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Thread: What is the strangest thing you saw this week?
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jacobsen
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The photo was enough to bend my brain. I think it might be what is known as sensory overload. Lead me to some peaceful gloom....
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Ariel
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Looks pretty but a nightmare to walk on.
This morning's offering was a young woman getting on the train who immediately proceeded to do an exercise workout using the floor and poles. She was on all fours on the floor with her bum to the doors when the train slowed down to approach the next station. Unfortunately she got up and went off to do stretching exercises in a nearby seat before the train pulled in.
I hope she's not going to be a regular commuter. She managed to effectively block the entrance to the seats by standing there posing so other commuters couldn't get past her.
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Firenze
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One on from the women doing their makeup en route I suppose. Reminds me of a very funny sketch I saw some years ago where a woman gets on the bus in her dressing gown and then in a routine of wonderful comic gymnastics gets dressed under it while simultaneously talking continuously on the phone to her office.
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Piglet
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Or Mr. Bean going to the dentist. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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leo
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a young woman walked down my street this morning cleaning her teeth
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Jonah the Whale
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The other day I was out jogging when a guy cycled past in the opposite direction, juggling. Just like it was the most normal thing in the world.
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Daffodil
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I was just thinking that I had nothing to contribute to this debate, as I feel when I read most of the threads, then I looked outside and saw a rucksack hanging of the back of a chair, which was stood on a table.
Not an extra extraordinary sight, but odd enough to warrant a mention, especially if you do not know the saga of the cat up the tree which led to the rucksack, hanging from the back of a chair which is stood on the table.
By this morning, all that is left is the chair upon the table - reminiscent of a classroom in the dim distant past. Whilst this maybe unusual for this household, it would in no way qualify as "strange". ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Meanwhile I will go about my day, alert for "strangeness" ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Jonah the Whale:
The other day I was out jogging when a guy cycled past in the opposite direction, juggling. Just like it was the most normal thing in the world.
It would have been even better if he'd been on a unicycle, going backwards, and dressed in a pink wet-suit!
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Brenda Clough
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It was Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw a guy biking along with his bike togged out like a Viking warship. Corrugated cardboard formed the flanks of the ship and the dragon beak in front. There was also a mast and a square red sail, which must have made pedaling uphill difficult. The cyclist wore a horned helmet.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
It was Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw a guy biking along with his bike togged out like a Viking warship. Corrugated cardboard formed the flanks of the ship and the dragon beak in front. There was also a mast and a square red sail, which must have made pedaling uphill difficult. The cyclist wore a horned helmet.
Perhaps he was being Wagnerian? The Ring Cycle?
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jedijudy
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As I was sitting, eating my breakfast, there was a woman golfing (there is a golf course right by the place I was eating.) Unlike the other golfers who are all in golf carts, she runs to the tee, thwacks the ball, then with her clubs on her back, she runs across the course to thwack her ball again!
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Eigon
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I've just seen Paddington Bear, with a kid carrying his suitcase! He's advertising an event on Monday in aid of refugees, for which he was carrying a placard. And dancing.
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Ariel
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Getting stuck this morning in a queue of traffic behind two large Shire horses pulling a large yellow wagon, gaily decorated with flowers and ribbons, going at under 5 mph an hour.
Periodically I see an imperturbable driver with a pony and trap clopping into town in the quieter part of Sunday morning. Sometimes he has children with him. I love seeing this, it always makes me think of Gowther in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
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St. Gwladys
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We saw the sun on Bank Holiday Monday!
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Enoch
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The other morning I overtook a mother on a bicycle, followed by a small child in a helmet on a little bicycle. Nothing odd about that except that the mother was cycling along holding a pot mug of coffee in her right hand.
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Brenda Clough
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
We saw the sun on Bank Holiday Monday!
A dour London cabbie once assured me that it was the law that it always rained like the clappers on a Bank Holiday.
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Sparrow
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Saw and heard . . . in a "budget" clothing shop in London today. A woman asked the assistant if she could bring the clothing back for a refund if it didn't fit. She announced loudly that she couldn't use the changing room in the shop because she wasn't wearing any underwear today.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
We saw the sun on Bank Holiday Monday!
A dour London cabbie once assured me that it was the law that it always rained like the clappers on a Bank Holiday.
My mum reckoned that Whitsun week was usually sunny and that it got cold and damp in protest when Whit Monday bank holiday was fixed to the last Monday in May.
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leo
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I sometimes think that - but remember Whit Monday could be just as wet sometimes.
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Jengie jon
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A couple of weeks ago I notice a youthful horse-chestnut tree.
Jengie
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote:
Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
We saw the sun on Bank Holiday Monday!
A dour London cabbie once assured me that it was the law that it always rained like the clappers on a Bank Holiday.
Set by the folk in Brussels, no doubt, to spoil our fun?
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Wet Kipper
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I saw someone on what looked like an electric, self balancing Unicycle thing going along Princes St. in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
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Moo
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Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
I saw someone on what looked like an electric, self balancing Unicycle thing going along Princes St. in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
"self balancing" ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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Was it a Segway? I have ridden one -- fell off.
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Gamaliel
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Not particularly strange if you live near water, but striking nevertheless ... several families of goslings being ushered across a road towards a mere (a lake if you're not in the north-west of England) by their Canada Geese parents. I stopped the car and my wife got out to chivvy them across. Some of the goslings had decided to nestle in the middle of the road.
They waddled across and into the grass when my wife drew closer.
What else ...? A Shetland pony foal. Now that was pretty strange. It looked more like a puppy. The wee creature's head and hooves were out of proportion to the rest of it - but it was lolloping along and having a rare old time.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
Was it a Segway? I have ridden one -- fell off.
