Doesn’t understand why someone would feel uncomfortable being alone in public when everyone else is in couples or groups (Bonus: This woman must be marrying her fiancé only for his money; Obviously she doesn’t love him!) — http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=806848
He seems to have arrived on earth just a few months ago, and really has learned an astonishing amount in that short time, but we really can help him learn to fit in better.
No doubt we shall soon get to the question of what is this thing that we hoo-mans call “love.”
We do seem to be getting an influx of people with serious handicaps in their ability to process and understand the entire idea of other people and basic human interaction.
Honestly, if he could just grasp that mini-rants go in the mini-rant thread and do not deserve their very own posts, I’d be happy. Then again, I’d be happier if he just went back to LiveJournal and stopped inflicting the petty disappointments of his life on us.
I got a chance to use that in real life not too long ago. I work in a warehouse and I was getting my license (training) on power trucks (pallet jacks, fork lifts, that kind of shit), and part of the training is knowing the traffic rules of the warehouse.
The trainer, a cool guy, says to me, “it’s not that complicated, green means?”
“Go.”
“Right. Red means?”
“Stop.”
“Perfect. And, uh, yellow means?”
“Go very fast?”
“Exactly.”
He’s probably branched out into other threads for his petty complaints about life’s injustices because the folks in the mini-rants threads keep pointing out that his whining is usually asinine for some reason. Because of lack of empathy. Because he can’t understand that other people’s motivations might differ from his own. Because he’s the one who caused his own problem due to his own behavior. Sometimes one, sometimes all.
And if someone calls him on how insanely petty his complaint is, he whines about how it’s a mini-rant thread and he’s allowed to mini-rant. Not grasping that others are allowed to mini-rant about him.
So I suspect he branched out to find some sympathy. Doesn’t look like that’s went the way he probably thought it would.
He’s a sock. Formerly SMG15. Banned under that name and another one, tarrell. Why the mods haven’t made the connection and banned his ass already, I’ll never know.
They are barely qualified to be mini rants, yet we engage him until there are three pages of desperate attempts to help him, a few jokes at the guy’s expense that go over his head, and his ridiculous explanations.
He is very literal and has specific ideas about how things are supposed to go. If someone moves his cheese the whole universe goes fubar. I really do think he’s got unaddressed autism spectrum issues so I am trying to be patient. It’s not working…
“What does a yellow light mean?”
“Slow down.”
“What…does…a…yellow…light…mean?”
“Slow down.”
“Whaaaaaaat…doeeees…aaaaaa…yeeeeeeeeeeellow…liiiiight…meeeeeean?”
“Slow down!”
“Whhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaat…doeeeeeeeeesss…” etc. etc.
“Red light stop, green light go, yellow light… wait, I dunno, but yellow lights give me a headache and upset my sense of bonding in a relationship, so just what mind rays are in yellow lights?”
