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Title: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on February 14, 2009, 08:18:46 PM: I don't know where to put this, but today I went to put my laundry in the coin washers we have at our apartment complex. I did this quite some time ago, around noon, and was just preoccupied until now when I went down realizing I'd better get them in the drier.

I found all my laundry sitting on top of the washer it had been in, dried, folded neatly, and sorted into two piles. The socks were even rolled up in pairs.

Sometimes other people need to use the machines and will dump your shit out onto the nearby table in the laundry room if you leave your stuff there in their way for a while. This, though, has never happened. I just realized this means whoever did this even paid 50 cents for my laundry to dry.

It's obviously some random act of kindness, and I should be glad, but to be honest it's so unexpected I'm actually a bit unnerved.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on February 14, 2009, 08:20:46 PM: What you don't see is the tiny, tiny robots

I mean

uh

you're welcome
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on February 14, 2009, 08:24:22 PM: Will the tiny robots fold my shirts like that again? Because seriously, this is impressive in a freakish OCD sort of way.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 14, 2009, 08:34:46 PM: That happened to me once. Then someone threw a load of my still-wet laundry onto the floor in front of the dryer, so I guess it balances out!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on February 14, 2009, 08:45:28 PM: that's small potatoes man
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Post by: Ted Belmont on February 14, 2009, 08:46:20 PM: It was a really dirty floor.
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Post by: Brentai on February 14, 2009, 09:50:57 PM: My sister and I used to do that all the time for people, as long as they weren't repeat offenders (which there were several). It was a compromise between courtesy and practicality, because there were people in that place who would simply beat you if you took their clothes out of the dryer.

Note that this was mostly my sister's idea. I'd have just thrown their shit on the floor and waited for the beatings.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Guild on February 14, 2009, 10:17:33 PM: i'd have lit that guy's shit on fire and left it on his doorstep
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on February 14, 2009, 10:20:48 PM: I'd think twice before messing with someone who could light wet laundry on fire.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Guild on February 14, 2009, 10:35:09 PM: i'd dry and fold them first
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Post by: Brentai on February 14, 2009, 11:18:09 PM: That's pretty hardcore.

In a laundry-folding sort of way.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: McDohl on February 15, 2009, 07:49:57 AM: Man, I don't know how many people's clothes I dried when I was living in the barracks back when I was in the Navy. We had about 20 people to a floor, and 4 washing machines to go between us, and one was dodgy at best. So we'd end up with overlaps of people wanting to do laundry, and nobody sat with it. So, if a load was done in the washer, and I wanted to wash clothes, I'd take the load from the washer, set it on the table, go to the dryer, pile up the finished load in there on top, load the dryer with the wet load on the table, THEN load the washer with my load.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Arc on June 05, 2009, 09:36:27 PM: Was selling online _______, when a potential buyer inquired about the condition of a particular ______.

Name appeared familiar. Answered and further inquired. The reply was as surprised as my own.

Miss Cat Ears Lives.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kayma on June 05, 2009, 09:41:25 PM: Huh. Small internet.
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Post by: King Klown on June 05, 2009, 09:49:47 PM: :facepalm: So random acts of kindness are weird to you all.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on June 05, 2009, 10:06:43 PM: Quote from: Arc on June 05, 2009, 09:36:27 PM
Was selling online _______, when a potential buyer inquired about the condition of a particular ______.

Name appeared familiar. Answered and further inquired. The reply was as surprised as my own.

Miss Cat Ears Lives.

god dammit, Arc, what is this in-the-know bullshit.

Pot? Blowjobs? My Little Pony dolls? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU IMPLYING
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kazz on June 05, 2009, 10:40:53 PM: MCE wanted to be my internet girlfriend once. Cause I looked hot in one picture of me in cat ears once, I guess. I told her I thought it was sort of an impractical idea and said no. I don't really know why I did that, she's pretty cool.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on June 05, 2009, 10:43:49 PM: Quote from: Kazz on June 05, 2009, 10:40:53 PM
MCE wanted to be my internet girlfriend once. Cause I looked hot in one picture of me in cat ears once, I guess. I told her I thought it was sort of an impractical idea and said no. I don't really know why I did that, she's pretty cool.

...you mean the one of you ass-naked?

EDIT: Added proper hyphenation. -Thad
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kazz on June 05, 2009, 10:47:58 PM: Let's just say I'm fairly certain she would never again consider being my internet anything.
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Post by: Niku on June 05, 2009, 11:46:21 PM: WHO THE FUCK IS MINUS THAD
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Post by: Alex on June 06, 2009, 12:06:05 AM: It's NegaThad! He'll dismiss your citations and corrections and tell you he's wrong all the time!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Catloaf on June 09, 2009, 09:53:13 PM: I'm not sure if this should go here or "what I learned today". I guess it's better here because, I don't think it normally happens.

While unsuspectingly walking into a cloud of allergens just after my allergy meds have worn off, it all strikes me at once and just like in a videogame, my vision blurs for a moment as ~~the controller rumbles~~ er... I suffer a very minor convulsion of just a few muscles, and I a moment later I slowly fall over and catch myself on the ottoman in front of me.

I guess I need to equip an anti-poison accessory.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Guild on June 09, 2009, 09:58:35 PM: I guess sometimes life imitates art.
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Post by: Brentai on June 09, 2009, 10:21:12 PM: What do you keep in your house that you're that allergic to?
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Post by: Lottel on June 10, 2009, 02:18:32 AM: Arsenic, space bees, colorful frogs.

The like.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on August 26, 2009, 07:11:57 AM: Quote from: Arc on June 05, 2009, 09:36:27 PM
Was selling online _______, when a potential buyer inquired about the condition of a particular ______.

Name appeared familiar. Answered and further inquired. The reply was as surprised as my own.

Miss Cat Ears Lives.

Oh yea that was very unexpected. But my friend loved her birthday gift.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on August 26, 2009, 09:36:33 AM: Hello mce

Quote from: Guild on June 09, 2009, 09:58:35 PM
I guess sometimes life imitates art.
:negative: Videogames aren't art.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Doom on August 26, 2009, 10:30:11 AM: Quote
Videogames aren't art.

(http://doom.pyoko.org/FinalAtomosRage.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on August 26, 2009, 10:41:36 AM: See? That's art. :perfect:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on August 26, 2009, 03:23:36 PM: If you read it from bottom to top, a shocked person is calming down.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on August 26, 2009, 03:36:35 PM: It looks more like he's absorbing ambient energy for an even bigger ragesplosion.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on August 26, 2009, 03:39:44 PM: Do you imagine that the camera is zooming in, or that his head is just inflating? I like to think it's the latter.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Sharkey on August 27, 2009, 11:20:15 AM: When walking to work one morning I was waylaid by a smallish Asian woman. Saw her coming a way off. Looked fairly normal, nice bag, nice shoes, clean hair. Kind of unnotably attractive. Nothing that would outwardly proclaim "I'm a crazy person." She deviated her course a few times to end up in front of me, kind of like that awkward thing that happens when you try to walk around someone at the same time, except deliberate. She stopped uncomfortably close to me, looked up, and began babeling. Now, this wasn't just some language I'm unfamiliar with. It was a full-on speaking-in-tongues stream of nonsense. Short, one syllable repetitive "PaPaLaLaMaMaSaSaKaFaFaDaRaMaBaBaRaRaTa..." just going on like that. Her expression was pretty much blank. Not distressed, amused, or even concussed. Just calm and a bit detached. This went on for about a full minute before I finally said "I'm sorry, I don't understand you." She cocked her head slightly, and without another "word" just walked on past. If it was a lame prank she had the world's best poker face.

I still half suspect that if I listened too long I would have ended up infected with Snow Crash or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Fortinbras on August 27, 2009, 11:27:28 AM: the second you were up to the spew of syllables I was reaching for a Snow Crash joke. Nuts.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kazz on August 27, 2009, 11:29:21 AM: that particular spell apparently takes way too long to cast.

fyi, she was going to turn you into a small Asian woman.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on August 27, 2009, 11:30:12 AM: It happened to Arc, and it can happen to you too!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: The Artist Formerly Known As Yoji on August 27, 2009, 02:45:25 PM: Quote from: Kazz on August 27, 2009, 11:29:21 AM
that particular spell apparently takes way too long to cast.

fyi, she was going to turn you into a small Asian woman.
learn 2 cantrip, n00b!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lady Duke on August 27, 2009, 03:16:30 PM: Sounds sadly schizophrenic.
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Post by: TA on August 27, 2009, 03:54:31 PM: and/or pentacostal.
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Post by: François on August 27, 2009, 04:03:30 PM: I've been somewhere people pretended to speak in tongues once. It was obviously random latin words spoken almost unintelligibly fast. I left when they told the audience to jingle their keys to get God's attention.

That was the last time I let my mother drag me someplace.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: TA on August 27, 2009, 04:10:55 PM: Maybe they're on to something. If you think of God as a giant cat then parts of the old testament start to make a lot more sense.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on August 27, 2009, 04:19:22 PM: TA is playing with fire...
HELLFIRE! :gasp:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 18, 2009, 10:20:09 AM: Heh. So I just remembered something funny from a couple of days ago.

I was driving over to my folks house, down this road that gradually turns into an expressway, when I saw something keen.

An opaque navy blue GMC van of late 1970's vintage, the short funny kind (as opposed to the creepy candy-in-the-van type), with the little black teardrop bubble windows farther back. This throwback was piloted by an nominally middle aged surfer-looking fellow. He was wearing a dun-coloured tank top, sported Top Gun shades and a lovely tan, and was coiffed with the grandest sort of hair metal 'do, in a lovely shade of natural orange-blonde. He lazily lounged behind the wheel, window down, cigarette lit.

As he accelerated past me into the express lanes, I could hear the strains of AC/DC's 'Problem Child' blaring away.

While the thought of shouting out "Duuuuuuude! Which way to the EIGHTIES?~" briefly flitted through my head, I was too enthralled by the magnificent vision of this unabashed refugee from the past to do more than watch with a silent salute to the living breathing Rock n' Roll Mystery Machine.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: McDohl on September 18, 2009, 10:24:46 AM: Obviously that was a time machine.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 18, 2009, 10:25:37 AM: :america: EIGHTY-EIGHT MILES PER HOUR.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on September 18, 2009, 10:28:03 AM: when i was in the psych hospital yesterday one of the patients there definitely had a journal with the page that i could see labeled 10-31-09

i was slightly worried and still am
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 18, 2009, 10:47:24 AM: Maaaybe he was just obsessively planning ahead?
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Post by: Doom on September 18, 2009, 10:55:33 AM: Maaaaybe he is! (http://www.onemanga.com/Death_Note/)
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Post by: Lottel on September 18, 2009, 10:59:11 AM: Maybe he really COULD see into the future and predicted 9-11.
People thought he was crazy and they shoved him in a psych hospital.

Now he spends his days worrying about the next attack and he warns all who listens. But they have closed minds and are too foolish... Too damn foolish.

WHEN WILL THEY LISTEN?!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 18, 2009, 11:08:33 AM: Maybe he's got a pretty awesome costume going this year.
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Post by: Disposable Ninja on September 18, 2009, 12:13:25 PM: I bet he's going to go as a craaaazy escaped mental patient.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 18, 2009, 12:20:11 PM: (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1862;type=avatar)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Shinra on September 22, 2009, 07:41:26 AM: On the way to work this morning, when stopped at a traffic light just off the turnpike, I spotted an elderly man - probably in his late 60s or early 70s. He was dressed in a flannel shirt, with jeans, cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat. It was about 60 degrees outside, and raining.

The old man walked bow-legged from too many years working on a farm riding a horse. He was picking up cans off the side of the road. I don't know why he was picking up cans, but it filled me with profound sadness.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 04, 2009, 12:45:47 PM: Awesome name time: There's a Indian realtor in Scarborough. His name?

Punch Sockalingham.

That's right, the guy's name basically reads "Punch Dickpunch". He's like some supercharged house-selling Indian Saxton Hale.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on October 04, 2009, 01:40:18 PM: Are we talking Native American Indian or Indian from India? It being Scarborough, I'm guessing the latter, but you never know. Because now I'm picturing a Sikh, naked save for his dastar and five Ks stepping into an MMA ring.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 04, 2009, 01:58:29 PM: Quote from: Beta Ray Büge on October 04, 2009, 01:40:18 PM
Are we talking Native American Indian or Indian from India? It being Scarborough, I'm guessing the latter, but you never know. Because now I'm picturing a Sikh, naked save for his dastar and five Ks stepping into an MMA ring.

You are correct: East Indian (I thought the name itself would clarify that, but I suppose you never know).

I just picture this:

(http://www.ageofempires3.com/asiandynasties/images/leftTray_india.jpg)

YOUR HOUSE SOLD, OR THEIR WALNUTS WILL GRACE YOUR PLATE!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on October 04, 2009, 01:59:10 PM: And that guy's name is Dickpunch?
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Post by: Mongrel on October 04, 2009, 02:01:07 PM: Quote from: Brentai on October 04, 2009, 01:59:10 PM
And that guy's name is Dickpunch?

A lingham is a phallic object present in various elements of Hindu mythology (mostly as Shiva's hat). :mahboi:

Punch. Sock-a-lingham
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on October 04, 2009, 02:35:40 PM: I mean claw guy. His name is Dickpunch.

He has claws.
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Post by: Büge on October 04, 2009, 07:08:45 PM: Bad dates, Indy.
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Post by: yyler on October 09, 2009, 02:10:30 PM: EVER DREAM THIS MAN? (http://www.thisman.org/)
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Post by: Kazz on October 09, 2009, 02:45:34 PM: no. never.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: yyler on October 09, 2009, 02:48:49 PM: I think the best part is that the theories page goes as far as to say he's God or a dream surfer but not that his face is just the average of all facial features.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on October 09, 2009, 05:43:35 PM: Well, at least everyone isn't dreaming of THAT MAN, or else we'd have to start a Guilty Gear Dream Puns thread.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Burrito Al Pastor on October 10, 2009, 01:45:48 AM: I have my own theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Carter) about that guy...
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on October 12, 2009, 05:48:23 PM: (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2673/4007162730_13e724be5d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/royalconstantine/4007162730/)

Today I saw a wizard.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 19, 2009, 05:44:15 AM: I think this belongs more in this thread than the work thread.

I was in the kitchen of our office building just now, getting some water. They have a big TV there, permanently stock on the local ADD news-ticker channel. So a story come on about a big electrical fire on the roof an office building in Toronto last night. They show some footage of the fire crews on the scene. They have pictures of the building and list the address.

Then I realize: That's MY BUILDING.

