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Someone mentioned the A/T Thread about the 'Professional Thief' but good lord it is breathtaking http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3692653&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 For me the higlight so far has been his response to the question "How do you view normal shoppers?" LeoMarr posted:They're just cattle fueling the machine. I don't mean to sound anarchistic at all because I honestly don't care about people who buy poo poo normally sometimes. I mean, when you are in line wherever, do you every think about just walking out the door? when I was actually paying for poo poo I'd think about "I could pay $100 for this poo poo or I could just walk out"
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EmmyOk posted:Someone mentioned the A/T Thread about the 'Professional Thief' but good lord it is breathtaking I would be willing to put down money that this person envisions themselves as Tyler Durden in their head.
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EmmyOk posted:Someone mentioned the A/T Thread about the 'Professional Thief' but good lord it is breathtaking What, you mean the story about the petty thief who has a fence waltz in every couple of months and hand over $30k in cash to buy a pile of stolen goods at near manufacturer wholesale prices, which he then funnels into profitably day trading stocks, might not be entirely true?! Say it ain't so! 
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Paladinus posted:This story actually reminds me of that completely real mentally ill person. Lena Kochman. She's literally paranoid and thinks evil patriarchy is out there to get her wherever she goes outside. Nckdictator posted:Well, at least she's somewhere she can get help. Goodness loving gracious  Double Plus Good posted:I would be willing to put down money that this person envisions themselves as Tyler Durden in their head. Fight Club was a satire god damnit  The movie hosed up by casting Brad Pitt as Durden, so everybody fell for him. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 07:25 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Jan 8, 2015 07:16
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Paladinus posted:This story actually reminds me of that completely real mentally ill person. Lena Kochman. She's literally paranoid and thinks evil patriarchy is out there to get her wherever she goes outside. 
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Jan 8, 2015 07:39
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Oh god I remember this video. Thank you for this, that reaction is just too good 
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Jan 8, 2015 11:58
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kirbysuperstar posted:A startling amount of them are reports on coughs she hears. This is..something else. Good grief. For some reason she's fixated on the idea that anyone coughing, sneezing, clearing their throat or touching their nose in her vicinity is intentionally harassing her by implying her vagina smells bad. Same for orange caution cones, wet floor signs and tons of code words in ads. She has a ton of blogs dating back to 2010 and it's a very bizarre/depressing read. Solemn Secularity posted:
There's no way this is real just because no passive-aggressive note writer would leave anything that would give away their identity or lead to a confrontation like that. The frozen laundry part I could believe. People get really pissy about shared laundry rooms.
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Jan 8, 2015 12:04
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Solemn Secularity posted:
That first girl is dead now.
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Jan 8, 2015 14:32
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How does that paranoid woman live? Like, who takes care of her because she obviously can't hold a job or buy food or anything if she's actually like that.
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Jan 8, 2015 18:30
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Kimmalah posted:There's no way this is real just because no passive-aggressive note writer would leave anything that would give away their identity or lead to a confrontation like that. The frozen laundry part I could believe. People get really pissy about shared laundry rooms. Yeah, while I don't believe the confrontational note, people do poo poo like that. I remember in college someone took my clothes out mid washing cycle so I put theirs in the lint filled trash, waited until mine finished and then put it in the dryer. Apparently they didn't care enough to check on their laundry b/c it took about 15 minutes for mine to finish washing.
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Jan 8, 2015 18:42
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oldpainless posted:How does that paranoid woman live? Like, who takes care of her because she obviously can't hold a job or buy food or anything if she's actually like that. Her most recent blog entries talk about how people hang up when she calls them when they find out  she's in a mental institution , like that somehow invalidates her theories.  She's clearly clinically insane though and has been committed.
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Jan 8, 2015 19:11
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oldpainless posted:How does that paranoid woman live? Like, who takes care of her because she obviously can't hold a job or buy food or anything if she's actually like that. As far as I can tell she held a job at some point but wrote about getting into a lot of trouble for confronting coworkers who coughed around her. Her most recent stuff sounds like she's bouncing around from mental hospitals to homeless shelters and back, which of course have coughing people in them too so she's constantly fighting with them now. No idea how she actually lives though, she sounds pretty estranged from family/friends. 
