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gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13557 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
 Posted: 16-11-2012 19:20 Post subject: |
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| BlackRiverFalls wrote: | | taking photos of the local weirdo could be a form of harassment! |
For him or for you?! |
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bigphoot1 Great Old One Joined: 30 Jul 2005 Total posts: 880 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 17-11-2012 00:21 Post subject: |
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| BlackRiverFalls wrote: | | taking photos of the local weirdo could be a form of harassment! |
or worse than that, he might enjoy it |
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| monops Great Old One Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Total posts: 149 Location: Cambridge, UK Age: 51 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 17-11-2012 14:17 Post subject: |
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| bigphoot1 wrote: | | BlackRiverFalls wrote: | | taking photos of the local weirdo could be a form of harassment! |
or worse than that, he might enjoy it |
Hey, if you're lucky he might even pose for you...  |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 17-11-2012 16:13 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | For him or for you?! |
That's precisely the sort of thing I worry about 
He's a scary man though and I don;t want to come to his attention. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 19-11-2012 10:35 Post subject: |
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| Maybe he was raised by chickens, like one of those feral kids - a Fortean double whammy! |
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| uair01 Great Old One Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Total posts: 1108 Gender: Male |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17931 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-12-2012 16:53 Post subject: |
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Colonel Gaddafi keeping a low profile. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 09-12-2012 17:00 Post subject: |
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A friend of mine briefly shared a house with a couple who dressed a bit like this.
He called them 'the Venusians'.  |
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| FelixAntonius Outsider.
Great Old One Joined: 08 Aug 2001 Total posts: 1097 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 09-12-2012 18:09 Post subject: |
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I'm wondering if I'm turning into a "Strange Folk".
I was down at the Rochester Dickens festival last Sunday with my wife & various visitors were photographing us. Even though we were not dressed in a Dickens &/or a Victorian theme, just normal rural East Anglian. In my case moleskins & shooting jacket!
So far we haven't turned up on Flickr yet................
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 09-12-2012 18:43 Post subject: |
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| I might heading that way... admittedly I had some pics taken of me at Leeds pride by a random photographer which did materialise on Flickr shortly thereafter! |
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| SHAYBARSABE Great Old One Joined: 05 May 2009 Total posts: 1378 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 11-12-2012 23:58 Post subject: |
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Sikh? |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 12-12-2012 00:07 Post subject: |
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His get-up recalls the living-statues who are such a cliché here. Just the white-face make-up is missing and the starched scarf.  |
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| Ilikepencils Grey Joined: 05 Jan 2013 Total posts: 28 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 10:21 Post subject: |
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There was a guy in my city who used to walk around with an open book or magazine held up right over his face. Even when sitting on the bus or eating in a cafe he'd have the book covering his face. Weird.
Another used to wear multiple layers and a big anorak with a wooly scarf wrapped right around his head so only his eyes were showing, and would wear sunglasses. Even in the height of summer he'd be dressed like this. I wondered how he didn't collapse with heat exhaustion!
Finally a couple of years ago I was in a shop where another woman was also browsing close by, but she kept making loud grunting noises like a pig. What was so bizarre was that otherwise she seemed perfectly normal. I think she even had a couple of kids with her and was chatting to them, but when it went quiet she'd start grunting. Not sure if it was some sort of breathing problem or Tourette's but it was very disconcerting. |
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| garrick92 Invisible Flaneur Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Total posts: 700 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 17:10 Post subject: |
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| Dingo667 wrote: | | I just remember a lady I used to see when driving to work. I think it was in Roxton, Bedfordshire [near the Black Cat Roundabout]. This lady, in her 60s always looked like a Barbara Cartland book cover. Large brimmed hats, long [gold] gloves, long flowery dress and a parasol with lase trim. As much as I thought she was mad, I quite liked her for it. Maybe she just liked that look and went for it. Brilliant. |
I know exactly who you mean. She's still going strong, and is often seen around Bedford town centre in her outlandish home-made clothes (usually with a tartan pull-along shopping carrier in tow).
She's just a woman who does her own thing, and doesn't want publicity for it (when I worked on the local paper, the editor approached her to ask if she was interested in being interviewed as a local 'character' but she said no).
I don't know her name, and I didn't know she got as far afield as Roxton. Having said that, I have travelled on the same bus as her, so perhaps she commutes in to do her brightly-coloured work.
I wouldn't say she was in her 60s though -- late 40s to early 50s perhaps.
Often, when I see her in town, I am moved to give her a round of applause for her spirit, which she acknowledges with a graceful wave.
I'd love to know her personally and see what her house is like!
A couple of Bedford's other strange folk:
Sister Joy: A short (approx five foot), very round black woman who dresses in gaudy robes and head-dress, and goes around the town preaching the Word Of God at the top of her lungs. She has been known to chase shoppers down the high street, yelling "Sinners! Sinners!. I always assumed she was just a nutcase, but apparently she's associated with some local church. She writes obscure prophecies in a pseudo-copperplate hand and leaves them stuck to shop windows. (I've read a few, but forget the contents).
Carl Cerembik: A man in his mid-fifties who thinks he's a barrister, and carries a black robe with him in a holdall everywhere he goes. Often seen hanging around at the local Magistrates Court. Writes letters to important figures in the legal world and has their fuck-off replies ready to show anyone who expresses even the slightest interest (these make for unintentially hilarious reading, because CC takes a reply as a sign of interest, and so writes again, gets a reply and writes again, etc, etc, leading to a series of ever-more strained replies). The local legal bods held a Christmas party a couple of years ago, and CC tried to wangle his way onto the guest list. In the end, they let him man the tea-urn, which he took as a great compliment and a sign that he was on the up. Poor man. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 10-03-2013 17:59 Post subject: |
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I don't go into Bedford that often, although I live nearby.
When I do, I'll keep my eyes peeled for these local eccentrics. |
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