THE ONE I'M IN RIGHT NOW.

AND I WORK ON THE TOP FLOOR.

:mikey:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 19, 2009, 07:57:43 AM: So uh, apparently even our building staff didn't know the roof was on fire last night. :facepalm:

When I asked the receptionists "Did you know the roof was on fire last night?", they first thought I was trying to use Bloodhound Gang lyrics as an incredibly creepy pickup line.

:nosir:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Envy on October 19, 2009, 08:10:00 AM: Quote from: Mongrel on October 19, 2009, 07:57:43 AM
When I asked the receptionists "Did you know the roof wa son fire last night?", they first thought I was trying to use Bloodhound Gang lyrics as an incredibly creepy pickup line.
So when he posted this I immediately got a picture of Zapp Brannigan doing this video instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvd-C7bw8g
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on October 19, 2009, 09:35:43 AM: ... as a spoken word piece.

:perfect:
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Post by: Envy on October 19, 2009, 08:59:47 PM: Not really weird more life threatening fear though it snuck close to that weird sense. Driving down the road we stopped on teh side of the road since it was late. A wolf crossed the road and even walked up standing up against the hood and I swore it was looking straight at me then walking off. It was around 2-3 feet tall on all fours. Not unusual considering the area but just odd.

In before frocto goes lol furry or some stupid crap.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on October 20, 2009, 03:28:47 AM: Quote from: Envy on October 19, 2009, 08:59:47 PM
In before long-drawn-out argument over furries necessitating no less than a threadsplit, followed by Thad showing up in three days to ban me or some stupid crap.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 20, 2009, 05:37:35 AM: I think that that's actually the preferred method for getting Thad to appear.
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Post by: Brentai on October 20, 2009, 08:08:42 AM: You have to awkwardly mix the furries with androids.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 20, 2009, 08:29:28 AM: Quote from: Brentai on October 20, 2009, 08:08:42 AM
You have to awkwardly mix the furries with androids.

Soooo... Sonic the Hedgehog comics?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on October 20, 2009, 08:51:22 AM: Quote from: Mongrel on October 20, 2009, 08:29:28 AM
Quote from: Brentai on October 20, 2009, 08:08:42 AM
You have to awkwardly mix the furries with androids.

Soooo... Sonic the Hedgehog fanfics?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Niku on October 20, 2009, 09:29:36 AM: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
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Post by: Frocto on October 20, 2009, 09:54:01 AM: Quote from: Envy on October 19, 2009, 08:59:47 PM
In before frocto goes lol furry or some stupid crap.

i'm hurt
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 20, 2009, 10:26:41 AM: Quote from: Niku on October 20, 2009, 09:29:36 AM
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE

WELL HOT DOG, WE HAVE A WEINER!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on October 20, 2009, 10:51:05 AM: (http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/IMAGES/OCTOPUS.JPG)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 20, 2009, 10:55:05 AM: Quote from: Amber on October 20, 2009, 10:51:05 AM
(http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/IMAGES/OCTOPUS.JPG)

This is why I come here.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 21, 2009, 12:37:46 PM: So SCD sends me a text this afternoon "So how did the fire thing go?"... right as the building is evacuated due to a fire alarm.

:8V: :gameover:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 02, 2009, 06:38:38 AM: Actually, I have sort had that kind of feeling while awake... any of you ever suddenly feel like you're gigantic and that the ends of your limbs are miles away? I don't mean while stoned or anything, it can just happen while you're sitting around.

I always just figured it was some kind of brain quirk, like déja vu or similar. It's kind of a neat feeling... I try to savour it while it happens.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on November 02, 2009, 04:50:06 PM: Used to have the opposite when i was very young and had a fever. I would hallucinate that i was becoming smaller and smaller, and the room felt as enormous as anything, as though i would never be able to reach the walls if i walked my whole life. A very amazing/terrifying sensation, like being in that "powers of ten" video in real life.
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Post by: Büge on November 02, 2009, 08:45:00 PM: I get that all the time when I'm falling asleep or it's very dark.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 02, 2009, 08:50:33 PM: I always get the feeling of rocking back and forth.
Of course, some of it is because of my heart being crazy, but I think a good chunk of it is mental.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on November 02, 2009, 09:24:41 PM: When it's dark, I have the sensation of Spiraling.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/spiral_energy_real_lar.jpg)

Like that, only more disorienting.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 02, 2009, 09:45:13 PM: Quote from: Lottel on November 02, 2009, 08:50:33 PM
I always get the feeling of rocking back and forth.

I get that too. I think it's caused by blood pumping.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 15, 2009, 12:38:32 PM: Today the snowflakes were falling slowly and softly, with just a few in the air.

But these were the biggest snowflakes I've ever seen, at least a quarter-inch. You could actually see all the little beautiful details without even really trying.

Very very cool.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on February 26, 2010, 06:46:15 PM: So my downstairs neighbor has a plastic baggie taped to her door. Inside it? One half eaten piece of bacon.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on February 26, 2010, 06:50:38 PM: :wat:

Perhaps she needs to ward off Hassidic vampires?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on February 26, 2010, 07:23:36 PM: As I recall from college movies, hanging a necktie on the door means you're having sex with someone. I'm not sure I want to decode bacon-in-a-baggie.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on February 26, 2010, 07:24:08 PM: She's an elderly wheelchair bound woman... if that helps.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on February 26, 2010, 07:52:01 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/barf.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on February 26, 2010, 08:03:55 PM: Isn't "bacon strip" a Strangers With Candy euphemism for the labia?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on February 26, 2010, 08:06:45 PM: I won't lie; every time I am freshly waxed I can't help but think of her saying "my bacon strips are sizzlin'!"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2010, 01:09:25 PM: Something new to add to the odd list of "seemingly totally ordinary things which can't be found in Toronto": Corn Bread (wtf?). Tried all large grocery stores and quite a few indie bakeries without success. Just odd. I haven't tried Whole Foods yet, but that's about it.

It got a bit weirder. Unable to find cornbread for love, money, or murder, I picked up a pizza bread-like loaf with some tasty jalapenos baked in it as a substitute. In addition to the onion, jalapeno, cheese, tomato, there was a half a chocolate cookies baked inside (from what I can tell someone didn't clean out the oven quite enough).
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 18, 2010, 01:38:55 PM: Mongrel... you do not buy cornbread. You make it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2010, 01:41:43 PM: Sometimes you do and sometimes you don't.

Also, yes, we're not the US, but cornbread is perfectly available in almost every single US grocery store I've been in - most of which were in Northern states.

I don't think corn bread is that weird or exotic an item that you can only get by making it yourself or traveling to foreign countries. If I lived in ~~St. Catharines~~ ass-nowhere, I would understand, but not in the heart of the largest, most cosmopolitan city in the country.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 05:28:40 PM: In the south, YOU DO NOT BUY CORN BREAD, YOU MAKE IT.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: TA on July 18, 2010, 05:38:22 PM: And in the uncouth wilds of Canuckistan, even something as simple as "corn meal, oil, egg, milk, bake" is beyond their feeble comprehension.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 18, 2010, 06:30:12 PM: I should make some cornbread tomorrow.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2010, 06:51:50 PM: Quote from: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 05:28:40 PM
In the south, YOU DO NOT BUY CORN BREAD, YOU MAKE IT.

Neither you nor I live in the south.

Quote from: TA on July 18, 2010, 05:38:22 PM
And in the uncouth wilds of Canuckistan, even something as simple as "corn meal, oil, egg, milk, bake" is beyond their feeble comprehension.

The same advice applies if the store is out of wheat bread, only substituting a recipe of "flour, yeast, salt, water, bake" but that doesn't make the situation any less silly.

EDIT: Also, nobody had any corn meal either. I'm not kidding.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on July 18, 2010, 06:57:36 PM: Looks like he don't like the cornbread neither'
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 07:00:34 PM: Mongrel, my point is, I'm from the south, and the only time you buy corn bread while out is when you're eating out. Hell. I'm from as far South as you can fuckin' get, man. To clarify, what I mean is, north or south, I have never seen corn bread (aside from muffins at some bakeries) just for sale in stores.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2010, 07:05:04 PM: Yes, I know that in a places where [culinary item] is sacred, you are expected to make it fresh. You can't buy bernaise in jars in France either (of course, buying prepackaged bernaise in a jar IS a terrible idea).

The point is that in our wonderful/horrible prepacked no-time-for-anything world, one of the small upsides is the availability of pretty much ANYTHING premade at the local grocery store. At least if you live in a large town. Which I do. Total unavailability of a very simple and commonly consumed item just seems... weird.

They used to sell it here - in quite a few places. I clearly recall that. Which in a way makes it odder.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 18, 2010, 07:19:16 PM: Even if you could buy it, why would you want to?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 07:20:46 PM: I hate to be devil's advocate but he did note that he can't get cornmeal either.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 18, 2010, 07:41:14 PM: Quote from: Büge on July 18, 2010, 07:19:16 PM
Even if you could buy it, why would you want to?

For the same reason all sub-par processed food sells: No time to make it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 19, 2010, 06:26:28 AM: Quote from: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 07:20:46 PM
I hate to be devil's advocate but he did note that he can't get cornmeal either.

Oh please. Saying you can't find cornmeal is like saying you can't find flour.

Because they're right next to each other.

In the baking aisle.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 19, 2010, 06:33:07 AM: Yeah, I looked there. Mostly out of a curious frustration ("Do they even have cornmeal?!", not because I was going to get cornmeal and bake the stuff.

True, I only looked for that in the last two or three grocery stores I went to, but those were the largest ones.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 19, 2010, 12:33:41 PM: Quote from: Joxam on July 18, 2010, 07:00:34 PM
Hell. I'm from as far South as you can fuckin' get, man.
Southern water tribe?

Quote from: Büge on July 18, 2010, 07:19:16 PM
Even if you could buy it, why would you want to?
Because King Kullen cornbread is basically spongy butter dyed yellow and it is delicious.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 02, 2010, 06:39:35 PM: So I can't go to University this year, my best friend offered me a job in Toronto, and Mongrel's roommate is moving out.

I wish I could read the signs...
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Detonator on September 02, 2010, 06:45:21 PM: I smell sitcom
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 02, 2010, 06:57:46 PM: Are you asking? Because my brother turned down the option so he could continue to humor my insane and non-functional parents, so the room's still open.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: SCD on September 03, 2010, 09:12:03 AM: :popcorn:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 03, 2010, 10:02:03 AM: Well, it depends on a lot of things. How much it costs / the cost of living in Toronto, for one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: SCD on September 03, 2010, 11:18:36 AM: So I'm spending some of my spare time looking around for decent places to hunt Turkey, and so far I have been dry. The twist is when I come to the range this morning, and I see a good dozen of them at the two hundred yard mark.

The irony here is that despite one of the few places where weapons are commonplace and the norm, it is the safest place they could possibly be, those bastards...
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 03, 2010, 01:40:00 PM: What, in your opinion, is the most challenging hunting weapon, SCD?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on September 03, 2010, 02:13:56 PM: It depends entirely on what you're hunting. Small game is usually easiest with shot weapons and large game is best with slug weapons. I would go with bow as hardest normal hunting weapon, but obviously spear or something like that would be harder.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on September 03, 2010, 02:19:10 PM: Teeth. There's nothing quite like sneaking up on a moose, clamping your jaws around its throat, and tearing it out. Gotta put those canines to use.

If you need to practice first, track down a seal or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: TA on September 03, 2010, 02:43:03 PM: Lawnmower.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Misha on September 03, 2010, 02:43:59 PM: Bear hands.

Because first you need to kill a bear.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on September 03, 2010, 02:48:52 PM: I'm sorry, I thought Buge was being serious.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 03, 2010, 02:56:51 PM: Quote from: Misha on September 03, 2010, 02:43:59 PM
Bear hands.

Because first you need to kill a bear.

You rang? :whoops:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 03, 2010, 03:09:56 PM: Quote from: Joxam on September 03, 2010, 02:48:52 PM
I'm sorry, I thought Buge was being serious.

I was. But I also acknowledged that such a question was bound to get taken in silly directions with this crowd.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: SCD on September 03, 2010, 03:13:42 PM: I agree with Joxam, but location and thickness of cover makes the difference! Open areas make rifle a better choice for deer, while buck shot (a type of shotgun load) works better out here where the forests are thick!

Most firearms are a matter of position, hold, breathing and squeezing. Once you got those four down and have considerable practice with your firearm of choice, the challenge will be the actual hunt, tracking or sniping whatever your preference :)

And here's an idea of the temptresses I have to deal with out here!

(http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/ww218/brian2073/turkey.jpg)

(I see lyrai is a big 2nd amendment fan, not that Arc didn't make that joke every week...)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: A² on September 03, 2010, 03:56:24 PM: ...which one's that again

also what
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on September 03, 2010, 04:00:55 PM: Fun Fact: Misha isn't lyrai. Its Drethelin, whose real name is Misha.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: SCD on September 03, 2010, 06:12:10 PM: :problems:

My apologies, I'm really not all up on this name thing, am I?

The photo was one of the turkeys... the tasty tasty range turkeys that I couldn't shoot.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 03, 2010, 06:52:28 PM: That's why you need something semi-automatic. Exercise your right to--

Quote from: Mongrel on September 03, 2010, 02:56:51 PM
You rang? :whoops:

uh, wield ordnance.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on September 03, 2010, 06:53:36 PM: You rang? :jizz:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 13, 2010, 02:43:46 PM: Somebody got into our parking garage and rifled through a bunch of stuff, breaking into cars and the like. He rifled through my bike's luggage containers, going fishing through my toolkit.

This in and of itself isn't really strange or worrying. I expected something like that would happen eventually, be it in the garage or out on the street and while I have a bunch of stuff on my bike, none of it is irreplaceable or worth much (well, except the original factory toolkit, which has a couple of specialized tools... but that one's in a secret compartment in the tail-light housing).

I would only have been really pissed if he had stolen this one particular wrench I have that's of european make, is really useful, and either isn't made anymore or is very difficult to replace (it wasn't taken). But no, captain crackhead (or whoever), decided to ignore my valuable wrenches/tools, spare parts, and anything he could pawn, instead chooing to steal half* of an old screwdriver.

:???:

*_{It was a modular one. He took some of the parts... but not all of them. The weird part was that he would have had to take it apart to take only the parts he did.

