Welp... I've had it.

[Flavor Bear]

You must have some wonderful homeless people in your part of the world, and not like the ones in Pittsburgh who are constantly threatening to cut people.

[warman87]

then threatin to stab em lol jk threats are a way to scare people into doing or giving something ect at least thats mostly the case cuz if they were gonna cut someone they
would just do it just my humble opinion

[wareagle69]

dude you have some seriuos fear issues to deal with..

anyhow i'm audi5000 folks taking little brown dog and skinny white dog into the bush checking on my plants see ya later tonight.

[Rick]

Have you ever tried to go to the library and look under "Psychology-normal"

Actually, I've tried and the librarians keep ushering me out of that section. They assure me I'm in the wrong section. They point to the section on mental disorders and just smile at me. Makes me want to bite 'em.

[Flavor Bear]

"Bite or shank" ?

That's just silly.
So to resume...you do not look people in the eyes...you walk around drunk...you blame everything on others...you do not talk to a certain population under the understanding that they must be "mentally unstable" and may bite (which is in itself mentally unstable)...and you cannot say no to beer.

Good luck with that.

I don't look obviously crazy people in the eyes. By obviously crazy I mean the people you see screaming at traffic or wrapped up in a blanket in the summer, those are the ones I don't talk to.
I walked home from a bar drunk once because I indulged in some free beer.

Good luck with being a glib, presumptuous ***.

[Flavor Bear]

Body language can be read from down the block. It comes before eye contact. When a person is huddled in the corner of a bus stop canopy shaking their fist at the sky as if cursing a deity, I am not going to make eye contact when I pass.

Assuming Martians would have the same standards of social interaction, I would guess that those shunned from the pack have a defect.

Understand that I am not condemning all homeless people or brushing them all off as insane. I have known many homeless people, and for about a year my parents took in a homeless man. I know that many are just people who are victims of circumstance.

I don't appreciate being told I have "fear issues", one might not be afraid of bees, but they probably won't throw a rock at the hive.

[Rick]

You make a very good point. I probably would avoid that same person as well. You are also correct on the body language.

[Flavor Bear]

[I]
Well, if we were assuming martians had the same social standards, i would have picked Venus....lol.
I guess you missed the point...
How we measure mental stability is silly. Have you seen what they wear to court in england ? How we say hello to one another ? And so on...our traditions, are all signs of mental instability. I will pass on our ideas...all more dysfunctional than the next.
Some shake their fist to the sky, and some believe there is something in the sky worth shaking our fists too.

Same to me.

Things like incoherent rambling, disregard for personal hygiene and lack of awareness of time/place are all signs of mental defect, and are easily recognized when a person is displaying them. There's quite a gap between that and a judge wearing a powdered wig.

I also feel it's necessary to point out that the guy I described as a "bro" was a white college-age guy with the polo shirt and gelled hair. You know, like the guys who call everyone bro.
Saying this to avoid having any more racist morons PM me with links to white supremacy websites.

[crashdive123]

Now that's just sad.

[FVR]

Are you saying that there are POS racist as sholes on this site that have been emailing you?

Your ref. to bro did not have that affect on me. Bro is a term that I use referring to my friends both civilian and Marines. Not to mention Bra with my Hawiian friends.


What you don't know is that VW is lurking, he has already phsychoanalized you.


You are still old enough to enlist in the USMC. After a few years, ya won't have to worry about anyone, because you will be the meanest SOB around.

Or you can go in the Army, if so, be a Ranger.

Ahhhh.........but that is just my opinion.

[Flavor Bear]

Are you saying that there are POS racist as sholes on this site that have been emailing you?

Just one PM, and I told him where to sit.

"Things like incoherent rambling, disregard for personal hygiene and lack of awareness of time/place are all signs of mental defect, and are easily recognized when a person is displaying them. There's quite a gap between that and a judge wearing a powdered wig."

Not to a Martian...i mean...Venusian.
I like how you went from "mentally unstable" to "defect" though.

Defects tend to cause instability.
I'm not talking about weird, quirky people. I am one of those.

[Rick]

Weird and quirky are good. It is good isn't it? Tell me it's good.

[FVR]

Oh Remy, have you not come to grips with your "You?"

Embrace your "you," both of you.

Most don't know WTF I was talking about anyway.

[Rick]

And probably still don't.

[Tahyo]

I'd like to thank all the participants of this thread for a very entertaining read. It was simply wonderful.

That is all.

[Rick]

And you've been WORKING on BBQ while we've been having fun.

[Sarge47]

I hate to say this but I gotta agree with Remy. And listen up, my fellow Wolf, you look EVERYBODY in the eye, crazy or not. In the Animal kingdom the "Alpha beast stares down the weaker member. Besides that guy wasn't crazy, just being an Anus. You say you're a Reverend, yet you go out into really nasty public areas & get drunk & get into trouble. That's what happens! I was "delivered" from alcohol almost 30 years ago & don't miss it a bit. I drive a Transit bus around a major University and am constantly having to deal with people who are unstable because of drugs, alcohol, or both. Oft times they want me to "party" with them when I get off of work. I thank them, but politely refuse. I would never had been in that situation you have described, yet I've lived in Decatur, Il., where we had knifings & shootings just about every day on the street where I lived, yet no one ever bothered me. I learned the a great lesson from my mother. She was skinny, 5'2" short, & literally went AFTER anybody she thought was a threat. She NEVER backed down. When I was 11 & living in a really bad area in Chicago I watched her back down two big "street toughs who looked to be seniors in High School when they hit my brother a year younger than I with a rubber(not plastic) baseball bat across his bare back (it was hot summer), raising a large welt. Mom came out & demanded to know why they were picking on her kids! One big guy held up the bat and showed it to her & said: "This can't hurt anybody." Mom GRABBED the bat away from, swung it across his face so hard you could hear the wallop a block away! "Did that hurt?!" she yelled. The big guy was cowering, covering his now-reddening face with one hand and said a muffled, meek, "no". Mom then THREW the bat back at them, which they grabbed and told them in no uncertain terms to get the (Beep) out of there before she really got angry. They ran, dude. "Crazy" works both ways! It's like the theme song in Monk: "It's A Jungle Out There". If you're not prepared, leave it alone.

[crashdive123]

Sarge - sounds like a GREAT mom.

[Tahyo]

And you've been WORKING on BBQ while we've been having fun.

Only thing missing was a post by our "Ninja Poster", Stony.

[Sam]

Do not drink either.
Always look in the eyes also.

I look people in the eyes too, here in Seattle that is not the norm. It freaks people out. I just look you in the eye as a non verbal greeting, it was good manners where I come from. I have found that 'crazys' get calmer most of the time when you look at them. I think most 'street folks' feel invisible and that would PO any one to be looked thru everyday like they did not exist. But then I'm just an old grunt with a Mississippi education, what do I know?