Real-Life Weirdness

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

I don't know. I'm scared of clowns.

But why, Asta? They are so sweet and loveable.
This one likes to gives hugs-

http://www.reelgoddess.com/wp-conten...ler-Klowns.jpg

[Anders]

I believe Ed the Coastie is a clown. And isn't he scary?

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Oh well, then that's more of an old western bandit mask fit for robbing stage coaches and trains, than what I think of as a "biker bandana".
I was thinking skull as in the person's skull rather than face kerchief with a printed skull.

That's how you normally wear a bandana when riding, it covers the nose and mouth to keep dust and bugs out of your mouth, that's how cowboys do it and it's how bikers with open face helmets often wear.

Wearing a bandana as a kerchief is something commonly done too, but usually not when riding.

Though in places where they don't wear helmets they may be wearing a bandana as a kerchief and a bandana over their face, instead of a helmet with a visor.

To stay on theme, riding a bike and acting as if your face is a helmet could work as a disguise:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7k4vq02xEo...helmets-01.jpg

[Anaraxes]

In the remote Denisov district of Kazakhstan, there is a clearly artificial pentagram perhaps 300m in diameter which remains are visible from aerial photography in Google Maps. The area has a number of Bronze Age ruins of settlements and cemetaries. Also, just to the east of the pentagram, across the water, you can see traces of an abandoned airstrip. The question is, of course, why? A remnant of the Hyborean Age? Stalin's answer to the Ahnenerbe, perhaps an experiment in summoning demonic kaiju as a weapon of war? The occult version of Area 51 -- or a Reptoid landing site?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

You said that it was the biker with the bandana on his head that nearly resulted in police intervention, not the fake bearded guy.

If you don't trim the quote I can't tell what you are talking about. I assumed that you didn't object to me not wanting to be shot by a guy in a skull mask. I would have called the police on the Santa if he had behaved like the skull mask guy.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

"Golden Eagles do indeed attack large mammals like deer and even bear cubs":

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...-confrontation

"[...]A necropsy found the carcass had no bite marks, but it did have puncture marks consistent with the type made by talons. The pronghorn, the scientists found, was likely killed when its cervical vertebrae were fractured."

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Not sure if this one has been brought up, long running, centuries or decades long coal seam fires:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52869...are-still-fire

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Telescopes for your eyes:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...src=SOC&dom=fb

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

Telescopes for your eyes:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...src=SOC&dom=fb

10 times the thickness of hard contact lenses does not sound fun.

[Anders]

Apparently, Lady Gaga is an Illuminati puppet.