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Thread: What is the strangest thing you saw this week?
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Oscar P.
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While driving home yesterday, I passed a man who was skating on rollerblades in the center turn lane of the busy major street. Besides the danger in dodging traffic, the temperature was about 94 degrees F with a heat index of over 100 at the time.
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Jengie jon
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Blown-up balloons is a church waste bin.
Now I am used to the shrivelled ones that were once full hanging up in church halls for months after the party and the odd popped one behind the sofa. However, in fully blown up ones in a waste bin where other users chuck left over food and hot tea bags just seemed odd.
Jengie
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St. Gwladys
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I've just been to the funeral of an elderly lady who liked pink. She had planned her own funeral, and we were all asked to wear something pink. I didn't expect the coffin to be pink, or that she would be taken out to "Lily the pink" or that the family car would be a pink stretch limo.
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Firenze
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Probably the Strawberry Moon (full moon + summer solstice) is going to win it for this week. And it actually is a pinkish gold. Forty-six years til the next one.
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Penny S
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The father of a small child, probably female, certainly too young to be properly aware of environment, holding her on the wall of the viewpoint at Addington Hills, and laying her upper body backwards over the fairly considerable drop. She couldn't see that she was over a drop, only her father and the sky. Nothing was said, either to the baby or between the father and the mother. Then they put her back in the pushchair and went away. I don't know where they went after that, as they hadn't got back to their car before me, and I had stood there a long time afterwards.
It was peculiar, but not bad enough to do anything about.
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St. Gwladys
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A sign as we drove onto Dartmoor warning of "Sheep lying on road" - and yes, they do.
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Firenze
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SHEEP SPEAK TRUTH - but you do not listen.
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Brenda Clough
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This came back to mind while I was posting over in the July Book Group. I was over in the local Barnes & Noble big-box bookstore, and they had all their dud items on a Clearance table. Marked down 80& off was a Walter White action figure. This is from the hit TV show Breaking Bad, which you may recall was a dark action drama involving violent and corrupt drug dealers in the Southwest US. He was complete with his orange haz-mat jump suit, his big face-filter and goggles that protects him from the dangerous fumes when he's cooking methamphetamine, and (I believe) a teeny plastic machine gun.
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Ariel
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Strangest thing seen this week: around 7.30 am, a little middle-aged, bespectacled Japanese lady in a simple dark grey kimono and Japanese shoes, making her solitary way along the main road in a not exactly cosmopolitan area. Whence? and why? and whither?
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Firenze
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I haven't see her for a while but there's a Japanese woman dresses in the kawaii style - all exaggerated little girl dresses, gingham and big bowd. Except she's palpably in at least her sixties.
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North East Quine
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My son observed an interesting situation this week. He went to the Police Lost and Found, where he overheard the following:
Policeman: "I'm sorry, but we don't have your trousers."
Irate man "If you've got my hoover, you must have my trousers"
Policeman "We have your hoover but we don't have your trousers"
Exit irate man, clutching a hoover.
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Piglet
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But was he wearing any trousers??? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Lamb Chopped
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Just got back from that fine old American tradition, thousands of people trying to leave the park at the same time after fireworks at 10 pm. While waiting, I looked across the street to see that there was a family with several little ones set up in the graveyard with fireworks and flashing lights and sparklers, having a great old time around a grave.
I tried imagining the backstory and decided I'd better stay out of it.
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Brenda Clough
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There is a long tradition of gathering in graveyards to picnic and have fun. More doable in rural and country cemeteries; doesn't often happen in urban settings.
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
There is a long tradition of gathering in graveyards to picnic and have fun. More doable in rural and country cemeteries; doesn't often happen in urban settings.
This is an inner ring suburb of St. Louis city, and I've never seen such a thing here. Particularly at night, with small children! It was focused on a single grave in particular--they stood surrounding it.
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Brenda Clough
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Gosh, you're right. There's a novel in there, possibly by Stephen King.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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A couple of years ago I gave a talk about a local suffragette to a church women's group. My talk included the fact that she was buried in the graveyard surrounding the church. The women asked if I could show them the grave, and produced a couple of torches from the church kitchen. So we all sallied out.
I got home to discover that someone had posted a "what is happening" query on Facebook. Apparently their window overlooked the graveyard and they thought that they had spotted bizarre scenes of suspected who-knows-what involving old women by torchlight in the graveyard.....
Fortunately I was able to quell the rumours before they got completely out of hand.
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Chorister
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Nope, still haven't seen anything strange. I lead a sheltered life...
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Sipech
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How does a conservative christian demonstrate the virtues of virginity using foodstuffs? Like this!
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Penny S
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That is vile and ignorant. (It represents the vulva, not the vagina, and assumes variants are the result of activities, which they are not. No wonder girls want cosmetic surgery.)
I can't process this - the mind behind it is beyond belief corrupted from normal thought.
Does this belong in Heaven?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Originally posted by Sipech:
How does a conservative christian demonstrate the virtues of virginity using foodstuffs? Like this!
I think we're better confining this thread to things we've seen in RL - rather than icky memes wot I found on the 'net.
While the image is not inherently NSFW, the accompanying commentary does move it into Brain Bleach territory.
