Further Sydney Individuals
Sep. 9th, 2023 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentric1. Short (adult) person with a skipping rope, skipping intently in Belmore park, ignoring peak hour commuter fooot traffic.
2. The Ghost Theif of Bluetooth in Belmore Park. I'm not sure why, but my headphones always cut out in Belmore Park. There's a couple of blocks of George St that are similar, too. Bafflingly, if I hold the phone in my hand, this does not happen; and in Belmore Park it happens regardless of whether there's anyone around me or not.
3. Someone who decided that a good tagline to put on the sign of a Nepalese restaurant in Campsie is "Taste of Bravest people". Apparently it is very good Nepalese, and not, in fact, cannibalism.
4. Old man, clearly not quite in the same reality as the rest of the city footpath users, wearing Fair Isle patterned mittens - which are easy to observe, since he is scooping the air in front of him and pulling it down by his side as he walks. Dog-paddling his way through the city air.
5. Small child in an Auburn front yard, watering a plant while wearing a giant black witch's hat with gold sparkles.
6. Man who turned up in my end of the office at work looking to borrow an iphone cable, and was sporting large bright orange glasses, and a shirt that looked like a 70s curtain. And despite these unappealing descriptions, he was looking very sharp and fashionable.
7. Graffiti-ist, possibly deceased, known as CRINGE. I had been wondering for months about tags I'd seen along railway infrastructure: several saying CRINGE, and one saying RIP CRINGE. I was constructing an elaborate philosophical debate about aesthetics, and wondering whether to write "cringe" is to impose cringe upon others or to embrace it for yourself, when eventually Shiny pointed out it was probably someone's pseudonym.
8. Efficiency-minded tagger, who has simply invested in stickers which say "ALTER WAS HERE" and sticks them places instead of spending the time painting their tag.
2. The Ghost Theif of Bluetooth in Belmore Park. I'm not sure why, but my headphones always cut out in Belmore Park. There's a couple of blocks of George St that are similar, too. Bafflingly, if I hold the phone in my hand, this does not happen; and in Belmore Park it happens regardless of whether there's anyone around me or not.
3. Someone who decided that a good tagline to put on the sign of a Nepalese restaurant in Campsie is "Taste of Bravest people". Apparently it is very good Nepalese, and not, in fact, cannibalism.
4. Old man, clearly not quite in the same reality as the rest of the city footpath users, wearing Fair Isle patterned mittens - which are easy to observe, since he is scooping the air in front of him and pulling it down by his side as he walks. Dog-paddling his way through the city air.
5. Small child in an Auburn front yard, watering a plant while wearing a giant black witch's hat with gold sparkles.
6. Man who turned up in my end of the office at work looking to borrow an iphone cable, and was sporting large bright orange glasses, and a shirt that looked like a 70s curtain. And despite these unappealing descriptions, he was looking very sharp and fashionable.
7. Graffiti-ist, possibly deceased, known as CRINGE. I had been wondering for months about tags I'd seen along railway infrastructure: several saying CRINGE, and one saying RIP CRINGE. I was constructing an elaborate philosophical debate about aesthetics, and wondering whether to write "cringe" is to impose cringe upon others or to embrace it for yourself, when eventually Shiny pointed out it was probably someone's pseudonym.
8. Efficiency-minded tagger, who has simply invested in stickers which say "ALTER WAS HERE" and sticks them places instead of spending the time painting their tag.
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Date: 2023-09-10 12:35 am (UTC)I have been that short adult skipper. I was not good at it.
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Date: 2023-09-10 04:37 am (UTC)Hence there is an opening for an indie alternative, and I really feel the Sydney Cringe Festival should be invented to fill this gap
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Date: 2023-09-10 01:56 pm (UTC)