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    My nutjob brother is at it again. He is now homeless and Spain kicked him out because he has no job, no savings and no visa. So he's back here living in his car.

    His GF split up with him because he owes her £30k.

    He went to my mothers house to get a shower and started lecturing her that soap and shampoo will give her cancer or some shit then he got a load of lemons and washed with lemon juice.

    He's absolutely off his tits.
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      Editing … I actually believe the stuff about the shampoo. This guy washes himself using only vinegar: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LNedlg1mQMw He also enters stores without a shirt.
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      Editing … No! not the vinegar! That's like a modern version of an old wives tale. Whenever some ingredients seems bad, people immediately want to replace it with something that is 100% pure and holy in their minds (but often it is really not well thought out and vinegar is just too damn acidic for skin and hair). I'm sure there are things in shampoo that are bad for you. When I smell most people's shampoo and perfume I almost die. It just smells like synthetic death, but of all bad things people put in an on themselves I think shampoo is pretty low on the list of worry.
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      Editing … Spain seems like a great place to be homeless. Granada even has a little "free" camping spot for cheap travelers and hobo's right next to the Alhambra. There is free fruit and nuts everywhere growing on the trees. So he got kicked out huh? Seems like your bro is very neurotic. Seeking control in little things. He's probably stressed I bet. Does he seek help to get his life on track? Maybe his neurotic tendencies will go away a bit then. He's not in psychosis is he?
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      Editing … That's where he bought a house, near Granada. He borrowed 30k off his ex and put just 5k in himself afford it. He had the money himself but he needed 25k in the bank plus 3k for a visa that only lasts a couple of years before you have to renew.. But then he never worked so spent all his money and now he can't live in Spain ever because he's broke so he is going to have to try sell the house from the UK and pay his ex back and start again from nothing. He's mental, he just makes bad decision after bad decision and ignores us. He won't work because the government just use us and fuck the man. Plus he's into every conspiracy going, everything is a lie.
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      Editing … Lemons are actually great for washing the bathroom. I'm not so sure about the body, though …
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      Editing … I stopped taking vinegar altogether bc I hear it damages not only your tooth enamel but also your stomach lining. I'm willing to believe the health benefits are overstated, if there even is any.
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      Editing … I have vinegar on my fish n chips. And lemon slice in my vodka n coke. They go inside your body not on the outside.
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      Editing … But like, why is he so dumb? And why is he into every conspiracy? He's into this great reset thing and thinks Trumps votings were rigged to get him out etc etc.
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      Editing … Oh and because I wouldn't lend him the 25k so he could stay in Spain another few years I'm the bad person. I'm a narcissist and jealous apparently.
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      Editing … There is a difference between eating a splash of vinegar wit your meal which is healthy and chronically washing yourself in it and drinking it pure from a glass what some people do. That is when it becomes bad.
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      Editing … Yeah, don't lend people money who have squander it. They have demonstrated that they cannot be responsible. Nobody is entitled to borrow your money. You did the work and you sat in a fat chair driving for hours and hours. He sounds like he needs to be confronted with the consequences of his choices. You can help him if he really needs it sure. but if you bail out people constantly they will never become self-reliant. But I bet it is hard to dig yourself out of a hole like that. Is there no guidance for this sort of thing?
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      Editing … I don't lend anybody any money ever. I got burned too many times. I'd like to help him in other ways, help him get his head in the right place but you know what these conspiracy theory nutters are like, they know everything and we're just sheep that follow what the media are telling us. I just can't get through to him by using rational arguments because he has an answer for everything. About all I can think of right now is letting him live in his car might teach him a lesson?
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      Editing … Yup, don't argue with someone who does not listen. You don't have to convince anyone of anything. You can say what you believe even if the other does not like your opinion but there is no need to argue. Just a waste of breath. There is nothing to win or prove. Throughout the ages people have believed things that others thought was insane but even then you can find common ground. Even if it is something simple as food or enjoying a sunny day. It's tough love to let him sleep in his car but may be the best thing that could happen to him if it gets him to change. It's the bed he made for himself. If it's winter and he's still like that maybe it's different. People freeze to death in winter, even in a car. But spring is here so he's got months until it's that cold. I bet he needs an address though to get a job and receive mail... Is he registered at your mom's place or something?