Like I said, probably a crackhead. Or McGuyver. Mighta been McGuyver. On crack.}
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 24, 2010, 03:24:28 PM: Facebook: Hello
Me: Hello, Facebook!
Facebook: Add you ex's mom as a friend!
Me: Err... that might be awkward!
facebook: Add her dad!
Me: No?
Facebook: Add her brother!
Me: what? when did- No.
Facebook: Look at these pictures of you two!
Me: Nooooo. Not gonna.
Facebook: PROM!
Me: WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
Facebook: RECONNECT WITH YOUR EX
Me: Seriously, are you doing this on purpose?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: clutch on September 25, 2010, 06:14:05 PM: Yelp.com: Hi, user! We are using your Facebook profile to personalize your experience.
Me: I don't remember opting into th--
Yelp.com: Opt in? If you were concerned about privacy you would have opted out! Now would you like to see where your first girlfriend likes to get coffee every Tuesday?
Me: I don't think that's a good idea.
Yelp.com: Then maybe you would like to know about the gay bar your friend goes to?
Me: ...He's gay?
Yelp.com: Whoops! Foot-in-mouth syndrome, am I right? Well, to make it up to you, this is the place where that girl that broke your heart in high school will be at 2 AM next Friday night. Oh, and she'll be drunk.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on September 25, 2010, 09:01:08 PM: Is this a technological singularity? A technological creepiness singularity?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Fortinbras on September 25, 2010, 11:46:44 PM: AIM wants to be connected to Facebook now. I guess as a transparently desperate shot at not seeming to be a program from the past that can still only barely transfer files. I'm not nervous about security, but I don't want any of my internet stuff linked with any other internet stuff. Being able to lie about when I'm available, pretend to have ceased to use an email account, and most of all avoid people altogether on a given service, is one of the best things about the internet. I like the people I like and don't enjoy telling people I don't like that I don't like them, and Facebook slipping its Yivo-like tentacles into all my shit is going to force me to do that.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 26, 2010, 08:47:26 AM: I'm not trying to be the smug "told you!" jackass, because I never have told anyone that they should not sign up for Facebook or whatever. But every day that goes by, I am happier and happier that I have never registered for any social network site.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 26, 2010, 08:51:03 AM: And I can rest easy in the knowledge that I can still make Old Man Mongrel jokes.

(http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/get%20off%20my%20lawn.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 26, 2010, 10:29:20 AM: I deactivated my Facebook account way back on "Yeah Let's All Do That Wait We Didn't" day, and I am constantly laughing at all those other guys.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on September 26, 2010, 10:48:36 AM: Yeah, I still don't have one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on October 15, 2010, 07:14:40 AM: Shoehorned into this thread.

I get on the train to come to school today. I'm wearing sunglasses and a coat with the hood up because hey, turns out October is kind of windy and cold and I don't have any hair. As soon as I get on, this older woman gives me DEATH FACE and starts whispering to her friend and pointing.

Two stops later she's still whispering and watching me like a hawk.

So I go "Ma'am, I understand I might look threatening. I'm not in a gang or a terrorist or anything. I'm a cancer patient. My hair is falling out, and the chemo makes me sensitive to bright light. I..."

I run my hand over my beard as I say "I", then pause as I look at my fingers, frown, and wipe them off like I pulled out another clump of hair.

"I'm really self-conscious about it so I'd appreciate if you didn't stare."

The look of shock and guilt on her face will get me through the day.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Detonator on October 15, 2010, 07:19:56 AM: Ho boy are you ever tempting fate with that one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 15, 2010, 07:41:23 AM: The burned hand teaches best.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on October 15, 2010, 07:43:07 AM: I was diagnosed as at-risk years ago. To be diagnosed with full-blown tumors would hardly be newsworthy.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 15, 2010, 08:05:49 AM: This morning, I got passed by a guy on a scooter. On the interstate. I was going 70mph.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on October 21, 2010, 05:56:47 PM: It was amateur comedy night. I was going to be the second comedian. The first lady gets on stage and has a mental breakdown three minutes into her act. Everyone in the crowd leaves. Refunds were given.

I haven't laughed so hard in months.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on October 22, 2010, 01:38:02 PM: Man how do you follow an act like that anyway
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 09, 2010, 08:39:14 AM: Mysterious ICBM launch off the coast of LA. (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/09/national/main7036716.shtml)

Nobody knows who launched it, apparently.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Niku on November 09, 2010, 09:55:35 AM: Dave.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on November 09, 2010, 10:01:45 AM: the water kind have attacked

gonna have me some fun

gonna have me some fun
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 09, 2010, 10:17:25 AM: The Pentagon is actually denying they have anything to do with it.

Which doesn't make that true of course, but it does makes this a lot more interesting.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 09, 2010, 12:36:26 PM: So... I'm not seeing anything about what happened to missile.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Romosome on November 09, 2010, 01:01:16 PM: someone saw a bear climbing a fence
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on November 09, 2010, 08:17:03 PM: Are any countries missing?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Saturn on November 10, 2010, 03:21:59 AM: it was a damn airplane contrail (http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/09/california.contrails/index.html?hpt=C1)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on November 10, 2010, 03:39:59 AM: just some swamp gas move along
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 10, 2010, 07:32:16 AM: Any situation where the government feels like the best course of action is to say they don't know what it was seems like bad news bears to me.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 25, 2010, 09:58:33 PM: Tangled is weird. I mean I haven't seen it, but I've been getting phone calls for dates like crazy.
My buddy SWEARS the prince was based off me so when he hears his female friends talking about the movie, he sends them my way.
It's nice I guess, but very odd.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on November 26, 2010, 05:57:04 PM: I've always thought voice impressions were a solid basis for a relationship.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 02, 2010, 12:56:48 PM: [spoiler]Odd thing. I had this annoying callus-looking blemish on the tip of my left thumb for about a year. It was like a little nodule of uneven skin, or a wart or something weird. I don't remember how I got it. It never went away, even when I left it alone. Sometimes I'd snip it off with nailclippers when it got too big or flaky.

About two weeks ago, I was just fiddling with it. You know, digging at it with a compass or something. I coaxed the nub almost completely free, but it felt really sensitive. But while I was at FNM, I was reaching into my bag for something and it got caught on the edge of something sharp. Suddenly it started bleeding, and I don't mean a just-picked scab bleeding, I mean oops-I-opened-a-vein bleeding. I managed to staunch the bleeding with some kleenexes that remained glued to my thumb for the duration of the night, which, let me tell you, is quite annoying when you're playing cards. A Bandaid was administered later. Normally, the callus-wart thingy would have grown back again by now, but there's no trace of it.[/spoiler]

:tldr: the wart is gone completely.
_{(spoilertagged for grossness)}
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 02, 2010, 01:41:16 PM: Could've been a lipoma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoma).
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 02, 2010, 04:32:59 PM: Considering it was only a millimetre or so in size and never went deeper than the first few layers of skin, I'm guessing no. Also, yuck.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 14, 2010, 09:32:13 PM: SO! Some lady offered me money to date her daughter. She was serious too. Had the money out and everything. She was trying to haggle with me.
And it wasn't a slight to her daughter. Her daughter was attractive, seemed personable and we had a nice conversation.
The lady kept trying though.
"Listen, she seems great but I-"
"$75 a week."
"I'm just not-"
"$85."
"That's generous, I suppose but-"
"$85 and you can drive my car on dates."
"I'm not comfortable taking money for-"
"So you'll do it for free?"

Lady was gooood. And come on. $85 a week for dating a chick? That's basically what I make breaking my back as a waiter (minus tips). It'd've been a good gig.

But does this shit happen to anyone else? Things like this happen like once a week.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 14, 2010, 09:34:23 PM: Are you absolutely sure you're not a Manga protagonist?

EDIT: Or sweating pure unadulterated Testosterone?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: patito on December 14, 2010, 10:12:17 PM: Perhaps you should reconsider your choice of profession and just date women for money.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on December 14, 2010, 10:31:33 PM: There's another reason to date women?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on December 14, 2010, 10:36:59 PM: A place to live.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 14, 2010, 11:30:38 PM: There is one damn good reason you shouldn't date women for money.

If you think they nag you normally, wait until you are on their payroll.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: A² on December 15, 2010, 05:29:03 AM: Are...are...are you speaking from experience?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on December 15, 2010, 06:53:00 AM: This is the one thing an anime protagonist is not allowed to have. I would assume no.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Catloaf on December 15, 2010, 07:18:01 AM: Quote from: Lottel on December 14, 2010, 09:32:13 PM
But does this shit happen to anyone else? Things like this happen like once a week.

No. It doesn't. In fact, for me, the opportunity to date women doesn't appear at all. If I were offered money to date an attractive woman, I think the universe itself would implode because it would apparently be breaking some unknown law of physics.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 15, 2010, 08:31:10 AM: You have to understand. Lottel is one of those people who are naturally minmaxed. His charisma is through the roof, but he's taken the Congenital Deformity flaw.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 15, 2010, 11:25:44 AM: Yeah, I crumple like paper in battle, but I can totally bend Npcs.

Catloaf it seems the solution is to hang out with me. Maybe I can use these powers for good. Or if Mongrel's theory is true, you'll get turned into a wacky animal.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on December 15, 2010, 01:36:18 PM: Now I'm just curious about what Lottel looks like and how he comports himself to be a tremendous magnet. Jeez.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 15, 2010, 01:45:46 PM: There's pictures of Lottel somewhere.

I think the pseudo-police blotter description that came to mind was: "Very young yet suave-looking male, of indeterminate ethnicity. Probably about the size and build of a parade marshal's baton."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 15, 2010, 03:22:47 PM: I'm going to use that next time some one asks me to describe myself.
Beats "Asshole"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on December 15, 2010, 03:30:45 PM: No, no. It's clearly working for you, don't change it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 15, 2010, 03:48:01 PM: I just learned that my old apartment building caught fire today. (http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2891300)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on December 15, 2010, 04:10:20 PM: Once, a fire engine passed my roommate and I when we were walking home after grocery shopping. "Ha, someone's house is on fire. Hope it's not ours!"

Turned out it was! woops.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 15, 2010, 04:44:14 PM: Now I'm feeling paranoid and I want to buy a fireproof safe for all my important documents and magic cards.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on December 15, 2010, 04:54:43 PM: May I suggest you go for the Cheney-size in case you're in your apartment at the time?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on December 15, 2010, 05:05:56 PM: It worked for Batman.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 15, 2010, 05:33:35 PM: Quote from: Yes, send the militia on December 15, 2010, 05:05:56 PM
It worked for Batman.

What doesn't work for Bats?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Niku on December 15, 2010, 05:37:31 PM: Family get-togethers.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on December 23, 2010, 01:55:24 PM: Well, today I only had one table so I was chatting and they said "You have a beautiful daughter." Being tired it took me a second "Why, thank yo-I don't have a daughter." Apparently they saw me playing catch with my boss's daughter. After clarifying things and talking a bit more, it hit me.

They think I am old enough to have a kid.

My god, I am old enough to be seen with a little girl and have them think it's father-daughter not brother-sister.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on December 23, 2010, 02:01:51 PM: that can feasibly be like 16, so don't get too broken up over it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on December 23, 2010, 03:12:11 PM: once I was seen with MetalSlime and they thought I was his mom
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on December 23, 2010, 03:13:19 PM: but that's because metalslime is 15
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 07, 2011, 03:08:19 PM: I was walking at the mall when I was quickly followed by a small group of thuggish guys. Gay thuggish guys.
"Damn. Look at that fuckers ass. Shit."
"Fucker has a nice ass. Hey! Hey fucker!"
"Shiiiit. I'd tear his shit up."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on January 07, 2011, 03:24:28 PM: Well, you do have a nice ass, Sunshine.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on January 07, 2011, 04:43:12 PM: It's hell being Lottel.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 13, 2011, 07:49:57 PM: Birds in Bulgaria died from flying while intoxicated. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41037289/ns/world_news-europe/)

I bet birds are angry drunks.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on January 21, 2011, 04:34:47 PM: While waiting in the exam room at the Doctor's I saw a drawer labeled "CPE supplies"

Sadly, upon investigating, opening the drawer did not produce rainbows, butterflies, and trout, but instead just some medical supplies
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on January 23, 2011, 12:21:35 PM: Medical supplies that are easily held in the mouth, I assume.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 30, 2011, 08:18:43 AM: In her own way of asking me out, a girl last night started talking about my ex and how pretty my ex is and how ugly she is. I just sat there, extremely confused by all of this when she leans over and hands me a paper flower, starts to leave, and says "Try dating my friend Lindsay. I think she kind of hates you."

I really don't understand at all what happened.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on January 30, 2011, 09:51:51 AM: She's using confusion tactics to sleep with you.

1) self degradation for pity points.

2) random gift that seems to be valueless so it doesn't seem like much but she expects you to think about her all the time because of it.

3) suggesting a friend to date. Feigns lack of interest on her part.

4) leaving at a seemingly random points so she seems to be keeping control of the "relationship" (if you text message her she'll also make a point of making sure you send the last message)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on January 30, 2011, 11:41:34 AM: Human relationships sure are weird!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on January 30, 2011, 11:45:28 AM: Quote
(if you text message her she'll also make a point of making sure you send the last message)

i hate this more than anything else in history

like I really fucking hate the holocaust and slavery and shit but this is just
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 30, 2011, 11:59:03 AM: I barely know the girl and this was the first time I saw her sober for more than ten minutes.

Quote from: Beat Bandit on January 30, 2011, 09:51:51 AM
She's using confusion tactics to sleep with you.

I actually thought about that. I can figure out a lot of girl's tactics. But this girl isn't... with it enough to plan using tactics. Of course, that could be part of the long stage plan but I highly doubt it. Saying she's spacy is being nice.
I think she's just whacko.
But I got a weird story out of it so whatever.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on January 30, 2011, 12:01:02 PM: dude did Osaka hit on you
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Shinra on January 30, 2011, 12:32:46 PM: She sounds sweet.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on January 30, 2011, 01:43:14 PM: Everyone's a little bit crazy (sometimes).

Watch, soon she'll be watching you sleep with a chef's knife in her hand.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 30, 2011, 01:49:10 PM: I've already had a creepy stalker chick who tried several times to watch me sleep. I'm good.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on January 30, 2011, 03:44:46 PM: Quote from: Lottel on January 30, 2011, 11:59:03 AM
Quote from: Beat Bandit on January 30, 2011, 09:51:51 AM
She's using confusion tactics to sleep with you.

I actually thought about that. I can figure out a lot of girl's tactics. But this girl isn't... with it enough to plan using tactics.

"Tactics" is perhaps the wrong word.

This particular type of manipulation is often unconscious and just comes naturally to crazy people.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on January 30, 2011, 09:17:35 PM: Quote from: Thad on January 30, 2011, 03:44:46 PM
Quote from: Lottel on January 30, 2011, 11:59:03 AM
Quote from: Beat Bandit on January 30, 2011, 09:51:51 AM
She's using confusion tactics to sleep with you.

