Conversations with crazy people... What do you do?

[bm_cricket]

Just something I seem wonder about when I spend enough time talking to people.

What happens when you suddenly realize that the person you thought you were having a rational, enlightening conversation suddenly turns out to be bat-shit-insane and you didn't even notice!?

Example.. You are discussing health or medicine and randomly someone mentions how much they liked Hulda Clark

Suddenly you realize that this person standing in front of you may in fact come from another planet. What do you do?
-> Run away? (12% chance of success, +1 dexterity)
-> Pretend they didn't say it. (12% chance of success, -1 charisma)
-> Confront the insane claims. (0% chance of success, +1 intelligence)

[Corwin]

I'd attack with my 1d10+2 halbedier and loot his corpse.

[bm_cricket]

I'd attack with my 1d10+2 halbedier and loot his corpse.

I'll have to try that some time. Nothing else seems to work. Everything just seems to be deflected off their Aura of Enlightenment (+10 to magic, +0 to disease resistance, -10 to intelligence).

[Token]

I just encourage them to continue ...

... So what other coping skills do you have?

[ygmir]

does it count if the person your talking to is brushing your teeth?

[Dr. Pyro]

If it were me I would try to get laid. Crazy women are, well, decorum won't let me say.

[gyre]

I'll say it.

[Corwin]

ya everyone likes to fuck the crazy girls, up until the morning you wake up tied to your bed looking up at a deranged women smiling and holding a sledge hammer asking nicely if you dreamed about her...

[Dr. Pyro]

Jesus, if it weren't for women like that, some of us would never get laid.

[DVD Burner]

ya everyone likes to fuck the crazy girls, up until the morning you wake up tied to your bed looking up at a deranged women smiling and holding a sledge hammer asking nicely if you dreamed about her...

Oh shit, so she is crazy huh?

I knew there was something up. I thought it was just me that happened to.

[gyre]

When a boy meets a girl, there is always a most important question on their mind first.

Just how crazy is this bitch?

[ygmir]

you sexist bastard!!!
What about:
boy meets boy
girl meets girl
Sailman meets sheep
Ibdave looks in the mirror
poodle meets mastif


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[Sail Man]

you sexist bastard!!!
What about:
boy meets boy
girl meets girl
Sailman meets sheep
Ibdave looks in the mirror
poodle meets mastif

Hey hey hey! I only met her after you loaned her to me, uncleaned btw



You want her back or should I forward her to Dr Pyro?
I've given her a pedicure, and a nice trim where needed

[ygmir]

you sexist bastard!!!
What about:
boy meets boy
girl meets girl
Sailman meets sheep
Ibdave looks in the mirror
poodle meets mastif

Hey hey hey! I only met her after you loaned her to me, uncleaned btw



You want her back or should I forward her to Dr Pyro?
I've given her a pedicure, and a nice trim where needed

you said how much you like cheese.......*yuk, hahahaahaa*

yeah right, like she still works, "real skin vinyl" doesn't hold up well to needles...............

hahhaa

Pyro likes goats,..........he's sort of one-sided that way.

[flatlander13]

You are incorrect about Ibdave and the mirror……Ibdave and Mrs. Dave hump like bunnies all day everyday……..out at the burn if you come into our camp late enough you will catch them on the camp couch……but then…….one of our gay campmates has this thing about watching Mrs. Dave washing dishes in her underwear……….how that started………I have no idea…………

[Sail Man]

you sexist bastard!!!
What about:
boy meets boy
girl meets girl
Sailman meets sheep
Ibdave looks in the mirror
poodle meets mastif

Hey hey hey! I only met her after you loaned her to me, uncleaned btw



You want her back or should I forward her to Dr Pyro?
I've given her a pedicure, and a nice trim where needed

you said how much you like cheese.......*yuk, hahahaahaa*

yeah right, like she still works, "real skin vinyl" doesn't hold up well to needles...............

hahhaa

Pyro likes goats,..........he's sort of one-sided that way.

Not Mules?

[bluesbob]

"Suddenly you realize that this person standing in front of you may in fact come from another planet. What do you do?"

I guess I wouldn't do anything. Most of the people I talk to are imaginary anyway.

[EmilyD]

Just something I seem wonder about when I spend enough time talking to people.

What happens when you suddenly realize that the person you thought you were having a rational, enlightening conversation suddenly turns out to be bat-shit-insane and you didn't even notice!?