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Jan 8, 2015 19:24
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oldpainless posted:How does that paranoid woman live? Like, who takes care of her because she obviously can't hold a job or buy food or anything if she's actually like that. Crazy in point
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Jan 8, 2015 19:45
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I can believe this.
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Jan 8, 2015 20:58
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The sad thing about that kind of paranoia is that it seems like an inescapable vicious circle. If you don't trust anyone, you won't let anyone help you. Everyone who tries to help you must be up to something.
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Jan 8, 2015 21:06
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Rick_Hunter posted:Also, is it common practice for mental health workers to give their patients their assessments? That seems really loving weird to me. I'm nowhere near mentally ill enough to be committed, but when I had my last clinical evaluation, I had a session afterwards where I sat down and discussed it with the person who administered it and my therapist, what all the results meant, what the recommended courses of treatment were, etc and even got my own copy of the written report. It might be different for more severely mentally ill people, but it's not a total taboo at the very least.
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Jan 8, 2015 21:36
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davidspackage posted:The sad thing about that kind of paranoia is that it seems like an inescapable vicious circle. If you don't trust anyone, you won't let anyone help you. Everyone who tries to help you must be up to something. Yeah, that's exactly whats so dangerous about it. Once you're hardcore into that kind of trust-nobody mentality, it can take years and years and years of professional help to try to break you out of it. Even then some never do. The human mind is pretty fuckin' complicated.
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Jan 8, 2015 21:59
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davidspackage posted:The sad thing about that kind of paranoia is that it seems like an inescapable vicious circle. If you don't trust anyone, you won't let anyone help you. Everyone who tries to help you must be up to something. This is what really weirds me out about this specific psychosis. Can these Gang stalking obsessives ever be rehabilitated? I assume like most other mental illnesses with the right medication and support you could eventually get back in touch with reality but for the reasons you stated that seems near impossible. Not trying to demonize these people I'm just genuinely curious because my only exposure to this whole thing has been from the creepy as gently caress videos people post themselves. I mean they must think there's some support group if they're broadcasting their videos on youtube. Zaphod42 posted:Yeah, that's exactly whats so dangerous about it. Once you're hardcore into that kind of trust-nobody mentality, it can take years and years and years of professional help to try to break you out of it. Even then some never do. This sort of answers my question but does anyone have any more info or personal experience on this?
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Jan 8, 2015 22:04
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My experience with schizophrenics is that they are heavily medicated, not to try and "fix" it but to keep them under control by those around them.
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Jan 8, 2015 22:26
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Solemn Secularity posted:
That's a bandaid. That is a smiley-face bandaid.
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Jan 8, 2015 23:04
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Rare Collectable posted:This sort of answers my question but does anyone have any more info or personal experience on this? You're pretty much asking about modern psychology (extreme cases anyways) itself. There's... a lot of information and experience that could be shared, dude. Just start googling and you'll find all kinds of stuff. Personally I think sociopaths, psychopaths, extreme paranoia and extreme phobias and the like are all pretty interesting, if just to see the limits of humanity. There but for the grace of god go us. Feral children are also a pretty interesting (although extremely depressing) subject. I like to tell myself that if I ever actually snapped, I'd be clever enough to figure out that I was going insane and I could at least try to work with the doctors, but that's probably not true.
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Zaphod42 posted:You're pretty much asking about modern psychology (extreme cases anyways) itself. There's... a lot of information and experience that could be shared, dude. I had a psychotic break once from extreme depression/meds/stress combo. It's more annoying that people can't see the things you're seeing and aren't making the logical connections you are. You feel rational and in control, but even when faced with direct contradiction your mind just jumps over it. I imagine that no two psychoses are the same, though. Psychosis in general is simply fascinating. Complex machinery is great to watch when it works, but the truly astonishing things happen when it fails (just look at the OSHA thread), and the brain is the same.
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Evilreaver posted:I had a psychotic break once from extreme depression/meds/stress combo. It's more annoying that people can't see the things you're seeing and aren't making the logical connections you are. You feel rational and in control, but even when faced with direct contradiction your mind just jumps over it. I imagine that no two psychoses are the same, though. Yeah I haven't been there myself, but I've taken enough strong drugs and I've had enough bad trips to know exactly how easily my sanity could slip away. Friend of mine once got caught in a loop so bad it was like an Abbott and Costello routine. "Oh no, the cops are after me!" "...what? No dude you're fine, there's no cops." "oh, I'm fine, there's no.... cops! The cops are coming! I have to get away!" "NO dude, you're fine, its okay, there were never any cops" "WHAT ABOUT COPS? OH GOD I HAVE TO GET AWAY" And like you said, your brain just kinda accepts things and skips over the parts that would make you question it. You're trapped. Anyways, this is getting off topic, because crazy people is definitely poo poo that happens.