I actually thought about that. I can figure out a lot of girl's tactics. But this girl isn't... with it enough to plan using tactics.

"Tactics" is perhaps the wrong word.

This particular type of manipulation is often unconscious and just comes naturally to crazy people.

Precisely. I doubt she'd actually be able to break it down the way BB did, even if you laid it all out for her like that. SHE'S JUST DOING LIKE, WHATEVS, YOU KNOW?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on February 10, 2011, 12:20:00 PM: I got the "I don't think we should date anymore. Let's just be friends" speech today.
Why is this in here and not shit days?
I never met this girl in my life.
She walked up to me and said hi. I started to reply when she said I was a really nice guy, and obviously she cares for me, but it just wasn't working out but she really values me as a person and would really like it if we could still be friends but she'd understand if I couldn't handle just being friends after all we had been through.
She then looked sad, put her hand on my shoulder, and said "It's okay to be sad." She patter my shoulder and walked away saying she'd let me sort my feelings out and to call her when I'm ready to talk.

I just stood there, dumbfounded. I will repeat myself. I never have once seen this girl in my life.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on February 10, 2011, 12:26:29 PM: prank
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on February 10, 2011, 12:28:56 PM: Probably! But still entertaining enough to share.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on February 11, 2011, 10:35:31 AM: Considering Lottel's history, I wouldn't rule out amnesia, mistaken identity, or alternate dimensions.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on February 14, 2011, 02:38:15 AM: Next week: Lottel finds out he has a long-lost twin brother that missive was intended for.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on February 14, 2011, 02:58:54 AM: You know, with my inability NOT to have a goatee, I'd be the evil one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on February 14, 2011, 07:02:10 AM: We did not need that information to ascertain that you were the evil one, but thank you just the same.

O EviLottel, dark scourge of baffling H fan comics.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on March 29, 2011, 07:55:46 AM: Student work is displayed in the galleries of Art Institute campuses. In Nashville, one such work is of a serpentlike dragon, looking vaguely seahorselike in its body shape and orientation, with undersized wings, tiny horns, and a duck bill.

Brent, did you model for any art students lately?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on March 29, 2011, 09:16:09 AM: Local company donated $11.5 million to my brother's college. The football team is bummed because they aren't seeing a dime while all the money is going to their already well-funded arts and theatre programs.
It's like some reverse afterschool special.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Norondor on April 08, 2011, 07:50:09 AM: lately i keep feeling two things:

1) shattering depression (normal)
2) the sensation of the bone and flesh in the middle of my forehead trying to pull apart down the middle. it is tickly but does not actually feel bad.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on April 11, 2011, 08:47:59 AM: Got a text warning me this morning. It said that one girl I know who has been crushing on me for a while now finally decided "to go for me."
I've mentioned her in the past and us now known as red-headed yandere.
This is a different girl than the other red head, the tsundere one.

Not ten minutes after the text, I get another. Yandere wants to hang out on Friday. As I am replying, Tsundere texts me. She says we are hanging out Friday. I pause for a second trying to figure out what to do, when I get another text, and a third girl texts me. The dorf.
She's the most reasonable so I say that the other two just texted me and between work and everything else my Friday is busy enough. I ask her to pick a different day if she wants to hang out.
I get a reply in seconds. "nevermind. better idea."
There's a party this Friday night. Dorf, Yandere, Tsundere, and me. If the weather stays like this it'll be a drunken pool party.

My life. My. Life.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on April 11, 2011, 10:39:04 AM: :fuckyou:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 11, 2011, 04:41:54 PM: Love Hina Sakura saku opening clean (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclY30LCeOs#)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Malikial on April 12, 2011, 05:31:14 AM: So, my phone number must be within a couple digits of some home wrecker's because I will periodically get phone calls from angry guys being like, "WHY ARE YOU CALLING MY GIRLFRIEND!" Or, "Who the hell are you and why are you texting my girlfriend!?" Well, I would think that being able to just hit a callback button would stop that but it still happens randomly like once every 3-5 weeks. Happened again last night at like 2 AM. It makes me laugh and I hope I'm not adding to spousal abuse because I was like, "Dude, I'm not texting anyone." Guy is all, "I just hit call back, you are texting and calling my girl!" So, I was pissed because dude basically woke me up so I said, "Well, if you knew how to make a girl feel good she wouldn't fucking need me, you jackass." Then I hung up... He calls me back, starts threatening me, says he's gonna find me and beat my ass. I just laughed and hung up again. I've had this phone number for over 4 years, you'd think this shit would stop happening by now.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on April 12, 2011, 07:34:53 AM: Hey... Hey Mal?
Um...
You do stuff in your sleep man.
You are texting and calling these girls, at least.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on April 12, 2011, 08:58:24 AM: You can provide false caller ID to people, but it takes a little bit of specialty hardware or a man on the inside. Also I thought it was impossible if you're trying to spoof a phone number that already exists, but I guess that's not true?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 12, 2011, 05:19:01 PM: Yeah, I don't think it's a spoofed number. The guy calling Mal is probably just a retard.

I get odd calls (though nothing so entertaining), but I expect those because my phone number is so awesome it's like it's straight out of a movie (not counting the area code, it has seven '5' in it and it's a palindrome). So all kind of randoms call it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Fortinbras on April 13, 2011, 12:19:32 AM: Does it count as a weird happening that I'm posting again? Also, hello forum!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 18, 2011, 11:25:34 AM: So I pass by a van and glance at the side panel.
Quote
Bailey's Memory Repair and Purging
I look again.
Quote
Bailey's Masonry Repair and Parging
Huh.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on April 18, 2011, 12:21:23 PM: Wow, they're good.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 18, 2011, 03:50:24 PM: At Whole Foods I saw something uh.... interesting on the "Hey Stupid! Make this impulse buy!" rack at the checkout:

(http://www.jewishstore.com/Judaica/images/RL-TYPupTenL.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Fortinbras on April 18, 2011, 04:40:13 PM: That's hilarious, but it made me think of something. Not even that closely related, but somehow pushes the same button. All those lame novelties made for office ladies now exist for our generation too, and they're the exact same stuff, just with irony and self awareness, which doesn't excuse anything about them. Actually raises more questions. "You knew what you were doing and you still made this!"

Lolcats are no different AT ALL from gramma style forwards of funny cat pictures with captions written in red 20pt, except the spelling is worse. Not even THAT MUCH worse.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on June 02, 2011, 02:13:36 PM: I saw an old man riding one of those indoor scooters at the mall. It was the fat kid in the wagon attached to the scooter that made me shake my head.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 16, 2011, 05:00:46 PM: (http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/260043_10150205628641631_730326630_7532029_2020305_n.jpg)

I got this in the mail today.I didn't order it. I checked the slip of paper and it's from ebay. And sent as a "gift" so the name of the ACTUAL sender is withheld. Sent an e-mail to the seller but it seems...
It seems there's a myster afoot!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on June 16, 2011, 05:12:10 PM: See if it fits any conspicuous holes in your person. It may be something to wind your clockworks.

EDIT:
Do not attempt to fit it into any of the 9 normal human apertures: 2 ears; 2 eyes; 2 nostrils; 1 mouth; 1 anus; 1 urethra.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on June 16, 2011, 06:08:29 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/xVe2Y.gif)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 16, 2011, 07:20:09 PM: After some sleuthing it goes to one of two things: A wind-up toy, must common one being a train OR a uncommon type of clock on a Russian submarine. that's because of the peghole and the number "5" written on top.

Not sure as to why or who, but I guess "What's this to?" is going nicely.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on June 16, 2011, 07:25:35 PM: ...
...
...
Russian submarine clock?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 16, 2011, 07:27:44 PM: Yes. They have 4-sided wind pegs and are a size 5. Apparently that's not what most clocks are.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on June 16, 2011, 07:40:59 PM: As a general rule, I don't hold on to anything that's meant to progress the function of mechanisms on foreign stealth vehicles unless I'm prepared to end the lives of promising foreign special services agents.

A train you say? Who do you know would want you to have a train key?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 16, 2011, 07:59:04 PM: No idea, Classic. Right now I am under the assumption this is part of a bigger riddle to come.

Although, I did work at a place called "Clockwork Pizzeria." So maybe that has something to do with it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: JDigital on June 16, 2011, 08:42:44 PM: Maybe your clockwork train is in the post.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on June 16, 2011, 09:04:17 PM: Lottel's Key (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUfC_ZC44dg#)

edited for better clip
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 16, 2011, 09:19:39 PM: So now they mystery is no longer "Who sent it?" but "Who in the world wears a clockwork chastity belt?"

Not bad. Not bad at all.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on June 17, 2011, 05:55:12 AM: Quote from: Classic on June 16, 2011, 05:12:10 PM
See if it fits any conspicuous holes in your person. It may be something to wind your clockworks.

(http://www.intentionallyblank.net/images/comics/lottel.PNG)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 22, 2011, 10:32:53 AM: Today marks the 5th bird that smacked into my window this week. It's Wednesday.
On top of that, there were two birds marching back and forth on my deck railing. It's not like the windows don't have curtains or anything so it's not like they think there's a way through. They are deliberately divebombing my window.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 22, 2011, 11:01:40 AM: They're carrion feeders.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 28, 2011, 01:00:53 PM: Okay, so I just went out to the dumpster to throw out a couple more massive bags of perfectly good shit, you know, totally American style, and I ran into a guy who was apparently ALSO clearing out his house of all the junk toys he had accumulated from the 80s. Weird.

Anyway, so I open up the thing, and right there staring back at me is a Wrinkles the Dog doll. Look it up yourself, I can't link from this phone.

Now that's got me a little shaken up. I mean I had come to terms with the fact that I was throwing out most of my childhood but I wasn't ready to come face to face with somebody ELSE who was throwing out my childhood.

I think I just need to calm down, take a deep breath, and play some Duke Nukem ForeFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on July 29, 2011, 01:56:52 PM: Cox left me a recorded message to the effect of "Thanks for being a customer! As a present, we're going to email you some spam."

Uh... thanks, I guess? I'll keep an eye out for it?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 29, 2011, 03:12:17 PM: The other day at work I saw a woman with a lepoard print purse and a matching sleeve tattoo.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 29, 2011, 03:23:47 PM: That is either the worst reason to get a tattoo or the best purchase ever.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 29, 2011, 07:06:10 PM: That reminds me of the other day. I passed a store with some really trashy leopard-print stuff in the window (isn't ALL leopard-print stuff trashy by definition?) and found myself wondering if anyone had ever had their hair shaved into a leopard-print pattern.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 29, 2011, 08:44:16 PM: Does shaved down and dyed leopard print count? Because if so I personally know two people who have. Five if you count snow leopard.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on August 15, 2011, 02:12:35 PM: Last night my dad's jeep got broken into. All he had in there were a handful of coins, CDs, and work papers. They stole exactly 39 cents and left a note saying his taste in music was bad.
Apparently they didn't see his CCR box set.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 15, 2011, 07:27:53 PM: Or they're just barbarians.

At any rate, your, uh... you know seems to run in the family. This is all starting to make a bit more sense.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on August 15, 2011, 07:32:51 PM: My "you know" meaning... my fantastic taste in music? Sadly no. My mother only listens to Aerosmith and nothing but Aerosmith and brother only listens to hardcore gangsta rap.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 15, 2011, 07:35:53 PM: No, that's not what I meant.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on August 15, 2011, 08:33:08 PM: You know, your knack for attracting unusual phenomena.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 15, 2011, 10:08:52 PM: Bingo.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on August 15, 2011, 10:28:32 PM: :joke: :slow:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on August 16, 2011, 06:33:03 PM: Today at work I saw a man with a neckbeard. I don't mean neckbeard in the common vernacular, either. I mean he had a patch about two inches in diameter near the base of his neck with about a foot of wavy greyish hair growing out of it.

(http://i.imgur.com/fVEeZ.png)

It kind of freaked me out.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on August 16, 2011, 06:35:39 PM: Are you sure he didn't have a ponytail or rattail or something coming from back/side of his head and it was resting on his shoulder?
If such a man exists like your picture, I'm not sure I could go on living.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on August 16, 2011, 07:08:02 PM: No. I got a good look at it from all angles. It even shifted when he moved his head.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 16, 2011, 07:24:52 PM: If ever a post called for use of :mikey: in response, it's that one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on August 16, 2011, 08:22:09 PM: I figured that while I was in Atlanta, having settled my court case and expired driver's license, I'd stay the rest of the weekend with my ladyfriend.

She wanted to go tubing down the Chattahoochee River. So we did.

At one point a boy of perhaps nine or ten stomped by us, dragging his raft behind him in the knee-deep water near the river's edge, shouting "BLAAAAARRRRRGG! I AM ANGRY!!"

No, really. He went "BLAAAAARRRRRGG!"

Leading to, "Did that kid just ragequit the entire river?"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 16, 2011, 08:48:14 PM: Maybe he was just a-chargin' his lazar.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on August 16, 2011, 11:49:57 PM: "Blarg" Is an acceptable exclamation in the reals. It is also a substitute for "blag" when I'm incredibly bored with what I'm saying but the accuracy doesn't matter.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 20, 2011, 03:43:07 PM: I saw a fat guy jogging. The sweat patterns on the front of his shirt looked almost exactly like the Misfits skullface logo (no, it was not actually a Misfits shirt. It was one of those cheap mottled grey t-shirts).
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 27, 2011, 12:42:41 PM: Another round of "Mongrel can't find [ubiquitous object] anywhere". Today's special item is: Crappy coconut-fibre doormats!

(http://hoza.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Doormat.jpg)

Technically this is a lie. I did find one at a hardware store. But it was $100! :fuckyou:

Also, every game store in town is mysteriously closed today, with no explanation or notes posted to say why. WTF?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on August 27, 2011, 05:29:07 PM: I know why. (http://www.fanexpocanada.com/)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 27, 2011, 06:23:35 PM: Oh, I thought that was last weekend. Ha!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 09, 2011, 06:00:55 PM: Saw an old late 60's/early 70's-era proto-Land Shark (a proper Land Shark is one of those monsters from the late 70's early 80's and is also driven by an 80-year old grandma who can't see over the steering wheel). It was pearly white and had a license plate that read "Dunedain".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 15, 2011, 06:01:06 PM: Now, being right downtown, all sides of my building are fairly well-traffic-ed, but some sides are a little less so. Yesterday morning, I saw a series of objects seen strewn all over the path and bushes next to the path:

- A pair of women's pink heeled shoes, fair torn to shreds
- A pink towel, dirty and flung in a corner
- Quite a few chunks of (possibly fake?) long black hair
- A smashed GPS device

And, uh.... thereby hangs a tale.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 25, 2011, 04:50:32 PM: During an eyebrow waggling contest with my uncle, aunt, and cousin we found out my cousin can't frown.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on September 25, 2011, 09:47:08 PM: I'm having difficulty imagining what that would look like.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 25, 2011, 09:56:07 PM: Her eyebrows lowered very slightly. If we weren't focused on her eyebrows for the contest, it wouldn't be noticeable. No wrinkling of the forehead, the eyebrows don't get closer together nor do they change their angle. They just... slip down her face a millimeter.