Firenze
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Penny S
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As I was driving home about sunset, facing east, I spotted a faint rainbow against cloud, rather like a sundog, but in totally the wrong place. By the time I managed to find a layby, it was brighter, and another part of the arc had become visible to the left. Neither part extended down to the ground, and there was no trace of rain at ground level. It never joined at the top, became faintly double and then faded away. I did photograph it with my phone, but I don't think it has worked well colourwise.
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Callan
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Ray Winstone has just been cast as Tobermory in a remake of "The Wombles". Ray. Winstone.
Although, thinking about it, you'd totally pick up your litter with him around.
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Firenze
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Seeing as he's at a loose end these days, Boris Johnson could audition for Bungo. I mean, he wouldn't even need the makeup.
[ 08. July 2016, 10:27: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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Nicolemr
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I saw a delivery guy on a motorcycle going the wrong way on a one-way service road, quite in defiance of the law.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Down by the Aspley Basin in Huddersfield, a man riding a bike along the towpath. Where we saw him he was crossing the road, complete with vocal blue and orange parrot riding on the handlebars.
[ 10. July 2016, 14:21: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
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lilBuddha
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An artist is sued because he claims he did not paint.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Kneelers in a Presbyterian church.
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jedijudy
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While that is a fascinating story, lilBuddha, (and not icky at all!) I would like to remind everyone that Firenze has just posted that this thread should be about things we've seen in RL.
I do think that your post would be perfect for the Interesting miscellany thread, however, and I will copy it there for you!
jedijudy
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe:
Kneelers in a Presbyterian church.
There have been rumours of such in Presbyterian and Congregational churches for generations. It is normally the sign of a high Calvinian minister*.
Jengie
*i.e. one who seeks to put into practice Calvin's teaching on worship, not just a take on his theology or church government.
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Erik
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I was at a wedding, sitting inside, when I happened to glance towards the door in time to see a rubber chicken, attached to a number of helium balloons, go floating past about 2 foot above the ground.
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Sipech
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It's just gone 11:20pm and someone has walked past my window, down the road, playing a tuba! ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
I say playing; that's a bit generous. They were blowing down it and some sounds came out.
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Penny S
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A wren in my garden - hooray! Dismembering a butterfly or moth, or attempting to, while the insect attempted to escape. Oh dear!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Not seen but heard: a "spam" advertising phone call beginning, "Now that winter's here ...".
I know that the British weather is awful but ...! And that was the third time!
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Brenda Clough
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I occasionally cycle to work, and today I did. A deer was standing beside the trail. She did not look up as I passed, close enough to pat her. (I didn't -- we have deer ticks that spread Lyme disease around here.) She seemed to be pondering serious matters -- Brexit, or the world economy.
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Pigwidgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I occasionally cycle to work, and today I did. A deer was standing beside the trail. She did not look up as I passed, close enough to pat her. (I didn't -- we have deer ticks that spread Lyme disease around here.) She seemed to be pondering serious matters -- Brexit, or the world economy.
Given your location, probably contemplating getting out of D.C. after November's election.
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Pigwidgeon
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As I was driving a few blocks from my home I saw four teenage boys walking (not quite marching) single file. The first and last had drum sets around their waists, which they were playing. I stopped at a stop sign, and as they crossed in front of me the second (drumless) boy looked over at me and grinned as if he and I were in on some joke. There were no phones evident (!), no signs, no indication of what their purpose was -- but they made me smile.
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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A woman was riding a bicycle with frame covered in garlands of faux flowers. I spoke to her, she grinned, and said she has a string of lights as well and turns them on after dark. -- no more eccentric than I am.
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Nicolemr
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I saw a skunk snuffling around my bus stop last night. This is in the Bronx. I am told there are lots of skunks in that neighborhood, but I never saw one before.
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Sioni Sais
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There was me, outside, gardening today. That's pretty exceptional ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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Ariel
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A 6' tall youth on a tiny little purple bike, sized about right for a 6 year old, cycling the wrong way up the road and performing manoeuvres.
His girlfriend was clearly embarrassed by him and just kept on walking (on the pavement) as if she had nothing to do with him while he circled round and avoided oncoming traffic and got stared at by lots of passersby.
I'm guessing they were taking the bike home to be given to a child of a more appropriate size, but you never know.
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Sipech
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Yesterday, in Sainsbury's, the person in the queue next to me was buying 35 bags of ice. It seemed so excessive, I couldn't help but ask if the BFG was nearby and whether he had a sprained ankle.
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Moo
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I saw a car in the library parking lot with a license plate that said SWERVE.
I'm still trying to figure out what that's about.
Moo
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Lyda*Rose
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I don't know either, but I'd take it seriously.
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Wesley J
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Yesterday, in Sainsbury's, the person in the queue next to me was buying 35 bags of ice. It seemed so excessive, I couldn't help but ask if the BFG was nearby and whether he had a sprained ankle.
Sipech: and what did they reply?
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Baptist Trainfan
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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
Yesterday, in Sainsbury's, the person in the queue next to me was buying 35 bags of ice. It seemed so excessive, I couldn't help but ask if the BFG was nearby and whether he had a sprained ankle.
Perhaps he had an old-fashioned ice-box at home, and was Panic Buying in anticipation of the hot weather.
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Pigwidgeon
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In Arizona swimming pools become so warm in the summer that they're no longer refreshing -- more like a warm bath. I have heard of people buying large amounts of ice to cool off their pools. Somehow I doubt that this is the case where Sipech lives.
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