. They’re probably to salacious to post on here but there’s way more to it. The girl lied about her age and wanted to keep hooking up post the incident.

 

[DesertRoo]

A brilliantly successful M16 op that one.

Weaponising the doj, fbi and Intel to go after a sitting Pres has to be up there with biggest faux pas of the decade. The fact it continued on for four years, now the media, just want the community to forget.. I can’t see that trust coming back anytime soon, I hope it was worth it for nbc, cnn and msnbc..

Although the biggest victim in all this is middle American ma and pa who brought little Jonny a pocket constitution for his 16th birthday. As trump said the America dream is dead..

 

[Intothewind]

Yep agree. Any 16 year old that gets a pocket construction for their birthday is gonna be pissed.

 

[Intothewind]

Constitution...predictive texting or whatever it is. Could have been worse and put pocket constipation.

 

[AnEmptyChair]

Absolutely 100% this. Anyone who likes mint and chocolate: You should all be put on some sort of watchlist.

 

[Val Keating]

Just listening to bbc world news, the trial is starting of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery the the memories of how bad this was are coming back.

He was just a young man going for a jog because he was an athlete and two people just assumed he was a robber fleeing the scene because he was black. They then hunted him down and killed him. The police arrived at the scene while Ahmaud was still alive, rolling around on the ground in pain from being shot. Instead of first assisting Arbery and then arresting the two suspects, the police ignore Arbery and console the people who shot him. The female officer has a conversation with says to the man who shot him, the man says “if he had of stopped this wouldn’t have happened”
“I know this must be hard” says the officer as Arbery is literally still alive but in agony and dying.

I haven’t heard it so can’t confirm but apparently the killer even made some sort of racist comment.

Lock the prick up and throw away the key. What a scumbag.

 

[Hojuman]

3 Beechworth Pale Ales down and 1/2 a bottle of Soju, god, l love a good thunderstorm