She tried to compensate by tilting her head forward. It was completely bizarre.

It's like finding someone who doesn't know how to smile or use verbs.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 26, 2011, 08:57:52 AM: I accidentally my eyebrows.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 28, 2011, 03:47:43 PM: Never been overdressed for a wedding before.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on September 28, 2011, 06:29:09 PM: Lottel never takes off his tux(es).
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 28, 2011, 06:32:10 PM: Quote from: Lottel on September 28, 2011, 03:47:43 PM
Never been overdressed for a wedding before.

I wasn't aware that was possible.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 28, 2011, 06:34:37 PM: And then, without warning, Lottel was substituted for the groom.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 28, 2011, 07:15:12 PM: ...the suggestion was made. Jokingly I was told.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 28, 2011, 08:52:03 PM: By the bride. And several bridesmaids. And most of the guests.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 29, 2011, 04:53:51 AM: By the bride. And the bridesmaids. And the bride's parents.

And the groom.

:shrug:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 29, 2011, 06:25:05 AM: Stop winking, super-stud.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ziiro on September 29, 2011, 10:20:08 AM: Quote from: Lottel on September 29, 2011, 04:53:51 AM
By the bride. And the bridesmaids. And the bride's parents.

And the groom.

:shrug:

Lottel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6e6FGPYbEs#ws)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 30, 2011, 07:32:01 AM: After an energy drinking, my resting heart rate is 51 beats per minute. Pretty sure this confirms my belief that caffeine is the only thing keeping me alive.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 03, 2011, 06:50:29 AM: Yesterday I found a store that rents iPads. :wat:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on November 03, 2011, 06:52:01 AM: Just in time for my high school reunion!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on November 03, 2011, 09:37:59 AM: Dunno if it counts, but just now my coaster came up with my cup while I was drinking.
This is weird, because all of my coasters are granite countertop samples.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on November 03, 2011, 10:12:56 AM: Quote from: Büge on November 03, 2011, 06:50:29 AM
Yesterday I found a store that rents iPads. :wat:

Oh, sweet. I'm going to a concert this weekend and was looking for something I could hold up in front of the view of people behind me.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 03, 2011, 10:46:42 AM: Be sure to have the backlight going full blaze.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 05, 2011, 09:33:01 AM: Last night my webcam light turned on while I was playing Minecraft. This morning I tweeted about it and it was still on. I went to go grab a drink and now it's off.

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY#)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on November 05, 2011, 08:26:22 PM: 5.2 EARTHQUAKE WTF
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kashan on November 05, 2011, 09:21:55 PM: Quote from: Miss Cat Ears on November 05, 2011, 08:26:22 PM
5.2 EARTHQUAKE WTF
Seriously. I go my whole life without an earthquake then it's 3 in one year.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 06, 2011, 05:47:25 AM: Okay guys, what did you do to call down the WRATH OF GOD?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on November 06, 2011, 07:02:40 AM: Fracking, I'm told. I'm also told it turned out to be a 5.6... crazy for Oklahoma!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 06, 2011, 10:32:28 AM: It's just the universe's way of saying "Move to a better state!"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on November 06, 2011, 12:30:24 PM: Quote from: Mongrel on November 06, 2011, 05:47:25 AM
Okay guys, what did you do to call down the WRATH OF GOD?

Suddenly everything makes sense.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 08, 2011, 05:56:14 PM: So yesterday a girl I don't know added me on Facebook and then added my brother. I asked him who she was and he had no clue.
After some keen detective work on my part, today I figured out who she was. 18 years ago, she lived next door to my grandmother in Iowa. We used to eat popsicle and watch Disney movies together. Then she moved then my grandma moved so we never saw each other again.
I had forgotten all about her.
She apparently remembered the other day and tracked down our name, which must have been difficult as it's different from our grandmother's and as a kid I always said my name wrong, then scoured Facebook trying to find the right two of us. She then decided apparently to not say who the hell she was.

Still, pretty neat!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kayma on November 08, 2011, 06:37:08 PM: Storybook romance time?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Dooly on November 08, 2011, 06:40:05 PM: Is she hot?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on November 08, 2011, 06:43:23 PM: Quote from: Dooly on November 08, 2011, 06:40:05 PM
Is she hot?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 08, 2011, 06:45:00 PM: The last ten posts are her showing of her new pregnancy belly and saying how much she loves her boyfriend. Preeeeetty sure that my infamous "Lottel Luck" is not the case here.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on November 08, 2011, 06:46:33 PM: but not 100% sure
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Niku on November 08, 2011, 06:53:13 PM: Especially since the baby is his.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Smiler on November 08, 2011, 06:53:52 PM: Lottel impregnated her while she was searching for him on facebook.

YOU'RE THE DADDY, LOTTEL.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on November 08, 2011, 07:39:46 PM: Quote from: Miss Cat Ears on November 08, 2011, 06:43:23 PM
Quote from: Dooly on November 08, 2011, 06:40:05 PM
Is she hot?
Quote from: Lottel on November 08, 2011, 06:45:00 PM
The last ten posts are her showing of her new pregnancy belly and saying how much she loves her boyfriend.

ANSWER THE QUESTION
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 08, 2011, 07:53:00 PM: She's not terrible but not really my type, no.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on November 09, 2011, 12:32:22 AM: Evidently she is "Lottel Durden's" type.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on November 09, 2011, 12:47:33 AM: So I just bought a acoustic/electric bass guitar. My friend Steve asked me to join him and his friend Travis in a little jam group they've got going on as a drummer. I convinced him to let me join as a bassist. I've only ever played William's bass like, a little bit and only ever flipped upside down (I'm a lefty, he's a righty) and they know this. I've always wanted to learn the bass guitar more and I've been very out of practice at drums since the move. They were literally just like, you'll learn it fine! So that's that I guess.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 09, 2011, 06:04:49 AM: And is the weird part that you were completely at ease with any song they threw at you?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on November 09, 2011, 09:06:15 AM: It had more to do with me not knowing how to play bass, not owning a bass (in my handedness) and THEM being at ease with me being like, "I think I want to play bass."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on November 17, 2011, 03:40:13 PM: Behold, THE MIGHTY FUNGOR!

(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/fungor2.jpg)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/fungor1.jpg)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/fungor3.jpg)

Mystified by FUNGOR's majestic poise, I did as only a mere human could: I cut him open to examine his entrails.

(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/fungor4.jpg)

No wisdom was gained from this. For a moment, I despaired and regretted absolutely.

But then I decided FUNGOR had to live on, first through succulent and creamy tomato sauce, then through me. This was forevermore to be my penance, as well as my pride.

(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/fungor5.jpg)

FUNGOR is I, now and unto eternity.

[spoiler]...holy crap i swear that pasta looks a lot less gross in person[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on November 17, 2011, 03:44:18 PM: Good god man. Until you cut it in half, I thought that was something that came from your body or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on November 17, 2011, 03:49:09 PM: Your mind's eye saw FUNGOR's glorious destiny and mistook it for its past. Train more, ye hallowed prophet, and attain unshrouded vision in all things.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lady Duke on November 17, 2011, 03:50:31 PM: Fungor is two mushrooms that grew into each other clearly.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on November 17, 2011, 07:06:21 PM: Hello, Mrs. Buzzkillington.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on November 18, 2011, 07:06:23 PM: That's not really a buzzkill, it's obvious to anyone who's even remotely familiar with biological development vis-a-vis how it can fuck itself up.

What I saw was a giant ground down molar.
When it got cut in half I could see where the nerves were dying and where they were still alive.
Then I felt the root canal.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 03, 2011, 10:08:39 PM: I just heard one of those Dixie car horns roll down the street.

I guess that wouldn't really be that remarkable, only this is Toronto. In December. And I'm in a neighbourhood full of Croats, Bulgarians, Serbians, Slovenes and other balkans, situated within a much larger neighbourhood dominated by Greeks. I realize Rednecity is not necessarily tied to Ethnicity, but still.

:???:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on December 06, 2011, 09:00:24 AM: Maybe they're just really big Dukes of Hazzard fans.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on December 16, 2011, 06:05:57 PM: I bought a donut today and when I went to throw out the wrapper, I found the Majora's Mask soundtrack collection in the garbage can. It was intact, with the liner notes and everything. Right next to it was Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card.

For a minute I thought I had stumbled into a Myst game.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on December 22, 2011, 03:52:29 PM: ...LinkedIn just recommended, as someone I might know...
...Girard.

The real one.

And his resume makes him look like a seriously righteous dude.

...
...now I kinda feel bad about making fun of him for the better part of two decades.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 22, 2011, 05:47:00 PM: Who?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on January 10, 2012, 10:08:26 PM: Funny that today's Google doodle should be Nicholas Steno, after I spent a bunch of time this evening reading about Pascale, Leibniz, and Spinoza.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on January 26, 2012, 01:17:08 PM: A certain "Inspecteur Morin" left a message on my answering machine, wants me to call him back tomorrow. I looked up the number and it's some sort of PI agency, legit as far as I can tell. The way he said it though, had I not known better I would almost have been tempted to believe he was an actual cop. Even the name of the agency feels like it realllllly wants to be mistaken for a government thing.

Twice before I had some people trying to contact the old man who used to live in this apartment, once a bank and once some municipal official from a random village east of here, and that bugs me because it's not like I inherited his damn phone number. This time I kind of want to call back on account of courtesy and curiosity, but I'm not sure if I actually want anything to do with that sort of business, even remotely.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Misha on January 26, 2012, 01:48:19 PM: if you don't respond to a call from a PI you are refusing to let adventure into your life
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on January 26, 2012, 01:49:51 PM: Well, as long as by "adventure" you don't mean "big burly men who think I'm trying to hide something that stands between them and their paychecks"...
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 26, 2012, 02:13:19 PM: ADVENTUUUUUUUURE!~
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on January 26, 2012, 02:56:44 PM: You never know. It could be a well-mannered, yet inept, detective with a thin moustache and a penchant for accidental slapstick.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on January 26, 2012, 03:21:44 PM: Or the old man could've been a jewel thief in disguise. And everyone has ridiculous sideburns!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on January 27, 2012, 06:13:38 AM: Welp, they're trying to track down a random couple, who apparently gave my address as contact information.

ADVENTURE COMPLETE!
ROOMS VISITED: 1/1 (100%)
BONUS ITEMS PICKED UP: 0/0 (#errnull%)
TOTAL EXPERIENCE: +3 (includes courtesy bonus)
THANKS FOR PLAYERS!!!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Catloaf on March 22, 2012, 03:58:19 PM: Today I was walking home from class into Eastern Michigan University's student ghetto, when I see a neighbor's cat sitting on a porch. It was a cute, mid-sized calico with stripey patches more belonging on a tabby. I'd seen it around the neighborhood before, a few times, but usually on the opposite side of the street, or while driving. It meowed at me upon making eye-contact, so I walked up and petted it a bit, it was pretty much one of the friendliest cats ever.

It then walked over to the door of the house to which the porch belonged and began to alternate scratching at the door and turning around to meow at me, clearly wanting to be let in. So I ring the doorbell and wait. The resident opens the door while talking on his cellphone in a foreign language (either [whatever-language-they-speak-in-India] or maybe Arabic, if I had to guess), and the cat runs in as I briefly explain that the cat wanted in, expecting that would be the end of things.

Instead, the man informs me that he does not own a cat. So I go in, remove the cat, apologize and finish my trip home. As I turn to look back one last time to see what's become of the cat, I see that it is again scratching at the door. As I leave, I hear it meow at me one last time.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on March 22, 2012, 04:08:00 PM: :(((((((((((((((((((((
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on April 09, 2012, 01:58:29 PM: I just laid a nugget in the shape of a bucky ball.

I did not test its tensile strength.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 12, 2012, 04:30:28 PM: Another (minor) episode of "Mongrel can't find a supposedly ubiquitous object anywhere" today.

Was trying to find a pack of small ziploc bags. The only place that had them was a bong shop. LOL
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 12, 2012, 07:18:53 PM: Cripes man, there's a Sobeys within bike distance. Ziplocs are in the aisle with tinfoil and wax paper.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on April 12, 2012, 07:19:42 PM: ...What were you doing in a bong shop?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 12, 2012, 07:23:37 PM: Mongrel believes it's what's inside that matters.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 12, 2012, 07:32:19 PM: Quote from: Büge on April 12, 2012, 07:18:53 PM
Cripes man, there's a Sobeys within bike distance. Ziplocs are in the aisle with tinfoil and wax paper.

Not in my Sobeys. They only have the regular lunch-bag-sized ones.

Quote from: Lottel on April 12, 2012, 07:19:42 PM
...What were you doing in a bong shop?

Buying ziploc baggies. Do try to keep up Lottel!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 12, 2012, 07:52:39 PM: Quote from: Mongrel on April 12, 2012, 07:32:19 PM
Not in my Sobeys. They only have the regular lunch-bag-sized ones.

What, that's not small enough for you? What are you doing, collecting toes?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 12, 2012, 08:20:41 PM: Storing minis. I was looking for the itty-bitty ones.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on April 13, 2012, 12:15:10 AM: Wasting plastic is the American way.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 13, 2012, 05:16:52 AM: Yeah, except we're in Canada.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on April 13, 2012, 05:20:04 AM: Being American is the Canadian way.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 13, 2012, 06:19:44 AM: Never mind wasting plastic. If I use full size plastic baggies, I'll be wasting 2/3rds of my storage space on crumpled polyethylene.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Silversong on April 13, 2012, 05:23:43 PM: Protip: Jewelry and craft supplies stores (like Michael's or Hobby Lobby) always have various sizes of small zip bags.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 13, 2012, 05:33:39 PM: That's what I figured (for beads and stuff), but the two I checked in my neighbourhood didn't.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 13, 2012, 08:20:33 PM: Apparently Mongrel lives in the part of Toronto that doesn't subscribe to notions of common sense. They call it the Rob Ford district. :whoops:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 13, 2012, 08:46:56 PM: That would be the whole city ::(:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 13, 2012, 08:50:35 PM: That reminds me though, I saw an ad for one of those nutribar-type things on a city bus today, with the following tagline:

"Mayors of Canada! We can't help you with your waste problem, be we can help you with your waist problem!"