Example.. You are discussing health or medicine and randomly someone mentions how much they liked Hulda Clark

Suddenly you realize that this person standing in front of you may in fact come from another planet. What do you do?
-> Run away? (12% chance of success, +1 dexterity)
-> Pretend they didn't say it. (12% chance of success, -1 charisma)
-> Confront the insane claims. (0% chance of success, +1 intelligence)

I'd excuse myself saying I had to go to the bathroom. Even crazy people can understand that concept. Then go find a bathroom REALLY FAR AWAY so they don't follow and wait for you.

[Sham]

Once I realize I am dealing with a crazy person, I keep jumping from subject to subject and basically trying to out-crazy them. Each time they try to make a point, I make another jump. Within a few minutes they are working hard to move away from me. Does that make ME the crazy person to some people?

[EmilyD]

I just remembered this. Whenever a crazy street person harassed my friend she would open her arms and shout, "DAD!" It blew their minds...and the she'd make a quick get-away before they sorted out the news.

[knowmad]

Yeah, I Do a modified Shambala. With the trying to out crazy them. But I start to slip in topics like Medications, and Psyotherypy, and soon they are telling me how nuts they are. If a girl knows what triazolam, is used for I say "Yeah that's what they gave me when I was Freaking out...." I then secretly wory, and do the math to see if I'll Score.

[greenthumb85]

most of the crazies I've met on the playa were just on lotsa drugs at the time... The only person I really got a bad vibe from was this weirdo who was obsessed with hanna montana, and he was in his late 30's. Clearly he was a pedophile, and after I realized that, I just told him I was supposed to meet up with some friends and it was good meeting him.... END OF CONVERSATION!!! I wanted nothing more to do with him, and I just got out of there!

The people that let their crazy out are probably on drugs, so just treat the situation that way.

[Sham]

The craziest person I encountered was at a condo pool a few years back. I was asleep by myself and I heard a voice just start talking to me about the dark color of his stool, and if I thought that was "normal". After a good 30 seconds of trying to comprehend what he was saying, I told him some great stories of my days as a swashbuckling pirate. Once I jumped to my favorite prescription medications, he just walked away from me, shaking his head. It's like a real life thread drift.

[Fire_Moose]

The best thing to do is to slowly slip into an accent.

This came from pretending to be French when bums ask for money. But since you are already talking to the nut job, once you realize they are batty you slip in a "oui" here and a "Suchle Bleu" there with some accented english. If it still goes on for longer then expected you end it with an "désolé, je ne parle pas l'anglais"

[EmilyD]

The best thing to do is to slowly slip into an accent.

This came from pretending to be French when bums ask for money. But since you are already talking to the nut job, once you realize they are batty you slip in a "oui" here and a "Suchle Bleu" there with some accented english. If it still goes on for longer then expected you end it with an "désolé, je ne parle pas l'anglais"

and if your real accent begins to fail you can always talk gibberish, although then you run the risk of the crazy calling YOU dad!

[Ugly Dougly]

The craziest person I encountered was at a condo pool a few years back. I was asleep by myself and I heard a voice just start talking to me about the dark color of his stool, and if I thought that was "normal". After a good 30 seconds of trying to comprehend what he was saying, I told him some great stories of my days as a swashbuckling pirate. Once I jumped to my favorite prescription medications, he just walked away from me, shaking his head. It's like a real life thread drift.

Be crazier. Are you not a burner??

[Isotopia]

There's only one way to respond to 'crazy.'

And that's with 'crazy.'

If done tactfully it's even OK to borrow from others to make your own 'crazy.'

Start by looking them in the face and going all "Mommy, mommy" on their asses.

Funny how the 'crazy' just sort of instantly evaporates as the poor bastard tries to find the quickest way out of the situation.

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[teardropper]

Now is this crazy people at the Burn?... Or just regular life. I hardly notice at the Burn. But as was suggested, I just out-crazy them. Like that's not hard. If I can't freestyle a crazy riff at BM, jeez, what am I doing there?

[ygmir]

I've encountered this several times........I find, I engage them, openly, and follow their path............it can lead to fascinating conversation........

[Ugly Dougly]

I had a poolside conversation with a tweaker lady. She was tedious and I had better people to talk to. In fact the better person brought me a glass of wine and I said "thank you dear". Well the tweaker didn't get the hint. She was talking at two of us, and I got up to throw something in the trash, glimpsing the other normy with a sad look in her eye, like "you're not leaving alone with this weirdo?" Tough choices.

So invite an acquaintance over, tell them that the tweaker has something interesting to say about the secret civilization on Pluto, then pretend to see a friend in the distance, and say "I'll be right back!"