do you mean torroid? i suggest a donut for him to sit on. get it? torroid=donut? ahahahahaha! oh, i made my ribs hurt. physics is so funny.

Amethyst, I think you are right. I don't know the guy well, and have never met him, but I suspect that this obsession has by now taken a firm hold on him and could be affecting his real life. I don't know if this will really help considering how bad he sounds, but I have two suggestions.

First, let's try saturation therapy. Sometimes an obsession or addiction can be overcome by over-exposing the sufferer to the substance of their addiction.

If that does not work, then I think he needs to be moved far enough away from his environment and whatever in it is causing this fixation, that he has time to relax and come back to his normal self. We need to start up a collection to send him to somewhere. Maybe Vantaa or Kauniainen. About two weeks ought to do the trick.