:whoops:

For the confused: [spoiler]It's actually a very specific jab at Ford and his grandiose pronunciations. And also the fact that he's making a public show of trying to lose weight (which he's failing completely)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on May 07, 2012, 12:54:53 PM: This could go in Good Times too, because it was pretty funny.

I was sitting around eating lunch when my cellphone rings. My cellphone # is pretty awesome, so I get a *lot* of wrong number calls (I complained that none of my phone calls are good, but not *all* of them are bad). I figured this would be one of those because it was some random US area code.

Me: Hello?
Playfully sultry young woman: Hi therrre.
Me: Hi, who is this?
Young woman: Uh, wrongnumberbye.

Someone else's booty call: INTERRUPTED.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ziiro on May 07, 2012, 01:11:09 PM: Quote from: Joxam on May 06, 2012, 10:15:53 PM
Dude, give me your number. I'll call you every night just to chat or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on May 07, 2012, 06:15:42 PM: Went to work with $3 in my pocket. Made $4 in tips. Walked out with $22.
I have no idea where the other money came from. It was just there, in my pocket. They counted the money and all that and everything was balanced. Customers paid with credit cards so I didn't give anyone change which means I didn't give wrong amount of change.

GUYS. GUYS. I GUESS I'M A WIZARD NOW.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on May 07, 2012, 07:32:59 PM: AN INFLATION WIZARD, MAYBE. DICK.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on May 07, 2012, 09:07:38 PM: I've had days where I've completely missed or mis-read the value of my wallet contents.

...
I can't conceive of how this one came about though.
Maybe you got bribed by someone for special considerations in the future?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on May 07, 2012, 10:21:04 PM: According to this automatic plagiarism checker, my latest school paper is 4% ripped off from a Q&A site, 3% from Wikipedia, 1% from an instruction manual for the mainframe system I was writing on and 1% from a My Little Pony fan forum.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on May 08, 2012, 08:52:29 AM: On the subject of unspeakably Freudian things... last night I was painting a new miniature, my new goal was to try and do a good approximation of sort-of Mediterranean olive skin, which is tough. I finished and left it.

This morning I looked at the figure and the face looked exactly like pictures of my mother when she was young.

CREEPY.

... I blame the sculptor.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on May 08, 2012, 09:00:42 AM: I think if you're working with hundreds of little statues the chances that one will resemble someone you know are not that bad.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on May 08, 2012, 09:25:12 AM: Well, my first attempt on the figure ended in failure, so I stripped the paint off with acetone and tried again. The first time around she just looked white and didn't remind me of anyone. It was the specific combination of skin tone and facial features.

I guess that means I did a good job painting the skin, I guess?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on May 19, 2012, 07:27:51 PM: So, this morning, a little after I left for work Starr was awoken by a loud bang.

It turned out that the rear tire on her bicycle had just... exploded.

The bike rack (we have a small rack for 2 bikes in our apartment) is not near a heat source or other energy source, the bike had not been ridden or moved in well over 12 hours, no recent maintenance had been done on the bike, there were no sharp objects found on or near the tire, and even if there had been, it was secure in the rack and would not have moved.

BIKE POLTERGEIST. OOOOOOOOO.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on June 16, 2012, 07:53:27 AM: Seen today by two coworkers: A drunk, visibly homeless, asian guy, wandering into stores at random downtown, waving a war-of-1812 replica musket, trying to sell said musket.

Yeeeahhhhh the cops showed up pretty quickly.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on June 18, 2012, 07:33:54 PM: My underwear got caught on the door handle and it tore a hole in them. :(
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Friday on June 18, 2012, 10:44:10 PM: I once nearly strangled myself with my bra in a similar incident.

Yes, I was wearing it normally (I didn't have a shirt on) and no, I have no idea how it managed to snag on the door so that it tore, and then wrapped around my neck. My forward momentum was pretty good, because I was sort of half running to the bathroom having to pee really bad.

Seriously, I have no idea how it happened. I actually sat down and tried to figure it out, afterward.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on June 19, 2012, 02:56:52 AM: Classic case of haunted underwear, m'am. We're, uh, we're gonna have to take it all back to the lab for testing. Yes, even- right. Mmm-hmm. Thank you for your collaboration.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on June 19, 2012, 07:28:13 AM: Quote from: Friday on June 18, 2012, 10:44:10 PM
running to the bathroom having to pee

I actually sat down and tried to figure it out, afterward.

That worked out nicely.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on July 14, 2012, 04:18:19 PM: Guy kept driving next to me and trying to chat. Eventually he asked if I supported road head when a girl's head popped up and told him to shut up.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kayma on July 14, 2012, 04:27:12 PM: Lottel you are not real
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 14, 2012, 05:00:22 PM: We should just rename this the Lottel thread or something.

In fact, this should be the only thread Lottel's allowed to post in.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: NexAdruin on July 14, 2012, 05:22:11 PM: Quote from: Lottel on July 14, 2012, 04:18:19 PM
Guy kept driving next to me and trying to chat. Eventually he asked if I supported road head when a girl's head popped up and told him to shut up.

Did he imitate your avatar before speeding off?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on July 14, 2012, 05:56:08 PM: Actually he threw up the horns while his buddies in the back seat high fived each other.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: NexAdruin on July 14, 2012, 06:19:02 PM: How disappointing.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on August 07, 2012, 05:19:48 PM: Ever since I was, like, seven, I've had a tiny mole just over my left eyebrow. Had my mother try to freeze it off with nitrogen treatment, but it kept coming back. In any case it wasn't big enough to be really noticeable, and I came to accept it as basically a feature of my face.

Today I was brushing my hair and accidentally touched it and it just fell off. Like it was never there, regular healthy skin underneath and everything.

Welp!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on August 07, 2012, 05:56:25 PM: I would like to see this
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on August 07, 2012, 06:07:42 PM: ew
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on August 07, 2012, 07:15:11 PM: I... uh... did not keep it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Miss Cat Ears on August 07, 2012, 07:18:45 PM: I meant like a before/after sort of thing
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on August 07, 2012, 07:22:29 PM: Dang, I don't have close enough shots of my face that it's visible at all (I can't even remember the last time my picture was taken), and well, there's nothing to see by now. :nyoro~n:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 07, 2012, 07:32:13 PM: In the next scene, demons start to mist out of the mole.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on August 08, 2012, 01:28:03 PM: Reverse cancer?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on August 08, 2012, 09:25:42 PM: I actually saw a hobo-looking guy walking down the street today with a real bindle on a stick. No multiple layers of clothing, no shopping cart, no other bags or pouches or anything. Just a stick and a tied-on do-rag with a small amount of stuff inside.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on August 08, 2012, 10:14:52 PM: That's not a hobo, that's a hipster. There was probably an iphone in there.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Disposable Ninja on August 23, 2012, 05:33:15 PM: Like, ten seconds ago my computer speakers just started blurting out heavily static-garbled words for a brief few moments. I didn't have any sound or movie files playing. In addition, I noticed a car passing by outside and my cable TV flickered on and off for a second.

God damned government experiments is what that shit is. I hope that shit didn't give me brain tumors.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on August 23, 2012, 06:01:43 PM: Possibly an unmarked police car, and your speakers and stuff were picking up on radio signals out of it.

I used to have speakers that would very faintly pick up local radio stations when not playing anything else.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on August 23, 2012, 06:42:31 PM: My speakers at work will buzz when the security dudes use their walkie-talkies, even if the volume is turned down to zero.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on August 23, 2012, 08:00:16 PM: Yeah, my Mac Mini once started acting as an antenna and picking up Radio Disney from the kids nextdoor. It took me some time to figure out what the hell was happening. I think I posted about it on the old boards.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on August 30, 2012, 05:54:59 AM: I awoke this morning to the phone ringing.

"You have a free call from: Fulton County Jail. To accept..." Fulton County is in Atlanta. I still have my Atlanta phone number. While I was thinking about it, the call disconnected.

Mrs. A rolled over. "Who was that?"
Me: "Fulton County Jail."
"Who would call you from a Fulton county jail?"
"It's probably a wrong number. ...Maybe Chris or Steven got in trouble, but I can't imagine I'm first-contact for either of them."
"Could you still be listed somewhere as the emergency contact for [ex-girlfriend and generally reprehensible person] Brittany?"
"That was my next thought. That Brittany's at the end of her rope and has no one else to turn to so she called me to spring for bail."
"..."
"ee hee heeheeheehee."

And then we went back to sleep.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 22, 2012, 09:11:45 AM: I think this is the first time in my life where I've started doing homework to avoid playing video games.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on September 22, 2012, 09:56:37 AM: Ha.

BD in Doonesbury was originally a one-note joke character -- he was the kid who signed up for Vietnam so he wouldn't have to go to college.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 22, 2012, 11:24:26 AM: They're the same person. The B in BD stands for Brentai.

(The D stands for, uh, Duck-Dragon.)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 29, 2012, 06:40:45 PM: Got drunk at a wedding and started wondering around a Masonic temple and unlocked a few doors and found a pile of raw meat on the ground.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 29, 2012, 06:55:01 PM: ...what kind of meat?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 29, 2012, 07:24:12 PM: I don't know. I took a picture. Looks like ground beef.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Caithness on September 29, 2012, 09:22:09 PM: ...Who gave you keys?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kayma on September 29, 2012, 09:23:09 PM: DRACULA'S INVERSE CASTLE
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 29, 2012, 10:43:04 PM: Who needs keys?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 30, 2012, 07:11:28 AM: How did you get past the mea

Quote from: Kayma on September 29, 2012, 09:23:09 PM
DRACULA'S INVERSE CASTLE

God damn it Kayma
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 30, 2012, 11:12:44 AM: Now that I'm on a computer, I can do this:

(http://i.imgur.com/8l4M4.png)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Kayma on September 30, 2012, 06:10:18 PM: Gotta say, I'm disgusted. Why does dracula keep around all those persephones if this keeps happening?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 30, 2012, 06:17:18 PM: Would you like to hear my theories?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on September 30, 2012, 06:30:35 PM: (http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/saveapiece.png)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 30, 2012, 08:26:57 PM: Looks like something the cat hocked up.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 01, 2012, 07:04:08 AM: Quote from: Büge on September 30, 2012, 08:26:57 PM
Looks like something the ~~cat~~shoggoth hocked up.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on October 17, 2012, 07:06:34 PM: My mother's friend's daughter came out when they visited.
My mother came home and told me she's surprised I wasn't gay. And then invited me to a mother daughter antique shopping party.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on October 17, 2012, 07:32:27 PM: Quote from: Lottel on October 17, 2012, 07:06:34 PM
My mother's friend's daughter came out when they visited.
My mother came home and told me she's surprised I wasn't gay. And then invited me to a mother daughter antique shopping party.

Surprised... or disappointed? :wat:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on October 17, 2012, 07:38:45 PM: Both, probably.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Silversong on October 20, 2012, 08:57:21 AM: Went out to dinner with both my new boyfriend and the guy I broke off entanglements with for him. And everyone involved was pretty okay with it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on October 20, 2012, 09:32:54 AM: ... ... Are you sure no one got murdered after dinner?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on October 20, 2012, 08:33:59 PM: There was no unnecessary loss of life before or after the dining experience.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on October 20, 2012, 08:47:44 PM: ...define "unnecessary".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on October 21, 2012, 12:14:29 AM: See also, "needless" or "frivolous".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Silversong on November 01, 2012, 11:07:24 AM: Was driving around downtown, and noticed that the car ahead of me had a plush of the Adventure Time dog, its arms chained to the bumper and its feet dragging the ground. Immediately before that I saw a low-riding pickup with the plate "GAND4LF".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 03, 2012, 03:18:57 PM: Man, this cream soda tastes like gasoline.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 03, 2012, 03:38:25 PM: Man, this gasoline tastes like root beer.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on November 05, 2012, 10:52:57 AM: Not sure where else to put this, so:

My father just told me he bought a couple of guns.

Why do I care? I don't really have as hard a stance on gun ownership as you might think*, but the dude's always been kind of a wimp. He's not the kind of person who would be comfortable having the things around, so he's either getting paranoid, is WAY more depressed than I thought, or is consciously trying to take another bite of this trendy-conservatism thing he's adopted.

* My current, non-commital viewpoint is "You can own, carry and even load the things if you want, but there's a mandatory jail sentence for ever firing it in the direction of another human being, even if on accident or in self defense."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 05, 2012, 11:09:12 AM: Maybe a gun range opened up near his house and all his friends are going, so he doesn't want to be left out.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 11:31:58 AM: Just had about an hour where everything smelled like chocolate cake. There was no chocolate cake in evidence. The other morning cigarettes wouldn't stop tasting exactly like asparagus. Earlier this week I was completely convinced that my name starts with J. This sort of thing has been happening since forever, but I still wonder if I'm having shitloads of little micro-strokes every few days.

(http://i.imgur.com/pkmUP.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Caithness on November 05, 2012, 12:10:33 PM: Television has taught me that those are symptoms of a brain tumor.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 03:50:27 PM: This has isn't anything even remotely new, so unless it's a ridiculously patient tumor I don't actually think that's it. Funny you should mention, but I had a scare about that when I was a kid. Had a shitload of MRIs done about twenty years ago, for these and other reasons. They did actually turn up a crazy web of extra veins in my left parietal lobe, which is responsible for sensory integration, visual spatial skills, and number relations. Which might have something to do with the weird sensory crap and a touch of dyscalculia, but I literally test way the fuck off the scale with visual-spatial stuff, and I'm great with formulae and algorithms, though I can't add 2 and 2 without getting 5 half the time. The structures weren't doing anything weird and nothing moved around in the years between scans, so whatever's going on is probably harmless. It was mentioned that they're the sort of thing that can account for learning disabilities but, just... haha. No. Let's just leave those in there then. I wasn't all that keen on getting my skull bolted in place and filled with gamma rays, anyway. And I'm kind of tickled that I apparently have a weird mutant brain.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 05, 2012, 03:56:00 PM: The emergence of a new mutant power, maybe?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 03:58:40 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/LLbQQ.png)

At least mind lasers might be a semi-legit excuse to wear sunglasses all the time.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on November 05, 2012, 04:04:29 PM: I'm pretty sure there are a couple lines of work where having everything smell like chocolate cake would definitely count as a superpower.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 05, 2012, 04:13:15 PM: Quote from: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 03:58:40 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/LLbQQ.png)

At least mind lasers might be a semi-legit excuse to wear sunglasses all the time.

