Is there a word for this?

ET2SN · 03-02-24, 10:39 PM

So, you're walking along minding your own business and someone else is walking toward you. While they're making eye contact with you, you hear them say "What is your ####ing problem, anyway?" and then you notice they are talking into their smart phone so you don't know who the target is.

Back in the days before smart phones, we called this "Schizophrenia" but I'm wondering if there is a new word to describe it?

Reece · 03-02-24, 11:43 PM

Typical!

Jimbuna · 03-03-24, 08:20 AM

Paranoia

Eichhörnchen · 03-03-24, 08:28 AM

Some years back, before we all had mobiles, this bloke bustled past on Tonbridge railway station talking at the top of his voice to himself - or so it seemed. I thought he'd escaped from somewhere until I saw the diddy little microphone stuck to his stupid head. It then seemed to me that he just wanted everybody to notice him & how important he was. I thought: "tosser"

Jimbuna · 03-03-24, 08:32 AM

Next time your out and are about to pass someone travelling in the opposite direction....as you are about to cross, say in a hushed voice but still at a level that is audible to them "Did you bring the money"?

Aktungbby · 03-03-24, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I thought: "tosser"

...I just looked that up! 'Tosser' in britspeke is not the same as 'tosser' in downunderer Reecespeke!!?

I'll be using that one in the 5 word story thread!

Eichhörnchen · 03-03-24, 12:03 PM

^

Believe me, we also commonly mean it to describe a compulsive self-abuser

Aktungbby · 03-03-24, 12:12 PM

... EGAD!no wonder my long suffering wife of 43 years has threatened to toss me out if I keep referring to myself as 'the left hand of God"!

Reece · 03-03-24, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

^

Believe me, we also commonly mean it to describe a compulsive self-abuser

But that's Aktung all over!! Thing is he loves it!!

03-02-24, 10:39 PM	#1
ET2SN ET2/SS Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,513 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	Is there a word for this? So, you're walking along minding your own business and someone else is walking toward you. While they're making eye contact with you, you hear them say "What is your ####ing problem, anyway?" and then you notice they are talking into their smart phone so you don't know who the target is. Back in the days before smart phones, we called this "Schizophrenia" but I'm wondering if there is a new word to describe it?

03-02-24, 11:43 PM	#2
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 32,747 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	Typical! __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

03-03-24, 08:20 AM	#3
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Paranoia __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-03-24, 08:28 AM	#4
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,747 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Some years back, before we all had mobiles, this bloke bustled past on Tonbridge railway station talking at the top of his voice to himself - or so it seemed. I thought he'd escaped from somewhere until I saw the diddy little microphone stuck to his stupid head. It then seemed to me that he just wanted everybody to notice him & how important he was. I thought: "tosser" __________________

03-03-24, 08:32 AM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,198 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Next time your out and are about to pass someone travelling in the opposite direction....as you are about to cross, say in a hushed voice but still at a level that is audible to them "Did you bring the money"? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

03-03-24, 12:03 PM	#7
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,747 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ Believe me, we also commonly mean it to describe a compulsive self-abuser __________________

03-03-24, 12:12 PM	#8
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,857 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	... EGAD!no wonder my long suffering wife of 43 years has threatened to toss me out if I keep referring to myself as 'the left hand of God"! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"