...and you thought YOUR family were weird?

[katie1997]

Well, I have a friend* whose boyfriend's sister scratches out the eyes on photographs of family members that have pissed her off in some way.

And its not as if the photos are ripped up and then thrown away either, oh no ... they stay hanging up on the wall or in photo frames with the missing eyes :-S

*its really not me

[????]

...this weird?

[katie1997]

thats truly horrific!!

[Annette Curtain]

The house where-time-stands-still is just down the road from me.

I would give anything to have a tour of the place, but alas they are very private

Mind you not so private that, they close the curtains at night

Not so private that, you can't see years of christmas cards, easter cards all stuck to the walls, mounds of VHS tapes, clothes on hangers in every door way.

Not so private that, as you walk by (straining not to look too hard) their three ghostly faces are all lit by the flashing light of the TV and they sit waving out at you.

No scratched out eyes though, that's proper weird.

Thankfully, my lot here are just plain-old-fashioned-Odd-Balls

(I think)

Netts:-S

[ianr]

And then there's Nancy Mitford's 'Uncle Matthew', based on her father.

"Uncle Matthew, an eccentric, bullying patriarch who fills his drawers with scraps of paper bearing the names of those he hopes will die and periodically uses bloodhounds to hunt his children across the Oxfordshire countryside" http://www.enotes.com/topic/The_Pursuit_of_Love

[katie1997]

ianr - that 'Uncle Matthew' sounds a right old horror!

netts - I love the way you say you'd 'love a tour of the place' but 'they are very private'. What family does tours then? Now that IS weird :))

[katie1997]

Not one but TWO separate families in the SAME week left their kid behind at Chuck-E-Cheese (td)

[Salsaboy]

Now there's a thought. A Chuck-E-Cheese on LL.

[womanofdulwich]

"It was also revealed Daniel had been watching violent horror films since he was eight and had viewed the film Saw hours before killing his mother."

Why? at 8? thats child abuse.