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Baptist Trainfan
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Could be, if they were Irish (or "uilleann") pipes rather than Scottish ones. Bagpipes are not exclusively Scottish but are found in many places, especially those with a Celtic background. But they are not the same as each other.

So, for instance, I have seen and heard Scottish, Breton, Galician and Northumbrian pipes - and I'm sure there are more. (For instance there is a Transylvanian version).

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I was wondering that. Not wondering enough to ask the players, of course. That would have crushed my several pleasant minutes of idle speculation.

(I was going to make a joke about wanting to get out of earshot as fast as possible--but the truth is that the guy playing the pipes was quite good. This wasn't some amateur.)

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I got up one morning and looked in the mirror - very strange sight!

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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I got up one morning and looked in the mirror - very strange sight!

That's just begging to be made into a blues lyric! (Do I sense a thread coming on?)

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quote:
Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
I got up one morning and looked in the mirror - very strange sight!

That's just begging to be made into a blues lyric!
Let me get back to you [Smile]

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There's an elderly man who regularly does his shopping in my local Sainsburys on Friday afternoons, who sings love songs (rather well) in a loud bass voice as he walks around the aisles.
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LeRoc

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In a place where I walk regularly, there are three maple trees standing closely together. One of them has had new leaves since late January, all other trees around are still barren.

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A man in a suit and tie, standing outside a government building and cradling very gently what looked like two baseball sized fluffy pink pom poms.

I still don't know whether they were animate or inanimate objects. And I'm still wondering about it!

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Did they look anything like this? [Big Grin]

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quote:
Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Could be, if they were Irish (or "uilleann") pipes rather than Scottish ones. Bagpipes are not exclusively Scottish but are found in many places, especially those with a Celtic background. But they are not the same as each other.

So, for instance, I have seen and heard Scottish, Breton, Galician and Northumbrian pipes - and I'm sure there are more. (For instance there is a Transylvanian version).

Was the person playing them standing up (Scottish) or sitting down (Irish)? And were they blowing into them (Scottish) or using bellows under the arm (Irish)?

The uilleann pipes, by the way, for an shipmates who is unfamiliar with them, are a fantastic instrument, much more versatile than the familiar Scottish pipes, but quite demanding to learn.

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Banner Lady
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I live close to the city centre. It is a warm Easter Saturday afternoon. A rooster is crowing. Loudly.

[Confused]

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quote:
Originally posted by Banner Lady:
A man in a suit and tie, standing outside a government building and cradling very gently what looked like two baseball sized fluffy pink pom poms.

I still don't know whether they were animate or inanimate objects. And I'm still wondering about it!

Tribbles?

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An older man came out of the grocery store, pushing a cart with several bags. He stopped at a riding lawnmower parked outside, loaded the groceries, then drove away. The road he used is a busy four-lane street which is one of the heavier travelled routes in my town of 50,000. [Ultra confused]
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quote:
Originally posted by Oscar P.:
An older man came out of the grocery store, pushing a cart with several bags. He stopped at a riding lawnmower parked outside, loaded the groceries, then drove away. The road he used is a busy four-lane street which is one of the heavier travelled routes in my town of 50,000. [Ultra confused]

I think this post also works for "That scares the @#$!% out of me...."

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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
I occasionally see someone in the locality walking her ferret in a little harness (on the ferret that is, not her).

Awwwh! When I was a girl I used to walk my rabbit in a little harness [Smile]
Ha! When I was a very little boy, my mother used to walk me in a little harness! I think that was the done thing at the time, luckily somewhat out of fashion now! [Ultra confused]

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Wesley J

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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
There is nothing strange about owls! Everyone should have one.
[Razz]

I agree, and so, for a brief moment, appeared to do the Labour Party!

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quote:
Originally posted by Aravis:
There's an elderly man who regularly does his shopping in my local Sainsburys on Friday afternoons, who sings love songs (rather well) in a loud bass voice as he walks around the aisles.

I would totally follow him around the store.

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A couple of hours ago, it was absolutely pissing it down on one side of the house, and not a drop was falling on the other. Most bizarre. Mind you, we did also get a decent rainbow.

AG

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Originally posted by Sandemaniac:
A couple of hours ago, it was absolutely pissing it down on one side of the house, and not a drop was falling on the other. Most bizarre. Mind you, we did also get a decent rainbow.

AG

[tan] Not this week, I'm afraid, but some winters ago I was coming home from work on the bus one evening. It was cloudy but there wasn't a lot happening weatherwise.

As we got within a hundred yards or so of home, the road ahead exactly level with our house was totally obscured by what looked like impenetrable smoke. Cue much horror.