THIS IS YOUR GOD.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 05, 2012, 04:40:48 PM: Quote from: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 03:58:40 PM
At least mind lasers might be a semi-legit excuse to wear sunglasses all the time.

Well, your first name is Scott...
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 05:01:12 PM: Quote from: Büge on November 05, 2012, 04:40:48 PM
Well, your first name is Scott...

I actually forget that too, sometimes.

:problems:

Nah, it's mostly just nobody ever using it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on November 06, 2012, 08:33:19 AM: Quote from: Sharkey on November 05, 2012, 11:31:58 AM
Just had about an hour where everything smelled like chocolate cake.
Usually when I have this problem, it involves dog poop.
Savor the flavors man.
I suspect it is just strong memories getting in the way of immediate perceptions though.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on November 06, 2012, 02:14:23 PM: Stopped at a Wendy's to eat something after crapping out my ballot (for why I can't adequately explain) and while I'm eating my damn hamburger what do I hear?

HEY GUYZ MITT ROMNEY IS EATING AT A WENDY'S RIGHT NOW WHOOOOOOO

Leave me aloooone Mitt Romney ;_;
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on November 06, 2012, 02:29:59 PM: Mitt Romney is still pretending to be Just Folks?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Smiler on November 06, 2012, 02:33:56 PM: Mitt Romeny is hungry.

AND HE WANTS TO FUCK. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on November 06, 2012, 03:23:31 PM: The radio said “No, Brent. You are the romneys”
And then Brent was a mormon.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on November 26, 2012, 04:43:42 PM: For several months now, whenever I think about my age my first reflex is to think I'm 32. I'm actually 31 until next March.

Man, Groundhog's Year sucks, there's no way I'm memorizing all that stuff for the next loop.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on December 20, 2012, 10:14:36 AM: billboard for "1 year rent free for qualifying tenants"

in front of a graveyard
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on December 21, 2012, 06:08:35 PM: Yesterday, my computer was suffering from CRITICAL HARD DRIVE FAILURE. It could barely boot, let alone run long enough for me to get some additional files to the backup drive.

Last night, Windows Installed Updates. And now.. now it's running (sort-of) fine. Not going to run any games on it right now, but I can browse the web smoothly, backup some files and have access to my media files.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 21, 2012, 06:31:00 PM: The office Christmas party was in a pub. The pub TVs had some kind of TSN stuff on, with the sound off. However, TSN decided that they were going to show some kind of retrospective documentary of the Ole' Miss football team during the Civil Rights era. So our office Christmas party was surrounded by silent images of KKK guys burning crosses and men being hung for like half an hour.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on December 21, 2012, 06:36:00 PM: Quote from: Constantine on December 21, 2012, 06:08:35 PM
Yesterday, my computer was suffering from CRITICAL HARD DRIVE FAILURE. It could barely boot, let alone run long enough for me to get some additional files to the backup drive.

Last night, Windows Installed Updates. And now.. now it's running (sort-of) fine. Not going to run any games on it right now, but I can browse the web smoothly, backup some files and have access to my media files.

Common enough on platter drives; they have a tendency to fail gradually and unevenly.

Things are going to get interesting in the coming years as SSD's become more prevalent -- when they fail, they fail all at once.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on December 21, 2012, 08:05:51 PM: Quote from: Mongrel on December 21, 2012, 06:31:00 PM
men being hung for like half an hour.

Heh heh heh
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on January 15, 2013, 10:38:18 PM: Around 9:00, my neighbor in the next apartment over had some sort of horrific cooking accident resulting in a pot full of hot oil falling on his kitchen floor, scorching it and generating a lot of smoke. The fiancee and I went outside and debated calling the fire department when we found out there was no actual flame, just a smoky breezeway.

Around 10:30, someone is banging on our door demanding we leave, since there's a fire in the building.

Around 10:35, standing outside at night in the middle of January in Denver, Colorado with hastily-donned clothing and no coat on, holding my pet rats in an exercise ball, I realize that someone upstairs called the fire department about the smoke, and there's no actual emergency.

Around 11:00, the fire department verifies that this is the case and we are allowed back into the building. We quickly discover that after we evacuated as we were told, the fire department kicked in our door for some godforsaken reason. It wasn't even locked. Now the doorknob doesn't work, but the maintenance guy is totally on his way you guys.

It's now 11:30. We just got back into the apartment. The maintenance tech immediately went to town on our deadbolt with a power drill, thus breaking the part of the door mechanism that still worked. He eventually jimmied the door open with a crowbar, a chisel, and a hammer to let us in, and is now working to repair the damage he himself did.

What a night. Time for lots of beer.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on January 15, 2013, 10:59:23 PM: Huh. There was a kitchen fire on a floor of our building too tonight, though not half so "entertaining".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on January 24, 2013, 12:42:22 PM: Seen in today's grocery flyer: "Utility duck. $1.98/lb"

:hurr:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on January 24, 2013, 02:29:34 PM: One of the lesser Mega Man X bosses.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on January 24, 2013, 04:51:42 PM: Utility ducks are known to carry a certain brand of heavy-duty tape. I forget the name though.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on January 24, 2013, 04:57:31 PM: Sign of the times: my local record store carries NES 72-pin connectors.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Da_Beerman on February 28, 2013, 08:30:06 PM: When a cute international student of another college in town from China gives you her number and proceeds to go out with you with one of her friends things look pretty good. When she agrees to see you again and appear to jump with joy when you kiss her hand things look pretty promising.

then you try to text her a few days latter and get no response, you wonder if your phone's broken after sending another text with no response two days later until her friend sends a long message saying that your bothering her, she's changing contact numbers because of you, and "BTW I think she likes girls".

...
:shrug:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Smiler on March 01, 2013, 06:48:09 AM: It turns out that you are only half Lottel.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Malikial on March 01, 2013, 07:13:53 AM: Yeah, the girl isn't a blacksmith...

Am I right that Lottel knows a female black smith?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Smiler on March 01, 2013, 08:00:40 AM: What the hell are you talking about?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on March 01, 2013, 08:34:16 AM: As I understand it, that was 100% Lottel Luck.

At work, I nearly brained a squirrel when I was throwing a bag of garbage into the dumpster. It ran off in a tiny squirrel panic, so I did the only reasonable thing: I pointed at the "Do not climb in, on, or around this dumpster" sign and shouted "Can't you READ?!"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on March 02, 2013, 07:43:56 PM: A squirrel openly weeps, "I never learned how!"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on March 04, 2013, 11:26:28 PM: Strange lights in odd shapes have been seen over town for the last week, along with roaming electrical problems. And apparently, lots of nightmare.

This is the third such occurrence in as many months.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on March 05, 2013, 06:27:43 AM: What's your hypothesis, Lottel? Aliens or Elder Gods?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on March 05, 2013, 06:55:23 AM: Elder Goddesses, knowing Lottel.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on March 05, 2013, 11:24:19 PM: Starr and I were walking down the street today, when I heard the voice of some dude on his phone and thought "Man, whoever that guy is, he sounds just like Rick Mercer".

So I turned my head to look. Turns out it was in fact... Rick Mercer.

I guess that's not really a weird happening though. More like just a random Celebrity Sighting.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on March 25, 2013, 09:30:31 AM: So when I was a kid there was a sketch comedy TV show called SCTV. It was a Canadian show, but was imported to the US and some of you may recall it too. It was where Rick Moranis, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and a lot of others got their starts. Since the premise behind the show was that it was about a TV station, the intro always featured people throwing their TVs out the window in disgust. This led to "SCTV" becoming a verb to me (essentially meaning the same thing as defenestration), as in "to SCTV something".

So yesterday in the street behind work I saw this.

Hey there's something on the lawn of that apartment building.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv01_zps500a0094.jpg)

Hm, that must've come from pretty high up.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv02_zps09fa9908.jpg)

What have we here?

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv03_zpsd5dfa3ff.jpg)

I hope they weren't actually trying to hit anyone, but I think that I will always be three years old when it comes to HAHA YES EXPLOSIONS.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv04_zps02e14fdd.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv05_zps7d03d45f.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/FramFramson/sctv06_zpsa0a7e502.jpg)

Not gonna lie, I am all HAHAHA KABOOOOOOOOOOM YEAH AWESOME here. Maybe because that wreck looks so perfect.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 04, 2013, 08:05:27 PM: Starr managed to fry her keyboard after zapping it with a huge static shock after folding a very static-y blanket. It lights up and is recognized by the computer but it won't type a thing.

The weird bit is that her keyboard was actually completely covered by a thin rubber keyguard sheet.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on April 05, 2013, 12:33:47 AM: While that probably helped, static charges can reach preposterous voltages, allowing them to arc across nearly any resistance. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the air gap the shock crossed didn't have more resistance than the rubber sheet.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 11, 2013, 01:39:16 PM: Today on the bus, the driver yelled out a trivia question, to no one in particular. "What cartoon character only ever spoke by saying 'blah blah blah yaketty shmaketty'?" In spite of my being at the back of a crowded bus, I felt compelled to shout out the answer.

Then she just started talking to herself about trivial pursuit while people nearer to the front looked around nervously.

AWKWARD.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 11, 2013, 01:45:48 PM: That's the dad from Taz-Mania.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 11, 2013, 02:14:40 PM: Right in one.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on April 11, 2013, 02:16:22 PM: But that's not right, since everybody in Taz-Mania could talk except Taz. The Dad had a lot to say about orange juice.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 11, 2013, 02:19:06 PM: Wrong.

He had a lot to say about OJ.

:itsmagic:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Smiler on April 11, 2013, 02:32:25 PM: Oh you guys can just go to hell for bringing up Taz-Mania.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 11, 2013, 02:43:01 PM: Blame the crazy bus driver!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on April 11, 2013, 02:48:41 PM: Quote from: Smiler on April 11, 2013, 02:32:25 PM
Oh you guys can just go to hell for bringing up Taz-Mania.

Why, because now you gotta show it in Outer Heaven?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on April 11, 2013, 02:57:12 PM: (http://corporate-sellout.com/img/tazz.png)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Caithness on April 22, 2013, 01:14:12 PM: I was driving my brother home tonight, and we were coming up on the street with the annoying left turn (because there's no stop light), but it was late enough that I wasn't worried about having to wait forever for a chance to turn. Just as I was about to reach the stop sign, a car pulled out of one of metered spaces on the side of the road right in front of me. This was a little annoying, because I had to slow down much faster than I intended to, but I reasoned that the driver just didn't see me and decided to let it slide.

Then when the car got to the stop sign, instead of turning left or right or going straight, its hazard lights started blinking. Taking this to mean "I probably won't be going anywhere any time soon," I decided to just go to the next street over, which does have a stop light. Kind of frustrating, but still not really a big deal.

So I start backing up slowly, intending to pull into a driveway or parking lot or something and turn around to go around the block, but before I can the car goes in to reverse and speeds past me, narrowly threading between me and two pedestrians in the process. It comes to a stop before hitting another car that's coming down toward the stop sign.

Instead of waiting around to find out what the heck, I decide this is my chance to make my left turn, but as we're driving home my brother and I start to find this more strange and bewildering the more we talk about it. By the time we arrive home we both agree that we're glad I had a passenger with me to witness it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on April 22, 2013, 02:24:29 PM: Combine incidents like that (which I've seen more than my fair share of) with today the guy in the bitch seat of a motorcycle yelling "Hey! HEY!" at me before flipping me off and yelling "FUCK YOU" a bunch of times and you quickly realize why I think humans are psychopathic monsters unfit for driving several thousand pound machines.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on April 25, 2013, 07:50:50 AM: Why no, I will not be adopting cats from an adoption agency that asks for payment in cash to the cat foster home. SKETCHY.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on May 10, 2013, 01:38:49 AM: Finally transferred some credits from my community college to my current university, including a credit for a Ceramics II class. Which is amazing, as I never took Ceramics II. Or Ceramics I, for that matter.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on May 25, 2013, 09:25:25 AM: I overheard a guy talking on his cellphone, and as I listened, I realized that the girl he was talking to was sitting a few seats ahead.

Neither of them were aware of this fact until I pointed it out to him.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on June 04, 2013, 12:03:01 PM: A friend of mine was on the front page of the paper today (his deranged ex-wife who nearly killed their kid was released from jail). I knew about the circumstances a long time ago, but it still just feels kind of odd.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 05, 2013, 02:48:14 PM: The moment I get to the Arizona state line, it rains on me.

I swear this is the wettest state I've ever been in.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on June 05, 2013, 03:06:57 PM: You'd think Thad would gripe about it, but he probably never notices the weather anymore.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on June 05, 2013, 03:14:47 PM: Ain't rainin' here. If it follows you I'll be okay with that.

'Cept I need new wipers.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 05, 2013, 06:00:43 PM: 123notit
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 06, 2013, 08:11:34 AM: Up north is fairly moist, but Phoenix is an arid pit.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on June 06, 2013, 08:30:01 AM: According to deodorant commercials, arid pits are crucial.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on June 06, 2013, 02:20:30 PM: Quote from: Cthulhu-chan on June 06, 2013, 08:11:34 AM
Up north is fairly moist

That's the weirdest damn spelling of "in a 30-year drought and frequently on fire" I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Malikial on June 07, 2013, 12:01:25 AM: I know I'm fairly moist up north.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 07, 2013, 02:24:28 AM: That's the weirdest damn spelling of "in a 30-year drought and frequently on fire" I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on June 07, 2013, 03:05:39 AM: 112 today.

Brent, you may want to look into the possibility that whoever invited you out here is your arch-nemesis luring you into a trap.

Stay safe, stay hydrated, and we'll grab some diuretics tomorrow.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Classic on June 07, 2013, 05:12:25 AM: Diuretics while dehydration is a serious health risk???
YOUR NEMESIS WAS THAD ALL ALONG!
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: TA on June 07, 2013, 06:00:58 AM: Phoenix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PYt0SDnrBE#)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on June 07, 2013, 07:07:32 AM: I've lived here most of my life, and I'm pretty sure I've thought pretty much that entire bit at some point each year.

also, see sig
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on June 07, 2013, 09:12:33 AM: Quote from: Thad on June 07, 2013, 03:05:39 AM
112 today.

Brent, you may want to look into the possibility that whoever invited you out here is your arch-nemesis luring you into a trap.

All my nemeses are from the desert too. You'd think they'd know better.

