Incongruity

[Annette Curtain]

Incongruity

For instance, I sometimes see a guy riding up Dartmouth Road on a bike, smoking a fag and smiling.

Then yesterday, I saw an old guy pushing his own wheel chair up the hilly bit of LSL, then getting back in it at the top to carry on wheeling himself by hand.

Both of these "visions" as incongruous as they are, filled me with absolute joy.

Why is that ?

Do you see such things, if so do tell.

Nette:))

( if not, just p*ss off and read another thread )

[SimonM]

Then yesterday, I saw an old guy pushing his own wheel chair up the hilly bit of LSL, then getting back in it at the top to carry on wheeling himself by hand.

There's really nothing odd or incongruous about this though! Wheeling uphill is very tiring. Clearly he has some use of his legs and finds it easier and (probably) invaluable exercise to use the chair as a walking frame when manoeuvring uphill: then into the chair to rest the old legs when back on the flat...

[ianr]

> For instance, I sometimes see a guy riding up Dartmouth Road on a bike, smoking a fag and smiling.

And thus was born the idea of the recumbent coffin bike, shortly followed by that of the camper coffin bike.

[Annette Curtain]

Jeez..

Lighten up SimonM. I've seen a dwarf riding a pony on the Isle of Sheepey and then on the same road a woman in an electric wheel chair with a parrot on her shoulder.

Water of a ducks back to you no doubt SimonM. But I notice these things, In fact I revel in them, whereas you live in a sedated world breathing the staled air of boredom and monotony.

Get out more before it's too.....

Oh who cares about you, this thread is about ME.

Oh & ianr is trying at least.

Annette(!)

[silverfox]

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Then yesterday, I saw an old guy pushing his own wheel chair up the hilly bit of LSL, then getting back in it at the top to carry on wheeling himself by hand.

Sounds like one of the Government's 'Fit for Work' tests to weed out the work shy.

[Polly D]

I just spotted a fully decorated Christmas tree next to a phone box on Camberwell New Road. It's April. Does that count Nette?

[Annette Curtain]

Polly D Wrote:

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> I just spotted a fully decorated Christmas tree

> next to a phone box on Camberwell New Road. It's

> April. Does that count Nette?

Of course Polly D.

That is exactly what i'm looking for, if only there were more girlz like us!

I spotted a teenage girl walking to school aided by a single crutch. When a bus came she popped the crutch under her arm and ran like crazy to get on board.

( there seems to be a medical theme developing here )

Nette:-S

[Muley]

There's a bike completely covered in blue and white sticky tape that's been locked to a cycle stand at Camberwell Green for the last few weeks. An 'installation' by the art students up the road, perhaps?

Anyway, makes me smile.

[Chick]

> That is exactly what i'm looking for, if only

> there were more girlz like us!

>

Girls like us. You wish.

[Guest]

Last week I talked to someone in a branch of Santander who offered to help and then politely sorted out a problem for me. Does that count? Mind you, I had to speak to two other people, cry and mention my blood pressure first.

[silverfox]

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I spotted a teenage girl walking to school aided by a single crutch. When a bus came she popped the crutch under her arm and ran like crazy to get on board.

Yep, aiming high that one so she can claim 'the sick' when she leaves school.

[Annette Curtain]

God is looking down on me, of that i'm sure

Does it get any better than a mohawked paunchy old Punk, sitting listening to a man wearing brothel creepers, playing the bag pipes?

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/3442/photoqy.jpg Today at 2:30pm in Crystal palace park.

Oh, if only the dwarf from the Isle of Sheepey could have ridden by on her pony.

Now that would have been perfect.

Nette:)

[SimonM]

Water of a ducks back to you no doubt SimonM. But I notice these things, In fact I revel in them, whereas you live in a sedated world breathing the staled air of boredom and monotony.

Pshaw! Were you not such an arriviste you'd perhaps be able to recall that a while back I reported on here as having seen a pink hearse (empty!) gliding along Forest Hill Road...Now that was incongruous! :))

[Annette Curtain]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Water of a ducks back to you no doubt SimonM. But

> I notice these things, In fact I revel in them,

> whereas you live in a sedated world breathing the

> staled air of boredom and monotony.

>

> Pshaw! Were you not such an arriviste you'd

> perhaps be able to recall that a while back I

> reported on here as having seen a pink hearse

> (empty!) gliding along Forest Hill Road...Now that

> was incongruous! :))

I now love you.

N:)

[Annette Curtain]

For once....

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/05/article-0-0B768EC900000578-591_306x423.jpg I am speechless

IF somehow you've been trapped in a cultural bell jar. Then this wonderful life-like " Jacko " sculpture is located at:

Fulham Premier League Football Club

Craven Cottage

Stevenage Road

London

SW6 6HH

Nette:-S

* does spin *

[Major Algy Wymondham]

*attempts moonwalk*

[Major Algy Wymondham]

*decides against it*

[ianr]

> IF somehow you've been trapped in a cultural bell jar.

... you'll probably be hoping for a small plastic version at the bottom of your breakfast cereal packet.

If only Fayed had been able to hang on to Harrods. It's sad to think of their staff and clientele being deprived of it.

[katie1997]

Unless there was a DC Comics convention in East Dulwich today, I found it rather odd to spot these characters within a few minutes of each other (but not together):

Batman x 2

Superman x 1

Bizarro or what? :-S

[Annette Curtain]

Bizarro indeed katienumbers

http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/6081/photo3zu.jpg

However, not as Bizarro as this poor old toy, which I found by a skip in Wandsworth yesterday.

Nette(tu)

[PeckhamRose]

I've seen a horse fly! (3mins 40seconds in!)

[Terry Thomas esq]

I saw a workman working in the hole in Rye Lane.....

but I was going to get my spectacles checked at the time, and he wasn't there when I came out....