Why do crazy people seem so fond of foil, plastic wrap and/or tape?

Keeps them from hacking into your brainwaves, maaan…

And they can’t afford a Faraday Cage, I guess

Foil stops people from reading your thoughts.
Plastic Wrap holds in any valuable sweat or genetic coding that could be stolen.
Tape just kind of holds it all together.

Foil is so perfectly shiny that it’s hard not to become fond of it.

I think that its not “people who are crazy love foil” but “people who love foil are crazy”. This is due to it’s shininess.

or the other way around, whichever one makes more sense

I love foil. I used to smooth it out with my nail obsessively as a kid. I always tried to make it like a mirror and then I’d get frustrated and ‘punish’ it by folding it and hammering it down over and over until it was a tiny dull square that no longer resembled it’s once shiny expansive glorious self.

I say this a lot on Fluther, but I was a weird kid.

It’s not that their “fond” of it,
when your living in a delusion*, that is terrorizing you (Eg: the government is tracking me by my thought’s so they can come and kill me) you would do anything to prevent that, (ie wear tinfoil on your head so the satellites can’t find you)

If you knew without a doubt that someone is going to come kill you and you knew a way to prevent that wouldn’t you?

delusion implies an inability to distinguish between what is real and what only seems to be real, often as the result of a disordered state of mind.
**speaking from experience: no matter how strange, unbelievable, impossible a delusion may seem to you, when your living one, it is EXTREMELY REAL very possible, and terrifying, even if you knew 10 minutes ago that this isn’t real, it’s in my head, once it starts all of that goes out the window, and with some when it goes out the window it doesn’t come back, so for the rest of your life you are in that delusion…

or
they are fond of it because it’s shiny.

Look at the amazon ads. They’re selling aluminum foil for 33 dollars. What a rippoff.

@Zack: Yeah WTF? Glad Wrap for $33.26? Who in the hell pays that price for Cling Wrap?

I don’t know, Mtl_zack.
33 dollars for keeping the government
from tracking my thoughts seems like a bargain!
Maybe it’s special foil.

Nimis, you think so? Lets get some…Or wait??? Is it a trap? Oh God wheres the foil when you need it?

My cat loves all 3 things. Maybe my cat is crazy, or maybe crazy people are really cats. Hmmm.

Or as in the case of the “Duct Tape Bandit Robs Liquor Store” in Lexington Ky, they think they won’t be identified.

@asmonet: I used to straighten foil obsessively too! And I made lots of small foil mirrors for my dollhouse.

But I’m not crazy. My mom’s the one with the unhealthy obsession for duct tape!

But duct tape can fix anything!

Yes it can. We use it here in WV to tape our doors and windows when we have to shelter in place when one of the chemical plants let out a chemical that is toxic. I am positive it protects me.

@laureth: I’m still crazy then. I own two of these. I have also made a duct tape minidress and duct tape shoes…many, many times through high school.

What’s not to love about foil, plastic wrap, and tape?

the stereotypical type of crazy are fond of those things… weird… i suppose it is because they can stretch, for the most part at least, as well as shape itself. creativity… idk, you might have to ask a crzy person.
“curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back”
i dnt know if that applies to a crazy person with sharp tin foil and seran rap…. yeah… ask when they don’t have it on them