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      Editing … That sounds pretty awful, to have someone who you hope would get better, but who's so delirious they can't be led to reason
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      Editing … He's not registered anywhere, he's not paid tax or anything for years. Nobody will let him stay at their place either because they will have to pay more council tax. He's always been a weird one, from about 16 he used to go around telling everybody he was going to be a millionaire soon.
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      Editing … @husky it's everything. If I put a sugar in my coffee I get a 60 minute rant about the dangers of sugar. If I turn on the tv I get a rant about tv licence fee and it's all corrupt. We can't have any conversation without him just turning it into a big conspiracy rant. Not even soap is safe. He has some serious mental issue going on. I don't think he's ill, he's just really unhappy I think and needs something to be right about.
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      Editing … yeah that is difficult. All you can do is try to keep tabs on him and be there when he really needs it. I hope he finds a way out of this hole somehow. Maybe he should start with a post address even if it's not a residence. It's difficult to get one without you living somewhere but I hear homeless people get one so it is possible. Is he good at something particularly? maybe focusing his positive side can lift him up a bit? If your whole life is shit then maybe that can at least give you something to hold on to to keep you in a more positive headspace. But it sounds like he needs professional help but he also sounds like someone who would not be open to it. Also my sister says British mental care is shit. Even kids with an extremely traumatic past can't get help on time.
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      Editing … What do you often find is the appropriate response when he goes on his crazy rants? When online culture warriors try to start shit in real life, or outside their insular online community, I usually find it's easy to shut them up by quietly treating them like a crazy person. But I'm guessing that doesn't work so well with the hardcore conspiracy theorists who are used to be treated that way?
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      Editing … When I try to explain anything he just say's I'm a sheep fooled by the media and the government own the media. He say's he will be proven right one day when society collapses. It's impossible to have any kind of conversation along those lines. @Klem he used to be a truck driver and all he had to do was attend a 1 day course costing £50 and he could have kept his licence for another 5 years. I told him 218651288 times to just do it in case he ever needed money and that he could start at my work the very next morning because we're always short of drivers. He didn't want to do it and now his CPC expired so he would have to take a weeks training followed by a test which is about £400+.
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      Editing … There's flouride poisoning our water supply to keep the population under control, and plastic bottles are turning men gay because it leaks into the food. There's a secret world government of course and King Charles is in it somehow. He did tell me but it made no sense so I don't care.
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      Editing … But how can he prepare for a society collapse when he's got no supplies? If he was a serious conspiracy theorist he'd have a bunker, a house in the woods, a homestead and a 5 year supply of food. The driving test does not sound too bad. It's doable.
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      Editing … Yeah, for some reason Spain isn't going to collapse like the rest of society so he doesn't need a bunker..... I don't get it. He said special forces were going to kill Trump too. The list is endless.
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      Editing … Oh, he spent loads of his money buying silver too he said it would be currency in an apocalypse. But what good is silver if you're hungry? Anyway, the price of silver didn't go through the roof like he told me and he didn't become a millionaire.
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      Editing … I think that he thinks he's better than the average person but his life isn't going as he wanted it. So he needs some way to prove what's in his head.
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      Editing … Ah, he can always sell his silver then to buy a trucker's license. Seems like he needs to crash with reality. If he can acknowledge his life didn't go like he thought in his head, he has to confront what his life is now. Maybe then he will be able to have his bunker filled with food one day or at least a roof over his head.
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      Editing … I want an Isabella proof bunker with a years supply of beer
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      Editing … man cave.
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