Social Group Observation

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As an observer I made some observations.

We played a game of 'googenheim' or something. Either way, everyone takes a word (lets say Radio) then write it down. Then, you come up with categories such as 'holidays' or 'food.' Then, for each letter of the word 'Radio' you write down a food(or holiday, depending on which column you're on) that starts with each letter.. So:
R Radish
A Apple
D Danish
I
O Olive oil

You get it?

Anyways, if you cant think of something you can create something funny.. I love that because I love humour.. time to show these people I'm quite interesting when allowed to think..

Anyways, after we were done thinking of answers, we all form circle and say what we came up with.. if someone has what you put down, you get 5 points, if no one does, you get 10 and if your answer sucks you get 0..

So, we started.. I was second in line and gave off my answers.. we made it one round before the socializers starting yelling what they had.. It turned into a free for all.. APPLE!! ! ASPERAGUS!! !! !! !! !! I HAD APPLE!! !! !! !! !! ! 10 people all screaming for some reason.. we had an order but no, socializers had to start barking and screaming.. I had some very funny answers listed but I didnt say them because
1) The order of giving off answers was broken
2) everyone was screaming and theres nothing worse then saying a joke, having 3 people who heard it laugh, then having to 'repeat it' because the others were being loud morons.. Its not funny repeating a joke, its redundant. Jokes need a 'lead in' to work, you can just shout off a punchline, you need to work it..

HAD we followed the rules, like 3 out of the 10 people tried to do, we would have heard everyones answer, heard all the joke answers and had fun BUT, instead, we heard all the lame answers and a bunch of yelling and a great demonstration of what happens when people dislike order and just want to have a shouting match..

Next time, I hope they shout out 'moron' and 'stupid' under the category of 'what you are'
R ret*d
A as*hole
D Disorganized
I Idiot
O ordinary

My point is merely that I couldnt understand what all the yelling was for.. it was chaos, I remember actually thinking to myself 'this is disgusting! Is this how government is run?? How can anyone learn anything from this? Its like the whole room is sharing one thought and adding to it (with nothing new), just yelling.'

*the following was written with sarcastic attempt at humour based out of truth resulting from 'hanging out with normals'

I went back to my cave and relaxed

That's just plain rediculios! The nerve of some people.

Well, they were acting normal. So;

Normal is screaming and shouting and being as loud as possible as to hear your voice over others

Sounds like some people need to learn how to take turns. I think people(extroverts particularly) love to talk just for the sake of talking. It sounds like they got caught up in the action and wanted to say their answer before anyone else.