We drove into it and I heaved an almighty sigh of relief as it turned out to be a ferocious snowstorm with a boundary so sharp it could have been cut by a knife! [/tan]

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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A woman sitting in front of me in church had a tattoo on her back that read, "Cheerfully sweet."

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Went to the Queens Botanical Gardens with my daughter and son-in-law yesterday for my birthday. There was a man doing some sort of ritual practice exercise with a sword.

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Right, I live in the a very urban setting in Northern England. So I was getting the tram after work on Thursday and it being Easter week there were fewer commuters than usual.

The tram, however, was full, with over a dozen black urban youths. There visually was something odd about them; the one definite detail I could pinpoint was the Calvin Klien hat (yes it had that written all over it, no I am not sure it was genuine). However, then an adult with them said something clearly in French.

Now the only thing I can think of that is likely to attract them out that way is the Sheffield Wednesday grounds. That makes it even weirder.

Jengie

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LeRoc

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I saw sunshine yesterday. In England.

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quote:
Originally posted by LeRoc:
I saw sunshine yesterday. In England.

[Eek!]

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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
I always seem to miss the strange sights, but Daughter-Unit lives in the next town over and always sees stuff she really doesn't want to see. Naked (nekkid, as locals say) people dancing around is one of them. This week's version was probably number five over the past six or seven years.

Maybe your daughter-unit is seeing people whacked out on "flakka", a synthetic drug that is the scourge of Broward County, Florida and now moving into other parts of Florida. I just read about this dismal development this morning. I had never even heard of "flakka" until this morning. Google it and you, too, will learn of the strangeness of it all.

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Originally posted by la vie en rouge:
I was walking down the street when a pear tart dropped out of the sky onto the pavement right in front of me (the source turned out to be an overambitious seagull).

Well, my other half had a (dead) fish dropped on him by a seagull a few months ago, but I guess a pear tart is a bit upmarket from that! At least it missed you, unlike the fish, the debris from which took some getting out of his sweatshirt. As he quite rightly pointed out, a few inches to one side and it would have hit him on the head rather than the shoulder, so he didn't quite understand why I was laughing, and continued laughing throughout the half-hour we subsequently spent waiting for a train. And for that matter am still laughing when I think about it now.

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On my way home, I walk round the back of Westminster Cathedral, where last night I spotted the discarded remains of a very sorry-looking Christmas tree.

Is it some catholic tradition I've previously been unaware of that you keep the tree until the end of the tax year?

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This morning at the station a young man in a smart suit and shiny shoes with a long ponytail, big glasses and headphones was leaping, playing air guitar and singing loudly to himself as he danced down the platform, weaving his energetic way through the crowd of commuters and back again.

Nobody seemed to notice. It wasn't my regular train so I don't know whether this is an everyday occurrence and they're all just used to it.

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Yesterday I came out into the store parking lot to see at a distance my usually very normal acting older neighbor jumping, hopping, and appearing to dance in a very strange way. It turns out that a bee had flown up her pants leg. She is fine. She shook the bee out and stepped on it. I told her at her age I was very impressed by her moves.
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A winbdow cleaner washing my windows.

I hadn't asked him to - i suspect he went to the wrong house by mistake and someone else will get the bill.

I might have paid him except that he left smears and drove off before i had a chance.

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While I was driving today, I saw a lavender Ford Mustang (as opposed to a wild horse). It put a smile on my face!

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quote:
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
..., cars painted as cows and pigs ...

We have a leopard print smart car that drives around the local area. Also one with Dasterdly spray-painted on one side and Muttley on the other.
There is one in Henley covered in Astroturf!

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It must be on the move, I spotted it's evil twin a couple of days ago.

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Once I went to Disneyland and saw a Hummer tricked out to be a Tigger-mobile. Tiger striped paint-job, Tigger plushes in the rear window, faux tiger fur seating, the works. Parked in what seemed to be executive or VIP parking.

[ 15. April 2016, 22:29: Message edited by: Lyda*Rose ]

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In a cafe this morning. Nearby, a grandmother put a child in a carry cot on a ledge that was obviously far too narrow - the child and cot fell to the floor and there was a great fuss.

Some people are stupid.

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On the bus. Oldish chap wearing a grubby white fleece onsie under a knee-length rainbow striped cardigan. An amount of yellow knitting on his head which could roughly be construed as a hat. But cheerful: very, very cheerful.
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quote:
Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
It must be on the move, I spotted it's evil twin a couple of days ago.

There used to be a little car in Oxford made out of wood, shaped vaguely like a truncated pyramid.

There was also someone who used to cycle on a very long, low bike, lying down. He looked as if he'd be quite tall standing up.

