Insanity or Bluetooth?

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Insanity or Bluetooth? How do you tell in this day and age?

The other day I bumped into an old friend. I hadn't seen him in about 6 years and in the mean time he had gone completely paranoid schizophrenic insane, sectioned 3 times and prison 3 times. Unfortunately he had over-indulged in illicit substances back in the day. Obviously he didn't watch Goodfellas.

He seemed pretty normal to me at first so I went for a drive and a chin-wag with him. But then the insanity started to appear.

He tried to convince me that I had cameras embedded in my eyes (he and numerous others had them also, apparently my mother and ex-gf didn't for some reason). The government and various nefarious agents used the cameras to watch what dodgy activities we got up to.

During the drive he started rambling away to himself and grinning inanely at passing motorists. Eventually I made my excuses and got out alive.

This got me thinking - the other road users no doubt probably assumed he was yakking away to someone on a blue-tooth headset rather than him being a total nut-job.

So how the hell can we tell a nutter from a blue-tooth headset user in this day and age? Are they one and the same thing?
 
I consider people who drive around (worse, walk in the street!!!) wearing one of those Bluetooth earpieces, really strange anyway.

Look at me, I'm important enough to be taking phone calls every 15 seconds...


*vom*
 
I'd say you weren't using Bluetooth when you posted this thread.


(Someone make a better joke along those lines.)
 
It fulfills everyone's dream of pretending they're Secret Service and protecting the President when in fact they're talking to their mum about why their life is a terrible disappointment to her and everyone she knows and you'd be bucking your ideas up if you weren't so old, so unskilled and irrelevant.
 
[FnG]magnolia;23348204 said:
It fulfills everyone's dream of pretending they're Secret Service and protecting the President when in fact they're talking to their mum about why their life is a terrible disappointment to her and everyone she knows and you'd be bucking your ideas up if you weren't so old, so unskilled and irrelevant.
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I wear my bluetooth device on my cuff, then I can look like Jack Bauer.
 
I use a blue tooth headset for work. However I work from home and so no body sees me wearing it. I appreciate that people think you are a bit of a **** for wearing one so I do not wear it when I am in the office or out. However I do sometimes forget I am wearing it and have been known to get in the car for a drive. However if I am traveling during work time =I do make sure I have it on (car bluetooth is reserved for personal phone) so I can take calls while driving. I don't expect to receive a call every 5 seconds, but as I am on work time and I can take calls then I do not think that people should wait.

The other thing is that it keeps your hands free for typing on the lappy. I used to have a wired hands free, but the mount of times I stood up and the phone came with me I am amazed it still works. I now actually cannot stand putting a phone to my head; it is just so uncomfortable.
 
EyepodI said:
Insanity or Bluetooth? How do you tell in this day and age?

The other day I bumped into an old friend. I hadn't seen him in about 6 years and in the mean time he had gone completely paranoid schizophrenic insane, sectioned 3 times and prison 3 times. Unfortunately he had over-indulged in illicit substances back in the day. Obviously he didn't watch Goodfellas.

He seemed pretty normal to me at first so I went for a drive and a chin-wag with him. But then the insanity started to appear.

He tried to convince me that I had cameras embedded in my eyes (he and numerous others had them also, apparently my mother and ex-gf didn't for some reason). The government and various nefarious agents used the cameras to watch what dodgy activities we got up to.

During the drive he started rambling away to himself and grinning inanely at passing motorists. Eventually I made my excuses and got out alive.

This got me thinking - the other road users no doubt probably assumed he was yakking away to someone on a blue-tooth headset rather than him being a total nut-job.

So how the hell can we tell a nutter from a blue-tooth headset user in this day and age? Are they one and the same thing?
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You sure your not the schizo:D maybe he doesnt not exist in the real world as you said your mother and ex-gf didn't.
 
RaMDOM said:
I use a blue tooth headset for work. However I work from home and so no body sees me wearing it. I appreciate that people think you are a bit of a **** for wearing one so I do not wear it when I am in the office or out. However I do sometimes forget I am wearing it and have been known to get in the car for a drive. However if I am traveling during work time =I do make sure I have it on (car bluetooth is reserved for personal phone) so I can take calls while driving. I don't expect to receive a call every 5 seconds, but as I am on work time and I can take calls then I do not think that people should wait.

The other thing is that it keeps your hands free for typing on the lappy. I used to have a wired hands free, but the mount of times I stood up and the phone came with me I am amazed it still works. I now actually cannot stand putting a phone to my head; it is just so uncomfortable.
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simple get large rubber band and place phone on ear and band round phone and head.
 
Please remember schizophrenia is still an illness and while it is easy to label these people as "crazy" and mock them they should be helped like anyone else with a serious illness. It sounds like the guy needed help, you could have helped him and maybe took him to A&E. Sounds like this guy needs a hospital to me.
 
EyepodI said:
During the drive he started rambling away to himself and grinning inanely at passing motorists. Eventually I made my excuses and got out alive.

This got me thinking - the other road users no doubt probably assumed he was yakking away to someone on a blue-tooth headset rather than him being a total nut-job.
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Wait a minute, wait a minute, the other road users would think he was talking to you. Unless, unless..............there was only one person in the car!
 
starfighter said:
Please remember schizophrenia is still an illness and while it is easy to label these people as "crazy" and mock them they should be helped like anyone else with a serious illness. It sounds like the guy needed help, you could have helped him and maybe took him to A&E. Sounds like this guy needs a hospital to me.
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Whilst I appreciate your concern, he is getting treatment AFAIK. He is on schizophrenia medication but does not always take it and is monitored by mental health / probation. He is pretty benign and you wouldn't really know he was nuts if you met him. I think he lets the nutty stuff out around people he knows.
 
starfighter said:
Please remember schizophrenia is still an illness and while it is easy to label these people as "crazy" and mock them they should be helped like anyone else with a serious illness. It sounds like the guy needed help, you could have helped him and maybe took him to A&E. Sounds like this guy needs a hospital to me.
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People with schizophrenia don't get taken to a&e. They need to fulfil certain criteria to be sectioned - often this proves extremely difficult, hence why they are often left to fend for themselves.
 
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