Urban myths

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If you see a garden with this growing, they're swingers...

Edit: apparently.
 
bennyboy said:
The Marc Almond one so far fetched but somehow always crops up.
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And was knocking about pre internet all over the country. I lived in Southampton in the early 80's and we heard the story/ myth. As did a mate who lived in Middleton.

Anyhoo...

Mine is something that Douglas Adams claimed happened to him but did happen to me.

I was sitting at Barnham train station waiting for a connecting train to Bognor, I lived near there, and had bought a tea, a paper and a packet of biscuits for the 20 minutes wait. I sat down opposite this bloke who looked up and then ignored me. Once I had settled I opened my biscuit packet and proceeded to eat one. To my amusement the bloke opposite leant over and took a biscuit. Without saying a word. Typically English I did nothing. A few minutes later I leant over and took another out of the pack and proceeded to eat it. To my horror the bloke opposite did the same and finished the pack off.
He then stood up as his train had arrived, game me a funny look and wandered off. My connecting train then arrived so I stood up, picked my paper up and to my horror, under the paper was my packet of biscuits. I had been eating his.
 
BimboBob said:
And was knocking about pre internet all over the country. I lived in Southampton in the early 80's and we heard the story/ myth. As did a mate who lived in Middleton.

Anyhoo...

Mine is something that Douglas Adams claimed happened to him but did happen to me.

I was sitting at Barnham train station waiting for a connecting train to Bognor, I lived near there, and had bought a tea, a paper and a packet of biscuits for the 20 minutes wait. I sat down opposite this bloke who looked up and then ignored me. Once I had settled I opened my biscuit packet and proceeded to eat one. To my amusement the bloke opposite leant over and took a biscuit. Without saying a word. Typically English I did nothing. A few minutes later I leant over and took another out of the pack and proceeded to eat it. To my horror the bloke opposite did the same and finished the pack off.
He then stood up as his train had arrived, game me a funny look and wandered off. My connecting train then arrived so I stood up, picked my paper up and to my horror, under the paper was my packet of biscuits. I had been eating his.
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The Douglas Adams story was posted earlier

PaulPowerScreamer said:
How about the "friend of a friend" who went to a cafe and ordered a cup of coffee and a kit kat. The cafe was quite full so he had to share a table with another guy. He sat down, took a sip of his coffee and was about to open his kit kat when the other guy reaches over, opens the kit kat, breaks a finger off and eats it!

The guy is stunned and doesn't know how to react, it seemed a bit petty to kick off over a kit kat so he calmly breaks off a finger and eats it. After a couple of minutes the other guy goes and eats another finger!

He's now fuming but he'd had a hard day and wasn't in the mood for an argument so he defiantly ate the last finger without saying a word. The other guy finishes his drink and gets up to leave and they glare at each other for a fraction of a second before he walks out.

Relieved, he finishes his coffee, picks up his newspaper and finds his own unopened kit kat underneath.

Douglas Adams tells a version of this story, I think it was in So Long and Thanks for All the Fish but I'd heard this version years earlier.
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fanatic1 said:
2 veritable old chestnuts.

1. Alligators in the New York sewer system. Allegedly several were bought as babies but flushed down the loo, unwanted, as they grew bigger. They then formed a colony and some were really massive beasts. Many natives still firmly believe this although the cold winter temperatures and lack of feeding opportunities would mitigate against this. Also how big would the toilets have to be. Some were in fact disposed of in rivers or lakes surrounding the city and wouldn't have lasted long.

2. A homeless person down on his luck cannot believe his luck when a well dressed guy approaches him to offer a slap up meal and drinks. However, the drinks are spiked and he swiftly passes out. On waking many hours later in a cheap hotel bath tub he is really ill, feels a surgical bandage round his abdomen and has the desk clerk call an ambulance. On arrival at the hospital it is confirmed that his left kidney has been removed.
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Why would you want a homeless man's kidney? Even if the **** turned out to be a match (unlikely) the thing would probably be fucked from either exposure or substance abuse.
 
aguero93:20 said:
Why would you want a homeless man's kidney? Even if the **** turned out to be a match (unlikely) the thing would probably be fucked from either exposure or substance abuse.
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Oh, oh, oh right, he's not homeless because of the economic policies of his government or because a rogue business partner cleaned him out, nooooooo he's a glue sniffing scrounger who deserves all he gets, right.




Only joking.
 
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