Stupid? Well, stupidly self absorbed at least
I had the misfortune to work with someone who managed to be both new age and incredibly selfish at the same time. She was into Raikki (is that what it's called?) and homeopathy (oh, wait, THAT definitely qualifies as stupid, I AM on topic). I'd plug my music on and try to drown out her incessant rattle all day, and I know that just EVERYONE has an annoying colleague who can't help but provide a running commentary on the inannities of their day, so I won't go into detail. But her selfishness was on another level to anything I have ever known. Just three examples off the top of my head that beggar belief:

When her cat was ill and the vet said somthing akin to 'have one more night with her, and bring her back in the morning to say goodbye', she took her back a week later and told us 'I knew she was in pain, but not as much pain as I was at the thought of having to say goodbye'

When a colleagues son died of cancer, miss selfish said to me 'My neighbours son died of cancer too. Why do these things always happen to me?'

And, despite also being married herself, the wife of the man she was verging on having an affair with jumped off the multi storey car park roof and ended up in a coma, she said 'He'll have more time to spend with me now'.

I hated that woman.

Oh...oh...one more I just remembered. September 12, 2001. Her first words to me that morning were 'Can you believe what happened. It had to happen on my daughter's birthday didn't it?'
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 8:54, 2 replies)

Reiki
Based on the idea that hand-waving makes you better.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 10:58, closed)

the queen mum did a lot of waving, and lived to almost 200. There may be something in it.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:06, closed)