'Wacky People'

Anyone else fed up with 'Wacky People'? Those who go deliberately out of their way to show the rest of the world, hey look at me, I'm a bit crazy.

If you are a genuinely eccentric, bizarrely weird oddball, then I can put up with that, but it's those that embrace the forced, unoriginal and pathetic type of wackiness I can't stand.

Examples -

Getting everyone in your office to dress up as David Brent and having a dance contest for Comic Relief

Entering fun runs / marathons dressed up as anything that's not a runner

Men dressing up as women for fancy dress parties (a peculiarly British thing in my experience)

Representing the Monster Raving Looney Party in any capacity

Wearing comedy wigs at football matches or dressing up for the Proms

Maybe I'm just being curmudgeonly and these people are just having a bit of fun.

Anyone that says "I'm wacky!" never, ever is.

Except me of course. I'm crazy.

LOL thread Renegade.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 16 2009, 1:10 PM BST

Getting everyone in your office to dress up as David Brent and having a dance contest for Comic Relief

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Do people really do this?

That's way beyond just "missing the irony", surely?

Oh, BTW, I love turning up at fancy dress parties not having made any effort whatsoever to even think about going in fancy dress. If one doesn't go in fancy dress one might get accused of "looking silly" without it. I think anyone in fancy dress who has ever thought or actually aired this view knows they're desperately wrong. No we don't, we look perfectly normal, with no sense of insecurity. Just take a look at yourselves.

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Men dressing up as women for fancy dress parties (a peculiarly British thing in my experience)

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A guy in our office was going to do this for Comic Relief, but it was forbidden on the grounds that it might cause offence (mainly to the pre-op transexual on the third floor).

In my experience most people are sufficiently peculiar for any self-conscious wackiness to be redundant.

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Men dressing up as women for fancy dress parties (a peculiarly British thing in my experience)

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I love dressing as a woman - I enjoy it and like wearing make-up and putting my hair into pigtails or plaits. Not for fancy dress parties, but if going to the supermarket, the DVD shop, a girlie bar or the library. Or to work. When I moved back to Australia two years ago, people warned me that "you'll get beaten up if you wear a dress in Australia" but it's never happened, yet.

Quote: Leevil @ July 16 2009, 1:14 PM BST

Anyone that says "I'm wacky!" never, ever is.

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Too true Leevil, too true.

And comedy mugs in the workplace.

Quote: Tim Walker @ July 16 2009, 1:33 PM BST

And comedy mugs in the workplace.

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I hate this. It is a mug for crying out loud, drink your tea out of it and shut the f**k up!

Quote: Kenneth @ July 16 2009, 1:29 PM BST

I love dressing as a woman - I enjoy it and like wearing make-up and putting my hair into pigtails or plaits. Not for fancy dress parties, but if going to the supermarket, the DVD shop, a girlie bar or the library. Or to work. When I moved back to Australia two years ago, people warned me that "you'll get beaten up if you wear a dress in Australia" but it's never happened, yet.

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Yes, but isn't Kenneth a woman's name in Australia?

Quote: Griff @ July 16 2009, 1:35 PM BST

I'm more lenient on mugs.

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You wishy-washy liberal, Griff.

Quote: Griff @ July 16 2009, 1:35 PM BST

I'm more lenient on mugs.

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What does yours say?

At my old workplace, everyone had the lame "I'm with stupid!" mugs and they all thought that they were the be-all-end-all when it came to wackiness.

Don't forget those hilarious BBQ aprons. If you wear one of those whilst cooking meat in your back garden, everyone will think you are the life of the party.

The worst bastards are those fecking feckers who think they are probably being a bit post-modern 'Wacky', a bit clever along with the 'wack', the ones that have t-shirts with legends such as:

SEX AND DRUGS AND SAUSAGE ROLLS.

They're brilliant and I wish they were my mates!

Quote: AndreaLynne @ July 16 2009, 1:42 PM BST

At my old workplace, everyone had the lame "I'm with stupid!" mugs and they all thought that they were the be-all-end-all when it came to wackiness.

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I hate ironic T-shirts as well, especially that "I'm Not Gay (But My Boyfriend Is)" one? I wish my girlfriend wouldn't wear that when we're out in public.