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Evilreaver posted:(just look at the OSHA thread) Well don't just say that and not link it. E: Nevermind me! The new search function actually works! Funny that. The Iron Rose has a new favorite as of 05:23 on Jan 9, 2015 |
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Wasn't this in a movie?quote:Giving You A (Prison) Break
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Khazar-khum posted:Wasn't this in a movie? It was all a set up. The first customer was friends with the second customer who has a "retail worker makes him mop up a mess" fetish.
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Jan 9, 2015 06:32
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Khazar-khum posted:Wasn't this in a movie? Someone stole my STDH generator??
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Khazar-khum posted:Wasn't this in a movie? And once more we have to thank God that some well muscled dude was around to save the poor girl who is a complete stammering push over. And they say chivalry is dead!
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Jan 9, 2015 09:17
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Fathis Munk posted:And once more we have to thank God that some well muscled dude was around to save the poor girl who is a complete stammering push over. The big, mean customer was about to make her cry. She probably had to retire to her fainting couch to fully recover.
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It's still not quite right though. Let me STDH-up that STDH:quote:Giving You A (Prison) Break
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Ooh yeah that is some good poo poo. If you had worked Einstein and Hitler in there... A man can dream. I think reading all these made up stories just makes me realise just how many people seem to be completely socially inept. I mean who the gently caress could ever look at them and go "yep, that's how people react irl"
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Jan 9, 2015 10:02
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quote:(The rude customer shrieks and flees from the store, screaming 'THIS KID IS INHUMAN!'...)
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Here's a Russian STDH that was popular on Russian social networks and somehow got picked up by media outlets. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pupil-attends-school-performance-dressed-4874749 The story about Russians not being aware what Christmas is, apparently. In the original STDH from vkontakte parents at least claimed to be immigrants living in Germany and explained the mistake with not understanding German too well (which still doesn't really explain anything).
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Beware of anti-bitcoin sentiments; lost job due to bitcoin hating boss posted:Until recently I worked as an IT admin at a medium sized insurance firm in the midwest with seven locations. The firm offers a range of products and also has a dedicated financial products salesman.
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Jan 9, 2015 21:37
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Well, bitcoiners were never supposed to be that good at math. Middle of six figure values (500000), middle of one-digit commission (5%)... $25k is no biggie right?
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Everything about this is completely believable. And Hilarious. Also I love the sniper post above. "I killed 24 people and either suffer from severe PTSD or am a psychopath, let me air my grievances by nonsensically pasting my haunting secret on a picture of a bear"
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Jan 9, 2015 22:01
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That's a savvy company VP, nip that problem right in the bud. That's not STDH, that belongs in the schadenfreude thread. Don't talk about bitcoin at work you moron. Reminds me of the time we consulted with some IBM guys, and one of them kept going on about 4chan (I swear this poo poo happened)
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Pakled posted:Edit: Just checked this post and noticed a lot of comments about me giving improper financial advice. In case it wasn't obvious above, I'm not a financial person I did IT work for this company. I told the client that I did IT and there shouldn't have been any confusion that I was a financial planner or anything. Preeeeetty sure this will get you shitcanned for pretty good reason if you work at a financial services institution. Not only is it bad for business to talk up alternate places for clients to put their money, having someone spouting off unqualified financial advice can get you in legal trouble. I think this guy might be correct in that he was technically probably in the clear, which may be part of the reason he was quietly shuffled off instead of getting terminated for cause, but if there is the slightest doubt that a client might interpret his advice as being connected with the company--such as, I don't know, the fact that it came from an employee of the company, in the company's offices, to a client of the company--then there's enough legal and regulatory exposure to make compliance throw a shitfit. If the client goes off and loses a quarter of a million in Bitcoin, a verbal disclaimer of "I just work in IT, but..." is a pretty flimsy defense in court. So yes, this sounds a lot like an embellished shit_that_did_happen.txt.
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