Have you ever known anyone who overcomplicates the simplest thing?

[MrScorpio]

Doing so out of some pseudo-intellectual exercise...

What's wrong with these people?

[motely36]

1. whooops!

wrong thread! :blush:

[XemaSab]

2. I resemble that remark!

:o

[Richardo]

3. Let me answer that with this long-winded, tortuous explanation...

:D

[redqueen]

4. Errrrr....

well it seems very confusing and complicated to ME! I'm only trying to help. :cry:

[insanity]

5. What you have here is a classic case of bandwith wasting

[MountainLaurel]

6. My FIL and all of his siblings

Except for one.

[MrScorpio]

7. How frustrating is it for you?

Does trying get them to go in a straight line resort in hair pulling?

[MountainLaurel]

9. I don't see them too often

Otherwise, I just tune out whatever they're pontificating on after about 30 seconds. And the wife of one of them and I joke about about it. Sometimes Mr. Laurel does it too, and I just have to stop him and remind him that I know such-and-such already, I just need the decision/outcome/etc.

[MrScorpio]

10. More power to you, Love

Keep fighting the good fight

[nytemare]

8. I know someone who has complex ways of simplifying..

Seems like sort of the same thing.

[The Doctor.]

11. Well, it may have something to do with self-referential, or 'recursive' reinforcement...

based on underlying insecurities out of a poorly developed psycho-social dynamic. Such people find that they are often met with harsh criticism, which enhances the rigidity and 'hardness' of their psyche with the concurrent hardening of their social instincts, making those instincts more susceptible to fracture. Being utterly out of sync with others, the subject becomes prone to envisioning or planning irrational outbursts in an open setting... thereby 'influencing' the world outside of themselves to compensate for their lack of personal verisimilitude.

The common medical term for this is;

Super-callous-fragile-instinct, extra-pre-psychosis.


:evilgrin:

[TrogL]

13. A bit longer and we'd have a shaggy dog story on our hands

[The Doctor.]

14. "Shaggy dog story"?

I know the movie... but is there some related bad pun?

[SeattleGirl]

12. You mean the ones who go six times around the block and sideways,

just to get from Point A to Point B?

Yep. They drive me nuts.

Are they trying to prove to me how smart they think they are?

Are they trying to prove it to themselves?

I find all that trying to be, well, trying.

[MrScorpio]

15. For times like that....

You need a baseball bat

[SeattleGirl]

17. Now there's an idea.

Hadn't thought of that one!

[Jamastiene]

16. My step dad does that all the time.

My family says I do it too, but at least I will straighten a picture without breaking out a tape measure, a calculator and a level. :crazy:

[Forkboy]

18. Yeah....me. Want to make something of it?

:silly:

[driver8]

19. My best friend does that. He is such a perfectionist that he hates

to make mistakes, so he over analyzes EVERYTHING!!

It drives me absolutely fucking crazy.

[MrScorpio]

20. Don't tell me...

He's unfamiliar with the notion of "Trial and Error"?

One day he'll get a clue... I hope