There certainly exists an electric unicycle with the same sort of self-balancing engine as a Segway. Here and here are a couple of different takes on the concept.
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Sipech
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Whilst out walking the other day, I had a pair of labradors come up to me, lined up, and then proceeded to engage in synchronised urination upon the adjacent bush. The timing of the leg lift was perfect, both in ascent and descent.
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Pigwidgeon
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Tonight was our final Symphony concert of the season -- next door to Symphony Hall is the Convention Center where Phoenix Comicon is taking place. I couldn't possibly say what was "the strangest thing I saw this week," but walking through downtown and riding the light rail were interesting! Even the concert* was designed to attract some of the Comicon kids. The young man in front of me was wearing a costume I couldn't identify and a turquoise wig.
(*The website now shows the concert being tomorrow evening -- Friday and Saturday evening concerts are the same.)
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A squirrel running halfway across the road and leapfrogging the bonnet of a moving car. No, really.
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Galloping Granny
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On my regular walks on the path through the bush I meet many interesting dogs (on leads, owners with little plastic bags).
The other day I met a dog walker with maybe nine dogs. I couldn't name them all; there was a beautiful Samoyed, two Corgis, and two of those small trembling terriers.
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Bene Gesserit
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A thing that made me chuckle . A chappie got out of his car and was was starting to walk to the house he was visiting just as the ice-cream van arrived. With a big grin on his face, he danced to the music of the chimes.
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Sipech
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On Saturday, when hunting around for holiday reading, I popped into two different branches of a small chain of bookshops (half a mile apart)...and was served by the same person in each one!
She was as confused as I was.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Not her twin sister, I assume.
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Helen-Eva
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Walking through central London on Saturday afternoon I saw a group of about seven women dressed as Victorian small girls - all hooped skirts and lace and ruffles and bonnets. If it was a hen party it was the oddest one I've ever seen. They were near the Wallace Collection so they may have been going for afternoon tea there.
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Nicolemr
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A fancy umbrella, more like a parasol, open, undamaged, just lying outside a building. It wasn't raining, either.
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Penny S
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Not this week, nor yet this year, but one hot day before Gove, I was reading to the class outside in the field when we saw a white lace parasol suspended in the air, level with the roof of the school and over the adjacent road, gently twirling. A short while later, a whirlwind came from the other direction, and crossed the playground and the school buildings, stirring up dust as it went. Apparently, it stirred the sails of a Viking longship on the wall in the assembly hall as it passed over - all the windows being open.
Somewhere east of Dartford generates the things on hot still days - we once had one cross the games field on sports day, lifting programmes up a couple of hundred feet.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Also some years ago, I saw a giant bottle of whisky drifting above the rooftops. A hot air balloon of course (rather than a Call to a more abstemious life. Just as well.)
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Penny S
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What is weird is that I saw something strange yesterday, and thought I ought to post it here, and can not, despite my best endeavours, recall a thing about it. Somewhere on my trip to Waitrose, it was, but that's it. Total blank.
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Baptist Trainfan
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It wasn't a case of what I saw, but what I didn't see. When I went to water the hanging flower-basket outside the front door yesterday, it wasn't there - nicked; pinched; gone walkies. Annoying, especially as crime is rare here.
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Wesley J
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Today, on the platform of a 9-track railway station: tall, balding man walking past, perhaps early to mid-60s, in the left hand an old Nokia-type mobile phone, those with the big keys and the small display - and in the right hand a sizeable magnifying glass, which he peered onto the screen with!
Human inventiveness!
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Wesley J
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Too late for ETA... Thus add-on: The man wasn't wearing glasses and proceeded at quite some speed, obviously used to it! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Banner Lady
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Loved seeing this!
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daisydaisy
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On the edge of a busy bendy road into the Big City today, a goat having a feast on the sort of grass that is always greener on the other side (I stopped to let the surprised owner know)
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Martin60
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Of seen nowt strange for years, but the last thing was a freshly lit cigarette smoking itself on a long empty path.
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The5thMary
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Where I live in Tacoma, WA there is a mixture of people. Some nice, normal, neighborly folks and then some holy roller Jesus freaks and then some crazy homeless people and then some crazy non-homeless people!
There is this odd woman I see all the time on public transit. She seems to be in her mid thirties. She usually has a very precocious girl child with her. Today the girl child was wearing black glittery high heels, a bright pink swimsuit, an large adult's t-shirt that was about ten sizes too big for her and fell to her knees, and a purple blanket with dinosaurs on it. Her mother was wearing raggedy jeans and no underwear--her rear end was on prominent display, and a shirt that was fashionable in the 1940's.
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The5thMary
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I should add: The girl is seven years old. She told that to some old man in the back of the bus. It was creepy.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I was driving round our town's Ring Road. A car was (badly) parked at the edge of the busy road. The driver was doing press-ups on the grass verge.
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Aravis
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Two things from my favourite walk in the park.
1. A tall, immaculately dressed woman in high heels and an expensive looking dress, expensive bag etc, walking a small dog. In her left hand she had a small bag of dog poo that she was trying very hard to pretend was nothing to do with her.
2. Five minutes after this I heard some loud shouting and swearing just off the path ahead. Other people seemed to be giving the area a wide berth. As I went closer I saw a group of teenage boys sitting on the grass huddled over some items I couldn't see. The conversation at that point went something like this:
"You ******** ********! *********!"
"What's your problem, you ******** **********?"
"I need a ********* yellow, you ********!"
Assuming this was drug related, I looked at them more closely as I went past...and found they were playing Uno.
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