Yet another illusion of platinumdom...

What about the esteemed "thought-to-be good act of less than platinum" that turns out to be more like plastic.  It's like fools platinum.  I feel what your laying down my brother from another post.  And I feel like it needs to be drawn out a little.  

The thought-to-be-good act of less than platinum ....

is an honest card someone plays in a social situation: usually small group.  Most times the person in subject (call him subject A) is completely oblivious to their act of less-than-platinum.  They force themselves onto conversation without taking into consideration the finer details of social cues and awkward interaction.  It's just tough, because you know they don't even know that everything they do drives the social herd bonkers.  They just slide on through it.  

example:

I experienced an individual portraying these characteristics with some zeal.  After politely pointing out that his belligerent approach to social interaction was less than constructive (at this point it is appropriate to point out that I am the Deputy to the Director of Constructive Feedback, or something close)  he had the audacity to enlighten me on his supposed norms of human behavior and how he didn't give a flying fudgesickle what other people thought about him and he wasn't going to let anyone tell him what to do or how to be.  

Basically, my point is to pose a question to the greater platinum community. How do you deal with people who don't recognize they are not acting with platinum?  How do we stay platinum around plastic when the plastic thinks it's platinum?

oh yea and we invented a word this weekend: "outmazing"   

use it wisely...