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| Topic Started: Apr 15 2016, 06:42 PM (848 Views) | |
| Niedfaru | Apr 15 2016, 06:42 PM Post #1 |
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Who is the oddest person you have met in real life. Like, actually met and had a conversation with. You can like them, loathe them, whatever, but they should be somehow out of the ordinary enough to count as "odd". I know, it's internet, and everyone's weird here, and all that, but I'm talking real life, where people tend to hide their oddity a bit better. I'll kick it off, prompted by the errant emergence of Nazis in the other thread: I knew a guy at uni who tried to convince everyone we knew that the Nazis were really good at heart, and just lost their way as the war progressed, and Hitler slowly went more and more insane, basically driving Germany off a cliff. He tried to convince me that they invented environmentalism, and that if they'd won the war, Europe would be a much greener, nicer place. We all thought he was a massive troll. A couple of years ago, he was in the county paper for leading an actual neo-Nazi protest. Like, an openly neo-Nazi protest, in Essex, UK. I mean, I know neo-Nazis exist: I see them on the set of Banshee, so they must be real. But I never thought I'd actually meet one, given that just mentioning them causes all kinds of kneejerk reactions. Edited by Niedfaru, Apr 15 2016, 06:45 PM.
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 06:55 PM Post #2 |
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This may not count, but at lunch my friend got nacho sauce on his shirt and spent the rest of lunch running around and chasing people yelling, "I GOT AN EXTRA NIPPLE!". My friends are odd. |
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| Mr Mysterio | Apr 15 2016, 06:59 PM Post #3 |
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Most of the weird people I meet are actually just people I've eavesdropped on, because a lot of the time I'm not comfortable going up and talking to them. I overheard a guy (also in a wheelchair) who was convinced that everyone in the entire world was dead (including him), the world already ended, and this, Earth, is actually just what Hell really is. For someone with such interesting beliefs, he was super chill about all this, though. He lived his life, y'know, visited his family, all that jazz, but this world is literal Hell, and that's just the way it is. He'd accepted that long ago, I think. |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 07:00 PM Post #4 |
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That's weird. I saw the leader of the Couclux Clan at a sandwich shop. |
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| Ebervalius | Apr 15 2016, 07:00 PM Post #5 |
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There's this guy I've recently met that's really strange for his scary level of pragmatism. He claims he doesn't listen to music and the only books he reads are school and university textbooks. He also seems to have little social skills and easily offends people by accident. Today, for example, he said that I should look for a psychiatrist to explain my fondness of Amerindian cultures. I mean... seriously? |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 07:03 PM Post #6 |
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I met this woman who said I was a shadow beast and then when I was walking off, I turnt around to see she was gone in 2 seconds. Not walking off, just gone. |
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| Niedfaru | Apr 15 2016, 07:03 PM Post #7 |
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One could ask some important existential questions about his beliefs. The most important being: "If this is Hell, and it isn't any different that it would be if it weren't Hell, then does it matter if it's Hell or not?" Then again, I suspect he didn't really believe that we are all dead and live in Hell. I suspect it was just attention seeking. I'm not sure that what you describe is pragmatism. He sounds like he might be a) a troll b) autistic, or at least somebody with Aspergers, or c) both. Edited by Niedfaru, Apr 15 2016, 07:08 PM.
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| Holben | Apr 15 2016, 07:07 PM Post #8 |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 07:08 PM Post #9 |
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Lol. |
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| Niedfaru | Apr 15 2016, 07:11 PM Post #10 |
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How do you know it was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan? Did they tell you that? And which KKK do you mean? |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 07:13 PM Post #11 |
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I was with my grandparents and two of my friends. Both my grandparents know who he is. |
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| Niedfaru | Apr 15 2016, 07:18 PM Post #12 |
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Then again, perhaps I'm being unfair. Perhaps the first guy genuinely did believe all that, either because he was suffering from delusion, or we all are. And perhaps the second guy was just a bit odd. @Paleo_Specs: So, you didn't speak to the guy then? |
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| Paleo_Specs | Apr 15 2016, 07:19 PM Post #13 |
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No. OH, crap. Edited by Paleo_Specs, Apr 15 2016, 07:19 PM.
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| Mr Mysterio | Apr 15 2016, 07:30 PM Post #14 |
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The guy was in his sixties, kinda quiet. He only brought up his belief that we're all in Hell because another kinda old dude started talking to him, and they got around to the topic of religion. The other, not-so-interesting old guy was your average Christian. Wheelchair old dude casually said that he believed in God and Heaven, but that he figured that there wasn't much point in praying or worrying about going to Heaven or Hell, because we were already dead and in Hell. The other old dude seemed pretty interested in that, but wheelchair old dude acted like he didn't really wanna talk about it anymore, so they didn't. I get the sense that he meant Hell in more of a Purgatory kind of way, rather than the "lakes of fire and being prodded by horrifying human-animal hybrid Bosch demons" kind of way. |
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| Dapper Man | Apr 15 2016, 07:36 PM Post #15 |
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* I am fed up with dis wuurld *
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My friends are often a bit dirty minded... luckily my closest friends aren't. Seriously, half of the people in my class are dirty minded... |
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