What is the most bonkers thing that has happened in your lifetime?

[Reg]

I was just thinking if Trump gets in it may well be the most fucking bonkers thing I've witnessed.

In terms of things that've actually happened already, what do you reckon?

[GS]

9/11.

[Giggles]

Leicester.

[Shindig]

9/11. I can't see anything more significant. Although maybe the Brexit fallout.

[SincereTheRebel]

9/11 by a long way.

[Boydy]

This:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ISy0Hl0SBfg

[Lewis]

I lolled out loud at 'fucking bonkers'.

[Magic]

We should do it on a more personal level.

[Kikó]

I think it was that woman with a bag on her head in London.

[Dark Soldier]

That woman who put a cat in a bin that time. Genuinely scarred me for life.

Probably 9/11 after that, and then Wedge.

[Disco]

A dilapidated rowboat! was pretty mental but yeah, probably 9/11, the only time we ever just stopped work and watched the telly.

[Reg]

We should do it on a more personal level.
Feel free to do that in here, or make a new thread if that'd be better.

[7om]

Trump getting in is not that bonkers, really.

He's got a narrative that's somewhat different to the norm and people have gobbled it up. We'll (hopefully) never see anything like 9/11 again. If I'd seen that in a disaster movie I'd have called it horse shit.

[Lee]

Yeah it's 9/11. It's ruined terrorism too. Even a couple of hundred deaths looks like a poor effort now. The IRA got out at the right time.

[Pepe]

A white spastic becoming president is par of the course for the US, really. A black bloke called Barack (Hussein) winning is far more 'bonkers.'

[Clunge]

The popularity of Mrs Brown's Boys.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah it's 9/11. It's ruined terrorism too. Even a couple of hundred deaths looks like a poor effort now. The IRA got out at the right time.

If the transatlantic airline plot of 2006 had succeeded it would have outdone 9/11 for deaths.

[Giggles]

What's 2006? An actual thing or some conspiracy theory?

[Magic]

A white spastic becoming president is par of the course for the US, really. A black bloke called Barack (Hussein) winning is far more 'bonkers.'

Right after George W Bush anyone could have been fucking president. Context, mate.

[Magic]

That's a load of shit, I read something about liquid explosives the other day on airliners and the chances of any sort of liquid being used in an explosive device was absolutely tiny, if not impossible, let alone by some Snackbars that have training in how to DP goats.

[Jimmy Floyd]

To answer the thread, probably yesterday when the IT manager at work pointed at a packet of tissues on my desk and said 'Sponge cake', before walking off.

[Lee]

If the transatlantic airline plot of 2006 had succeeded it would have outdone 9/11 for deaths.

Indeed. And even worse, we wouldn't have had a clue what had brought the planes down. The airline industry would have been fucked while they worked it out.

[Magic]

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_liquid_bomb.html

Read. It's bullshit.

[Spoonsky]

I'm too young to remember 9/11, so I'll say Trump. I don't think you can really understand from over here in Britain how mental it's been.

[Jimmy Floyd]

We've got enough mental stuff of our own without worrying about yours. Jeremy Corbyn is like Bernie Sanders climbing into a septic tank, living there for 30 years and then running for President without having had a wash.

[Giggles]

We've got enough mental stuff of our own without worrying about yours. Jeremy Corbyn is like Bernie Sanders climbing into a septic tank, living there for 30 years and then running for President without having had a wash.

But Corbyn isn't actually going to win.

[randomlegend]

I don't think you can really understand from over here in Britain how mental it's been.

I actually don't think Americans quite realise how utterly and entirely bewildered the rest of the world are by it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

When you take it at face value - rich, loud old guy runs for and gets Republican nomination - it's not all that weird, or at least hardly unthinkable. It's just the narrative surrounding him/it has spiralled out of control.

[Spoonsky]

Well, half of Americans are equally if not more bewildered than the rest of the world. I remember how much I lolled when I watched his campaign announcement. It's quite upsetting actually if you think about it for too long.

[Lewis]

When you take it at face value - rich, loud old guy runs for and gets Republican nomination - it's not all that weird, or at least hardly unthinkable. It's just the narrative surrounding him/it has spiralled out of control.

Yeah. Brexit is a much loller occurrence, and with much less historical precedent to draw upon.

[Reg]

When you take it at face value - rich, loud old guy runs for and gets Republican nomination - it's not all that weird, or at least hardly unthinkable. It's just the narrative surrounding him/it has spiralled out of control.
The unthinkable thing will be if he is named President.

[Giggles]

The line of thinking I hear normally goes like:

"He'll never actually get in, there aren't that many stupid Americans"
"................."
"Shit"

[Shindig]

Trump getting in wouldn't that much of a surprise given how he's known to people from his TV bollocks. Reagan and Schwarzenegger have all held office. As has Jesse Ventura. America votes for personalities more than any other country.

[Boydy]

Given 2016's pattern seems to be to just keep getting shitter and shitter, he's pretty much nailed on to win.

[Lewis]

I don't know why anybody outside of America cares. Not only would it give us something to lol at, but he's far less likely to interfere in bollocks countries than 'Hillary' (whose Syria no-fly zone wheeze is/was madder than anything he has said), which means he is less likely to cause the rest of the world a load of grief.

[ItalAussie]

One of the most bonkers things to happen to me personally was a few weeks ago in Tokyo. I was staying in an airbnb in a residential building, which was really nice. One night, I sleep-walked across the room and pulled the fire alarm in my sleep at 3am. It took them half an hour to get the alarm off. And nobody spoke English, so I had to attempt to explain what had happened in sign language, quickly enough that they wouldn't call the fire department or the police (recalling that, as far as they were concerned, I was just some random person in their neighbour's apartment who'd set off an alarm). That took some doing.

[mikem]

We've got enough mental stuff of our own without worrying about yours. Jeremy Corbyn is like Bernie Sanders climbing into a septic tank, living there for 30 years and then running for President without having had a wash.

Change your analogy around and you've explained why Americans are bewildered. Corbyn is Trump not Sanders in the American context.


I don't know why anybody outside of America cares. Not only would it give us something to lol at, but he's far less likely to interfere in bollocks countries than 'Hillary' (whose Syria no-fly zone wheeze is/was madder than anything he has said), which means he is less likely to cause the rest of the world a load of grief.


Dubya ran on a more isolationist platform than Trump. We will have another Orlando / San Bernadino and I don't see how he doesn't overreact to placate his base due to the image he has cultivated.

[Shindig]

In terms of natural disasters, probably the Boxing Day Tsunami. Or the Japanese one complete with the Fukishima plant popping.

[Spoonsky]

ISIS is also pretty fucking mental. It's normalized now but that was shit-your-pants stuff at the beginning.