But yeah I never cross the state border without an obscene amount of Gatorade on hand, so I'm really only worried about my family here. The comments at the ceremony were pretty amusing though, basically amounting to "Wow, sorry about the timing."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on June 07, 2013, 11:30:39 AM: While I grant we're 11 degrees over the average, "Phoenix hot in June" was still an entirely foreseeable turn of events.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on June 14, 2013, 03:28:33 PM: Playing fooseball with a guy named Wil Meister on a porch and it's exactly like you'd expect.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on June 14, 2013, 03:43:19 PM: Can we just rename this thread "A regular day for Lottel"?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on June 21, 2013, 10:45:30 AM: Seen on a local law office front door: A sign reading "Appointment only. No Walkens." featuring a large picture of Christopher Walken.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Dooly on June 23, 2013, 01:23:55 PM: One Walken is okay, though.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on June 28, 2013, 02:00:51 AM: Riding the train to work is proving to be interesting.

Yesterday, a guy tried to pick a fight with me because I wouldn't throw away a half-eaten donut someone else had left behind.

Today, a guy jumped onto the train and tried to steal a lady's purse, but the other people near her fought him off, and he ran away. Afterwards, a little old lady said, "This is better than TV!"
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 05, 2013, 11:38:15 AM: In another episode of "Mongrel can't find something supposedly ubiquitous anywhere at any price", apparently nobody sells tater tots anymore? Like at all?

Over the course of the past two weeks, I've been to all the local chapters of the various large grocery chains in the city (for various things... I'm not actually hunting desperately just for tater tots) and not one of 'em had so much as a single tot.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on July 05, 2013, 11:51:20 AM: Pretty much every store down here sells them somewhere in either the frozen vegetables or frozen meat (like, bags of drumsticks) isles.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 05, 2013, 02:48:07 PM: Well, that USED to be the case here. Not quite sure what's going on now. For a long time I've only seen them in 1-2 chains regularly. Now, I dunno?

I don't eat frozen potato items that often, but when I do, I prefer them to be tater tots. It's like the perfect crossover between frozen hash browns and frozen french fry.

MY RESERVES ARE DWINDLING. WHATEVER SHALL I DO? (I'm sure I'll find some somewhere...)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on July 05, 2013, 02:53:33 PM: I had a load of towels in my washing machine today. When I took them out, there was also a ruined cookbook inside.

Not sure how that happened.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on July 05, 2013, 03:04:43 PM: Tying it all together: the cookbook had a really great recipe for tater tots.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on July 05, 2013, 05:27:24 PM: Hanging out with younger friends is great because I when I approach I get to spin a chair around, sit in it backwards, and say "Hey kids, let's rap."

Hanging out with younger friends is awful because they don't get it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Catloaf on July 05, 2013, 08:58:21 PM: For some reason today, I simply haven't gotten hungry. I didn't eat much yesterday either, but at least I ate something of substance. I've had a cafe au lait, two bottles of water and a bottle of green tea to drink, and a few high chews to eat today and I'm still not hungry. Nor am I getting my usual bout of greatly increased stupidity that comes with not eating. I was getting kinda hungry until I got to Akihabara, at which point it went away immediately, as did all the feelings of negativity which had plagued me this morning. Apparently I have the magical ability to feed off of ambient nerdiness alone for short periods of time.

As a side note on Akihabara, the less specific shops had normal, completely non-nerdy items shockingly close to seriously nerdy/obscene shit. Case and point; a case full of men's watches all of one display case away from tentacle porn figures, with naught but a moe anime figure collection as the buffer. Or just nude figures right next to wallets.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Cthulhu-chan on July 06, 2013, 06:51:14 AM: They ain't got room to waste on your sense of propriety.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 29, 2013, 02:49:41 AM: There's a Magnum fashionable ice cream bar store in the expensive district downtown. I keep seeing lineups several blocks down for people waiting to get in. Just regular-looking folks.

Since I'd seen billboard ads for the stuff and was pretty sure that Magnum ice cream is sold elsewhere (i.e. this isn't really anything special at all), I assumed they were giving out freebies and commented to one person in line "Gee that's a long time to wait for free ice cream" to which she replied "It's not free".

Who the hell is lining up for two hours to buy ice cream you can get in a convenience store? I mean, even if I'm mistaken and it's only available in one outlet, how is a mass-market (albeit 'upscale') brand owned by friggin' Nestlé worth waiting in line for two hours for? I KNOW there's much better ice cream than that in this town. I could get some Kawartha Lakes or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Beat Bandit on July 29, 2013, 02:53:06 AM: (http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9623/cactus04.jpg)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 29, 2013, 02:57:08 AM: idgi
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 29, 2013, 03:33:12 AM: For two hours, you could actually drive up to Bancroft and buy ice cream direct from the Kawartha Lakes dairy.

Plus you'd be in cottage country, which is nice.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 29, 2013, 03:35:35 AM: Yeah, I googled it a bit and Magnum is supposedly comparable to Haagen-Daaz. Which is decent, but there are for sure better ice creams out there.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: A² on July 29, 2013, 08:21:14 AM: Quote from: Mongrel on July 29, 2013, 02:57:08 AM
idgi

In an Episode of Outlaw Star, the b-plot involves more or less the situation you describe above. A shitload of people lining up to buy stall ice cream. At one point our intrepid heroes even get in the line and get it, to which they comment "Man this is kind of bland."

The psychic cactus pictured turns out to be the reason why everyone was going crazy for it, as it was influencing people into giving money to its owner.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on July 29, 2013, 08:39:09 AM: That's a pretty awesome coincidence.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: MarsDragon on July 29, 2013, 11:42:13 AM: Last night I got a phone call of nothing but static and garbled noises from a number I didn't recognize.

Today I looked up the area code I remembered as 930 only to find out that it's UNUSED!

...then I checked my call history and it was actually 925, which means it was probably my brother or his kids accidentally calling me. Mystery solved.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on July 29, 2013, 11:56:36 AM: 930 area code: INSIDE YOUR HOUSE
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on July 31, 2013, 01:22:03 AM: And now to check the news for why there was a police helicopter circling my neighborhood at 11:30 last night.

(I know it was a police helicopter because of the officer announcing "THIS IS THE POLICE" through a bullhorn.)

...nothing. There's something about a guy killing somebody over a girl, but that was yesterday morning and he was caught immediately; and there's something about a woman driving her car into a canal, but it was hours later and not near here.

Nothing at all about a police chase in Tempe last night.

...my wife has confirmed for me that there WAS in fact a police helicopter circling the neighborhood at 11:30 last night and I did not dream it.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Joxam on July 31, 2013, 08:12:29 AM: You have a wife? SINCE WHEN? I would have gotten you a waffle iron or something, man.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on July 31, 2013, 11:59:01 AM: ~~May~~ March. It was a good time. No need for waffle irons but thanks for asking.

EDIT: Got my damn M-months mixed up. Jesus Christ, I haven't been married six months and I ALREADY can't keep my anniversary straight.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on July 31, 2013, 12:49:59 PM: Surely we could all pitch in to buy you a Foreman Grill or something.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: A² on July 31, 2013, 01:13:23 PM: Big, expensive, fancy dictionary or thesaurus.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on July 31, 2013, 01:14:02 PM: Right-handed coffee mugs.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on July 31, 2013, 01:23:39 PM: I think he has all of those, actually.

My suggestion? Air purifier.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on July 31, 2013, 01:27:08 PM: Obviously it was an alien spacecraft blaring chopper sounds and yelling "THIS IS THE POLICE" as camouflage.
And it totally worked.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on July 31, 2013, 02:08:25 PM: Quote from: Brentai on July 31, 2013, 01:23:39 PM
I think he has all of those, actually.

My suggestion? Air purifier.

Are you joking about how we've already got like 5 of them, or serious because with two asthmatics in the house we could still probably use more?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on July 31, 2013, 02:16:44 PM: I didn't ~~see~~ remember any of them, so clearly you need more.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on July 31, 2013, 02:24:13 PM: Dude lives in Arizona, I'd say a humidifier wouldn't go amiss.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Zaratustra on August 14, 2013, 03:52:51 AM: You thought candiru fish were the only thing from the Amazon to worry about?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/men-in-sweden-warned-after-sighting-of-testicleeating-fish-8755664.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/men-in-sweden-warned-after-sighting-of-testicleeating-fish-8755664.html)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on September 03, 2013, 01:48:41 PM: In which R^2 is at his local library, reading a book on vegetable and fruit sculpture, and is accosted by a surly redneck:
"You stay away from my boy," growls the redneck.
"I bet your pardon?"
"You stay away from my boy."
"...go home, you're drunk." Given how he smelled, he may well have been.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

Every head in the library turns.

"There aren't any kids around here and I haven't moved for twenty minutes." At this point I channel a little Dr. Orpheus, because why not? "So please take your local flavor elsewhere."
"YOU WANT A PIECE OF THIS YOU LITTLE PRICK?" Wow I didn't even know libraries had security guards but here comes one now. Might as well go for broke.
"A piece of what, your extra chromosome?"

And that's how I provoked a guy into getting thrown out of a library. I also learned how to make an adorable melon hedgehog. It's was a full day.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Büge on September 03, 2013, 02:25:24 PM: You are a national treasure, R^2.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Silversong on September 04, 2013, 09:15:14 AM: That's pretty cool R^2 but I wanna see you make the melon hedgehog. :o
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Lottel on September 12, 2013, 03:40:33 PM: Listening to a guy sing a song he wrote about a girl I dated is fucking bizarre.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 25, 2013, 07:47:42 AM: [CAUTION: BRENTAI WARNING - YOU MAY NOT WANT TO READ THIS]

A smaller spider got onto my chest and I didn't notice until I went to piddle, when I noticed him strolling through my chest hairs. I tried to gently shoo the little guy off, but he uh, fell.

So I had a spider rappelling down from my nuts.

Luckily I could just grab the thread then, so I stuck it to the side of the toilet paper holder and he (she?) made good his/her escape.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on September 25, 2013, 07:58:37 AM: If I were actually arachnophobic I'd have asked Malikial to change his avatar long ago, you know.

...

Wait a minute did you just actually do a trigger warning?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Ted Belmont on September 25, 2013, 08:14:39 AM: Trigger warning: trigger warnings
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on September 25, 2013, 08:41:19 AM: Is there a sign on my lawn that says dead trigger storage?
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Royal☭ on October 03, 2013, 07:03:55 AM: A guy on my Facebook feed just tried to argue that we shouldn't have government because animals get fine without one, using ants as his example.

Libertarians, man.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Brentai on October 03, 2013, 07:27:47 AM: That's the closest I've seen to a libertarian actually admitting that he wants to eventually reform into a monarchy.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: R^2 on October 06, 2013, 01:59:24 PM: Quote from: Silversong on September 04, 2013, 09:15:14 AM
That's pretty cool R^2 but I wanna see you make the melon hedgehog. :o

I did this. (http://pinchofthy.me/?p=107)
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on November 01, 2013, 10:15:20 PM: Yesterday I went shopping with my mom in St-Bruno for her birthday, and we ran into Georges Laraque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Laraque) at a cosmetics store. The man was until recently the leader of Canada's Green Party, and before that he was a NHL player signed on to various teams in large part because of his size and enforcer disposition. I look at him, ask my mother "wait, am I taller than he is?", and she's like, "um, yeah, by a little bit". So, that weirded me out pretty hard for some reason. Of course the guy easily has like 90+ pounds more muscle than I do so my general bulk doesn't come close, but still.

I think it's a factor of... Well, intellectually I know I'm tall, but being given the opportunity to compare, it's like my brain suddenly goes "holy shit, I'm bigger than that, holy fuck, I must be TERRIFYING, because I sure feel terrified by myself right now". It's kinda trippy. In a way it makes me glad I'm so mild-mannered, because I'll be damned if this world needs one more asshole of my size.

On the other hand, when I do meet people taller than I am, my first thought is always "I wonder if I could take them in a fight", so who knows, maybe the real blessing is that I'm not actually a short guy.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on November 18, 2013, 12:07:50 PM: Forgot this fun story from the weekend.

About two months ago, Seabass was trying to set up BBM messenger with me. When he did, he accidentally sent a text to everyone in his address book. When I replied to that text, the first time, it actually replied to everyone from HIS address book. On top of that, my phone number is a very unusual one, being a palindrome composed entirely of fives and sixes. So a bunch of people who had no idea who I was were getting messages like "Is it working yet?" from some 555-5555 number. Many laughs, incident forgotten, etc.

Now on Saturday, I volunteered to pick up dinner for a couple guys at work, which I do from time to time (they give me money, I go out). Anyway, as I was picking up dinner, I felt like having some fun with Seabass, so I sent him a goofball text to tell him I was on my way. Only I accidentally used the old text chain to reply to. The one that goes to all the people on his list.

The text those bewildered people received on Saturday was:

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Blue Falcon to Green leader: Cargo on board. Am en route to rendezvous. Operation proceeding as planned.

I think the best part of that was the number of replies I received from total strangers along the lines of "Roger that."
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Thad on November 18, 2013, 04:28:10 PM: My friend Brad once related a story of trying to pick up a chick in a bar, getting her number, and then getting brushed off when her boyfriend showed up.

He texted her a few minutes later, "Hey baby, wanna ditch fatty and come sit with me?"

You can probably see where this is going. He fat-fingered the number and some random person got the text.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Healy on November 18, 2013, 05:29:46 PM: I'm a little slow on the draw so I thought where it was going was the boyfriend beat him up.
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on December 01, 2013, 08:30:40 AM: Another fun episode with my phone.

So yesterday at GP Toronto, I was trying to meet up with a guy I know online but don't know what he looks like. He tells me to text him at the event so we can meet up and gives me his number. He says not to call because his phone is text-only.

I try to text him when I get there and the phone is telling me I'm trying to do text-to-landline. I decide to hold off because there's an extra charge for that, but after not finding him, I go ahead and send the text to landline, assuming he must be using some kinda google-number or other such workaround to avoid paying for regular phone service, which is also maybe why my provider thinks I'm trying to text a landline.

Turns out he had just given me the wrong area code (but still a Toronto-area area code). So somewhere in Toronto, somebody's grandma or whoever just got a creepy text-to-voice message, from my weirdo phone number, that went "A/S/L/LULZ?".
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: Mongrel on January 11, 2014, 05:00:32 PM: I asked an ebay seller some specific questions about the size of a model he was selling. This was the reply I got:

Quote
Today I am at home I will try to die

D:
Title: Re: Weird Happenings
Post by: François on January 11, 2014, 05:01:36 PM: Well that's just rude.

I mean, if you're gonna die anyway, just answer the question and offer free shipping.