And I have seen a tandem built for a family of three (is that a triadem?) but it's that kind of place.

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On the subject of odd cars, this passed me a few months ago.

AG

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I think if I saw that coming towards me, I'd assume that the Top Gear chaps were up to their old tricks. [Big Grin]

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In the grocery store today there was a display of what they called "dish pans" -- which looked like this.
[Confused]

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I saw a woman with very thick, black with grey around the edges...mutton chops. Just thick as can be, would make Elvis in the 70s look like child's play. She was working as a cashier in the groceries.

It wasn't the transgender thing that shocked me. It was the fact she didn't even shave. I say "she" as the hair was long in a nice bob and she had on lipstick. (What I'm used to is...like a church member going thru transition goes to electrolysis, wears dresses and looks very feminine. Not chops straight of of the 70s). I am not used to seeing this, so I was fascinated. I kept secretly trying to look at those glorious mutton chops, the way I would stare at a John Oats type mustache.

But wrong? I can't say it's wrong. And the only thing people cared about in my line was the talkative SLOW woman holding all of us up. The guy in front of me, turned and even grimaced in my direction as he was cussing up a storm mumbling in Spanglish.

But being Silicon Valley, nobody reacted. We just wanted to quickly buy our groceries and be out of there.

[eta: more flowery description.]

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talkative woman even apologized to the whole line. She was getting more stickers for her grocery game (you save them up and get a discount). Cashier was unmoved.

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Sarasa
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I bumped into a man coming out of his house with two dachshund puppies dangling from his hands (he was holding them by their collars). they looked very sweet with their little legs dangling, but mighty odd as well.

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The other day, on my way to work as I walked past St James the Less I passed a guy who was walking slightly slower than me. As I did so, he spoke to me (I was slightly irritated as I was reading a book as I walked) to ask me if we were heading north.

As it was just before 9am and the morning sun was directly behind us, I thought it should have been obvious that we were walking in a north-westerly direction. I said "roughly" rather than give an impromptu lesson in navigation.

He then said to me "So if I keep going, will I end up in Leicester?" I indicated that he would need to veer right just a little bit but that given we were both heading towards Victoria that he might want to consider a train or a coach as a quicker means of getting to his destination than walking. He indicated that they weren't viable options.

I've never considered walking from London to Leicester, though it's only 100 miles, so I'm not considering doing that after I finish the North Downs Way.

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M.
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I'd forgotten this!

The other day, I got out of the train with about 3 zillion other people and started walking towards the barrier. As there were a lot of us, we were walking close together and I was having trouble because the man in front of me appeared to have a very odd and uneven gait. I suddenly realised he was avoiding the cracks, just playing a little game to himself.

It made me smile.

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Sparrow
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I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was ...

Walking back from church last Sunday evening, I was passed by a car that stopped a few yards in front of me, the driver wound down his window and calmly tossed a takeaway box half full of chips out on to the road.

I was so shocked I just called something like "What?!" He gave me a dirty look like "Want to make something of it?", wound up the window and drove on without turning a hair.

[Ultra confused]

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L'organist
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I'm not sure this shouldn't be a Hell post...

This morning I arrived at church to discover that some of the guests for the baptism had arrived even earlier and had set up camp in the sanctuary, complete with blankets on the floor, baby-gym, etc, etc. Sidesman hadn't spotted (or was hoping it was a bad dream) so self and a member of the choir approached to point out that the area around the altar was going to be busy and they couldn't stay there.

This was greeted with incredulity and belligerence but eventually they moved to set up 'camp' at the back near the font.

At the end of the service we discovered they'd moved one of our rather fine pews - apparently without noticing that it was fixed into the floor [Confused] so now we have to repair the herringbone parquet floor and then re-fix the pew [Mad]

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Sioni Sais
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L'organist, that would have been perfect for any TICTH thread. May the Lord look over that child. [Votive]

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Golden Key
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The season finale of "Lucifer" tonight. Oh my my my! [Eek!] [Cool] [Big Grin]

Talk about unrestful theology!

Track it down and watch it online, on Fox. And there definitely will be a second season! w00t!

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luvanddaisies

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This isn't a real thing but an Internet thing, but its existence makes me happy and puzzled at where the concept originated.

Disney Princesses Re-imagined As Cement Mixers

It works, and someone has obviously spent time doing it, but what makes me unreasonably pleased to see it is the wondering of why they did so.

[ 26. April 2016, 22:20: Message edited by: luvanddaisies ]

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leo
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# 1458

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The wheelie bins are out tonight for collection tomorrow.

Looking out of my window, i saw a local, retired vicar and canon going down the street opening all the bins and looking inside.

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